🇺🇸United States
is #1 in AI funding.

United States leads the global AI race — $347.2B of all-time AI capital across 136 orgs, and 7.0 GW of operational AI compute across 21 datacenters.60% of all AI money ever raised in the US was raised in the past year alone.

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Top 9 of 136 AI orgs tile area ≈ funding

#1 $170.8B #2 $59.4B #3 $37.0B #4 $19.0B #5 $12.3B #6 $6.9B #7 $3.8B #8 $3.2B #9 $3.0B

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ORG LATEST FUNDING

OpenAI

Founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya…

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

CoreWeave

Mar 2025

$12.3B

Anduril Industries

A Costa Mesa, California defense-technology company founded in 2017 by Oculus founder…

Jun 2025

$6.9B

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

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Saronic

Mar 2026

$2.6B

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Lambda

Nov 2025

$2.3B

Reflection

A frontier-model lab founded in March 2024 by ex-DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin (who…

Oct 2025

$2.1B

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Reflection AI

Oct 2025

$2.1B

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

Skild AI

A Pittsburgh robotics foundation-model lab founded in 2023 by ex-Carnegie Mellon…

Jan 2026

$1.8B

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

Abridge

A Pittsburgh healthcare AI company founded in 2018 by cardiologist Shiv Rao and Carnegie…

Apr 2026

$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

Apptronik

An Austin humanoid-robotics company founded in 2016 by Jeff Cardenas, Nick Paine, and…

Feb 2025

$935M

Replit

A San Francisco browser-IDE company founded in 2016 by Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, and Haya…

Mar 2026

$922M

Runway

A New York generative-video lab founded in 2018 by Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis…

Feb 2026

$860M

Glean

A Palo Alto enterprise-search and work-assistant company founded in 2019 by ex-Google…

Jun 2025

$765M

OpenEvidence

A Cambridge-based medical-AI company founded in 2022 by Daniel Nadler (founder of Kensho,…

Jan 2026

$700M

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

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Tomorrow.io

Feb 2026

$500M

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

FieldAI

A Mission Viejo, California robotics lab founded in 2023 by Ali Agha (ex-NASA JPL),…

Aug 2025

$405M

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Hippocratic AI

Nov 2025

$404M

Suno

A Cambridge, Massachusetts music-generation company founded in 2022 by Mikey Shulman,…

Nov 2025

$400M

Hugging Face

An open-source ML platform founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and…

Aug 2023

$395M

EliseAI

A New York property-tech company founded in 2017 by Cambridge classmates Minna Song and…

Aug 2025

$392M

VAST Data

A New York-headquartered data platform company founded in 2016 by Renen Hallak, Jeff…

$381M

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

Rogo

A New York financial-AI company founded by former junior bankers to build Wall Street's…

Apr 2026

$300M

Liquid AI

A Cambridge, Massachusetts foundation-model startup spun out of MIT CSAIL in 2023 by…

$297M

Positron

A Reno, Nevada inference-chip company founded in 2023 by Thiel Fellow Thomas Sohmers,…

Feb 2026

$294M

LMArena

Spun out of UC Berkeley in 2023 by Anastasios Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and…

Jan 2026

$250M

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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

EvolutionaryScale

A New York protein-AI lab founded in 2024 by Alex Rives and former colleagues from Meta's…

Jun 2024

$142M

Serval

A San Francisco IT service management startup founded in 2024 by ex-Verkada product and…

Dec 2025

$127M

Seekr

A Vienna, Virginia enterprise AI company founded in 2021 by serial entrepreneur Pat…

Jun 2025

$125M

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

HeyGen

An AI video platform founded in 2020 by Joshua Xu (ex-Snapchat lead engineer) and Wayne…

Apr 2026

$74M

Actively AI

A New York sales-AI startup founded in 2022 by Stanford AI researchers Mihir Garimella…

Apr 2026

$68M

Blue Water Autonomy

A Boston defense-maritime startup founded in 2024 by Navy veterans Austin Gray and Rylan…

Aug 2025

$64M

Salient

A Y Combinator-backed consumer-lending startup founded in 2023 whose voice AI handles…

Jul 2025

$60M

Superblocks

A New York enterprise app-builder founded by Brad Menezes (ex-Datadog) and Ran Ma.

May 2025

$60M

Aaru

A New York synthetic-research startup founded in 2024 by Cameron Fink, Ned Koh, and…

Dec 2025

$50M

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

Lyzr

Founded in 2023 by Siva Surendira, Anirudh Narayan, and Ankit Garg, Lyzr is an enterprise…

Mar 2026

$38M

Further AI

A San Francisco YC-backed startup founded in 2023 by Aman Gour and Sashank Gondala…

Oct 2025

$36M

Avantos

A New York wealth-management AI startup founded in 2024 by ex-McKinsey partner Bassam…

Feb 2026

$35M

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

Arcee AI

A Miami-based small-language-model lab founded in 2023 by Mark McQuade, Jacob Solawetz,…

Apr 2026

$30M

Raspberry AI

A New York generative-AI design platform for fashion brands, founded by CEO Cheryl Liu.

Jan 2025

$29M

Boltz

An MIT-spinout drug-discovery lab founded in 2024 by Gabriele Corso, Jeremy Wohlwend, and…

Jan 2026

$28M

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

Persona AI

A Houston industrial-humanoid startup founded in 2024 by Nic Radford (ex-NASA Dexterous…

May 2025

$27M

FriendliAI

An AI inference platform founded in 2021 by Byung-Gon Chun, who spun it out of his Seoul…

Aug 2025

$26M

Thread AI

A New York enterprise AI-orchestration startup founded by ex-Palantir AI product and…

Jun 2025

$26M

Layer Health

A Boston clinical-AI startup founded in 2023 by MIT professor David Sontag with Divya…

Mar 2025

$25M

TidalWave

An agentic AI mortgage startup founded in 2023 by Diane Yu (former CTO of Better.

Nov 2025

$24M

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

Oboe

An AI learning app founded in 2024 by Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, the duo behind…

Dec 2025

$20M

PlayerZero

A predictive-software-quality platform founded by Animesh Koratana, who came out of…

Jul 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

Newton Research

Co-founded in 2023 by ad-tech veteran John Hoctor with Matthew Emans and Steven Bennett,…

Aug 2025

$14M

Pokee AI

A Seattle-area agent platform founded in 2024 by Zheqing (Bill) Zhu, a Stanford…

Jul 2025

$12M

AgentSmyth

A New York fintech-AI startup founded in 2024 by Daniel McCooey, Michael Block, and…

Jun 2025

$11M

Narada

A San Francisco enterprise-automation startup spun out of UC Berkeley by Prof.

Oct 2024

$11M

Leo AI

Founded in 2023 by AI researchers and mechanical engineers from MIT, Technion, and…

Feb 2025

$10M

Atomic Canyon

A San Luis Obispo nuclear-AI startup founded in 2023 by Trey Lauderdale (ex-Voalte CEO)…

May 2025

$7M

Questflow

A multi-agent orchestration platform founded by Bob Xu (CEO) and Carney Chu (CTO) for…

Jul 2025

$7M

Tako

An AI knowledge-visualization startup co-founded in 2024 by ex-Amazon leader Alex…

Oct 2024

$6M

Adobe

Adobe's generative AI effort centered in San Jose, where the Firefly family of image,…

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Allen Institute for AI

A Seattle nonprofit AI research institute founded in 2014 by Microsoft co-founder Paul…

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Amazon

Amazon's AI effort, headquartered in Seattle, ships the Nova family of foundation models…

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Apple

Apple's AI effort, centered at Apple Park in Cupertino, ships Apple Intelligence —…

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EleutherAI

A non-profit AI research institute founded in July 2020 by Connor Leahy, Sid Black, and…

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Generalist AI

A robotics foundation-model startup co-founded by Pete Florence (CEO), Andrew Barry, and…

Mar 2025

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Google

Operates the largest single AI research footprint in the industry through Google…

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IBM

An Armonk, New York technology giant founded in 1911 whose AI research arm dates back to…

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Intel Labs

Intel's corporate research organization, headquartered at Santa Clara HQ with sites…

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Meta

Through its FAIR lab, founded in 2013 and led for a decade by Turing Award winner Yann…

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Microsoft

A Redmond, Washington tech giant founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, now the…

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Midjourney

Founded in 2021 by Leap Motion co-founder David Holz, Midjourney is a San Francisco…

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NVIDIA

A Santa Clara, California chip company founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris…

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Oracle

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QTS Data Centers

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Reka AI

A Sunnyvale-based multimodal AI lab founded in 2022 by ex-DeepMind, Google Brain, and…

Jul 2025

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Salesforce

A San Francisco enterprise software company headquartered in Salesforce Tower, whose…

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Shield AI

A San Diego defense AI company founded in 2015 by ex-Navy SEAL Brandon Tseng, his brother…

Mar 2026

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Stack Infrastructure

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Stream Data Centers

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Toyota Research Institute

Toyota's applied AI and robotics research arm, founded in 2015 by roboticist and former…

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Vantage Data Centers

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