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Top Seed Stage Startups 2026

The best-funded seed stage startups. Early bets from top investors in 2026.

As of August 2026, these 100 companies have raised $16.9B in combined funding.

Showing top 100 of 13,717 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Updated Aug 2026

1
Thinking Machine Labs

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

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Data & Analytics
Seed·$2.0B·Jul 2025
2
Recursive Superintelligence

Months-old startup developing self-teaching AI toward superintelligence.

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$1.1B·May 2026
3
Ineffable

AI startup founded by DeepMind's David Silver building systems that learn without human data.

London, United Kingdom1–10Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$1.1B·Apr 2026
4
Checker

Stablecoin orchestration infrastructure

New York, United States11–50Crypto & Web3, Fintech
Seed·$538.0M·May 2026
5
Fair

Don't let breakdowns break the bank

San Francisco, United States11–50Insurtech, Automotive
Pre-seed·$486.4M·Aug 2024
6
humans&

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

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed·$480.0M·Jan 2026
7
Unconventional AI

Building energy-efficient AI compute systems, founded by former Databricks head of AI Naveen Rao

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors
Seed·$475.0M·Dec 2025
8
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
Seed·$450.0M·Mar 2022
9
Algoma

Automating the repeatable delivery of zero-carbon buildings

New York, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed·$422.3M·May 2025
10
Reve Image

AI image generation platform trained for prompt adherence, aesthetics, and typography with advanc...

Palo Alto, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$390.0M
11
Genesis AI

Physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company building generalist robots and a universal roboti...

Paris, France11–50Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
Seed·$315.0M·May 2026
12
Periodic Labs

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

San Francisco, United States51–200Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$300.0M·Sep 2025
13
Walden Robotics

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

Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$300.0M·Jul 2026
14
H Company

H Company builds and deploys agentic AI systems — virtual humanoid agents — that automate enterpr...

Paris, France51–200Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed·$220.0M·May 2024
15
PB Health

PB Health is a comprehensive healthcare delivery platform comprising network of hospitals, preven...

Gurugram, India51–200Life Sciences, Healthcare
Seed·$218.0M·May 2025
16
Retailnext

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

San Jose, United States201–500Computer Vision, Data & Analytics
Seed·$218.0M
17
January Capital

Venture debt fund providing flexible credit solutions to growth-stage Asia-Pacific companies

Singapore, Singapore11–50Fintech
Seed·$215.0M·Dec 2025
18
Paradigm

A reimagined workspace with AI at its core

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$208.0M·Aug 2025
19
BitClout

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

San Francisco, United States11–50Crypto & Web3
Seed·$203.0M·Jul 2024
20
Binance US

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

San Francisco, United States201–500Crypto & Web3, Financial Services
Seed·$200.0M·Apr 2022
21
M
Mirendil

AI research lab by former Anthropic researchers helping scientists develop AI.

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence
Seed·$200.0M·Jun 2026
22
Armadin

AI cybersecurity startup

San Francisco, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity
Seed·$190.0M·Mar 2026
23
Atlas Data Storage

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

South San Francisco, United States
Seed·$155.0M·May 2025
24
Inferact

AI inference startup commercializing the open-source vLLM project for high-performance large lang...

San Francisco, United States1–10Artificial Intelligence, Cloud
Seed·$150.0M·Jan 2026
25
EvolutionaryScale

AI research lab building frontier protein and genome language models for the life sciences

New York, United States11–50Artificial Intelligence, Biotech
Seed·$142.0M·Jun 2024

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