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| # | Company | City | Stage | Last round | Date | Total raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xAI | Palo Alto | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-01-06 | $42.7B |
| 2 | DeepSeek | Hangzhou | Series A | Series A | 2026-06-16 | $7.4B |
| 3 | Lovable | Stockholm | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $952.5M |
| 4 | Etched | San Jose | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-08-18 | $1.6B |
| 5 | Socure | Incline Village | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-08-27 | $900.4M |
| 6 | Suno | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-06-03 | $775.0M |
| 7 | Fireworks AI | Redwood City | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-07-15 | $1.8B |
| 8 | Higgsfield | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-17 | $538.0M |
| 9 | Emerald AI | Washington | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-25 | $216.5M |
| 10 | Moonshot AI | Haidian | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-07-29 | $8.3B |
| 11 | n8n | Berlin | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-08 | |
| 12 | Together AI | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-01 | $1.3B |
| 13 | Agibot | Shanghai | Seed | Seed | 2025-08-01 | $84.8M |
| 14 | Starcloud | Redmond | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-21 | $443.9M |
| 15 | Apollo.io | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2023-08-29 | $251.3M |
| 16 | CodeRabbit | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $230.6M |
| 17 | CuspAI | Cambridge | Series B | Series B | 2026-06-17 | $580.0M |
| 18 | Stability AI | Los Angeles | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-25 | $332.0M |
| 19 | Horizon3.ai | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-08-03 | $428.5M |
| 20 | Legora | Stockholm | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-30 | |
| 21 | Anysphere | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-05 | |
| 22 | Terra Industries | Abuja | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-17 | $51.8M |
| 23 | Rillet | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-17 | $208.5M |
| 24 | Zenity | New York | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-03 | $184.5M |
| 25 | Pepper | New York | Series C | Series C | 2026-02-20 | $100.0M |
| 26 | Gravis Robotics | Zürich | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-17 | $223.0M |
| 27 | Harness | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-12-11 | $815.0M |
| 28 | Craif | Tokyo | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-08-18 | $68.7M |
| 29 | Generalist AI | San Mateo | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-24 | $753.0M |
| 30 | Insilico Medicine | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-03-13 | $624.3M |
| 31 | Multiverse Computing | Donostia-san Sebastián | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-27 | $843.7M |
| 32 | Humanoid | London | Series A | Series A | 2026-07-21 | $152.0M |
| 33 | Sarvam AI | Bengaluru | Series B | Series B | 2026-06-15 | $349.0M |
| 34 | Twelve Labs | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-01 | $210.1M |
| 35 | Cognition | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-08 | |
| 36 | Greyparrot | London | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-28 | $57.9M |
| 37 | Modular | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-24 | $380.0M |
| 38 | Nous Research | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-14 | $145.0M |
| 39 | Reltio | Redwood Shores | Series D+ | Series E | 2021-11-04 | $237.0M |
| 40 | Callosum | London | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-20 | $110.2M |
| 41 | Spring Health | New York | Series D+ | Series E | 2024-07-31 | $466.5M |
| 42 | Meshy AI | Sunnyvale | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-20 | $450.0M |
| 43 | Character.ai | Menlo Park | Series A | Series A | 2023-03-23 | |
| 44 | Entrepreneurs First | London | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-03-11 | $380.0M |
| 45 | Helsing | Munich | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-07-13 | $3.3B |
| 46 | Sesame | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2025-10-21 | |
| 47 | Corgi Insurance | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-22 | $374.5M |
| 48 | OpenEvidence | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-01-21 | $767.0M |
| 49 | Clay | New York | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-13 | $202.0M |
| 50 | VAST Data | New York | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-04-09 | $1.4B |
| 51 | Writer | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2024-11-12 | $326.0M |
| 52 | Inspiren | Brooklyn | Series B | Series B | 2025-09-25 | |
| 53 | Unitree Robotics | Hangzhou | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-19 | |
| 54 | X Square Robot | Shenzhen | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-29 | $591.0M |
| 55 | skan.ai | Menlo Park | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $117.0M |
| 56 | Emergent | Pleasanton | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-15 | $230.0M |
| 57 | Lumilens | San Jose | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-06 | $836.5M |
| 58 | Fora | New York | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-07-16 | $138.5M |
| 59 | InVideo | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2021-07-06 | $52.5M |
| 60 | Chai Discovery | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-14 | $631.0M |
| 61 | Findem | Redwood City | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-21 | |
| 62 | Reflection AI | New York | Series B | Series B | 2025-10-09 | $2.1B |
| 63 | NEURA Robotics | Metzingen | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-10 | $1.7B |
| 64 | Pathway | Palo Alto | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-11 | $45.5M |
| 65 | Windsurf | Mountain View | Series C | Series C | 2024-08-29 | |
| 66 | Assort Health | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-24 | $221.5M |
| 67 | Deepgram | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-18 | $215.9M |
| 68 | Advanced Machine Intelligence | Paris | Seed | Seed | 2026-03-10 | $1.0B |
| 69 | Baseten | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-06-22 | $2.1B |
| 70 | Crunchbase | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2022-07-20 | $106.5M |
| 71 | Sierra | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-05-04 | $1.6B |
| 72 | River AI | Palo Alto | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-11 | $1.1B |
| 73 | Cambridge Aerospace | Cambridge | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-10 | $600.0M |
| 74 | OLIX | London | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-03 | $562.0M |
| 75 | Harmonic | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2025-11-25 | |
| 76 | Mercor | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-27 | $483.6M |
| 77 | OpenRouter | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-05-26 | $153.0M |
| 78 | Augustus | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-21 | $249.4M |
| 79 | Saronic | Austin | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-03-31 | $2.6B |
| 80 | Saviynt | El Segundo | Series B | Series B | 2025-12-09 | $1.1B |
| 81 | Cowbell | Pleasanton | Series C | Series C | 2024-07-26 | $208.3M |
| 82 | ClickHouse | Mountain View | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-01-16 | $1.1B |
| 83 | HappyRobot | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-04 | $210.7M |
| 84 | Sapiom | San Francisco | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-05 | $50.8M |
| 85 | DEEPX | Seongnam | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-08-03 | $131.0M |
| 86 | Omilia | Limassol | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-06 | $87.0M |
| 87 | microagi | Munich | Seed | Seed | 2026-07-16 | $55.0M |
| 88 | Fal | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2025-12-09 | $337.5M |
| 89 | Cyera | New York | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-06-11 | |
| 90 | Digs | Vancouver | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-25 | $44.3M |
| 91 | Aureka Biotechnologies | Laguna Hills | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-10 | $168.4M |
| 92 | Onyx Security | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-29 | $153.0M |
| 93 | Standard Metrics | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-24 | $51.0M |
| 94 | AppZen | San Jose | Series D+ | Series D | 2025-09-22 | |
| 95 | Lyzr | Jersey City | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-11 | $125.4M |
| 96 | Fieldguide | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-02-02 | $125.0M |
| 97 | Lingchu Intelligence | Haidian | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-27 | $390.4M |
| 98 | Virtue AI | San Francisco | Series A | Series A | 2025-04-15 | $30.0M |
| 99 | EliseAI | New York | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-08-19 | $391.9M |
| 100 | Kong | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2024-11-19 | $344.1M |
Table 1. Top AI startups, by total raised. Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026. Base: 26,684.
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Cite: FundingWatcher, 26,684 startups, 4 September 2026. https://fundingwatcher.com/startups/artificial-intelligence/