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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.

51
Factory

Factory delivers an agent-native autonomy stack for enterprise engineering teams, using AI agents...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$420.0MSep 2026
52
Robocurve

We build open-source tools and independent benchmarks to evaluate how capable AI models and embod...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$10.0MSep 2026
53
Thatch

Modern health benefits platform helping employers offer Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement ...

San Francisco, United States11–50HR Tech, Insurance
Venture RoundTotal funding$191.6MSep 2026
54
Ayar Labs

Ayar Labs develops co-packaged optical I/O solutions that accelerate data movement for hyperscale...

San Jose, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Venture RoundTotal funding$1.2BSep 2026
55
Graph AI

Graph AI is building AI-native infrastructure designed to connect intelligence, context, complian...

Pleasanton, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Series ATotal funding$16.3MSep 2026
56
Maven Robotics

Maven Robotics builds autonomous industrial robots combining strength, adaptive dexterity, mobili...

San Francisco, United States11–50Mobility, Artificial Intelligence
Series ATotal funding$100.0MSep 2026
57
Motive

Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity and profitability of businesses that...

San Francisco, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Logistics
Growth EquityTotal funding$1.9BSep 2026
58
BuildCheck

AI-powered design review platform that detects errors, omissions, and coordination conflicts in c...

Palo Alto, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Construction Tech
Series ATotal funding$17.9MSep 2026
59
Celero Communications

Celero Communications develops coherent DSP solutions that enable high-bandwidth, low-power optic...

Irvine, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series CTotal funding$375.0MSep 2026
60
Cylake

AI-native cybersecurity platform built by Palo Alto Networks and SentinelOne veterans for regulat...

Sunnyvale, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
ConvertibleTotal funding$290.0MSep 2026
61
Harvey

Harvey is domain-specific AI for legal and professional services, streamlining contract analysis,...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Legal Tech
Venture RoundTotal funding$2.2BSep 2026
62
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
63
Sapien

AI platform that provides autonomous financial and operational analysis for finance, operations, ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$8.7MSep 2026
64
Gimlet Labs

Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab that builds high-performance AI systems, including serverl...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$392.0MSep 2026
65
Lasso Security

Lasso Security provides a cybersecurity platform for generative AI that helps enterprises control...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Venture RoundTotal funding$36.0MSep 2026
66
Lyte

Lyte unifies sensing hardware, custom silicon, and perception software into a single platform tha...

Mountain View, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Series CTotal funding$272.0MSep 2026
67
ByteAsk

ByteAsk builds an AI coding agent for C and C++ developers that runs in the terminal and verifies...

San Francisco, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Pre-seedTotal funding$1.0MSep 2026
68
Chip Mango

ChipMango provides educators and universities with an AI-powered learning platform featuring cust...

Irvine, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$1.9MSep 2026
69
Mona

Social venture that automates access to business capital, matching underbanked small business own...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Venture RoundTotal funding$3.5MSep 2026
70
Voxela

Voxela develops AI image analysis for care facilities and hospitals, supporting monitoring, accid...

Fremont, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Series ASep 2026
71
Wafer

Wafer runs AI agents that continuously profile and optimize GPU inference infrastructure, deliver...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$40.0MSep 2026
72
DeepCogito

Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI startup building open-source large language models toward gener...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$84.5MAug 2026
73
Mundo AI

Mundo develops data, evaluations, and applied research for frontier labs and AI companies advanci...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
Series ATotal funding$20.0MAug 2026
74
Onos Health

Onos’ AI platform provides the infrastructure for health plans to improve clinical quality while ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Series ATotal funding$23.3MAug 2026
75
Celera Semiconductor

Celera Semiconductor is a Santa Clara-based analog semiconductor company using AI-accelerated, fu...

Santa Clara, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
Series BTotal funding$50.0MAug 2026