OpenAI
Founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya…
Bay Area
is #1 in AI funding.
Bay Area leads the global AI race — $323.8B of all-time AI capital across 80 orgs.One company — OpenAI — is 53% of all AI funding in the Bay Area.
LIVE #1 OF 12 HUBS 93% OF UNITED STATES 55 FRONTIER MODELS UPDATED 2026-05-08
FUNDING
$323.8B
all-time AI capital raised
#1/ 12 AI ORGS
80
notable AI organisations
#1/ 12 NOTABLE MODELS
323
55 at the frontier
#1/ 12 OPERATIONAL MW
—
no live AI DCs on record
Where Bay Area sitsall hubs ranked by AI funding
RANK-SPACED · HEIGHT ∝ SQRT(FUNDING) NAVY = BAY AREA
Bay Area 93/100 rest of united states 7/100
Bay Area =
93%
of United States's AI funding tracked.
Total AI funding in United States: $347.2B.
Bay Area: $323.8B.
Bay Area: $323.8B.
SRC: epoch · forbes · cbi · manual-gaps 1 SQUARE = 1% OF UNITED STATES AI FUNDING
Top 9 of 80 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding
see all 80 orgs
ORG LATEST FUNDING
Feb 2026
$170.8B
Anthropic
Founded in 2021 by ex-OpenAI researchers Dario and Daniela Amodei, Anthropic is a San…
Feb 2026
$59.4B
xAI
An AI lab founded by Elon Musk in 2023 with researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI and Google.
Jan 2026
$37.0B
Databricks
A San Francisco data and AI company founded in 2013 by the Berkeley AMPLab creators of…
Dec 2025
$19.0B
Cerebras Systems
A Sunnyvale AI-hardware company founded in 2015 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Sean…
Feb 2026
$3.8B
Cursor
An AI-first code editor developed by Anysphere, a New York startup founded by four MIT…
Nov 2025
$3.2B
Groq
A Mountain View AI-chip company founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ross, who started Google's…
Sep 2025
$3.0B
Safe Superintelligence
An AI lab founded in June 2024 by Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI co-founder and former chief…
Apr 2025
$3.0B
Crusoe
A Denver AI-infrastructure company founded in 2018 by Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness.
Oct 2025
$2.8B
Thinking Machines Lab
An AI research lab founded in 2025 by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati alongside John Schulman,…
Jul 2025
$2.0B
Figure AI
A Sunnyvale humanoid-robotics company founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock (previously Archer…
Sep 2025
$1.9B
Perplexity
A San Francisco answer engine founded in August 2022 by Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats,…
Sep 2025
$1.7B
Sierra
An AI customer-experience company founded in 2023 by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor…
May 2026
$1.6B
Inflection AI
A Palo Alto AI company founded in 2022 by Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan, and Reid…
Jun 2023
$1.5B
Applied Intuition
A Mountain View autonomy software company founded in 2017 by ex-Y Combinator COO Qasar…
Jun 2025
$1.5B
SambaNova
A Palo Alto AI-systems company founded in 2017 by Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and…
Feb 2026
$1.5B
World Labs
A San Francisco spatial-intelligence lab founded in 2024 by Stanford AI pioneer Fei-Fei…
Feb 2026
$1.2B
Physical Intelligence
A San Francisco robotics-foundation-model lab founded in 2024 by Sergey Levine, Chelsea…
Nov 2025
$1.1B
Harvey
A San Francisco legal-AI company founded in 2022 by litigator Winston Weinberg…
Mar 2026
$1.1B
Cognition
A San Francisco coding-agent startup founded in 2023 by competitive programmers Scott Wu,…
Apr 2026
$996M
Replit
A San Francisco browser-IDE company founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, and Haya…
Mar 2026
$922M
Glean
A Palo Alto enterprise-search and work-assistant company founded in 2019 by ex-Google…
Jun 2025
$765M
Genspark
An agentic search and AI workspace startup founded by ex-Baidu and ex-Microsoft Bing…
Nov 2025
$545M
Together AI
A San Francisco open-source AI cloud founded in June 2022 by Vipul Ved Prakash…
Apr 2026
$534M
Decagon
A San Francisco customer-experience startup founded in 2023 by Jesse Zhang (ex-Lowkey,…
Apr 2026
$481M
Unconventional AI
A neuromorphic-computing startup founded in September 2025 by Naveen Rao (ex-Databricks…
Dec 2025
$475M
Magic
A San Francisco code-generation lab founded in 2022 and led by CEO Eric Steinberger.
Aug 2024
$465M
MainFunc
A Palo Alto startup founded in 2024 by alumni of Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Pinterest,…
Nov 2025
$435M
H
Hippocratic AI
Nov 2025
$404M
Baseten
A San Francisco AI-inference platform founded in 2019 by Tuhin Srivastava, Amir…
Oct 2025
$365M
Fireworks AI
A Redwood City inference platform founded in 2022 by Lin Qiao, who previously led the…
Apr 2026
$327M
Writer
A San Francisco-based generative AI company founded in 2020 by May Habib and Waseem…
$326M
Fal
A generative-media inference platform founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven,…
Dec 2025
$314M
The Bot Company
A San Francisco home-robotics startup founded in 2024 by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt with…
Mar 2025
$302M
Periodic Labs
An autonomous-science lab founded in 2024 by Liam Fedus (ex-OpenAI VP Research, ChatGPT…
Sep 2025
$300M
LMArena
Spun out of UC Berkeley in 2023 by Anastasios Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and…
Jan 2026
$250M
N
Niantic Spatial
Mar 2025
$250M
Parallel
Founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Parallel Web Systems builds web search and…
Apr 2026
$230M
Chai Discovery
A San Francisco biotech founded in 2024 by Joshua Meier (ex-OpenAI, ex-Meta FAIR) and…
Dec 2025
$225M
Character.ai
A Menlo Park-based consumer AI lab founded in 2021 by Noam Shazeer (Transformer…
$193M
Resolve AI
A San Francisco autonomous-SRE startup founded in 2024 by Spiros Xanthos and Mayank…
Apr 2026
$190M
Speak
A San Francisco AI language tutor founded in 2016 by Thiel Fellows Connor Zwick and…
Apr 2026
$162M
DYNA
A Bay Area embodied-AI startup founded in 2024 by Lindon Gao and York Yang (co-founders…
Sep 2025
$144M
Serval
A San Francisco IT service management startup founded in 2024 by ex-Verkada product and…
Dec 2025
$127M
Assort Health
A San Francisco healthcare-voice-AI company founded in 2023 by ex-Stanford med student…
Oct 2025
$102M
Applied Compute
A San Francisco reinforcement-learning startup founded by ex-OpenAI researchers Rhythm…
Oct 2025
$100M
Listen Labs
A San Francisco research platform that replaces surveys and focus groups with…
Sep 2025
$100M
Majestic Labs AI
Emerged from stealth in November 2025 with $100M, founded by ex-Google and Meta silicon…
Nov 2025
$100M
Bretton AI
A San Francisco financial-crime startup founded in 2023 as Greenlite AI by Will Lawrence…
Feb 2026
$95M
Gamma
An AI presentation tool founded in 2020 in San Francisco by Grant Lee, James Fox, and Jon…
Nov 2025
$91M
Krea
A San Francisco creative-AI suite founded in 2022 by Víctor Pérez and Diego Rodríguez,…
Apr 2025
$83M
Reevo
A San Francisco revenue-operating-system startup founded in 2024 by David Zhu, Cindy Hao,…
Nov 2025
$80M
ChipAgents
A Santa Barbara EDA startup founded in 2024 by UCSB professor William Wang.
Feb 2026
$74M
Salient
A Y Combinator-backed consumer-lending startup founded in 2023 whose voice AI handles…
Jul 2025
$60M
Inception Labs
A Palo Alto LLM lab founded in 2024 by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon — a co-inventor…
Nov 2025
$50M
Ellipsis Health
A San Francisco digital-health company that uses voice as a biomarker, analyzing semantic…
Jun 2025
$45M
Netic
Founded by ex-Scale AI general manager Melisa Tokmak, Netic builds end-to-end AI workers…
Nov 2025
$43M
Further AI
A San Francisco YC-backed startup founded in 2023 by Aman Gour and Sashank Gondala…
Oct 2025
$36M
Casap
A New York fintech founded in 2022 building AI agents that automate the full…
Aug 2025
$34M
Elicit
A Berkeley AI-for-research startup spun out of the nonprofit lab Ought, led by founder…
Feb 2025
$31M
Penguin AI
A Palo Alto healthcare AI company founded by former executives from Kaiser Permanente,…
Sep 2025
$30M
Moonlake AI
A San Francisco AI lab founded by Stanford AI researchers Fan-Yun Sun (ex-Nvidia) and…
Oct 2025
$28M
LlamaIndex
Founded in 2023 by ex-Uber researchers Jerry Liu and Simon Suo, LlamaIndex is an…
Mar 2025
$28M
FriendliAI
An AI inference platform founded in 2021 by Byung-Gon Chun, who spun it out of his Seoul…
Aug 2025
$26M
Creatify AI
A San Francisco generative-video startup that turns product links into UGC-style video…
May 2025
$23M
Alex
A San Francisco AI-recruiting startup (Y Combinator-backed) founded in 2024 by John Rytel…
Sep 2025
$20M
Prime Intellect
A San Francisco decentralized-training startup founded in 2023 by Vincent Weisser and…
Feb 2025
$20M
AMESA
An autonomous-AI agent company headquartered in California, founded in 2023 as Composabl…
May 2024
$14M
Pokee AI
A Seattle-area agent platform founded in 2024 by Zheqing (Bill) Zhu, a Stanford…
Jul 2025
$12M
Narada
A San Francisco enterprise-automation startup spun out of UC Berkeley by Prof.
Oct 2024
$11M
Tako
An AI knowledge-visualization startup co-founded in 2024 by ex-Amazon leader Alex…
Oct 2024
$6M
Apple
Apple's AI effort, centered at Apple Park in Cupertino, ships Apple Intelligence —…
—
Generalist AI
A robotics foundation-model startup co-founded by Pete Florence (CEO), Andrew Barry, and…
Mar 2025
—
Google
Operates the largest single AI research footprint in the industry through Google…
—
Intel Labs
Intel's corporate research organization, headquartered at Santa Clara HQ with sites…
—
Meta
Through its FAIR lab, founded in 2013 and led for a decade by Turing Award winner Yann…
—
Midjourney
Founded in 2021 by Leap Motion co-founder David Holz, Midjourney is a San Francisco…
$0
NVIDIA
A Santa Clara, California chip company founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris…
—
Reka AI
A Sunnyvale-based multimodal AI lab founded in 2022 by ex-DeepMind, Google Brain, and…
Jul 2025
—
Salesforce
A San Francisco enterprise software company headquartered in Salesforce Tower, whose…
—
CLICK TILE → ORG PROFILE NAVY TILE = #1 IN BAY AREA
/// related comparisons