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.
1
OpenAI
$300B+Foundation models / AGI research
2
Anthropic
$35B+AI safety / enterprise LLMs
3
xAI
$30B+Foundation models / Grok
4
CoreWeave
$12B+GPU cloud infrastructure for AI
5
Databricks
$10B+Data + AI lakehouse platform
6
Mistral AI
$5B+Open-weight European LLMs
7
Anduril
$4.7B+Defense AI / autonomous systems
8
Figure AI
$2.6B+Humanoid robotics + AI
9
Scale AI
$1.6B+AI data labeling and RLHF
10
Inflection AI
$1.5B+Personal AI / absorbed by Microsoft
11
Cohere
$1B+Enterprise LLMs / RAG
12
Perplexity AI
$1B+AI-powered search engine
13
Glean
$800M+Enterprise AI search
14
Cerebras
$700M+AI chip / wafer-scale computing
15
Runway
$500M+Generative AI video / creative tools
16
Aleph Alpha
$500M+European sovereign AI
17
Adept AI
$415M+AI agents for enterprise software
18
Hugging Face
$400M+Open-source ML model hub
19
Character.ai
$300M+Conversational AI characters
20
Stability AI
$300M+Open-source image/video generation