Organizations shaping AI

Ramp

Financial operations platform combining corporate cards, expense management, accounts payable, procurement, travel, and accounting automation, with agents that enforce spending policies and surface anomalies and savings opportunities.

RAND

Independent, nonpartisan research organization whose work on emerging technology includes AI governance, chip export controls, model security, and the policy implications of advanced AI systems.

RTX BBN Technologies is an advanced research organization known for building the ARPANET and the first networked email system. Its current work includes machine intelligence, speech and language technology, cybersecurity and systems for national security.

Recursion

Recursion Pharmaceuticals is an AI drug-discovery company headquartered in Salt Lake City founded by Chris Gibson and others. It pairs automated cell imaging with machine learning to identify drug candidates (NASDAQ: RXRX).

San Francisco Bay Area startup, founded in 2020, offering an AI-driven, no-code platform for software test automation.

Rembrand

Palo Alto-based startup, founded in 2022, that uses generative AI for virtual product placement, inserting branded objects into existing video content.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A technological research university with interdisciplinary work in computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, including the Future of Computing Institute.

Resolve AI

Resolve AI builds agents that investigate incidents, debug production systems, and automate operational engineering work using context from code, infrastructure, telemetry, and internal documentation.

Respell

Built a no-code platform for creating AI-powered business workflows and agents; its team later joined Salesforce's Agentforce organization.

Rethink Priorities

Researches neglected, tractable opportunities across animal welfare, global health and development, catastrophic risks, and AI policy, translating evidence into strategies for foundations, nonprofits, and policymakers.

Palo Alto image-generation startup that launched Reve Image 1.0 (codenamed Halfmoon) in 2025, a model noted for prompt adherence and typography. Aims to build creative tools that understand user intent rather than literal prompts.

Revelo provides expert evaluation, code-training environments, and other data infrastructure for AI code generation, alongside a network for hiring Latin American software engineers.

AI agents startup, founded in 2023, known for the open-source AgentGPT autonomous-agent project.

Rigetti Computing is a quantum-computing company founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti and based in Berkeley, California, building superconducting quantum processors and cloud access to them.

Ripple builds blockchain-based infrastructure for payments, digital-asset custody, liquidity and treasury management. Its enterprise products use the XRP digital asset and the RLUSD stablecoin to move and manage value across traditional and crypto markets.

RippleMatch developed a recruiting platform for matching students and recent graduates with employers and managing early-career hiring workflows. JobGet acquired it in May 2026 and incorporated its matching technology and candidate network into a broader hiring platform.

Healthcare-software company, founded in 2014, that built natural-language-processing infrastructure for clinical and healthcare text; its NLP technology was acquired by Parexel in 2020.

Private research university in Rochester, New York, USA (RIT), founded in 1829 and known for technology, engineering and design.

Rockefeller University is a graduate biomedical research university in New York City as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. It is focused on biological and medical science, with doctoral and postdoctoral training and a long record of basic-science discoveries.

Roots of Progress Institute develops and supports writing, research and communities focused on the causes of scientific, technological and economic progress. Its programs include fellowships, conferences and public work on the philosophy of progress.

Public research university in Glassboro, New Jersey, USA, founded in 1923.

Rubrik

Rubrik builds software that protects enterprise data across company systems, cloud services, and software applications. Its platform monitors for risks such as ransomware and helps organizations locate clean data and restore operations after an attack or disruption.

Develops AI agents that conduct continuous black-box offensive security testing by exploring applications, chaining vulnerabilities, and validating exploitable attack paths.

Independent non-profit biological research institute in La Jolla, California, USA, founded in 1960 by Jonas Salk.