Mountain View is home to 16 unicorn startups, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. The local scene is led by mobility technology company Waymo, which holds a valuation of $45 billion.
Other major companies include Applied Intuition, a software infrastructure provider valued at $15 billion, and AI hardware developer Groq, valued at $7 billion.
Below is the full list of 16 Mountain View unicorn startups at this time.
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Get the Sheet for $50Waymo develops fully autonomous driving technology to make getting around safer and easier for people and goods. Their commercial ride-hailing service, Waymo One, offers driverless trips to the public in a growing number of cities.
| Valuation | $45B |
| 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 |
Applied Intuition provides software infrastructure to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. Their comprehensive toolchain is used by top automotive and robotics companies to bring autonomous systems to market safely and quickly.
| Valuation | $15B (Joined October 2020) |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Peter Ludwig, Qasar Younis |
| Funding Amount | $1.5B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | Bond, Tribe Capital, General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Franklin Templeton |
Groq builds custom semiconductor chips and a software platform to accelerate AI inference workloads. Their Language Processing Units are engineered to run large language models and other AI applications with remarkable speed.
| Valuation | $7B (Joined April 2021) |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Jonathan Ross |
| Funding Amount | $1.8B |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Tiger Global Management, BlackRock, Uncork Capital, Plug and Play, Alumni Ventures |
Workato builds an intelligent automation platform that connects a company’s applications and orchestrates workflows between them. Their low-code environment empowers both business and IT teams to create powerful automations without needing deep technical expertise.
| Valuation | $6B (Joined January 2021) |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Alexey Timanovskiy, Dimitris Kogias, Gautham Viswanathan, Harish Shetty, Vijay Tella |
| Funding Amount | $415M |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Digital Industry Singapore, Norwest, Battery Ventures |
Commure builds an operating system for healthcare that connects siloed data from electronic health records and other clinical systems. Their platform gives health systems and developers the tools to create and launch new applications aimed at improving patient care.
| Valuation | $6B (Joined September 2021) |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Diede van Lamoen, Eugene Kuznetsov, Hemant Taneja |
| Funding Amount | $820.5M |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | General Catalyst, Quiet Capital, FJ Labs, Greenoaks, Human Capital |
Nuro develops autonomous electric vehicles designed specifically to transport goods, not people. They partner with well-known brands in retail and food to make local delivery faster and more accessible.
| Valuation | $6B (Joined February 2019) |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Dave Ferguson, Jiajun Zhu |
| Funding Amount | $2.3B |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Icehouse Ventures, NVIDIA, Google, Gaorong Capital, Tiger Global Management |
Lightmatter creates photonic computer chips that process information using light rather than electricity. Their hardware is built to accelerate demanding AI workloads while significantly lowering the energy footprint of large-scale data centers.
| Valuation | $4.4B (Joined December 2023) |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Darius Bunandar, Nicholas Harris, Thomas Graham |
| Funding Amount | $822M |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series D |
| Top Investors | Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Spark Capital, Fidelity, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Matrix |
ThoughtSpot builds an AI-powered analytics platform that allows enterprise users to get insights from their data using natural language search. Their technology makes business intelligence accessible to everyone in an organization, not just dedicated data analysts.
| Valuation | $4.2B (Joined May 2018) |
| Year Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Abhishek Rai, Ajeet Singh, Amit Prakash, Priyendra Deshwal, Sanjay Agrawal, Shashank Gupta, Vijay Ganesan |
| Funding Amount | $663.7M |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | General Catalyst, Ballistic Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures |
Addepar builds a software and data platform designed for the most complex investment portfolios. Their technology gives financial advisors and institutions a comprehensive tool for data aggregation, analytics, and performance reporting.
| Valuation | $3.25B (Joined June 2021) |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Founders | Jason Mirra, Joe Lonsdale |
| Funding Amount | $761.4M |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series G |
| Top Investors | Cota Capital, 8VC, Valor Equity Partners, Palm Drive Capital, Vitruvian Partners |
Bloomreach builds a Commerce Experience Cloud that combines real-time customer data with product information. Their software powers personalized e-commerce experiences across search, content, and marketing campaigns.
| Valuation | $2.2B (Joined February 2022) |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Founders | Ashutosh Garg, Raj De Datta, Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer |
| Funding Amount | $452M |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | Sixth Street, Bain Capital Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
The Remaining 6 Unicorns Founded in Mountain View
Mountain View's top ten unicorns are impressive, but they don't tell the whole story. A fresh batch of companies is also growing fast and leaving its mark.
Together, this next group has raised over $2.2 billion to work on everything from cybersecurity to media. Here’s a look at the other startups that make Mountain View’s tech scene so strong.