Q2 2026

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Hot 25 Startups

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Meet the startups entering Q2 2026 with the most momentum. The Harmonic Hot 25 ranks the top early-stage companies based on aggregated investor interest from the thousands of VCs using Harmonic to find their next investments.

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1
Jumps from 3rd to 1st after closing a massive $125M Series A at a $1B valuation led by Lightspeed, with Greylock, Unusual Ventures, and A* all investing above pro rata. Trusted by enterprise heavyweights like Coinbase, DoorDash, and Salesforce to autonomously investigate and resolve on-call incidents, the team has 5x'd headcount to 129 in the past year with no signs of slowing down.
Headcount
:
~130
Latest Funding
:
$125M
Series A
,
Feb 2026
2
Holds strong near the top after surpassing $5M ARR in just 11 months — in a category that didn't exist a year ago. The Berlin-based AI search visibility platform has onboarded 1,300+ brands and agencies including n8n, Attio, ElevenLabs, and Chanel, adding 300+ new customers every month. They raised a $21M Series A led by Singular, bringing total funding to $29M.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$21M
Series A
,
Nov 2025
3
The new entrant into the top 3 is making waves as the first platform purpose-built to make MCP enterprise-ready. Already trusted by Gusto, Opendoor, dbt Labs, and Instacart, the team raised an $11M seed from Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois and Felicis, with the co-creator of MCP at Anthropic advising. Headcount has more than doubled in the last 90 days as enterprise demand accelerates.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$11M
Seed
,
Nov 2025
4
4
AI customer support for finance
Headcount
:
~40
Latest Funding
:
$13M
Series A
,
Jul 2025
5
5
Population simulation for predictive analytics
Headcount
:
~35
Latest Funding
:
$50M
Series A
,
Dec 2025
6
6
Web API for AIs
Founder
s
:
Parag Agrawal
Headcount
:
~55
Latest Funding
:
$100M
Series A
,
Nov 2025
7
7
AI-native ERP
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$90M
Series A
,
Oct 2025
8
8
AI-native process automation
Headcount
:
~60
Latest Funding
:
$17.5M
Series A
,
Aug 2025
9
9
7AI
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-5
-5
New
Agentic cybersecurity platform
Headcount
:
~80
Latest Funding
:
$130M
Series A
,
Nov 2025
10
10
AI for vulnerability management
Headcount
:
~45
Latest Funding
:
$42M
Series A
,
Feb 2026
11
11
AI for tax and accounting
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$10M
Seed
,
Sep 2025
12
12
AI-native CRM
Headcount
:
~30
Latest Funding
:
$20M
Series A
,
Feb 2026
13
13
AI loan servicing platform
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$60M
Series A
,
Jul 2025
14
14
Platform for building AI agents
Headcount
:
~125
Latest Funding
:
$15M
Series A
,
Jun 2024
15
15
Paid
↗︎
-8
-8
New
Revenue management for agents
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$21.6M
Seed
,
Sep 2025
16
16
Revenue platform for post-acute care
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$4.4M
Seed
,
Jan 2026
17
17
AI generated visual content
Headcount
:
~145
Latest Funding
:
$42M
Series A
,
Jan 2026
18
18
Unified LLM access and comparison
Headcount
:
~45
Latest Funding
:
$40M
Series A
,
May 2025
19
19
AI for accounting teams
Headcount
:
~35
Latest Funding
:
$23M
Series A
,
Feb 2026
20
20
AI consulting for large institutions
Headcount
:
~70
Latest Funding
:
$30M
Series A
,
Sep 2025
21
21
Autonomous labs to generate life science data
Founder
s
:
Michelle Lee
Headcount
:
~35
Latest Funding
:
$52M
Series A
,
Dec 2025
22
22
Search engine for sustainable fashion
Headcount
:
~70
Latest Funding
:
$35M
Series A
,
Jan 2026
23
23
Agents for factories
Headcount
:
~15
Latest Funding
:
$7.5M
Seed
,
Nov 2024
24
24
Regulatory compliance OS
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$26.8M
Series A
,
Sep 2025
25
25
Agentic workforce for insurance
Founder
s
:
Jamie Cuffe
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$10M
Series A
,
Jan 2026
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137 Ventures
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Cadenza
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Factory
Lip-Bu Tan
Common Metal
NEA Partners
Yaron Samid
Greycroft
Long Journey
Pidilite Industries Limited
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Autodesk company
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LangChain (rank 1 Q2 2025)
A platform to build AI apps from prototype into production. Langchain was founded in 2022 by Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola who met while working at Robust Intelligence. The company boasts a list of impressive clients and raised money from Benchmark and Sequoia.
Ankush Gola, Harrison Chase
Series A
$25M
~60
Lovable (rank 2 Q2 2025)
Build apps with no coding needed. Founded in 2023, Lovable has exploded in early 2025 after raising money from Scandinavian VC strongholds, byFounders and Creandum, as well as Hummingbird.
Anton Osika (https://linkedin.com/in/antonosika); Fabian Hedin (https://linkedin.com/in/fabian-hedin-2377b0144)
Seed
$15M
~50
Hadrius (Rank 3 Q2 2025)
SEC & FINRA compliance in one platform. Co-founders Som, Allen, and Thomas are back for their second act—after launching Quantbase (acquired by Surmount), they’re now tackling compliance with Hadrius.
Allen Calderwood, Som Mohapatra, Thomas Stewart
Seed
$2M
~20
Didero-Q2 2025
AI agents for procurement.
Tim Spencer, Lorenz Pallhuber, Tom Petit
Seed
$7M
~15
Profound-Q2 2025
Helping brands gain AI visibility.
Dylan Babbs, James Cadwallader
Seed
$3.5M
~20
Norm Ai-Q2 2025
AI agents for regulatory compliance
John Nay
Series B
$48M
~35
Browser Use-Q2 2025
Browser automation with AI agents.
Gregor Žunič, Magnus Müller
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Basis-Q2 2025
AI agents for accountants
Mitchell Troyanovsky, Matt Harpe
Series A
$34M
~25
Wordware-Q2 2025
Build production ready AI across modalities
Filip Kozera, Robert Chandler
Seed
$30.5M
28
Zocks-Q2 2025
Meeting assistant for financial advisors.
Ákos Ratku, Mark Gilbert
Series A
$13.8M
~30
Artisan-Q2 2025
AI employees, automating outbound.
Sam Stallings (https://linkedin.com/in/samantha12345); Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (https://linkedin.com/in/jaspar-carmichael-jack)
Seed
$11.5M
~110
Sapien-Q2 2025
Financial analysis platform for enterprises.
Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella)
Seed
$8.7M
<10
CrewAI-Q2 2025
Build and deploy automated agent workflows.
João (Joe) Moura, Rob Bailey
Series A
$18M
~20
Factory-Q2 2025
Human-AI collaboration to optimize software deployment lifescycles
Matan Grinberg, Eno Reyes
Series A
$20M
62
Star Cloud-Q2 2025
Space-based data centers.
Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean
Seed
$21M
<10
Harper-Q2 2025
Insurance brokerage for SMBs.
Dakotah Rice, Tushar Nair
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Albert Invent-Q2 2025
R&D platform for chemistry and materials science.
Zach Kisner, Ken Kisner, Nick Talken, Neelesh Vaikhary
Series A
$23M
<10
Tabs 16-Q2 2025
Revenue automation for B2B
Rebecca Schwartz, Deepak Bapat, Ali Hussain
Series A
$25M
~60
LlamaIndex-Q2 2025
Build LLM-powered knowledge agents on top of any private data source
Simon Suo, Jerry Liu
Series A
$19M
~45
Greenboard-Q2 2025
SEC & FINRA compliance tools.
Dave Feldman, Edward Schembor
Seed
$4.5M
<10
Pylon 19-Q2 2025
Customer support platform, built for B2B.
Marty Kausas, Robert Eng, Advith Chelikani
Series A
$17M
~50
Agree-Q2 2025
Contract management platform.
Will Hubbard, Evan Dudla, Marty Ringlein
Pre-seed
$3M
~10
Granola-Q2 2025
AI meeting notepad.
Sam Stephenson (https://linkedin.com/in/stephensonsam); Christopher Pedregal (https://linkedin.com/in/pedregal)
Series A
$20M
~20
General Agency-Q2 2025
AI coworker.
Harvey Hu, Mo Nasir
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Trace
Voice solutions for customer support in financial services.
Yash Vardhan Pansari, Saner Cakir, Kayla Lee
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Landbase-Q2 2025
Agentic AI for go-to-market.
Emily Zhang, Daniel Saks, Raheem Syed
Seed
$13M
~50
Braintrust-Q2 2025
End-to-end platform for building AI applications.
Ankur Goyal
Series A
$36M
~20

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