AI Companies to Watch

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Mountain View, California · Founded 2023

Ema is a Mountain View company founded in 2023 by Surojit Chatterjee and Souvik Sen, formerly of Okta. It builds…

London, United Kingdom · Founded 2024

Nscale is a London-based AI infrastructure company founded in 2024 as a spinoff of the crypto miner Arkon Energy, led…

Oxford, United Kingdom · Founded 2021

Salience Labs is an Oxford company founded in 2021 that builds photonic switches for AI data centers, drawing on research…

United States (city not confirmed in sources) · Founded 2023

Nous Research develops Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent released in February 2026. Secondary sources name Jeffrey Quesnelle as CEO…

Singapore · Founded 2022

Manus is an AI agent maker run by Butterfly Effect, which moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2025 with offices…

Metzingen, Germany · Founded 2019

NEURA Robotics is a robotics company based in Metzingen, near Stuttgart, founded in 2019 by David Reger, who is its…

United States (originated at UC Berkeley) · Founded 2025

Arena, formerly LMArena, operates the Chatbot Arena, a public leaderboard that ranks AI models using crowdsourced human preference votes. The…

Dallas, Texas (R&D in Tel Aviv) · Founded 2020

Island is a Dallas-based security company that makes the Enterprise Browser, a browser designed so that security controls, data protection…

New York, New York · Founded 2017

EliseAI is a New York company that builds AI agents for the housing and rental sector and, since 2023, for…

New York, New York · Founded 2024

Reflection AI is a New York-based AI lab founded in 2024 by Misha Laskin, its CEO, and Ioannis Antonoglou, its…