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First on the list in November 2026: Pocket, Nox Metals and Beyond Reach Labs.

Latest to raise: Preference Model, which raised $16M Seed in October 2026. Updated November 11, 2026, using Saywise's data on startup funding and open roles. See how we rank them.

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The top 25, November 2026

1
Pocket
Raised $11M Seed in June 2026
16 new roles in 30 days
YC W26
Investors: Y Combinator, Accel
29open roles$10k – $300k a year
2
Nox Metals
Supplying America's Industrial Base | ISO 9001 CERTIFIED
Raised $11.5M Seed in June 2026
10 new roles in 30 days
YC S25
Investors: Y Combinator, Hyperion
75open roles$39k – $350k a year
3
Beyond Reach Labs
Raised $10M Seed in July 2026
10 new roles in 30 days
YC W26
Investors: Y Combinator, Interlagos
18open roles$100k – $190k a year

4
Preference Model
Raised $16M Seed in October 2026
5 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz
6 open roles$165k – $350k a year
5
Idler
Hill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain, using our RL environments.
Raised $9M Seed in August 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
YC S25
Investors: Y Combinator, Paradigm
6 open roles$125k – $500k a year
6
Foundry Robotics
Rebuilding American manufacturing as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use Everything Factory.
Raised $19M Seed in April 2026
10 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Khosla Ventures
Investors: Khosla Ventures, Garuda Ventures
29 open roles$90k – $350k a year
7
Simple Ai
Simple AI - AI phone agents made Simple.
Raised $14M Seed in February 2026
11 new roles in 30 days
YC S24
Investors: Y Combinator, First Harmonic
13 open roles$120k – $350k a year
8
Orchestra
Orchestra is a strategic communications and marketing company purpose-built for a world defined by speed, fragmentation and unprecedented transparency.
Raised $3.3M Seed in September 2026
19 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Differential Ventures
40 open roles$50k – $275k a year
9
Wardstone
The Modular Interceptor Platform
Raised $5M Seed in February 2026
18 new roles in 30 days
YC F25
Investors: Y Combinator
18 open roles$60k – $240k a year
10
Harmony
Agentic Enterprise Service Management
Raised $34M Seed in July 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
13 open roles$85k – $320k a year
11
Walden Robotics
Robots ready to work.
Raised $300M Seed in July 2026
8 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Deviation Capital, Toyota
35 open roles$86k – $425k a year
12
Vital Lyfe
Raised $18M Seed in December 2025
5 new roles in 30 days
Backed by General Catalyst
Investors: General Catalyst, Interlagos
15 open roles$95k – $170k a year
13
CatchBack Cards
Raised $8M Seed in September 2026
YC W26
Investors: Y Combinator, Foundation Capital
6 open roles$70k – $200k a year
14
Mirendil
Democratizing frontier AI R&D to accelerate science and technology.
Raised $200M Seed in June 2026
7 new roles in 30 days
16 open roles$250k – $400k a year
15
Nango
Connect your Al product to 1,000+ APIs.
Raised $7.5M Seed in April 2026
7 new roles in 30 days
YC W23
Investors: Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures
12 open roles$120k – $250k a year
16
Hypercubic
Accelerate Mainframe Operations and Modernization with Agentic AI
Raised $5.3M Seed in August 2026
1 new role in 30 days
YC F25
Investors: Y Combinator, CIV
4 open roles$120k – $300k a year
17
Eulerity
Eulerity is the Agentic Marketing Operating System for multi-location brands.
Raised $4.5M Seed in August 2026
4 new roles in 30 days
9 open roles$100k – $150k a year
18
Blee
Raised a Seed round in September 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
YC S22
Investors: Y Combinator
7 open roles$150k – $275k a year
19
CharacterQuilt
Raised $9.8M Seed in August 2026
YC X26
Investors: Y Combinator
3 open roles$150k – $350k a year
20
Posh
Raised a Seed round in July 2026
4 new roles in 30 days
YC W22
Investors: Y Combinator
12 open roles$24k – $350k a year
21
Cheiron
AI-native Operating System for Drug Development
Raised $8M Seed in July 2026
1 new role in 30 days
Backed by Menlo Ventures
Investors: Menlo Ventures
4 open roles$150k – $300k a year
22
Merge Labs
Merge Labs is a research lab with the long-term mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency and experience.
Raised $252M Seed in January 2026
8 new roles in 30 days
Investors: OpenAI
33 open roles$95k – $305k a year
23
Feanix
DNA Extraction and Testing to Drive Forward a New Generation of Efficient and Sustainable Agriculture
Raised $5.3M Seed in December 2025
4 new roles in 30 days
YC S23
Investors: Y Combinator
8 open roles$95k – $270k a year
24
RoboForce
Building the future of Physical AI — scalable, deployable Robo-Labor designed for demanding industrial environments.
Raised $52M Seed in March 2026
8 new roles in 30 days
Investors: YZi Labs
17 open roles$60k – $360k a year
25
Terac
Terac is providing specialized experts on demand to power research.
Raised $9M Seed in November 2025
7 new roles in 30 days
16 open roles$70k – $210k a year

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