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Top Seed Stage Startups 2026

Private companies whose latest recorded round was seed or pre-seed, ranked by disclosed lifetime funding.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $16.4B.

Showing top 100 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Latest company record update Oct 8, 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, Private Equity, Debt Financing 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
Ineffable

Ineffable creates superlearners that discover knowledge and skills from experience using powerful...

London, United Kingdom1–10Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$1.1BApr 2026
4
Tempo Labs

Visual Editor for React, powered by AI

Toronto, Canada1–10Artificial Intelligence, Design Tools
SeedTotal funding$505.0MOct 2025
5
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
6
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
7
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
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
SeedTotal funding$450.0MMar 2022
9
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
10
Checker

Stablecoin orchestration infrastructure

New York, United States11–50Crypto & Web3, Fintech
SeedTotal funding$378.0MMay 2026
11
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
12
Walden Robotics

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

Artificial Intelligence
SeedTotal funding$300.0MJul 2026
13
H Company

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

Paris, France51–200Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
SeedTotal funding$220.0MMay 2024
14
PB Health

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

Gurugram, India51–200Life Sciences, Healthcare
SeedTotal funding$218.0MMay 2025
15
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
16
January Capital

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

Singapore, Singapore11–50Fintech
SeedTotal funding$215.0MDec 2025
17
Genesis AI

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

Paris, France11–50Artificial Intelligence, Robotics
SeedTotal funding$210.0MMay 2026
18
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
19
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
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
SeedTotal funding$200.0MApr 2022
21
M
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
22
Atlas Data Storage

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

South San Francisco, United States
SeedTotal funding$155.0MMay 2025
23
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
24
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
25
Berentx

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

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