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AI Companies Funded in 2026

Artificial intelligence and machine learning companies whose latest recorded funding round was announced in calendar year 2026, ranked by disclosed lifetime funding.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $597.5B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised

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curl "https://indexed.vc/api/v1/companies?industries=Artificial+Intelligence,Generative+AI,Machine+Learning&fundedAfter=2026-01-01&fundedBefore=2026-12-31&operatingStatus=active&sort=total_funding_raised&order=desc&limit=100" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

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The API cannot leave out companies whose latest round is a grant; this list does.

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Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by disclosed total funding in USD. Companies whose latest round is one of: Grant are excluded. Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. Open a company profile for its funding summary and available detail. How this data is built.

1
OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artifi...

San Francisco, United States5001–10000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Corporate RoundTotal funding$179.6BMar 2026
2
Anthropic

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, translating frontier safety...

San Francisco, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Series G+Total funding$123.7BMay 2026
3
xAI

xAI builds AI systems, including Grok, with frontier reasoning, voice, and generative media capab...

San Francisco, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Series ETotal funding$47.4BJan 2026
4
Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for peo...

Mountain View, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles
Venture RoundTotal funding$29.6BFeb 2026
5
Databricks

Databricks provides a unified data and AI platform that helps enterprises build and run applicati...

San Francisco, United States10001+Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Series G+Total funding$20.0BJul 2026
6
Project Prometheus

AI company focused on applying artificial intelligence to physical tasks, launched with $6.2B ini...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing
Series BTotal funding$18.2BJun 2026
7
Anduril

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform US and allied mili...

Costa Mesa, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
Series G+Total funding$11.3BMay 2026
8
Crusoe

AI infrastructure company building renewable-powered data centers and cloud compute optimized for...

Denver, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Clean Energy
Series FTotal funding$9.4BSep 2026
9
Safe Superintelligence

The world’s first straight-shot SSI lab, with one goal and one product: a safe superintelligence.

Palo Alto, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
Growth EquityTotal funding$8.0BJul 2026
10
Moonshot AI

Moonshot AI develops Kimi, using large models to help users conduct deep research, build websites...

Beijing, China51–200Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Venture RoundTotal funding$7.6BJul 2026
11
DeepSeek

DeepSeek develops open-source models for agentic coding, reasoning, and long-context tasks, with ...

Hangzhou, China51–200Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$7.4BJun 2026
12
Nscale

Nscale builds AI infrastructure, systems and solutions that let practitioners, enterprises and go...

London, United Kingdom201–500Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
ConvertibleTotal funding$7.1BSep 2026
13
Mistral AI

Mistral co-creates tailored AI systems for enterprises and governments, combining frontier models...

Paris, France501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Series DTotal funding$7.0BSep 2026
14
Shield AI

Shield AI builds AI pilots and autonomous aircraft systems that help defense customers deploy int...

San Diego, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
Venture RoundTotal funding$4.6BMar 2026
15
Groq

Groq delivers fast, low cost AI inference using custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) chips and G...

Mountain View, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series ATotal funding$4.2BAug 2026
16
Cognition

AI software engineering company building Devin, an autonomous AI coding agent capable of planning...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ETotal funding$4.1BSep 2026
17
Helsing

Helsing builds AI-enabled autonomous systems and precision-mass capabilities, partnering with gov...

Munich, Germany201–500Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
Series ETotal funding$4.1BJul 2026
18
Tenstorrent

Designs and sells AI processors, accelerator cards, and software, licensing RISC-V IP to enterpri...

Toronto, Canada501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series ETotal funding$3.8BOct 2026
19
Wayve

Wayve is building a general-purpose driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across ...

London, United Kingdom501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles
Extension RoundTotal funding$3.7BApr 2026
20
Devoted Health

Next-gen Medicare Advantage insurance plan with AI-forward medical group delivering quality and s...

Waltham, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Series G+Total funding$3.5BOct 2026
21
Verily Life Sciences

Verily builds AI-native precision health platforms that help healthcare organizations harmonize d...

Dallas, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Corporate RoundTotal funding$3.0BMar 2026
22
Firmus

Firmus designs and operates energy-efficient AI factories, combining proprietary cooling, grid or...

Launceston, Australia51–200Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Venture RoundTotal funding$2.8BAug 2026
23
Cyera

Cyera provides an AI-powered data security platform that helps security teams discover, control, ...

New York, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Extension RoundTotal funding$2.8BSep 2026
24
Isomorphic Labs

AI-first drug discovery company using AlphaFold-derived models to design therapeutics and acceler...

London, United Kingdom201–500Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
Series BTotal funding$2.6BMay 2026
25
Saronic

Saronic provides naval and maritime forces with intelligent Autonomous Surface Vessels at scale, ...

Austin, United States501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles
Series DTotal funding$2.6BMar 2026