What Companies Are in a16z Speedrun in 2026?

Acceler8

HR Tech / AI Agents

Acceler8 builds AI-powered workforce intelligence and planning software for large organizations.

Its platform helps leadership teams understand which roles can be automated, where employees can be redeployed, what capabilities an organization will need next, and how workforce structures should evolve as humans and AI agents increasingly work together.

Acceler8 was founded by Chinmay Chauhan and Trisha Pathak. Chauhan previously scaled a company to hundreds of employees after raising approximately $80 million, while Pathak has worked on workforce restructuring across dozens of companies. a16z lists Acceler8 as a 15-person San Francisco company focused on HR technology, talent, and AI agents.

Advocate

Healthcare / AI Agents

Advocate builds an AI chief of staff for seniors and their families.

Users can call one number and ask for help with tasks such as rides, groceries, home repairs, and appointments. Advocate handles requests end to end, updates family members when tasks are completed, and keeps activity in a shared family record.

Founder Andrew Baran previously co-founded Leilo, led software and AI work at McKinsey, and invested in healthcare and vertical SaaS companies.

Alike

Future of Work / AI Agents

Alike is building an agent collaboration layer for enterprises.

Its technology enables autonomous AI agents working across different teams and systems to communicate and coordinate directly with one another, reducing the manual handoffs required between automated workflows.

Alike says its technology is live inside teams at 10 companies, with 20 signed design partners and approximately 100 companies on its waitlist. Its founding team combines experience spanning Oxford and MIT.

Amdahl

AI Infrastructure / Sales

Amdahl builds a context layer for enterprise go-to-market teams.

The product structures information across Sales, Support, Customer Success, and channel performance, giving AI systems the context required to reason about customer relationships and commercial workflows rather than relying on isolated records.

a16z highlights a roughly $4 million sales pipeline for the company. Its team brings experience from companies including Databricks and Coinbase.

Antihero Studios

Gaming

Antihero Studios is a Barcelona-based mobile game studio focused on social-first multiplayer experiences.

The studio is building MISFITZ, a mobile extraction game designed around social interaction, emergent player behavior, and creator-driven growth.

Its team includes veterans of Supercell, King, and Blizzard, with experience across games including Brawl Stars, Clash Royale, Candy Crush, and Hearthstone.

August

Fintech / AI Agents

August builds autonomous AI bankers.

The company applies domain-specific AI to commercial banking workflows where relationship managers and other employees spend significant time working across fragmented documents, customer information, and manual processes.

August is focused on bringing agentic automation into financial workflows where accuracy, customer context, and industry knowledge matter.

Auto

Consumer AI

Auto is building an AI-powered camera that turns photographs into interactive personal applications.

Rather than treating a photograph as static media, Auto uses AI to understand what is inside an image and create interactive software experiences around it.

The company was founded by a team with previous experience at Snapchat.

Belong

Consumer / Fintech

Belong is building infrastructure around the relationship between artists and fans.

Its approach is designed to give creators deeper ownership of their fan relationships while creating new ways for audiences to participate economically in the communities they support.

Co-founder Nick Holmsten previously founded Tunigo, which Spotify acquired, and later became Spotify's Global Head of Music. Co-founder Ash Pournouri is known for managing Avicii.

Bilrost

Real Estate / Fintech / AI Agents

Bilrost builds AI-native infrastructure for commercial credit and real estate lending.

Its system turns deal documents, financials, borrower history, and underwriting context into a structured context graph supporting the lending lifecycle from intake and underwriting through servicing and monitoring.

Bilrost says it has processed more than 10,000 deals and is piloting with major lenders.

Bota

AI Infrastructure / Hardware

Bota builds infrastructure that gives AI agents access to real-world context, beginning with voice data.

The company is positioning itself as a context engine for AI agents operating across sales, healthcare, legal, finance, productivity, and other workflows.

Bota reported growing from zero to more than $700,000 in contracted ARR within five weeks. Its founders bring experience from Stanford Robotics, Tesla, Apple, Amazon, and AWS.

The company is based in Mountain View, California.

Cascade

Construction Tech / AI

Cascade builds an AI prediction layer for construction projects.

Its technology helps contractors, developers, and project owners identify risk earlier so they can make better decisions about how projects are planned, financed, and built.

The founding team combines experience from Google Pay, Google Search, machine learning, and infrastructure technology.

Cedar

HR Tech / AI Agents

Cedar is building an AI-native professional network, beginning with recruiting and employee referrals.

Its agents map trusted professional relationships through employee conversations, identify potential candidates, and create a relationship graph that becomes more useful as more employees participate.

Founders Greg Gunn and Beier Cai previously helped scale Hootsuite from five employees to roughly 1,500 and from zero to $100 million in ARR.

Cedar has reported approximately $3 million in revenue closed while operating in stealth.

Concorda

Legal Tech

Concorda builds an AI operating system for litigation and trial lawyers.

The platform targets document review, case organization, legal research, and other information-intensive workflows involved in litigation.

Concorda is designed as an integrated AI layer for litigation teams rather than an isolated point solution.

Grove Tax

Tax Technology / AI Agents

Grove Tax builds an AI workforce for tax firms.

Its agents automate parts of tax preparation and client service, including intake, document extraction, return preparation, review support, and delivery.

The company is targeting a tax industry facing growing workloads and a shortage of experienced professionals.

Hammock

Healthcare / Fintech / AI Agents

Hammock helps consumers identify healthcare and wellness purchases that may qualify for HSA or FSA spending.

Its AI agent can identify potentially eligible expenses and work with an integrated physician network to generate Letters of Medical Necessity for qualifying products and services.

Co-founder Jesse Rose previously built Berry Street to approximately $50 million in ARR. Co-founder Will Dennis previously led product at WeightWatchers and worked at WhatsApp and Houseparty.

Heavi

Transportation / AI Agents

Heavi builds an AI workforce for heavy vehicle mechanics.

The product helps mechanics work across diagnostic information, service history, technical manuals, and repair workflows for trucks and other heavy vehicles.

Co-founder Sanjay Dasari is an ASE-certified diesel mechanic and previously scaled an agricultural supply-chain business, while Michael Holkesvik previously built machine-learning infrastructure for the timber industry.

Heavi has reported five active design partners and $100,000 in contracted revenue.

Hotbox

Sales / AI Agents

Hotbox builds predictive intelligence for social commerce.

The platform analyzes signals such as likes, comments, and direct messages to identify people who resemble a company's ideal customer, enrich those prospects, and move them into sales workflows.

Hotbox has reported approximately $350,000 in ARR before launch and a roughly $4 million sales pipeline after two weeks of selling.

Founder Harpriya Bagri previously sold a company to Salesforce and worked on LinkedIn's ranking algorithm.

Idilio

Media / Generative AI

Idilio builds an AI-powered microdrama platform for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences.

The company applies generative AI to serialized entertainment, helping reduce production costs and increase the speed at which short-form narrative content can be created and tested.

Its approach brings AI-native production economics to a large Spanish- and Portuguese-language entertainment market.

Kaaro

Transportation / AI Agents

Kaaro builds AI agents for railway operations.

Rail companies still rely on manual processes for paperwork, incident reporting, billing, scheduling, and communication between field teams. Kaaro applies AI agents to automate those operational workflows.

The company has reported partnerships with CPKC and Gulf & Ohio Railways.

Meridian

Enterprise AI

Meridian builds an AI operating system for consulting firms.

Consulting businesses generate large amounts of institutional knowledge across presentations, reports, research, and previous client engagements. Meridian organizes that information, makes prior work searchable, and helps consultants generate new deliverables using firm knowledge and templates.

Four months after starting, Meridian reported approximately $700,000 in contracted revenue and 3x monthly growth. The company has also reported winning competitive evaluations against Databricks and Palantir.

Modaic

Developer Infrastructure / AI

Modaic builds verification and alignment infrastructure for AI systems making judgment-heavy decisions.

Its technology evaluates model confidence, routes uncertain cases to people, and incorporates human feedback to improve subsequent decisions.

The company has worked with design partners including Accenture, Dropbox, and Vercel. Its founding team has backgrounds spanning MIT, Harvard, IBM, Bloomberg, and the MIT Media Lab.

Modern Industrials

Industrial / Supply Chain AI

Modern Industrials builds an AI workforce for building-material distributors.

Its first product, the AI Sales Engine, automates workflows including quoting, order entry, and analytics. The company is starting in the $450B+ building-materials market, with a longer-term goal of becoming an operating system for physical-goods distribution.

The founding team combines experience from xAI, Google, McKinsey, Uber, and Roon.

Oasiz

Gaming / Consumer AI

Oasiz is building a social discovery platform for AI-native software, beginning with games.

Its premise is that AI-generated software can become something users discover and share in the same way they discover videos and other online content.

Oasiz has reported more than 350,000 plays, 10 million organic TikTok views, and a partnership with Atari.

PayPath

Fintech / AI

PayPath builds an AI operating system for debt.

The platform modernizes debt-management workflows that are frequently fragmented across spreadsheets, servicing systems, communications, and manual processes.

PayPath reported reaching approximately $2 million in ARR in under 12 months, with more than half a billion dollars in debt assets managed through the platform.

PicPet

Consumer / Social

PicPet combines photo sharing with a shared virtual pet.

Users feed photos to their virtual pet, turning everyday photo sharing into an ongoing social game rather than another traditional social feed.

The company reported approximately 240,000 daily active users and 45% 90-day retention.

Piper-ai

Construction Tech / AI

Piper-ai builds an AI workforce for construction.

Construction teams routinely work through large collections of bid documents, drawings, specifications, and project information. Piper uses AI to extract and organize that information so teams can understand scope, pricing, and project risk more quickly.

The product brings specialized AI into construction workflows that remain heavily dependent on manual document analysis.

Primitive Labs

Enterprise AI / Behavioral Intelligence

Primitive Labs builds behavioral intelligence for AI-native software.

The company is developing systems that model how users perceive, hesitate, and make decisions inside digital products, helping product teams understand customer behavior during development.

Primitive Labs was founded by Rohit Talluri, Jean Farmer, and Gabriel F., with team experience including Amazon AGI and AWS. The founders announced their participation in a16z SR007 in 2026\.

Quanto

Accounting / AI Agents

Quanto builds an AI workforce for accounting firms.

Its agents automate workflows including prospecting, onboarding, bookkeeping cleanup, and other repetitive processes inside accounting practices.

Quanto reported approximately $800,000 in contracted ARR and a sales pipeline exceeding $5 million.

Quinn

HR Tech / AI Agents

Quinn builds an AI training platform for frontline employees.

The company targets frontline workers who often lack access to the same modern training infrastructure available to office-based employees.

Quinn reported growing from approximately $200,000 to more than $1.1 million in ARR in around five months, reaching more than 65 customers and signing multiple six-figure contracts.

The company was founded by Ben Anderson, previously co-founder of Amino Apps, and Arlen Marmel, who previously worked on Hulu and Crunchyroll.

Sellara

Fintech / AI Agents

Sellara builds custom AI agents for financial institutions.

The company works with banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, asset managers, and wealth managers to automate front, middle, and back-office workflows.

Its founding team includes former Citi professionals with experience serving institutional financial clients.

Sentra

Enterprise AI / Infrastructure

Sentra builds organizational memory infrastructure for enterprise AI.

The platform captures interactions across meetings, messages, email, and agent traces and turns them into shared organizational memory that AI models can use to understand and coordinate work.

Sentra's team includes founders and researchers with backgrounds spanning MIT, IBM, Caltech, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, and Databricks.

Sirius Technology

Enterprise SaaS / AI

Sirius Technology builds an AI retention platform for subscription businesses.

The product focuses on reducing customer churn by identifying retention opportunities and automating parts of the workflows businesses use to keep subscribers engaged.

Its positioning combines AI-driven analysis with automated retention operations.

Smart Bricks

Real Estate / AI Agents

Smart Bricks is an applied AI company building agentic reasoning systems for real estate investing.

Its platform combines autonomous agents, multi-model reasoning, and continuous learning to turn fragmented property-market information into decision-ready intelligence for discovering, evaluating, and managing real-world assets.

Smart Bricks reports an approximately $12 million annualized revenue run rate. Its team brings experience from Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and OpenAI.

Snapp Stats

Sports / Consumer AI

Snapp Stats builds a 24/7 AI agent for sports fans.

The product brings sports statistics, context, fantasy implications, and other information into a personalized conversational experience rather than requiring fans to switch between multiple applications.

CEO Shawn Tsao previously co-founded Caviar, which was acquired by Square and later DoorDash.

Sparta

AI / Data Infrastructure

Sparta builds an intelligent data-delivery layer that dynamically optimizes large-scale transfers across clouds, clusters, and distributed systems.

Its reinforcement-learning engine adapts transfer parameters based on live network conditions, helping reduce idle GPU time, improve bandwidth utilization, and make high-performance computing infrastructure more efficient.

Sparta was founded by Arya Kanna, Saad Asad, and Lalith Posam.

Straia

EdTech / AI Agents

Straia builds agentic AI software for higher education.

The company applies AI agents to operational workflows across colleges and universities, helping institutions automate administrative work that has traditionally required significant staff time.

Straia reported approximately $4.5 million in committed ARR within four weeks of launch.

SUN

Consumer / Generative Media

SUN builds personalized interactive AI audio.

Users can create podcasts, audiobooks, and other structured audio experiences on virtually any topic while choosing characteristics such as length, voice, and language. Listeners can also ask questions during playback and receive responses in real time.

The founding team includes Artin Bogdanov, a Harvard computer science graduate; Mehmet Günhan Ertosun, who holds a Stanford PhD in AI; and Amy Hua, a founding engineer at Amazon Podcasts.

Third Space

Insurtech / AI

Third Space is building AI-native commercial insurance.

The company focuses on categories where traditional commercial insurance workflows can be fragmented and difficult for operators to navigate.

Third Space reported letters of intent from more than 50 locations representing approximately $3 million in commercial insurance premiums.

VariantNow

Marketing / Commerce / AI Agents

VariantNow builds infrastructure for what it calls the Adaptive Web, where websites change dynamically for individual visitors or AI agents.

Its real-time decisioning and generation layer can adjust content, imagery, products, and user flows based on context and intent.

VariantNow has reported approximately $600,000 ARR within three months and a $2.5 million pipeline. The company was founded by Elad Nissenberg and Ben Segal.

Vereda

AgriTech / AI Agents

Vereda builds an AI procurement agent for agriculture.

Its product uses a conversational, WhatsApp-native interface to help agricultural businesses source products and connect demand with suppliers.

Vereda reported acquiring 800,000 acres under management in 45 days, representing approximately $8 million in potential revenue and $155 million in GMV.

ZeroDrift

Fintech / Cybersecurity

ZeroDrift builds infrastructure that checks enterprise communications for regulatory, security, and organizational-policy violations before messages are sent.

The product is designed for environments where both employees and autonomous AI agents communicate with customers and counterparties at increasing scale.

Founder Kumesh Aroomoogan previously built financial NLP company Accern. ZeroDrift launched from stealth in February 2026 with a $2 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun.

Munari Labs

Robotics / Physical AI Infrastructure

Munari Labs is building infrastructure for physical AI and robotics.

The company focuses on reliability infrastructure that helps robots operate consistently outside controlled laboratory environments, with work spanning edge computing, machine learning, physical AI infrastructure, and robotics.

Munari Labs is associated with a16z SR007 and is based in San Francisco.