About NeuronFeed
Independent. Verified. Built for builders.
NeuronFeed is an editorially-curated directory of AI startups, investors, and funding — designed for the people who actually move the AI economy forward. No pay-to-play, no AI-generated filler, no Crunchbase paywall. Just verified data and primary sources.
The directory by the numbers
Why NeuronFeed exists
The AI directory market in 2026 is split between two unhappy choices. On one side, $30k-a-year terminals lock structured data behind enterprise contracts. On the other, ad-funded SEO mills publish thousands of auto-generated profiles with hallucinated funding rounds and copy-pasted descriptions. Neither serves the people doing the work.
Founders waste hours fixing wrong listings. Investors squint at stale Crunchbase tabs. Journalists chase down primary sources because nobody's willing to link to them. Operators pick AI tools from listicles padded with affiliate links. The basic question — who is building what, with what funding, in which country — should not be this hard to answer.
NeuronFeed is the third option. It is editorially curated, primary-source verified, founder-claimable, and free. Every funding figure has a citation. Every verified profile has an owner. Every ranking is transparent and unbought. It is built once, correctly, by a small team that cares about getting it right.
What you get
Eight surfaces, one directory. Designed for humans first, AI agents second, search engines third.
Founders claim listings via domain-confirmed email. Verified profiles are editable, badged, and audit-logged.
A live deal database tracking rounds, leads, valuations, and investor co-occurrence — updated continuously.
Top profiles ship 8 editor-authored FAQs, FAQPage + SoftwareApplication schema, and clean primary-source citations.
Every verified startup gets an SVG badge served from /api/badge/<slug>.svg — drop it in your README or footer.
A 5-minute weekly digest plus per-topic RSS feeds for categories, countries, and funding stages.
Press Cmd-K (or Ctrl-K) anywhere on the site for instant fuzzy search across startups, investors, and categories.
A public sourcing methodology, an AI-disclosure policy, and a corrections process you can actually invoke.
JSON exports, structured-data endpoints, and an emerging MCP surface for AI agents that need live AI-market data.
Who it's for
Map a category in five clicks. See who co-led, who followed, and who is quietly building in stealth.
Browse investorsVerified data, primary-source links on every funding number, and a corrections desk that responds within a day.
Press & sourcesPick the right AI tool, compare alternatives, and find verified deals — no five-tab Crunchbase ritual required.
Explore categoriesEditorial principles
The five commitments that govern every page on this site. Read the full editorial standards and corrections policy.
- No pay-to-play
Sponsorships are labeled. Rankings, scores, and editorial decisions are never for sale.
- Primary-source verification
Every funding number links to an SEC filing, press release, or named investor source. If we can’t source it, we don’t publish it.
- AI-assisted, human-validated
We disclose where LLMs help with extraction, summarization, and tagging — and where humans review.
- Public corrections
Errors are fixed transparently, dated, and logged. Founders and readers can both submit fixes.
- Independence
No fund, no accelerator, no portfolio bias. NeuronFeed is owner-operated and reader-funded.
A note from the founder
I started NeuronFeed in 2024 because I kept opening fifteen browser tabs to answer one question about the AI ecosystem. The data existed somewhere — in a press release, an SEC filing, an investor portfolio page — but nobody had bothered to put it in one place honestly. So I did.
Two years in, the directory holds 525 published startups, 89 investors, and live coverage across 86 countries. The top 20 categories and top 20 startups now ship deep editorial profiles with editor-authored FAQs, primary-source citations, and structured data that ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity can cite directly. We're still small, still independent, and still funded by readers and selective sponsorships rather than venture capital.
If something on the site is wrong, tell me — corrections are a feature, not a complaint. If you're a founder, claim your profile. If you're a journalist, cite us. If you build AI products, this directory exists for you.
— Ali Akbar Fakhri, founder
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