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Top 100 US Startups 2026

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

As of August 2026, these 100 companies have raised $774.5B in combined funding.

Showing top 100 of 28,760 matching companies · Ranked by total funding raised · Updated Aug 2026

1
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
2
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
3
xAI

xAI is an AI platform for accelerating human scientific discovery.

San Francisco, United States201–500Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
Series E·$47.4B·Jan 2026
4
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·$29.6B·Feb 2026
5
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+·$20.0B·Jul 2026
6
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 B·$18.2B·Jun 2026
7
Vantage Data Centers

Wholesale data center campus operator serving hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprise...

Santa Clara, United States1001–5000Cloud, Infrastructure
Growth Equity·$17.2B·Sep 2025
8
JUUL

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

Washington, United States501–1000Hardware, Electronic Cigarettes
Corporate Round·$14.8B·Dec 2018
9
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·$11.3B·May 2026
10
Sedgwick

Claims management and productivity solutions

Memphis, United States10001+Insurance, business services
Private Equity·$11.2B·Sep 2024
11
Sempra Infrastructure Partners

Leading North American energy infrastructure platform.

San Diego, United States1001–5000Climate Tech
Corporate Round·$10.4B·Sep 2025
12
Subway

World's largest fast-food restaurant chain by number of locations, specializing in submarine sand...

Milford, United States10001+Food & Beverage, Retail
Private Equity·$9.6B·Aug 2023
13
Stripe

Economic infrastructure for the internet.

South San Francisco, United States5001–10000Banking, Fintech
Series G+·$8.8B·Mar 2023
14
Varsity Brands

A platform comprised of two businesses with a mission of elevating the student experience through...

Dallas, United States5001–10000Education, Retail
Private Equity·$8.8B·Aug 2024
15
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
16
Novolex

Leading US manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging serving foodservice, restauran...

Hartsville, United States5001–10000
Private Equity·$8.5B·Apr 2022
17
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 Equity·$8.0B·Jul 2026
18
Epic Games

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

CARY, United States1001–5000Developer Tools, Entertainment
Corporate Round·$7.9B·Feb 2024
19
USI Insurance Services

USI is one of the largest private insurance brokers

Valhalla, United States10001+Fintech
Private Equity·$7.6B·Sep 2023
20
Acosta

Sales and marketing agency for consumer goods

Jacksonville, United StatesMarketing Services, Retail
Private Equity·$7.0B·Jan 2014
21
Port Arthur LNG

Fully permitted, greenfield LNG export facility strategically located on the Gulf Coast where the...

Port Arthur, United States201–500Energy, Infrastructure
Private Equity·$7.0B·Sep 2025
22
LIV Golf

LIV Golf is a professional golf league featuring team-based competition with 13 teams, 57 players...

New York, United States51–200Sports & Entertainment, Sports
Corporate Round·$5.3B·Feb 2026
23
Fanatics

Fanatics, the market leader for licensed sports merchandise, offers the largest assortment of fan...

Jacksonville, United States5001–10000E-Commerce, Sports
Growth Equity·$4.7B·Dec 2022
24
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·$4.5B·Mar 2026
25
Generate Capital

Sustainable infrastructure finance

San Francisco, United States201–500Climate Tech
Growth Equity·$4.5B·Jan 2024

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