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Top AI and ML Startups for 2022

In 2022, few startup categories saw the same surge in popularity and funding as the AI/ML space. Despite a funding slowdown in the bear market, multiple AI/ML startups have been able to raise impressive rounds from great VC funds The list below includes 25 of the fastest-growing startups in the AI/ML space today. Each of the companies included not only has significant traction but is also backed by top-tier investors and is actively hiring today.

For an in-depth analysis of some of the startups on this list, including a breakdown of the products and how they work, see our reports on Hugging Face, Cohere and Scale over at Contrary Research

Additional research contributed by Jane Zhang.

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Companies

Cohere

A platform to build machines that understand the world and make them safely accessible to all.

Backed by Index Ventures

Hugging Face

Hugging Face allows users to build, train, and deploy art models using the reference open source in machine learning.

Backed by Sequoia Capital

Scale AI

Scale AI is the data platform for AI, providing high quality training data for leading machine learning teams.

Backed by Accel

Snorkel AI

AI development platform for enterprise.

Backed by Greylock

Hebbia

Hebbia's neural search lets you execute research 10X faster and 10X more accurately.

Backed by Index Ventures

Mosaic

Mosaic is making Machine Learning Training efficient with algorithmic methods

Backed by Lux Capital

Abacus AI

Abacus.AI is a cloud services company that helps organizations design, train, and customize machine and deep learning models.

Backed by Index Ventures

Aquarium

Aquarium is expertise in making machine learning accessible to its customers that helps to simplify their models by improving datasets.

Backed by Y Combinator

Modular

Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.

Backed by Greylock

Ponder

Ponder provides enterprise-ready tools for rapid, flexible experimentation with data at scale.

Backed by Lightspeed

Adept

An artificial intelligence technology company whose goal is to create general artificial intelligence.

Backed by Greylock

Predibase

An alternative to AutoML.

Backed by Greylock

Arthur AI

Arthur AI is a platform that monitors and improves the performance of machine learning models.

Backed by Index Ventures

Assembly AI

AssemblyAI is an AI company building a platform of APIs to transcribe and understand audio data.

Backed by Y Combinator

Robust Intelligence

Robust Intelligence eliminates AI Failures by detecting model vulnerabilities and automatically preventing bad outcomes.

Backed by Sequoia Capital

Kumo

SaaS AI platform that allows anyone in an organization to tackle predictive problems in business.

Backed by Sequoia Capital

Infinitus

Infinitus develops voice robotic process automation tools for the health care industry.

Backed by Kleiner Perkins

Hex

Hex Technologies is a collaborative data software platform for data teams.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Ambient AI

Ambient.ai integrates computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Anyscale

Accelerates the development and productionization of any AI app, on any cloud, at any scale — with Ray.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Clarity AI

Clarity AI is a sustainability technology platform that uses machine learning to deliver environmental and social insights to investors.

Backed by Founders Fund

Cresta

Cresta leverages artificial intelligence to help sales and service agents improve the quality of their customer service.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Primer

Primer develops a text analytics solution designed to automate the analysis of textual data.

Backed by Lux Capital

Tecton

Tecton provides an enterprise-ready feature store to make machine learning accessible to every company.

Backed by Andreessen Horowitz

Weights and Biases

Weights & Biases provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning.

Backed by Insight Partners

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