Top Prompt Engineering startups
There are 100 Prompt Engineering startups which include PromptLayer, Makora, Zep, Mintii, AIMon. Out of these, 10 startups are funded, with 1 having secured Series A+ funding. United States has the most number of companies in Prompt Engineering (26), followed by United Kingdom
(8), and then India (6).
2026 has seen the creation of 6 Prompt Engineering startups. Over the past 10 years, an average of 6 new companies have been launched annually. Notably, several of these startups have been founded by alumni of Harvard Business School, IIM Ahmedabad and INSEAD.
Here is the list of top Prompt Engineering Startups

1. PromptLayer
Providing tools for tracking, managing, and sharing GPT prompt engineering. Features include prompt versioning, API usage monitoring, and cost analysis. It acts as a middleware between code and GPT prompt engineering, allowing them to track, manage, and share their prompts.
Key facts about PromptLayer
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $4.8M
- Investors: Verissimo Ventures, Geek Ventures and 15 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Feb 10, 2025, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 40/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 101 Competitors

2. Makora
Provider of an AI-powered platform for GPU code generation and optimization. The platform automates GPU code writing, parameter tuning, and performance improvement. It generates optimized GPU kernels and improves performance on various applications. The platform supports deployment on multiple GPU environments and integrates into frameworks.
Key facts about Makora
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: New York (United States)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $8.57M
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Dec 20, 2024, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 32/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 2 of 101 Competitors

3. Zep
Developer of a context engineering and agent memory platform for AI. It assembles context from chat history, business data, and user behavior. The platform connects data sources and builds a knowledge graph of users. It retrieves relevant information and formats it for language models. The system ingests data from various sources and builds a unified knowledge graph. It captures state changes while integrating new data.
Key facts about Zep
- Founded Year: 2023
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $500K
- Investors: Y Combinator and Step Function
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Apr 2024, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 32/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 2 of 101 Competitors
4. Mintii
Provider of a platform for managing traditional distribution channels. The platform offers tools for sales team coordination and territory management. It provides features such as customer relationship management and automated campaign management. The platform integrates communication, mapping, and artificial intelligence functionalities.
Key facts about Mintii
- Founded Year: 2024
- Location: Santiago (Chile)
- Stage: Unfunded
- Tracxn Score: 31/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 12 of 408 Competitors
5. AIMon
The platform monitors and improves AI application weaknesses. The company offers tools to detect and address issues such as hallucinations, adherence to instructions, context relevance, and bias in AI outputs. This platform provides insights into the performance of large language models (LLMs), retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems, and other AI applications. The platform's capabilities enable users to identify and rectify problems, enhancing the accuracy and reliability of their AI systems. Users can deploy the platform on-premise or in the cloud.
Key facts about AIMon
- Founded Year: 2021
- Location: Saratoga (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $2.3M
- Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners, Tidal and 1 Other
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Dec 11, 2024, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 30/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 5 of 101 Competitors