Funding
The most funded AI startups
AI companies founded since 2020, ranked by total announced funding.
- funded AI companies that qualify
- 3,574
- funded AI companies that qualify
- raised by the top 50
- $402B
- raised by the top 50
1 | Anthropic, PBC Anthropic is an AI safety and research public benefit corporation building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, best known for the Claude series of advanced AI models. | $116B |
2 | SpaceXAI SpaceXAI is an artificial intelligence company that develops frontier AI models for reasoning, code, voice, images, and video, with its core product being the AI chatbot Grok. | $52.7B |
3 | DeepSeek DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company developing open-weight large language models and an AI assistant, aiming to achieve Artificial General Intelligence. | $23.3B |
| 4 | HUMAIN Saudi Arabian AI company building the full AI value chain, including data centers and Arabic LLMs. | $19.2B |
| 5 | Prometheus Jeff Bezos-backed AI startup building physical AI systems for engineering and manufacturing, and providing an AI-driven investment platform. | $16.2B |
| 6 | Mistral AI Mistral AI develops and deploys frontier AI models, assistants, and agents, providing organizations with tailored AI systems. | $14.4B |
| 7 | Prometheus AI startup led by Jeff Bezos. | $13B |
| 8 | Nebius Nebius is an AI cloud infrastructure provider offering a full-stack platform for AI development, from data preparation and model training to production deployment. | $11.5B |
| 9 | Helix Digital Infrastructure Building AI data centers for hyperscaler cloud providers. | $10B |
| 10 | DirecTV Stream Live TV streaming service offering a variety of sports, entertainment, and news channels. | $9.4B |
| 11 | Paramount Global A global media and entertainment conglomerate offering content across film, television, and digital platforms, with a diverse portfolio of iconic brands. | $8B |
| 12 | Atomic-AI AI platform for drug discovery and development, accelerating research with advanced computational tools. | $6.2B |
| 13 | EIC Scaling Club Supporting Europe's most promising deeptech scaleups | $5.5B |
| 14 | Niantic Spatial, Inc. Building a persistent, real-world 3D map powered by AI and user-generated data from AR games, supporting enterprise customers in robotics, defense, and utilities. | $5B |
| 15 | Isomorphic Labs AI-driven drug discovery spinoff from DeepMind using AlphaFold to discover novel medicines. | $4.7B |
| 16 | Recursive Superintelligence-focused AI lab exploring transformative AI systems | $4B |
| 17 | Moonshot AI Chinese AI startup developing advanced large language models and AI agents, including the Kimi chatbot, with a focus on AGI research. | $3.9B |
| 18 | Altos Labs Biotechnology company focused on cellular rejuvenation to reverse disease and extend healthspan. | $3.8B |
| 19 | Cognition AI Building Devin, the first autonomous software engineer, to act as an exponential collaborator for human engineers. | $3.6B |
| 20 | Anysphere Anysphere is an AI company focused on building AI agents and platforms for various applications. | $3.4B |
| 21 | Thinking Machines Lab Inc. Frontier AI lab building multimodal AI systems with customizable, collaborative capabilities for enterprise applications, focusing on human-AI collaboration and personalized AI. | $3.4B |
| 22 | Skild AI Robotics startup building general-purpose AI models to control any robot and perform any task in any environment. | $3.2B |
| 23 | Safe Superintelligence Ilya Sutskever's AI safety-focused research lab with the singular goal of building safe superintelligent AI. | $3.1B |
| 24 | Linkerbot Linkerbot develops highly dexterous robotic hands for humanoid robots and industrial applications. | $3.1B |
| 25 | MosaicML (now Databricks) Generative AI platform for enterprises to build, train, and customize their own AI models. | $3B |
| 26 | Clay Clay provides an AI-powered platform for go-to-market teams to automate data enrichment, lead generation, and personalized outreach, leveraging over 100 data sources to turn insights into revenue. | $3B |
| 27 | Helsing Helsing is a European defense AI company building software and autonomous systems to process sensor data, automate battlefield decision-making, and enhance military capabilities. | $3B |
| 28 | Anysphere, Inc. An AI-native code editor that helps developers write, understand, and manage code more efficiently. | $2.9B |
| 29 | Kimi AI assistant by Moonshot AI capable of processing 2 million Chinese characters in a single prompt. | $2.6B |
| 30 | Cursor (Anysphere) Cursor is an AI code editor built to make you extraordinarily productive by coding with AI. | $2.5B |
| 31 | Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI Labs) Building foundational world models for AI systems that understand and interact with the physical world | $2.4B |
| 32 | Cyera Cloud data security platform that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data across cloud environments. | $2.3B |
| 33 | Lila Sciences AI-driven lab automation for biological research and discovery at scale. | $2.2B |
| 34 | Baseten AI inference platform for deploying models in production with high performance and availability. | $2.1B |
| 35 | Ineffable Intelligence AI research lab building a superlearner capable of discovering all knowledge and skills autonomously. | $2.1B |
| 36 | Re:Build Manufacturing Industrial conglomerate rekindling American manufacturing through advanced technology and strategic acquisitions. | $2.1B |
| 37 | Shuttlebase AI-powered, fully-automated website optimization for eCommerce stores, handling all the work to increase conversions and sales. | $2B |
| 38 | MiniMax MiniMax is a leading global technology company and one of the pioneers of large language models (LLMs) in Asia, developing proprietary LLMs across various modalities. | $2B |
| 39 | Switch Mobility Global manufacturer of zero-emission electric buses and light commercial vehicles for sustainable urban transport. | $2B |
| 40 | Fluidstack Software that automates the provisioning of graphics card clusters for AI and machine learning workloads. | $1.9B |
| 41 | Prismic Life Holding Company A reinsurance company backed by Prudential Financial and Warburg Pincus. | $1.9B |
| 42 | Sierra Sierra builds AI agents that help leading brands deliver better customer experiences by increasing customer lifetime value and personalizing interactions across multiple channels. | $1.9B |
| 43 | Fireworks AI High-performance AI inference platform built by former Meta PyTorch engineers. | $1.8B |
| 44 | poolside AI coding models and pair programmer built for on-device execution with privacy-first architecture. | $1.8B |
| 45 | Saronic Technologies Developing autonomous vessels for defense and commercial sectors. | $1.8B |
| 46 | Harvey AI AI-powered legal assistant for law firms, enhancing legal work and client service. | $1.7B |
| 47 | AdaniConneX AdaniConneX is a joint venture building hyperscale and edge data centers across India. | $1.7B |
| 48 | Physical Intelligence General intelligence for robots, a brain that can power any robot for any application using multimodal learning. | $1.6B |
| 49 | Valar Atomics Nuclear energy startup developing small, high-temperature reactors for AI data centers and industrial applications. | $1.6B |
| 50 | Apptronik Humanoid robot startup building robots for tasks like unloading trailers and picking warehouse inventory. | $1.6B |
Updated October 28, 2026.
Methodology
How this ranking works
Companies founded in 2020 or later, ranked by the total of their announced funding rounds. Totals come from funding announcements, press releases and filings, and update as new rounds are reported.
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