ASES Startup Fair2026

DoorDash AI Research is focused on advancing agentic commerce and physical intelligence for frontier applications.

Cognition is an applied AI lab that builds autonomous software engineering agents including Devin, the world's first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, an AI-native IDE.

Baseten is an AI infrastructure startup helping the most ambitious companies serve models of any size or modality in production, performantly, reliably, and cost-efficiently.

Hippocratic AI develops safety-focused generative AI healthcare agents for patient-facing, non-diagnostic tasks, centered on clinically safe deployment.

Sentry helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize application performance across error monitoring, tracing, and performance tooling.

AI agents for IT.

AfterQuery is an applied research lab curating data solutions that accelerate foundation model development.

Rho is an all-in-one banking platform for startups and the accountants supporting them, with tools for managing spend, paying bills, and closing the books.

Amca designs and manufactures advanced products for the most important aircraft in the world.

HockeyStack is building the agent infrastructure for enterprise revenue and the operating layer that removes human bottlenecks from revenue teams.

Preference Model builds reinforcement learning environments and training tasks for frontier AI labs across ML research, software engineering, and GPU kernels.

Triumph Labs is building the future of real-money gaming and entertainment through a digital platform for physical collectibles and arcade-style mobile gaming.

Dedalus Labs offers a cloud sandbox for long-running AI agents with persistent VMs that wake in milliseconds and sleep for free.

CTGT is an applied AI research lab opening the black box of AI so enterprises can deploy, monitor, and govern models with precision.

Synthio Labs is a YC-backed AI company building voice AI and agentic infrastructure for pharmaceutical commercial teams.

Phonic is a speech-to-speech voice agent platform that trains in-house audio models to power natural and intelligent voice agents.

Sellara is an applied AI lab for Wall Street, deploying custom agents and fine-tuned models across trade reconciliation, capture, and reporting workflows.

Sourcerer is an autonomous AI procurement agent helping distributors and manufacturers automate sourcing, negotiation, freight, and credit workflows.

We provide frontier labs with multimodal datasets and evals to help AI pass the audiovisual Turing test.

Architect is an AI research lab for chip design, building AI models and tools for on-demand custom ASICs at scale.

We provide people with O1 visas.

An applied AI lab for operational intelligence. Unified agentic systems for the workplace.

Human Delta is the knowledge infrastructure for agentic enterprises, creating the living source of truth that every AI agent and workflow can query in real time.

Mechanize builds environments and evals for training and evaluating frontier coding agents on realistic software engineering work.

Pingo is building AI companions for language learning through real-time voice conversations that feel personal.

Tata Electronics is a global electronics manufacturing company with capabilities in EMS, semiconductor assembly and test, foundry, and design services.

XTrace is the private, portable memory infrastructure that captures, organizes, and operationalizes every AI interaction across your organization. We give your teams shared context, institutional memory, and the foundation to build superior agents.

Abridge builds agentic AI for healthcare with safety-focused systems designed for patient-facing, non-diagnostic clinical workflows.

Aven is a fast-growing fintech company rebuilding the infrastructure of finance through deep technology spanning robotics, large-scale ML, and AI.

The first U.S. startup to enrich uranium for nuclear power plants.

Modal is AI infrastructure developers love, with sub-second cold starts, instant autoscaling, and a developer experience that feels local.

In a post-AGI world, intelligence is no longer the bottleneck - verification is. Anyone can run an AI agent. The hard problem is proving that work happened correctly, by the right actor, under the right rules.

Sapien is building the self-optimizing company, layering AI agents across a business's tools and data to monitor and improve finances end-to-end.

Substrate builds financial infrastructure to grow America's industrial GDP, providing software and capital to businesses in manufacturing, energy, construction, and more.

Contrario helps companies fill critical roles faster with AI-empowered recruiters.

Interview platform that tests how well candidates do real world work with and without generative AI.

RIFFAI uses satellite imagery to train automated decision-making AI for energy developers, accelerating site search and selection for solar and wind infrastructure.

Alka is an applied intelligence lab at the intersection of capital markets and AI agents, building auditable reasoning systems for modern asset management.

Tavus is an AI research company building foundational models for human computing and the next generation of human-computer interfaces.

Gridware invented real time monitoring of the power distribution grid with a novel hardware-software platform and is deployed with PG&E.

Atomic Invest provides embedded investing infrastructure so banks, fintechs, and financial institutions can ship brokerage and wealth management directly inside their products.

We are the platform for improving agents from production data, helping teams understand and optimize agent behavior at scale.

Refresh AI creates AI post-training data for computer use and coding domains.

TraceRoot is an open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents that captures traces and helps debug with AI that can inspect source code and GitHub history.

DeepInfra is a purpose-built inference cloud platform for high-throughput AI inference with low latency and strong cost efficiency.

Nexxa builds specialized AI systems for heavy industries and modernizes how critical companies build, move, and operate.

AI-native health insurance brokerage serving small employers, backed by Bain Capital Ventures.

Known is building intelligence for human connection, starting with dating.

Terac helps teams reach faster research breakthroughs through a marketplace of verified experts.

YC-backed applied AI research lab fusing human-like behaviour into frontier models.

The Prompting Company helps brands become the products cited by ChatGPT and other AI recommendation engines.

Cheiron is building the AI-native operating system for drug development, unifying scientific, clinical, regulatory, and competitive workflows on one intelligence layer.

Conduit is the AI platform for customer service, deploying AI agents that handle real conversations across voice, text, email, and chat from first lead to ongoing support.

AI agents for marketing.

Bluejay is an end-to-end testing and observability platform for conversational AI used by fast-growing startups and enterprises.

Unbound Security secures AI coding agents by giving security teams visibility and policy control over tools like Claude Code and Cursor.

Catchouse is building a digital professional identity layer for service professionals discovered through AI.

VectorShift is an AI workflow automation platform.

Bild AI aims to make housing more affordable by speeding up construction with computer vision that reads blueprints and extracts material information for budgeting and permits.

On-chain foreign exchange hedging.

Oasiz is an interactive social distribution platform for software, helping AI-native creators distribute software more like content.

Tex provides international heavy machinery ownership data for construction, mining, aggregates, and government customers.

Inkle is an accounting and tax SaaS platform that helps U.S. startups manage compliance from inception through AI-powered bookkeeping, filings, and deadline workflows.

Versa is an AI-powered English tutor that uses human-like avatars to create realistic video call-style lessons with interactive speaking feedback.

SoulLink creates virtual characters for co-presence and companionship, blending game technology and AI to make characters feel alive over time.

Enjamb builds collaborative AI research software, positioning itself as Claude co-work for collaborative research.

BetterBasket builds vertical AI for grocers, automating pricing and merchandising to improve margins.

Haladir is an applied AI product lab for optimal decision-making, combining formal solvers, linear programming models, and LLMs for critical operations companies.

Pearson Labs builds AI agents to help law firms automate corporate legal transactions, creating infrastructure for how large, complex deals get done.

Infinity is one OS for every device. Windows apps, Linux apps, and AI agents run in a single cloud-native environment with dedicated GPU compute streamed to any browser on any hardware.

Rimba deploys AI to transform complex operational data into clean, reliable records, analysis, and reports for heavy industries and energy companies.

Crowdsourced performance marketing growing rapidly from zero to meaningful ARR in just a few months.

Supermomos is a community technology platform connecting founders, VCs, and operators through curated events across major startup hubs.

Greenhill is building a next-generation heat pump platform for commercial buildings, focused on electrifying large-scale thermal loads.

Lanesurf uses AI to find and book trucks in minutes for freight workflows.

Solve math, solve everything.

Nautilus is the AI-native operating system for car washes, combining CRM, e-commerce, marketing automation, and analytics for multi-site operators.

agentic video editor for motion graphics

AI + Autonomous Systems

habit tracker that charges you 50 cents every time you slip up, and gives it to a friend. binary system of verification: photo verification plus screentime API. payments handled on chain via smart contracts.

Thalassa Robotics builds the Starlink of the Sea, a wireless high-bandwidth communications network for monitoring critical subsea infrastructure.

ThirdBrain Labs helps teams continuously train, improve, and own their domain-specific AI, distilling knowledge into scalable impact.

Tomo is building personal AI for real humans, starting with a text-based agent and evolving toward a visual personal operating system.