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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 73 of 75 ranked companies: $53.1B.

Showing top 75 matching companies · Ranked by most recent funding · Latest company record update Sep 29, 2026

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
P-1 AI

Builds 'Archie', an engineering AI that assists industrial OEMs with quantitative and spatial des...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Series ATotal funding$23.0MJul 2026
52
Weave

AI to understand and then route engineering work

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$17.7MJul 2026
53
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
54
Self Inspection

AI-powered vehicle inspection platform using computer vision to automate condition reporting, dam...

San Diego, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Venture RoundTotal funding$15.8MJul 2026
55
Assured

Provides an AI-driven claims intelligence platform that helps property-and-casualty insurers inge...

Palo Alto, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Insurtech
Series ATotal funding$48.3MJul 2026
56
Meshy

AI-powered tool that generates 3D models from text and images, supporting multiple art styles wit...

Sunnyvale, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence
Series BTotal funding$400.0MJul 2026
57
SkyPilot

Open-source framework for running, managing, and scaling AI workloads across any cloud or Kuberne...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$49.0MJul 2026
58
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
59
REO

AI-powered GTM platform that helps technical sales teams win deals using agentic workflows built ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series ATotal funding$16.5MJul 2026
60
Deuna

Provides a payments orchestration and intelligence platform that unifies payment providers to opt...

Palo Alto, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Fintech
Series ATotal funding$67.0MJul 2026
61
Fireworks AI

Fireworks AI provides infrastructure for developers to run, customize, and deploy open AI models ...

Redwood City, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$1.8BJul 2026
62
Emergent

Autonomous coding agents for software migration and modernization

San Francisco, United States11–50Developer Tools, Generative AI
Series CTotal funding$223.0MJul 2026
63
Chai Discovery

Chai Discovery builds frontier AI to predict and reprogram interactions between biochemical molec...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
Series CTotal funding$630.0MJul 2026
64
Cognify

AI-powered concussion clinic

Los Angeles, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Healthcare
SeedJul 2026
65
EdVisorly

EdVisorly delivers AI-powered innovation that modernizes transcript evaluation and gives students...

Los Angeles, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$13.3MJul 2026
66
Lyzr

The agent infrastructure platform for building reliable AI Agents

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$122.6MJul 2026
67
Nirva Labs

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

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$8.0MJul 2026
68
Ollama

Ollama enables developers to run open models locally or in the cloud and connect them to coding a...

Palo Alto, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series BTotal funding$65.0MJul 2026
69
Hakimo

AI-powered physical security monitoring platform that uses computer vision and generative AI to a...

Menlo Park, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
Growth EquityTotal funding$28.5MJul 2026
70
SambaNova Systems

Provides AI inference hardware and cloud platform for enterprises, using RDUs and SambaCloud to r...

Palo Alto, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
Series FTotal funding$2.5BJul 2026
71
Wonderdog

AI dog health diagnostic platform

Hermosa Beach, United StatesArtificial Intelligence, Pet Tech
Pre-seedTotal funding$5.0MJul 2026
72
Agave

AI Financial Operations for Construction

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Fintech
Series ATotal funding$18.0MJul 2026
73
Surtr Defense Systems

The hardware-agnostic operating system for drone defense

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
Pre-seedTotal funding$4.8MJul 2026
74
ChronicleBio

ChronicleBio builds an AI-ready, multi-omic data ecosystem to advance biomarker discovery, patien...

Menlo Park, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
Venture RoundTotal funding$5.4MJul 2026
75
Appnigma AI

Artificial intelligence startup.

Sacramento, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
Pre-seedJul 2026