Lab Index

An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.

Valuation

LabValuationFoundedSpaceHQFoundersMoreJobs
Anthropic$965B2021Frontier labSan FranciscoDario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, Jack Clark, Jared KaplanDetailsApply
OpenAI$852B2015Frontier labSan FranciscoSam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, John SchulmanDetailsApply
xAI$250B2023Frontier labPalo AltoElon MuskDetailsApply
Waymo$126B2016Autonomous vehiclesMountain ViewSebastian Thrun, Anthony Levandowski, Chris UrmsonDetailsApply
CoreWeave~$65B (mkt cap)2017AI infrastructureLivingstonMichael Intrator, Brian Venturo, Brannin McBeeDetailsApply
Anduril Industries$61B2017Defense AICosta MesaPalmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, Joseph ChenDetailsApply
Cerebras Systems~$56B (mkt cap)2016AI compute hardwareSunnyvaleAndrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, Jean-Philippe FrickerDetailsApply
DeepSeek$45B2023Open-source LLMsHangzhouLiang WenfengDetailsApply
Prometheus$41B2025Industrial AISan FranciscoJeff Bezos, Vik BajajDetails
Figure AI$39B2022RoboticsSunnyvaleBrett AdcockDetailsApply
SSI (Safe Superintelligence)$32B2024Frontier labPalo Alto / Tel AvivIlya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel LevyDetailsApply
Cognition AI$26B2023Coding agentsSan FranciscoScott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden YanDetailsApply
Reflection AI$25B2024Coding agentsNew YorkMisha Laskin, Ioannis AntonoglouDetailsApply
Kling AI$20B2024VideoBeijingSu HuaDetails
Moonshot AI$20B2023Frontier labBeijingYang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu YuxinDetails
Perplexity$20B2022Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoAravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy KonwinskiDetailsApply
Helsing$18B2021Defense AIMunichGundbert Scherf, Niklas Köhler, Torsten ReilDetailsApply
Sierra$15B2023Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoBret Taylor, Clay BavorDetailsApply
Isomorphic Labs>$15B2021Bio / AI drug discoveryLondonDemis HassabisDetailsApply
Applied Intuition$15B2017Autonomous vehiclesSunnyvaleQasar Younis, Peter LudwigDetailsApply
Mistral AI~$14B2023Open-source LLMsParisArthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée LacroixDetailsApply
Skild AI>$14B2023RoboticsPittsburghDeepak Pathak, Abhinav GuptaDetailsApply
Hugging Face$13.5B2016Open-source LLMsBrooklyn, NYClément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas WolfDetailsApply
Shield AI$12.7B2015Defense AISan DiegoBrandon Tseng, Ryan Tseng, Andrew ReiterDetailsApply
Thinking Machines Lab$12B2025Frontier labSan FranciscoMira MuratiDetailsApply
Poolside$12B2023Coding modelsParis / San FranciscoEiso Kant, Jason WarnerDetailsApply
MiniMax~$11.5B2021Foundation models & agentsShanghaiYan Junjie, Yang Bin, Zhou YucongDetailsApply
Physical Intelligence~$11B2024RoboticsSan FranciscoSergey Levine, Karol Hausman, Chelsea FinnDetailsApply
ElevenLabs$11B2022VoiceLondonMati Staniszewski, Piotr DabkowskiDetailsApply
Harvey$11B2022Legal AISan FranciscoWinston Weinberg, Gabriel PereyraDetailsApply
StepFun$10B2023Foundation models & agentsShanghaiJiang DaxinDetails
Anysphere~$9B2022Coding agentsSan FranciscoMichael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, Aman SangerDetailsApply
Replit$9B2016Coding agentsSan FranciscoAmjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya OdehDetailsApply
Tempus AI~$9B (mkt cap)2015Bio / healthcare AIChicagoEric LefkofskyDetailsApply
Wayve$8.6B2017RoboticsLondonAlex Kendall, Amar ShahDetailsApply
Glean$7.2B2019Enterprise agentsPalo AltoArvind Jain, T. R. Vishwanath, Piyush Prahladka, Tony GentilcoreDetailsApply
Periodic Labs~$7B2025Bio / AI material discoverySan FranciscoLiam Fedus, Ekin Dogus CubukDetailsApply
Cohere~$7B2019Enterprise LLMsTorontoAidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, Nick FrosstDetailsApply
Neura Robotics~$7B2019RoboticsMetzingenDavid RegerDetailsApply
Zhipu AI~$6.6B (mkt cap)2019Foundation models & agentsBeijingTang Jie, Li JuanziDetails
Motional$6.5B2020Autonomous vehiclesBostonKarl IagnemmaDetailsApply
Groq~$6.4B2016AI compute hardwareMountain ViewJonathan Ross, Douglas WightmanDetailsApply
Hark$6B2025Foundation models & agentsSunnyvaleBrett AdcockDetailsApply
Nuro$6B2016Autonomous vehiclesMountain ViewJiajun Zhu, Dave FergusonDetailsApply
SandboxAQ$5.75B2022Quantum + AIPalo AltoJack HidaryDetailsApply
Abridge$5.3B2018Bio / healthcare AIPittsburghShiv Rao, Sandeep KonamDetailsApply
Runway$5.3B2018VideoNew YorkCristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro MatamalaDetailsApply
Apptronik$5.3B2016RoboticsAustinJeff Cardenas, Nick Paine, Luis SentisDetailsApply
Ineffable Intelligence$5.1B2025Frontier labLondonDavid SilverDetailsApply
Core Automation>$5B2026AgentsSan FranciscoJerry TworekDetails
World Labs$5B2024World modelsSan FranciscoFei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben MildenhallDetailsApply
Etched$5B2022AI compute hardwareCupertinoGavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, Robert WachenDetailsApply
Recursive$4.65B2025AI researchLondonRichard Socher, Tim Rocktäschel, Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, Tim ShiDetails
Unconventional AI$4.5B2025AI compute hardwareSan FranciscoNaveen Rao, Michael Carbin, Sara Achour, MeeLan LeeDetails
Humans&$4.48B2025RL for HumansSan FranciscoAndi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah GoodmanDetails
Ricursive Intelligence$4B2025Frontier labPalo AltoAnna Goldie, Azalia MirhoseiniDetailsApply
The Bot Company$4B2024RoboticsSan FranciscoKyle Vogt, Paril Jain, Luke HoloubekDetailsApply
Xaira Therapeutics~$4B2024Bio / AI drug discoverySan FranciscoMarc Tessier-Lavigne, David Baker, Hetu KamisettyDetailsApply
Fireworks AI$4B2022Open-source LLMsRedwood CityLin Qiao, Dmytro DzhulgakovDetailsApply
Inflection AI~$4B2022GeneralPalo AltoMustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, Karén SimonyanDetailsApply
Luma AI$4B2021VideoPalo AltoAmit Jain, Alex YuDetailsApply
AMI Labs~$3.5B2025World modelsParisYann LeCun, Alexandre LebrunDetails
Hippocratic AI$3.5B2023Bio / healthcare AIPalo AltoMunjal ShahDetailsApply
Preferred Networks~$3.5B2014Industrial AITokyoToru Nishikawa, Daisuke OkanoharaDetailsApply
Together AI~$3.3B2022Open-source LLMsSan FranciscoVipul Ved Prakash, Ce ZhangDetailsApply
Black Forest Labs$3.25B2024ImageFreiburgRobin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas BlattmannDetailsApply
Celestial AI$3.25B (acq.)2020AI compute hardwareSanta ClaraDavid Lazovsky, Preet VirkDetails
Tenstorrent~$3.2B2016AI compute hardwareTorontoLjubisa Bajic, Ivan Hamer, Milos TrajkovicDetailsApply
Decart$3.1B2023World modelsTel AvivDean Leitersdorf, Moshe ShalevDetailsApply
Linkerbot$3B2023RoboticsBeijingAlex ZhouDetails
Aleph Alpha$3B2019Enterprise LLMsHeidelbergJonas Andrulis, Samuel WeinbachDetailsApply
AI² Robotics~$2.93B2023RoboticsShenzhenYangdong Eric GuoDetails
Stability AI~$2.8B2019ImageLondonEmad MostaqueDetailsApply
Baichuan AI~$2.7B2023Foundation models & agentsBeijingWang XiaochuanDetails
Covariant$2.7B2017RoboticsEmeryville, CAPieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, Tianhao ZhangDetailsApply
Sakana AI$2.65B2023Efficient modelsTokyoDavid Ha, Llion Jones, Ren ItoDetailsApply
Flourish$2.5B2025Continual learningNew YorkRob Williams, Thomas Reardon, Joshua T. VogelsteinDetailsApply
insitro~$2.5B2018Bio / AI drug discoverySouth San FranciscoDaphne KollerDetailsApply
Suno~$2.45B2022Audio / musicCambridge, MAMichael Shulman, Georg Kucsko, Martin Camacho, Keenan FreybergDetailsApply
Exa$2.2B2021Search / retrievalSan FranciscoWill Bryk, Jeff WangDetailsApply
SambaNova Systems~$2.2B2017AI infrastructurePalo AltoKunle Olukotun, Christopher Ré, Rodrigo LiangDetailsApply
Mind Robotics~$2B2025RoboticsPalo Alto, CARJ ScaringeDetails
Field AI$2B2024RoboticsMission Viejo, CAAli AghaDetailsApply
H (The H Company)$2B2024Foundation models & agentsParisCharles Kantor, Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan WierstraDetailsApply
Galbot~$2B2023RoboticsBeijingWang HeDetails
Liquid AI$2B2023Efficient modelsBostonRamin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, Daniela RusDetailsApply
d-Matrix$2B2019AI compute hardwareSanta ClaraSid Sheth, Sudeep BhojaDetailsApply
Generate Biomedicines~$2B2018Bio / AI drug discoverySomerville, MAGeoffrey von Maltzahn, Molly Gibson, Gevorg Grigoryan, Avak Kahvejian, Noubar AfeyanDetailsApply
Writer$1.9B2020Enterprise LLMsSan FranciscoMay Habib, Waseem AlShikhDetailsApply
Unitree Robotics~$1.8B2016RoboticsHangzhouWang XingxingDetailsApply
Agility Robotics~$1.75B2015RoboticsSalem, ORJonathon Hurst, Damion Shelton, Mikhail JonesDetailsApply
Recursion~$1.75B (mkt cap)2013Bio / AI drug discoverySalt Lake CityChris Gibson, Dean Li, Blake BorgesonDetailsApply
Rhoda AI$1.7B2024RoboticsPalo AltoJagdeep Singh, Eric Ryan Chan, Gordon WetzsteinDetails
LMArena$1.7B2023Safety / evalsSan FranciscoWei-Lin Chiang, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Ion StoicaDetailsApply
Axiom Math$1.6B2025MathCarina HongDetailsApply
Modular$1.6B2022FrameworksMountain ViewChris Lattner, Tim DavisDetailsApply
Cresta$1.6B2017VoiceSan FranciscoZayd Enam, Tim Shi, Sebastian ThrunDetailsApply
Spirit AI$1.5B2024RoboticsHangzhouChen JianyuDetails
Decagon~$1.5B2023Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoJesse Zhang, Ashwin SreenivasDetailsApply
Factory~$1.5B2023Coding agentsSan FranciscoMatan GrinbergDetailsApply
Magic$1.5B2023Coding agentsSan FranciscoEric Steinberger, Sebastian De RoDetailsApply
RobotEra~$1.5B2023RoboticsBeijingChen Jianyu, Yang FengxiangDetails
Sarvam~$1.5B2023Foundation models & agentsBangaloreVivek Raghavan, Pratyush KumarDetailsApply
Harmonic$1.45B2023MathPalo AltoVlad Tenev, Tudor AchimDetailsApply
AI21 Labs$1.4B2017Enterprise LLMsTel AvivYoav Shoham, Amnon Shashua, Ori GoshenDetailsApply
Chai Discovery$1.3B2024Bio / AI drug discoverySan FranciscoJoshua Meier, Jack DentDetailsApply
Higgsfield$1.3B2023VideoSan FranciscoAlex Mashrabov, Yerzat Dulat, Mahi de SilvaDetails
Lila Sciences>$1.3B2023Bio / AI lab automationCambridge, MAGeoffrey von Maltzahn, Noubar Afeyan, Molly GibsonDetailsApply
Snorkel AI~$1.3B2019Open-source LLMsRedwood CityAlex Ratner, Chris Ré, Braden Hancock, Henry Ehrenberg, Paroma VarmaDetailsApply
Deepgram$1.3B2015VoiceSan FranciscoScott Stephenson, Adam Sypniewski, Noah ShuttyDetailsApply
Goodfire$1.25B2024InterpretabilitySan FranciscoEric Ho, Tom McGrath, Daniel Balsam, Myra DengDetailsApply
LangChain~$1.25B2022FrameworksSan FranciscoHarrison Chase, Ankush GolaDetailsApply
Codeium$1.25B2021Coding agentsMountain ViewVarun Mohan, Douglas ChenDetailsApply
Fundamental$1.2B2024Enterprise LLMsNew York / Tel AvivJeremy Fraenkel, Annie Lamont, Gabriel SuissaDetails
Orbital~$1.2B2022Bio / AI material discoveryLondon / San FranciscoJonathan Godwin, James Gin-Pollock, Daniel MiodovnikDetails
Hailo$1.2B2017AI compute hardwareTel AvivOrr Danon, Avi Baum, Hadar Zeitlin, Rami FeigDetailsApply
Lightmatter$1.2B2017AI compute hardwareBostonNicholas Harris, Darius Bunandar, Thomas GrahamDetailsApply
Prior Labs$1.16B (acq.)2024Foundation models & agentsFreiburgFrank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, Sauraj GambhirDetailsApply
Upstage~$1.16B2020Open-source LLMsSeoulSung Kim, Lucy Park, Hwalsuk LeeDetailsApply
Flapping Airplanes>$1B2025Frontier labSan FranciscoBen Spector, Asher Spector, Aidan SmithDetails
General Intuition~$1B2025World modelsSan FranciscoPim de Witte, Moritz Baier-LentzDetails
Mirendil~$1B2025UnknownSan FranciscoBehnam Neyshabur, Harsh MehtaDetails
Ndea<$1B2025Program synthesisSan FranciscoFrançois Chollet, Mike KnoopDetailsApply
Aaru$1B2024SimulationNew YorkCameron Fink, Ned Koh, John KesslerDetails
EvolutionaryScale>$1B2024Bio / AI drug discoveryNew YorkAlexander Rives, Tom Sercu, Salvatore CandidoDetailsApply
Moonvalley$1B2024VideoToronto / London / Los AngelesNaeem Talukdar, Mateusz Malinowski, Mik Binkowski, John Thomas, Bryn MooserDetailsApply
Olix>$1B2024AI compute hardwareLondonJames DacombeDetailsApply
Prime Intellect<$1B2024Decentralized AI trainingSan FranciscoVincent Weisser, Johannes HagemannDetailsApply
01.AI$1B2023Foundation models & agentsBeijingKai-Fu LeeDetails
AAI>$1B2023Frontier labJerusalemAmnon Shashua, Shai Shalev-ShwartzDetails
Earendil Labs~$1B2023Bio / AI drug discoveryWilmington, DEBo ChenDetails
Essential AI$1B2023Open-source LLMsSan FranciscoAshish Vaswani, Niki ParmarDetailsApply
Krutrim$1B2023Frontier labBengaluruBhavish AggarwalDetails
Kyutai>$1B2023VoiceParisXavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé, Eric SchmidtDetailsApply
Nous Research$1B2023Open-source LLMsNew York CityJeffrey Quesnelle, Karan Malhotra, Teknium, Shivani MitraDetailsApply
Positron AI>$1B2023AI compute hardwareReno, NVThomas Sohmers, Barrett Woodside, Edward KmettDetailsApply
Sesame>$1B2023VoiceSan FranciscoBrendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar, Ryan BrownDetailsApply
X Square Robot~$1B2023RoboticsShenzhenWang QianDetails
Adept AI>$1B2022Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoDavid Luan, Niki Parmar, Ashish VaswaniDetailsApply
ModelBest~$1B2022Efficient modelsBeijingLiu Zhiyuan, Zeng GuoyangDetails
Reka$1B2022MultimodalSan FranciscoDani Yogatama, Yi Tay, Qi Liu, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Mikel ArtetxeDetailsApply
Character.AI$1B2021Foundation models & agentsMenlo ParkNoam Shazeer, Daniel de FreitasDetailsApply
Zyphra$1B2021Open-source LLMsPalo AltoKrithik Puthalath, Beren Millidge, Tomás Figliolia, Danny MartinelliDetailsApply
Imbue$1B2020Reasoning agentsSan FranciscoKanjun Qiu, Josh AlbrechtDetailsApply
Genesis Therapeutics~$1B2019Bio / AI drug discoveryBurlingame, CAEvan Feinberg, Ben SklaroffDetailsApply
Owkin$1B2016Bio / AI drug discoveryParis / New YorkThomas Clozel, Gilles WainribDetailsApply
Speak$1B2016Education AISan FranciscoConnor Zwick, Andrew HsuDetailsApply
1X Technologies~$1B2014RoboticsPalo Alto / MossBernt BørnichDetailsApply
Schrödinger~$1B (mkt cap)1990Bio / AI drug discoveryNew YorkRichard Friesner, William GoddardDetailsApply
Augment Code$977M2022Coding agentsPalo AltoIgor Ostrovsky, Guy Gur-Ari, Scott DietzenDetailsApply
Merge Labs$850M2025AI researchMiami / San FranciscoSam Altman, Alex Blania, Mikhail Shapiro, Tyson Aflalo, Sumner Norman, Sandro HerbigDetailsApply
Absci~$800M (mkt cap)2011Bio / AI drug discoveryVancouver, WASean McClainDetailsApply
Tessl$750M2024Coding agentsLondonGuy PodjarnyDetailsApply
Profluent~$750M2022Bio / AI drug discoveryBerkeleyAli Madani, Alexander MeeskeDetailsApply
Pika~$700M2023VideoSan FranciscoDemi Guo, Chenlin MengDetailsApply
Isara$650M2025FrameworksSan FranciscoEddie Zhang, Henry GasztowttDetails
AssemblyAI~$650M2017VoiceSan FranciscoDylan FoxDetailsApply
Dyna Robotics~$600M2024RoboticsSan FranciscoLindon Gao, York Yang, Jason MaDetailsApply
Adaption Labs~$500M2025Continual learningSan FranciscoSara Hooker, Sudip RoyDetails
Simile~$500M2025SimulationPalo AltoJoon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein, Percy Liang, Lainie YallenDetails
CuspAI~$500M2024Bio / AI material discoveryCambridge, UKMax Welling, Chad EdwardsDetailsApply
Genesis AI~$500M2024RoboticsParis / San FranciscoZhou Xian, Théophile GervetDetails
Inception Labs~$500M2024Diffusion LLMsPalo AltoStefano Ermon, Aditya Grover, Volodymyr KuleshovDetailsApply
Standard Intelligence~$500M2024Frontier labSan FranciscoGalen Mead, Devansh PandeyDetails
Sunday Robotics~$500M2024RoboticsMountain ViewTony Zhao, Cheng ChiDetailsApply
Krea~$500M2022ImageSan FranciscoVictor Perez, Diego RodriguezDetailsApply
Inworld AI~$500M2021VoiceMountain ViewIlya Gelfenbeyn, Kylan Gibbs, Michael ErmolenkoDetailsApply
Nabla~$500M2018Bio / healthcare AIParisAlexandre Lebrun, Delphine Groll, Martin RaisonDetailsApply
Sana~$500M2016Enterprise agentsStockholmJoel HellermarkDetailsApply
Numerai$500M2015FinanceSan FranciscoRichard CraibDetailsApply
depthfirst~$400M2024SafetySan FranciscoAndrea Banino, Qasim MunyeDetails
Inceptive~$400M2021Bio / AI drug discoveryPalo AltoJakob Uszkoreit, Rhiju DasDetailsApply
11x~$350M2022Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoHasan SukkarDetailsApply
Spellbook$350M2018Legal AISt. John's, CanadaScott Stevenson, Daniel Di Maria, Matthew MayersDetailsApply
Sooth Labs~$335M2025Prediction / ForecastingPittsburghYaser Sheikh, Russ Salakhutdinov, Chuck HooverDetails
Artemis~$300M2025SafetyNew YorkShachar Hirshberg, Dan ShieblerDetails
Elorian~$300M2025MultimodalSan FranciscoAndrew Dai, Yinfei Yang, Seth NeelDetails
Poetiq~$300M2025FrameworksMountain View, CAShumeet Baluja, Ian FischerDetails
Recraft~$300M2022ImageLondonAnna Veronika DorogushDetailsApply
Cradle Bio~$300M2021Bio / AI drug discoveryAmsterdam / ZurichStef van Grieken, Jelle Prins, Elise de Reus, Eli Bixby, Harmen van RossumDetailsApply
Lakera~$300M (acq.)2021SafetyZurichDavid Haber, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Matthias KraftDetailsApply
Tavus~$300M2020VideoSan FranciscoHassaan Raza, Quinn FavretDetailsApply
Arcee AI~$240M2023Open-source LLMsMiamiMark McQuade, Brian BenedictDetailsApply
Ideogram~$235M2022ImageTorontoMohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, Chitwan Saharia, William ChanDetailsApply
Hume AI~$220M2021VoiceNew YorkAlan Cowen, Janet HoDetailsApply
Bland AI~$200M2023VoiceSan FranciscoIsaiah Granet, Sobhan NejadDetailsApply
Hedra~$200M2023VideoSan FranciscoMichael Lingelbach, Alex BergmanDetailsApply
Latent Labs~$200M2023Bio / AI drug discoveryLondon / San FranciscoSimon KohlDetailsApply
RoboForce~$200M2023RoboticsFremont, CALeo MaDetails
Udio~$200M2023Audio / musicLondon / New YorkDavid Ding, Conor Durkan, Charlie Nash, Yaroslav Ganin, Andrew SanchezDetailsApply
Iambic Therapeutics~$200M2019Bio / AI drug discoverySan DiegoThomas Miller, Fred ManbyDetailsApply
Symbolica AI~$150M2022Reasoning agentsSan FranciscoGeorge MorganDetailsApply
Genmo~$125M2022VideoSan FranciscoParas Jain, Ajay JainDetailsApply
Bioptimus~$100M2024Bio / AI drug discoveryParisJean-Philippe Vert, Rodolphe JenattonDetailsApply
LlamaIndex~$100M2023FrameworksSan FranciscoJerry Liu, Simon SuoDetailsApply
MultiOn~$100M2023Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoDiv Garg, Omar ShayaDetailsApply
Patronus AI~$100M2023Safety / evalsNew YorkAnand Kannappan, Rebecca QianDetailsApply
Atomic AI~$70M2017Bio / AI drug discoverySan FranciscoRaphael TownshendDetails
Lindy AI~$50M2023Foundation models & agentsSan FranciscoFlo CrivelloDetailsApply
Numina~$5M2023MathParisJia Li, Yann Fleureau, Guillaume Lample, Stan Polu, Hélène EvainDetails
Scale Labs2026Safety / evalsSan FranciscoBing LiuDetailsApply
Autoscience2025AI researchSilicon ValleyEliot CowanDetails
Inherent2025AI researchLondonTantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan AleksievDetails
LawZero2025SafetyMontrealYoshua BengioDetailsApply
Living Models2025Bio / AI drug discoveryParis / BerkeleyCyril Veran, Leonard Strouk, Bertrand GakiereDetailsApply
Math Inc.2025MathPalo AltoChristian SzegedyDetails
Mechanize2025Coding agentsSan FranciscoTamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, Ege ErdilDetailsApply
Moonlake AI2025UnknownSan FranciscoFan-Yun Sun, Sharon LeeDetails
NeoCognition2025Reasoning agentsPalo AltoYu Su, Xiang Deng, Yu GuDetails
Origin Lab2025World modelsSan FranciscoAnne-Margot RoddeDetails
Phylo2025Bio / AI drug discoverySouth San FranciscoKexin Huang, Yuanhao Qu, Jure Leskovec, Le CongDetailsApply
PrismML2025Efficient modelsPasadenaBabak Hassibi, Sahin Lale, Omead Pooladzandi, Reza SadriDetails
Reactor2025World modelsSan FranciscoAlberto Taiuti, Bryce SchmidtchenDetails
SpAItial2025World modelsMunich / LondonMatthias Niessner, Luke Rogers, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, David NovotnyDetails
Thomson Reuters + Imperial College London Frontier AI Research Lab2025Frontier labLondonAlessandra Russo, Jonathan Richard SchwarzDetails
Antim Labs2024UnknownNew YorkViswajit Vinod Nair, Ronald Netawat, Shreyans KothariDetails
Eridu2024AI infrastructureSan JoseDrew Perkins, Omar HassenDetails
Eureka Labs2024AI researchSan FranciscoAndrej KarpathyDetails
Generalist2024RoboticsSan FranciscoPete Florence, Andy Zeng, Andy Barry, Kamyar GhasemipourDetails
Helical2024Bio / AI drug discoveryLuxembourgRick Schneider, Maxime Allard, Mathieu KlopDetails
Hiverge2024Program synthesisCambridge, UKAlhussein Fawzi, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Hamza FawziDetailsApply
KLAY2024Audio / musicLos AngelesAry AttieDetails
Persona AI2024RoboticsHoustonNicolaus Radford, Jerry Pratt, Jide AkinyodeDetails
Situational Awareness2024FinanceSan FranciscoLeopold AschenbrennerDetails
Tilde Research2024InterpretabilitySan FranciscoMason WangDetailsApply
Transluce2024InterpretabilitySan FranciscoJacob Steinhardt, Sarah SchwettmannDetailsApply
AgiBot2023RoboticsShanghaiDeng Taihua, Peng ZhihuiDetails
Airis Labs2023Defense AIWashington DC / Tel AvivNoam Friedman, Rotem Abeles, Amos LahavDetails
Apollo Research2023InterpretabilityLondonMarius HobbhahnDetailsApply
Atla AI2023Safety / evalsLondonMaurice Burger, Roman EngelerDetailsApply
Braintrust2023Safety / evalsSan FranciscoAnkur GoyalDetailsApply
ByteDance AI (Doubao / Seed)2023Frontier labBeijingLiang Rubo, Zhu WenjiaDetailsApply
Cartesia2023VoiceSan FranciscoKaran Goel, Albert Gu, Arjun Desai, Brandon YangDetailsApply
Contextual AI2023Enterprise LLMsMountain ViewDouwe Kiela, Amanpreet SinghDetailsApply
Converge Bio2023Bio / AI drug discoveryBoston / Tel AvivDov GertzDetails
DatologyAI2023Synthetic data / data curationRedwood CityAri Morcos, Matthew Leavitt, Bogdan GazaDetailsApply
EngineAI2023RoboticsShenzhenZhao TongyangDetails
FutureHouse2023AI researchSan FranciscoSam Rodriques, Andrew WhiteDetailsApply
Haize Labs2023Safety / evalsNew YorkLeonard Tang, Richard Liu, Steve LiDetailsApply
Manifest AI2023Efficient modelsBarcelonaJacob Buckman, Carles GeladaDetails
Odyssey2023World modelsPalo Alto / LondonOliver Cameron, Jeff HawkeDetailsApply
Reliant AI2023Bio / AI drug discoveryBerlin / MontrealKarl Moritz Hermann, Marc Bellemare, Richard SchlegelDetails
Center for AI Safety2022SafetySan FranciscoDan Hendrycks, Oliver ZhangDetails
Conjecture2022InterpretabilityLondonConnor LeahyDetailsApply
EnCharge AI2022AI compute hardwareSanta ClaraNaveen Verma, Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Echere IroagaDetailsApply
Epoch AI2022AI researchBerkeleyJaime SevillaDetailsApply
Extropic2022AI compute hardwareAustin, TXGuillaume Verdon, Trevor McCourtDetailsApply
FAR.AI2022SafetyBerkeleyAdam GleaveDetailsApply
Fractile2022AI compute hardwareLondonWalter GoodwinDetailsApply
Leap Labs2022InterpretabilityLondonJessica RumbelowDetailsApply
Lelapa AI2022Open-source LLMsJohannesburgPelonomi Moiloa, Jade Abbott, Vukosi MarivateDetailsApply
Leonardo.Ai2022ImageSydneyJJ Fiasson, Christopher Gillis, Jachin Bhasme, Peter Runham, Sami Ede, Ethan SmithDetailsApply
METR2022Safety / evalsBerkeleyBeth BarnesDetailsApply
Nomic AI2022Open-source LLMsNew YorkBrandon Duderstadt, Andriy MulyarDetailsApply
Terray Therapeutics2022Bio / AI drug discoveryMonrovia, CAJacob Berlin, Eli BerlinDetailsApply
The Biological Computing Company2022AI compute hardwareLondonAlex Ksendsovsky, Jon PomeraniecDetails
Axelera AI2021AI compute hardwareEindhovenFabrizio Del MaffeoDetailsApply
Galileo2021Safety / evalsSan FranciscoVikram Chatterji, Atindriyo Sanyal, Yash ShethDetailsApply
Midjourney2021ImageSan FranciscoDavid HolzDetailsApply
Redwood Research2021SafetyBerkeleyBuck Shlegeris, Nate ThomasDetailsApply
TwelveLabs2021VideoSan Francisco / SeoulJae Lee, Soyoung Lee, Aiden Lee, Dave Chung, SJ KimDetailsApply
Waabi2021RoboticsTorontoRaquel UrtasunDetailsApply
Atmo2020Climate / weather AISan FranciscoAlex Levy, Johan MatheDetailsApply
Enveda2019Bio / AI drug discoveryBoulderViswa ColluruDetailsApply
MBZUAI / Institute of Foundation Models2019Foundation models & agentsAbu DhabiDetailsApply
Machina Labs2019Industrial AILos AngelesEdward Mehr, Babak RaeisiniaDetailsApply
Multiverse Computing2019Quantum + AISan SebastiánEnrique Lizaso, Román Orús, Alfonso Rubio, Sam MugelDetailsApply
Relation Therapeutics2019Bio / AI drug discoveryLondonCharles Roberts, Benjamin Swerner, Jake Taylor-KingDetails
Aurora Innovation2017Autonomous vehiclesPittsburghChris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, Drew BagnellDetailsApply
Jupiter Intelligence2017Climate / weather AISan MateoRich Sorkin, Eric Wun, Josh Hacker, Alan BlumbergDetailsApply
MOSTLY AI2017Synthetic data / data curationViennaTobias Hann, Klaudius Kalcher, Roland Boubela, Michael PlatzerDetailsApply
May Mobility2017Autonomous vehiclesAnn ArborEdwin Olson, Alisyn Malek, Steve VozarDetailsApply
Tencent AI (Hunyuan)2016Frontier labShenzhenPony Ma, Zhang TongDetailsApply
Fourier2015RoboticsShanghaiAlex GuDetails
Ai22014AI researchSeattlePaul AllenDetailsApply
Insilico Medicine2014Bio / AI drug discoveryBoston / Hong KongAlex ZhavoronkovDetailsApply
Zoox2014Autonomous vehiclesFoster CityTim Kentley-Klay, Jesse LevinsonDetailsApply
Baidu AI (ERNIE)2013Frontier labBeijingRobin Li, Wang HaifengDetailsApply
Arena PhysicaUnknownNYCDetails
Grafton SciencesBio / AI lab automationRedwood City, CADetailsApply
Logical IntelligenceReasoning agentsSan FranciscoEve BodniaDetails
Virtue AIUnknownDetails

confirmed valuation * rumored or estimated ~ approximate > lower bound < upper bound (mkt cap) public market cap (acq.) acquisition price

Frontier lab2021San Francisco
Founders: Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan
$852B
Frontier lab2015San Francisco
Founders: Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman
$250B
Frontier lab2023Palo Alto
Founders: Elon Musk
$126B
Autonomous vehicles2016Mountain View
Founders: Sebastian Thrun, Anthony Levandowski, Chris Urmson
~$65B (mkt cap)
AI infrastructure2017Livingston
Founders: Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, Brannin McBee
Defense AI2017Costa Mesa
Founders: Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm, Joseph Chen
~$56B (mkt cap)
AI compute hardware2016Sunnyvale
Founders: Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael James, Sean Lie, Jean-Philippe Fricker
Open-source LLMs2023Hangzhou
Founders: Liang Wenfeng
Industrial AI2025San Francisco
Founders: Jeff Bezos, Vik Bajaj
Robotics2022Sunnyvale
Founders: Brett Adcock
Frontier lab2024Palo Alto / Tel Aviv
Founders: Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy
Coding agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan
Coding agents2024New York
Founders: Misha Laskin, Ioannis Antonoglou
Video2024Beijing
Founders: Su Hua
Frontier lab2023Beijing
Founders: Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, Wu Yuxin
Foundation models & agents2022San Francisco
Founders: Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski
Defense AI2021Munich
Founders: Gundbert Scherf, Niklas Köhler, Torsten Reil
$15B
Foundation models & agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Bret Taylor, Clay Bavor
Bio / AI drug discovery2021London
Founders: Demis Hassabis
Autonomous vehicles2017Sunnyvale
Founders: Qasar Younis, Peter Ludwig
Open-source LLMs2023Paris
Founders: Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, Timothée Lacroix
Robotics2023Pittsburgh
Founders: Deepak Pathak, Abhinav Gupta
Open-source LLMs2016Brooklyn, NY
Founders: Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf
$12.7B
Defense AI2015San Diego
Founders: Brandon Tseng, Ryan Tseng, Andrew Reiter
Frontier lab2025San Francisco
Founders: Mira Murati
Coding models2023Paris / San Francisco
Founders: Eiso Kant, Jason Warner
~$11.5B
Foundation models & agents2021Shanghai
Founders: Yan Junjie, Yang Bin, Zhou Yucong
Robotics2024San Francisco
Founders: Sergey Levine, Karol Hausman, Chelsea Finn
Voice2022London
Founders: Mati Staniszewski, Piotr Dabkowski
$11B
Legal AI2022San Francisco
Founders: Winston Weinberg, Gabriel Pereyra
Foundation models & agents2023Shanghai
Founders: Jiang Daxin
Coding agents2022San Francisco
Founders: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, Aman Sanger
Coding agents2016San Francisco
Founders: Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya Odeh
~$9B (mkt cap)
Bio / healthcare AI2015Chicago
Founders: Eric Lefkofsky
$8.6B
Robotics2017London
Founders: Alex Kendall, Amar Shah
$7.2B
Enterprise agents2019Palo Alto
Founders: Arvind Jain, T. R. Vishwanath, Piyush Prahladka, Tony Gentilcore
Bio / AI material discovery2025San Francisco
Founders: Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk
~$7B
Enterprise LLMs2019Toronto
Founders: Aidan Gomez, Ivan Zhang, Nick Frosst
Robotics2019Metzingen
Founders: David Reger
~$6.6B (mkt cap)
Foundation models & agents2019Beijing
Founders: Tang Jie, Li Juanzi
Autonomous vehicles2020Boston
Founders: Karl Iagnemma
~$6.4B
AI compute hardware2016Mountain View
Founders: Jonathan Ross, Douglas Wightman
$6B
Foundation models & agents2025Sunnyvale
Founders: Brett Adcock
$6B
Autonomous vehicles2016Mountain View
Founders: Jiajun Zhu, Dave Ferguson
$5.75B
Quantum + AI2022Palo Alto
Founders: Jack Hidary
$5.3B
Bio / healthcare AI2018Pittsburgh
Founders: Shiv Rao, Sandeep Konam
$5.3B
Video2018New York
Founders: Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala
Robotics2016Austin
Founders: Jeff Cardenas, Nick Paine, Luis Sentis
Frontier lab2025London
Founders: David Silver
Agents2026San Francisco
Founders: Jerry Tworek
World models2024San Francisco
Founders: Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben Mildenhall
AI compute hardware2022Cupertino
Founders: Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, Robert Wachen
$4.65B
AI research2025London
Founders: Richard Socher, Tim Rocktäschel, Josh Tobin, Jeff Clune, Tim Shi
AI compute hardware2025San Francisco
Founders: Naveen Rao, Michael Carbin, Sara Achour, MeeLan Lee
$4.48B
RL for Humans2025San Francisco
Founders: Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman
Frontier lab2025Palo Alto
Founders: Anna Goldie, Azalia Mirhoseini
Robotics2024San Francisco
Founders: Kyle Vogt, Paril Jain, Luke Holoubek
Bio / AI drug discovery2024San Francisco
Founders: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, David Baker, Hetu Kamisetty
Open-source LLMs2022Redwood City
Founders: Lin Qiao, Dmytro Dzhulgakov
General2022Palo Alto
Founders: Mustafa Suleyman, Reid Hoffman, Karén Simonyan
Video2021Palo Alto
Founders: Amit Jain, Alex Yu
~$3.5B
World models2025Paris
Founders: Yann LeCun, Alexandre Lebrun
Bio / healthcare AI2023Palo Alto
Founders: Munjal Shah
Industrial AI2014Tokyo
Founders: Toru Nishikawa, Daisuke Okanohara
Open-source LLMs2022San Francisco
Founders: Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang
Image2024Freiburg
Founders: Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, Andreas Blattmann
$3.25B (acq.)
AI compute hardware2020Santa Clara
Founders: David Lazovsky, Preet Virk
AI compute hardware2016Toronto
Founders: Ljubisa Bajic, Ivan Hamer, Milos Trajkovic
$3.1B
World models2023Tel Aviv
Founders: Dean Leitersdorf, Moshe Shalev
Robotics2023Beijing
Founders: Alex Zhou
Enterprise LLMs2019Heidelberg
Founders: Jonas Andrulis, Samuel Weinbach
Robotics2023Shenzhen
Founders: Yangdong Eric Guo
Image2019London
Founders: Emad Mostaque
Foundation models & agents2023Beijing
Founders: Wang Xiaochuan
Robotics2017Emeryville, CA
Founders: Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, Rocky Duan, Tianhao Zhang
$2.65B
Efficient models2023Tokyo
Founders: David Ha, Llion Jones, Ren Ito
Continual learning2025New York
Founders: Rob Williams, Thomas Reardon, Joshua T. Vogelstein
~$2.5B
Bio / AI drug discovery2018South San Francisco
Founders: Daphne Koller
~$2.45B
Audio / music2022Cambridge, MA
Founders: Michael Shulman, Georg Kucsko, Martin Camacho, Keenan Freyberg
$2.2B
Search / retrieval2021San Francisco
Founders: Will Bryk, Jeff Wang
AI infrastructure2017Palo Alto
Founders: Kunle Olukotun, Christopher Ré, Rodrigo Liang
Robotics2025Palo Alto, CA
Founders: RJ Scaringe
Robotics2024Mission Viejo, CA
Founders: Ali Agha
Foundation models & agents2024Paris
Founders: Charles Kantor, Karl Tuyls, Laurent Sifre, Julien Perolat, Daan Wierstra
~$2B
Robotics2023Beijing
Founders: Wang He
Efficient models2023Boston
Founders: Ramin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, Daniela Rus
AI compute hardware2019Santa Clara
Founders: Sid Sheth, Sudeep Bhoja
Bio / AI drug discovery2018Somerville, MA
Founders: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Molly Gibson, Gevorg Grigoryan, Avak Kahvejian, Noubar Afeyan
$1.9B
Enterprise LLMs2020San Francisco
Founders: May Habib, Waseem AlShikh
Robotics2016Hangzhou
Founders: Wang Xingxing
Robotics2015Salem, OR
Founders: Jonathon Hurst, Damion Shelton, Mikhail Jones
~$1.75B (mkt cap)
Bio / AI drug discovery2013Salt Lake City
Founders: Chris Gibson, Dean Li, Blake Borgeson
Robotics2024Palo Alto
Founders: Jagdeep Singh, Eric Ryan Chan, Gordon Wetzstein
$1.7B
Safety / evals2023San Francisco
Founders: Wei-Lin Chiang, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica
Math2025
Founders: Carina Hong
$1.6B
Frameworks2022Mountain View
Founders: Chris Lattner, Tim Davis
$1.6B
Voice2017San Francisco
Founders: Zayd Enam, Tim Shi, Sebastian Thrun
Robotics2024Hangzhou
Founders: Chen Jianyu
~$1.5B
Foundation models & agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Jesse Zhang, Ashwin Sreenivas
~$1.5B
Coding agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Matan Grinberg
$1.5B
Coding agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Eric Steinberger, Sebastian De Ro
~$1.5B
Robotics2023Beijing
Founders: Chen Jianyu, Yang Fengxiang
~$1.5B
Foundation models & agents2023Bangalore
Founders: Vivek Raghavan, Pratyush Kumar
$1.45B
Math2023Palo Alto
Founders: Vlad Tenev, Tudor Achim
Enterprise LLMs2017Tel Aviv
Founders: Yoav Shoham, Amnon Shashua, Ori Goshen
Bio / AI drug discovery2024San Francisco
Founders: Joshua Meier, Jack Dent
Video2023San Francisco
Founders: Alex Mashrabov, Yerzat Dulat, Mahi de Silva
Bio / AI lab automation2023Cambridge, MA
Founders: Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Noubar Afeyan, Molly Gibson
Open-source LLMs2019Redwood City
Founders: Alex Ratner, Chris Ré, Braden Hancock, Henry Ehrenberg, Paroma Varma
Voice2015San Francisco
Founders: Scott Stephenson, Adam Sypniewski, Noah Shutty
$1.25B
Interpretability2024San Francisco
Founders: Eric Ho, Tom McGrath, Daniel Balsam, Myra Deng
~$1.25B
Frameworks2022San Francisco
Founders: Harrison Chase, Ankush Gola
$1.25B
Coding agents2021Mountain View
Founders: Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen
Enterprise LLMs2024New York / Tel Aviv
Founders: Jeremy Fraenkel, Annie Lamont, Gabriel Suissa
~$1.2B
Bio / AI material discovery2022London / San Francisco
Founders: Jonathan Godwin, James Gin-Pollock, Daniel Miodovnik
$1.2B
AI compute hardware2017Tel Aviv
Founders: Orr Danon, Avi Baum, Hadar Zeitlin, Rami Feig
AI compute hardware2017Boston
Founders: Nicholas Harris, Darius Bunandar, Thomas Graham
$1.16B (acq.)
Foundation models & agents2024Freiburg
Founders: Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann, Sauraj Gambhir
~$1.16B
Open-source LLMs2020Seoul
Founders: Sung Kim, Lucy Park, Hwalsuk Lee
Frontier lab2025San Francisco
Founders: Ben Spector, Asher Spector, Aidan Smith
World models2025San Francisco
Founders: Pim de Witte, Moritz Baier-Lentz
Unknown2025San Francisco
Founders: Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta
<$1B
Program synthesis2025San Francisco
Founders: François Chollet, Mike Knoop
$1B
Simulation2024New York
Founders: Cameron Fink, Ned Koh, John Kessler
Bio / AI drug discovery2024New York
Founders: Alexander Rives, Tom Sercu, Salvatore Candido
Video2024Toronto / London / Los Angeles
Founders: Naeem Talukdar, Mateusz Malinowski, Mik Binkowski, John Thomas, Bryn Mooser
>$1B
AI compute hardware2024London
Founders: James Dacombe
Decentralized AI training2024San Francisco
Founders: Vincent Weisser, Johannes Hagemann
Foundation models & agents2023Beijing
Founders: Kai-Fu Lee
>$1B
Frontier lab2023Jerusalem
Founders: Amnon Shashua, Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Bio / AI drug discovery2023Wilmington, DE
Founders: Bo Chen
Open-source LLMs2023San Francisco
Founders: Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar
Frontier lab2023Bengaluru
Founders: Bhavish Aggarwal
>$1B
Voice2023Paris
Founders: Xavier Niel, Rodolphe Saadé, Eric Schmidt
Open-source LLMs2023New York City
Founders: Jeffrey Quesnelle, Karan Malhotra, Teknium, Shivani Mitra
AI compute hardware2023Reno, NV
Founders: Thomas Sohmers, Barrett Woodside, Edward Kmett
>$1B
Voice2023San Francisco
Founders: Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar, Ryan Brown
Robotics2023Shenzhen
Founders: Wang Qian
Foundation models & agents2022San Francisco
Founders: David Luan, Niki Parmar, Ashish Vaswani
Efficient models2022Beijing
Founders: Liu Zhiyuan, Zeng Guoyang
$1B
Multimodal2022San Francisco
Founders: Dani Yogatama, Yi Tay, Qi Liu, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Mikel Artetxe
Foundation models & agents2021Menlo Park
Founders: Noam Shazeer, Daniel de Freitas
Open-source LLMs2021Palo Alto
Founders: Krithik Puthalath, Beren Millidge, Tomás Figliolia, Danny Martinelli
Reasoning agents2020San Francisco
Founders: Kanjun Qiu, Josh Albrecht
Bio / AI drug discovery2019Burlingame, CA
Founders: Evan Feinberg, Ben Sklaroff
Bio / AI drug discovery2016Paris / New York
Founders: Thomas Clozel, Gilles Wainrib
Education AI2016San Francisco
Founders: Connor Zwick, Andrew Hsu
Robotics2014Palo Alto / Moss
Founders: Bernt Børnich
~$1B (mkt cap)
Bio / AI drug discovery1990New York
Founders: Richard Friesner, William Goddard
Coding agents2022Palo Alto
Founders: Igor Ostrovsky, Guy Gur-Ari, Scott Dietzen
AI research2025Miami / San Francisco
Founders: Sam Altman, Alex Blania, Mikhail Shapiro, Tyson Aflalo, Sumner Norman, Sandro Herbig
~$800M (mkt cap)
Bio / AI drug discovery2011Vancouver, WA
Founders: Sean McClain
$750M
Coding agents2024London
Founders: Guy Podjarny
~$750M
Bio / AI drug discovery2022Berkeley
Founders: Ali Madani, Alexander Meeske
~$700M
Video2023San Francisco
Founders: Demi Guo, Chenlin Meng
$650M
Frameworks2025San Francisco
Founders: Eddie Zhang, Henry Gasztowtt
Voice2017San Francisco
Founders: Dylan Fox
Robotics2024San Francisco
Founders: Lindon Gao, York Yang, Jason Ma
Continual learning2025San Francisco
Founders: Sara Hooker, Sudip Roy
~$500M
Simulation2025Palo Alto
Founders: Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein, Percy Liang, Lainie Yallen
~$500M
Bio / AI material discovery2024Cambridge, UK
Founders: Max Welling, Chad Edwards
Robotics2024Paris / San Francisco
Founders: Zhou Xian, Théophile Gervet
Diffusion LLMs2024Palo Alto
Founders: Stefano Ermon, Aditya Grover, Volodymyr Kuleshov
Frontier lab2024San Francisco
Founders: Galen Mead, Devansh Pandey
Robotics2024Mountain View
Founders: Tony Zhao, Cheng Chi
~$500M
Image2022San Francisco
Founders: Victor Perez, Diego Rodriguez
Voice2021Mountain View
Founders: Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Kylan Gibbs, Michael Ermolenko
~$500M
Bio / healthcare AI2018Paris
Founders: Alexandre Lebrun, Delphine Groll, Martin Raison
~$500M
Enterprise agents2016Stockholm
Founders: Joel Hellermark
$500M
Finance2015San Francisco
Founders: Richard Craib
Safety2024San Francisco
Founders: Andrea Banino, Qasim Munye
~$400M
Bio / AI drug discovery2021Palo Alto
Founders: Jakob Uszkoreit, Rhiju Das
~$350M
Foundation models & agents2022San Francisco
Founders: Hasan Sukkar
Legal AI2018St. John's, Canada
Founders: Scott Stevenson, Daniel Di Maria, Matthew Mayers
Prediction / Forecasting2025Pittsburgh
Founders: Yaser Sheikh, Russ Salakhutdinov, Chuck Hoover
~$300M
Safety2025New York
Founders: Shachar Hirshberg, Dan Shiebler
~$300M
Multimodal2025San Francisco
Founders: Andrew Dai, Yinfei Yang, Seth Neel
~$300M
Frameworks2025Mountain View, CA
Founders: Shumeet Baluja, Ian Fischer
~$300M
Image2022London
Founders: Anna Veronika Dorogush
Bio / AI drug discovery2021Amsterdam / Zurich
Founders: Stef van Grieken, Jelle Prins, Elise de Reus, Eli Bixby, Harmen van Rossum
~$300M (acq.)
Safety2021Zurich
Founders: David Haber, Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Matthias Kraft
~$300M
Video2020San Francisco
Founders: Hassaan Raza, Quinn Favret
~$240M
Open-source LLMs2023Miami
Founders: Mark McQuade, Brian Benedict
~$235M
Image2022Toronto
Founders: Mohammad Norouzi, Jonathan Ho, Chitwan Saharia, William Chan
~$220M
Voice2021New York
Founders: Alan Cowen, Janet Ho
~$200M
Voice2023San Francisco
Founders: Isaiah Granet, Sobhan Nejad
~$200M
Video2023San Francisco
Founders: Michael Lingelbach, Alex Bergman
Bio / AI drug discovery2023London / San Francisco
Founders: Simon Kohl
~$200M
Robotics2023Fremont, CA
Founders: Leo Ma
~$200M
Audio / music2023London / New York
Founders: David Ding, Conor Durkan, Charlie Nash, Yaroslav Ganin, Andrew Sanchez
Bio / AI drug discovery2019San Diego
Founders: Thomas Miller, Fred Manby
Reasoning agents2022San Francisco
Founders: George Morgan
~$125M
Video2022San Francisco
Founders: Paras Jain, Ajay Jain
~$100M
Bio / AI drug discovery2024Paris
Founders: Jean-Philippe Vert, Rodolphe Jenatton
Frameworks2023San Francisco
Founders: Jerry Liu, Simon Suo
~$100M
Foundation models & agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Div Garg, Omar Shaya
Safety / evals2023New York
Founders: Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian
Bio / AI drug discovery2017San Francisco
Founders: Raphael Townshend
Foundation models & agents2023San Francisco
Founders: Flo Crivello
~$5M
Math2023Paris
Founders: Jia Li, Yann Fleureau, Guillaume Lample, Stan Polu, Hélène Evain
Safety / evals2026San Francisco
Founders: Bing Liu
AI research2025Silicon Valley
Founders: Eliot Cowan
AI research2025London
Founders: Tantum Collins, Edward Hughes, Louis Kirsch, Kaloyan Aleksiev
Safety2025Montreal
Founders: Yoshua Bengio
Bio / AI drug discovery2025Paris / Berkeley
Founders: Cyril Veran, Leonard Strouk, Bertrand Gakiere
Math2025Palo Alto
Founders: Christian Szegedy
Coding agents2025San Francisco
Founders: Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, Ege Erdil
Unknown2025San Francisco
Founders: Fan-Yun Sun, Sharon Lee
Reasoning agents2025Palo Alto
Founders: Yu Su, Xiang Deng, Yu Gu
World models2025San Francisco
Founders: Anne-Margot Rodde
Bio / AI drug discovery2025South San Francisco
Founders: Kexin Huang, Yuanhao Qu, Jure Leskovec, Le Cong
Efficient models2025Pasadena
Founders: Babak Hassibi, Sahin Lale, Omead Pooladzandi, Reza Sadri
World models2025San Francisco
Founders: Alberto Taiuti, Bryce Schmidtchen
World models2025Munich / London
Founders: Matthias Niessner, Luke Rogers, Ricardo Martin-Brualla, David Novotny
Frontier lab2025London
Founders: Alessandra Russo, Jonathan Richard Schwarz
Unknown2024New York
Founders: Viswajit Vinod Nair, Ronald Netawat, Shreyans Kothari
AI infrastructure2024San Jose
Founders: Drew Perkins, Omar Hassen
AI research2024San Francisco
Founders: Andrej Karpathy
Robotics2024San Francisco
Founders: Pete Florence, Andy Zeng, Andy Barry, Kamyar Ghasemipour
Bio / AI drug discovery2024Luxembourg
Founders: Rick Schneider, Maxime Allard, Mathieu Klop
Program synthesis2024Cambridge, UK
Founders: Alhussein Fawzi, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, Hamza Fawzi
Audio / music2024Los Angeles
Founders: Ary Attie
Robotics2024Houston
Founders: Nicolaus Radford, Jerry Pratt, Jide Akinyode
Finance2024San Francisco
Founders: Leopold Aschenbrenner
Interpretability2024San Francisco
Founders: Mason Wang
Interpretability2024San Francisco
Founders: Jacob Steinhardt, Sarah Schwettmann
Robotics2023Shanghai
Founders: Deng Taihua, Peng Zhihui
Defense AI2023Washington DC / Tel Aviv
Founders: Noam Friedman, Rotem Abeles, Amos Lahav
Interpretability2023London
Founders: Marius Hobbhahn
Safety / evals2023London
Founders: Maurice Burger, Roman Engeler
Safety / evals2023San Francisco
Founders: Ankur Goyal
Frontier lab2023Beijing
Founders: Liang Rubo, Zhu Wenjia
Voice2023San Francisco
Founders: Karan Goel, Albert Gu, Arjun Desai, Brandon Yang
Enterprise LLMs2023Mountain View
Founders: Douwe Kiela, Amanpreet Singh
Bio / AI drug discovery2023Boston / Tel Aviv
Founders: Dov Gertz
Synthetic data / data curation2023Redwood City
Founders: Ari Morcos, Matthew Leavitt, Bogdan Gaza
Robotics2023Shenzhen
Founders: Zhao Tongyang
AI research2023San Francisco
Founders: Sam Rodriques, Andrew White
Safety / evals2023New York
Founders: Leonard Tang, Richard Liu, Steve Li
Efficient models2023Barcelona
Founders: Jacob Buckman, Carles Gelada
World models2023Palo Alto / London
Founders: Oliver Cameron, Jeff Hawke
Bio / AI drug discovery2023Berlin / Montreal
Founders: Karl Moritz Hermann, Marc Bellemare, Richard Schlegel
Safety2022San Francisco
Founders: Dan Hendrycks, Oliver Zhang
Interpretability2022London
Founders: Connor Leahy
AI compute hardware2022Santa Clara
Founders: Naveen Verma, Kailash Gopalakrishnan, Echere Iroaga
AI research2022Berkeley
Founders: Jaime Sevilla
AI compute hardware2022Austin, TX
Founders: Guillaume Verdon, Trevor McCourt
Safety2022Berkeley
Founders: Adam Gleave
AI compute hardware2022London
Founders: Walter Goodwin
Interpretability2022London
Founders: Jessica Rumbelow
Open-source LLMs2022Johannesburg
Founders: Pelonomi Moiloa, Jade Abbott, Vukosi Marivate
Image2022Sydney
Founders: JJ Fiasson, Christopher Gillis, Jachin Bhasme, Peter Runham, Sami Ede, Ethan Smith
Safety / evals2022Berkeley
Founders: Beth Barnes
Open-source LLMs2022New York
Founders: Brandon Duderstadt, Andriy Mulyar
Bio / AI drug discovery2022Monrovia, CA
Founders: Jacob Berlin, Eli Berlin
AI compute hardware2022London
Founders: Alex Ksendsovsky, Jon Pomeraniec
AI compute hardware2021Eindhoven
Founders: Fabrizio Del Maffeo
Safety / evals2021San Francisco
Founders: Vikram Chatterji, Atindriyo Sanyal, Yash Sheth
Image2021San Francisco
Founders: David Holz
Safety2021Berkeley
Founders: Buck Shlegeris, Nate Thomas
Video2021San Francisco / Seoul
Founders: Jae Lee, Soyoung Lee, Aiden Lee, Dave Chung, SJ Kim
Robotics2021Toronto
Founders: Raquel Urtasun
Climate / weather AI2020San Francisco
Founders: Alex Levy, Johan Mathe
Bio / AI drug discovery2019Boulder
Founders: Viswa Colluru
Foundation models & agents2019Abu Dhabi
Founders:
Industrial AI2019Los Angeles
Founders: Edward Mehr, Babak Raeisinia
Quantum + AI2019San Sebastián
Founders: Enrique Lizaso, Román Orús, Alfonso Rubio, Sam Mugel
Bio / AI drug discovery2019London
Founders: Charles Roberts, Benjamin Swerner, Jake Taylor-King
Autonomous vehicles2017Pittsburgh
Founders: Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell
Climate / weather AI2017San Mateo
Founders: Rich Sorkin, Eric Wun, Josh Hacker, Alan Blumberg
Synthetic data / data curation2017Vienna
Founders: Tobias Hann, Klaudius Kalcher, Roland Boubela, Michael Platzer
Autonomous vehicles2017Ann Arbor
Founders: Edwin Olson, Alisyn Malek, Steve Vozar
Frontier lab2016Shenzhen
Founders: Pony Ma, Zhang Tong
Robotics2015Shanghai
Founders: Alex Gu
AI research2014Seattle
Founders: Paul Allen
Bio / AI drug discovery2014Boston / Hong Kong
Founders: Alex Zhavoronkov
Autonomous vehicles2014Foster City
Founders: Tim Kentley-Klay, Jesse Levinson
Frontier lab2013Beijing
Founders: Robin Li, Wang Haifeng
UnknownNYC
Founders:
Bio / AI lab automationRedwood City, CA
Founders:
Reasoning agentsSan Francisco
Founders: Eve Bodnia
Unknown
Founders: