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PROVEN
Sandstone
$40M
Legal Departments Track Half-Million-Dollar Contracts in Spreadsheets. Sandstone Just Raised $40M to Fix That.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Kampala
$500K
Seven Years of Reverse-Engineering Sneaker Bots, Turned Into a Real Business
DevTools · build tooling
RISING
Probably
$9M
The AI Labs Are Incentivized to Keep Models Unreliable. This Startup Isn’t.
AI/Infrastructure · adapt model
PROVEN
Board
$35M
The Mirror Founder’s Next Act – a $399 Touchscreen That Gets Families Off Their Phones
Gaming · build adjacent
RISING
Hyper
$500K
Your AI Agent Forgot Everything by Lunch. Hyper Fixes That.
AI/Infrastructure · build adjacent
RISING
Kinter
$500K
The AI That Runs the Books – Not Just Assists the Accountant
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
RISING
Scope
$500K
Your Next Power User Is an AI Agent – and It Hates Your UX
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Memoir
$500K
Stop Mining Gold. Sell the Shovels.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Causa Prima
$10M
Don't Build AI Agents. Build a Network of Them.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Infinity Constellation
$36M
The AI Holding Company That Builds Instead of Buys
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Turnout
$66M
Bureaucracy Is Miserable – and That's Worth $400M
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Ontora
$1M
170 Enterprise Leads, 80 Investors – and They Never Ran a Single Ad
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
TravelMind
undisclosed
Restaurant Discovery Is Broken – Nobody Has Fixed It With AI Yet
AI/Generative · build competitor
RISING
Willow
$7M
Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Company. The Fix Is Worth Billions.
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
INXM
$6M
2x More Reliable, 40–50x Cheaper – and Every Competitor Has to Rebuild
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Parrot
$500K
Auto Repair AI That Handles Insurance Claims – Not Just Scheduling
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
LightTable
$30M
"Deal With It When It Breaks" Is an Expensive Habit. AI Can Fix That.
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
PROVEN
Luel
$32M
From YC Demo Day to $31M in Weeks – Into an Untapped AI Data Market
AI/Generative · enter market
RISING
Arctic Health
$500K
Hiring a Doctor Triggers 4 Months of Paperwork. This Startup Kills It.
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Hardline
$2M
Every Founder's Dream: Big Market, No Competition
AI/Voice · enter market
RISING
Voker
$2M
Everyone Deploys AI Agents. Nobody Measures If They Actually Help.
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
CaseGap
undisclosed
Find the Revenue Leaks and Plug Them – Applied to Law Firm Marketing
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
Rima
$600K
The Most Elegant Business Model Right Now – and It's Replicable
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Exhibitly
$2M
Your Homepage Can't Appeal to Everyone – It Doesn't Have To
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Manicule
$500K
Your Marketing Stack Was Built for Humans. AI Agents Ignore It.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Vori
$32M
Sell Them What They Can't Survive Without
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Productclunk
undisclosed
AI Killed the Barrier to Building. Now Distribution Is the Only Game.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Klaimee
$500K
AI Agent Liability Is a Huge Market – Insurers Are Fleeing It
Fintech/InsurTech · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Marx
undisclosed
What If Multiple AI Models Could Debate Which Stocks to Buy?
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Redpine
$9M
Building a Niche AI Agent? The Real Money Is in the Data It Needs.
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Salesgraph
$500K
Your AI Platform Is Too Smart for Your Customers
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Avoca
$126M
Quiet Since 2023 YC Demo Day. Then: 800 Clients, $125M, $1B Valuation.
AI/Generative · enter market
RISING
Brev
$4M
Everyone Is Working Hard. Nobody Is Working in the Same Direction.
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Cloneable
$5M
The Best AI Opportunities Are in Markets Nobody Is Glamorizing
AI/Computer Vision · enter market
RISING
Trellis
$500K
The AI Automation Gold Rush Is Real – But Only in the Right Niches
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Sinai
$2M
Uploading a Book to an AI Is Technically Illegal – $155B Problem
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Eigen
$15M
AI Companions Treat Loneliness the Way Cheap Substitutes Do
Health/Mental · build adjacent
RISING
Humwork
$500K
The Org Chart Is About to Flip Upside Down
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Replenit
$2M
Behavioral History Won't Tell You What Someone Will Buy. Intent Will.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Maven
$500K
The AI Voice Agent That Collects Payment Mid-Call
AI/Voice · build tooling
RISING
Pomo
$5M
You Don't Need an AI That Creates Ads – You Need One That Decides
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Konfide
undisclosed
The Best Way to Promote Your Product: Let Others Profit From It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Tepali
$500K
SMB Software Is Dying. Winners Will Be Problem-Solvers.
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Rocket
$26M
The Value of AI Platforms Is No Longer the AI
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Driver
$9M
AI Agents Are the New Gold Miners. Sell Them Shovels.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Panorama
undisclosed
Most Automation Tools Solve the Wrong Problem
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Complir
$2M
Regulatory Compliance Is a Sales Blocker – AI Is Removing It
AI/NLP · build adjacent
RISING
Financial News Systems
$2M
AI Journalism and AI Readers: Two Markets Forming in the Grey Zone
AI/NLP · build competitor
SEEDLING
Pensieve
undisclosed
AI Agents Need Onboarding. Nobody Knows How to Do That Yet.
AI/Agents · build tooling
PROVEN
Neon
$27M
In the AI Era, Developers Become Commodity Labor
AI/Voice · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Tobira
undisclosed
AI Agents That Network on Your Behalf Are Coming
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Paraform
$65M
The New Startup Recipe: Compression, Not Expansion
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Multiply
$10M
The Most Profitable AI Play Isn't Building Platforms
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
First Concepts
$1M
Enterprise Sales Needs Throwaway Demos – Nobody Has Built That Yet
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Edra
$30M
The Biggest Money in Enterprise AI Is in Implementation
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
AgentDiscuss
undisclosed
If You're Building for Human Users, You're Already Behind
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Rubric
$500K
Building AI Platforms Is Cheap. Verifying Their Output Is Valuable.
AI/MLOps · build tooling
RISING
Perfectly
$500K
Twice the Pass Rate in a Quarter of the Time – AI-First Recruiting
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PROVEN
Arcade
$47M
Stop Picking from What's Available – Order What You Actually Want
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Arcade
$22M
AI as a Full Marketplace Participant – Not Just a Backend Tool
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Juicebox
$116M
Flip the Pareto Rule and Watch the Funding Roll In
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PROVEN
Amigo
$18M
Your AI Agent Needs a Certificate – That's a Real Market
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Humans Fix AI
undisclosed
The Best Time to Enter a Market Is When the Old Model Is Dying
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Timelaps
undisclosed
Same Platform, 100x the Price – Sell Outcomes Instead of Software
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Ivee
$5M
When AI Makes Software Near-Free, Specialization Is the Only Moat
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Outship
$500K
Less Competition Lives in the Non-Obvious Problems
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
FirmPilot
$5M
"Good" Isn't the Bar – "Better Than Your Competitors" Is
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
14.ai
$3M
Building AI Support Agents Is Good – Running the Team Is Better
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Panta
$500K
Their Headache Is Your Revenue – If You Can Offload the Pain to AI
Fintech/InsurTech · build adjacent
RISING
Swan
$6M
Three Founders, No Staff, $1.5M Monthly Pipeline
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Aemon
$500K
The AI Product That Wins Has the Best Data, Not the Best Algorithm
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
EatClub
$83M
Cut Prices, Fill Seats, Double Your Valuation
Fintech/Payments · build adjacent
RISING
Bystreet
$500K
Sell the Data, Bundle the Software Free
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
DataLane
$23M
ChatGPT Won't Find You Offline Customers – This Kind of AI Will
AI/Search · build competitor
RISING
Imagine AI
$500K
Stop Selling Software – Sell the Outcome It Produces
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
RISING
Fern
$500K
The Hard Part of AI Isn't Being Smart – It's Knowing When to Speak
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Circuit
$70M
Industrial AI Doesn't Answer Questions – It Captures Expertise
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Layers
undisclosed
Ship the App, Let Agentic Marketing Handle the Rest
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Grade
$500K
The End of Paying for Time – AI Is Making Outcome-Based Pay Inevitable
HR/Benefits · build tooling
PROVEN
Paid
$33M
Per-Seat Pricing Breaks When the Agent's Job Is to Reduce Headcount
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Booko
$500K
Empty Appointment Slots Are Predictable – That's Where the Money Is
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
Inception Point AI
$5M
The Only Content Strategy That Works: Be Interesting, Not Prolific
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Day AI
$24M
The CRM Salesforce Should Have Built – Sequoia Just Funded It
SaaS/CRM · adapt model
SEEDLING
Overlead
undisclosed
Signal-Based Prospecting: Find Buyers Already Looking for You
AI/Search · build competitor
RISING
Salus
$500K
AI Hallucinations Can't Be Fixed – So Someone Has to Catch Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Fibr
$10M
Two Years, a Handful of Clients – Then Dozens of Enterprises in One
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Fibr
$4M
Every Search Query Is a Promise – Your Landing Page Has to Keep It
AI/Personalization · build adjacent
RISING
Slashwork
$4M
The Real AI Collaboration Opportunity Is Inside Your Company
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
RISING
Collective OS
$3M
Small Companies Are Multiplying – and They All Need Infrastructure
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
RISING
Sentra
$5M
Your Company Has Amnesia – Every Decision Evaporates After It's Made
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
RISING
Scholé
$3M
The Platform Is Ordinary – the Timing Is Perfect
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
SEEDLING
InteractPitch
undisclosed
The Pitch Deck That Raises Money Without You in the Room
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
One.five
$27M
Vibe Manufacturing – AI for Physical Products Is the Next Frontier
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Emversity
$46M
Teach What AI Can't Automate – Moravec's Paradox Is Your Curriculum
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
RISING
PinchAI
$5M
Returns Abuse Costs $100B – and Crackdowns Punish Honest Shoppers
E-commerce/Marketplace · enter market
PROVEN
Hupo
$14M
When a Category Gets Crowded, That's Your Signal – Not Your Deterrent
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Knoa
undisclosed
90% of Corporate Knowledge Lives in Heads – and Leaves With Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Your360.ai
$200K
The Relationship Layer Is the Next Big AI Infrastructure
HR/Learning · build adjacent
RISING
Fifr
$2M
AI-Only Portfolio Management Feels Risky – a Human-AI Hybrid Doesn't
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Luxury Presence
$89M
New Clients Are Hard – Deals From Existing Contacts Are Much Easier
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PROVEN
Swap
$149M
Cross-Border Commerce Is Broken – $149M Says This Is How You Fix It
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Gowatch
$500K
The Competitive Intelligence Gap Is a Product Waiting to Be Built
AI/Agents · build competitor
SEEDLING
Creaibo
undisclosed
50 Million Creators Can't Publish AI Slop – Someone Has to Fix That
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Scribe
$130M
94% of Fortune 500 Use This Tool – 44% Actually Pay for It
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Overlord
$500K
Your Biggest Obstacle Is You – and Accountability Partners Fix That
Health/Wellness · build adjacent
PROVEN
Traini
$11M
An App That Translates Dog Behavior Into Human Language
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
SEEDLING
GitHired
undisclosed
Resumes Lie – the Code Repository Doesn't
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
RISING
Design Rails
$500K
Your App Gets Paid What It Looks Like It's Worth
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Grov
undisclosed
Individual AI Assistants Are Table Stakes – Team Memory Is the Edge
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Delightree
$24M
Sell to One Franchisor and Win Hundreds of Locations at Once
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
FINNY
$22M
Financial Advisors Have a Growth Problem – It's a Data Problem
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
RISING
Known
$10M
The Dating Profile Is the Problem, Not the Solution
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Beycome
$4M
5.5% Agent Commission Is a Tax on Ignorance – Skip It
Real Estate/PropTech · adapt model
RISING
Scribl
$415K
Five Minutes of Real Talk Before the Agenda Doubles Meeting Outcomes
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
RISING
Atrium
$1M
Your Closest Friends Can't Help You as Much as Distant Acquaintances
AI/Search · build adjacent
PROVEN
Yoodli
$61M
AI Role-Play Raised $40M in Seven Months – the Category Is Real
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Humy
$150K
What If Alexander the Great Taught Your Kids?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Channel3
$7M
AI Agents Are About to Replace You at Checkout
AI/Search · build tooling
PROVEN
Oboe
$20M
The "Casual Learning" Market Doesn't Exist Yet – Go Build It
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Agency
$32M
Selling Is Easy. Serving at Scale Is Where Companies Break.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Mental
$10M
Men Don't Cry – They Quietly Fall Apart
Health/Mental · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Thrive Holdings
undisclosed
AI Is Coming for Professional Services – OpenAI Just Put Money on It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Questas
undisclosed
"Quests" Will Blow Up the $350B E-Learning Market
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Find Your Grind
$8M
Stop Asking "What Do You Want to Be?" – Ask "How Do You Want to Live?"
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
Markopolo
$4M
E-Commerce Stores Lose 96–99% of Visitors – Here's How to Recover
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
SEEDLING
Prometora
undisclosed
Courses and Consulting Are Over – Here's How Experts Monetize Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
BoomPop
$60M
A $1 Trillion Market That Old-School Event Agencies Are About to Lose
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Waldium
$500K
Dev Tools That Don't Publish Content Won't Get Recommended by AI
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Keeyu
$2M
Stop Handling Customer Complaints – Start Preventing Them
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
RISING
Lancey
$2M
10x Efficiency Doesn't Come From Improvement – It Comes From Cutting
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Joy
$24M
Parents Need Expert Help at 3am – Someone Built the Club for That
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Sensay
$3M
Knowledge Walks Out With Every Resignation – and It Gets Worse
HR/Learning · build adjacent
RISING
Cactus
$8M
Y Combinator Is Betting Heavy on This Category – Niches Filling Fast
AI/Voice · build adjacent
RISING
Partner Fleet
$2M
Turn Your Product Into a Platform – The App Store Playbook
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Wabi
$20M
Apps Need Their Own YouTube – Not Just an App Store
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
RISING
Semiotic
$500K
$78K in Four Weeks – The Math Behind Hybrid AI Agencies
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Letterhead
$39M
Email Newsletters Still Print Money – Run 100 of Them
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Locus
$500K
AI Agents Need Their Own Email, Wallet, and Identity
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Alloy
$3M
Most AI Dev Tools Target Startups – the Money Is in Existing Ones
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Wonder Studios
$15M
Two Funding Rounds in One Year – AI-Only Film Production Is Real Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Clad Labs
$500K
A Y Combinator Startup Built a Developer IDE With a Casino Inside
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Jack & Jill
$20M
Build the Marketplace Where Nobody Has to Search
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PROVEN
OpenEvidence
$517M
Every Professional Category Will Get Its Own ChatGPT
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Woz
$7M
AI Alone Wasn't Enough – They Added Humans and Raised $6M
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Leadbay
$500K
The Hardest-to-Find Buyers Are the Most Valuable Ones
AI/Search · build adjacent
RISING
Dappier
$2M
The New Internet Is a Network of AI Chats – Claim Your Node Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Viven
$35M
AI Digital Twins: The Billion-Dollar Category Nobody Has Claimed Yet
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Absurd
$500K
AI Video Is Everywhere – Making It Actually Good Is Still Hard
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Crosby
$26M
A Legal Firm in Your Inbox – for the Cost of a Tool Subscription
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
Lyra
$6M
Meetings Are Optimized for Talking – Not for Outcomes
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Dragonfly
$3M
ChatGPT Is Useless for Enterprise Procurement – Here's What Works
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
And Then
$1M
What If a Story Could Talk Back? Interactive Fiction Goes Mainstream
AI/NLP · build adjacent
RISING
Hupside
$2M
95% of Enterprise AI Pilots Fail – and the Fix Isn't Better Technology
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
Station
undisclosed
Don't Give Your AI Product Away Free
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
Enhance Labs
$2M
Talking Out Loud With AI Beats Prompt-and-Wait
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Simple
$45M
Weight Loss Without Willpower – an AI Coach That Adapts
Health/Wellness · build adjacent
RISING
Sunflower
$2M
1 Billion People Drink Too Much – 100K Chose This App
Health/Wellness · adapt model
PROVEN
Juicebox
$37M
The Fastest-Growing AI Category Right Now Has 10-Person Teams
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
RefAssured
$3M
People Lie in Interviews – One Startup Built a Billion on That
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
RISING
Unusual
$500K
SEO Is Dead – Welcome to AI Engine Optimization
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Envelope
undisclosed
The $600B Events Industry Runs on Spreadsheets – Until Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Dart
$500K
Every Legacy Platform Just Became Vulnerable – Build AI-Native Instead
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
Extuitive
$20M
15,000 Ads a Month – and AI Is About to Do It for 1% of the Cost
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Hyperbound
$18M
A Hook Gets You Into the Market – a Platform Gets You to Scale
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
The AI Film Company
$5M
AI Film Needs Infrastructure, Not Just Better Tools
AI/Generative · build tooling
RISING
Meela
$4M
Aging Parents Need Company – and Your Calls Aren't Enough
AI/Voice · build adjacent
RISING
Sammy
$660K
If Users Can't Figure Out Your Product, That's on You
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Meet5
$12M
Friendship Apps Will Outlast Dating Apps – Demographics Guarantee It
Social · enter market
RISING
Supersonik
$5M
Strike While the Demo Is Hot
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
SEEDLING
Meeting.ai
undisclosed
The Meeting Recorder That Actually Tells You Who Said What
AI/Voice · build adjacent
SEEDLING
100 Vibe Coding
undisclosed
Vibe Coding Is Here – Someone Must Teach What Comes Next
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
RISING
Throxy
$7M
Pay Per Meeting Booked – the Model That's Hard to Copy
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Artificial Societies
$5M
Test Your Campaign on 10,000 AI Personas First
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Nautilus
$500K
AI for Niche Marketing: The Unsexy Path to a Few Million a Year
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Vocal Image
$5M
Voice Training App With 20 Employees Hit $12.5M in Annual Revenue
AI/Voice · enter market
PROVEN
Doola
$11M
Users Don't Want Two Tools – They Want One That Does Both
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Laborup
$8M
The Skilled Trades Hiring Gap Job Boards Were Never Built to Close
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Ohai
$6M
Women Are Spending 8–9 Hours a Day Running the Home – AI Can Help
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Madespace
undisclosed
Interior Design's Discovery Problem Has a £3,000 Gap in the Middle
AI/Generative · enter market
RISING
Wayline
$500K
One Template for a Hundred Startups
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Mocke
undisclosed
Bad Email Campaigns Don't Just Underperform – They Kill Your Audience
AI/Generative · build tooling
SEEDLING
Mirror
undisclosed
You Are Not Who You Think You Are – And That Gap Is Measurable
AI/NLP · build adjacent
RISING
Continua
$8M
The AI Agent That Actually Runs Your Group Chat
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Channel3
$500K
The Affiliate API Hiding in Plain Sight for AI Developers
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Reacher
$500K
TikTok Influencer Campaigns Are Still Mostly Manual – Not for Long
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Fluint
$4M
150-Day Sales Cycles Need More Than a Coach – They Need AI
AI/Agents · adapt model
PROVEN
Kontext
$10M
The Ad Network Inside AI Chatbots Nobody Has Built Yet
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
AgentMail
$500K
Email Infrastructure Built for AI Agents, Not Humans
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Payman
$3M
This Startup Lets AI Agents Pay Humans – and Raised $3M in Six Days
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Skope
$500K
Outcome-Based Billing Built for AI Agent Companies
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Showrunner
$10M
Direct Episodes Inside a Shared AI Universe
AI/Generative · build tooling
RISING
GetCrux
$3M
AI Cuts Ad Production Time From 10 Days to 48 Hours
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Cafeteria
$6M
The Platform That Spots Trends Before They're Obvious
AI/NLP · build adjacent
RISING
Convexia
$500K
Shelved Drug Patents Are a Goldmine – Speed Is Everything
AI/Generative · build competitor
SEEDLING
Commitify
undisclosed
The AI Coach That Calls You When You're Procrastinating
AI/Voice · build adjacent
RISING
Operand
$4M
Capitalism as a Service: Strategy at Any Scale
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Tecto
$500K
Corporate AI Adoption Is a Mess – and That's a Business Opportunity
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Rubbrband
$500K
The Real Money in AI Video Isn't in Generating It
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Gleam
undisclosed
Buffett Was Right: Communication Skills Have the Highest ROI
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
RISING
CaseCraft
$699K
When AI Doesn't Expand a Market – It Creates One From Scratch
AI/Generative · enter market
SEEDLING
Sublime
undisclosed
Your Journal Is Useless If It Doesn't Tell You What to Do Next
Health/Mental · build adjacent
RISING
Perry
$2M
The Brain Transplant Business Model
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Oki
$500K
The Founder's Blind Spot – Solved Before Problems Get Loud
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Gradient Labs
$17M
Generic AI Support Resolves 25% of Queries – Vertical AI 75%
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Skarbe
$600K
Selling Feels Like a Second Job – Because It Is One
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Skala
undisclosed
An AI Lawyer on Call – and a Global Business Set Up Before Breakfast
AI/NLP · build tooling
RISING
Rocketable
$7M
The One-Person Unicorn Sounds Crazy – Until You Narrow the Scope
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Remark
$26M
The AI Sales Associate Your Online Store Never Had
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PROVEN
Audos
$12M
A Million in Hand Beats a Billion in the Cloud
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Delphi
$19M
The Old Knowledge Business Is Dying – Expertise Isn't
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Chronicle
$12M
Why Fight for Tech Share When Film Studios Are Untouched?
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Paraform
$25M
A Recruiter Marketplace Where You Only Work on What You Win
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Toughday
$1M
60% of Employees Hit a Breaking Point Every Month
Health/Mental · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Brand Stori
undisclosed
B2B Websites That Sound Like Everyone Else Are Losing the Deal
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Traxlo
$3M
Pay by the Task, Not the Hour – Gig Workforce Rebuilt
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Crosby
$6M
AI Does the Contract Review – Real Lawyers Sign Off in Under an Hour
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Laurel
$156M
Professional Services Bill by the Hour But Can't Track It
AI/MLOps · build competitor
PROVEN
Outset
$22M
Continuous User Research Used to Cost $50K – Not Anymore
AI/Voice · build competitor
RISING
Blaxel
$500K
The Cloud Was Built in 2005 – AI Agents Need Something Different
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Toma
$18M
One Vertical, One Use Case, $17.5M – The Focused AI Playbook
AI/Voice · build adjacent
RISING
r.Potential
$6M
Two Executives for Human and AI Workers Is Already Obsolete
HR/Remote · build tooling
SEEDLING
JobForAgent
undisclosed
The AI Agent Marketplace Won't Make a Billion – But This Will
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Valla
$3M
Pick Markets That AI Can Expand, Not Just Disrupt
AI/NLP · build competitor
PROVEN
Buildots
$166M
Big Money in Construction Tech Is One Feature Away
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
RISING
Zoca
$6M
Small Businesses Need Marketing Done – Not Advice on It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Clado
$500K
How Do You Hire Someone Who Isn't Looking?
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Cohesive
$500K
Build the Platform Small Businesses Can't Live Without
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Siro
$75M
AI Sales Coaching Has a Blind Spot – $50M to Fix It
AI/Agents · build tooling
PROVEN
Didask
$11M
There Are No Bad Students – Just Bad Matches
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Distro
undisclosed
AI Content Tools Are Garbage – Here's What Actually Works
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
GrowthX
$12M
The Model Between Agency and SaaS – $600K MRR in a Year
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Scription
$11M
The Best Revenue Is What You Earn for Not Working
SaaS/Vertical · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Mesmer
$500K
Everyone's Replacing Engineers With AI – No One's Replacing CTOs
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Human Behavior
$500K
Measuring Everything Means Nothing If You Can't Act on It
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Generated Assets
undisclosed
How to Actually Make Money in Stocks
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Adopt
$6M
Your Users Are About to Tell You: Ditch the Interface
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
CoLaunchly
undisclosed
Who's Going to Market Your Product?
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Operand
$4M
Profitability and Scalability Used to Be a Trade-Off. Not Anymore.
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Virallyst
undisclosed
Vibe Marketing: Strategy Without the Grind
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Anon
$7M
Your AI Agent Is Useless Without This
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
DBR77
$5M
Same AI Upside, Fewer Competitors: The Robotics Angle
AI/Computer Vision · adapt model
PROVEN
Gruve
$38M
The $1 Trillion Consulting Market Is Now Fair Game for Tech
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Synthetiq
undisclosed
Want More Followers? Stop Trying to Write Better
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Lyreka
undisclosed
Vibe Coding Exists – So Where's Vibe Learning?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Dex
$3M
AI Career Matching Is Growing 50% MoM – and Nobody's Cornered It
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Audioforms
undisclosed
Big Businesses Grow From Small Annoyances
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
NotClass
undisclosed
The Online Education Revolution Is Eating Itself – Here's Who Wins
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
HelloSky
$8M
AI Won't Kill Hiring – It Will Make It Far More Rigorous
HR/Recruiting · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Syntegra
$3M
Synthetic Patient Data That's Statistically Real but Legally Safe
AI/Generative · build tooling
PROVEN
Infosum
$23M
Share Your Data Without Actually Sharing Your Data
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
XetData
$8M
The Pick-and-Shovel Play for the AI Training Data Gold Rush
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Autoblocks AI
$2M
Don't Build Voice AI – Sell Shovels to Those Who Do
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Why My Wife Yelling At Me
undisclosed
An AI Wife Simulator That Explains Why She's Angry
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Incident.io
$96M
$96M Says Incident Response Is a Real Product Category
DevTools · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Waxwing
$160K
What If Your Project Manager Also Found the Freelancers?
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Drooid
undisclosed
News Aggregation Is Dumb – Perspective Aggregation Is Interesting
AI/NLP · build tooling
PROVEN
Adaptive
$43M
Hackers Have Stopped Targeting Systems – They Target People
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Solace
$81M
The Healthcare System Is Too Complex to Navigate Alone
Health/Telemedicine · build competitor
PROVEN
Sturdy
$11M
The Early-Warning System That Catches Churn Before It Happens
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The Mobile First Company
$6M
One Product Is a Bet – a Portfolio of Apps Is a Business
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ethos
$3M
Experts Without the LinkedIn Noise
AI/Search · build adjacent
PROVEN
Paid
$11M
Outcome-Based Pricing for AI Agents – Who Captures the Value
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Trata
$500K
Smart Investing Needs Good Facts, Not Good Advisors
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Notebooks
undisclosed
Your Best Ad Idea Is Already Running – Just Not Yours
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Epiphany
undisclosed
Notes That Turn Themselves Into Actions
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Popfly
$2M
Outdoor Brands Pay for Reach – This Platform Sells Fit Instead
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Verata
$500K
The Intelligence Layer PE Firms Have Been Missing
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Agent.ai
undisclosed
If Companies Hire AI Agents, Someone Needs to Build the Job Board
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Workhelix
$30M
AI Implementation Is a Headache – and a Business Model
AI/Agents · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
DeepScout
$660K
You're Losing Sales to Competitors You're Not Watching
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Copley
$5M
People Buy on Emotion – So Why Do Tools Only Target the Copy?
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
NextByte
$500K
Stop Hiring Coders. Start Hiring AI Collaborators.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Valid
$7M
It's Not the Product. It's the Pitch.
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Sammy
$500K
Stop Bolting AI On. Start Building AI-Native.
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Dench
$1M
Not Every Customer Is Worth Having
AI/Voice · build competitor
PROVEN
Mercor
$136M
21-Year-Old Founders. $2B Valuation. 51% Monthly Revenue Growth.
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
Dig
$22M
Your Brand Is Being Talked About on TikTok. You Have No Idea.
AI/Computer Vision · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Steve
$2M
An AI That Walks You From Zero to Amazon Seller
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Artificial Societies
$500K
Predictive AI Is Hot – But Most Predictions Are Still Flying Blind
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
XOi
$247M
A 10-Year-Old Startup Just Raised $230M in a Single Round
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Lakmoos
$561K
Six Months of User Research. Done in Minutes.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Validated
$2M
Which Angle Actually Sells Your Product?
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Fiverr Go
undisclosed
Freelancers Now Have AI Doubles That Work While They Sleep
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Growith
$187K
How Do You Know If Your Post Will Land Before You Post It?
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Voyantis
$19M
LTV Was Always a Guess – Now It's a Prediction
AI/MLOps · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Riviera
$500K
There Are Still Plenty of Open Niches in AI
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Operand
$500K
Dumb AI Consultants Won't Last Long
AI/Generative · build competitor
PROVEN
Lorikeet
$14M
"Our Product Is Better" Is the Weakest Pitch in B2B
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Unusual
$500K
Every Visitor Sees a Different Homepage – and Conversions Jump 300%
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Spott
$500K
You Can't Run a $95B Market on Spreadsheets and Gut Feel
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Perspective
$4M
If You're Writing Survey Questions, You've Already Missed the Insight
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Roam
$5M
Video Ate the Internet. Now Games Are Coming for Video.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Soma Lab
$500K
The Missing Piece in Medical Education Is Practice at Scale
Education/Corporate · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Ai_licia
undisclosed
AI Characters Don't Have to Replace People – They Can Upgrade Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Reset
undisclosed
Rewire Anxiety in 11 Weeks – Not Just Suppress It
Health/Mental · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Nichefire
$3M
The Real Money Goes to Whoever Spots the Trend First
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
GitPodcast
undisclosed
Your GitHub Repo, Explained as a Podcast
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Monologue
undisclosed
What If You Never Needed a Guest Again
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
VocAdapt
undisclosed
Language Learning That Starts With Articles You Actually Want to Read
Education/Language · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Tenor
$5M
AI Role-Play That Teaches Leadership Through Practice, Not Lectures
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Retellio
$1M
Your Company's Customer Complaints, Delivered as a Weekly Podcast
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Otterly.AI
undisclosed
Google SEO Is Yesterday's Game
AI/Search · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Leap AI
$1M
Every AI Workflow Your Team Runs, Saved as a Single Button
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
TruvaAI
$5M
Users Don't Churn Because They Dislike Your Product – They Never Learned to Use It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Buster
$500K
The 90% of SaaS Work Nobody Talks About – And a Platform That Eliminates It
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
OpenCopilot
$550K
The AI Copilot Layer Every Cloud Product Will Need
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Abundant
$500K
60% of Support Tickets, AI Handles. Who Owns the Other 40%?
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
FINNY
$5M
58 Hours of Wrong Calls to Land One Client – There's a Fix
Fintech/WealthTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Lasso
undisclosed
Affiliate Marketing Is a $54B Market – and Its Software Is Still Broken
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Max Retail
$21M
Unfreeze $500 Billion in Stuck Inventory
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Nowadays
$3M
135,000 US Planners Still Book Corporate Events by Email
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Lawhive
$54M
Two Big Wins From Not Selling the AI Separately
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
MukuAI
undisclosed
Fake Users, Real Results
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
KOAH
undisclosed
The Ad Network Built for AI Chatbots – Not Banners
AI/Generative · build tooling
PROVEN
Roon
$23M
What If Every Health Answer Online Was Written by a Real Doctor
Health/Diagnostics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Amigo
$6M
AI Experts vs. AI Employees: Why the Distinction Changes Everything
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Univerbal
$2M
To Learn to Speak a Language, You Have to Actually Speak It
Education/Language · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Asha Health
$500K
The Safest Slice of Healthcare AI Is Also the Most Scalable
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Encore
$500K
75% of Secondhand Purchases Are Unplanned – Search Is Broken
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Workhelix
$15M
Companies Want AI. They Don't Want AI Employees.
AI/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Plato
$7M
The $53 Trillion Market Where AI Is the Only New Salesperson You Need
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Luthor
$500K
The SEO Content Studio That Refuses to Go Full Auto-Pilot
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
SocialCrowd
$5M
Same Staff, Same Menu, Same Specials – Sales Up 6x
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Cafeteria
$3M
No Teenager Will Fill Out Your Survey – Here's What Works Instead
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Manifest
$3M
Mental Health Apps Are About to Have a Second Act
Health/Mental · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Build Club
$1M
Free AI Training – With $150K in Cloud Credits Stacked On Top
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
PodcastWorld
undisclosed
50 Million Podcast Episodes Are Searchable – Almost Nobody Knows It
AI/Search · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Getcrux
$3M
The Tiny Percentage That Makes or Breaks Your Ad ROI
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Revyze
$8M
The Exam-Prep App That Beat TikTok and Google in the App Store
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
LearnTube
$2M
Why Build Courses When YouTube Already Has Them All?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Evertune
$4M
SEO Is So Last Decade – Welcome to AEO
AI/Search · build adjacent
PROVEN
AirOps
$23M
Sell Platforms, Not Point Tools
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Pepsales
$1M
AI Persuasion Will Arrive Before AI Intelligence – and Sales Tech Knows It
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
MyCredibility
$1M
Video Testimonials with an AI Sincerity Certificate
AI/Computer Vision · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Schmooze
$8M
Match by Memes, Not Selfies
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Friendly Apps
$3M
Your Very Own AI Social Network – Population: Just You
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Chirper
$750K
A Social Network With No Human Users – On Purpose
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
DreamRP
$500K
Character.ai Proved the Demand – DreamRP Is Fixing the Quality
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Skyfire
$9M
AI Agents Can Research, Draft, and Plan – But They Can't Pay
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
LoveHeart
$2M
The Real AI Opportunity in Childcare Isn't Helping Parents
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Uman
$3M
Uman Brings Superhuman Persuasion to B2B Sales Decks
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Mica
$500K
TikTok-Style Highlights for Your Sales Calls
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Napkin AI
$10M
Napkin AI Turns Business Text Into Visuals Instantly
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Skillfully
$3M
Skip the Resume, Skip the Interview – Simulate the Job
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Bloom AI
$4M
The Right Product Photo Lifts Conversions by Up to 44%
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Centralize
$500K
One Contact Is Never Enough – Map the Whole Buying Committee
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Genie
$500K
An AI Companion That Teaches, Motivates, and Creates With Kids
Education/Kids · build competitor
PROVEN
DocketAI
$20M
AI Hallucinations Are a Sales-Killer – Here's the Fix
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Joy
$10M
Your Parenting Experience Always Lags Behind Your Child's Age
Education/Kids · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Resquared
$5M
Hard to Find Means Easy to Monetize
AI/Search · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Overlap
$500K
Five Million Hours of New Podcasts Every Week – Nobody Can Keep Up
AI/Search · build adjacent
INTERESTING
Digital First AI
$5M
AI Is Graduating from Executor to Strategist
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ethermind
$635K
Simple AI Tasks Deliver Real Results – Stop Overengineering
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Pactum
$55M
Let the Algorithm Negotiate Your Supplier Contracts
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
Ario
$16M
AI for the Tasks That Distract You from Real Work
AI/Agents · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
OffDeal
$5M
Don't Sell the Tool – Sell the Outcome
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Dokai
$150K
Video Knowledge Bases Sound Great Until the UI Changes
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Enso
$6M
Sell the Function, Not the Full Stack Digital Employee
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Default
$11M
Inbound Is Now Where B2B Deals Start
SaaS/CRM · build tooling
PROVEN
Quantum Rise
$15M
AI Implementation Is the New Consulting – and the Market Is $1 Trillion
AI/Agents · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Ferretly
$5M
Hiring Is Shifting from Skills to Personality – Here's Why
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Solidroad
$1M
Sales Training Needs to Be a Game, Not a Course
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
Manifest AI
$13M
The Storefront Is Now Optional
E-commerce/DTC · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Dappier
$2M
Your Content Is Training AI – You're Not Getting Paid For It
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
TechWolf
$56M
Enterprise Doesn't Want AI to Screen Resumes – It Wants AI to Redeploy People
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Privyr
$7M
Field Reps Don't Have Laptops – CRMs Assumed They Did
SaaS/CRM · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Unikon
$2M
What If You Could Consult an Expert for $10?
Education/EdTech · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Day.ai
$4M
You Can't Defeat a Market Leader by Copying Them and Adding AI
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Hark
$5M
Customer Support's Best Upgrade Isn't a Smarter Chatbot
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Wordsmith
$5M
Every Company's Slowest Department Has the Same Name: Legal
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Motion
$64M
You Shouldn't Be Building Your Own Schedule
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Hoop
$5M
The To-Do List That Updates Itself
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Human Native AI
$4M
AI Needs Licensed Content – and the Gold Rush Is Just Starting
AI/Generative · build tooling
PROVEN
Remark
$10M
E-Commerce Lost Its Sales Associates – This Brings Them Back
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Instaclass
$500K
The Best Course on Any Topic Is the One You Designed
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Rumi
$300K
Banning AI in Schools Is as Smart as Banning Calculators
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Angel AI
$5M
100 Families in Beta, $4.75M Raised – Kids' Browser Bet
Health/Wellness · build adjacent
PROVEN
Purple Dot
$16M
Pre-Orders Don't Have to Feel Like Pre-Orders
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
FrontRace
$4M
Promote or Fire? AI Now Has an Opinion.
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Daloopa
$41M
The Best Place to Plug In AI: Corporate Finance
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
ForMotiv
$9M
What Your Form-Fill Data Is Already Telling You
AI/Behavioral Analysis · build adjacent
PROVEN
Syrup
$25M
Apparel's Biggest Profit Killer Is Buying Too Much of the Wrong Sizes
E-commerce/Marketplace · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Clueso
$2M
Record Once, Get a Full Tutorial Back – No Editor Required
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
MutableAI
$500K
Engineers Stay 1–2 Years. Their Code Stays Forever.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Microverse
$16M
Pay Nothing Until You're Hired – Then Teach the World to Code
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Take2
$3M
Sales Interviews Test Interview Skills, Not Selling Skills
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Writ
$4M
Data Isn't Valuable. Decisions Are.
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Firebender
$500K
Industry and Headcount Filters Find Prospects. Intent Signals Find Buyers.
AI/Search · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Inner AI
$5M
Inner AI Skips the Blank Chat Box – You Start With a Template
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Fora
$4M
Executives Don't Search for Information – It Should Come to Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Storiaverse
$3M
Storiaverse Invented a New Format Between Comics and Video
AI/Generative · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Yeti Confetti Kids
$5M
Edtech for Ages 3–8 Is More Defensible Than Any Gaming Market
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Astronuts
$150K
Astronuts Wraps AI Dev Tools Inside an Outcome – Not a Feature List
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
NewRetirement
$33M
Most Retirement Apps Optimize One Variable. Retirement Has Seven.
Fintech/WealthTech · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
EdLight
$7M
The Right Answer Is the Least Useful Feedback You Can Give
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Packback
$12M
AI That Makes Students Think, Not Just Complete Assignments
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Filtroo
$1M
5 Billion Social Media Users – and 99% Can't Monetize
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Fluently
$500K
Stop Separating Language Learning from Actual Use
Education/Language · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
TollBit
$7M
AI's Free Lunch on Internet Content Is Almost Over
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
eComID
$3M
Return Fraud Costs Retailers $21–$46 Per Item. A Network Can Stop It.
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Crew
$3M
Hiring in Days, Not Months – Without a Traditional Job Board
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Graide
$3M
Instructor Feedback Doesn't Scale – Until Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Qloo
$57M
What Do Heineken Drinkers Watch? There's $57M Bet It's Knowable.
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Sonia
$500K
30-Minute AI Therapy at 1% of the Cost of a Live Therapist
Health/Mental · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Zylon
$3M
The AI Interface War – and Why Chat Is Losing
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Maia
$500K
Most Couples Never See a Therapist Before They Split
Health/Mental · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Dexa
$6M
You Can't Out-Smart ChatGPT – So Go Subjective Instead
AI/NLP · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Zenfetch
$500K
The Bookmark Graveyard Is Worth Solving
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Lancey
$500K
A/B Tests Treat Users as One Blob – What If They Didn't?
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Twin
$3M
Don't Do the Same Thing Twice – Automate It After the First Time
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Studio
$60M
What If Learning Left You With Something You Actually Made?
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Kraftful
$3M
The Feedback Loop That Prints Money for Product Teams
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
ViralMoment
$3M
You Only See TikTok After the Algorithm Decides You Should
AI/Computer Vision · build tooling
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Peerlogic
$8M
Dental Clinics Lose Patients on the Phone Without Knowing It
AI/Voice · adapt model
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Hyperbound
$500K
5.7M Sales Reps in the US – and Most Practice on Real Prospects
AI/Agents · build adjacent
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Atlas Primer
$850K
Atlas Primer Turns Commute Time Into Audio-First Structured Learning
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Glencoco
$3M
Glencoco Lets Companies Buy Cold-Calling From Freelance Reps on Demand
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Pimento
$3M
Pimento Automates Moodboard Creation for Creative Teams
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Artisan AI
$2M
Artisan AI Builds Pre-Trained Digital Employees for Sales and Marketing
AI/Agents · build adjacent
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Munch
$7M
Munch Extracts and Formats the Best Clips From Long-Form Video
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Kyron Learning
$20M
Kyron Learning Routes Students Through Video Lessons Targeting Their Misconceptions
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Evolv AI
$23M
Evolv AI Generates and Tests Website Design Changes Without Developers
AI/Generative · build competitor
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Ozone
$8M
Ozone Helps Non-Professionals Produce Polished Short Videos With AI
AI/Generative · build competitor
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Guidde
$16M
Guidde Turns Browser Recordings Into Narrated Step-by-Step Video Tutorials
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Connectly
$17M
Connectly's AI Recovers Abandoned Carts via WhatsApp Conversations
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Tango
$6M
Tango Turns Browser Workflows Into Illustrated Step-by-Step Guides
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Oxolo
$13M
Oxolo Generates a Video Ad From Any Product Page URL
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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InterLnkd
$1M
InterLnkd Monetizes Booking Moments With Contextual Product Offers
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Introw
$1M
Introw Finds Warm B2B Introduction Paths That Convert 10x Better
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Basis
$4M
Basis Builds a Domain-Specific AI Assistant for Accounting Firms
AI/Generative · enter market
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Vendasta
$185M
Vendasta Lets Agencies Resell Software They Didn't Build
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Bolster
$14M
Bolster Connects Startups With Senior Executives for Part-Time Roles
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
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Valosan
$250K
Valosan Is a PR Marketplace Built From an Agency Tool
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Videobot
$2M
Everything "Normal" Is About to Become Video
AI/Generative · build tooling
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Dr.Tail
$2M
Dr.Tail Offers Unlimited Vet Advice for $9.99 a Month
E-commerce/Subscriptions · adapt model
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Sizzle
$8M
AI Will Disrupt Education – Just Not How You Think
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Rubix
$400K
Rubix Labs Builds AI to Replace Early-Stage Product Managers
AI/Generative · adapt model
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Multiplayer
$3M
Multiplayer Is Figma for Backend Architecture – With AI
AI/Agents · build adjacent
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Catch+Release
$31M
Catch+Release Licenses User-Generated Content for Brand Advertising
AI/Search · build adjacent
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Blended Sense
$3M
Blended Sense Sends Local Photographers to Small Businesses On Demand
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
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Topline Pro
$5M
Topline Pro Uses AI to Build Conversion-Ready Websites for Trades
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Outfindo
$2M
Outfindo Guides E-Commerce Shoppers With Questions, Not Filters
E-commerce/Direct to Consumer · build adjacent
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Skillit
$14M
Skillit Gives Construction Firms a Searchable Database of Tradespeople
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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MagicBrief
$2M
MagicBrief Gives Performance Marketers a Creative Intelligence Platform
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Kinnu
$5M
Kinnu Builds a Knowledge Graph With AI-Generated Learning Paths
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Springboard
$66M
Springboard Pivots to B2B After Struggling With Consumer Edtech Economics
Education/EdTech · adapt model
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Segue
$300K
Segue Lets Construction Companies Share Idle Workers Between Projects
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
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Glystn
$4M
Glystn Builds an Intelligence Layer for Large Online Communities
AI/Language Processing · build adjacent
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Offered
$750K
Offered Automates Job Applications After an Eight-Minute Candidate Profile
AI · build competitor
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Nash
$28M
Nash Routes Each Delivery to the Cheapest Available Courier
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
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Rex
$4M
Rex Turns Your Camera Roll Into a Social Recommendation Feed
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
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Contextual AI
$20M
Contextual AI Lets Companies Build Their Own Domain-Specific AI Assistants
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Hiway
$4M
Hiway Handles Admin and Coaching for IT Freelancers in France
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Myxt
$4M
Myxt Uses AI to Match Your Audio's Tone to a Reference Track
AI · build adjacent
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Awesomic
$3M
Awesomic Matches Clients With Vetted Freelance Designers at a Flat Daily Rate
AI · build adjacent
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Elyn
$3M
Elyn Gives Online Stores a Try-Before-You-Buy Checkout Layer
E-commerce/Direct to Consumer · build adjacent
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Zephr
$11M
Zephr Lets Publishers Build Subscription Packages as Flexible Entitlement Bundles
E-commerce/Subscriptions · build tooling
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Assemble
$1M
Assemble Manages Video Production Projects With Dependency-Aware Task Scheduling
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Performica
$3M
Performica Maps Who Will Quit Next – Before They Decide
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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Contra
$15M
Contra Replaces the Resume With a Portfolio of Actual Work
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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Lavender
$14M
Lavender Coaches Sales Reps on Email Reply Rates, Not Volume
AI/Language Processing · build competitor
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Jomigo
$10M
Jomigo Runs Three Freelance Recruiters on Every Open Role Simultaneously
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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Peerlist
$1M
Peerlist Replaces LinkedIn Profiles With Live Portfolio Data
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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Personal AI
$14M
Personal AI Trains on Your Data, Not the Internet's
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Movley
$1M
Movley Sends a Team to Quality-Check Your Factory
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
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Demodesk
$11M
Demodesk Gives Sales Reps a Presenter Dashboard During Live Calls
AI/Agents · adapt model
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Superpeer
$10M
Superpeer Pivoted From Expert 1-on-1 Calls to Paid Live Streams
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
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