Top AI startups in the United States
2,418 AI-native startups are based in the United States, 44 of them valued at $1bn or more. 1,529 were founded in the last three years.
- 1DeelThe all-in-one HR and payroll platform for global teamsSan Francisco$17.3bn
- 2Scale AIData-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI San Francisco$29bn
- 3Relativity SpaceBuilding humanity’s multiplanetary future.Los Angeles$4.2bn
- 4FaireThe global online platform empowering independent retail.San Francisco$12.6bn
- 5FigureGeneral-purpose humanoid robots.Sunnyvale$39bn
- 6PodiumGet more leads. Make more money. Lehi$1.5bn
- 7GroqLPU silicon for very fast model inference.Mountain View$20bn
- 8Anduril IndustriesAutonomous defence systems.Costa Mesa$61bn
- 9PerplexityAnswer engine that cites its sources.San Francisco$20bn
- 10CheckrPeople infrastructure for the future of workSan Francisco$4.6bn
- 11Cognition AIArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $48bn (September 2026).San Francisco$48bn
- 12PrometheusArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $41bn (June 2026).$41bn
- 13NuroAutonomous driving software.Mountain View$8.6bn
- 14VAST DataArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $30bn (March 2026).New York City$30bn
- 15VantaVanta—the proven leader in automated compliance helping startups…San Francisco$1.6bn
- 16HarveyGenerative AI built for law firms and in-house teams.San Francisco$15.5bn
- 17StarcloudData centers in spaceSeattle$1.1bn
- 18DataikuAI and data analytics software company.New York City$4.6bn
- 19CorgiCorgi is building an AI financial infrastructure companySan Francisco$1.3bn
- 20CohesityDeveloper of AI and data security software.Santa Clara$3.7bn
- 21EtchedArtificial intelligence. Valued at $10.3bn (July 2026).Cupertino$10.3bn
- 22AirbyteThe open standard in data connectivity for AI and analytics.San Francisco$1.5bn
- 23MercorArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $10bn (October 2025).San Francisco$10bn
- 24VercelCloud computing / AI. Valued at $9.3bn (September 2025).San Francisco$9.3bn
- 25HappyRobotIntelligence that runs your operations. San Francisco$1.2bn
- 26Together AIArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $8.3bn (July 2026).San Francisco$8.3bn
- 27SandboxAQQuantum technology, Artificial intelligence. Valued at $5.6bn (December 2024).Palo Alto$5.6bn
- 28HiggsfieldArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $5.4bn (August 2026).San Francisco$5.4bn
- 29DataRobotArtificial intelligence. Valued at $6.3bn (July 2021).Boston$6.3bn
- 30GongArtificial intelligence. Valued at $4.5bn (November 2025).San Francisco$4.5bn
- 31SambaNovaArtificial intelligence. Valued at $5.1bn (April 2021).Palo Alto$5.1bn
- 32River AIArtificial intelligence. Valued at $5bn (August 2026).$5bn
- 33AbridgeHealthcare technology and AI. Valued at $2.75bn (May 2025).Pittsburgh$2.8bn
- 34SunoArtificial intelligence. Valued at $2.45bn (November 2025).Cambridge$2.5bn
- 35InstinctArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $2.5bn (August 2026).$2.5bn
- 366senseArtificial intelligence. Valued at $2.1bn (March 2021).$2.1bn
- 37Eightfold.aiArtificial intelligence. Valued at $2.1+bn (June 2021).$2.1bn
- 38GammaArtificial intelligence. Valued at $2.1bn (November 2025).San Francisco$2.1bn
- 39HiveArtificial intelligence. Valued at $2bn (April 2021).$2bn
- 40SimileArtificial Intelligence. Valued at $2bn (July 2026).$2bn
- 41CrestaReal-time AI for contact centre agents.San Francisco$1.6bn
- 42OdysseyArtificial intelligence. Valued at $1.45bn (June 2026).$1.4bn
- 43SiftThe Leader in Digital Trust & SafetySan Francisco$1bn
- 44Character.AIConversational AI characters.Menlo Park$1bn
- 45AmplitudeDigital Analytics PlatformSan FranciscoPublic
- 46MatterportTurn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds.San FranciscoPublic
- 47PrestoDigital meets physical for big chain restaurantsSan FranciscoPublic
- 48Unsloth AIOpen-Source Reinforcement Learning (RL) & Fine-tuning for LLMs.San FranciscoEarly stage
- 49NanoNetsAutomatic Data ExtractionSan FranciscoGrowth
- 50Hugging FaceOpen hub for models, datasets and ML tooling.New York City
The top 50 of 2,418. Everything else is on the United States page.
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