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The world's most well-funded private companies are defined by the significant capital they raise. These startups attract billions of dollars, shaping their industries long before going public.

AI companies feature prominently, with OpenAI having raised $78B in total funding. Newcomer xAI, founded in 2023, has already gathered $22.7B from investors.

Below is the full list of the 17 Most Funded unicorn startups at this time.

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OpenAI builds advanced artificial intelligence systems as a research and deployment company. They are best known for creating ChatGPT, a powerful conversational AI that can understand and generate human-like text.

Valuation$500B (Joined July 2019)
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
Company SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsTPG, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, Citi, Sequoia Capital

SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the goal of making humanity multi-planetary. They are recognized for pioneering fully reusable rocket technology, which significantly reduces the cost of accessing space.

Valuation$400B (Joined December 2012)
HeadquartersHawthorne, California, United States
Year Founded2002
FoundersElon Musk
Funding Amount$11.8B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsSequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz

ByteDance builds content platforms and services that have captured a global audience. They are the creators of TikTok, the social media app that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon.

Valuation$300B (Joined April 2017)
HeadquartersBeijing, Beijing, China
Year Founded2012
FoundersRubo Liang, Yiming Zhang
Funding Amount$9.5B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusPrivate Equity
Top InvestorsHSG, New Enterprise Associates, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley

Anthropic builds large-scale AI models with a focus on safety, aiming to make them reliable and steerable. They are known for their AI assistant, Claude, which is trained to be helpful and harmless.

Valuation$183B (Joined February 2023)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2021
FoundersDaniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown
Funding Amount$33.7B
Company SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusSeries F
Top InvestorsGeneral Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners, General Atlantic, TPG

Ant Group develops digital payment and financial service technologies, most notably the super-app Alipay. Their platforms are designed to provide financial inclusion, offering everything from payments and lending to insurance for individuals and small enterprises.

Valuation$150B
HeadquartersHangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Year Founded2014
FoundersJack Ma
Funding Amount$28.5B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusSeries C
Top InvestorsSequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, BNP Paribas, General Atlantic, Warburg Pincus

Reliance Retail runs India's largest and most diverse retail network, with stores and digital platforms covering everything from groceries to consumer electronics. Their portfolio brings together a wide range of consumer-facing brands that have become household names across the country.

Valuation$101B
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Year Founded2006
FoundersMukesh Ambani
Funding Amount$8.3B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusPrivate Equity
Top InvestorsTPG, Silver Lake, GIC, General Atlantic, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

Databricks builds a unified data and AI platform based on their open lakehouse architecture. Their tools help data engineers, scientists, and analysts collaborate on everything from business intelligence to machine learning.

Valuation$100B (Joined February 2019)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2013
FoundersAli Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin
Funding Amount$21.8B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusSeries J
Top InvestorsNVIDIA, Gaingels, Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton, Blue Owl

Stripe builds financial infrastructure for the internet, offering a suite of APIs for payment processing and commerce solutions. Companies use their software to accept payments, manage their business online, and launch new revenue streams.

Valuation$92B (Joined January 2014)
HeadquartersSouth San Francisco, California, United States
Year Founded2010
FoundersJohn Collison
Funding Amount$9.4B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusVenture Round
Top InvestorsFounders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst

Reliance Jio operates one of India's largest mobile telecommunications networks, providing affordable internet access to millions of customers and businesses. They have also developed a comprehensive digital ecosystem that includes streaming media, music apps, and other online services.

Valuation$58B
HeadquartersMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Year Founded2010
FoundersMukesh Ambani
Funding Amount$28.4B
Company SizeEnterprise Organization (5,001+)
Last Funding StatusCorporate Round
Top InvestorsVista Equity Partners, Citi, HSBC, TPG, General Atlantic

xAI develops artificial intelligence models aimed at understanding the universe and assisting humanity. Their flagship AI, Grok, is a conversational agent known for its real-time knowledge and rebellious streak.

Valuation$50B (Joined May 2024)
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
Company SizeMajor Organization (1,001-5,000)
Last Funding StatusCorporate Round
Top InvestorsTribe Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA

The Next 7 Most Funded Unicorns

Those top ten companies get a lot of attention, but many others are also growing fast. The next group of startups has raised over $74 billion together, mostly in AI and infrastructure.

Some of these names are already well known, while others are just getting started. Here are the other highly funded startups to watch.

Unicorn StartupMain IndustryYear FoundedAmount RaisedValuation
Waymo logo WaymoAI2009$11.1B$45B
JUUL logo JUULRetail2015$16.4B$38B
Anduril Industries logo Anduril IndustriesMobility2017$6.2B$31B
Cruise logo CruiseAI2013$16B$30B
Scale AI logo Scale AIAI2016$15.9B$29B
Epic Games logo Epic GamesInfrastructure1991$7.9B$23B

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