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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.

76
Gatik.AI

Gatik is the leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, enabling safe, consistent, high-frequenc...

Palo Alto, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence
Series DTotal funding$399.5MAug 2026
77
Standard Metrics

Standard Metrics centralizes performance and investment data, documents, and notes for venture ca...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Series BTotal funding$59.5MAug 2026
78
Quintessent Communications

Develops optical interconnect technology integrating quantum-dot comb lasers and silicon photonic...

Santa Barbara, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Series ATotal funding$51.5MAug 2026
79
Serif Health

Serif Health provides healthcare pricing data, analytics, and APIs for providers, payers, employe...

Los Angeles, United States1–10Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
Growth EquityTotal funding$2.5MAug 2026
80
Twin1

Twin1 gives every professional an AI digital twin. Your knowledge stays yours: governed permissio...

San Mateo, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$20.0MAug 2026
81
Kita

AI-native credit assessment platform that turns messy borrower applications into decision-ready f...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$4.5MAug 2026
82
Thunder Compute

Thunder Compute provides GPU instances for developers building AI and isolated Ubuntu sandboxes f...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Series ATotal funding$18.0MAug 2026
83
Etched

AI chip startup designing custom ASICs purpose-built for transformer-based artificial intelligenc...

Cupertino, United States51–200Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence
Venture RoundTotal funding$1.6BAug 2026
84
Hypercubic

Hypercubic provides domain-specific AI that accelerates mainframe modernization for enterprises a...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$5.3MAug 2026
85
Palona

Palona builds AI agents that capture restaurant demand, take orders, coordinate catering, and tur...

Palo Alto, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Series ATotal funding$30.0MAug 2026
86
Velaura AI

Velaura delivers ultra-low-power compute for physical AI and data center applications, reducing p...

San Jose, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Crypto & Web3
Series ATotal funding$110.0MAug 2026
87
Gamgee

Gamgee builds personalized mRNA cancer vaccines from each dog's tumor to help its immune system f...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
SeedTotal funding$4.0MAug 2026
88
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
89
Higgsfield

Generative AI platform for creators and social media teams to create and edit images, videos, and...

San Francisco, United States51–200Generative AI, Media
Series BTotal funding$718.0MAug 2026
90
Xpander.ai

xpander.ai provides an enterprise platform that lets organizations deploy AI agents with permissi...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$7.5MAug 2026