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Q3 2026

Harmonic

Hot 25 Startups

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Meet the startups entering

Q3 2026

with the most momentum.

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Resolve jumped from 3rd to 1st last quarter after raising a $125M A round at a $1B valuation. Mid-April, they extended the round at at 50% higher valuation, adding DST Global and Salesforce Ventures to the cap table. The market seems to love their agents for on-call incidents. Resolve now boasts customers like Snowflake, Expedia, Eventbrite and Toast. And it doesn't look like they're slowing down anytime soon.
Headcount
:
~150
Latest Funding
:
$40M
Series A (ext.)
,
Apr 2001
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Salient has quietly broken into the top 3. The Matrix, YC, GC, and a16z backed team is building an AI-native consumer lending platform and has yet to churn a single customer. As investor attention keeps mounting, a Series-B is looking increasingly likely.
Headcount
:
~55
Latest Funding
:
$60M
Series A
,
Jul 2001
3
Replacing legacy market research with AI population simulation is a bold bet. But Aaru definitely has its believers, poaching talent from Hebbia and Rippling, and acquiring customers like EY and Accenture. Scout also highlighted their strong investor following on X, which includes partners from Benchmark, Felicis and Khosla.
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$80M
Series A
,
Dec 2001
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AI-native ERP
Headcount
:
~75
Latest Funding
:
$90M
Series A
,
Oct 2001
5
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Site reliability agents
Headcount
:
~95
Latest Funding
:
Undisclosed
Strategic
,
Mar 2001
6
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Simulation platform for human behavior
Headcount
:
~40
Latest Funding
:
$100M
Series A
,
Feb 2001
7
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AI-driven physical science discovery
Headcount
:
~60
Latest Funding
:
$300M
Seed
,
Sep 2001
8
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Enhancing operational efficiency with AI
Headcount
:
~105
Latest Funding
:
$30M
Series A
,
Sep 2001
9
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AI video generation
Headcount
:
~350
Latest Funding
:
$80M
Series A
,
Jan 2001
10
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Agentic cybersecurity platform
Headcount
:
~110
Latest Funding
:
$130M
Series A
,
Nov 2001
11
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AI for tax and accounting
Headcount
:
~35
Latest Funding
:
$30M
Series A
,
Dec 2001
12
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AI customer support for finance
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$13M
Series A (ext.)
,
Jun 2001
13
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Automating healthcare financial analysis
Headcount
:
~30
Latest Funding
:
$27M
Series A
,
Mar 2001
14
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AI-native process automation
Headcount
:
~70
Latest Funding
:
$17.5M
Series A
,
Aug 2001
15
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Foundation models for spatial-temporal reasoning
Headcount
:
~30
Latest Funding
:
$134M
Seed
,
Oct 2001
16
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AI for insurance brokerages
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$25M
Series A
,
Jan 2001
17
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Monitor and fix agents
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$15M
Seed
,
Dec 2001
18
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AI support agents for enterprises
Headcount
:
~105
Latest Funding
:
$61M
Series A
,
Nov 2001
19
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Relationship management for legal teams
Headcount
:
~35
Latest Funding
:
$30M
Series A
,
Jun 2001
20
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Simulation environments for agents
Headcount
:
~135
Latest Funding
:
$45M
Series A
,
Apr 2001
21
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AI-native CRM
Headcount
:
~40
Latest Funding
:
$20M
Series A
,
Feb 2001
22
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AI for vulnerability management
Headcount
:
~60
Latest Funding
:
$42M
Series A
,
Feb 2001
23
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Agents for job finding
Headcount
:
~75
Latest Funding
:
$20M
Seed
,
Oct 2001
24
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System of action for SEC and FINRA compliance
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$15.5M
Series A
,
May 2001
25
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Recursive chip design
Headcount
:
Latest Funding
:
$300M
Series A
,
Jan 2001
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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-Q2 2025 16
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-Q2 2025 19
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-Q2 2025
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 25
End-to-end platform for building AI applications.
Ankur Goyal
Series A
$36M
~20

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