Artificial intelligence is the industry with most unicorns, sitting at 308 unicorn companies. OpenAI leads with a $500B valuation, followed by Anthropic at $183B.
The field is also rapidly growing with newer companies, like xAI, which reached a $50B valuation within a year of its 2023 founding.
Below is the full list of 308 Artificial Intelligence unicorn startups at this time.
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| Valuation | $500B (Joined July 2019) |
| 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 |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | TPG, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, Citi, Sequoia Capital |
Anthropic develops large-scale AI systems with a primary focus on safety and research. They are best known for their family of AI models, Claude, which are designed to be helpful, harmless, and aligned with human values.
| Valuation | $183B (Joined February 2023) |
| 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 |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners, General Atlantic, TPG |
Databricks builds a unified platform for data and AI using a lakehouse architecture. Their system combines data engineering, analytics, and machine learning so teams can collaborate on everything from business intelligence to AI development.
| Valuation | $100B (Joined February 2019) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin |
| Funding Amount | $21.8B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Series J |
| Top Investors | NVIDIA, Gaingels, Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton, Blue Owl |
xAI builds artificial intelligence tools to accelerate scientific discovery. Their conversational AI, Grok, is designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and access real-time information from the X platform.
| Valuation | $50B (Joined May 2024) |
| 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 |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Tribe Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA |
Waymo develops autonomous driving technology to move people and things around safely. They operate a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, known as Waymo One, in several US cities.
| Valuation | $45B |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Founders | Anthony Levandowski, Sebastian Thrun |
| Funding Amount | $11.1B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Fidelity, Tiger Global Management, Temasek Holdings, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz |
Canva operates a popular online design and visual communication platform built for non-designers. Their user-friendly tools make it simple for anyone to create professional-quality graphics, presentations, and other visual materials.
| Valuation | $42B (Joined January 2018) |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Cameron Adams, Cliff Obrecht, Melanie Perkins |
| Funding Amount | $2.5B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Private Equity |
| Top Investors | General Catalyst, 500 Global, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bond, Franklin Templeton |
Figure develops autonomous, general-purpose humanoid robots designed for commercial deployment. They're known for their flagship robot, Figure 01, which is designed to operate in human workspaces and handle tasks from manufacturing to logistics.
| Valuation | $39B (Joined February 2024) |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Brett Adcock |
| Funding Amount | $1.9B |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | NVIDIA, Team Ignite Ventures, FJ Labs, Brookfield Asset Management, OpenAI |
Safe Superintelligence builds its namesake product, a safe form of superintelligence, by treating safety as a core engineering problem. The company's research and development efforts are singularly focused on this mission to create powerful AI that is fundamentally beneficial to humanity.
| Valuation | $32B (Joined September 2024) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2024 |
| Founders | Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy, Ilya Sutskever |
| Funding Amount | $3B |
| Company Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | SV Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital |
Anduril Industries creates advanced defense technology by pairing AI software with autonomous systems. Their products provide real-time intelligence and defensive capabilities for military and national security operations.
| Valuation | $31B |
| Headquarters | Costa Mesa, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Brian Schimpf, Joseph Chen, Matt Grimm, Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens |
| Funding Amount | $6.2B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series G |
| Top Investors | Valor Equity Partners, BlackRock, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst |
Cruise develops all-electric, autonomous vehicles for its driverless ride-hailing service in major cities. Their system is engineered to handle complex urban navigation, providing a new form of shared mobility.
| Valuation | $30B |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Daniel Kan, Kyle Vogt |
| Funding Amount | $16B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | General Motors, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Spark Capital, Founder Collective |
The Remaining 298 Artificial Intelligence Unicorns
The top ten companies get a lot of headlines, but they are only a small part of the bigger picture. Hundreds of other founders are building valuable AI companies all over the world. While most of these startups come from the United States and China, Europe and other regions are also producing billion-dollar businesses. Here is a look at the rest of the companies defining the future of artificial intelligence.