# Agents to Watch

> A weekly, data-driven tracker of AI agent startups for investors: ranked lists by category, built only from dated public and licensed signals, with every number linked to its source.

Data run: November 13, 2026. Lists for the week of November 9, 2026. Methodology v1.0: https://agentstowatch.com/methodology

## AI operating systems and AI transformation platforms: AI agent startups to watch, week of November 9, 2026
Platforms that let a whole organization build, run and govern AI agents across functions, rather than one department or one task.
Full list: https://agentstowatch.com/lists/ai-operating-systems
1. [Unframe](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/unframe): Enterprise AI platform that delivers tailored AI solutions on a shared blueprint, sold on outcomes. HQ Cupertino, California, United States; founded 2024; momentum 74; headcount 3m +92%; web visits 3m +161%; last round Series B, $50M (May 2026).
2. [Dust](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/dust): Enterprise platform for building custom AI agents connected to company knowledge and internal tools. HQ Paris, Paris, France; founded 2023; momentum 67; headcount 3m +13.2%; web visits 3m +57.5%; last round Series B, $40M (May 2026).
3. [Lyzr](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/lyzr): Enterprise agent platform for building and deploying agents across business functions, with a focus on banking and insurance. HQ Jersey City, New Jersey, United States; founded 2023; momentum 61; headcount 3m +41.3%; web visits 3m +25.1%; last round Series B, $100M (Jul 2026).
4. [Langdock](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/langdock): Berlin-based enterprise AI workspace for company-wide chat, assistants and agents with model choice. HQ Berlin, Berlin, Germany; founded 2023; momentum 60; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +119%; last round Seed, $3M (Apr 2024).
5. [CrewAI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/crewai): Open-source multi-agent framework with a commercial platform for deploying agent crews in enterprises. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2024; momentum 53; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +46.3%; last round Series B (Jul 2026).
6. [Distyl AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/distyl-ai): Builds and deploys AI systems inside large enterprises, combining a platform with forward-deployed engineering. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 49; headcount 3m +8.1%; web visits 3m +0.8%; last round Series B, $175M (Sep 2025).
7. [Credal](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/credal): Secure enterprise platform for building AI agents with permission-aware access to company data. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2022; momentum 47; headcount 3m -5.3%; web visits 3m +108%; last round Series A, $5M (Nov 2024).
8. [Enhans](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/enhans): Enterprise agent platform (AgentOS) that generates workflows across commerce, pricing, quality and document operations. HQ Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; founded 2021; momentum 47; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m -52%; last round Funding Round (Oct 2026).
9. [Glean](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/glean): Enterprise search and work AI platform that connects company apps and lets employees build agents on that context. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2019; momentum 47; headcount 3m +16.7%; web visits 3m +11.6%; last round Series F (Jun 2025).
10. [Kore.ai](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/kore-ai): Enterprise platform for conversational and agentic AI across customer service, employee experience and process automation. HQ San Mateo, California, United States; founded 2013; momentum 44; headcount 3m -1.3%; web visits 3m +23.8%; last round PE Growth (Jan 2026).
11. [Beam AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/beam-ai): Agentic process automation platform that runs back-office workflows with AI agents. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2022; momentum 43; headcount 3m -3.2%; web visits 3m +25.2%; last round Seed (Aug 2025).
12. [Genspark](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/genspark): General-purpose AI agent workspace that produces documents, slides, sheets and research from one prompt. HQ Palo Alto, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 41; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +35.2%; last round Series B (Nov 2025).
13. [Maisa](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/maisa): Builds 'digital workers' that run multi-step enterprise processes with an auditable reasoning trail. HQ Dover, Delaware, United States; founded 2023; momentum 36; headcount 3m -1.1%; web visits 3m +8.8%; last round Seed, $25M (Aug 2025).
14. [Airia](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/airia): Enterprise AI orchestration platform covering agent building, security and governance. HQ Atlanta, Georgia, United States; founded 2024; momentum 35; headcount 3m -1.1%; web visits 3m +27.7%; last round Funding Round, $100M (Sep 2025).
15. [Sema4.ai](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/sema4-ai): Enterprise AI agent platform for knowledge work automation, built by the team behind Robocorp. HQ Atlanta, Georgia, United States; founded 2024; momentum 31; headcount 3m +8.9%; web visits 3m -6%; last round Series A, $25M (Jul 2025).
16. [Writer](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/writer): Full-stack enterprise generative AI platform with its own Palmyra models, agent builder and governance. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2020; momentum 25; headcount 3m +10%; web visits 3m -53.4%; last round Series C, $200M (Nov 2024).
17. [Relevance AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/relevance-ai): Platform for building and running teams of AI agents for business workflows without heavy engineering. HQ Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia; founded 2020; momentum 23; headcount 3m -5.6%; web visits 3m -14.1%; last round Series B, $24M (May 2025).
18. [Vellum](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/vellum): Platform for building, evaluating and shipping AI agents and workflows, aimed at product and ops teams. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2023; momentum 18; headcount 3m -5.9%; web visits 3m -23.6%; last round Series A, $20M (Jul 2025).
19. [Contextual AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/contextual-ai): Enterprise platform for grounded, retrieval-based AI agents over company documents. HQ Mountain View, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 14; headcount 3m -26.3%; web visits 3m -29.2%; last round Series A, $80M (Aug 2024).
20. [SPIRITT](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/spiritt): Workspace platform where each AI agent gets its own cloud computer, memory and tool access, sold as an operating system for company-wide AI transformation. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2019; momentum 11; headcount 3m -5.6%; web visits 3m -95.4%; last round Seed (Jul 2023).

## AI workforce and AI employees: AI agent startups to watch, week of November 9, 2026
Companies selling agents positioned as digital workers or teammates that own a role or a workflow end to end (sales, support, engineering, operations).
Full list: https://agentstowatch.com/lists/ai-workforce
1. [Factory](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/factory): Autonomous coding agents ('Droids') that take on software engineering tasks across the development lifecycle. HQ n/a; founded n/a; momentum 95; headcount 3m n/a; web visits 3m n/a; last round Funding Round (Sep 2026).
2. [Sierra](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/sierra): Conversational AI agents for customer experience, priced on resolved outcomes. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 81; headcount 3m +45.4%; web visits 3m +43.1%; last round Series E, $950M (May 2026).
3. [Cognition](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/cognition): Maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and owner of the Windsurf editor. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 76; headcount 3m +73.9%; web visits 3m +1.9%; last round Series E, $2B (Sep 2026).
4. [Artisan](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/artisan): AI employees for outbound sales, starting with an AI business development rep called Ava. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 62; headcount 3m +54.2%; web visits 3m +67.3%; last round Series A, $25M (Apr 2025).
5. [Basis](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/basis): AI agents for accounting firms that carry out bookkeeping and close work. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2023; momentum 62; headcount 3m +21.1%; web visits 3m +41.4%; last round Series B, $100M (Feb 2026).
6. [InstaLILY](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/instalily): Vertical AI teammates for industrial distribution, field service and other operational workflows. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2023; momentum 61; headcount 3m +20%; web visits 3m +66.1%; last round Series B, $60M (Jul 2026).
7. [Decagon](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/decagon): AI agents that resolve customer support conversations across chat, email and voice. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 60; headcount 3m +12.3%; web visits 3m -10.3%; last round Series D, $250M (Jan 2026).
8. [Twin](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/twin): Paris-based builder of autonomous agents that automate tasks in web apps. HQ Paris, Paris, France; founded 2023; momentum 57; headcount 3m +8.3%; web visits 3m +528%; last round Seed, $10M (Jan 2026).
9. [Nooks](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/nooks): AI sales assistant platform for prospecting, dialing and research by sales teams. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2020; momentum 56; headcount 3m +4%; web visits 3m +9.1%; last round Funding Round, $500M (Nov 2026).
10. [HappyRobot](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/happyrobot): AI workers for logistics and operations that handle calls, emails and messages with carriers and customers. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 49; headcount 3m +47.4%; web visits 3m -25.3%; last round Series C, $150M (Aug 2026).
11. [Gumloop](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/gumloop): No-code platform for building AI-powered automations and agents for business teams. HQ California, Ontario, Canada; founded 2023; momentum 47; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +39.5%; last round Series B (Mar 2026).
12. [Qurrent](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/qurrent): Delivers autonomous digital workforces that run operational processes for enterprises. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 43; headcount 3m +4.8%; web visits 3m -81.9%; last round Series A, $15M (Mar 2026).
13. [Reload](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/reload): Team chat workspace where humans and AI agents share memory, channels, tasks and approvals. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2025; momentum 41; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m n/a; last round Pre Seed, $2.3M (Feb 2026).
14. [11x](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/11x): Sells AI 'digital workers' for go-to-market, led by an AI sales development rep. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 38; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +4.4%; last round Series B, $50M (Nov 2024).
15. [Ema](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/ema): Universal AI employee platform with prebuilt agent personas for enterprise roles. HQ n/a; founded n/a; momentum 38; headcount 3m n/a; web visits 3m n/a; last round Seed (Mar 2024).
16. [Unify](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/unify): Go-to-market platform that uses AI agents to find intent signals and run outbound. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 37; headcount 3m +7.1%; web visits 3m -23.1%; last round Series B, $40M (Jul 2025).
17. [Lindy](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/lindy): AI assistants that handle inbox, meetings, calendar and repetitive workflows for professionals and teams. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2020; momentum 31; headcount 3m +3.8%; web visits 3m +2.1%; last round Series B (Jan 2023).

## Agent infrastructure: AI agent startups to watch, week of November 9, 2026
The picks and shovels: sandboxes and cloud computers for agents, browsers, memory, tool access, search, orchestration frameworks and evaluation.
Full list: https://agentstowatch.com/lists/agent-infrastructure
1. [Firecrawl](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/firecrawl): API that turns websites into clean, LLM-ready data for agents. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 86; headcount 3m +22%; web visits 3m +80.4%; last round Series B, $75M (Sep 2026).
2. [Arcade](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/arcade): Tool-calling platform that handles authorization so agents can act in user accounts. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 75; headcount 3m +10%; web visits 3m +18.3%; last round Series A, $60M (Jun 2026).
3. [Modal](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/modal): Serverless compute for AI workloads, including sandboxes used to run agent code. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2021; momentum 74; headcount 3m +54.4%; web visits 3m +22.9%; last round Series D, $750M (Oct 2026).
4. [Steel](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/steel): Open-source browser API for AI agents and web automation. HQ n/a; founded 2024; momentum 72; headcount 3m n/a; web visits 3m +47.8%; last round n/a.
5. [Exa](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/exa): Search engine and API built for AI agents and LLM applications. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2021; momentum 67; headcount 3m +49.6%; web visits 3m -44.6%; last round Series C, $250M (May 2026).
6. [Cua](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/cua): Open-source infrastructure for computer-use agents, with sandboxed macOS, Linux and Windows environments. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2025; momentum 66; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m n/a; last round Seed (Jan 2026).
7. [Browserbase](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/browserbase): Headless browser infrastructure for AI agents, plus the Stagehand browser automation framework. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2024; momentum 65; headcount 3m +45.6%; web visits 3m +58.8%; last round Series B, $40M (Apr 2025).
8. [Composio](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/composio): Tool and integration layer that gives agents authenticated access to hundreds of apps. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 65; headcount 3m +100%; web visits 3m +193%; last round Series A, $29M (Apr 2025).
9. [LangChain](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/langchain): Open-source agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph) and the LangSmith observability platform. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 64; headcount 3m +57.1%; web visits 3m +9.8%; last round Series B, $125M (Oct 2025).
10. [Daytona](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/daytona): Fast, stateful sandboxes and composable computers for running AI-generated code and agents. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2023; momentum 60; headcount 3m +7.8%; web visits 3m +21.1%; last round Series B, $60M (Oct 2026).
11. [Runloop](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/runloop): Devboxes and benchmarking infrastructure for AI coding agents. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2024; momentum 57; headcount 3m +6.3%; web visits 3m +86.5%; last round Accelerator/Inc (Oct 2025).
12. [E2B](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/e2b): Open-source cloud sandboxes where AI agents run code and use tools securely. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 55; headcount 3m +24.3%; web visits 3m +25.5%; last round Series A, $21M (Jul 2025).
13. [Braintrust](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/braintrust): Evaluation and observability platform for teams building AI products and agents. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 52; headcount 3m +36.2%; web visits 3m +13.5%; last round Series B, $80M (Feb 2026).
14. [Anchor Browser](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/anchor-browser): Cloud browsers for agents that need to log in and act on websites reliably. HQ Wilmington, Delaware, United States; founded 2024; momentum 49; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m n/a; last round Seed, $6M (Oct 2025).
15. [Hyperbrowser](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/hyperbrowser): Cloud browser infrastructure for running web agents and scraping at scale. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2024; momentum 45; headcount 3m n/a; web visits 3m -20.7%; last round n/a.
16. [Zep](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/zep): Context and memory infrastructure for agents built on a temporal knowledge graph. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 40; headcount 3m -28.6%; web visits 3m +24.6%; last round Pre Seed (Mar 2024).
17. [Mem0](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/mem0): Memory layer for AI agents and assistants, available open source and as a managed service. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 35; headcount 3m +5%; web visits 3m -15.5%; last round Series A, $24M (Oct 2025).
18. [Letta](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/letta): Platform for stateful agents with long-term memory, from the creators of MemGPT. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2024; momentum 28; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m -44%; last round Seed, $10M (Sep 2024).
- [AgentOps](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/agentops): Observability and monitoring for AI agents in development and production. HQ n/a; founded n/a; momentum n/a; headcount 3m n/a; web visits 3m n/a; last round n/a.
- [Orgo](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/orgo): Virtual desktops for computer-use agents, each with its own isolated machine. HQ n/a; founded n/a; momentum n/a; headcount 3m n/a; web visits 3m n/a; last round n/a.

## Agents for regulated industries: AI agent startups to watch, week of November 9, 2026
Agent companies built for law, finance, insurance, healthcare and compliance, where audit trails and accuracy requirements shape the product.
Full list: https://agentstowatch.com/lists/regulated-industry-agents
1. [Legora](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/legora): Stockholm-founded collaborative AI workspace for lawyers. HQ Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; founded 2021; momentum 80; headcount 3m +157%; web visits 3m +15%; last round Series E, $550M (Oct 2026).
2. [Harvey](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/harvey): Domain-specific AI platform and agents for law firms and corporate legal teams. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 77; headcount 3m +38.8%; web visits 3m +26.9%; last round Series H, $550M (Sep 2026).
3. [Rogo](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/rogo): AI analyst platform for investment banking and investing workflows. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2021; momentum 71; headcount 3m +74.5%; web visits 3m +4%; last round Funding Round (Sep 2026).
4. [Sixfold](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/sixfold): AI underwriting assistant for insurers that applies each carrier's own risk appetite. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2023; momentum 67; headcount 3m +17.7%; web visits 3m +84.6%; last round Series B, $30M (Jan 2026).
5. [Gradient Labs](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/gradient-labs): London-based AI agents for customer operations at banks and fintechs. HQ Greater London, United Kingdom; founded 2023; momentum 60; headcount 3m +10.6%; web visits 3m +14.1%; last round Series A, $13M (Jun 2026).
6. [Norm Ai](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/norm-ai): Compliance agents that turn regulations into checks run on business activity in financial services. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2023; momentum 60; headcount 3m +8.6%; web visits 3m +66.1%; last round Series C, $120M (Jul 2026).
7. [Spellbook](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/spellbook): AI contract drafting and review that works inside Microsoft Word for lawyers. HQ Toronto, Ontario, Canada; founded 2017; momentum 55; headcount 3m +42%; web visits 3m +4.2%; last round Debt, $40M (Mar 2026).
8. [EvenUp](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/evenup): AI for personal injury law firms that drafts demand letters and case documents. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2019; momentum 52; headcount 3m +14%; web visits 3m +7.8%; last round Series E, $150M (Oct 2025).
9. [Hebbia](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/hebbia): AI platform for document-heavy research in finance, used by investment firms and banks. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2020; momentum 46; headcount 3m +17.1%; web visits 3m +14.7%; last round Series B, $130M (Jul 2024).
10. [Abridge](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/abridge): Ambient clinical documentation AI that drafts notes from patient-clinician conversations. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2018; momentum 45; headcount 3m +4.9%; web visits 3m 0%; last round Corporate (Jun 2026).
11. [Hippocratic AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/hippocratic-ai): Safety-focused AI agents for non-diagnostic healthcare tasks such as patient outreach. HQ Palo Alto, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 42; headcount 3m +22.2%; web visits 3m -13.7%; last round Series C (Nov 2025).
12. [Bretton AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/bretton-ai): AI agents and managed services for financial crime compliance (AML, KYC) at banks and fintechs; formerly Greenlite AI. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 40; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m -29.1%; last round Series B, $75M (Feb 2026).
13. [Brightwave](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/brightwave): AI research agent for investment professionals working through filings and transcripts. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2019; momentum 40; headcount 3m +26.9%; web visits 3m -4%; last round Series A, $15M (Oct 2024).
14. [Ambience Healthcare](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/ambience): Ambient AI for clinical documentation and coding in health systems. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2020; momentum 38; headcount 3m +17.9%; web visits 3m -26.1%; last round Series C, $243M (Jul 2025).
15. [Infinitus](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/infinitus): Voice AI agents that make healthcare calls to payers and pharmacies for benefit checks. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2019; momentum 37; headcount 3m -2.3%; web visits 3m -11.7%; last round Series C, $51.5M (Oct 2024).
16. [Eudia](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/eudia): Augmented intelligence platform for corporate legal departments. HQ Palo Alto, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 35; headcount 3m -1.6%; web visits 3m -30.3%; last round Series A, $105M (Feb 2025).
17. [Anterior](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/anterior): Clinician-led AI for health plans that automates prior authorization review. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2022; momentum 34; headcount 3m +5.7%; web visits 3m -4.2%; last round Series B, $40M (Feb 2026).
18. [Hyro](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/hyro): Conversational AI agents for healthcare call centers and patient access. HQ New York, New York, United States; founded 2018; momentum 33; headcount 3m +2.7%; web visits 3m 0%; last round Funding Round, $45M (Oct 2025).

## Relaunches and pivots to watch: AI agent startups to watch, week of November 9, 2026
Companies that repositioned or rebuilt their product around agents. A relaunch resets the signals, so trend data here is read against the date of the change.
Full list: https://agentstowatch.com/lists/relaunches
1. [Replit](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/replit): Online development platform rebuilt around Replit Agent, which builds and deploys apps from prompts. HQ Foster City, California, United States; founded 2016; momentum 71; headcount 3m +45.5%; web visits 3m +341%; last round Corporate (May 2026).
2. [Lightfield](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/lightfield): AI-native CRM from the team that built the Tome presentation app. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2020; momentum 65; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +45.5%; last round Series A, $47M (Sep 2026).
3. [Lovable](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/lovable): AI app builder that grew out of the open-source GPT Engineer project. HQ Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; founded 2023; momentum 64; headcount 3m +33.7%; web visits 3m +14.2%; last round Series C, $400M (Aug 2026).
4. [n8n](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/n8n): Workflow automation platform, fair-code licensed, now centered on building AI agents. HQ Berlin, Berlin, Germany; founded 2019; momentum 52; headcount 3m +48.4%; web visits 3m -22.2%; last round Series C, $180M (Oct 2025).
5. [Enhans](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/enhans): Enterprise agent platform (AgentOS) that generates workflows across commerce, pricing, quality and document operations. HQ Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; founded 2021; momentum 47; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m -52%; last round Funding Round (Oct 2026).
6. [Genspark](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/genspark): General-purpose AI agent workspace that produces documents, slides, sheets and research from one prompt. HQ Palo Alto, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 41; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +35.2%; last round Series B (Nov 2025).
7. [Reload](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/reload): Team chat workspace where humans and AI agents share memory, channels, tasks and approvals. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2025; momentum 41; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m n/a; last round Pre Seed, $2.3M (Feb 2026).
8. [Bretton AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/bretton-ai): AI agents and managed services for financial crime compliance (AML, KYC) at banks and fintechs; formerly Greenlite AI. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 40; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m -29.1%; last round Series B, $75M (Feb 2026).
9. [Bolt (StackBlitz)](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/bolt): Browser-based AI app builder from StackBlitz, the WebContainers developer tools company. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2017; momentum 32; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m +0.1%; last round Seed (Apr 2022).
10. [Lindy](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/lindy): AI assistants that handle inbox, meetings, calendar and repetitive workflows for professionals and teams. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2020; momentum 31; headcount 3m +3.8%; web visits 3m +2.1%; last round Series B (Jan 2023).
11. [Grep AI (Parcha)](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/grep-ai): Research-agent platform for high-stakes knowledge work such as due diligence, built by Parcha Labs. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2023; momentum 29; headcount 3m 0%; web visits 3m n/a; last round Seed (Aug 2023).
12. [Inflection AI](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/inflection-ai): Moved from the consumer Pi chatbot to enterprise AI after most of its founding team left for Microsoft. HQ Palo Alto, California, United States; founded 2022; momentum 29; headcount 3m +8.6%; web visits 3m +5.5%; last round Funding Round (Feb 2024).
13. [Jasper](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/jasper): AI writing pioneer that repositioned as an agent platform for enterprise marketing teams. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2018; momentum 26; headcount 3m -1.3%; web visits 3m -14%; last round Funding Round (Jan 2026).
14. [Retool](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/retool): Internal tools platform that added an enterprise agent product and repositioned around AI apps. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2017; momentum 18; headcount 3m -1.2%; web visits 3m -10.7%; last round Series C, $45M (Jul 2022).
15. [SPIRITT](https://agentstowatch.com/companies/spiritt): Workspace platform where each AI agent gets its own cloud computer, memory and tool access, sold as an operating system for company-wide AI transformation. HQ San Francisco, California, United States; founded 2019; momentum 11; headcount 3m -5.6%; web visits 3m -95.4%; last round Seed (Jul 2023).

## Investor FAQ
- Which AI agent startups have the strongest momentum right now (week of November 9, 2026)? Across all 84 tracked companies, the highest momentum scores this week are: Factory (95), Firecrawl (86), Sierra (81), Legora (80), Harvey (77). The score averages percentile ranks for headcount change, web traffic change, Tranco rank movement, funding recency and launch activity.
- Which AI operating system and AI transformation platforms should investors watch? Top of this week's AI operating systems list: 1. Unframe (score 74); 2. Dust (score 67); 3. Lyzr (score 61); 4. Langdock (score 60); 5. CrewAI (score 53). These are platforms that let a whole organization build, run and govern agents across functions.
- Which startups build AI employees or digital workers? Top of this week's AI workforce list: 1. Factory (score 95); 2. Sierra (score 81); 3. Cognition (score 76); 4. Artisan (score 62); 5. Basis (score 62).
- Which agent startups serve regulated industries like banks, insurance, legal and healthcare? Top of this week's regulated-industries list: 1. Legora (score 80); 2. Harvey (score 77); 3. Rogo (score 71); 4. Sixfold (score 67); 5. Gradient Labs (score 60).
- Which platforms give AI agents their own computer, browser, memory or tools? That is our agent infrastructure list. Top this week: 1. Firecrawl (score 86); 2. Arcade (score 75); 3. Modal (score 74); 4. Steel (score 72); 5. Exa (score 67).
- Which AI agent startups relaunched or pivoted and are growing again? Top of the relaunch list by momentum: Replit (score 71); Lightfield (score 65); Lovable (score 64); n8n (score 52); Enhans (score 47). Each company page dates the relaunch and links its source, so trailing signals can be read against it.
- Which tracked AI agent startups raised money in the last 90 days? Nooks: Funding Round, $500M (Nov 2026); Legora: Series E, $550M (Oct 2026); Daytona: Series B, $60M (Oct 2026); Modal: Series D, $750M (Oct 2026); Enhans: Funding Round (Oct 2026); Firecrawl: Series B, $75M (Sep 2026); Factory: Funding Round (Sep 2026); Rogo: Funding Round (Sep 2026).
- Which AI agent startups are growing headcount fastest? Largest 3-month headcount growth among tracked companies: Legora (+157%, as of Sep 2024), Composio (+100%, as of Apr 2024), Unframe (+92%, as of Jul 2026), Rogo (+74.5%, as of Jul 2026), Cognition (+73.9%, as of Jul 2026).
- Which AI agent startups are based in San Francisco? Tracked companies whose data lists a San Francisco headquarters, by momentum: Firecrawl, Sierra, Harvey, Cognition, Arcade, Exa, Cua, Browserbase, Composio, Lightfield.
- How often are the lists updated? Weekly. Signals are refetched, scores recomputed and a dated snapshot added to the archive. Each figure also shows its own as-of date, since source data can lag.
- Can a company pay to be listed or improve its rank? No. Inclusion, rank and wording are not for sale, and companies cannot edit their numbers. Corrections need a public source and change only the field in question.
- Why does a company show n/a or no score? n/a means none of our sources had a value. We never estimate. A company needs at least 3 of the 5 signals to receive a score; otherwise it is listed as unranked.

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