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Introducing the Cosign Awards: the people, companies, and products that were the most impactful in 2026.
Nominate and vote now: cosign.co/awards
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
.@a16z's American Dynamism 50: 50 Companies Rebuilding and Protecting America
Inputs:
- Ambrosia Energy
- Base Power
- Chariot Defense
- Endurance Energy
- General Matter
- Heron Power
- Mariana Minerals
- Peak Energy
- Radiant
- Redwood Materials
- Valar Atomics
Factories:
- Amca
- Arda Industries
- Atomic Industries
- Diode
- Foundry Robotics
- Generalist
- Hadrian
- Mind Robotics
- Nominal
- Podium Automation
- Prometheus
- SendCutSend
- Senra Systems
- Unlimited Industries
- Varda Space Industries
- Westmag
Systems:
- Anduril
- Apex Space
- Astranis
- Castelion
- CHAOS Industries
- Covenant
- CX2
- Forterra
- Helsing
- Hermeus
- Impulse Space
- K2 Space
- Mach Industries
- Neros
- Northwood Space
- Perennial Autonomy
- Relativity Space
- Saronic
- Shield AI
- Skydio
- Specter
- Stoke Space
- Ulysses
cosign.co/lists/a16z/the-ame…
The 2026 American Dynamism 50 is here: our annual list of 50 companies, from within the a16z portfolio and beyond, building for America's future.
This year's theme is Production is Deterrence. "America's ability to prevent conflict depends on what it can build, how fast it can deliver, and how long it can keep going."
A new generation of defense companies is moving from prototypes to full-scale production, and the industrial base has to keep pace. This year's list is organized around three pillars:
1. Systems: the drones, ships, missiles, aircraft, and spacecraft that deter conflict.
2. Factories: the plants, tools, and software that build them.
3. Inputs: the materials and power they're made of and run on.
Get all three right, and the impact reaches well beyond defense, to skilled jobs, revitalized communities, and the supply chains behind energy, housing, and everyday goods.
Meet all 50: a16z.news/p/ad-50-2026-produ…
Who are the top engineers of 2026?
Nominate + vote now: cosign.co/awards/engineer
What is the robotics product of the year?
In the running so far:
- Dana (Applied Intuition)
- Figure 03 (Figure AI)
- S1 (Skild)
- Matic (Matic Robots)
- NEO (1X)
- Dyna-2.1 (Dyna)
- Bedrock Operator (Bedrock Robotics)
- Vision-Force-Action (VFA) Model (Eka Robotics)
- Digit 5 (Agility Robotics)
- Apollo 2 (Apptronik)
- The Bot Company (The Bot Company)
- Pi API (Physical Intelligence)
- Atlas (Boston Dynamics)
- Tesla Optimus (Tesla)
- Platform 2 (Zipline)
- H2 PLUS (Unitree Robotics)
- Medra Lab 001 (Medra)
Nominate + vote now: cosign.co/awards/robotics
Cosign retweeted
btw, there are 227,709 open roles listed on @cosign
cosign.co/jobs
.@karelvuong's list of goated designers:
- @evilrabbit_ (Vercel)
- @benjitaylor (X, SpaceXSI)
- @joshpuckett (Iteration, Graphical)
- @ryolu_
- @jennywen (Cursor, Grok Bot)
- @emilkowalski
- @matthewyuart
- @floguo (Ramp)
- @chloepark (MagicPath)
cosign.co/lists/karelvuong/g…
Which tech companies have the highest talent density?
Nominate + vote now on the Cosign Awards: cosign.co/awards/talent-dens…
Which company produces the best founders?
Nominate + vote for the top founder mafia on the Cosign Awards: cosign.co/awards/founder-maf…
What is the Cybersecurity Startup of the Year?
Nominate + vote now on the Cosign Awards: cosign.co/awards/cybersecuri…
What was the 2026 Product of the Year?
Nominees so far include:
- Jev
- OpenClaw
- Wispr Flow Dictation
- Muse
- Grok Bot
- iPhone Duo
- Supabase
- GPT-6 Astra
- Claude Opus
- Gemini
- LlamaParse
- Granola
- Cursor 3
- Kalshi Exchange
- Stream Ring
- OpenRouter
- Waymo
- Eleven v4
- Replit Agent 4
- Savvy Custodial Platform
- Fin AI Agent
- Hermes Agent
Nominate + vote now: cosign.co/awards/product-of-…
Who is Poster of the Year?
Anyone can nominate and vote now until December: cosign.co/awards/poster-of-t…
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
Cosign retweeted
Big week for neolabs, with incredible releases from @flappyairplanes, @humansand, @Recursive_SI + @dreamlabs_ai coming out of stealth!
Excited to introduce our first of many dashboards at @cosign, a live way to track jobs, news, and data on neolabs.
cosign.co/dash/neolabs
Cosign retweeted
ok big drop today: very excited to announce
The Cosign Awards
2026 has been a crazy year. One thing we keep seeing: the people making the biggest impact inside top companies aren’t always the people you’d expect. The org chart no longer tells the whole story. a single, standout engineer, designer, growth leader, or operator can change the trajectory of the entire company.
If you’ve worked with someone like this, you know... the rest of the world hasn’t caught up yet. We want to help change that.
Today, we’re opening nominations for the @Cosign Awards.
For the next month, we’re looking for the most impactful contributors, and rising stars across the key functions that make great companies work.
We'll aggregate nominations across 41 categories, and with help from a panel of 21 judges including @lennysan, @omooretweets, @packyM, @gokulr, @rrhoover, @dhaber, @avichal, @gaganbiyani, @amasad, @illscience, @venturetwins & more - we’ll select ten people in each category, and then bring them together to meet, exchange ideas, and build relationships.
(this is the part i'm most excited about, to be honest .. gathering the winners IRL + group chats: we'll run this every year, and hope to see alumni communities of awards winners building things together, helping each-other out, and more - over time).
So, here it goes!
Who comes to mind?
Nominate at cosign.co/awards
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
Who's the best podcaster of 2026?
Nominate + vote now on the Cosign Awards: cosign.co/awards
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
The Cosign Awards judges:
- Qasar Younis (@qasar)
- Amjad Masad (@amasad)
- Anish Acharya (@illscience)
- Garry Tan (@garrytan)
- Scott Belsky (@scottbelsky)
- Josh Elman (@joshelman)
- Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani)
- Andrew Chen (@andrewchen)
- Shuo Wang (@shuooo)
- Avichal Garg (@avichal)
- David Haber (@dhaber)
- Fidji Simo (@fidjissimo)
- Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
- Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover)
- Justine Moore (@venturetwins)
- Olivia Moore (@omooretweets)
- Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk)
- Packy McCormick (@packym)
- Gokul Rajaram (@gokulr)
- Ben Silbermann (@8en)
- Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan)
Excited to announce the Cosign Awards: celebrating exceptional people, companies, and products that had a massive impact in 2026.
cosign.co/awards
Anyone can nominate and vote. Award winners will be chosen by the public in conjunction with a panel of judges, including industry leaders like @lennysan, @packyM, @amasad, and many more. We’ll host an event in December honoring the winners (10 per category).
For people categories, we’re mostly focused on everyone except the CEO–everyone else building the company behind the scenes.
Companies with the most amount of people nominations will be listed on our “Top Companies to Work For” page.
True to form, at Product Hunt I helped launch the Golden Kitty awards a decade ago to recognize great products. Soon after I launched the Rise Awards, honoring executives and ICs building companies that make them. The Cosign Awards is the next iteration.
We have 41 categories across people, companies, and products.
People categories:
- Future Founders
- Rising Stars
- Engineering
- FDE
- Product
- Design
- AI Researchers
- Marketing
- Comms
- Growth
- Chief of Staff
- Operations
- Talent
- Finance
- Public Intellectuals
- Podcaster of the Year
- Newsletter Author of the Year
- Poster of the Year
Company categories:
- Rising Stars
- Best Place to Work
- Founder Mafia
- Talent Density
- Highest Aura
Product categories:
- Product of the Year
- Launch of the Year
- AI Assistant
- AI Language Model
- AI Coding
- Dev Tools
- Open Source
- Consumer
- Productivity
- Creative & Media Tools
- Product Design & UX
- Enterprise B2B
- Hardware
- Robotics
- Self-Driving
- Healthcare
- Vertical Fintech
- Legal
The top 100 companies Lenny Rachitsky would most want to join: companies with the highest talent density, tackling the most ambitious problems, where you'll learn the most, and see the biggest upside.
- Abridge
- AfterQuery
- Airbnb
- Airwallex
- Anduril
- Anthropic
- Applied Compute
- Applied Intuition
- Base Power
- Baseten
- Basis
- Bedrock Robotics
- Black Forest Labs
- Chai Discovery
- Chainguard
- Clay
- ClickHouse
- Cloudflare
- Cognition
- CoreWeave
- Crusoe
- Cyera
- Databricks
- Decagon
- Deel
- ElevenLabs
- Etched
- Exa
- Factory
- fal
- Figma
- Figure AI
- Fireworks AI
- Gamma
- Genspark
- Gimlet Labs
- Glean
- Granola
- Hadrian
- Handshake
- Harvey
- Helsing
- Hex
- Kalshi
- Lambda
- Legora
- Linear
- Liquid AI
- Lovable
- Mercor
- Mercury
- Mistral AI
- Modal
- n8n
- Notion
- NVIDIA
- OpenAI
- OpenEvidence
- Palantir
- Parallel Web Systems
- Periodic Labs
- Physical Intelligence
- Pierre Computer
- Polymarket
- PostHog
- Prime Intellect
- Profound
- Railway
- Ramp
- Reflection AI
- Replit
- Revolut
- Ricursive Intelligence
- Rippling
- Runway
- Safe Superintelligence
- Saronic
- Shield AI
- Shopify
- Sierra
- Skild AI
- SpaceX
- Stripe
- Sunday Robotics
- Suno
- Supabase
- Surge AI
- Temporal
- Tesla
- Thinking Machines
- Together AI
- Turbopuffer
- Valon
- Vanta
- Vercel
- Waymo
- Whatnot
- Wispr Flow
- Wonderful
- WorkOS
cosign.co/lists/lennysan/100
Cosign retweeted
Glad to see @thatch_ai on @packyM's list!
Packy McCormick's picks for the most compelling companies to join: "ambitious missions, exceptional talent density, steep learning curves, and the potential to create enormous value."
Software / AI
- Ramp
- Thatch
- Replit
- General Intuition
- Arena Physica
- Blackbird
- [untitled]
- Poetic
Hardware / infrastructure
- Base Power
- Anduril
- Hadrian
- Astro Mechanica
- Somos Internet
- Meter
- Earth AI
- Radiant
- Varda Space
- Fuse
- Westmag
- Antares
- Terraform Industries
- Standard Nuclear
- Standard Bots
- Valar Atomics
- Ulysses
- Aalo Atomics
- Senra Systems
- Impulse Labs
- Vight
- General Matter
- Monumental Labs
- Daylight Computer
- Airbound
- Autoridad Panandina
Services
- Primer
- Wander
cosign.co/lists/packym/top-c…
Packy McCormick's picks for the most compelling companies to join: "ambitious missions, exceptional talent density, steep learning curves, and the potential to create enormous value."
Software / AI
- Ramp
- Thatch
- Replit
- General Intuition
- Arena Physica
- Blackbird
- [untitled]
- Poetic
Hardware / infrastructure
- Base Power
- Anduril
- Hadrian
- Astro Mechanica
- Somos Internet
- Meter
- Earth AI
- Radiant
- Varda Space
- Fuse
- Westmag
- Antares
- Terraform Industries
- Standard Nuclear
- Standard Bots
- Valar Atomics
- Ulysses
- Aalo Atomics
- Senra Systems
- Impulse Labs
- Vight
- General Matter
- Monumental Labs
- Daylight Computer
- Airbound
- Autoridad Panandina
Services
- Primer
- Wander
cosign.co/lists/packym/top-c…
Cosign retweeted
Here's my list of people to watch 25 and under. Who else should I add? cosign.co/lists/eriktorenber…
.@aashatwt's top devrels on X:
- @mattyp (SpaceXSI)
- @dabit3 (Cognition)
- @0xyoussea (Base)
- @0xjuliechen (Photon)
- @georgepickett (p0)
- @paw_lean (OpenAI)
- @yoimnotkesku (Exa)
- @ajs_ai (AI Collective)
- @aashatwt
- @ryancrowe (Fireworks AI)
- @samclaassen (type.com)
- @henloitsjoyce (Hedra)
- @nutlope (Together AI)
- @michael_chomsky (Context.dev)
- @waynesutton (Convex)
- @markvillacampa (RevenueCat)
- @muskan_kalra24
- @joygph (Recall.ai)
- @sarahli
- @kevinwhinnery (OpenAI)
- @blendibyl
- @dkundel (OpenAI)
- @ojusave (Render)
- @jayrodge15 (NVIDIA)
- @roangws (GMI Cloud)
- @blaire_pang (Meta)
- @alexkaplan0 (Cognition)
- @parasmadan9 (Varnan Labs)
- @aleeem1 (NerdConf)
- @ivanleomk (Google DeepMind)
- @yuqih (GMI Cloud)
- @coffee_and_nlp (Telnyx)
- @ivyleanin (Anyway)
- @sammakesthings
- @adxtyahq (Entelligence)
- @celesteanglm
- @iharnoorsingh (AssemblyAI)
- @danizeres (OpenAI)
- @not_simantak (TinyFish)
- @hellolizzhang (FalkorDB)
- @louszbd (Z.ai)
- @llmjunky (Nutrient)
- @juampitech (Firecrawl)
- @andrewqu (Vercel)
cosign.co/lists/aashatwt/top…
the list of cracked devrels on X.
they make cool demos, explain technical stuff simply!
topdevrels.vercel.app
