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Top Seed-Stage Companies in the US 2026

Private companies headquartered in the United States whose latest recorded round was seed or pre-seed, ranked by disclosed lifetime funding.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $13.6B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised

Use company data through the API.
Example request
curl "https://indexed.vc/api/v1/companies?countries=United+States&operatingStatus=active&sort=total_funding_raised&order=desc&limit=100" -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

The API has no funding stage filter, so this includes every stage, not only Seed or Pre-Seed.

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 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
Thinking Machine Labs

Thinking Machines Lab develops AI research and products that help people customize AI for their u...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
SeedTotal funding$2.0BJul 2025
2
Recursive Superintelligence

Recursive builds self-improving AI systems to automate knowledge discovery using open-ended algor...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$1.1BMay 2026
3
Fair

Fair offers flexible vehicle service contracts that protect drivers from expensive mechanical and...

San Francisco, United States11–50Insurtech, Automotive
Pre-seedTotal funding$486.4MAug 2024
4
humans&

Human-centric frontier AI research lab building AI models that prioritize coordination, communica...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
SeedTotal funding$480.0MJan 2026
5
Unconventional AI

Unconventional AI develops physical computing systems that use dynamical hardware and co-designed...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
SeedTotal funding$475.0MDec 2025
6
Yuga Labs

Yuga Labs is a web3 platform building what's next, most known for the creation of the Bored Ape Y...

Miami, United States51–200Crypto & Web3, Gaming
SeedTotal funding$450.0MMar 2022
7
Algoma

Algoma provides developers an AI-native intelligence platform that turns real estate feasibility ...

New York, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$422.3MMay 2025
8
Checker

Stablecoin orchestration infrastructure

New York, United States11–50Crypto & Web3, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$378.0MMay 2026
9
Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties o...

San Francisco, United States51–200Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$300.0MSep 2025
10
Walden Robotics

A full-stack physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots.

Cambridge, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$300.0MJul 2026
11
Retailnext

Provides in-store shopper analytics and real-time retail insights using sensors, video analytics,...

San Jose, United States201–500Computer Vision, Data & Analytics
SeedTotal funding$218.0M
12
Paradigm

Paradigm is an AI research platform that runs agentic workflows in parallel to help investment an...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$210.0MAug 2025
13
BitClout

BitClout (now DeSo) is a layer-1 blockchain built to decentralize social media, enabling creator ...

San Francisco, United States11–50Crypto & Web3
SeedTotal funding$203.0MJul 2024
14
Binance US

US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange offering access to digital assets with low trading fees, lic...

San Francisco, United States201–500Crypto & Web3, Financial Services
SeedTotal funding$200.0MApr 2022
15
Mirendil

AI research lab building self-accelerating systems that turn compute into scientific and engineer...

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$200.0MJun 2026
16
Atlas Data Storage

Technology company building end-to-end DNA data storage solutions for long-term archival.

South San Francisco, United States11–50
SeedTotal funding$155.0MMay 2025
17
Inferact

Inferact is founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM and grows that open-source engin...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
SeedTotal funding$150.0MJan 2026
18
EvolutionaryScale

EvolutionaryScale develops frontier AI protein language models, including ESM3 and ESM Cambrian, ...

New York, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
SeedTotal funding$142.0MJun 2024
19
Berentx

Beren develops cyclodextrin-based therapeutics for conditions involving impaired cholesterol traf...

Thousand Oaks, United States51–200Biotech, Healthcare
SeedTotal funding$135.0MAug 2021
20
Tomo

AI-powered mortgage lender that automates origination to offer lower rates and simpler home buyin...

New York, United States51–200Fintech, Lending
SeedTotal funding$135.0MJun 2026
21
Volantis Semi

Volantis builds photonic wires, optical interconnect inside the accelerator, so AI systems can pl...

United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
SeedTotal funding$129.0MJun 2025
22
Honeybee

HoneyBee is an HR financial wellness platform helping employers attract and retain talent through...

Los Angeles, United States11–50Fintech, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$118.7MSep 2021
23
Trase

Trase empowers organizations to deploy secure, governed AI within their own data and infrastructu...

McLean, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech
SeedTotal funding$117.5MJun 2026
24
Valinor

Defense and government technology holding company building and acquiring mission-critical product...

Baltimore, United States11–50Defense Tech, GovTech
SeedTotal funding$110.0MMar 2026
25
Tribal

Tribal provides corporate cards and B2B payment solutions for startups and SMEs in emerging markets.

San Francisco, United States51–200Fintech
SeedTotal funding$105.5MMay 2026