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AI and software · AI infra and compute

Residua

Secondary market where enterprises resell unused committed cloud and GPU spend.

Residua is a self-serve exchange where enterprises list the unused portion of multi-year committed spend contracts with clouds and GPU neoclouds, and other enterprises buy that entitlement at a discount.

Score 98Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Swingbus

An agent that clears utility interconnection queues for new data center load.

Swingbus sells public power utilities and system operators an agent service that runs grid interconnection and load studies: it ingests the network model, runs power flow, stability and protection studies with learned surrogates instead of overnight solver batches, and produces the signed study package a regulator will accept.

Score 97Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sectortest: $3.2k · 6w99% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Socketry

The exchange where software vendors sell maintained, agent-ready API connections.

Socketry is a two-sided marketplace where SaaS vendors publish guaranteed-current, agent-callable versions of their APIs - tested sandboxes, auth, rate contracts, change notices - and enterprises subscribe to them for their internal agents with one bill and one security review.

Score 88Open competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Latchwork

Self-healing connectors for the long tail of small business software agents cannot reach.

Latchwork records a session against a vertical tool that has no usable API - a dental scheduler, a salon booking system, a freight dispatch app - and turns it into a connector that agents call like an API, then repairs itself when the vendor changes a screen.

Score 88Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 6w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Auralith

Over-the-counter hearing wearable with a speech model burned into custom silicon.

Auralith sells a consumer ear-worn device whose noise separation and speech reconstruction model is hardcoded into a low-power ASIC, so a full conversational model runs for a day on a coin-cell class battery with no phone and no cloud.

Score 87Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumertest: $1.5k · 5w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Bidcraft

Small contractors upload plans and get a priced, win-rate-tuned quote in twenty minutes.

Bidcraft is a self-serve subscription for specialty trade subcontractors and field service firms: drop in a PDF plan set, a site photo set or an inspection report, and the system does takeoff, prices materials from live supplier catalogs in the user's country, applies the firm's labour rates and returns a client-ready quote.

Score 80Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall businesstest: $1.2k · 5w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Fiscala

A licensed AI tax agent that files for cross-border workers in every country they touch

Fiscala is an AI agent that acts as the registered tax preparer for expats, remote workers, and digital nomads, ingesting payslips, broker statements, and residency records to prepare and file returns in multiple jurisdictions at once.

Score 76Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer97% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Rubricon

An exchange where domain experts sell held-out eval suites that enterprises run on demand.

Rubricon is a marketplace for agent evaluation: radiologists, tax accountants, claims adjusters and network engineers publish task sets with graders, and enterprises pay per run to test their agents against them.

Score 76Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.9k · 6w83% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Gridshift

The marketplace where AI data centers sell their flexibility to the power grid.

Gridshift turns interruptible AI training load into a tradable grid product: data centers enroll clusters, Gridshift's ML forecasts and checkpoint-aware orchestration shift or shed training jobs on minutes of notice, and the flexibility is sold into wholesale electricity markets as demand response.

Score 74Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Backline

Voice and back-office agents for small businesses, running on our own inference fleet.

Backline answers the phone, books jobs, chases invoices and updates the booking system for plumbers, clinics, garages and salons, billed per handled call with no software for the owner to configure.

Score 72Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $1.5k · 5w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Ledgerwatt

Metering and settlement API that turns AI spend into an auditable clearing layer.

Ledgerwatt sits between enterprises and every model provider, neocloud and GPU broker they use, meters each call at the token and job level, prices it against the contracted rate card, and settles a single invoice with per-team, per-product attribution that finance can audit.

Score 71Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 6w99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Innervox

A neural wristband that turns silent speech into text for AI assistants.

Innervox builds a consumer wearable that reads surface EMG signals from subvocalized speech, letting people talk to AI assistants silently at conversational speed - in meetings, open offices, or public spaces.

Score 71Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Fluxbid

An autonomous agent that forecasts, buys, and resells your AI compute.

Fluxbid is an ML agent that enterprises connect to their cloud and inference billing with read access; it forecasts workload demand, buys GPU hours and future inference capacity across providers and trading venues, routes traffic to the cheapest qualified backend, and resells surplus commitments.

Score 71Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise99% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Subroclaim

Agents that negotiate insurer-to-insurer claim recoveries on both sides of the file.

Subroclaim runs subrogation and inter-carrier recovery as an agent service for US property and casualty insurers: the agent reads the loss file, builds the demand with liability evidence, and then negotiates directly with the other carrier's Subroclaim agent, escalating to a human adjuster only on disputed liability or amounts above a set threshold.

Score 71Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $2.6k · 6w78% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Sonograde

A $99 car sensor that hears mechanical failure coming, trained on millions of vehicles worldwide.

Sonograde is a clip-in vibration and acoustic sensor plus OBD tap that consumers buy online anywhere in the world and install in two minutes.

Score 70Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer84% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Actledger

Signed action records for enterprise agents, with a policy pack ecosystem on top.

Actledger sits between an enterprise's agents and the systems they touch: every tool call is authorized against policy, signed, and written to an immutable action record mapped to audit controls.

Score 69Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $1.4k · 6w98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Toolharbor

The governed registry every enterprise agent must pass through to touch a tool.

Toolharbor is a control plane that sits between an enterprise's AI agents and every tool, API, and MCP server they call, enforcing policy, credentials, and rate limits per agent.

Score 68Active competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Faultline

An incident agent that learns every production failure across its customers, then fixes yours.

Faultline runs as an on-call agent inside a large company's production environment: it reads traces, logs and deploys, reproduces the failure in a sandbox, and proposes or applies the fix.

Score 68Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 6w81% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Openstall

No-code layer that makes every small business readable and transactable for AI agents.

An SMB connects its booking, inventory, and payment tools (Shopify, Square, Calendly, QuickBooks) in a no-code dashboard, and Openstall publishes them as one hosted, self-maintaining endpoint that any AI agent can query and transact against.

Score 66Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Prybar

An API that lets any AI agent operate the legacy Windows software small businesses actually run.

Prybar sells small businesses a small on-premise appliance plus an API: it drives the closed, keyboard-only applications that run auto body shops, repair companies, restaurants and brokerages, exposing read and write operations as typed endpoints with rollback and an audit trail.

Score 65Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Reglet

Regulatory intelligence APIs that tell coding agents what the law requires.

Reglet is an API layer that maps code changes to regulatory obligations - HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, banking rules - in real time, so a bank's or hospital's coding agents and CI pipelines know when a diff touches regulated data flows and exactly what evidence to attach.

Score 64Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise94% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Ironfold

A plug-in appliance that runs AI agents inside regulated enterprises at a tenth the cost.

Ironfold builds a rack appliance that hospitals, insurers and banks order online, plug into their network, and use to run vertical AI agents on premises, with audit logs and patient or financial data never leaving the building.

Score 63Active competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Coderoot

Self-serve AI agents that maintain legacy enterprise code for a tenth of outsourcing cost.

Coderoot's agent connects to an enterprise's legacy estate - ABAP, COBOL, aging Java, ERP customizations - builds a behavioral map of the system, then works the maintenance backlog: patches, upgrades, regression tests and documentation.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Appcroft

The operating layer that keeps small businesses' AI-built apps running.

Appcroft hosts, patches, monitors and integrates the AI-generated apps that small businesses now get built by freelancers and dev shops using tools like Lovable.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Sovern

Air-gapped coding agent infrastructure for defense and banks; the code graph never leaves.

Sovern is an on-premise runtime and API that lets a defense program office or a bank run coding agents against its entire repository history without a single token crossing the network boundary.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $1.6k · 6w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Guildhall

The exchange where enterprises hire proven AI agents like contractors.

Guildhall is a self-serve marketplace where enterprises browse, trial, and deploy third-party AI agents - sales research agents, ops agents, finance-close agents - each listed with standardized, independently run performance telemetry instead of vendor claims.

Score 59Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Miniplex

The cloud built for a billion small apps.

Miniplex is purpose-built cloud infrastructure for agent-generated software: sub-second cold-start microVMs, per-app metering in fractions of a cent, and a deploy API that coding agents and app builders call directly.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Piecework

A marketplace where enterprises hire third-party AI agents and pay per verified task.

Independent builders list agents with a declared task type, a price per completed unit and a verification rule; enterprise teams connect their systems through no-code connectors and buy agent labour without a procurement cycle.

Score 56Active competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.5k · 5w95% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Procura

API that gives any AI agent legally binding authority to act for a small business.

Procura is the mandate layer agent builders call before their agent signs, pays or files anything: the small business owner verifies identity once, grants a scoped, revocable power of attorney, and Procura issues a cryptographic credential that binds each agent action to that mandate with a qualified electronic seal and an immutable audit trail.

Score 53Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.7k · 4w78% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Registrum

Federated agent network for public agencies: every resolved case trains every jurisdiction.

Registrum runs caseworker agents for public agencies (permit review, benefits eligibility triage, procurement document checks) inside a sovereign compute enclave the agency controls.

Score 47Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sectortest: $900 · 6w95% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Bursar

A personal agent with a license to move your money.

Bursar is a consumer financial agent that does not just read your accounts - it pays bills, disputes charges, cancels subscriptions, negotiates rates, and switches providers, because the company holds money transmitter licenses and runs its own payment rails.

Score 45Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Vertical AI agents

Bondera

The underwriting and bonding layer that makes AI agent work trustworthy.

Bondera is an API that agent vendors embed to attach a performance guarantee to their agents' output: if the agent misfiles a return, botches an invoice, or mishandles a claim, Bondera pays the customer.

Score 41Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Backline

Flat-rate AI back office for small businesses, running on our own GPUs.

Backline sells small businesses a set of working agents - phone answering, scheduling, invoicing, collections, vendor follow-up - for one flat monthly price with a self-serve signup that takes fifteen minutes.

Score 40Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business95% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Bylaw Health

The licensed medical group behind your API call, in fifty states.

Bylaw Health holds the professional corporations, state clinician licenses, supervision agreements and payer enrollments in every US state, and exposes them as endpoints: create a clinician, attach a supervising physician, enroll a location with a payer, submit an encounter under a compliant entity.

Score 100Open competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.5k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Kinware

The AI agent that runs the paperwork and logistics of caring for an aging parent.

Kinware is a subscription agent for adult children managing a parent's life: it books appointments, chases refills, requests records, files insurance paperwork, and schedules home services, reporting to the whole family in one thread.

Score 97Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Claimyard

Marketplace turning scam, fraud and privacy losses into funded, aggregated consumer claims.

A consumer uploads what happened, screenshots of a romance scam, an unauthorized P2P transfer, a data misuse notice, and a no-code intake agent classifies the claim, pulls the paper trail from the bank or platform, and posts it to a marketplace of licensed attorneys, arbitration filers and litigation funders who bid to take it on contingency.

Score 93Open competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceConsumer83% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Substrate Exchange

The exchange where pharma buys the experimental data that trains biology models.

Substrate Exchange is a marketplace where biotechs, CROs and academic labs list assay results, screening runs and failed-experiment data in standardized, model-ready form, and pharma AI teams license it by the dataset or by subscription.

Score 92Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Ironhull

Compliant-by-construction cloud: inherit certification instead of earning it.

Ironhull runs its own hardened infrastructure - dedicated enclaves, HSMs, locked-down images, continuous monitoring - certified once against FedRAMP, SOC 2, and PCI, and sells it as a subscription on which enterprise software vendors deploy and inherit the compliance posture.

Score 91Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 1 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Sentinet

Shared-defense agent for small firms: one member's confirmed fraud warns the whole network.

Sentinet connects in an afternoon to an SMB's mailbox, accounting system and bank feed, and runs an agent that screens invoices, vendor bank-detail changes and unusual logins.

Score 89Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Kinfold

An AI agent that runs the logistics of caring for an aging parent.

Kinfold is a consumer agent that families hire for about $20 a month to handle the non-clinical work around an older relative: booking and rebooking appointments, sitting on hold with insurers and pharmacies, chasing records between providers, ordering refills and equipment, filing benefit paperwork, and keeping siblings on one shared timeline.

Score 89Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumertest: $1.8k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Corpus Bio

The pooled experiment exchange that teaches drug-discovery models what failed.

Corpus Bio sells pharma and biotech R&D organizations a subscription platform that captures every wet-lab experiment - including the roughly 90 percent that fail and never leave the notebook - in a structured, model-readable format.

Score 89Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Milepost

AI agents that draft and check federal environmental reviews.

Milepost sells AI agents to US federal and state agencies that assemble NEPA-class environmental review documents: they pull prior assessments, draft the analysis, flag inconsistencies with case law and agency guidance, and track comment responses.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector

Physical world · Climate and energy

Kilobid

Licensed AI agent that bids your home battery, EV and thermostat into wholesale power markets.

Kilobid is a consumer app that links a household's utility account, battery, EV charger and thermostat through existing APIs, then runs an agent that decides hour by hour when to charge, hold or discharge and submits those decisions into wholesale and utility program markets.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Overturn

Agents that fight payer denials for health systems, then sell what wins.

Overturn deploys an agent workforce inside a health system's revenue cycle that reads each denial, pulls the governing payer medical policy, assembles the clinical record and files the appeal, working through existing EHR and clearinghouse integrations rather than new infrastructure.

Score 87Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.5k · 6w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Corelane

A spot market for wet-lab experiments that software agents can order by API.

Corelane is a marketplace where pharma and AI-bio R&D teams buy idle bench and instrument time from academic core facilities, contract labs and instrument-rich startups.

Score 86Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Sortie

Airspace clearance and audit-grade flight records as one API for drone operators.

Sortie is an API that small drone operators and the software vendors serving them call to get a flight authorized, logged and provable: airspace and waiver checks, operator and aircraft credential validation, geofence rules per jurisdiction, and a tamper-evident flight record that insurers and regulators accept.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Accredix

An accredited AI assessor and enclave that makes federal-grade compliance 10x cheaper.

Accredix is an AI agent service that takes an enterprise through FedRAMP, CMMC, and StateRAMP authorization and then keeps it continuously compliant, running on Accredix's own authorized hosting enclaves.

Score 83Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Baseplate

The record network linking contractors, engineers, and state DOTs on federal-aid projects.

A network of record for federal-aid construction: contractors submit materials certifications, test results, submittals and inspection records once, and Baseplate routes them in each agency's required format to state DOTs and engineers of record, with AI pre-review trained on previously approved submittals.

Score 83Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Vialport

AI agents that run the vendor paperwork between pharma R&D and outsourced labs.

Vialport gives pharma and large biotech R&D operations teams a fleet of AI agents that handle the non-clinical work between a sponsor and its outsourced labs: sourcing quotes from CROs and CDMOs, chasing certificates of analysis, reconciling sample shipments and invoices, and keeping study logistics current across email, ERP and ELN.

Score 82Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 5w97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Advoq

An AI legal agent that runs consumer disputes end to end at one tenth the cost.

Advoq is a self-serve AI agent that handles the legal matters ordinary people currently abandon or overpay for: landlord disputes, insurance claim denials, debt collection defense, small-claims filings.

Score 81Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer56% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Chartwire

An API that turns any clinical document into coded, payer-ready claims for small practices.

Chartwire is a per-call API: post a PDF, a fax, a scanned referral or a visit note, get back structured FHIR resources plus the coded claim lines (ICD-10, CPT, or the local equivalent) with a confidence score per code and a citation back to the source text.

Score 81Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Vouchline

One AI agent answers your security questionnaires and reviews the ones you send.

Vouchline is an agent that sits on both sides of the vendor security review: for a small supplier it reads the buyer's questionnaire, pulls evidence from Drive, ticketing and cloud consoles, and returns a completed response in a day; for the buyer it reads incoming responses and flags the answers that contradict prior filings.

Score 80Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

AgentLedger

The control plane where small businesses give AI agents money, limits and receipts.

AgentLedger is a subscription platform where a small business connects every AI agent it uses - procurement bots, ad-buying agents, booking assistants - and sets budgets, approval rules and merchant restrictions in a no-code dashboard, with every agent transaction reconciled back to its accounting system.

Score 78Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business94% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Labmesh

Agents that design, order and run preclinical experiments across a global lab network.

Labmesh gives a biotech or pharma scientist an agent that takes a hypothesis, decomposes it into assays, prices and routes each assay to a contract lab on its network, tracks samples, and returns structured results with the raw instrument files.

Score 78Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Attestral

Agents that prove and verify vendor security continuously, replacing the questionnaire.

Attestral deploys agents inside an enterprise's stack that collect live control evidence and answer any customer's security review automatically; on the buying side, its agents interrogate a vendor's agents and check every claim against machine-readable evidence rather than prose.

Score 75Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Ostend

An API giving small exporters local receiving accounts abroad at a tenth of bank cost.

Ostend is a licensed collections API: vertical software platforms embed it so their small business customers get named local receiving accounts in two dozen countries, with funds swept and converted on stablecoin rails and paid out to the home bank account the next morning.

Score 74Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscari

A licensed AI tax agent that files small business returns in thirty countries.

Fiscari is an AI agent that holds registered tax agent status in each country it operates in and files indirect tax, payroll tax and annual returns of record for small businesses, with a licensed human reviewer signing off on flagged filings.

Score 74Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Duebridge

Your collections agent settles invoices by negotiating with your customer's agent.

Duebridge gives a small business an AI agent that chases its unpaid invoices, and gives the customer a free counterpart agent that verifies the invoice against its own ledger, flags disputes and proposes a payment date.

Score 73Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookzero

Software that closes a small company's books for a tenth of a bookkeeper's price.

Bookzero is self-serve subscription software that connects to a small business's bank feeds, invoices and payroll and produces a finished monthly close - categorized ledger, reconciliations, financial statements - for roughly $100 a month against the $800-1,500 SMBs pay outsourced bookkeepers.

Score 73Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Ampsite

Marketplace where industrial sites sell spare grid capacity to data center developers.

Ampsite lists industrial and brownfield sites in the US that already hold energized interconnection capacity they no longer use, scores each one for real deliverable megawatts using utility queue data, feeder models and on-site meter history, and matches them to colocation and AI compute developers hunting for power.

Score 72Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

ChartRail

The consented medical-records rail every AI clinic runs on.

An API that lets AI-native care companies pull a patient's complete medical record with verifiable consent, by operating as a qualified participant in the national health information exchange framework and as a registered clearinghouse.

Score 71Crowded competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscora

Machine learning that stops improper government payments before the money moves.

Fiscora is a payment-integrity platform for state and local government: deep entity-resolution and anomaly-detection models screen benefit disbursements, tax refunds, and vendor payments before funds are released, replacing after-the-fact audit with pre-payment interdiction.

Score 71Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Codewarden

Continuous security for the AI-written software small businesses now run on.

Codewarden is a self-serve subscription platform that continuously scans, exploits and patches the AI-generated applications small businesses now build and deploy without security staff.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall business96% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Talvia

FDA-cleared autonomous AI therapy, sold to health plans at one-tenth the cost.

Talvia builds a clinically validated conversational AI that delivers protocolized CBT for anxiety and depression as a covered insurance benefit, replacing 150-dollar-per-session human therapy with a 15-dollar-per-member-per-month product.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise92% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Claimsmith

The agent platform where healthcare's back office gets rebuilt by everyone but us.

Claimsmith is a no-code platform where hospitals, billing companies, and health IT vendors build and run AI agents for administrative work: eligibility checks, prior authorization, claims appeals, and records chasing.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Bordera

AI clearance agents that file, bond, and finance customs entries across every major trade lane.

Bordera runs AI agents that classify goods, file customs entries, and advance duties for enterprise importers, executing through Bordera's own licensed brokerage subsidiaries and bonded entities in each jurisdiction.

Score 70Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise95% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

DutyRail

Landed-cost and customs-entry API that 3PLs and ERPs resell to small importers.

DutyRail is an API that takes a purchase order or a product feed and returns an HS classification, duty and tariff-schedule exposure, a landed cost, and a filed customs entry through its own licensed broker desk.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Millrun

Marketplace for precision aerospace parts, quoted instantly from real machine shop capacity.

Millrun is a marketplace where hardware teams upload a CAD file and get a firm price and date within minutes, sourced from a vetted network of CNC, sheet metal and composite shops with idle capacity.

Score 68Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise97% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Countersign

Spend controls and audit trail for every dollar an enterprise's AI agents move.

Countersign sits between a company's agents and whatever rails they spend on - issued cards, wallets, stablecoin accounts - enforcing per-agent budgets, merchant allowlists and human approval thresholds before authorization, then reconciling each settled charge back to the agent run and prompt that caused it.

Score 64Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Veriport

The compliance API that lets any consumer app pass age and safety laws everywhere.

Veriport is an API and no-code SDK that gives small app and game studios age assurance, parental consent, content gating, and sweepstakes eligibility checks mapped to every jurisdiction's rules.

Score 63Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business77% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Handover Health

Agents that complete patient handoffs between independent practices, worldwide.

Handover gives every small practice - dental, physio, dermatology, private GP - an AI agent that manages the outbound and inbound side of referrals: it books the specialist slot, transfers the relevant records, chases the result, and closes the loop with the referring clinician.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business96% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Riskauction

An exchange where wholesale brokers auction hard-to-place enterprise risk to carrier capacity.

Riskauction turns a messy submission packet for a risk nobody has a rating plan for - AI agent liability, cloud outage, compute plant downtime - into a structured, priced, comparable risk unit, then runs a sealed auction across carriers, MGAs and reinsurers for the layer.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · Security and compliance

Ironvane

Autonomous security operations agents that managed service providers resell and extend.

Ironvane gives managed service providers a runtime where security agents triage alerts, patch endpoints, revoke credentials and close tickets across their whole book of small business clients, with the provider approving actions rather than performing them.

Score 59Crowded competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business97% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Underwatt

Underwriting software that prices AI data center risk from live power and thermal telemetry.

Underwatt sells a subscription platform to carriers, MGAs and reinsurers that prices property, business-interruption and outage risk on GPU data centers using a telemetry fleet Underwatt installs itself: power quality recorders, thermal and coolant sensors, and grid interconnect feeds at the insured sites.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $2.4k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Fidara

A licensed AI fiduciary that manages your entire financial life, legally on your side.

Fidara is a consumer AI agent registered as an investment advisor and licensed money transmitter, so it can actually move money, rebalance accounts, refinance debt, contest bills and file the paperwork - not just suggest.

Score 58Active competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer92% of 2 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Stocklight

A demand forecasting model any small merchant can self-serve, any app can embed.

Stocklight is a subscription forecasting layer for small merchants who make, move or sell physical goods: connect a store, a POS or a wholesale ledger and get SKU-level demand, reorder points and stockout risk that account for promotions, seasonality and local events.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Perpetua

A marketplace for persistent AI worlds that remember every player who visits.

Perpetua trains a real-time interactive world model with durable state, so a generated world keeps its geography, characters and consequences between sessions and across different visitors.

Score 58Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceConsumer94% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Sigilbox

Rack appliance that hardware-signs every payment an AI agent tries to make.

Sigilbox is a co-signing appliance installed in the datacenter of any company running AI agents that spend money: each agent payment instruction must be signed by keys held in the box, which applies spend policy and an on-device behavioural model before emitting a portable attestation.

Score 58Open competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $2.2k · 6w95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookforge

The no-code platform where accountants build finance agents for every SMB client.

A subscription platform where accounting and bookkeeping firms assemble no-code agent workflows for monthly close, transaction categorization, AP and cash reporting, then deploy them across their whole SMB client roster; each small business pays a monthly seat on top of its QuickBooks and bank connections.

Score 57Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

B2B, security and compliance · B2B SaaS

Wayline

Registry and API that make enterprise catalogs, prices and policies readable by AI agents.

Wayline is an infrastructure layer where large brands, retailers and travel operators publish machine-readable manifests of their inventory, prices, eligibility rules and fulfillment terms, and AI agents query one API instead of scraping websites.

Score 57Active competitionVC 5/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise97% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Subrix

AI agents that settle claims between insurance carriers on one shared network.

Subrix runs autonomous agents that handle subrogation - the process where one insurer recovers claim costs from another at-fault party's insurer.

Score 56Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise82% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Clubrail

Booking and membership software for local clubs that shares demand between venues.

Clubrail is the operating software a small sports or hobby club runs on: memberships, court and tee time booking, dues, waitlists, leagues and payouts, assembled from no-code integrations with the payment and calendar tools operators already use.

Score 52Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business77% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Tollbridge

The authorization layer banks use to let AI agents spend money safely.

Enterprise SaaS sold to US card issuers and issuer processors that adds an agent-payments control plane: banks define spend policies, verify which AI agent is transacting on whose mandate, and score every agent-initiated authorization in real time.

Score 50Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Provenor

Machine learning that proves where every imported good actually came from.

Provenor sells enterprise import and sourcing teams a subscription platform that traces the true origin of goods through transshipment: entity-resolution ML over global trade filings, vessel AIS tracks, and corporate registries flags when a shipment labeled Vietnamese was actually laundered through a third country.

Score 48Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise78% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Castmark

Global marketplace where brands license AI-ready characters, voices and likenesses per use.

Castmark lists characters, voice models and performer likenesses with machine-readable licence terms (territory, media, duration, prohibited uses) and sells them per generation or per campaign to game studios, publishers and consumer brands.

Score 46Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise94% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Aftergate

An agent that resells your tickets everywhere for two percent, not twenty-five.

Aftergate is a self-serve agent for consumers holding tickets they cannot use: it reads the ticket, prices it against live supply across every resale venue and the primary seller, lists it in all of them at once, pulls listings when one sells, handles the transfer rules of the specific venue and pays out.

Score 40Open competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer94% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Shelfwire

One API that makes any small store's catalog readable by AI shopping agents.

Shelfwire ingests a merchant's product catalog, inventory and policies once and serves a hosted, always-current machine endpoint per store: structured product data, availability, shipping and returns terms, and checkout handoff, in the formats AI shopping assistants and marketplace crawlers consume.

Score 39Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Vaultline

Instant marketplace for vaulted collectibles: buy, sell and settle without ever shipping.

Consumers deposit graded cards and sealed hobby product into a partner bonded vault once; after that, ownership transfers instantly on Vaultline's ledger and nothing moves physically until an owner requests withdrawal.

Score 38Crowded competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceConsumer94% of 4 neighbours alive

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