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Recently Funded AI Companies in California 2026

California artificial intelligence and machine learning companies whose latest recorded funding round was announced in the last 90 days.

Known total funding for 89 of 90 ranked companies: $24.4B.

Showing top 90 matching companies · Ranked by most recent funding

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Example request
curl "https://indexed.vc/api/v1/companies?industries=Artificial+Intelligence,Generative+AI,Machine+Learning&countries=United+States&states=California&fundedAfter=2026-08-15&operatingStatus=active&sort=last_funding_date&order=desc&limit=100" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

The API has no company type filter, so public companies can appear; this list counts private companies only.

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

Data from Indexed.vcUpdated

Methodology: up to 100 active companies matching this list's filters are ordered by most recent announced round. 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.

26
Hyperbolic

Open-access AI cloud providing on-demand GPU compute and managed inference for developers and AI ...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Series ATotal funding$49.0MOct 2026
27
Minicor

YC-backed RPA platform using AI computer-use agents to trigger full desktop automation workflows ...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$3.8MOct 2026
28
Nirva Labs

Nirva, the world's most beautiful and insightful AI wearable. Designed to help people grow throug...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$33.0MOct 2026
29
PaleBlueDot AI

AI compute platform delivering enterprise-grade GPU infrastructure and cloud services, operating ...

Palo Alto, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Series CTotal funding$350.0MOct 2026
30
Preference Models

Preference Models builds reinforcement learning environments. Its environments are designed to tr...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$16.0MOct 2026
31
Sensydia

Sensydia develops a non-invasive cardiac assessment platform intended to help hospitals and clini...

Valencia, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Venture RoundTotal funding$6.0MOct 2026
32
Sonilo

Sonilo lets video creators upload footage, generate music and sound effects from its description ...

Menlo Park, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, SaaS
Venture RoundTotal funding$11.0MOct 2026
33
Ocular AI

Ocular AI is an applied data research lab that encodes human expertise into frontier AI models fo...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Pre-seedTotal funding$2.0MOct 2026
34
Flai

Flai gives car dealerships an AI worker that answers customer calls, texts, and emails any time, ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$27.0MOct 2026
35
Vera Health

Vera Health supports clinical decisions by retrieving studies and guidelines and presenting conci...

San Francisco, United States1–10Generative AI, Healthcare
Series ATotal funding$29.0MOct 2026
36
Wabi AI

AI-powered personal software platform enabling anyone to create and share custom mini apps via na...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$75.0MOct 2026
37
Zeroset

Zeroset builds Nebula, a state layer that gives AI agents current workflow context and queryable ...

San Francisco, United StatesArtificial Intelligence
Pre-seedTotal funding$5.2MOct 2026
38
Flow Engineering

Flow is a core collaboration platform that massively accelerates the development of complex hardw...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series BTotal funding$81.5MSep 2026
39
Miter

Miter is a construction operating system that connects people, projects, and payments, helping co...

San Francisco, United States51–200SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$79.5MSep 2026
40
SiMa

SiMa.ai is a physical AI semiconductor company developing MLSoC chips and a software platform for...

San Jose, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series CTotal funding$385.0MSep 2026
41
BigHat

BigHat Biosciences is a clinical-stage San Mateo biotech that designs antibody therapeutics by co...

San Mateo, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
Series CTotal funding$219.3MSep 2026
42
Dextr AI

Dextr provides AI workforce solutions that automate operations and improve customer experiences f...

Palo Alto, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$6.7MSep 2026
43
Trebellar

Trebellar unifies corporate real estate lease, cost, headcount and space data into a CRE-specific...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, PropTech
Series ATotal funding$18.0MSep 2026
44
Ema

Builds and deploys agentic AI employees to automate enterprise workflows across support, HR, fina...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Series BTotal funding$138.0MSep 2026
45
Firecrawl

API that searches, scrapes, and interacts with the web, turning live internet content into struct...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$91.2MSep 2026
46
Snorkel AI

Snorkel AI makes AI application development fast and practical by unlocking the power of machine ...

Redwood City, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Series ETotal funding$595.6MSep 2026
47
Arcee AI

Develops open-weight, domain-adapted language models and tools for enterprises, offering secure, ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$29.5MSep 2026
48
Kastle

Kastle provides specialized AI agents for 24/7 loan operations, helping FDIC-insured banks and IM...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services
Series ATotal funding$26.8MSep 2026
49
ViaBot

Viabot delivers autonomous sweeping robots that self-launch, sweep, recharge, empty, and report b...

Santa Clara, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, PropTech
Series ATotal funding$39.8MSep 2026
50
BackOps AI

BackOps AI: Boosting Your Productivity Without Changing Your Tech Stack Our AI assistant automate...

San Francisco, United States11–50Retail, Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$82.3MSep 2026