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146 young startups in Infrastructure. For each, we ask AI the question its buyers would ask, without naming anyone, and show who it recommends.

146checked so far, of 146
13recommended by AI
133not named: AI picked others
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Who AI recommends in Infrastructure

When buyers ask about these startups' products, AI names these instead. They're who a young Infrastructure startup has to show up next to.

E2Bnamed for 12 startups' buyers
Modalnamed for 12 startups' buyers
Anthropicnamed for 10 startups' buyers
OpenAInamed for 10 startups' buyers
Daytonanamed for 9 startups' buyers
LangGraphnamed for 8 startups' buyers
Pineconenamed for 8 startups' buyers
vLLMnamed for 8 startups' buyers
The startups

Infrastructure startups

The ones AI recommended come first, then the rest by name. Nothing here is paid.

AgentMailYC Summer 2025Email Inboxes for AI AgentsNamed in 2 of 2 answersHatchetYC Winter 2024The orchestration platform for teams who ship.Named in 2 of 2 answersHopperYC Fall 2026Inference and post-training for realtime agentsNamed in 2 of 2 answersMem0YC Summer 2024The Memory layer for AI AgentsNamed in 2 of 2 answersPointOneYC Winter 2024AI Time Platform for Law FirmsNamed in 2 of 2 answersAcyclic LabsYC Fall 2026Agent swarms that make long-running tasks exponentially fasterNamed in 1 of 2 answersassistant-uiYC Winter 2025Open Source React.js Library for AI ChatNamed in 1 of 2 answersBlacksmithYC Winter 2024The fastest way to run your GitHub ActionsNamed in 1 of 2 answersCompresrYC Winter 2026LLM context compression for better accuracyNamed in 1 of 2 answersContext.devYC Summer 2026Web data API for agentsNamed in 1 of 2 answersHubYC Spring 2026Real-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.Named in 1 of 2 answersmachine0YC Summer 2026AWS for AgentsNamed in 1 of 2 answersThunder ComputeYC Summer 2024The GPU sandbox companyNamed in 1 of 2 answersAfterQueryYC Winter 2025Applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model…Not namedAI picked Datatrove, Trafilatura +6Agent 37YC Fall 2026Cloud Sandbox for AgentsNot namedAI picked E2B, Daytona +6AgentPhoneYC Spring 2026Phone Numbers for AI AgentsNot namedAI picked Twilio, Telnyx +6AirweaveYC Spring 2025The open-source context retrieval layer for agentsNot namedAI picked Pinecone, Qdrant +6AmikaYC Fall 2025Turn any spare computer into agent devboxes or CI runnersNot namedAI picked k3s, MicroK8s +5AravoltaYC Spring 2025Software to monitor, control, and optimize data centers.Not namedAI picked Sunbird DCIM, Schneider Electric (EcoStruxure IT) +6ArchalYC Summer 2026API sandboxes, built for AI agentsNot namedAI picked VCR.py, Polly.js +6ArchilYC Fall 2024The high-performance file system that connects AI to dataNot namedAI picked Amazon S3 Express One Zone, Amazon FSx for Lustre +6ArdentYC Spring 2026Database sandboxes for AgentsNot namedAI picked Neondb, Supabase +2ArtilYC Winter 2025Let your agents message teammates and other agentsNot namedAI picked LangGraph, CrewAI +6Autoresearch, Inc.YC Summer 2026Autoresearch as a service: we solve your hardest measurable problemsNot namedAI picked LangGraph, Temporal +2AutumnYC Winter 2026The people-intelligence company.Not namedAI picked Clay, Apollo.io +6BluedoorYC Summer 2024AI for public records request fulfillmentNot namedAI picked MuckRock, FOIA Machine +6BoatYC Fall 2026The best cloud VMs for billions of agentsNot namedAI picked E2B, Modal +6Breez LabsYC Winter 2024Helping Companies Deploy Email Agents in High Trust DomainsNot namedBrickantaYC Fall 2025Agentic AI for Society BuildersNot namedAI picked nPlan, ALICE Technologies +6ButterYC Winter 2025Embedded Sandboxes for AgentsNot namedAI picked gVisor, bubblewrap +6CaptainYC Winter 2026Self-tuning search for products and filesNot namedAI picked Qdrant, Elasticsearch +6CautionYC Summer 2026Hosting platform for software you can't afford to have hackedNot namedAI picked GPG, SSH +6ChamberYC Winter 2026The AIOps Agent for ML TeamsNot namedAI picked Terraform, OpenTofu +6CodagYC Summer 2026The AI gateway for cheaper, faster, permissioned agents.Not namedAI picked Anthropic, OpenAI +6CTGTYC Fall 2024The deterministic layer for frontier intelligenceNot namedAI picked NeMo Guardrails, Llama Guard +1Cumulus LabsYC Winter 2026The Fastest Multimodal Inference OSNot namedAI picked Portkey, LiteLLM +5DarkgradeYC Fall 2024Let your camera understand the worldNot namedAI picked YOLO, SAM +6DecaworkYC Summer 2026Training company-specific models that approve AI actions.Not namedAI picked Open Policy Agent (OPA / Rego), AWS Cedar +1Dedalus LabsYC Summer 2025Persistent computers for AI agentsNot namedAI picked E2B, Daytona +6DialogusYC Summer 2026voice AI agents that learn how your company actually worksNot namedAI picked Pylon, Decagon +5DiditYC Winter 2026Infrastructure for identity and fraud.Not namedAI picked Veriff, Onfido +6DownlinkYC Winter 2024Make your LLMs 3x faster.Not namedAI picked vLLM, TGI (Text Generation Inference) +6DreachYC Spring 2026staffing firms with dreach know before they hire.Not namedAI picked Crunchbase, PitchBook +6EdviroYC Summer 2026AI That Operates Energy InfrastructureNot namedAI picked BrainBox AI, Facilio +5ExecutorYC Summer 2026The open source tool gatewayNot namedAI picked Anthropic, LangChain +6ExlaYC Winter 2025Building agents that reads logs and fixes issues on your behalf.Not namedAI picked Prophet, LSTM +6ExpanseYC Spring 2026Unlock wasted GPU capacity.Not namedAI picked PyTorch Profiler, TensorFlow Profiler +6Experiential LabsYC Summer 2026Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into better modelsNot namedAI picked LiteLLM, Bifrost +6FernYC Winter 2026RL environments for robotics companiesNot namedAI picked NVIDIA Isaac Lab, MuJoCo Ecosystem +4FlowtelYC Winter 2025The AI Voice agents for hotelsNot namedAI picked Canary AI Voice, HelloShift +6FreestyleYC Summer 2024The most powerful sandboxes for AI AgentsNot namedAI picked E2B, Daytona +6GitCafeYC Summer 2026The Git forge for the next hundred billion commitsNot namedAI picked GitHub Copilot Enterprise, GitLab Duo Enterprise +6GlasskubeYC Summer 2024Ship self-hosted software with DistrNot namedAI picked Replicated, Nuon +6GrayPassYC Fall 2026Verify the expected person is still in control before sensitive…Not namedAI picked YubiKey, Google Authenticator +2Guide LabsYC Winter 2024Frontier models and agents you can learn from, audit, and steer.Not namedHyperspellYC Fall 2025Your Company BrainNot namedAI picked Pinecone, Qdrant +6ImpreziaYC Summer 2025The World's First AI Ad Network.Not namedAI picked Midjourney, RunComfy +6IncidentFoxYC Winter 2026AI SRE agent that triages, coordinates, and fixes production incidentsNot namedAI picked Resolve AI, Komodor +6Induction LabsYC Summer 2026Building intellectually curious AINot namedAI picked DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI o-series +6InkboxYC Summer 2026The identity and communication layer for AI agentsNot namedAI picked Pinecone, Qdrant +6InterfazeYC Spring 2026AI model built for high accuracy deterministic tasksNot namedAI picked OpenAI o1 / o3 series, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet / Claude 3.7 Sonnet +6InthYC Spring 2026Monitor and fix product privacy issues before they block growthNot namedAI picked Privado, Semgrep +6KairosYC Spring 2025Specialized AI for Critical IndustriesNot namedAI picked Azure IoT Edge, AWS IoT Greengrass +6KERNELYC Summer 2025Crazy fast, open source infra for AI agents to use the InternetNot namedAI picked E2B, Daytona +6KorsoYC Spring 2026In DevelopmentNot namedAI picked v0 by Vercel, Bolt.new (StackBlitz) +6KugelAudioYC Spring 2026Kugel is an on-prem Voice AI model supporting 30+ languages Not namedAI picked CosyVoice 2 (Alibaba FunAudioLLM), Qwen-TTS / Qwen3-TTS +5LimnionYC Fall 2026Telemetry storage for the agentic era.Not namedAI picked OpenTelemetry Collector Iceberg Exporters, Apache Flink +6LimrunYC Spring 2026Extend cloud sandboxes with iOS, Android and moreNot namedAI picked GitHub Codespaces, Gitpod +6LLM StatsYC Summer 2025Independent AI evaluations labNot namedAI picked Arena (formerly LMSYS Chatbot Arena), Artificial Analysis +6LuelYC Winter 2026Turning everyday words and actions into usable training data.Not namedAI picked Hugging Face, Kaggle +6LuminalYC Summer 2025Making AI run fast on any hardware.Not namedAI picked PyTorch, TensorFlow +6MagmaYC Summer 2026Monetize your agent's traces.Not namedAI picked OpenAI, Anthropic +6MantisYC Winter 2026Digital Twins of humansNot namedAI picked NetLogo, Mesa +5ManufactYC Summer 2025Cloud infrastructure for MCP servers and Claude / ChatGPT plugins.Not namedAI picked LangChain, LlamaIndex +6MaritimeYC Fall 2026The managed cloud for AI agents.Not namedAI picked LangGraph Cloud, Cloudflare Workers & Agents +6MarkovYC Summer 2026Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labsNot namedAI picked Scale AI, Turing +6MavenYC Winter 2026Payments for Conversational AgentsNot namedAI picked Stripe, Lemon Squeezy +6Memory StoreYC Spring 2026Company Brain.Not namedAI picked Notion, Confluence +6Mica AIYC Summer 2024Turn employees' AI skills into shared company infrastructureNot namedAI picked LiteLLM, Portkey +6MinicorYC Spring 2026Scalable windows desktop automationsNot namedAI picked Anthropic Computer Use API, OpenAI CUA +6MireyeYC Summer 2026Search Engine for the Physical WorldNot namedAI picked Tavily Search API, Exa +6MiruYC Summer 2024Config Management for RoboticsNot namedAI picked Helm, Jinja2 +6Miso LabsYC Spring 2026Emotive foundation voice modelsNot namedAI picked GPT-4.5, Meta’s LLaMA-3.1-405B +6ModaYC Winter 2026Your agents should never make the same mistake twice.Not namedAI picked Langfuse, LangSmith +6ModelenceYC Summer 2025Production infrastructure on autopilotNot namedAI picked Render, Fly.io +6Mundo AIYC Winter 2025The data layer for perceptual intelligenceNot namedAI picked Voxel51 (FiftyOne), Encord +6NaïveYC Spring 2025Autonomous Company InfrastructureNot namedAI picked Make, Zapier +6ObsessionDBYC Fall 2026Real-time data warehouse for agentsNot namedAI picked ClickHouse, Apache Pinot +6OneTriangleYC Summer 2026Prefill optimizations for the fastest inferenceNot namedAI picked vLLM, SGLang +6OpenVectorYC Summer 2026AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time visionNot namedAI picked Siemens Industrial Operations X, MindSphere +6OpslaneYC Summer 2024AI Code Review tool that runs your appNot namedAI picked Bito AI, Qodo +6OrchestraYC Summer 2026Self-optimizing neocloud that cuts LLM costs by 100xNot namedAI picked GPTCache, Cohere Rerank +6OrgoYC Fall 2026Computers for AgentsNot namedAI picked E2B, Modal +6OrthogonalYC Winter 2026Agentic Payments for APIsNot namedAI picked x402, L402 +6OssusYC Winter 2026Intelligence for cultural institutionsNot namedAI picked Ex Libris Alma, OCLC WorldShare Management Services +6OwayYC Summer 2024Building the open operating system for the automated physical economy.Not namedAI picked PTC Kepware, Litmus +6OximyYC Winter 2026Take command of the AI your company already runs on.Not namedAI picked Netskop, Zscaler +6PangolinYC Summer 2025Open networking and security for your workforce, AI agents, and infraNot namedAI picked Security Onion, Wazuh +5ParaQueryYC Spring 2025Managed GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL at 2x speed and half the costNot namedAI picked NVIDIA RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark, Amazon EMR +6ParasmaYC Summer 2026Replacing GPUs with human brain cellsNot namedAI picked Cortical Labs, BrainowarePerceptual LabsYC Fall 2026Building the next generation of visual intelligenceNot namedAI picked Microsoft Azure AI Vision, Google Cloud Vision AI +6PgDogYC Spring 2025Scaling engine for PostgreSQLNot namedAI picked PgBouncer, Odyssey +6PipeshiftYC Summer 2024Inference for real-time agentsNot namedAI picked NVIDIA TensorRT, ONNX Runtime +6Piris LabsYC Winter 2026The Networking Layer of AINot namedAI picked InfiniBand, RoCEv2 +6PomeradoYC Fall 2026Turn any website into an MCP for your agents, in minutesNot namedAI picked UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate Desktop +6primitiveYC Spring 2026communication for agentsNot namedAI picked Redis Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ +4ProjectXYC Spring 2026Agent native workspace for heavy parallel workflows on the web Not namedAI picked AWS, Azure +6PulseYC Summer 2024Production-grade unstructured document extractionNot namedAI picked LlamaParse, Unstructured.io API +6RellingYC Summer 2025deploying the first billion robots for manufacturingNot namedAI picked FANUC, ABB +6RespanYC Winter 2024Open-source, extensible AI gateway with observability and evalsNot namedAI picked Langfuse, MLflow AI Gateway +6RevylYC Fall 2024The Mobile Development PlatformNot namedAI picked React Native, Flutter +4RiftenYC Summer 2026Earned intelligence for every companyNot namedAI picked OpenAI, Anthropic +6RightNowYC Fall 2026Co-designing the fastest intelligenceNot namedAI picked vLLM, TGI +6RiverbankYC Summer 2025Infrastructure CartographyNot namedAI picked VMware, Nutanix +6ROEYC Winter 2024AI for risk and complianceNot namedAI picked ComplyAdvantage, Hawk AI +6RoutantYC Fall 2026Last mile deployment and connectivity for Agents as a ServiceNot namedAI picked AWS, GCP +6RunAnywhereYC Winter 2026Fastest inference anywhere: open models on-prem, hosted or on-deviceNot namedAI picked vLLM, TGI +6RunRLYC Spring 2025Reinforcement learning as a serviceNot namedAI picked DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI o-seriesRyvnYC Fall 2024Easy and secure customer cloud deploymentsNot namedAI picked AWS PrivateLink, Azure Private Link +3s2.devYC Fall 2025API for unlimited, durable, real-time streamsNot namedAI picked Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis +6SalusYC Winter 2026Guardrails to validate your agent's actions before they executeNot namedAI picked Pydantic, Zod +6SazabiYC Spring 2026AI-native observability and security platformNot namedAI picked Langfuse, LangSmith +6SciloopYC Fall 2025Expert STEM reasoning data for frontier AI labs.Not namedAI picked Open-Thoughts Collections, Logics-STEM Dataset +6SF TensorYC Fall 2025Infrastructure for AI labs to focus on research.Not namedAI picked RunPod, Vast.ai +6ShofoYC Winter 2026The World's Largest Video LibraryNot namedAI picked Appen, Scale AI +6SixtyfourYC Spring 2025Intelligence Infrastructure on People and EntitiesNot namedAI picked Quantexa, SymphonyAI +5smol machinesYC Spring 2026Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.Not namedAI picked Docker, Docker Compose +6SpekoYC Summer 2026OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech modelNot namedAI picked Microsoft Azure AI Speech, ElevenLabs +6StacktraceYC Fall 2026See and control what your agents actually doNot namedAI picked Langfuse, LangSmith +6SuperserveYC Fall 2026Virtual machines for long-running agentsNot namedAI picked Restate, Temporal +6SynnaxYC Summer 2024Unified Hardware Control and Data Processing SoftwareNot namedAI picked NI TestStand, LabVIEW +6SynthYC Fall 2024Prompt and Context Optimization for Coding AgentsNot namedAI picked Claude Code, OpenHands +5TerseYC Fall 2026Durable state for AI agentsNot namedAI picked LangGraph, LlamaIndex Workflows +6The Token CompanyYC Winter 2026Compression middleware that improves LLM outputsNot namedAI picked vLLM, TGI (Text Generation Inference) +6TilionYC Fall 2026Super fast, unblockable browser infra for agentsNot namedAI picked Crawl4AI, Firecrawl +6TiloYC Fall 2026A Linux-based, AI-native operating system.Not namedAI picked AIOS, OpenClaw +6TokenlessYC Summer 2026We find flaws in RL environments and evals and help you fix them.Not namedTouchmarkYC Summer 2026Market for future inference capacityNot namedAI picked Compute Exchange / Exascale, SF Compute +6truthsystemsYC Summer 2025Automatically blocking risky behavior with real-time governance agentsNot namedAI picked NeMo Guardrails, Guardrails AI +3TwolabsYC Spring 2026RL environments for underexplored domains.Not namedAI picked MJX (MuJoCo in JAX), Brax +5UbicloudYC Winter 2024Open source alternative to AWSNot namedAI picked Infracost, OpenTofu +6Vibrant LabsYC Winter 2024Autonomously scaling environmentsNot namedAI picked AWS Firecracker, Northflank +6WatoYC Spring 2026The control point for AI agents at work.Not namedAI picked Redis, Pinecone +6WaycoYC Winter 2026AI operator for medlegal casesNot namedAI picked EvenUp, Supio +6WondersearchYC Fall 2026Instant semantic search over your data without embeddings.Not namedAI picked Elasticsearch, OpenSearch +6Zibra LabsYC Spring 2026Distributed runtime for AI workloads at scaleNot namedAI picked Lambda Labs, RunPod +6