Agent Astra
Agent Astra is an AI-first freight platform aimed at making logistics operations more structured without discarding operator relationships.
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Speedrun companies
A curated a16z Speedrun sample for browsing selected public company records and deciding which profiles to inspect next.
Ali Abouelatta
Cofounder of Lazyweb (a16z Speedrun). Previously grew subscriptions and built native ads at Duolingo. Writes First1000 (90,000+ subscribers).
Ambiguous AI
Ambiguous AI gives small teams a shared workspace where human and AI coworkers use the same apps, data, permissions and exports.
Anchr
Anchr describes an integrated agent workforce for distributors, preserving operational context across orders, purchasing, finance and fulfillment systems.
AndThen
A creator-led voice entertainment platform whose early advantage is designed interactive format rather than open-ended chatbot novelty.
Argu AI
Create Vision Agents to monitor any scenario in real-time video
Avenir AI
Benefits analytics and agentic workflows for self-insured employers, brokers, and CFOs.
Axon
Axon is a research and trading firm building small, edge-run models for real-time prediction where latency matters.
bins
Bins uses daily finite collections and seller-specific bins to make secondhand shopping social and less overwhelming than an infinite catalog.
BotBot
A voice-agent behavior and experimentation layer for brands that need controlled learning on ordering, booking, upsell and recovery calls.
Acceler8
Continuous workforce intelligence for automation, redeployment, org design, and succession decisions.
Advocate
Advocate coordinates rides, groceries, repairs and appointments for seniors while giving families a shared view of what was handled.
Amdahl
Amdahl turns buyer and deal data into cited answers and evals for GTM agents, with usage pricing exposed publicly.
Antihero Studios
Antihero Studios brings former Supercell, King and Blizzard game leaders together around a social mobile extraction game and creator-led brand strategy.
August
A commercial-banking AI operations platform whose value depends on named workflows, auditability and regulated decision boundaries.
Belong
We build so they Belong.
Bilrost
Structured context and agentic workflow infrastructure for commercial lending.
Bota
Bridging AI agents and the real world, starting with offline conversation data.
Concorda
Concorda combines litigation drafting, discovery and citable legal research with a $350-per-user Team plan.
Vereda
Vereda uses a WhatsApp-native procurement agent and regional field relationships to shorten the farm-input distribution chain.
Acaysia
Acaysia describes a real-time MPPI controller that optimizes reactor processes while respecting plant limits and falling back to PID on faults.
AgentCat
An observability layer for agent interfaces where session replay and intent can turn opaque tool-call failures into product decisions.
Alia
Agents that coordinate teams towards company goals.
Corlen
AI-native loan origination and borrower-file operations for CRE lenders and brokers.
DRS
DRS operates Glow, Make and other generative-media consumer apps with a shared live-ops and growth system.
Electrokare
Electrokare presents Nefesh as an ECG foundation model with clinical and performance applications for precision and preventative physiology.
Fictional
A consumer character platform whose product test is whether persistent multimodal personas create repeat attention without losing control of memory and content.
Hoid
Agentic AI compiler — makes AI models faster & cheaper on any hardware
Mirai
Interactive neighborhood tours that add streets, places, and commutes to a property listing.
OneGC
OneGC is a software-plus-lawyer operating layer for startup legal work from formation through fundraising and governance.
Rork
Rork helps people describe, build and publish iPhone, Android and web apps without assembling a native build pipeline.
Metal
Metal gives founders a structured investor-research and fundraising workflow, from discovery and warm-intro paths to pipeline and meeting work.
Limy AI
Limy helps companies observe how AI systems discover and describe their brands, then connect that visibility to traffic and pipeline questions.
Artifact AI
Artifact describes reconciliation, reporting and month-end close workflows that sit alongside an existing general ledger.
Syzygy
Syzygy describes local-model tooling that connects apps and browsers to developer agents while reducing dependence on cloud inference.
Pen.dev
Pen.dev connects visual design work to code through an agentic canvas, model integrations and design-file synchronization.
Fearn
Fearn combines patent expertise and staged pricing for startups deciding what to protect and how to build an IP portfolio.
doublespeed
doublespeed combines social personas, content generation and account management for teams running organic distribution workflows.
Jooba
Jooba says it can run early recruiting work inside a team’s existing communication workflow rather than add another isolated hiring dashboard.
Kanu AI
Kanu positions its enterprise OS around connected data, agent queries, anomaly detection and deployments for data-heavy industries.
ZeroDrift
ZeroDrift offers policy checks, remediation and evidence IDs for teams shipping AI into regulated customer workflows.
Panorama
Panorama combines workflow discovery and implementation for teams deciding what to automate first.
Straia
Straia connects higher-education data sources so administrators can ask questions and get operational insight.
Emanate
Emanate positions autonomous revenue workflows for industrial businesses with high-value inquiries and quoting work.
Mirror Mirror AI
Mirror Mirror AI combines a model roster, booking and generative imagery for fashion brands producing campaign assets.
Pluvo
Pluvo positions finance teams around connected source data, explained variances and read-only, governed AI work.
Piper-ai
Piper connects construction project documents and company knowledge to scope, bid-leveling and estimate-review workflows.
Syncere
Syncere combines a physical lamp with adaptive lighting and a claimed household-automation layer.
Verra
Meridian connects a consulting firm’s prior engagements to research, drafting and delivery workflows with citations and permission controls.
Grove Tax
Grove gives tax firms a return-level workflow for document collection, workpapers, review and delivery.
Oruk
Oruk provides speech analysis APIs for developers building voice analytics, QA and speech-aware products.
SenseLab
SenseLab gives repeated agent runs a shared memory and outcome layer so findings can be reinforced or degraded over time.
Embrasure
Embrasure gives agents a warehouse, catalog and memory surface for answering questions against business data.
Vela Energy
Vela connects power-project data, dependencies and decisions into a shared execution model for energy and data-center teams.
Sotant
Sotant combines process mapping, ROI opportunity analysis and managed AI workflow implementation.
Switchfrog
Switchfrog helps SaaS teams classify browser sessions and apply action-specific controls when customers bring agents to their product.
Flip
Flip puts personal-finance chores in an iMessage conversation and exposes an agent API for approved workflows.
Cube Computer
Cube gives developers persistent Linux machines and agent workspaces without keeping a laptop open or managing local infrastructure.
Truli
Truli gives CPG brands a workflow for label review, claims validation, post-market monitoring and risk prioritization.
Mecone
Mecone positions itself at the exchange layer, helping platforms expand the assets available for perpetual markets.
Atrios
Atrios turns a trusted recommendation into a tracked referral path.
Bead AI
Bead AI is selling an evidence trail for internal audit work.
Brief
Brief is a memory layer for the decisions behind a codebase.
Forgepoint
Forgepoint treats the RFQ as the beginning of the manufacturing workflow.
Moona Health
Moona Health is a care workflow for CBT-I, not just a sleep app.
Sentra
Sentra’s memory product only works if permission survives the merge.
Sparta
Agent tests need state, not transcripts.
Zero Billion
A human-data marketplace needs consent before it needs volume.
Dispatcher
Dispatcher turns a drone into an aerial intelligence system that can act on a natural-language task.
General Magic
General Magic is building insurance-specific agents for brokerages and carriers.
Sourcerer
Sourcerer presents itself as a distributor that owns the path from a messy purchasing request to fulfillment.
Oasis
Oasis is a shared room where humans and agents work on the same task state.
PayPath
PayPath is laying an AI workflow over the debt lifecycle, from enrollment to account management.
Quanto
Quanto connects accounting-firm growth work to the onboarding work that follows a signed engagement.
Athena
Athena combines a law firm’s senior judgment with purpose-built systems and AI agents for defined deals.
Elu
Elu connects product signals to a proposed fix instead of leaving teams inside a dashboard.
EverCurrent
A hardware change is only useful if you can trace its consequences.
Logical Health
Healthcare outreach should close a loop, not send another reminder.
Taya
Memory should start before you open a notes app.
Heavi
Parts search should start with the VIN.
Hammock
Benefits only matter when employees can use them.
Sirius
The cancellation screen is a retention product.
Reelful
A video editor can start with a sentence.
Bounty
Pay for the result, not the agent.
Creed
Text/voice questions, Scripture-linked answers, guided prayer and Bible reading, with a dated privacy boundary for voice and journal data.
SoulLink
A beta virtual-human companion whose dated terms describe voice/chat memory processing, login options and deletion requests.
Auto
A photo-first camera that suggests small Frames for meals, plants, outfits, bills and other personal tasks.
Prior Foundry
Policy teams can research evidence, simulate population impacts and draft decision-ready documents with an audit trail.
Smart Bricks
Deal, underwriting, execution and portfolio agents for real-estate investment teams, including a 1,000+ variable underwriting claim.
Baro
An approval-gated operating loop for consumer brands: set a goal, review a recommendation, approve execution, and measure the result.
Keythorn
Technical AI risk assessment and standards certification before an insurance placement or carrier underwriting handoff.
Space
Space describes a cloud-backed filesystem that streams large files into desktop apps and syncs changes across devices.
Kintow
Kintow’s homepage describes a restaurant operations layer connecting documents, communications, payments, scheduling, and banking to support food-cost, labor, ordering, and cash-flow workflows.
Loan Labs
Loan Labs’ homepage describes AI digital workers that collect mortgage documents, extract data, run checks, maintain program checklists, and automate borrower follow-up.
URSA Mining
URSA Mining’s homepage describes autonomous mining equipment plus material tracking, stockpile balances, and grade-control workflows.
Alike
Alike’s homepage describes shared context, programmable rules, and agent coordination across coding and team tools.
Cascade
Cascade’s homepage describes public-project discovery, opportunity scoring, project-spec analysis, and proposal writing for AEC firms.
Clair Health
Clair Health’s homepage describes an early-access wearable and app for hormone-aware training, fertility, and health insights.
Rhema Health
Rhema Health’s homepage describes voice outreach, patient intake, visit-ready summaries, clinician review, and follow-through workflows.
Ripline
Ripline’s homepage describes AI agents for supplier qualification, RFQs, finance exceptions, and compliance work in physical-industry teams.
Sonatic
Sonatic’s homepage describes a waitlisted digital assistant that observes workflow patterns and acts across connected workplace apps.
Omi Health
Omi Health’s homepage describes blood and saliva testing, baseline tracking, and an app that turns results into personalized guidance for dogs.
Sellara
Sellara’s homepage describes a forward-deployed team that configures, monitors, and expands AI workflows for financial institutions.
Simula
Simula’s homepage and policy describe an advertising layer and SDK that deliver ads inside third-party publisher apps.
Alven
Alven’s homepage describes an AI property manager covering leasing, maintenance, delinquency, asset management, compliance, and accounting work.
Codos
Codos’ homepage describes employee interviews, a company context layer, and AI field engineers that automate selected cost centers.
Colmez
Colmez’s homepage describes lead discovery, lab-analysis interpretation, contract history, invoicing, and renewal work for environmental-services teams.
Vene Health
Vene Health’s homepage describes an assistant that tracks medications, appointments, referrals, refills, and insurance while keeping families and clinicians informed.
How this collection was assembled
Includes all of our approved published profiles with recorded a16z Speedrun membership. This remains a researched subset of the public program roster, not a complete intake list or a quality ranking.