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B2B, security and compliance startup ideas

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96 ideas. Ideas that belong to another sector but whose text clearly touches b2b, security and compliance.

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

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

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Retrieva

A licensed records network with couriers for the charts no API can reach.

Retrieva is a records retrieval API for health plans, pharma safety teams and large provider groups that need complete patient charts, not the subset that sits in an EHR interface.

Score 92Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $2.4k · 6w96% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Medrails

The clinical fulfillment API: labs, prescriptions, and licensed review for every health app.

A self-serve API that lets small digital-health companies order real-world clinical actions in code: blood draws routed to a Medrails-operated phlebotomy and lab network, prescriptions reviewed by licensed clinicians, results returned as structured data.

Score 91Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 3 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

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Sovergrid

The procurement marketplace where governments buy sovereign AI compute and models.

Sovergrid is a marketplace where ministries, national labs, and public universities buy accredited AI compute, models, and deployment tooling from vetted domestic and allied providers under pre-negotiated framework contracts.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector99% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Lintel Health

A cleared home vitals appliance that third-party care apps run on.

Lintel sells a wall-mounted appliance for the homes of older adults that measures contactless respiration and heart rate, gait speed and cuffless blood pressure trend, and it ships as a regulated measurement layer rather than an app.

Score 88Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumertest: $1.6k · 5w97% of 4 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

Physical world · Defense and space

Toolpath

Quoting marketplace where ITAR-registered machine shops win defence parts work in hours.

Toolpath is a marketplace where small US machine shops, casting houses and PCB assemblers list live capacity and compliance status, and defence hardware buyers post drawings that get quoted in hours instead of weeks.

Score 87Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business98% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Aliquot Robotics

A benchtop robotic bench for independent labs, with validated protocol packs anyone can publish.

Aliquot sells a single enclosed benchtop cell with a force-controlled arm, vision and a pipetting head to independent clinical, toxicology, water and food-safety labs that run tens of thousands of samples a year and cannot afford a six-figure automation line.

Score 87Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Plasmidrun

GMP plasmid and mRNA batches ordered by API, no CDMO negotiation.

Plasmidrun runs small automated GMP suites and exposes them as an API: a small biotech posts a sequence, a batch size and a target release date, and gets back a scheduled slot, a price and, weeks later, a released batch with its full electronic batch record.

Score 86Open competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $2.3k · 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

Fintech · Fintech

Tollgate

A rack appliance that holds the spending keys for every AI agent an enterprise runs.

Tollgate is a hardware root of trust that sits in an enterprise's own data center or colo and signs every payment mandate an autonomous agent issues, enforcing per-agent limits, merchant allowlists and human approval thresholds in silicon rather than in a prompt.

Score 83Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $1.8k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Yearmark

Certified on-device age assurance and minor-safety controls, shipped as one SDK for consumer apps.

Yearmark is a subscription SDK that consumer app companies drop into signup and payment flows to estimate a user's age band on-device from face, voice and interaction signals, then enforce the right minor-safety rules per jurisdiction without sending biometrics to a server.

Score 82Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Data for AI

Registral

Accredited AI agents that turn government records into standardized, machine-readable datasets.

An agent workforce, sold to government agencies through system integrators, that reads scanned permits, inspection reports, court filings and statistical registers and converts them into certified, AI-ready datasets under a published schema.

Score 82Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Benchflow

Order any preclinical assay from inside your ELN; labs sell spare instrument time.

Benchflow is a marketplace for preclinical research services and instrument capacity.

Score 82Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprisetest: $1.2k · 6w97% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Certmill

Marketplace putting export-controlled parts work into small machine shops.

Certmill holds the ITAR registration, the NIST 800-171 data environment and an AS9100 umbrella quality system, then lets six-person machine shops quote defense and aerospace jobs they are otherwise locked out of.

Score 81Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

GridStake

The marketplace where grid interconnection rights are priced, traded, and transferred.

GridStake is a US marketplace where data center developers, renewable developers, and industrial buyers purchase interconnection queue positions and grid capacity rights from projects that will never build.

Score 81Warm competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Voltstack

A plug-in home battery that installs itself and joins the grid programs for you.

Voltstack is a 5kWh stackable home battery that plugs into a normal socket, needs no electrician, and handles its own grid paperwork: the unit detects its country and utility from meter signals, files the interconnection or notification form, and enrols the household in whatever demand-response or feed-in scheme it qualifies for.

Score 80Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareConsumer68% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Quartermast

The certified module marketplace where defense program offices buy interoperable drone components.

Quartermast runs a US government-facing marketplace of pre-verified drone and counter-UAS modules - autonomy stacks, seekers, radios, effectors - each listed with test evidence generated in Quartermast's own ML-driven digital-twin harness.

Score 79Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector98% 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

Physical world · Climate and energy

Kilowire

An API that sells data center operators dispatchable headroom, metered by the megawatt hour.

Kilowire installs battery and controller hardware behind the meter at data centers and exposes one endpoint: how many megawatts a site can draw in the next fifteen minutes, and a call to reserve them.

Score 78Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Redoubt

Pre-accredited software factory appliances for classified government development.

Redoubt sells rack-mounted appliances that put a complete accredited DevSecOps stack - build systems, CI/CD, artifact registry, coding agents - inside air-gapped classified networks.

Score 78Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareGovernment and public sector93% of 2 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Certline

An API that collapses hardware compliance from a consulting project to a build step.

Certline is an API and toolchain that takes a hardware company's CAD, BOM, and electronics design and generates the risk assessments, test plans, and technical documentation required for CE, FCC, and UL certification, then routes the physical testing through a network of accredited partner labs.

Score 78Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Phonika

Speech practice for kids at one tenth the cost of a therapist.

Phonika is a subscription app that gives children with articulation delays daily speech practice, using on-device speech models trained to score child phoneme production - a problem general ASR handles badly - and adapt drills the way a speech-language pathologist would between sessions.

Score 76Open competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer92% of 2 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Kelvin Bench

A $18,000 benchtop robot that runs any wet-lab protocol written in plain English.

Kelvin Bench is a benchtop liquid-handling and imaging robot sold outright to small labs: a two-person biotech, a university group, a contract formulation shop.

Score 75Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business97% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Zerotill

A countertop terminal that drops card acceptance fees from 3 percent to 0.3.

A payment terminal for US small merchants that accepts pay-by-bank and stablecoin payments alongside cards, routing every transaction to the cheapest rail and cutting acceptance cost roughly 10x on non-card volume.

Score 74Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business95% of 3 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Conforma

An accredited machinery-safety certifier that runs on software instead of auditors

Conforma is spending its first years winning accreditation as a conformity-assessment body for industrial and autonomous machinery, then issuing CE and functional-safety certificates through a no-code platform that plugs into the OEM's CAD, PLM and test-rig data.

Score 74Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise95% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Agent infrastructure

Tenderline

Agent-run public tenders at one tenth the administrative cost, on a licensed vehicle.

Tenderline is a marketplace that runs compliant public tenders end to end: its agents draft the solicitation from the agency's requirement, publish it, answer bidder questions, score submissions against the stated criteria with full audit trails, and produce the award documentation.

Score 74Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector97% of 3 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

Wattlot

Small businesses with spare power host inference pods; we hold the permits.

Wattlot is a marketplace where small industrial businesses with unused electrical service and yard space, machine shops, grain handlers, cold stores, rural ISPs, host containerized inference pods and get paid for delivered compute hours.

Score 71Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall businesstest: $1.8k · 5w99% 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

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Aeronode

Airspace authorization layer regulators run and drone operators pay per flight.

Aeronode supplies national aviation authorities and airport operators with a certified low-altitude traffic and authorization service, installed with local air navigation partners who own the ground surveillance sites.

Score 71Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector82% 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

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

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Fibrena

Certified microplastic-free fiber materials for hygiene and food-contact products.

Fibrena engineers bio-based nanocellulose materials that replace plastic films and absorbents in hygiene products and food packaging, and sells them to consumer-goods enterprises as drop-in inputs.

Score 70Active competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise90% of 1 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Plainforge

Regional AI pods running back-office agents for small businesses, sold through MSPs.

Plainforge builds and operates regional GPU micro-pods and delivers ready-made back-office agents - invoice chasing, quoting, bookkeeping prep, scheduling - to small businesses as a monthly service, sold and installed by managed service providers, telcos, and accounting-software channels.

Score 70Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business99% of 3 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

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Verolane

Shared supplier verification network for importers facing forced-labor enforcement.

Verolane is an enterprise subscription that maps an importer's tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers, scores each site against forced-labor and illegal-fishing enforcement criteria, and produces the evidence file customs authorities ask for when a shipment is detained.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Lexrail

The licensed compliance layer any small platform builds stablecoin payouts on.

Lexrail is an API that lets small vertical SaaS companies, marketplaces and exporters send cross-border stablecoin payouts under Lexrail's own money transmitter and VASP licenses, so they never apply for one themselves.

Score 69Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business94% of 2 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Attestly

An agent that builds the qualification dossier for regulated physical work, priced per dossier.

Attestly is an agent service for owners and contractors in nuclear, pressure equipment, aerospace and heavy infrastructure.

Score 68Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Astrid

Monthly at-home blood cartridge that learns your baseline, not the population's.

Astrid ships a reusable reader and a monthly single-use microsampling cartridge that runs a panel of metabolic, inflammatory and hormonal markers from a few drops of blood at home, then charges a consumer subscription for the software that tracks how far each result has drifted from that person's own history and from matched members of the same age, sex and physiology.

Score 67Open competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumertest: $2.4k · 6w97% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Palmforge

Build private software for your own life that never leaves your phone.

Palmforge is a consumer subscription that lets one person describe a tool they need (a budget rule, a medication tracker, a school-schedule agent) and compiles it into a small program that runs entirely on their own device against their own data.

Score 66Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer95% of 4 neighbours alive

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Coverpoint

A live exchange where counties buy crisis and psychiatric capacity by the hour.

Coverpoint is a procurement marketplace for public behavioral health: county behavioral health departments, jails, courts, EMS agencies and crisis lines post capacity they need right now (a mobile crisis dispatch, a psychiatric telehealth hour, a stabilization bed, a post-overdose bridge visit), and credentialed provider groups accept the request at posted rates.

Score 66Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sectortest: $1.5k · 6w95% of 2 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

Fintech · Fintech

Treska

A licensed autonomous treasurer that runs enterprise cross-border money on stablecoin rails.

Treska is a regulated e-money institution whose AI agents run corporate treasury end to end: forecasting cash across subsidiaries, choosing routes between bank rails and stablecoin rails, executing FX and settlement, and producing the audit trail.

Score 64Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Marginframe

A colocated appliance that nets margin across prediction, perp and equity venues in microseconds.

Marginframe sells a 1U FPGA appliance plus support contract to brokers and venues that carry positions on more than one execution venue.

Score 64Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Aerodeed

Flight permission as an API: ground infrastructure that lets small operators fly beyond visual line of sight.

Aerodeed installs county-level ground-based detect-and-avoid nodes (radar plus ADS-B plus acoustic) along agricultural, utility and rural highway corridors, and holds the regulatory approvals that let flights inside that coverage go beyond visual line of sight without an onboard observer.

Score 64Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business79% 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

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

Fintech · Fintech

Corvia

Licensed payout providers bid, per corridor, on every government disbursement batch.

Corvia is a bidding marketplace for public sector payouts: a ministry, city treasury or aid agency uploads a disbursement batch, and pre-vetted licensed payment institutions, local banks and stablecoin settlement rails bid to clear it at a published all-in price including FX.

Score 64Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Codeseal

Signed conformity attestations for AI-written code, issued by an accredited body through an API.

Codeseal ingests build artifacts, dependency manifests, test results and the full transcript of what a coding agent changed, then issues a cryptographically signed conformity attestation that a regulator, auditor or prime contractor accepts as evidence.

Score 63Open competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprisetest: $900 · 5w95% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Patchwright

An upgrade agent that keeps small software companies current, with a recipe store others fill.

Patchwright is a hosted agent that watches a small software vendor's repositories and does the maintenance work nobody staffs: dependency and framework upgrades, breaking API migrations, deprecation fixes, and the evidence trail for SOC 2, GDPR and accessibility questionnaires that their own customers demand.

Score 63Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 5w95% 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

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

Health and bio · Healthcare and bio

Benchline

A regulated marketplace that puts any lab test on any clinic's benchtop.

Benchline builds one cleared benchtop analyzer and runs the two-sided marketplace on top of it: assay developers publish cartridge tests through Benchline's shared regulatory rails, and independent clinics, pharmacies and veterinary practices buy tests per run.

Score 62Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Alcuin

AI tutoring agents that give every enrolled student a personal tutor at 10x lower cost.

Alcuin sells AI tutoring agents to universities, textbook publishers, and online course operators, who deploy them across whole cohorts so every student gets unlimited one-on-one tutoring at roughly a tenth of what human tutoring lines cost institutions today.

Score 62Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise92% of 2 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

Physical world · Robotics and physical world

Dutycycle

Metering, billing and SLA API for companies selling robots by the unit of work.

Dutycycle is an API that robot vendors call to turn machine telemetry into money: it meters completed work units (picks, square meters, inspection hours), applies the contract's rate card and uptime credits, issues the invoice, and exposes a signed utilization record their customers and lenders can audit.

Score 61Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise96% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Veriseal

The certification authority for machine-written safety-critical code.

Veriseal builds a qualified toolchain and evidence-generation API that takes AI-authored code in automotive, aerospace, and medical devices and produces the traceability records, test evidence, and tool-qualification artifacts that ISO 26262, DO-178C, and IEC 62304 audits require.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise93% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Mendrix

Autonomous agents that take over maintaining your legacy systems.

Mendrix builds an agent fleet that assumes responsibility for maintaining aging enterprise codebases - old Java, COBOL adjacents, brittle internal systems - fixing incidents, patching vulnerabilities and keeping dependencies current under an SLA, priced per system.

Score 60Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise93% of 2 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 · Vertical AI agents

Nodewright

Automated grid interconnection review for utilities and state regulators, built on learned power-flow models.

Nodewright is subscription software for municipal utilities, co-ops and state public utility commissions that runs the interconnection studies now done by hand: it ingests the applicant's design, builds a validated model of the local feeder, and produces the impact study, curtailment conditions and hosting-capacity findings as a signed, auditable work product.

Score 59Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector98% 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

Fintech · Fintech

Payname

A global directory that turns a business tax ID into verified payout instructions any software can call.

Payname is an API and no-code directory where a small business claims its legal identity once and publishes how it wants to be paid: bank rails per country, stablecoin addresses per chain, invoice formats and the proofs behind each.

Score 58Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 6w96% of 4 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

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 · Vertical AI agents

Homelatch

A home entry and diagnostics hub that lets any repair company's AI dispatcher work your house.

Homelatch sells homeowners a $229 door hub with a camera, a credential reader and a listening module that records appliance and HVAC sound signatures, plus a $9 monthly subscription.

Score 55Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer84% of 4 neighbours alive

Physical world · Defense and space

Fieldpost

Cheap satellite terminal plus a licensed anywhere plan, sold direct to consumers worldwide.

Fieldpost designs and contract-manufactures a low-cost fixed-beam satellite terminal for hikers, boaters, rural households and travelers, and sells connectivity as a monthly consumer plan.

Score 55Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer97% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Keyfort

Custody hardware nodes that cut key management costs 10x and settle instantly.

Keyfort sells a rack-mount signing node built from commodity secure elements that holds threshold key shares for institutional digital asset and stablecoin custody at roughly a tenth of the cost of a legacy hardware security module deployment.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise94% of 2 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Ledgermesh

The network where enterprise finance agents settle reconciliations with each other.

Ledgermesh gives enterprise finance teams agents that handle inter-company work - invoice reconciliation, audit confirmations, dispute resolution - by negotiating directly with the counterparty's Ledgermesh agent instead of trading emails and spreadsheets.

Score 54Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise95% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Dockmeter

Camera and lidar gate racks that price every truck move at freight terminals.

Dockmeter installs its own edge racks (stereo cameras, lidar, on-site compute) at transload yards, cross-docks and port gates, then sells terminal operators and large 3PLs a per-site annual subscription that turns every gate event into an audited record: dimensions, weight class, damage state, seal integrity, dwell start and stop.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise95% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Seatline

Marketplace for licensed childcare seats that files each provider's subsidy claims automatically.

Seatline lists real-time open seats at licensed home-based and small centre childcare providers, matches them to families by age band, hours and subsidy eligibility, and then does the paperwork: enrolment records, attendance capture, background-check status and state subsidy claim filing.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business90% of 1 neighbours alive

AI and software · AI infra and compute

Hearthware

A home AI appliance that pays for itself by selling idle compute.

Hearthware sells a plug-in home inference box that runs private assistants and open models locally for households, then rents its idle cycles into a coordinated mesh serving third-party inference demand.

Score 54Crowded competitionVC 3/5HardwareConsumer99% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscala

A cross-border invoice-matching network where AI agents recover lost VAT for governments.

Fiscala deploys AI agents inside tax authorities that reconcile invoice-level e-invoicing data across borders to detect missing-trader and carousel VAT fraud, and is paid a share of recovered revenue.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector93% of 1 neighbours alive

Physical world · Climate and energy

Neutrix

Regulatory-grade nuclear simulation, delivered as cloud software reactor engineers sign up for.

Neutrix builds a cloud platform of neutronics and thermal-hydraulics codes, accelerated by ML surrogates and qualified under the NQA-1 regime, that compact reactor developers and utilities use to produce license-ready safety analysis.

Score 54Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 2 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 · Vertical AI agents

Credenza

The marketplace where small businesses hire certified, insured AI agents for regulated work

Credenza is a self-serve marketplace where SMBs hire vertical AI agents for regulated back-office jobs: bookkeeping, medical billing, insurance filings.

Score 53Open competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business97% of 2 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Somacore

The FDA-cleared sensing module every wearable brand builds on.

Somacore designs a fingernail-sized multi-sensor module - optical, bioimpedance, temperature - with on-device ML, and takes the core measurements (heart rhythm, blood-pressure trend) through FDA clearance once so its customers never have to.

Score 52Crowded competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprise94% of 3 neighbours alive

AI and software · Developer tools

Govmodules

A cross-border marketplace for accredited, evidence-backed government software modules and agents.

Govmodules is a marketplace where vendors list software modules and coding agents that have passed government-grade checks, each shipped with a machine-readable evidence pack (provenance, dependency lineage, test and accreditation results, who reviewed what).

Score 52Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector94% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Windvane

A regulated marketplace where corporates hedge operational risks nobody writes contracts on.

Windvane is a two-sided marketplace on CFTC-regulated event contracts, built for corporate treasuries rather than traders: a CFO lists the exposure that actually hurts (a port closure, a tariff decision, a chip lead time slipping past a quarter), and Windvane structures it as a listed contract and brings liquidity providers to the other side.

Score 50Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Cohortguard

Agent network that runs minor-safety compliance and shared risk signals across consumer platforms.

Cohortguard runs AI agents inside consumer platforms that handle youth-safety obligations end to end: age assurance flows, parental consent records, escalation of grooming and self-harm signals, and the audit files regulators ask for.

Score 49Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise94% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Ordwire

Turns any supplier's ERP into an endpoint AI purchasing agents can order from.

Ordwire is a no-code integration layer that exposes an enterprise distributor's catalog, contract pricing, stock and purchase-order intake as a standardized machine-readable endpoint for AI buying agents.

Score 48Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise95% of 3 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 · Commerce and marketplaces

Netback

An agent that recovers the money your supply chain quietly loses every week.

Netback connects read-only to a shipper's TMS, ERP and carrier portals and runs an agent that finds recoverable leakage: freight damage and shortage claims, detention and accessorial overbilling, retailer deductions, supplier short-ships.

Score 48Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Consumer

Agewall

Age and safety inference as an API for consumer AI apps.

Agewall gives consumer app and game developers one API plus an on-device runtime that estimates a user's age band from voice, typing and interaction signals, then enforces per-jurisdiction rules on chat, spend and generated content.

Score 45Crowded competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsEnterprise94% of 4 neighbours alive

AI and software · Horizontal AI assistants

Provenant

An agent runtime that turns every AI action into regulator-admissible evidence.

Provenant is an assistant for licensed professionals in supervised industries (broker-dealers, insurers, pharma commercial teams) that drafts, sends and acts, with each step passed through a jurisdiction rule pack and written to Provenant's own write-once retention infrastructure with cryptographic attestation.

Score 41Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprisetest: $1.8k · 6w81% 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

Vouchwork

The certified marketplace where enterprises hire audited, insured AI agents.

Vouchwork runs a two-sided marketplace where enterprises procure third-party AI agents the way they procure contractors: every listed agent has passed Vouchwork's audit battery, carries performance insurance underwritten through Vouchwork's carrier program, and bills through a single compliant contract.

Score 41Active competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 3 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Lotwise

Buying network and live price index for independent US pharmacies.

Lotwise gives independent pharmacies a free inbox that ingests their serialized inbound shipment data and wholesaler invoices, reconciles what they actually paid per drug per lot, and shows them what comparable pharmacies in the network paid for the same item that week.

Score 38Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Consumer and commerce · Commerce and marketplaces

Proofhouse

The licensed secondary marketplace for collectible wine and spirits.

A consumer marketplace where collectors buy and sell rare bourbon, whiskey, and wine legally.

Score 35Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceConsumer

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