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Top AI Startups 2026 Database

This page benchmarks top ai startups 2026 with comparable metrics and estimated market signals.

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Total Valuation / Market Cap

$352.05B

Total 2025 Revenue (Est.)

$9.41B

Avg Revenue

$672.5M

7.1% profitable

Market Snapshot

Updated list of top ai startups 2026 with detailed company metrics and ranking signals.

Top AI Startups 2026 Database currently highlights 14 tracked companies. The top entities by this view include Anthropic, xAI, Perplexity.

Composition profile: Private (14) by company type and North America (11), Europe (2) by headquarters region. Rankings are recalculated on each weekly data refresh.

Data combines public disclosures, normalized units, and rule-based estimates where missing.

Company Table

#	Company	Type	HQ / Region	Founders	Founded	Main AI Focus	Flagship Products	2025 Revenue (Est.)	Valuation / Market Cap	Employees	Total Funding	Profitability	Notes
1	Anthropic Anthropic is a foundation models company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, US (North America). Core…	Private	San Francisco, US (North America)	Dario Amodei; Daniela Amodei	2021	Foundation Models	Claude, Claude Code	$5.50B	$183.00B	3,000	$20.00B	High Growth	Enterprise-safe model positioning
2	xAI Founded in 2023, xAI operates from Palo Alto, US (North America) with a primary focus on foundation models. Its best-…	Private	Palo Alto, US (North America)	Elon Musk	2023	Foundation Models	Grok	$1.20B	$113.00B	1,500	$18.00B	High Growth	Rapid infrastructure expansion
3	Perplexity Founded in 2022, Perplexity operates from San Francisco, US (North America) with a primary focus on ai applications. …	Private	San Francisco, US (North America)	Aravind Srinivas	2022	AI Applications	Perplexity Pro	$500.0M	$18.00B	600	$1.10B	High Growth	AI answer engine
4	Midjourney Midjourney focuses on ai applications and is based in San Francisco, US (North America). Since 2022, it has built pro…	Private	San Francisco, US (North America)	David Holz	2022	AI Applications	Midjourney	$650.0M	$10.00B	140	$0.0M	Profitable	Image generation subscription model
5	Mistral AI Mistral AI focuses on foundation models and is based in Paris, FR (Europe). Since 2023, it has built products such as…	Private	Paris, FR (Europe)	Arthur Mensch	2023	Foundation Models	Mistral Large, Le Chat	$200.0M	$7.00B	300	$1.20B	Early Stage	European frontier model company
6	Cohere Founded in 2019, Cohere operates from Toronto, CA (North America) with a primary focus on foundation models. Its best…	Private	Toronto, CA (North America)	Aidan Gomez	2019	Foundation Models	Command, Embed	$350.0M	$5.50B	500	$1.00B	Growth	Enterprise LLM focus
7	Glean Founded in 2019, Glean operates from Palo Alto, US (North America) with a primary focus on enterprise ai. Its best-kn…	Private	Palo Alto, US (North America)	Arvind Jain	2019	Enterprise AI	Glean Assistant	$210.0M	$4.20B	650	$620.0M	Growth	Enterprise knowledge assistant
8	Harvey Harvey focuses on ai applications and is based in San Francisco, US (North America). Since 2022, it has built product…	Private	San Francisco, US (North America)	Winston Weinberg	2022	AI Applications	Harvey Legal AI	$140.0M	$3.00B	420	$510.0M	High Growth	Vertical legal AI suite
9	Runway Runway focuses on ai applications and is based in New York, US (North America). Since 2018, it has built products suc…	Private	New York, US (North America)	Cristobal Valenzuela	2018	AI Applications	Gen-3	$180.0M	$2.50B	350	$540.0M	Growth	Gen media workflows
10	Writer Writer is a enterprise ai company founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, US (North America). Core produc…	Private	San Francisco, US (North America)	May Habib	2020	Enterprise AI	Writer Platform	$160.0M	$1.90B	380	$210.0M	Growth	Enterprise content agents
11	Adept Estimated Founded in 2022, Adept operates from San Francisco, US (North America) with a primary focus on foundation models. Its…	Private	San Francisco, US (North America)	David Luan	2022	Foundation Models	ACT-1	$60.0M *	$1.20B	200	$415.0M	Pivoting	Agent-focused model R&D
12	Leonardo AI Founded in 2022, Leonardo AI operates from Sydney, AU (Asia-Pacific) with a primary focus on ai applications. Its bes…	Private	Sydney, AU (Asia-Pacific)	J J Fiasson; Chris Gillis	2022	AI Applications	Leonardo Image, Alchemy	$120.0M	$1.20B	220	$31.0M	Growth	Creator-focused AI image generation platform
13	Stability AI Stability AI focuses on foundation models and is based in London, UK (Europe). Since 2019, it has built products such…	Private	London, UK (Europe)	Emad Mostaque	2019	Foundation Models	Stable Diffusion	$100.0M	$1.00B	200	$250.0M	Restructuring	Open image model pioneer
14	Ideogram Ideogram is a ai applications company founded in 2023 and headquartered in Toronto, CA (North America). Core products…	Private	Toronto, CA (North America)	Mohammad Norouzi; William Chan	2023	AI Applications	Ideogram	$45.0M	$550.0M	90	$165.0M	Early Stage	Text-forward image generation startup