Top 100 US Startups 2026

The most-funded private companies headquartered in the United States — from Silicon Valley to New York, Austin, and beyond.

Known total funding for 100 of 100 ranked companies: $697.5B.

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, 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.

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

Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers develops and operates scalable wholesale data-center campuses for hyperscale...

Santa Clara, United States1001–5000Cloud, Infrastructure

Growth EquityTotal funding$17.2BSep 2025

JUUL

Juul Labs develops vapor products designed to offer adult smokers an alternative to combustible c...

Washington, United States501–1000Hardware

Corporate RoundTotal funding$14.8BDec 2018

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

Stripe

Stripe provides payments, billing, money-management, fraud-prevention, and identity tools that he...

South San Francisco, United States5001–10000Banking, Fintech

Series G+Total funding$8.8BMar 2023

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

Epic Games

Leading interactive entertainment company and developer of Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and the Epic ...

CARY, United States1001–5000Developer Tools, Entertainment

Corporate RoundTotal funding$7.9BFeb 2024

Fanatics

Fanatics operates an integrated global sports platform delivering personalized fan experiences th...

Jacksonville, United States5001–10000E-Commerce, Sports

Growth EquityTotal funding$4.7BDec 2022

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

Generate Capital

Generate is a North American energy platform delivering reliable, affordable, lower-carbon power ...

San Francisco, United States201–500Climate Tech

Growth EquityTotal funding$4.5BJan 2024

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

Inizio

Inizio helps health and life sciences clients realize product potential through deep expertise, g...

New York, United States10001+Healthcare

Venture RoundTotal funding$4.4B

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

Commonwealth Fusion Systems

MIT spinout developing compact fusion energy plants using high-temperature superconducting magnet...

Devens, United States501–1000Climate Tech, Energy

Venture RoundTotal funding$3.9BJul 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

Shields Health Solutions

The nation's first company to integrate specialty pharmacies into hospitals and health systems, h...

United StatesHealthcare, Drug Discovery

Corporate RoundTotal funding$3.5BSep 2025

Infinite Reality

Immersive technology company enabling brands and creators to convert 2D digital experiences into ...

Orlando, United StatesAR/VR, Media

Growth EquityTotal funding$3.4BJan 2025

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