New AI startups top investors just started following
Earlyfollow watches 500+ VCs and operators on X and lists the new AI startups they start following, with every signal traced to who followed and the day we spotted it.
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| Company | What they do | Sector | Tracked follows | Followed by | First spotted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 TypeSafe AI | AI lab building intelligence beyond chat. | Other | 43 tracked follows | Alex Kolicich, Anand C, Anna Piñol +40 more | Baseline |
 Thinking Machines | AI research lab building thinking machines, associated with Tinker API. | AgentsDeveloper tools | 26 tracked follows | Aarthi Ramamurthy, Ali Tamaseb, Alex Yuditski +23 more | Baseline |
 Flapping Airplanes | AI lab building artificial intelligence technology. | Other | 25 tracked follows | Andrei Kozyrev, Alex Yuditski, Daisy Zhao +22 more | Baseline |
 Core Automation | Deep learning research company building systems to automate and optimize work | AgentsProductivity | 20 tracked follows | Aarthi Ramamurthy, Aliisa, Ali Tamaseb +17 more | Baseline |
 Mirendil | Democratizing frontier AI R&D to accelerate science and technology. | Science | 17 tracked follows | Abhi Agrawal, Matt Bornstein, christine kim +14 more | Baseline |
 Hone | Hone builds AI that owns outcomes rather than tasks. | AgentsProductivity | 15 tracked follows | Arnav Bimbhet, Alex Immerman, Alex Kurland +12 more | Baseline |
 Trajectory | Building a platform for continual learning. | Developer toolsInfrastructure | 14 tracked follows | Shaurya Aggarwal, andrew chen, ashleypaston +11 more | Baseline |
 Applied Compute | Platform offering an agent cloud for building AI agents, currently in private beta. | AgentsInfrastructureDeveloper tools | 10 tracked follows | Jason Wei, Elad Gil, Josephine Chen +7 more | Baseline |
 Underdog AI | Private personal AI assistant that runs entirely on-device. | ConsumerProductivity | 10 tracked follows | Braden, Denise Teng, immad +7 more | Baseline |
 Vals AI | Public LLM evaluation platform for benchmarking AI models | Developer toolsScience | 9 tracked follows | Abhi Agrawal, benahorowitz.eth, Brittany +6 more | Baseline |
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A new AI startups list that shows who's paying attention
Every startup on the list comes with the evidence behind it, so you can decide in a few seconds whether it's worth a closer look.
— name, website and a one-line description of what it builds.
— how many of the investors and operators we watch now follow it.
— the first three names on every page, the full list with Pro.
— the day we saw the first tracked account follow it.
— companies in the same sector, or followed by the same people.
Open any company for its follow timeline, its followers and the startups next to it.
AI startups to watch, before everyone else is watching
You check the same newsletters, launch lists and funding announcements as every other investor. By the time a company shows up there, everyone else has seen it too.
A follow comes earlier. When a partner at a fund you respect starts following a two-month-old company account, that's a lead you can act on the same week.
VCs and angels find companies to look into before the announcement.
Scouts bring their partners names with a reason attached: who else is watching.
Founders and operators see which teams in their space are getting attention.
How we find new AI startups
Mostly partners and angels at about 200 firms, plus a few dozen founders and researchers.
A company counts as new only when it appears ahead of the accounts they already followed, so an unfollow never shows up as a fake signal.
Each new account is sorted into company, person or other, and only AI companies make the list. When a founder's profile names their company, the signal goes to the company.
The more of them watching, the higher it sits.
New AI startups traced to real follows, not opinions
You see who followed and the day we spotted it, not a score you have to trust.
Signals come from public X follows. Companies can't pay to be listed; they're here because tracked accounts followed them.
Each startup gets a page with its timeline, followers and similar companies.
On Pro, add up to 100 X accounts you care about and get their new follows too.
Every page shows when it was last updated, and tells you when an update is running late.
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Where does the data come from?
From public follows on X. We track 537 accounts, mostly VC partners and angels, and check who each one started following. We don't use private messages, protected accounts or LinkedIn.
Does a follow mean a company is about to raise?
No. A follow means a tracked investor is paying attention, nothing more. Use it as a lead to research, not as a prediction or investment advice.
How new are the startups on the list?
We check every tracked account once a day. Pro shows each new follow as soon as we spot it. The free list runs 14 days behind.
Why do some companies say Baseline instead of a date?
They were already among an account's latest follows when we started tracking, so we can't tell when the follow happened. Every follow we spot after that gets a date.
Is Earlyfollow free?
Browsing the list and company pages is free, with no sign-up. A free account adds a weekly email with the ten most-followed startups. Pro is $99 a month, or $950.40 a year, for live signals, full follower lists, your own watched accounts, daily emails, CSV export and API access.
Can I track accounts you don't?
Yes, on Pro. Add up to 100 X accounts, and their new follows show up in your dashboard after the next daily check.
Which companies don't you list?
We only list AI companies. We leave out weapons and defense, gambling and prediction markets, adult content, and illegal businesses.
How do I remove my company or account?
Contact us and we'll take it off public pages, exports and the API.
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