AI-Native Startups

At Elevate, our goal is to support exceptional engineers and researchers. Lots of people hear about startups, but don’t quite know which ones to join. This is a pretty challenging decision to make, especially when there are so many different options.

To help with this, we wanted to make a list of AI-native startups that we’ve found to be extremely talent-dense. There are many incredible startups not on this list – this list is intended to be a starting point, rather than a fully comprehensive list.

Frontier Models:

• Thinking Machines (link)

• OpenAI (link)

• Anthropic (link)

• Mistral (link)

• xAI (link)

ML Infrastructure:

• Braintrust (link)

• LlamaIndex (link)

• Baseten (link)

• Foundry (link)

Creativity:

• Figma (link)

• Krea (link)

Security:

• Abnormal Security (link)

• Bedrock Security (link)

Defense:

• Anduril (link)

• Vannevar Labs (link)

Productivity:

• Granola (link)

• Linear (link)

• Notion (link)

• Asana (link)

• Superhuman (link)

Cloud:

• Lambda (link)

• Modal (link)

• Browserbase (link)

Dev Tools:

• LangChain (link)

Voice Models:

• Eleven Labs (link)

• Cartesia (link)

• Suno (link)

Vision/Robotics:

• Physical Intelligence (link)

• Skild AI (link)

• World Labs (link)

Healthcare:

• Abridge (link)

• OpenEvidence (link)

ML Systems:

• Fireworks AI (link)

• Together AI (link)

• SambaNova (link)

Search:

• Glean (link)

• Perplexity (link)

Video Generation:

• Pika (link)

• Runway (link)

• HeyGen (link)

Image Generation

• Midjourney (link)

• Black Forest Labs (link)

Coding:

• Cursor/Anysphere (link)

• Windsurf (link)

• Cognition (link)

• Lovable (link)

• Bolt (link)

Customer Support:

• Sierra (link)

• Decagon (link)

• Pylon (link)

Legal:

• Harvey (link)

• Hebbia (link)

GTM:

• Clay (link)

• Listen Labs (link)

• Actively (link)