Modaic's Hit List

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	Domain		Team Background	Active Founders & Leads
Mercor	Multi-Domain	SF · Santa Clara	Thiel Fellowship, Harvard, Georgetown	BF AH SM Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, Surya Midha	250+	APEX
Handshake	Multi-Domain	SF · NYC, Bangalore, Berlin	Palantir, Meta, Scale AI	GL PG SB JBNRYZ Garrett LordRL/SFT Data Vendors: Paco Guzmán, Sahil Bhaiwala, Jack Bratches, Nishant Ranka, Yang Zhao	250+	Gandalf the Grader
Scale	Multi-DomainCode	SF · NYC, DC, London	Stanford, Coinbase, YC	CR RL/SFT Data Vendors: Chetan Rane	250+	SWE-bench Pro
Turing	Code	SF · Palo Alto, Gurugram	Stanford, Rover, Yahoo	JS VK Jonathan Siddharth, Vijay Krishnan	250+	VLMBench
Surge	Multi-Domain	SF · NYC, Seattle	Google, Meta, Twitter	EC NH Edwin ChenRL/SFT Data Vendors: Nick Heiner	101-250	CoreCraft
Snorkel	Multi-DomainCode	SF · Redwood City, NYC	Stanford, UW, Meta	ARCRPV HE VS FS Alex Ratner, Christopher Ré, Paroma Varma, Henry EhrenbergRL/SFT Data Vendors: Vincent Sunn Chen, Frederic Sala	101-250	Senior SWE-Bench
micro1	Multi-Domain	SF	Stanford, Berkeley	AA Ali Ansari	101-250	Realm
AfterQuery	Multi-Domain	SF · NYC, Seattle	Wharton, Penn, UBC	CG SM Carlos Georgescu, Spencer Mateega	51-100	AppBench
Latch	Science	SF	Berkeley, Google, Asimov	AA KW KG Alfredo Andere, Kenny Workman, Kyle Giffin	51-100	benchmarks.bio
Mechanize	Code	SF	Epoch AI	TB EE MB Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil, Matthew Barnett	51-100	GBA Eval
Patronus AI	Multi-DomainCode	SF	Meta AI, Google, Amazon	AK RQ Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian	51-100	FinanceBench, TRAIL
Datacurve	Code	SF	Waterloo	SG CL Serena Ge, Charley Lee	26-50	DeepSWE
Halluminate	FinanceEnterprise	SF	Capital One, Meta, Cornell	JW WM Jerry Wu, Wyatt Marshall	26-50	WebBench
Pareto	Multi-DomainTool Use	SF	Stanford, Scale, Turing	PY MW YE JC Phoebe YaoRL/SFT Data Vendors: Mark Whiting, Youssef Elhady, Joe Crawley	26-50	Leap, Attune
Proximal	Code	SF · Bangalore	Prime Intellect, Cursor	JM NP CC Justus Mattern, Navid Pour, Calvin Chen	26-50	FrontierSWE
Aptura	FinanceEnterprise	London · SF	Lazard, McKinsey, EF	CM Chirag Modi	11-25	SpreadsheetBench 2
Bespoke Labs	Code	Mountain View · Menlo Park, Bangalore, SF	Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley	MS AD Mahesh Sathiamoorthy, Alex Dimakis	11-25	OpenThoughts
Collinear	EnterpriseLong Horizon	Mountain View · Sunnyvale	Hugging Face, Salesforce, Stanford	NR SB Nazneen Rajani, Soumyadeep Bakshi	11-25	Curator Evals
Quesma	Security	Warsaw	Elastic, Sumo Logic, Dynatrace	JM Jacek Migdal	11-25	BinaryAudit
ReasonCore	ScienceCode	SF	Turing, Aera Technology, Oracle	GW AL SV Geoff Wolfe, Anshuman Lall, Satish Vutukuru	11-25	Benchmarks
Abundant	Code	SF	Waymo, Google, Mercor	JH KH MA Jesse Hu, Ke Huang, Meji Abidoye	1-10	SWE-Marathon
BenchFlow	EnterpriseBrowser	SF	Terminal, Red Hat	XL Xiangyi Li	1-10	SkillsBench
Cua	CodeComputer Use	SF	Microsoft, Twitter	FB DD Francesco Bonacci, Dillon DuPont	1-10	Cua-Bench
EdotEnv	Long HorizonML	SF	G-Research, Etched, ETH Zurich	RW MZ Rui Wang, Michael Zhang	1-10	Long-Horizon Planning
Emulated	CodeML	SF	AWS, DeepMind, Prime Intellect	JW SP Joseph Wang, Sid Patllollu	1-10	SDAB
General Reasoning	Finance	London · SF	Meta, Conjecture, Aleph Alpha	RT CT KPTG Ross Taylor, Chengxi Taylor, Kip Parker, Thomas Grady	1-10	OpenReward
Markov	Computer UseTool Use	SF	YC, IIT Madras	DM HA Dev Mandal, Harish Ashok	1-10	CUA data, AutoCAD-Bench
Metaphi	CodeEnterprise	SF · NYC	Waymo, Nuro, Netflix	AC IG Abhishek Chandwani, Ishan Gupta	1-10	CREW
pre.dev	CodeLong Horizon	Delaware	Penn M&T, Wharton	AR AE Arjun Raj Jain, Adam Elkassas	1-10	TB2 results
Tacit Labs	ScienceLong Horizon	SF	MosaicML, MSR, EF	NF AM Nicole Fitzgerald, Anne Marie Droste	1-10	LifeSciBench
Ulam	Math	Warsaw · London	Oxford	PC Przemek Chojecki	1-10	RLVR Trajectories
Vmax	ML	SF · NYC	UCL	MS AM Matthew Sargent, Augustine Mavor-Parker	1-10	unix-ctf
Fleet	Multi-DomainEnterprise	SF · NYC	Mercor, Anthropic, MSL	NO AZ Nicolai Ouporov, Andrew Zhou	51-100
DeeptuneAcquired	CodeComputer Use	NYC	Hebbia	TL Tim Lupo	26-50
Huzzle Labs	Long HorizonCode	London · Berlin, SF	Turing	IK AC Ingmar Klein, Amit Choudhary	26-50
Taste Labs	Design	NYC	Exa, Palantir, Mercado Libre	TC Thais Castello Branco	26-50
Verita AI	Design	SF · Vancouver	HRT, Jane Street, Mercor	RK RK Rithika Kacham, Rishi Kalakuntla	26-50
ARIMLABS	SecurityLong Horizon	Warsaw	Akamai	MM MC Mykyta Mudryi, Markiian Chaklosh	11-25
Chakra Labs	Computer UseTool Use	Brooklyn	Microsoft, L/S, Snap	NK AF Nirmal Krishnan, Alex Fung	11-25
dmodel	MLAlignment	SF	OpenAI, Google Brain, EleutherAI	AT DM Anish Tondwalkar, Daniel Moon	11-25
HUD	Long HorizonCode	SF · Singapore	METR, AWS, Hume	LM JR Lorenss Martinsons, Jay Ram	11-25
Idler	Code	SF	Meta, Microsoft, Cornell	IC NC TG Ivan Chub, Nalu Concepcion, Tony Goss	11-25
Incalmo	Security	San Mateo	CMU, MSR, RSAC Labs	BS MD OA AL Brian Singer, Mark DongRL/SFT Data Vendors: Omer Akgul, Ao Li	11-25
Preference Model	MLCode	SF · Toronto, Seattle	Anthropic, Stripe, Datology	JZ NC Jennifer Zhou, Ning Cao	11-25
Akhara	EnterpriseCode	SF	Meta, MIT, Cornell	SG NS GK Spandana Govindgari, Navi Singh, Girish Kumar	1-10
Andromede	Long Horizon	Lausanne	MIT, EPFL	AS GA Alexandre Sallinen, Guillaume Allegre	1-10
Anthromind	MedicalLong Horizon	SF	Google, Forward Health	PK MS Pratik Karki, Mannat Sandhu	1-10
Diffuse Labs	MLLong Horizon	Palo Alto · SF	a16z, CMU	DV TS Daljeet Virdi, Tejpal Singh	1-10
Dissei	Finance	London	Warwick, Goldman Sachs, HBS	TP JTEB Tudor Popescu, Jai Trivedi, Eddy B	1-10
Exabite	Code	Remote	Stanford, MIT, Magic	AX Alana Xiang	1-10
Good Start Labs	GamesLong Horizon	Brooklyn · NYC, Toronto	Waterloo, Every, Amazon Robotics	AD TM Alex Duffy, Tyler Marques	1-10
Hillclimb	Math	SF	DeepMind, Base	JP IU Jun Park, Ibrakhim Ustelbay	1-10
Normal	Hardware Engineering	SF	Cohere, Notion, Fuse	H AY Hudzah, Anson Yu	1-10
Originator	Computer UseCode	London · Paris	Google, Dataform, Pareto Holdings	BC LH Ben Cambier, Lewis Hemens	1-10
Phinity	Chip Design	SF · Palo Alto	NVIDIA, AWS, Stanford	SJ AN Sonya Jin, Aadi Nashikkar	1-10
Plato	BrowserEnterprise	SF	MultiOn, Waterloo, Georgia Tech	RF PP Rob Farlow, Pranav Putta	1-10
Refresh	CodeComputer Use	SF	Uber, Amazon	CS EQ Christopher Settles, Erik Quintanilla	1-10
Sepal AIAcquired	Science	SF	Turing, Bain, McKinsey	RL KH Robi Lin, Kat Hu	1-10
Theta	Enterprise	SF	DeepSilicon, Cornell, MultiOn	RG TS GS Rayan Garg, Tanmay Sharma, Gurvir Singh	1-10
Trajectory Labs	Alignment	Berkeley · Toronto	METR, GovAI, 80000 Hours	PM BW Peter McIntyre, Ben West	1-10
Vetto AI	CodeComputer Use	SF · São Paulo, London	DeepMind, Meta, ITA	JA RS LS GA RA José André Nunes, Rodrigo Schmidt, Lucas Smaira, Gabriel Albuquerque, Roberta Antunes	1-10