Companies, apps and skills gaining traction. Every figure links to its source and the date it was true.
Brand and shelf intelligence for India's D2C market: competitor prices, new entrants and category sizing read from Amazon India, Flipkart and Blinkit.
Live in IN
2 new stories in 14 days
Mobile robot workers for palletizing, depalletizing and case picking in factories and warehouses, rented by the hour or by the pick.
Live in US
2 new stories in 14 days
AI agents that build, run and learn from conversion experiments on a brand's website and ads, sold as an outcome-driven CRO programme; raised a $25M Series A on 2026-11-10.
Live in US · EU
1 new story in 14 daysSingapore payments platform whose free Agentic Discovery tool gives every merchant store its own MCP server and product feeds so ChatGPT and other AI agents can find and buy its products.
Live in SG · MY · PH
1 new story in 14 days
AI that catches conflicts between construction drawings, specs and contracts before they become disputes (YC Fall 2026).
Live in US · CA
1 new story in 14 days
Records a process once on screen or camera and writes the standard operating procedure: steps with screenshots, plus a video with AI voiceover, in 99 languages.
Live in US
1 new story in 14 days
Agentic commerce platform: one integration that makes a merchant's catalog buyable inside AI assistants, publishers, ads and marketplaces.
AI-native ERP for growing manufacturers: models factory operations, predicts bottlenecks and drafts purchase orders.
Live in US
1 new story in 14 days
AI agents for spend analysis and procurement: unifies spend, supplier and contract data, then finds and tracks savings.
Live in US · GB
1 new story in 14 days
AI that edits and checks P&IDs and the other engineering documents behind industrial plants, for EPC and owner-operator teams.
Benchtop station that scans precision hardware parts in their shipping trays and flags sub-100 µm cosmetic defects at incoming inspection.
A desktop app that records how a team works, maps the process and hands the repetitive parts to AI coworkers.
Live in DE · US
1 new story in 14 days
Analytics platform for humans and AI agents, rebuilt from scratch as Hex 4.0; raised a $100M Series D at a $1.2B valuation co-led by PeakXV and 137 Ventures.
Live in US
1 new story in 14 daysAI voice agents for plumbing, HVAC, electrical and other home-service companies that answer calls, book jobs into the contractor's scheduling software, chase estimates and renew memberships.
Live in US
1 new story in 14 days
Pays thousands of people in six countries to wear cameras while doing household, restaurant and hotel work, and sells the egocentric footage as training data to physical-AI labs.
Live in US · CN · ID
1 new story in 14 days
AI dispatcher for plumbing and HVAC companies: assigns each job to the best technician and rebuilds the schedule all day.
Live in US
1 new story in 14 days
A muscle-sensing forearm sleeve that records how skilled factory workers move their fingers, to train robots for dexterous tasks.
AI that pulls business data out of the security cameras retailers, restaurants and warehouses already have installed.
Company-specific AI and infrastructure that run manufacturing and distribution workflows end to end, from the back office to the shop floor.
AI that generates, verifies and optimizes electronics (PCB) designs inside the ECAD tools hardware teams already use.
Live in UK · US
AI-native manufacturer of transformers, switchgear, generators and cooling for data center and energy projects, built to spec across a partner-plant network.
An API for how buyers think: AI that interviews real people and builds models that agents and teams can query.
YC F26 startup that turns any website into an API or MCP server for agents, with an MIT-licensed open-source core.
Money orchestration for B2B platforms: embedded cards, bill pay, collections and cash for the SMB customers of vertical software.
Sensors and predictive software that track how fruit ripens from storage to store, so suppliers and retailers waste less produce.
Live in US
Decision engine that builds an optimization model from a factory's, warehouse's or fleet's own data, then re-plans schedules, routes and allocations when told about a change in plain words.
Manufacturing-as-a-service from an AI-native factory that assembles complex electromechanical hardware with robotic cells.
Live in US
AI that finds, reads and helps win government projects for manufacturers, their reps, contractors and engineering firms.
Live in US
Sensors and AI that watch industrial machines, predict failures and give maintenance teams a diagnosis and a plan of action.
Live in US · Brazil · Mexico
AI for trade compliance, centred on HS (tariff) classification, plus tariff calculations, customs audits and market regulatory checks.
Live in US
Real-time price intelligence and analytics for commodity traders, starting with oil and gas, with an AI assistant called Leonidas on top.
Live in Switzerland · UK · Global
An "AI-native trading company" for small importers: upload a buying list, get one locked, delivered, tariff-included price from vetted factories.
Live in US · China
AI that works out which product regulations apply to each item and prepares the compliance documents for retailers and brands.
Live in Denmark · Europe
An "AI resolution layer" for companies that make or move physical goods, automating claims, disputes, order exceptions and chargebacks.
Live in US
Connects OpenClaw and Hermes agents to Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Shopify and 100+ apps for $6 a month, from a founder in Sri Lanka.
Live in Global
One MCP server that gives Claude and other agents image, video, audio and 3D generation models, sold as prepaid credits.
Live in Global
An SDK and set of MCP servers that connect AI agents to hundreds of software tools, with authentication handled.
Live in Global
Software "AI operators" that learn from staff decisions, then run one business function inside small and midsize industrial companies.
Live in US
Otto, an AI worker for manufacturers that learns a factory's systems and spreadsheets, then takes over procurement, quoting and planning work.
Live in US