Top 100 AI Companies 2026

The leading artificial intelligence and machine learning companies ranked by total funding. From foundation models to AI-powered SaaS.

As of July 2026, these 100 companies have raised $622.5B in combined funding.

Showing top 100 of 9,381 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Updated Jul 2026

OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artifi...

San Francisco, United States5001–10000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Corporate Round·$179.6B·Mar 2026

Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

San Francisco, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Series G+·$123.7B·May 2026

xAI

xAI is an AI platform for accelerating human scientific discovery.

San Francisco, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Series E·$41.4B·Jan 2026

Waymo

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for peo...

Mountain View, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles

Venture Round·$31.6B·May 2026

Databricks

Databricks is the pioneer of the data lakehouse, a unified platform for data science, machine lea...

San Francisco, United States10001+Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

Series G+·$19.0B·Dec 2025

Nscale

AI compute infrastructure platform backed by NVIDIA.

London, United Kingdom201–500Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure

Series C·$16.6B·Mar 2026

Anduril

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform US and allied mili...

Costa Mesa, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech

Venture Round·$15.3B·May 2026

Prometheus

AI-powered platform designed for immigration law firms

New York, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Legal Tech

Series B·$12.0B·Jun 2026

ByteDance

ByteDance is a Chinese technology company that utilizes AI to distribute content based on users' ...

Beijing, China10001+Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

Growth Equity·$9.1B·Jun 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, builds and launches advanced, reusable rockets and spacecraft with the goal of ma...

Hawthorne, United States10001+Aerospace, Space Tech

Series G+·$8.7B·Jan 2025

DeepSeek

Chinese AI startup known for open-source large language models with competitive performance.

Hangzhou, China51–200Artificial Intelligence

Venture Round·$7.4B·Jun 2026

Project Prometheus

AI company focused on applying artificial intelligence to physical tasks, launched with $6.2B ini...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence

Venture Round·$6.2B·Nov 2025

Saronic

Saronic provides naval and maritime forces with intelligent Autonomous Surface Vessels at scale, ...

Austin, United States501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles

Venture Round·$4.7B·Mar 2026

Moonshot AI

Chinese AI company building large language models and conversational AI assistant Kimi

Beijing, China51–200Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Venture Round·$4.6B·May 2026

Genesys

AI-powered customer experience and contact center platform serving enterprises globally.

Daly City, United States5001–10000Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Growth Equity·$4.5B·Jul 2025

Cursor

Cursor is the best way to code with AI, and built to make you extraordinarily productive.

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure

Venture Round·$4.5B·Mar 2026

Thinking Machine Labs

AI research and product company building customizable, multimodal AI systems.

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics

Seed·$4.0B·Mar 2026

Groq

Groq delivers fast, low cost AI inference using custom LPU (Language Processing Unit) chips and G...

Mountain View, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Hardware

Growth Equity·$3.9B·Jun 2026

Mistral AI

Mistral is on a mission to push AI forward, to serve the open community and their enterprise cust...

Paris, France501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Venture Round·$3.6B·May 2026

Precisely

Precisely is the global leader in data integrity, providing accuracy, consistency, and context in...

Burlington, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics

Private Equity·$3.5B·Apr 2022

Helsing

Helsing develops AI-based defense and security solutions for national defense.

Munich, Germany201–500Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech

Venture Round·$3.5B·May 2026

Devoted Health

Next-gen Medicare Advantage insurance plan with AI-forward medical group delivering quality and s...

Waltham, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare

Extension Round·$3.5B·Aug 2024

Shield AI

Shield AI's mission is to protect service members and innocent civilians with artificially intell...

San Diego, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech

Venture Round·$3.0B·Mar 2026

IFS

World's leading provider of Industrial AI for enterprise asset management and ERP

Linköping, Sweden5001–10000Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Private Equity·$3.0B·Jul 2020

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

Series B·$3.0B·Apr 2025

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