Rory's Tyler Hogge’s Exceptional Startups (2025)

Remixed from Tyler Hogge’s Exceptional Startups (2025) by @thogge

Partial recreation of Tyler Hogge’s unranked 2025 career-discovery list. Live roster has 253 entries; launch article said 240. Only verified company identities are included.

11x
Digital workers for every motion of your go-to-market engine.
Listed as 11x. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Albert Invent
AI-powered operating system for chemists and materials scientists.
Listed as Albert Invent. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Athena
Unlock time abundance with the world's best assistants and world-class delegation coaching.
Listed as Athena. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Basis
AI agents that do the work for accountants.
Listed as Basis. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes

Abridge
Clinical AI that turns conversation into action for care teams.
Listed as Abridge. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Anduril
Autonomous defense systems for air, land, and sea, connected by Lattice software.
Listed as Anduril Industries. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Atob
Manage your fleet’s finances with AtoB trucking fuel and fleet cards.
Listed as AtoB. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Basis Theory
More than a token vault—Basis Theory routes, tokenizes, and optimizes your payments to drive conversion, resilience, and retention.
Listed as Basis Theory. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes

Adonis
Transform healthcare billing with AI revenue cycle management software for enhanced outcomes and instant revenue insights.
Listed as adonis. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Anrok
Anrok automates sales tax and VAT compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your business in any market.
Listed as Anrok. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Autopilot
Follow investment portfolios from your existing brokerage.
Listed as Autopilot. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Canva
Design and AI for everyone, from Canva’s Visual Suite to professional creative tools.
Listed as Canva. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes

Agentio
Creator advertising with the automation and measurement of paid media.
Listed as Agentio. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Armada
Armada’s platform combines connectivity, compute, and real-world AI to solve your toughest challenges right where your data is generated.
Listed as Armada. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Aven
Transparent, asset-backed access to credit.
Listed as Aven. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Mirage
Natural language into high-quality video, at idea speed.
Listed as Captions. Listed in the 2025 source as Captions; now Mirage. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes

Airbyte
Connect business data to analytics and AI agents while keeping control of where it lives.
Listed as Airbyte. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Astranis
Dedicated satellite networks for the world's toughest connections.
Listed as Astranis Space Technologies. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Baseten
Train and serve AI models on one stack, with engineers who help you reach production.
Listed as Baseten. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes
Cerebras
Wafer-scale computers and cloud services that accelerate AI training and inference.
Listed as Cerebras. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15VJo6dCI6xfDakE_F0aODg39S0_FiGmn4su02iQYZrw/edit#gid=0
Rory Hughes