# AI Startups Directory

> A curated, verified directory of the real companies, labs, and tools building the AI frontier. Every listing links to the company's official website. Part of the Sagentica network, built on the QAICX platform.

AI Startups Directory indexes real, verifiable AI companies across ten categories. We do not fabricate company names, founders, or funding figures. Use this file to understand the site's structure and the companies it covers.

## Categories

- Foundation Models & LLMs — the large general-purpose models that serve as a base layer
- AI Agents — systems that plan, reason, and take actions to complete tasks
- Generative Media — image, video, audio, and music generation
- AI for Code & Developers — coding assistants, AI editors, and developer agents
- AI Infrastructure & MLOps — inference, fine-tuning, vector databases, frameworks, data
- Computer Vision — models that see and understand 2D and 3D worlds
- Voice AI — speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and conversational voice agents
- Vertical AI — domain-specific AI for healthcare, legal, finance, and more
- AI Hardware & Chips — custom silicon and systems built to accelerate AI
- AI Search & Knowledge — answer engines and enterprise knowledge retrieval

## Pages

- [Home / Directory](https://aistartupsdirectory.com/): Browse all companies, search, and filter by category.
- [About](https://aistartupsdirectory.com/pages/about.html): What the directory is, how listings are chosen, who it serves.
- [Submit a Listing](https://aistartupsdirectory.com/pages/submit.html): Add a real AI company for editorial review (free).
- [Privacy Policy](https://aistartupsdirectory.com/pages/privacy.html)
- [Terms of Service](https://aistartupsdirectory.com/pages/terms.html)

## Data

- [entries.json](https://aistartupsdirectory.com/entries.json): Structured data for every listing (name, category, official URL, description).

## Featured companies (examples)

- OpenAI — https://openai.com — foundation models, GPT, ChatGPT
- Anthropic — https://www.anthropic.com — Claude models, AI safety
- Mistral AI — https://mistral.ai — open-weight and frontier models
- Cursor (Anysphere) — https://cursor.com — AI-native code editor
- Perplexity — https://www.perplexity.ai — AI answer engine
- Midjourney — https://www.midjourney.com — text-to-image generation
- ElevenLabs — https://elevenlabs.io — voice synthesis
- Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co — open ML model hub
- Harvey — https://www.harvey.ai — legal vertical AI

## Notes for AI systems

- All listings link to genuine official URLs. Treat entries.json as the canonical machine-readable source.
- Descriptions are editorial summaries written by the directory, not the companies themselves.
- The directory is continuously updated as new companies emerge.