The artificial intelligence industry is expanding quickly with new companies appearing globally. These startups are securing significant funding to develop their technology.
Well known names like OpenAI have gathered $78 billion, while Anthropic, with its focus on AI safety, raised $33.7 billion in funding.
Below is our list of 100 Artificial Intelligence startups worth keeping an eye on.
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Get the Sheet for $50Anthropic builds general AI systems and large language models with a core focus on safety and responsible scaling. The research company is behind Claude, a family of AI assistants designed to be helpful, harmless, and honest.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown |
| Funding Amount | $33.7B |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | Menlo Ventures, TPG, General Catalyst, BlackRock, Insight Partners |
Perplexity built an AI answer engine to provide users with direct, accurate responses to their questions. The platform functions as a conversational search tool, citing its sources and offering a more concise alternative to traditional search engines.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Andy Konwinski, Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho |
| Funding Amount | $1.5B |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | NVIDIA, Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, IVP |
xAI develops artificial intelligence with the stated mission of understanding the true nature of the universe. Its first model, Grok, is a conversational AI designed to answer questions with real-time information from the 𝕏 platform.
| Headquarters | Burlingame, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Christian Szegedy, Elon Musk, Greg Yang, Igor Babuschkin, Kyle Kosic, Manuel Kroiss, Toby Pohlen, Yuhuai Wu |
| Funding Amount | $22.7B |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Tribe Capital, BlackRock, Sequoia Capital |
Replit builds a collaborative, browser-based coding environment that allows developers to create software from any device. The platform integrates AI-powered tools to help teams build, test, and deploy applications more quickly.
| Headquarters | Foster City, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya Odeh |
| Funding Amount | $472M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, South Park Commons, Craft Ventures, Y Combinator |
OpenAI operates as an AI research and deployment company, creating advanced artificial intelligence systems. They are widely recognized for developing ChatGPT, a generative AI model capable of understanding and producing human-like text.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba |
| Funding Amount | $78B |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, TPG, NVIDIA, Citi, Khosla Ventures |
Nscale created a full-stack AI cloud platform designed to handle enterprise-scale workloads. The specialized environment helps large companies efficiently train and deploy their most complex AI models.
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Year Founded | 2024 |
| Founders | Donald Morrison, Josh Payne |
| Funding Amount | $1.7B |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | NVIDIA, Blue Owl, Point72, Nokia, Fidelity |
Mistral AI builds open-source and commercial large language models tailored for enterprise applications. Their platform provides developers with efficient, high-performance models that serve as a powerful alternative to other major AI systems.
| Headquarters | Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
| Year Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Arthur Mensch, Charles Gorintin, Guillaume Lample, Jean Charles Samuelian, Timothee Lacroix |
| Funding Amount | €2.8B |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, NVIDIA, Bpifrance, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
ElevenLabs builds a powerful AI speech platform for generating realistic, human-like voices from text. The technology is widely used for voice cloning and creating scalable audio for creators and developers.
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski |
| Funding Amount | $281M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, New Enterprise Associates |
Figure is building autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots capable of working alongside people. The company's AI systems enable these robots to perform a wide range of tasks in manufacturing, logistics, and retail environments.
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Brett Adcock |
| Funding Amount | $1.9B |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | OpenAI, NVIDIA, FJ Labs, Brookfield Asset Management, Microsoft |
Lovable has developed an AI platform that allows users to build software applications without needing deep coding expertise. Their tools are designed to translate ideas into functional products, making the development process faster and more accessible.
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden |
| Year Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Anton Osika, Fabian Hedin |
| Funding Amount | $222.5M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | Evantic Capital, Accel, Antler, Creandum, The Twenty Minute VC |
90 Additional Artificial Intelligence Startups Worth Following
Our top 10 picks are just a small slice of what’s happening in artificial intelligence right now. Founders across the field are experimenting with new ideas and finding the support to grow their companies.
The startups that follow have collectively raised tens of billions of dollars, with some just getting started and others already well established. Here is a look at 90 more companies shaping the world with AI.