Machine Learning Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area that are currently hiring 2025

May 2025

Browse 12 of the top Machine Learning startups funded by Y Combinator. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, these are some of the hottest and fastest-growing startups. Their teams are well-funded and actively hiring.

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  • Scale AI
    Scale AI
    Y Combinator LogoS2016
    Active • 500 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
  • AgileMD
    AgileMD
    Y Combinator LogoS2011
    Active • 15 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    At AgileMD, we are building the most advanced real-time predictive analytics and clinical algorithms platform for hospitals. Our cloud-based engine helps thousands of doctors and nurses around the country make medical decisions, so that every patient receives the highest quality and value of care based on the latest medical knowledge and data.
    machine-learning
    healthcare
  • PicnicHealth
    PicnicHealth
    Y Combinator LogoS2014
    Active • 100 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Healthcare needs good data. At PicnicHealth, we are building deep real-world datasets fueling cutting-edge research while giving patients control of their own medical record data. These complete, clinically-rich datasets produce unique insights — across dozens of diseases — to ultimately get the right treatments into patients’ hands faster. We work directly with patients and leverage state of the art machine learning to transform messy medical records into structured, research-ready datasets. To date we’ve helped tens of thousands of patients securely access their records and proactively contribute to advancing research in diseases that impacts their lives.
    machine-learning
    health-tech
    digital-health
    healthcare
    nlp
  • Tempo
    Tempo
    Y Combinator LogoW2015
    Active • 158 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    SmartSpot is a post Series-A stealth startup backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures that uses computer vision to deliver an unparalleled fitness training experience to your home. Our unique hardware solution gives amazing trainers the ability to see their class participants in real time and deliver detailed advice that was previously only possible in person.
    machine-learning
    consumer-health-services
  • Proven Group
    Proven Group
    Y Combinator LogoW2018
    Active • 40 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Proven is a data powered skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on more than 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetic background, lifestyle and environment. Our formulations are rooted in the largest beauty database in the world, the proprietary Skin Genome Project, built in-house by Proven's cofounder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford. The database has won MIT's AI Technology of the Year award and encompasses more than 20Million consumer datapoints and thousands of scientific articles on skin. Our challenge now is to tell the story of Proven, and share our industry leading personalized skincare products with the world.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    consumer
    e-commerce
  • Klarity
    Klarity
    Y Combinator LogoS2018
    Active • 128 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Klarity is Enterprise AI that automates accounting and compliance processes for companies like DoorDash, CrowdStrike and Zoom. Klarity has two core capabilities: (1) understand documents like Orders, Invoices and Contracts to the same degree as a human, and (2) automate the following process - identifying outliers, matching, calculations and validations. Klarity reduces OpEx, delivers real-time turnaround and boosts accuracy.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    saas
  • Sapling.ai
    Sapling.ai
    Y Combinator LogoW2019
    Active • 2 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Sapling offers an API and SDK to help businesses integrate language models into their applications. Its messaging assistant sits on top of CRMs and messaging platforms to help users more efficiently compose responses.
    artificial-intelligence
    deep-learning
    generative-ai
    machine-learning
    b2b
  • Short Story
    Short Story
    Y Combinator LogoS2019
    Active • 120 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Short Story is a style discovery platform to help petite women find clothes that fit. The average American woman is 5'4" and petite, yet this remains an enormously underserved segment. We’re a team of curators passionate about finding style, quality, and fit for petite women. Our mission is to remove the “ugh” from the shopping equation and support petite women in telling their stories, stylishly and confidently.
    machine-learning
    marketplace
    e-commerce
  • Slope
    Slope
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 16 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Accept and reconcile B2B payments seamlessly.
    artificial-intelligence
    fintech
    machine-learning
    payments
    fraud-detection
  • Mach9
    Mach9
    Y Combinator LogoS2021
    Active • 15 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    Mach9 is at the forefront of leveraging advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques to transform geospatial data into actionable insights for urban development and infrastructure management. Our cutting-edge technology automates the detection and analysis of key urban features, aiding in the planning and maintenance of transportation networks.
    machine-learning
    computer-vision
    infrastructure
    ai
  • Invert
    Invert
    Y Combinator LogoW2022
    Active • 25 employees • San Francisco, CA, USA
    We build software to manage, analyze, and optimize bioprocessing data. Our initial customers are bio-industrial companies, who produce various products in bioreactors.
    cellular-agriculture
    machine-learning
    synthetic-biology
    biotech
  • Phiar
    Phiar
    Y Combinator LogoS2018
    Acquired • 12 employees • Redwood City, CA, USA
    At Phiar, we are building the first AI-powered AR navigation driving software solution that runs on a smartphone and in-vehicle displays, utilizing our ultra-lightweight road understanding AI that runs completely at-the-edge, in real-time, all on just a smartphone-level compute. Our mission is to enhance driving safety, facilitate more intuitive wayfinding, and connect drivers with their surrounding environments.
    artificial-intelligence
    machine-learning
    augmented-reality