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OpenAI ↗
$300B+Microsoft, SoftBank, Amazon, Thrive Capital, a16z, Sequoia
Top Funded AI Companies 2026 (TechCrunch)
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The most well-funded AI companies as tracked by TechCrunch, ranked by total capital raised.
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Anthropic ↗
$35B+GIC, Coatue, Google, Amazon, Spark Capital, Salesforce Ventures
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xAI ↗
$30B+Valor Equity, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX
4
CoreWeave ↗
$12B+Coatue, Magnetar, Blackstone, NVIDIA
5
Databricks ↗
$10B+Thrive Capital, a16z, T. Rowe Price, NVIDIA
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Mistral AI ↗
$5B+ASML, DST Global, a16z, Bpifrance, General Catalyst
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Anduril ↗
$4.7B+Founders Fund, a16z, General Catalyst, Valor Equity
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Figure AI ↗
$2.6B+Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Jeff Bezos, Intel
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Scale AI ↗
$1.6B+Accel, Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Amazon
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Inflection AI ↗
$1.5B+Microsoft, NVIDIA, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman
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Cohere ↗
$1B+NVIDIA, Salesforce, Oracle, Inovia Capital
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Perplexity AI ↗
$1B+IVP, NEA, Databricks, Jeff Bezos, NVIDIA
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Glean ↗
$800M+Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Lightspeed, General Catalyst
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Cerebras ↗
$700M+Eclipse, Altimeter, Coatue
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Runway ↗
$500M+Google, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Felicis Ventures
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Aleph Alpha ↗
$500M+Bosch, SAP, 468 Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Adept AI ↗
$415M+General Catalyst, Spark Capital, Microsoft
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Hugging Face ↗
$400M+Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Sequoia
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Character.ai ↗
$300M+a16z, Google (licensing deal)
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Stability AI ↗
$300M+Coatue, Lightspeed, Intel, NVIDIA