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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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Anthropic 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.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2021
FoundersDaniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown
Funding Amount$33.7B
Startup SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsMenlo 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.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersAndy Konwinski, Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho
Funding Amount$1.5B
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, 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.

HeadquartersBurlingame, California, United States
Year Founded2023
FoundersChristian Szegedy, Elon Musk, Greg Yang, Igor Babuschkin, Kyle Kosic, Manuel Kroiss, Toby Pohlen, Yuhuai Wu
Funding Amount$22.7B
Startup SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusCorporate Round
Top InvestorsAndreessen 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.

HeadquartersFoster City, California, United States
Year Founded2016
FoundersAmjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya Odeh
Funding Amount$472M
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsAndreessen 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.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2015
FoundersAndrej 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 SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsAndreessen 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.

HeadquartersLondon, England, United Kingdom
Year Founded2024
FoundersDonald Morrison, Josh Payne
Funding Amount$1.7B
Startup SizeMid-Size Team (51-250)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, 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.

HeadquartersParis, Ile-de-France, France
Year Founded2023
FoundersArthur Mensch, Charles Gorintin, Guillaume Lample, Jean Charles Samuelian, Timothee Lacroix
Funding Amount€2.8B
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsAndreessen 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.

HeadquartersNew York, New York, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersMati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski
Funding Amount$281M
Startup SizeLarge Team (251-1,000)
Last Funding StatusCorporate Round
Top InvestorsAndreessen 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.

HeadquartersSan Jose, California, United States
Year Founded2022
FoundersBrett Adcock
Funding Amount$1.9B
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsOpenAI, 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.

HeadquartersStockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Year Founded2023
FoundersAnton Osika, Fabian Hedin
Funding Amount$222.5M
Startup SizeLean Team (11-50)
Last Funding StatusSeries A
Top InvestorsEvantic 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.

StartupMain IndustryYear FoundedAmount RaisedLast Funding Round
Glean logo GleanAI2019$768.2MSeries F
EliseAI logo EliseAIAI2017$391.9MSeries E
Anysphere logo AnysphereAI2022$3.4BSeries D
Cognition logo CognitionAI2023$896MSeries C
CuspAI logo CuspAIAI2024$130MSeries A
Databricks logo DatabricksAnalytics2013$21.8BVenture Round
Labs logo LabsAI2025$65MDebt Financing
Inspiren logo InspirenAnalytics2016$142.8MSeries B
Harvey logo HarveyAI2022$1BSeries E
Spring Health logo Spring HealthAI2016$466.5MSeries E
Windsurf logo WindsurfAI2021$243MSeries C
You.com logo You.comAI2020$195MSeries C
MarqVision logo MarqVisionAI2020$94.3MSeries B
Mercor logo MercorAI2023$483.6MSeries C
Character.ai logo Character.aiMedia2021$150.1MSeries A
Vectara logo VectaraAI2022$53.5MSeries A
CodeRabbit logo CodeRabbitAI2023$87.6MSeries B
OpenEvidence logo OpenEvidenceAI2021$317MSeries B
Lambda logo LambdaAI2012$1.7BDebt Financing
WorkFusion logo WorkFusionAI2009$386.3MVenture Round
Paradox logo ParadoxAI2016$253.3MSeries C
Suno logo SunoAI2022$125MSeries B
Factory logo FactoryAI2023$70MSeries B
DeepL logo DeepLAI2017$400MVenture Round
AppZen logo AppZenFintech2012$280.6MSeries D
6sense logo 6senseAI2013$526MDebt Financing
n8n logo n8nAI2019$240.3MSeries C
Clay logo ClayAI2017$202MSeries C
Apptronik logo ApptronikAI2016$431.8MCorporate Round
FriendliAI logo FriendliAIAI2021$26.7MSeed
Assort Health logo Assort HealthAI2023$101.5MSeries B
Phia logo PhiaAI2022$8.9MSeed
Thinking Machines Lab logo Thinking Machines LabAI2025$2BSeed
Sierra logo SierraAI2023$635MVenture Round
Liquid AI logo Liquid AIAI2023$293.2MSeries A
Runway logo RunwayMedia2018$544.5MSeries D
DRUID AI logo DRUID AIAI2018$81.6MSeries C
Apollo.io logo Apollo.ioAI2015$251.3MSeries D
VAST Data logo VAST DataAI2016$381MSeries E
Exa logo ExaAI2021$107MSeries B
Rebellions logo RebellionsAI2020$457.7MSeries C
Lila Sciences logo Lila SciencesAI2023$435MSeries A
Valence logo ValenceAI2017$75.1MSeries B
Distyl AI logo Distyl AIAI2022$202MSeries B
Zania logo ZaniaAI2023$18MSeries A
Ambience Healthcare logo Ambience HealthcareAI2020$319.3MSeries C
Cyera logo CyeraAI2021$1.3BSeries E
Agibot logo AgibotAI2023CN¥600MSeed
Signal AI logo Signal AIAI2013$101.6MSeries D
Periodic Labs logo Periodic LabsAI2025$300MSeed
Doctronic logo DoctronicAI2024$25MSeries A
IFS logo IFSAI1983€3BSecondary Market
Commure logo CommureAI2017$820.5MVenture Round
CRED logo CREDAI2023$15MSeed
Modular logo ModularAI2022$380MSeries C
Feedzai logo FeedzaiAnalytics2009$352.5MSeries E
BigID logo BigIDAI2016$306.1MSeries E
Helsing logo HelsingAI2021€1.4BSeries D
Luma AI logo Luma AIAI2021$157.3MSeries B
Keychain logo KeychainAI2023$70.5MSeries B
Quantum Systems logo Quantum SystemsMobility2015$388.4MSeries C
CalypsoAI logo CalypsoAIAI2018$43.2MVenture Round
Cowbell logo CowbellAI2019$208.3MSeries C
Higgsfield logo HiggsfieldAI2022$58MSeries A
Dyna Robotics logo Dyna RoboticsAI2024$143.5MSeries A
Motive logo MotiveAI2013$717.3MVenture Round
Attio logo AttioAI2019$116.2MSeries B
Motion logo MotionAnalytics2019$73.3MSeries C
Legora logo LegoraAI2023$116MSeries B
OneTrust logo OneTrustAI2016$2.1BVenture Round
Baseten logo BasetenAI2019$285MSeries D
Ketryx logo KetryxAI2021$57MSeries B
Scale AI logo Scale AIAI2016$15.9BCorporate Round
ThoughtSpot logo ThoughtSpotAnalytics2012$663.7MSecondary Market
Acronis logo AcronisAI2003$658MPrivate Equity
Burnt logo BurntAI2022$4.3MSeed
Together AI logo Together AIAI2022$533.5MSeries B
Maisa logo MaisaAI2023$29.9MSeed
LangChain logo LangChainAI2022$35MSeries A
Rezolve AI logo Rezolve AIAI2017$22.5MSeries A
Anything logo AnythingAI2021$19.5MSeries A
PlayAI logo PlayAIAI2022$23.7MSeed
Quantexa logo QuantexaAnalytics2016$545MSeries F
Ayar Labs logo Ayar LabsAI2015$374.7MSeries D
Lakera logo LakeraAI2021$30MSeries A
Zoox logo ZooxAI2014$1BConvertible Note
DualEntry logo DualEntryFintech2024$100MSeries A
Tabs logo TabsFintech2023$92MSeries B
Paid logo PaidAI2024$32.4MSeed
Genstore logo GenstoreAI2025$10MSeed

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