Top 100 AI Companies 2026

Private artificial intelligence and machine learning companies, ranked by disclosed lifetime funding.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $634.2B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Latest company record update Oct 3, 2026

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.

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 RoundTotal funding$179.6BMar 2026

Anthropic

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, translating frontier safety...

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

Series G+Total funding$123.7BMay 2026

xAI

xAI builds AI systems, including Grok, with frontier reasoning, voice, and generative media capab...

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

Series ETotal funding$47.4BJan 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 RoundTotal funding$29.6BFeb 2026

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

Project Prometheus

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

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing

Series BTotal funding$18.2BJun 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 RoundTotal funding$11.3BMay 2026

Crusoe

AI infrastructure company building renewable-powered data centers and cloud compute optimized for...

Denver, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Clean Energy

Series FTotal funding$9.4BSep 2026

ByteDance

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

Beijing, China10001+Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

Growth EquityTotal funding$9.1BJun 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+Total funding$8.7BJan 2025

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

Moonshot AI

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

Beijing, China51–200Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Venture RoundTotal funding$7.6BJul 2026

DeepSeek

DeepSeek develops open-source models for agentic coding, reasoning, and long-context tasks, with ...

Hangzhou, China51–200Artificial Intelligence

Venture RoundTotal funding$7.4BJun 2026

Mistral AI

Mistral co-creates tailored AI systems for enterprises and governments, combining frontier models...

Paris, France501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI

Series DTotal funding$7.0BSep 2026

Nscale

AI compute infrastructure platform backed by NVIDIA.

London, United Kingdom201–500Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure

ConvertibleTotal funding$6.0BSep 2026

Shield AI

Shield AI builds AI pilots and autonomous aircraft systems that help defense customers deploy int...

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

Venture RoundTotal funding$4.5BMar 2026

Genesys

Genesys empowers more than 8,000 organizations worldwide with Genesys Cloud, an agentic AI experi...

Daly City, United States5001–10000Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Growth EquityTotal funding$4.5BJul 2025

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

Cognition

AI software engineering company building Devin, an autonomous AI coding agent capable of planning...

San Francisco, United States51–200Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools

Venture RoundTotal funding$4.1BSep 2026

Helsing

Helsing builds AI-enabled autonomous systems and precision-mass capabilities, partnering with gov...

Munich, Germany201–500Artificial Intelligence, Defense Tech

Series ETotal funding$4.1BJul 2026

Devoted Health

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

Waltham, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare

Series FTotal funding$3.8BJan 2026

Wayve

Wayve is building a general-purpose driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across ...

London, United Kingdom501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles

Extension RoundTotal funding$3.7BApr 2026

Verily Life Sciences

Verily builds AI-native precision health platforms that help healthcare organizations harmonize d...

Dallas, United States1001–5000Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare

Corporate RoundTotal funding$3.0BMar 2026

Firmus

Firmus designs and operates energy-efficient AI factories, combining proprietary cooling, grid or...

Launceston, Australia51–200Artificial Intelligence, Cloud

Venture RoundTotal funding$2.8BAug 2026

Lambda Labs

Lambda builds AI supercomputers and GPU clusters, combining NVIDIA hardware with liquid cooling f...

San Francisco, United States501–1000Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure

Series ETotal funding$2.8BNov 2025

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