25 Trending Machine Learning Companies & Startups (2025)

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The global machine learning market is expected to reach $90.97 billion in 2025 and $475 billion by 2031. 

82% of companies use machine learning to manage risk. Whereas 74% say they use it to enhance their performance analysis and report processes.

According to a McKinsey survey, 78% of businesses claim that they’ve implemented AI in at least one business unit.

This list presents 25 trending startups that are making an impact on the machine learning space.

1. Flock Safety

5-year search growth: 940%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Funding: $655.5M (Series F)

What they do: Flock Safety has developed a camera system that has a built-in AI capable of identifying a vehicle’s fingerprint. The system detects when a stolen car enters an area and notifies the police and the neighborhood residents. The startup currently with 6,000 communities and 5,000 law enforcement agencies across 42 states.

In March 2025, Flock Safety raised $275 million in Series F funding at a valuation of $7.5 billion.

2. UNISOC

5-year search growth: 1,200%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2001

Location: Shanghai, China

Funding: $2.1B (Series Unknown)

What they do: UNISOC uses AI to customize and streamline the production of chips. The company has an estimated yearly revenue of $1B and an estimated net profit margin of 3.49%. UNISOC currently serves more than 500 customers in 133+ countries, including brands like Samsung, Hisense, and vivo.

3. RepVue

5-year search growth: 6,100%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2018

Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Funding: $6M (Seed)

What they do: RepVue tracks real-time sales compensation data across different companies. It then uses its algorithm to rate a company’s sales compensation based on a set of criteria. Currently, RepVue tracks sales compensation data on over 1,200 organizations. The platform also provides data on more than 13,800 companies. 

4. MedPay

5-year search growth: 114%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2020

Location: Bengaluru, India

Funding: $1.2M (Seed)

What they do: MedPay is a digital payments platform in healthcare that connects healthcare providers (pharmacies, physicians, clinics) with insurers via a real-time, API-driven settlement and claims infrastructure. Today, over 47,000 pharmacies and 20,000 doctors across 650 cities use this platform.

5. Abacus AI

5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2019

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $90.2M (Series C)

What they do: Abacus AI offers an end-to-end platform for deploying machine learning and deep learning models. The company's product suite includes “ChatLLM” aimed at professionals/small teams, and “Abacus AI Enterprise” for large organizations.

In 2025, the company hit $30 million in revenue with over 100,000 customers.

6. Eightfold.ai

5-year search growth: 660%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2016

Location: Santa Clara, California

Funding: $396.8M (Series E)

What they do: Eightfold is an AI talent acquisition and recruiting platform that leverages machine learning to pair candidates with job opportunities. The startup's talent intelligence platform offers personalized insights and can predict a candidate's potential for success in a role. Eightfold has partnered with some of the biggest names in its space, including LinkedIn and Deloitte.  

7. Scale AI

5-year search growth: 2,000%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Funding: $15.9B (Series G)

What they do: Scale AI provides training data for machine learning and AI applications like self-driving cars, mapping, AR/VR, and robotics. This startup has four primary products: Scale Data Engine, Scale Donovan, Scale EGP, and Scale Spellbook. These tools give developers the data needed to build large language models, generative AI platforms, and machine learning models. 

In 2023, Scale AI surpassed $200 million in revenue and 1,000 customers. In June 2025, Meta Platforms agreed to acquire a 49% stake in Scale AI in a transaction valued at roughly $14.8 billion. This deal pushed Scale AI's valuation from $13.8 billion to over $29 billion.

8. Groq

5-year search growth: 2,550%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2016

Location: Mountain View, California

Funding: $1B (Series D)

What they do: Groq builds high-performance hardware and software solutions for artificial intelligence. The company's flagship product is the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a custom chip and computing system for large language model development. The Nvidia competitor recently raised $640 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $2.8 billion. 

9. Supertrends

5-year search growth: 1,567%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2019

Location: Zug, Switzerland

Funding: $1.7M (Series A)

What they do: Supertrends has developed a deep learning technology capable of following and analyzing data to forecast trends that might arise soon. Currently, the company’s technology keeps an eye out on over 100 themes and over 650,000 companies that have the potential to disrupt entire industries in the future. 

10. Quantexa

5-year search growth: 229%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2016

Location: London, England

Funding: $545M (Series F)

What they do: Quantexa gathers data across a venture’s operational workflow and uses machine learning to analyze it. It then develops plans to automate entire operational decisions across multiple business sectors. Quantexa is currently deployed in over 70 countries and has handled over 60 billion records.

In March 2025, the company secured $175M in Series F funding at $2.6B valuation. 

11. Pixop

5-year search growth: 6,700%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: Odense, Denmark

Funding: $215.9K (Grant)

What they do: Pixop is a cloud-native, AI/ML-powered video enhancement platform for media companies, broadcasters, and content owners. It uses deep-learning models to automatically upscale, restore, and remaster video content, turning old or low-resolution footage into high-quality HD or 4K assets.

The company has affiliations with large organizations, including AWS and Nvidia.

12. Aidoc

5-year search growth: 925%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2016

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Funding: $250M (Series D)

What they do: Aidoc has developed a deep learning system for radiologists. It is capable of analyzing medical images and patient data to pinpoint critical anomalies. To date, the system has been used by 1,000+ hospitals to analyze nearly 15 million scans. The company raised $110 million in Series D funding in July 2025. 

13. Apty

5-year search growth: 211%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2016

Location: Austin, Texas

Funding: $12.9M (Series A)

What they do: Apty is an AI-driven software analyzing tool that can explore how software is being used and integrated. It then creates a strategic plan to increase employee productivity and improve business processes using that software. According to Apty, their tool can help increase employee productivity by up to 40%.

14. Arctic Wolf

5-year search growth: 189%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2012

Location: Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Funding: $899.2M (Convertible Note)

What they do: Arctic Wolf monitors a user’s cyber resources to ensure safety and security. Its algorithms, which according to the startup can yield ROI up to 411% in less than 6 months, are built to detect unusual usage patterns, signaling potential security breaches. In 2025, Arctic Wolf was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 (2025) list for the fourth consecutive year, recognizing it as one of the top private cloud security companies worldwide.

15. Anthropic

5-year search growth: 2,500%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2021

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $27.3B (Series F)

What they do: Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research startup and the company behind the development of Claude and various LLMs such as Claude 3 (Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku) and Claude 3.5. The startup has secured over $4 billion in funding from Amazon and an additional $2+ billion from Google.

In September 2025, Anthropic closed a $13 billion Series F round that valued the company at $183 billion. The company is projecting $9 billion in annualized revenue in 2025 and expects to double that figure in 2026 to $20-$26 billion.

16. Logically

5-year search growth: 6,200%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: London, England

Funding: $36.7M (Series A)

What they do: Logically combines AI, fact-checking teams and OSINT investigators to offer a threat intelligence platform. The startup, which has partnered with Facebook UK, offers quick fact-checking and detects manipulated images. Logically recently closed their $24M Series A funding round led by Vitruvian Partners.

17. Luxonis

5-year search growth: 1,900%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2019

Location: Littleton, Colorado

Funding: $4.8M (Seed)

What they do: Luxonis is a tech company specializing in computer vision products and artificial intelligence solutions. Their top product, the OAK-D, is a robotic vision camera that sees the world with human-like vision by using machine learning and the spatial AI platform DepthAI. As of October 2025, Luxonis serves more than 25,000 customers across 110+ countries. 

18. Synthesia

5-year search growth: 5,500%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: London, England

Funding: $336.6M (Series D)

What they do: Synthesia is an AI video creation platform where users can generate professional-quality videos without cameras, microphones, or studios. Today, the company supports more than 60,000 businesses as customers. In January 2025, the startup raised $180 million at a $2.1 billion valuation.

19. Circly

5-year search growth: 67%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2020

Location: Vienna, Austria

Funding: $381K (Pre-seed)

What they do: Circly is an AI-powered forecasting tool for retail. Their self-learning and self-optimizing technology uses consumer behavior data to forecast buying behavior. The startup claims that its forecasting technology has a 95% accuracy rate and helps retailers reduce their stock levels by as much as 80%.

20. Zenseact

5-year search growth: 6,200%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2020

Location: Göteborg, Sweden

Funding: Acquired

What they do: Zenseact is an AI-powered automotive software designed to make self-driving cars safer and more efficient. Their technology enables cars to track and sense their surroundings without the need for human intervention. The startup, backed by Volvo Cars Technology Fund, has already implemented its software on over 11 car brands.

21. OctoAI

5-year search growth: 2,100%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2019

Location: New Delhi, India

Funding: $131.9M (Series C)

What they do: Formerly known as OctoML, OctoAI automates machine learning and generative AI code generation for digital applications. Because of the need for large-scale generative AI applications, OctoML launched OctoAI in June 2023 to help customers run, customize, and scale existing generative AI models. In January 2024, the startup officially rebranded to OctoAI to highlight its growing AI-focused product suite. 

22. SuperAnnotate

5-year search growth: 640%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2018

Location: Sunnyvale, California

Funding: $60.5M (Series B)

What they do: SuperAnnotate is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to acquire and complete training data used to annotate, train, and automate computer vision pipelines. The startup’s most recent $36M Series B funding round was led by NVIDIA and Databricks, valuing the company at $180 million. 

23. Roboflow

5-year search growth: 6,700%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2018

Location: Des Moines, IA

Funding: $99.7M (Series B)

What they do: Roboflow is an end-to-end computer vision platform that simplifies the process of building computer vision models. This startup is currently used by over 250,000 engineers to create new CV datasets, train models, and deploy them to production.

Roboflow raised $40 million in Series B funding at the end of 2024, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Craft Ventures, and Y Combinator.

24. Yodawy

5-year search growth: 21%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2018

Location: Cairo, Egypt

Funding: $30.5M (Series B)

What they do: Yodawy is a marketplace allowing pharmacies to sell their products online. In addition to the marketplace, the company has developed a smart technology that quickly checks healthcare information to offer instant insurance approvals and digital prescriptions. The startup has amassed a network of over 2,500 pharmacies across Egypt.

25. Harmonic AI

5-year search growth: 133%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2022

Location: New York, New York

Funding: $30M (Series A)

What they do: Harmonic is an AI-powered startup discovery tool for venture capital firms and enterprise investment teams. The company's database maintains a live knowledge graph of 30 million+ companies and 190 million+ people. It also integrates an AI research agent that conducts automated diligence.

The company recently raised $23 million in Series A funding, led by Sozo Ventures. 

Conclusion

This concludes our list of trending machine learning startups.

Companies in the AI/ML sector tackle different problems. Therefore, they cover a variety of industries and use cases.

That said, almost all startups in this space use extensive data and machine learning to make businesses more efficient, increase public safety and forecast behavioral and consumer trends.