Silicon Valley is currently home to 105 unicorn startups, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence. This concentration highlights the region's role in developing advanced technologies.
Among these are established players like self-driving technology company Waymo, with a $45B valuation. It also includes recent entries such as Figure, an AI robotics company founded in 2022 that is already valued at $39B.
Below is the full list of 105 Silicon Valley unicorn startups at this time.
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Get the Sheet for $50Waymo creates autonomous driving technology designed to power everything from ride-hailing services to commercial trucking. Their flagship service, Waymo One, offers fully autonomous rides to the public in select metropolitan areas.
| 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 |
Figure builds general-purpose humanoid robots capable of thinking, learning, and interacting with their environment. Their team is deploying these autonomous robots to handle dangerous or undesirable jobs in manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing.
| 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 |
Applied Intuition creates the software infrastructure used to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale. Their comprehensive toolchain gives automakers the ability to accelerate the production of reliable self-driving systems.
| Valuation | $15B (Joined October 2020) |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States |
| 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 |
Neuralink develops implantable brain-computer interfaces designed to treat complex neurological disorders. Their technology creates a direct communication pathway between the brain and external devices, with the goal of restoring sensory and motor function.
| Valuation | $10B (Joined July 2021) |
| Headquarters | Fremont, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Dongjin Seo, Elon Musk, Max Hodak |
| Funding Amount | $1.3B |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Craft Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
Cerebras Systems develops AI supercomputing systems for large-scale deep learning applications. Their core technology is the Wafer-Scale Engine, a massive chip that significantly reduces the time it takes to train complex AI models.
| Valuation | $8B (Joined November 2018) |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Jean-Philippe Fricker, Michael James, Sean Lie |
| Funding Amount | $1.8B |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series G |
| Top Investors | Benchmark, Coatue, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Eclipse Ventures |
Glean provides a generative AI-powered search engine built for the workplace. It unifies a company's internal knowledge across different applications, allowing employees to find information and get instant answers to their questions.
| Valuation | $7B (Joined May 2022) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Arvind Jain, Piyush Prahladka, Prafful Goel, Sharvanath Pathak, Tony Gentilcore, TR Vishwanath |
| Funding Amount | $768.2M |
| Company Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series F |
| Top Investors | Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Citi, Wellington Management |
Groq builds specialized semiconductor chips and a software platform designed to run AI applications at exceptional speeds. Their hardware focuses on accelerating AI inference, enabling developers to deploy large language models with extremely low latency.
| Valuation | $7B (Joined April 2021) |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States |
| 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 |
Automation Anywhere develops an intelligent automation platform designed to help businesses deploy a digital workforce. Their software bots use AI to handle complex processes, freeing up human employees to focus on more strategic work.
| Valuation | $7B (Joined July 2018) |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2003 |
| Founders | Ankur Kothari, Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta, Rushabh Parmani |
| Funding Amount | $1.1B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Workday Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, New Enterprise Associates |
Cohesity builds an AI-powered platform to secure and manage data across cloud, data center, and edge environments. Their technology consolidates tasks like backup, recovery, and analytics to protect against cyber threats and make data more productive.
| Valuation | $7B (Joined June 2018) |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Mohit Aron |
| Funding Amount | $955M |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series H |
| Top Investors | Battery Ventures, Madrona, Accel, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital |
The Remaining 95 Silicon Valley Unicorns
The most valuable unicorns are only a small part of the picture. Dozens of other companies are building new products and growing at a pace that is defining their industries.
Many of them are focused on artificial intelligence, with others working in areas like cloud computing and security. Here is a look at the other 95 unicorns that make the region’s startup scene so strong.