I asked people which AI data startups they think are most interesting. The focus was on startups that sell data to labs, excluding the massive ones (Mercor, Surge, Handshake, Turing).
| Votes | Company | Founders | Team size | HQ |
| 22 |
Mechanize |
  Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil, Matthew Barnett |
26-50 |
SF |
| 12 |
Proximal |
  Calvin Chen, Justus Mattern, Navid Pour |
11-25 |
SF |
| 11 |
Fleet |
 Nicolai Ouporov, Andrew Zhou |
51-100 |
NYC |
| 9 |
AfterQuery |
 Spencer Mateega, Carlos Georgescu |
26-50 |
SF |
| 8 |
Datacurve |
 Serena Ge, Charley Lee |
26-50 |
SF |
| 5 |
Bespoke Labs |
 Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, Georgios Dimakis |
11-25 |
Mountain View |
| 5 |
Preference Model |
 Jennifer Zhou, Ning Cao |
11-25 |
SF |
| 4 |
Abundant |
  Jesse Hu, Ke Huang, Meji Abidoye |
1-10 |
SF |
| 3 |
Andon Labs |
 Lukas Petersson, Axel Backlund |
11-25 |
SF |
| 3 |
Latch |
  Alfredo Andere, Kenny Workman, Kyle Giffin |
51-100 |
SF |
| 3 |
microagi |
    Bercan Kilic, Anton Poletaev, Artjem Weissbeck, Nico Nussbaum, Yoan Iliev |
101-250 |
Munich |
| 3 |
Prime Intellect |
 Vincent Weisser, Johannes Hagemann |
26-50 |
SF |
| 3 |
Snorkel |
    Alex Ratner, Braden Hancock, Christopher Ré, Henry Ehrenberg, Paroma Varma |
250+ |
Redwood City |
| 3 |
XDOF |
  Philipp Wu, Nemo Jin, Yide Shentu |
51-100 |
San Mateo |
| 2 |
Build |
 Eddy Xu, Jonathan Jia |
26-50 |
SF |
| 2 |
Datology |
  Ari Morcos, Bogdan Gaza, Matthew Leavitt |
51-100 |
Redwood City |
| 2 |
Design Arena |
JP Grace Li, Jayden Personnat, Kamryn Ohly |
1-10 |
SF |
| 2 |
dmodel |
 Anish Tondwalkar, Daniel Moon |
11-25 |
SF |
| 2 |
Good Start Labs |
 Alex Duffy, Tyler Marques |
1-10 |
Brooklyn |
| 2 |
hillclimb |
 Ibrakhim Ustelbay, Jun Park |
1-10 |
SF |
| 2 |
HUD |
 LMJay Ram, Parth Patel, Lorenss Martinsons |
11-25 |
SF |
| 2 |
Inheritance |
Astrid Wilde |
1-10 |
SF |
| 2 |
Mecka |
   Josh Gao, Duy Nguyen, Jason Chong, Mogen Cheng |
51-100 |
Toronto |
| 2 |
Sieve |
 Mokshith Voodarla, Abhinav Ayalur |
26-50 |
SF |
| 2 |
Taste Labs |
Thais Castello Branco |
11-25 |
NYC |
| 2 |
Trajectory |
  Ronak Malde, Arjun Karanam, Michael Elabd |
1-10 |
SF |
| 2 |
Vmax |
 Matthew Sargent, Augustine Mavor-Parker |
1-10 |
SF |