| Lab | Valuation | Founded | Space | HQ | Founders | More | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | $965B | 2021 | Frontier lab | San Francisco | Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan | Details | Apply |
| OpenAI | $852B | 2015 | Frontier lab | San Francisco | Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman | Details | Apply |
| Prometheus | $41B | 2025 | Industrial AI | San Francisco | Jeff Bezos, Vik Bajaj | Details | — |
| Cognition AI | $26B | 2023 | Coding agents | San Francisco | Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan | Details | Apply |
| Perplexity | $20B | 2022 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski | Details | Apply |
| Sierra | $15B | 2023 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | Bret Taylor, Clay Bavor | Details | Apply |
| Thinking Machines Lab | $12B | 2025 | Frontier lab | San Francisco | Mira Murati | Details | Apply |
| Poolside | $12B | 2023 | Coding models | Paris / San Francisco | Eiso Kant, Jason Warner | Details | Apply |
| Physical Intelligence | ~$11B | 2024 | Robotics | San Francisco | Sergey Levine, Karol Hausman, Chelsea Finn | Details | Apply |
| Harvey | $11B | 2022 | Legal AI | San Francisco | Winston Weinberg, Gabriel Pereyra | Details | Apply |
| Anysphere | ~$9B | 2022 | Coding agents | San Francisco | Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, Aman Sanger | Details | Apply |
| Replit | $9B | 2016 | Coding agents | San Francisco | Amjad Masad, Faris Masad, Haya Odeh | Details | Apply |
| Periodic Labs | ~$7B | 2025 | Bio / AI material discovery | San Francisco | Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus Cubuk | Details | Apply |
| Core Automation | >$5B | 2026 | Agents | San Francisco | Jerry Tworek | Details | — |
| World Labs | $5B | 2024 | World models | San Francisco | Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, Ben Mildenhall | Details | Apply |
| Unconventional AI | $4.5B | 2025 | AI compute hardware | San Francisco | Naveen Rao, Michael Carbin, Sara Achour, MeeLan Lee | Details | — |
| Humans& | $4.48B | 2025 | RL for Humans | San Francisco | Andi Peng, Georges Harik, Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Noah Goodman | Details | — |
| The Bot Company | $4B | 2024 | Robotics | San Francisco | Kyle Vogt, Paril Jain, Luke Holoubek | Details | Apply |
| Xaira Therapeutics | ~$4B | 2024 | Bio / AI drug discovery | San Francisco | Marc Tessier-Lavigne, David Baker, Hetu Kamisetty | Details | Apply |
| Together AI | ~$3.3B | 2022 | Open-source LLMs | San Francisco | Vipul Ved Prakash, Ce Zhang | Details | Apply |
| Exa | $2.2B | 2021 | Search / retrieval | San Francisco | Will Bryk, Jeff Wang | Details | Apply |
| Writer | $1.9B | 2020 | Enterprise LLMs | San Francisco | May Habib, Waseem AlShikh | Details | Apply |
| LMArena | $1.7B | 2023 | Safety / evals | San Francisco | Wei-Lin Chiang, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Ion Stoica | Details | Apply |
| Cresta | $1.6B | 2017 | Voice | San Francisco | Zayd Enam, Tim Shi, Sebastian Thrun | Details | Apply |
| Decagon | ~$1.5B | 2023 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | Jesse Zhang, Ashwin Sreenivas | Details | Apply |
| Factory | ~$1.5B | 2023 | Coding agents | San Francisco | Matan Grinberg | Details | Apply |
| Magic | $1.5B | 2023 | Coding agents | San Francisco | Eric Steinberger, Sebastian De Ro | Details | Apply |
| Chai Discovery | $1.3B | 2024 | Bio / AI drug discovery | San Francisco | Joshua Meier, Jack Dent | Details | Apply |
| Higgsfield | $1.3B | 2023 | Video | San Francisco | Alex Mashrabov, Yerzat Dulat, Mahi de Silva | Details | — |
| Deepgram | $1.3B | 2015 | Voice | San Francisco | Scott Stephenson, Adam Sypniewski, Noah Shutty | Details | Apply |
| Goodfire | $1.25B | 2024 | Interpretability | San Francisco | Eric Ho, Tom McGrath, Daniel Balsam, Myra Deng | Details | Apply |
| LangChain | ~$1.25B | 2022 | Frameworks | San Francisco | Harrison Chase, Ankush Gola | Details | Apply |
| Orbital | ~$1.2B | 2022 | Bio / AI material discovery | London / San Francisco | Jonathan Godwin, James Gin-Pollock, Daniel Miodovnik | Details | — |
| Flapping Airplanes | >$1B | 2025 | Frontier lab | San Francisco | Ben Spector, Asher Spector, Aidan Smith | Details | — |
| General Intuition | ~$1B | 2025 | World models | San Francisco | Pim de Witte, Moritz Baier-Lentz | Details | — |
| Mirendil | ~$1B | 2025 | Unknown | San Francisco | Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta | Details | — |
| Ndea | <$1B | 2025 | Program synthesis | San Francisco | François Chollet, Mike Knoop | Details | Apply |
| Prime Intellect | <$1B | 2024 | Decentralized AI training | San Francisco | Vincent Weisser, Johannes Hagemann | Details | Apply |
| Essential AI | $1B | 2023 | Open-source LLMs | San Francisco | Ashish Vaswani, Niki Parmar | Details | Apply |
| Sesame | >$1B | 2023 | Voice | San Francisco | Brendan Iribe, Ankit Kumar, Ryan Brown | Details | Apply |
| Adept AI | >$1B | 2022 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | David Luan, Niki Parmar, Ashish Vaswani | Details | Apply |
| Reka | $1B | 2022 | Multimodal | San Francisco | Dani Yogatama, Yi Tay, Qi Liu, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Mikel Artetxe | Details | Apply |
| Imbue | $1B | 2020 | Reasoning agents | San Francisco | Kanjun Qiu, Josh Albrecht | Details | Apply |
| Speak | $1B | 2016 | Education AI | San Francisco | Connor Zwick, Andrew Hsu | Details | Apply |
| Merge Labs | $850M | 2025 | AI research | Miami / San Francisco | Sam Altman, Alex Blania, Mikhail Shapiro, Tyson Aflalo, Sumner Norman, Sandro Herbig | Details | Apply |
| Pika | ~$700M | 2023 | Video | San Francisco | Demi Guo, Chenlin Meng | Details | Apply |
| Isara | $650M | 2025 | Frameworks | San Francisco | Eddie Zhang, Henry Gasztowtt | Details | — |
| AssemblyAI | ~$650M | 2017 | Voice | San Francisco | Dylan Fox | Details | Apply |
| Dyna Robotics | ~$600M | 2024 | Robotics | San Francisco | Lindon Gao, York Yang, Jason Ma | Details | Apply |
| Adaption Labs | ~$500M | 2025 | Continual learning | San Francisco | Sara Hooker, Sudip Roy | Details | — |
| Genesis AI | ~$500M | 2024 | Robotics | Paris / San Francisco | Zhou Xian, Théophile Gervet | Details | — |
| Standard Intelligence | ~$500M | 2024 | Frontier lab | San Francisco | Galen Mead, Devansh Pandey | Details | — |
| Krea | ~$500M | 2022 | Image | San Francisco | Victor Perez, Diego Rodriguez | Details | Apply |
| Numerai | $500M | 2015 | Finance | San Francisco | Richard Craib | Details | Apply |
| depthfirst | ~$400M | 2024 | Safety | San Francisco | Andrea Banino, Qasim Munye | Details | — |
| 11x | ~$350M | 2022 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | Hasan Sukkar | Details | Apply |
| Elorian | ~$300M | 2025 | Multimodal | San Francisco | Andrew Dai, Yinfei Yang, Seth Neel | Details | — |
| Tavus | ~$300M | 2020 | Video | San Francisco | Hassaan Raza, Quinn Favret | Details | Apply |
| Bland AI | ~$200M | 2023 | Voice | San Francisco | Isaiah Granet, Sobhan Nejad | Details | Apply |
| Hedra | ~$200M | 2023 | Video | San Francisco | Michael Lingelbach, Alex Bergman | Details | Apply |
| Latent Labs | ~$200M | 2023 | Bio / AI drug discovery | London / San Francisco | Simon Kohl | Details | Apply |
| Symbolica AI | ~$150M | 2022 | Reasoning agents | San Francisco | George Morgan | Details | Apply |
| Genmo | ~$125M | 2022 | Video | San Francisco | Paras Jain, Ajay Jain | Details | Apply |
| LlamaIndex | ~$100M | 2023 | Frameworks | San Francisco | Jerry Liu, Simon Suo | Details | Apply |
| MultiOn | ~$100M | 2023 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | Div Garg, Omar Shaya | Details | Apply |
| Atomic AI | ~$70M | 2017 | Bio / AI drug discovery | San Francisco | Raphael Townshend | Details | — |
| Lindy AI | ~$50M | 2023 | Foundation models & agents | San Francisco | Flo Crivello | Details | Apply |
| Scale Labs | — | 2026 | Safety / evals | San Francisco | Bing Liu | Details | Apply |
| Mechanize | — | 2025 | Coding agents | San Francisco | Tamay Besiroglu, Matthew Barnett, Ege Erdil | Details | Apply |
| Moonlake AI | — | 2025 | Unknown | San Francisco | Fan-Yun Sun, Sharon Lee | Details | — |
| Origin Lab | — | 2025 | World models | San Francisco | Anne-Margot Rodde | Details | — |
| Reactor | — | 2025 | World models | San Francisco | Alberto Taiuti, Bryce Schmidtchen | Details | — |
| Eureka Labs | — | 2024 | AI research | San Francisco | Andrej Karpathy | Details | — |
| Generalist | — | 2024 | Robotics | San Francisco | Pete Florence, Andy Zeng, Andy Barry, Kamyar Ghasemipour | Details | — |
| Situational Awareness | — | 2024 | Finance | San Francisco | Leopold Aschenbrenner | Details | — |
| Tilde Research | — | 2024 | Interpretability | San Francisco | Mason Wang | Details | Apply |
| Transluce | — | 2024 | Interpretability | San Francisco | Jacob Steinhardt, Sarah Schwettmann | Details | Apply |
| Braintrust | — | 2023 | Safety / evals | San Francisco | Ankur Goyal | Details | Apply |
| Cartesia | — | 2023 | Voice | San Francisco | Karan Goel, Albert Gu, Arjun Desai, Brandon Yang | Details | Apply |
| FutureHouse | — | 2023 | AI research | San Francisco | Sam Rodriques, Andrew White | Details | Apply |
| Center for AI Safety | — | 2022 | Safety | San Francisco | Dan Hendrycks, Oliver Zhang | Details | — |
| Galileo | — | 2021 | Safety / evals | San Francisco | Vikram Chatterji, Atindriyo Sanyal, Yash Sheth | Details | Apply |
| Midjourney | — | 2021 | Image | San Francisco | David Holz | Details | Apply |
| TwelveLabs | — | 2021 | Video | San Francisco / Seoul | Jae Lee, Soyoung Lee, Aiden Lee, Dave Chung, SJ Kim | Details | Apply |
| Atmo | — | 2020 | Climate / weather AI | San Francisco | Alex Levy, Johan Mathe | Details | Apply |
| Logical Intelligence | — | — | Reasoning agents | San Francisco | Eve Bodnia | Details | — |
✓ confirmed valuation * rumored or estimated ~ approximate > lower bound < upper bound (mkt cap) public market cap (acq.) acquisition price
$965B
Founders: Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan
$852B
Founders: Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Wojciech Zaremba, John Schulman
$1B
Founders: Dani Yogatama, Yi Tay, Qi Liu, Cyprien de Masson d'Autume, Mikel Artetxe
$850M
Founders: Sam Altman, Alex Blania, Mikhail Shapiro, Tyson Aflalo, Sumner Norman, Sandro Herbig