AI Companies

OpenAI

San Francisco, CA

AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT, GPT models, DALL-E, Sora, and the OpenAI API platform. Pioneer of large language models and RLHF alignment techniques. Restructured as OpenAI Group PBC in 2026; raised $110B at $730B valuation (Feb 2026). Total funding ~$168B; ARR ~$20B. IPO expected 2027.

Anthropic

San Francisco, CA

AI safety company building Claude, a family of helpful, harmless, and honest AI assistants. Pioneer of Constitutional AI, MCP (donated to Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation), and the Claude Agent SDK. Amazon invested $8B; raised $30B Series G at $380B valuation (Feb 2026). Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now support 1M token context windows (GA March 2026).

Google DeepMind

London, UK

Google's unified AI research lab. Gemini 3.1 Pro (80.6% SWE-bench, 94.3% GPQA Diamond). TPU Ironwood v7 GA (42.5 Exaflops). Google Antigravity agent-first IDE. Gemini CLI open-source. AlphaFold, Veo 3.1. Anthropic committed 1M+ Ironwood chips.

Microsoft

Redmond, WA

Technology giant integrating AI across its product suite. Microsoft Foundry (renamed from Azure AI Foundry, Jan 2026) with 11,000+ models. GitHub Copilot Coding Agent GA/Mission Control/Spaces/Custom Agents/CLI GA. Azure growing 39% YoY. Maia 200 custom AI chip.

Meta

Menlo Park, CA

Social media and technology company behind the Llama open-source model family and Meta AI assistant. Llama 4 Maverick (MoE, 400B/17B active, 1M context) is the most-downloaded open-weight frontier model. Reports suggest Meta may shift to closed-source for next-gen "Avocado" model, potentially departing from its open-source tradition.

Amazon

Seattle, WA

Cloud computing leader. Amazon Bedrock (~200 models), SageMaker AI (renamed, Unified Studio GA), Trainium3 GA (3nm, 4.4x perf), Nova 2 family, Amazon Q Developer, AWS Kiro (agentic IDE with GovCloud). $8B Anthropic investment. $50B AI infrastructure commitment.

NVIDIA

Santa Clara, California

The dominant designer of GPUs and AI accelerators powering the vast majority of large language model training and inference worldwide. NVIDIA's CUDA software ecosystem and data center GPU platforms — including H100, H200, and Blackwell architectures — form the foundation of modern AI infrastructure. Expanding into robotics (partnerships with Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Google DeepMind), healthcare AI (Clara platform), and fusion energy (Commonwealth Fusion Systems partnership).

AMD

Santa Clara, California

Cross-stack AI silicon vendor. Instinct MI355X datacenter GPUs (288 GB HBM3e, GA Q3 2025) compete with NVIDIA Blackwell; MI400 series announced for 2026 (vs. Vera Rubin). ROCm 7.2 open software stack is closing on CUDA — vLLM CI pass rate jumped from 37% to 93% across late 2025. Ryzen AI Max+ 395 client NPU (50 TOPS). EPYC 9005 "Turin" + Venice (Zen 6, 256 cores, H2 2026) pair full-width AVX-512 with the new x86 ACE matrix-AI standard AMD co-authored with Intel.

Apple

Cupertino, California

A global technology company whose AI strategy centers on Apple Intelligence — a privacy-first personal intelligence system that processes AI on-device using custom Apple Silicon chips. Apple's M-series processors and MLX framework have made Mac a leading platform for local AI inference and development.

Samsung

Seoul, South Korea

Global technology conglomerate. Galaxy AI (on-device AI suite), Samsung Gauss foundation models, and semiconductor AI chips. Leading manufacturer of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) critical for AI training.

IBM

Armonk, NY

Enterprise technology company with the watsonx AI platform — spanning watsonx.ai (model training/deployment), watsonx.data (data lakehouse), and watsonx.governance (AI lifecycle management). Granite open-source model family for enterprise use. ISO 42001 certified. Deep presence in regulated industries (banking, healthcare, government). $62B annual revenue.

Oracle

Austin, TX

Enterprise software and cloud infrastructure company. OCI AI services include GPU supercluster partnerships with NVIDIA, enterprise AI applications, and Cerner health AI. Major cloud competitor for AI workloads.

Salesforce

San Francisco, CA

World's largest CRM platform. Einstein 1 Platform unifies CRM, Data Cloud, and AI. Agentforce deploys autonomous AI agents (12,000+ customers, $500M+ annualized revenue). $8B Informatica acquisition (Nov 2025) strengthens data integration and governance. Revenue target: $60B by 2030.

Palantir Technologies

Denver, CO

Dominant commercial AI platform for government, defense, and enterprise analytics. AIP (Artificial Intelligence Platform) + Foundry serve 769+ customers. FY2025 revenue $4.475B (+56% YoY); U.S. commercial revenue $1.5B (+109%). UK MoD £240M contract. FY2026 guidance $7.2B. AIP Bootcamps drive rapid adoption across defense, healthcare, and energy sectors.

SAP

Walldorf, Germany

German enterprise software giant ($300B+ market cap) offering Joule, an AI copilot embedded across all SAP enterprise products including ERP, supply chain, HR, and finance. Joule provides 15+ AI agents for business process automation.

Databricks

San Francisco, CA

Data intelligence platform combining data lakehouse architecture with AI/ML capabilities. Valued at $62B (2024). Acquired Mosaic ML for $1.3B, integrating model training infrastructure. Released DBRX open model. Unity Catalog provides AI governance. Used by 10,000+ organizations for data engineering, analytics, and AI model development.

ServiceNow

Santa Clara, CA

ServiceNow Now Assist embeds generative AI across ITSM, HR, and business workflows — 4.5-hour resolution time reduction, $13+ billion revenue, $108 billion market cap.

Snowflake

Bozeman, MT

AI-native data cloud company ($60B market cap) whose Cortex AI suite provides LLM functions, vector search, and ML capabilities directly within the data platform. AI influenced 50% of bookings with 9,100+ AI-active accounts.

Adobe

San Jose, CA

Creative software giant integrating AI across Creative Cloud with Firefly model family. Firefly Image Model 5 (GA March 2026) generates photorealistic 4MP images. Firefly Video Model adds commercially safe AI video. Multi-model hub with 30+ models. Custom Models in public beta. Unlimited generations for subscribers. Generate Soundtrack + Speech expand creative scope.

Intel

Santa Clara, CA

Semiconductor giant. Gaudi 3 AI accelerators, Panther Lake NPUs (50 TOPS), Jaguar Shores next-gen with HBM4E. Shipments cut 30% on Gaudi 3 amid competition. Major NVIDIA/AMD competitor in AI chip market.

CrowdStrike

Austin, TX

Market leader in AI-powered endpoint detection and response (EDR). Its Falcon platform analyzes trillions of events weekly via the Threat Graph. Charlotte AI is an agentic security analyst with AgentWorks, AI Runtime Protection, and Shadow AI Discovery. Crossed $3B+ in annual revenue.

xAI

Austin, TX

Elon Musk's AI company building Grok models and Aurora image generation. Raised $20B Series E (Jan 2026). Colossus supercomputer scaled to 555,000 GPUs (~$18B invested), with roadmap to 1M GPUs by late 2026. Real-time X/Twitter data access. Grok 4.1 offers 2M token context window.

Mistral AI

Paris, France

Europe's most valuable AI startup ($14B valuation), building open and closed-source models including Mistral Large 3 (675B MoE), Devstral 2, and Mistral Small 4. Revenue hit $400M+ ARR in early 2026. Building European AI infrastructure with €1.2B Sweden data center and Koyeb acquisition. Champions EU data sovereignty and GDPR-compliant AI.

SpaceX

Hawthorne, California

Aerospace company building orbital AI data centers via Starlink V3 and co-founder of the Terafab chip foundry.

Palo Alto Networks

Santa Clara, CA

Comprehensive cybersecurity platform with AI deeply integrated across products. Cortex XSIAM is an AI-native platform that declared the SOC "now agentic" in February 2026, with autonomous security operations, federated search, and third-party EDR support.

Dell Technologies

Round Rock, TX

The #1 AI server vendor globally ($90B+ market cap) with $64B in AI infrastructure orders in FY2026. PowerEdge AI Factory provides end-to-end AI server and infrastructure solutions, with 342% year-over-year AI revenue growth.

Cisco

San Jose, California

The world's largest networking and enterprise-infrastructure company, repositioned as a core supplier to the AI buildout. Cisco's AI portfolio spans AI Defense (security for AI apps, models, and agents), Hypershield (AI-native data-center security built on its Isovalent eBPF acquisition), and the Silicon One-powered Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA for mass-scale AI networking. Cisco owns Splunk (observability and security analytics) and Webex. AI infrastructure orders reached $5.3 billion year-to-date in fiscal 2026, with the full-year target raised to $9 billion.

Tencent

Shenzhen, China

Chinese tech giant (WeChat, QQ) developing the Hunyuan foundation model. Major investor in MiniMax and 01.AI. One of the largest internet companies in the world by market cap.

Baidu

Beijing, China

China's leading search engine company, building ERNIE 5.0 — a 2.4 trillion parameter unified multimodal model (text/image/video/audio) comparable to Gemini-2.5-Pro and GPT-5-High. Developing Kunlunxin AI chips for domestic compute independence.

TSMC

Hsinchu, Taiwan

World's largest semiconductor foundry. Fabricates virtually all AI chips — NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, Broadcom, Qualcomm. 3nm process for latest AI accelerators. Critical supply chain node for AI industry.

Broadcom

Palo Alto, CA

Semiconductor and infrastructure company. Partner with OpenAI on custom "Titan" AI chip (TSMC 3nm, H2 2026). Networking infrastructure for AI data centers. VMware acquisition.

Tesla

Austin, TX

Electric vehicle and clean energy company with major AI programs: Full Self-Driving (FSD) driver assistance, Cybercab autonomous robotaxi (production April 2026), Optimus humanoid robot (Gen 3 in production), and Megapack grid-scale batteries (Megapack 3 at 5 MWh).

Shopify

Ottawa, Canada

E-commerce platform whose CEO Tobi Lutke issued an internal memo in early 2025 requiring employees to demonstrate why a task cannot be done by AI before requesting additional headcount — a policy that became a watershed moment in corporate AI adoption. $8.9B annual revenue. Shopify Magic provides AI-powered product descriptions, image generation, and store building. Sidekick AI assistant helps merchants with business decisions.

Intuit

Mountain View, CA

Financial software company (TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma) with deep AI integration. Signed $100M+ multi-year OpenAI partnership (Nov 2025). QuickBooks deploys agentic AI — Business Tax AI, Customer AI, and Accounting AI agents saving businesses up to 12 hours/month. 3M+ customers using AI-powered tools.

Coinbase

San Francisco, CA

Largest US cryptocurrency exchange using AI extensively for KYC/AML compliance, fraud detection, and customer support. Launched Agentic Wallets (February 2026) — AI-controlled wallets that autonomously hold, trade, stake, and rebalance crypto. Developed x402 open payment protocol backed by Cloudflare, Circle, AWS, and Stripe.

Workday

Pleasanton, CA

Enterprise HR and finance platform processing data for 45% of Fortune 500. Illuminate platform with 7+ AI agents for sourcing, contracts, accounting, and self-service. Acquired Sana for $1.1B (Nov 2025) — AI search, agents, and learning. Sana for Workday launched March 2026. Workday Build enables custom AI solutions.

Cohere

Toronto, Canada

Canadian enterprise AI company valued at $7B with $240M+ ARR. Builds Command A (111B, 256K context) and the North agentic platform deployed behind customer firewalls. Specializes in RAG and multilingual AI (70+ languages via Tiny Aya) for regulated industries. IPO expected 2026.

Perplexity AI

San Francisco, CA

AI-powered answer engine combining real-time search with LLM reasoning. Offers research, productivity, and browser tools.

Scale AI

San Francisco, CA

AI infrastructure company providing data annotation, model evaluation, and AI deployment services. Valued at $14B (2024). Evolved from pure RLHF/data annotation to enterprise AI infrastructure and government/defense contracts (significant US DoD revenue). Operates Remotasks and Outlier platforms for expert human feedback. Major employer of AI trainers globally.

CoreWeave

Roseland, NJ

Leading GPU cloud infrastructure provider, valued at $35B+ (2026). NVIDIA-backed. Purpose-built for AI/ML workloads with the largest independent GPU fleet. Powers training and inference for major AI labs.

Anduril Industries

Costa Mesa, CA

AI-native defense contractor building autonomous systems for military applications. Lattice autonomy platform powers perimeter security and command-and-control. Won a $20B Army contract for AI counter-drone capabilities (March 2026). Products include Ghost drone, Roadrunner air defense, Fury autonomous aircraft, and EagleEye AI helmet.

Hugging Face

New York, NY

The largest AI model hub and open-source community — often called the "GitHub of AI." Hosts 1M+ models, 500K+ datasets, and 300K+ Spaces (demo apps). Central infrastructure for the open-source AI ecosystem including model hosting, inference API, and collaborative development. Key partner for Meta (Llama), Google (Gemma), Mistral, and thousands of AI researchers.

Stripe

San Francisco, CA

Dominant payment platform for developers. Agentic Commerce Suite for AI agent payments, Orchestration (multi-processor routing), stablecoin accounts via Bridge acquisition. AI-powered dashboard. Global payouts to 58 countries.

Datadog

New York, NY

Leading observability platform ($45B market cap) that expanded into LLM Observability for monitoring AI application performance, cost, and quality. Bits AI copilot provides natural language querying across all observability data.

HubSpot

Cambridge, MA

CRM and marketing platform with Breeze AI — 20+ agents including Customer Agent (50%+ ticket resolution), Prospecting Agent, and Content Agent. Breeze Studio for custom agent building. 288,000+ paying customers; $3.1B revenue (2025). AI chatbot, conversation intelligence, and workflow automation across sales and marketing hubs.

SentinelOne

Mountain View, CA

AI-powered endpoint security platform built around detecting and responding to threats at machine speed. Crossed $1B in annual revenue in FY2026. Purple AI assistant (in 50%+ of licenses) offers one-click Auto Investigation with agentic capabilities and analyst-in-the-loop governance.

Elastic

San Francisco, CA

Open-source search company ($12B market cap) offering ESRE (Elasticsearch Relevance Engine) for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Provides hybrid vector + keyword search that competes with purpose-built vector databases like Pinecone.

UiPath

New York, NY

Leading robotic process automation (RPA) platform pivoting to agentic AI — Maestro orchestration, Agent Builder, $1.69 billion ARR. Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader.

CoStar Group

Washington, D.C.

Dominant commercial real estate data and analytics platform with AI-powered Homes AI search — $3.2 billion revenue, $18 billion market cap.

Klarna

Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish fintech company and the most-cited example of AI workforce transformation. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski announced in 2024 that their AI assistant was doing the work of 700 full-time customer service agents. Reduced headcount from ~5,000 to ~3,800 through attrition, explicitly crediting AI. IPO in 2025 at $46B+ valuation. AI handles the majority of customer interactions across 45 markets.

MongoDB

New York, NY

Document database with Atlas Vector Search for AI applications.

ByteDance

Beijing, China

Parent company of TikTok/Douyin, building Doubao — China's most-used AI chatbot with 100M+ daily active users. Doubao 2.0/Seed 2.0 matches GPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro at roughly 1/10th the cost.

Alibaba Cloud

Hangzhou, China

Cloud computing division of Alibaba Group, building the Qwen3.5 open-source model family. Flagship 397B-A17B uses Gated DeltaNet+MoE architecture with up to 1M token context. Spans 0.8B to 397B parameters with 100+ language support and Apache 2.0 licensing.

Thomson Reuters

Toronto, Canada

Global content and technology company and the dominant AI player in legal technology. CoCounsel (1 million users across 107 countries) provides agentic AI for document drafting, deposition analysis, and compliance. Westlaw Advantage features Deep Research with multi-step agentic legal research. $7.7B annual revenue. Acquired Casetext for $650M (2023) and absorbed it into CoCounsel (Casetext shut down April 2025).

HPE

Houston, TX

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ($25B market cap) provides GreenLake AI cloud platform and Cray supercomputers for AI workloads. Offers enterprise-grade AI infrastructure including servers, storage, and networking optimized for AI training and inference.

Supermicro

San Jose, CA

The #2 AI server vendor globally ($30B+ market cap) specializing in liquid-cooled GPU rack solutions optimized for NVIDIA AI workloads. A critical infrastructure provider for AI data centers worldwide.

ASML

Veldhoven, Netherlands

Dutch semiconductor equipment company ($350B+ market cap) and the sole manufacturer of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines required to produce advanced AI chips. An irreplaceable chokepoint in the global AI supply chain.

Twilio

San Francisco, CA

Cloud communications platform ($20B market cap) with rapidly growing Voice AI capabilities (60% growth). Segment CDP provides AI-powered customer data personalization. Enables developers to build AI-enhanced communication applications.

Dropbox

San Francisco, CA

Cloud storage with AI-powered search and document summarization.

Cloudflare

San Francisco, CA

Internet infrastructure and security company. Acquired Replicate (50K+ AI models, Nov 2025) and Astro web framework (Jan 2026). 300+ global edge locations. Workers AI with 2-4x inference speedups, D1 database, R2 storage.

Figma

San Francisco, CA

Design platform that IPO'd July 2025 at $19.3B valuation. $1.06B revenue (+41% YoY). Figma Make generates React/Tailwind prototypes from descriptions. Figma Draw, Sites, and Buzz expand beyond design. AI agents write to files using design system components. Code Connect UI bridges design and GitHub repos.

Canva

Sydney, Australia

Creative Operating System with 265M monthly active users, $4B+ ARR, $42B valuation. Visual Suite 2.0 unifies presentations, documents, whiteboards, and spreadsheets. Dream Lab for high-fidelity AI image generation. Canva Sheets with Magic Charts/Formulas/Insights. 95% of Fortune 500. IPO expected H2 2026 or 2027.

Notion

San Francisco, CA

All-in-one workspace with AI writing, summarization, and Q&A.

GitLab

San Francisco, CA

DevOps platform. Duo Agent Platform GA (Jan 2026) with Planner Agent. CI/CD AI workflows. Major GitHub competitor with self-hosted option for enterprise.

Darktrace

Cambridge, UK

Pioneered self-learning AI for enterprise security. Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $5.3B (October 2024), now private. ActiveAI Security Platform provides autonomous detection, response, and recovery. Expanded through acquisitions of Cado Security (cloud forensics) and Mira Security (encrypted traffic visibility).

DeepSeek

Hangzhou, China

Chinese AI research lab that triggered a $589B NVIDIA crash with frontier models trained for under $6M. V3.2-Speciale won an IMO gold medal. V4 (trillion-param, multimodal, 1M context) is imminent. MIT-licensed open-source weights. Banned on government devices in multiple countries due to data sovereignty concerns.

Moonshot AI

Beijing, China

Chinese AI startup behind the Kimi chatbot and Kimi K2.5 (1T MoE, 32B active, 76.8% SWE-bench Verified — best open-source coding model). Agent Swarm orchestrates up to 100 sub-agents. Kimi Code IDE. Modified MIT license.

Stability AI

London, UK

London-based creator of Stable Diffusion, the world's most influential open-source image generation model. Stabilized under new CEO Prem Akkaraju after founder departure. Getty Images copyright lawsuit ongoing in UK High Court.

StepFun

Shanghai, China

Shanghai-based open-weights AI lab building the Step series of multimodal foundation models.

Midjourney

San Francisco, CA

Independent AI research lab creating one of the most popular AI image generators, known for artistic and photorealistic outputs.

Cognition Labs

San Francisco, CA

AI software engineering company (makers of Devin). Acquired Windsurf product/brand/IP from Codeium for ~$250M (July 2025). Windsurf ranked #1 in LogRocket Power Rankings (Feb 2026), $82M ARR at acquisition.

Harvey AI

San Francisco, CA

AI-native legal technology company providing LLM-powered tools for legal research, contract analysis, document drafting, and due diligence. Valued at $8B+ (December 2025), with reports of talks at $11B in early 2026. Deployed at 50 of the top 100 AmLaw firms reaching ~100,000 lawyers. Over $100M ARR, doubling since start of 2025. 350+ employees.

Sierra AI

San Francisco, CA

AI customer service agent company ($10B valuation) founded by Bret Taylor (ex-Salesforce CEO) and Clay Bavor (ex-Google). Reached $100M ARR in just 21 months — one of the fastest enterprise AI companies to that milestone.

Groq

Mountain View, CA

AI inference company building Language Processing Units (LPUs) — custom chips designed specifically for fast AI inference. Achieves the fastest token generation speeds in the industry, dramatically reducing latency for real-time AI applications. Groq Cloud provides API access. Founded by former Google TPU architect Jonathan Ross.

Cerebras

Sunnyvale, CA

Wafer-scale AI chip company (WSE-3: 2,100 tok/s, 8x faster than H200). 900,000 AI cores on single die. IPO targeting Q2 2026 (~$22B valuation). Powers GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark real-time inference.

Together AI

San Francisco, CA

AI inference and training platform specializing in open-source model hosting. Provides fast, low-cost inference for Llama, Mistral, and other open models. Together Inference Engine optimizes performance. Fine-tuning and custom model training services. Popular with developers building on open-source models who need production-grade infrastructure.

Lovable

Stockholm, Sweden

AI app builder ($6.6B valuation, $200M ARR). Lovable 2.0 with real-time multi-user editing (up to 20), Visual Edits (Figma-like), Lovable Cloud Backend, Supabase integration, GitHub sync, custom domains.

Mercor

San Francisco, CA

AI-powered hiring and talent platform ($10B valuation) that uses AI to match companies with contractors and full-time talent. Over 30K contractors on the platform, on track for $500M ARR. Backed by Benchmark and Peter Thiel.

Glean

Palo Alto, CA

Enterprise AI search platform ($7.2B valuation, up from $4.6B) with 10,000+ enterprise customers. Uses AI to unify and search across all company knowledge — documents, apps, communications — with a single natural language interface.

Character.AI

Menlo Park, CA

Popular consumer AI chatbot platform enabling users to create and chat with AI characters. One of the most-used AI chatbots globally, known for roleplay and creative conversations. Google licensing deal for Gemini models.

Wiz

New York, NY

Cloud security platform analyzing configurations, workloads, and identities across AWS, Azure, and GCP to identify vulnerabilities and attack paths via its Security Graph. Acquired by Google for $32B in March 2026 — the largest acquisition ever of a venture-backed startup. Now part of Google Cloud but maintains multi-cloud commitment.

Duolingo

Pittsburgh, PA

AI-first language learning platform with 52.7 million daily active users. In early 2025, announced it would replace contract content creators with AI — one of the most explicit "AI replacing jobs" announcements from a major tech company. Uses AI for personalized lesson generation, speech recognition, and adaptive learning paths. Birdbrain AI engine powers content across 40+ languages.

NTT

Tokyo, Japan

Japanese telecommunications giant with $59B AI investment over 5 years. Released tsuzumi 2 (30B params, runs on single H100). Selected as vendor for Japan's government Gennai platform serving 180,000 staff.

Fujitsu

Tokyo, Japan

Japanese IT and computing giant commercializing Kozuchi AI platform and Takane LLM for enterprises. Launched AI genomics platform for cancer treatment. Major government IT contractor.

Naver

Seongnam, South Korea

South Korea's leading search and internet company. Unveiled Agent N as core AI strategy (Nov 2025) with AI shopping agents and search tab. South Korea's equivalent to Google.

Kakao

Jeju, South Korea

South Korean tech company developing Kanana on-device AI model for KakaoTalk integration. Planning agent-based Kanana in KakaoTalk and Kanana Search for H1 2026.

SoftBank

Tokyo, Japan

Japanese conglomerate and major AI investor. $30B investment in OpenAI (2026), Vision Fund portfolio includes ARM, ByteDance, and dozens of AI startups. ARM chip designs power most mobile AI inference globally.

Huawei

Shenzhen, China

Chinese tech giant building Ascend AI chips — critical to China's AI independence from NVIDIA. Ascend 950PR (Mar 2026) features in-house HBM, 1.56 PFLOPS FP4. Roadmap targets 4 zettaflops by 2028.

Trimble

Westminster, CO

GPS guidance, auto-steer, and AI analytics for precision farming — restructured as PTx Trimble (85% AGCO / 15% Trimble). $3.59 billion revenue.

Samsara

San Francisco, CA

Fleet intelligence platform with AI dashcams, GPS tracking, and predictive analytics — $1.46 billion ARR, 75% crash rate reduction, $21 billion market cap.

Procore

Carpinteria, CA

Leading construction project management platform with AI intelligence (Helix), custom Agent Builder, and conversational search — $1.3 billion revenue.

Tempus AI

Chicago, IL

Clinical AI and precision medicine company with the largest multimodal clinical dataset — 40+ million records powering genomic testing and oncology AI. $1.27 billion revenue.

Lemonade

New York, NY

AI-first insurance company — chatbot Maya binds policies in 90 seconds, claims bot Jim processes 27% of claims autonomously. 3 million+ policyholders.

Anysphere

San Francisco, CA

AI coding company behind Cursor, the fastest-growing AI code editor. $2B+ ARR (February 2026), $29.3B valuation, reportedly seeking $50B. 1M+ daily active users, over half the Fortune 500. Cursor 2.0 features Composer for agentic multi-file coding, embedded browser testing, and custom AI models. Acquired code-review startup Graphite (December 2025).

Replit

San Francisco, CA

Cloud-based development platform ($9B valuation, $400M Series D March 2026). Agent 4 infinite interactive canvas, parallel execution, Design Canvas, BigQuery/Linear/Slack integrations. Economy/Power/Turbo agent modes.

ElevenLabs

New York, NY

Leading AI voice synthesis company offering ultra-realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and dubbing in 29+ languages.

Runway

New York, NY

AI creative studio pioneering video generation and editing with Gen-2 and Gen-3 models for filmmakers and creators.

Grammarly

San Francisco, CA

AI writing assistant for grammar, tone, and style suggestions.

AlphaSense

New York, NY

AI market intelligence platform for investment professionals — 88% of S&P 100, $500 million+ ARR, $4 billion valuation.

Airtable

San Francisco, CA

No-code AI database and application platform ($4B valuation) with Omni, a conversational AI builder. Enables non-technical users to create AI-powered workflows, databases, and applications through natural language.

Ironclad

San Francisco, CA

AI-powered contract lifecycle management with Jurist AI — 6 specialized agents for intake, redlining, drafting, review, and search. $3.2 billion valuation.

Relativity

Chicago, IL

Legal eDiscovery platform with AI-powered review, privilege detection, and case strategy tools. aiR suite is now standard (no extra cost) in RelativityOne — over 200 customers have used aiR for Review, processing 25M+ documents. aiR Assist (2026) enables natural language search for early-stage discovery. Supports 100+ languages and audio/video transcription.

Physical Intelligence

San Francisco, CA

Robotics AI company ($5.6B valuation) building foundation models for general-purpose robotics. Their pi-0 model can control 7 different robot embodiments across 60+ manipulation tasks — a breakthrough in robot generalization.

Baseten

San Francisco, CA

AI inference infrastructure company ($5B valuation) backed by NVIDIA ($150M investment). Provides high-performance model serving with $585M total raised. Enables companies to deploy and scale AI models in production.

Black Forest Labs

Freiburg, Germany

German AI startup behind the Flux image generation model, known for high-quality open-source image synthesis.

Pinecone

San Francisco, CA

Purpose-built vector database for AI applications and semantic search.

LangChain

San Francisco, CA

Creator of LangChain and LangGraph, the most widely used AI agent framework ecosystem. Both reached v1.0 in early 2026. Used by Uber, LinkedIn, Klarna. Deep Agents for multi-agent planning. $25M Series A (2023).

Docker

Palo Alto, CA

Container platform and MCP Catalog (300+ verified AI servers). Containerization standard for AI model deployment, ML pipelines, and development environments. Docker Hub distribution.

Zapier

San Francisco, CA

No-code automation connecting 6000+ apps with AI actions.

Vercel

San Francisco, CA

Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js. v0 major redesign (Feb 2026) — sandbox-based runtime, Git panel, diff view. Pro pricing restructured to credit-based ($20/mo + $20 credits). Zero-config deployments, preview URLs, Edge Functions, global CDN.

Supabase

San Francisco, CA

Open-source Firebase alternative with PostgreSQL, pgvector, and real-time capabilities.

HeyGen

Los Angeles, CA

AI video platform for creating professional spokesperson videos with AI avatars and real-time translation.

Synthesia

London, UK

AI video generation platform creating professional training and marketing videos with customizable AI avatars.

Figure AI

Sunnyvale, CA

Humanoid robotics company developing general-purpose robots for industrial and home use. Figure 02 completed an 11-month BMW deployment (30,000+ X3s produced). Figure 03 (announced Oct 2025) targets home use at $20,000. Raised $1.9B+ at $39B valuation with backing from Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA.

Waymo

Mountain View, CA

Most commercially advanced autonomous vehicle program in the world. Waymo One robotaxi service operates in 10+ US cities with 170M+ fully autonomous miles driven. Raised $16B at $126B valuation (Feb 2026). Safety record: 91% fewer serious-injury crashes vs. human drivers.

Neuralink

Fremont, CA

Brain-computer interface company founded by Elon Musk. Approximately 20 patients have received N1 implants as of early 2026, achieving record-breaking neural cursor control (9+ bits/sec). Blindsight visual cortex device received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation. Scaling toward mass manufacturing with R1 surgical robot.

Boston Dynamics

Waltham, MA

Most established robotics company, known for Atlas humanoid and Spot quadruped robots. Atlas entered commercial production at CES 2026 with 56 degrees of freedom, shipping to Hyundai and Google DeepMind. Spot is commercially deployed for industrial inspection at construction sites, oil and gas facilities, and manufacturing plants.

Isomorphic Labs

London, UK

Google DeepMind spinoff focused on AI-driven drug discovery. Built IsoDDE (dubbed "AlphaFold 4" by scientists), advancing computational chemistry and protein structure prediction for pharmaceutical R&D.

Zoox

Foster City, CA

Amazon subsidiary building purpose-built autonomous robotaxis with bidirectional design (no front or back). Launched commercial robotaxi service, adding to the growing autonomous vehicle ecosystem alongside Waymo.

Aurora Innovation

Pittsburgh, PA

First company operating commercial driverless trucks at scale in the US. 10 active routes connecting Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, El Paso and more. 250,000+ driverless miles with zero Aurora Driver-attributed collisions. Targeting 200+ trucks by end of 2026 with partners including FedEx, Werner, and Uber Freight. Proprietary FirstLight lidar with 1,000m range.

AI21 Labs

Tel Aviv, Israel

Israeli AI company building Jamba, a hybrid SSM-Transformer model optimized for long-context enterprise applications. Available on Amazon Bedrock. Founded by AI researchers from Hebrew University.

Jasper

Austin, TX

Enterprise AI marketing platform that pivoted from general copywriting after a turbulent 2023-2024 (CEO/CTO departed, revenue dropped from $120M peak to $55M). Recovered to $88M revenue by mid-2025 after repositioning as an enterprise marketing copilot, achieving a 4x increase in enterprise ARR. ~70,000 paying customers. Valued at ~$1.8B (2026 estimate).

Writer

San Francisco, CA

Enterprise AI platform with Palmyra X5 foundation model family. Provides full-stack generative AI for enterprises with custom model training, AI guardrails, and compliance features. Growing rapidly in regulated industries.

Khan Academy

Mountain View, CA

Nonprofit AI tutor (Khanmigo) using Socratic questioning for 2 million+ students across 380+ school districts — free for teachers, $4/month for learners.

Augment Code

Palo Alto, CA

Enterprise AI coding assistant ($1B valuation) with SOC 2 Type II compliance and on-premise deployment options. Backed by Eric Schmidt. Focused on large enterprise development teams with security requirements.

Poolside

Paris, France

AI coding company ($3B valuation) building foundation models specifically for software engineering. Founded by Jason Warner (ex-GitHub VP of Engineering). Based in Paris, France.

Magic AI

San Francisco, CA

AI coding company ($1.5B+ valuation) building models with 100M+ token context windows for understanding entire codebases. Partnership with Google Cloud for dedicated supercomputer infrastructure.

Luma AI

San Francisco, CA

AI company behind Dream Machine, a popular text-to-video and image-to-video generation tool. Known for accessible, high-quality video generation at consumer-friendly pricing.

Pika

Palo Alto, CA

AI video generation startup offering text-to-video and image-to-video creation with creative editing tools.

Suno

Cambridge, MA

AI music generation platform that creates full songs with vocals, instruments, and lyrics from text prompts.

Lightmatter

Boston, MA

Photonic computing company ($4.4B valuation) building optical interconnects for AI data centers. Their "Passage" chip uses light instead of electricity to connect AI processors, dramatically reducing power consumption and latency.

IonQ

College Park, MD

Leading trapped-ion quantum computing company. Delivered Tempo architecture (100 physical qubits) ahead of schedule. Demonstrated practical quantum advantage: IonQ + Ansys medical device simulation outperformed classical HPC by 12% on a 36-qubit system. Roadmap: 256 qubits (2026), 1,600 logical qubits (2028), 80,000 (2030). Public company (NYSE: IONQ).

C3.ai

Redwood City, CA

Enterprise AI application platform with 100+ pre-built applications for predictive maintenance, supply chain, fraud detection, and energy optimization. Partnerships with Microsoft (28 joint deals), AWS, Google Cloud. New CEO Stephen Ehikian (Sep 2025). Undergoing restructuring targeting $135M annual savings.

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Salt Lake City, UT

AI drug discovery company using biology-scale datasets to compress development from 12 years to 4-5 — merged with Exscientia, 5 clinical programs, Sanofi/Roche/Bayer partners.

AspenTech

Bedford, MA

Industrial AI software for energy and chemical companies — process optimization, predictive maintenance, and supply chain. Acquired by Emerson for $17 billion.

Dynamic Yield

Tel Aviv, Israel

Mastercard's AI personalization platform for e-commerce and retail — Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for 7 consecutive years. Used by IKEA, Sephora, and McDonald's.

Tractable

London, UK

Computer vision AI for auto and property insurance claims — reduces damage appraisal from weeks to minutes. $7 billion+ in annualized repairs processed for GEICO and Tokio Marine.

Augury

New York, NY

AI-powered machine health platform using vibration sensors for predictive maintenance — $1 billion+ unicorn with 99.9% failure detection accuracy.

n8n

Berlin, Germany

Open-source workflow automation with AI agent capabilities.

Make

Prague, Czech Republic

Visual workflow automation platform (formerly Integromat).

Copy.ai

Memphis, TN

AI-powered Go-to-Market platform that evolved from simple copywriting to comprehensive workflow automation. Content Agent Studio generates brand-voice variations from samples without prompt engineering. Agents for prospecting, inbound leads, ABM, translation, and deal coaching. Supports GPT-4o, Claude, and other models. 90+ prebuilt tools, 25+ languages.

DataRobot

Boston, MA

Enterprise AI governance and AutoML platform expanding into agentic AI. Agent Workforce Platform (July 2025) for building and governing AI agent workforces. Acquired Agnostiq (Feb 2025) for distributed computing. 850+ customers; 1/3 of Fortune 50. 2025 Gartner Leader for Data Science & ML. AI Application Suites for SAP.

Hebbia

New York, NY

AI enterprise search company ($700M+ valuation) focused on finance and legal verticals. Matrix, their multi-agent system, enables knowledge workers to analyze large document sets with AI-powered search and reasoning.

Codeium

Mountain View, CA

AI coding company behind Windsurf, an AI-native IDE and major competitor to Cursor. Offers a generous free tier with AI autocomplete, chat, and agentic coding. Cascade feature provides multi-file AI editing with context awareness. Formerly branded as Codeium. Supports VS Code, JetBrains, and standalone IDE.

Block

San Francisco, CA

Fintech company (Square, Cash App). Built Goose open-source AI coding agent, donated to Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under Linux Foundation (Dec 2025). AAIF platinum member.

Box

Redwood City, CA

Enterprise cloud content management with AI classification.

JPMorgan Chase

New York, NY

Largest US bank by assets, with the deepest AI investment in financial services. LLM Suite is used by 200,000 employees daily (2025 Innovation of the Year). 450+ AI use cases across fraud detection, risk modeling, trading, and compliance. $18B annual technology spend.

Zhipu AI

Beijing, China

First publicly listed Chinese AI foundation model company (Hong Kong IPO, Jan 2026, ~$558M). Tsinghua University spinout building GLM-5 — a 744B MoE model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips with zero NVIDIA dependency. MIT license.

Kuaishou

Beijing, China

Chinese technology company behind Kling AI video generation, one of the leading Chinese short-video platforms.

MiniMax

Shanghai, China

Shanghai-based AI company that IPO'd in Hong Kong (Jan 2026, ~$620M raised, stock +109% on debut). Builds consumer-facing AI products and the M2.7 foundation model. Backed by Alibaba, Tencent, and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Intercom

San Francisco, CA

Customer messaging platform with Fin 2 AI agent — resolves up to 82% of support volume with 99.9% accuracy. Omnichannel (chat, email, WhatsApp). Procedures enable multi-step workflows via natural language. $0.99 per resolution pricing model. 40M+ conversations resolved to date.

Zendesk

San Francisco, CA

Customer service platform repositioned as a Resolution Platform. AI Agents (replacing Answer Bot) resolve 80% of support issues with outcome-based pricing. Acquired Forethought for $200M+ (March 2026) — self-improving agentic AI. Privately held since $10.2B acquisition by Hellman & Friedman + Permira (2022).

G42

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abu Dhabi-based AI and cloud computing company. Building Stargate UAE (5GW AI campus) with OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA, and SoftBank. Microsoft investing $15.2B in UAE through G42 subsidiary. Co-founded MGX, a $25B AI infrastructure investment fund.

Technology Innovation Institute

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abu Dhabi-based government research institute building the Falcon open-source model family. Falcon 3 (1B-10B params, 14T tokens) leads Hugging Face leaderboards for models under 13B. Also released Falcon Arabic and Falcon-Edge for ultra-low-power deployment.

AG2

Open Source (Global)

Community-governed open-source multi-agent framework, forked from Microsoft's AutoGen in Nov 2024. "The Open-Source AgentOS." Active development with conversable agents, group chat, and code execution. Apache 2.0 license.

Aidoc

Tel Aviv, Israel

Medical AI company with 30 FDA-cleared tools for radiology triage and clinical decision support. Landmark FDA clearance (January 2026): first comprehensive AI triage tool detecting 14 critical findings from a single abdominal CT with 97% mean sensitivity and 98% specificity. Enterprise deployments include WellSpan Health (9 hospitals) and Asklepios Group in Germany (28 hospitals).

Altos Labs

San Diego, CA

Longevity biotechnology company pursuing cellular reprogramming to reverse aging. Launched with $3 billion — the largest biotech debut ever — backed by Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner. Mouse studies show aged organ rejuvenation via Yamanaka factors. Early human safety testing reportedly began August 2025. Appointed Chief Medical Officer in 2025.

Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, founded by Yann LeCun after departing Meta in November 2025. Raised $1.03 billion in seed funding at $3.5 billion pre-money valuation — the largest seed round in European startup history. Building on the JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture) framework, pursuing world models as an alternative to LLMs. Meta is a partner. Paris-based.

Apify

Prague, Czech Republic

Cloud web scraping and automation platform with 2000+ actors.

Apollo.io

San Francisco, CA

Sales intelligence platform with AI-powered prospecting.

Backblaze

San Mateo, CA

Affordable cloud storage with S3-compatible API.

Browse AI

Vancouver, Canada

No-code web scraping with AI robot training.

Calico

South San Francisco, CA

Alphabet subsidiary focused on aging and age-related diseases. Lead drug fosigotifator failed Phase II/III ALS trial (Jan 2025). AbbVie ended 11-year collaboration (Nov 2025). Now pursuing $571M Mabwell Bioscience partnership for IL-11 directed therapeutics. 5 clinical candidates, ~20 preclinical.

Chegg

Santa Clara, CA

Education technology company whose stock collapsed roughly 99% from its peak after CEO Dan Rosensweig directly attributed declining subscriber growth to ChatGPT. The most prominent example of an established company disrupted by generative AI. Major layoffs in 2024. Pivoting to AI-powered learning but faces an existential challenge from free AI alternatives.

Chroma

San Francisco, CA

Open-source AI-native embedding database for LLM applications.

The Climate Corporation

San Francisco, CA

Bayer's digital farming platform (Climate FieldView) using AI for planting, fertilization, and harvest optimization — 250+ million subscribed acres in 23 countries.

Coframe

San Francisco, CA

AI-powered web optimization platform that continuously generates and tests UI variations to improve conversion rates. Uses generative AI for A/B testing at scale.

Consensus

New York, NY

AI academic search extracting findings from research papers.

CrewAI

San Francisco, CA

Role-based multi-agent AI framework with 12M+ daily executions and 2B+ total agentic executions. Used by 60%+ of Fortune 500. CrewAI Flows for event-driven orchestration. Enterprise AMP Suite for tracing and control.

Descript

San Francisco, CA

AI-powered video and podcast editing platform where editing media is as easy as editing a document.

Diffbot

Menlo Park, CA

AI-powered web data extraction with knowledge graph.

Duetto

San Francisco, CA

AI revenue management platform for hotels using Open Pricing to optimize rates per room type, segment, and channel across 6,000+ properties.

Durable

Vancouver, Canada

AI website builder generating complete sites in seconds.

Elicit

Oakland, CA

AI research assistant automating literature review.

Extropic AI

San Francisco, CA

AI hardware company founded by Guillaume Verdon (creator of the e/acc movement). Unveiled first working thermodynamic computing chip in October 2025 — Thermodynamic Sampling Units (TSUs) using probabilistic bits (p-bits) instead of deterministic bits for more efficient AI computation. Pursuing fundamentally different approach to AI hardware.

Firecrawl

San Francisco, CA

Web scraping API turning websites into LLM-ready data.

Fireflies.ai

San Francisco, CA

AI meeting assistant that transcribes and summarizes meetings.

Fly.io

Chicago, IL

Edge container platform. Docker containers in 30+ global regions. Persistent VMs, WebSocket support, volume storage. Ideal for real-time AI applications and global edge deployment.

Gamma

San Francisco, CA

AI presentation builder generating slide decks from text prompts.

Gong

San Francisco, CA

Revenue AI platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes every sales conversation. Mission Andromeda (Feb 2026) introduced Gong Enable, AI coaching chatbot, and open MCP connections. AI Call Reviewer grades reps on org-specific methodology. $300M+ ARR; 5,000+ customers. 2025 Gartner Leader for Revenue Action Orchestration.

Greenhouse

New York, NY

Recruiting platform with AI features across all subscription tiers — resume screening, candidate summaries, interview scorecards, bias detection, and job description generation. ~4,000 customers; $266M revenue (2024). Owned by TPG since 2021. Focused on structured hiring with AI augmentation.

HouseCanary

San Francisco, CA

Most accurate residential real estate AI valuations — 2.8% median error across 136+ million properties for lenders, investors, and iBuyers.

Ideogram

Toronto, Canada

AI image generation company specializing in accurate text rendering within generated images.

JetBrains

Prague, Czech Republic

Developer tool company (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, Rider). AI Assistant with Recap, Insights, Next Edit Suggestions GA, Claude Agent integration via Anthropic SDK. JetBrains Console for team AI management.

Lambda Labs

San Francisco, CA

GPU cloud infrastructure company providing on-demand access to NVIDIA GPUs for AI training and inference. Popular with AI researchers and startups for cost-effective GPU compute.

Limitless

San Francisco, CA

Wearable AI company (formerly Rewind AI, rebranded 2024). Built a $99 AI pendant for continuous conversation capture and recall, founded by Dan Siroker (Optimizely co-founder). Raised $33M+ from a16z, First Round Capital, and NEA. Acquired by Meta in December 2025 — team absorbed into Meta for smart glasses/wearable AI efforts. Hardware sales discontinued.

LlamaIndex

San Francisco, CA

Data framework for RAG and document-heavy AI agents. Specializes in data ingestion, chunking, indexing, and retrieval pipelines. v1.0 reached. Works alongside LangChain/LangGraph as the data layer for agent systems.

Manas AI

New York, NY

AI-enabled drug discovery startup co-founded by Reid Hoffman and cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee in January 2025. Using AI to accelerate drug discovery, with approximately $25 million in initial funding. Early-stage company focused on AI-driven therapeutics development.

Micron

Boise, ID

Memory and storage manufacturer. ~20% of global HBM market share (behind SK Hynix ~50%, Samsung ~30%). HBM3e production for H200/MI300X. Critical supply chain for AI chip industry.

Murf AI

San Francisco, CA

AI voiceover platform offering 120+ realistic voices for creating professional narration, e-learning, and marketing content.

Neon

San Francisco, CA

Serverless Postgres platform. Database branching (git-like), PostgreSQL 18 support, Neon Auth (Better Auth), Rust Data API rewrite. 100 free projects, 100 CU-hours. Scale-to-zero economics.

Netlify

San Francisco, CA

Web hosting and deployment platform. AI Gateway for LLM API routing, Observability for performance monitoring, Prerender GA (Dec 2025). Split testing, Identity, form handling. Major Vercel competitor.

NightCafe

Melbourne, Australia

AI art platform offering multiple generation algorithms including Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and custom models with community features.

Nosto

Helsinki, Finland

AI e-commerce personalization platform for 3,500+ brands in 100+ countries — performance-based pricing, 323% growth in AI search queries.

NuScale Power

Portland, OR

Leading Small Modular Reactor (SMR) company for AI data center power. Signed 6 GW deal with Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). First commercial SMR deployments expected 2027-2030.

Oklo

Santa Clara, CA

Nuclear microreactor company for AI data centers. Broke ground at Idaho National Laboratory. 12 GW deal with Switch. Sam Altman-backed. NRC design certification under review.

Ollama

San Francisco, CA

Open-source local model runner. v0.18.2 with web search, cloud model support, Windows ARM64 native. Simplest path to running LLMs locally — one command to download and run any supported model.

Otter.ai

Mountain View, CA

AI meeting transcription with real-time captions and summaries.

PathAI

Boston, MA

Digital pathology AI company with FDA-qualified tools for clinical trials and diagnostics. AIM-MASH AI Assist (December 2025) is the first AI pathology tool qualified for MASH clinical trials (FDA + EMA). PathAssist Derm received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation (March 2026). AISight Dx deployed at Labcorp labs. Collaborations with University Hospital Zurich for molecular pathology.

Precision Neuroscience

New York, NY

Brain-computer interface company developing the Layer 7 Cortical Interface — a thin-film microelectrode array with 1,024 electrodes placed on the brain surface without penetrating tissue. FDA 510(k) clearance (April 2025). Partnered with Medtronic (January 2026) to co-develop integrated surgical navigation system. Founded by a Neuralink co-founder.

project44

Chicago, IL

AI-powered supply chain visibility tracking 1.5 billion shipments annually — multi-agent orchestration for predictive ETAs across global logistics.

Prospera (Valmont)

Omaha, NE

Computer vision AI for real-time crop health monitoring — acquired by Valmont Industries for $300 million, now part of the Accent 365 precision agriculture platform.

Qdrant

Berlin, Germany

High-performance open-source vector database built in Rust.

Railway

San Francisco, CA

Full-stack hosting platform with built-in databases. Persistent servers (not serverless), one-click PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis/MongoDB, service networking. Usage-based pricing. Ideal for AI apps needing WebSockets and background workers.

Recraft

London, UK

AI design tool for generating and editing vector and raster images with brand-consistent style controls.

Redis

Mountain View, CA

In-memory data store company. Redis Cloud for caching, session management, rate limiting, and real-time features. Standard infrastructure for AI application performance optimization.

Relevance AI

Sydney, Australia

No-code AI agent builder for business workflow automation.

Render

San Francisco, CA

Simple full-stack hosting platform. Free tier with PostgreSQL, Redis, and background workers. Auto-deploy from GitHub. Modern Heroku alternative for AI-powered applications.

Sakana AI

Tokyo, Japan

Japan's most valuable AI unicorn ($2.65B valuation), founded by Llion Jones (Transformer paper co-author). Building Japan-optimized AI models for manufacturing and government, expanding into enterprise applications.

Sarvam AI

Bangalore, India

India's leading sovereign AI company, backed by Lightspeed and Khosla Ventures. Launched Sarvam-105B — a 105B parameter model supporting all 22 official Indian languages, trained on government-subsidized GPUs.

SerpAPI

Austin, TX

Search engine results API for real-time SERP data extraction.

Shield AI

San Diego, CA

AI pilot company developing Hivemind autonomy software that can fly aircraft without GPS, communications, or human direction. V-BAT autonomous drone deployed with US Coast Guard ($198M IDIQ), Indian Army (~$35M), and forces in Netherlands, Romania, Indonesia, and Japan. Valued at $5.6B.

Sight Machine

San Francisco, CA

Manufacturing analytics platform creating digital twins of production processes — AI anomaly detection and root cause analysis. NVIDIA NVentures backed.

StackBlitz

San Francisco, CA

Creator of Bolt.new, a popular AI web app builder that generates full-stack applications from natural language prompts. WebContainers technology runs Node.js in the browser.

Synchron

New York, NY

Brain-computer interface company using an endovascular approach — no open brain surgery required. Stentrode device threaded through blood vessels to the brain. COMMAND trial met primary safety endpoint across 6 US patients with zero device-related serious adverse events. Working toward FDA pivotal trial, potentially the first BCI to reach this stage.

Synthesis

San Francisco, CA

AI math tutoring and collaborative problem-solving for kids ages 8-14 — originally from SpaceX's Ad Astra school. 21,500+ students, 4.5x YoY growth.

Tabnine

Tel Aviv, Israel

Privacy-focused AI code completion. On-premise deployment option for regulated industries. Enterprise customers. Supports VS Code, JetBrains, and other IDEs.

Taranis

Westfield, IN

Aerial crop intelligence platform using drones and satellites with AI — submillimeter-resolution imagery trained on 50+ million images. Syngenta partnership.

Taskade

New York, NY

AI-powered task management with collaborative AI agents.

Tavily

Tel Aviv, Israel

AI-optimized search API for LLM applications and agents.

Tenstorrent

Toronto, Canada

AI chip company ($3.2B valuation) led by legendary chip architect Jim Keller (designer of AMD Zen, Apple A-series). Builds RISC-V-based AI accelerators as an alternative to NVIDIA GPUs, offering open-source hardware architecture.

Tulip

Somerville, MA

No-code factory operations platform — frontline workers build custom manufacturing apps without IT. $1.3 billion unicorn, MIT Media Lab spinout, Mitsubishi Electric backed.

Udio

New York, NY

AI music creation platform generating high-quality songs across genres with text prompts and style controls.

Uplight

Boulder, CO

AI energy intelligence platform helping utilities manage demand response, grid flexibility, and clean energy transition — $1.5 billion unicorn.

Upstage

Seoul, South Korea

South Korean AI company building Solar Pro 2 (31B parameters), which beats GPT-4.1 on benchmarks. Targeting Korea's first generative AI IPO in H2 2026.

Viz.ai

San Francisco, CA

Medical AI company detecting time-sensitive conditions from medical imaging. Nearly 2,000 hospitals covering 230 million lives. Achieved profitability in healthcare business (2025). Multiple FDA clearances including ICH Plus (Dec 2025) and first-ever subdural measurements (June 2025). Pharma partnerships with Sanofi/Regeneron and Novartis. $1.2B valuation.

Weaviate

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Open-source vector database with built-in vectorization modules.

You.com

San Francisco, CA

AI-powered search engine with customizable AI modes.

AI-native education startup founded by Andrej Karpathy, building AI teaching assistants and open-source ML research tools.

Ant Group

Hangzhou, China

Hangzhou-based fintech and AI company; operator of Alipay and parent of the InclusionAI lab — ships open-weights frontier models including the trillion-parameter Ling-2.6 family.

Paperclip

Open-source orchestration platform for managing teams of AI agents as zero-human companies

Wispr AI

San Francisco, CA

San Francisco startup building Wispr Flow, an AI voice keyboard for Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. Founded in 2021 by Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg.

Autodesk

San Francisco, CA

Industry-dominant AEC and manufacturing software vendor (NASDAQ: ADSK, ~$60B market cap). Multi-product AI strategy spans Forma (generative architecture), Revit Insight (BIM performance analytics), AutoCAD Smart Blocks (vision AI for drafting), and Autodesk Assistant. Founded 1982; FY2024 revenue ~$5.5B. AutoCAD remains the world's most widely used CAD platform, with 100M+ users across architecture, engineering, construction, product design, and media.

Bentley Systems

Exton, PA

Civil and infrastructure software leader (NASDAQ: BSY, ~$15B market cap). Founded 1984 by the Bentley family; IPO'd 2020. Multi-product portfolio includes MicroStation, STAAD (structural analysis), OpenBuildings, OpenRail, OpenRoads, and the iTwin digital-twin platform with AI-driven analytics for bridges, transit, water, and utility projects. FY2024 revenue ~$1.2B. Used on most major infrastructure projects worldwide.

GE Healthcare

Chicago, IL

Major medical-equipment vendor (NASDAQ: GEHC, ~$40B market cap) — spun off from GE in 2023. Edison AI platform integrates with GE imaging devices (CT, MRI, ultrasound, X-ray) for radiology workflow, image quality, and clinical decision support. Founded 1994 (current entity); FY2024 revenue ~$19.7B. Imaging, ultrasound, patient care solutions, and pharmaceutical diagnostics serve most large hospital systems.

Siemens

Munich, Germany

Diversified German industrial conglomerate ($150B+ market cap) — major AI plays span industrial automation (Siemens Industrial Copilot), digital twins (NX, Teamcenter), and via majority-owned Siemens Healthineers subsidiary, medical imaging (AI-Rad Companion). Founded 1847; FY2024 revenue ~€78B. Operating segments span Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure, Mobility, Healthineers, and Financial Services.

Epic Systems

Verona, WI

Privately-held US EHR market leader, founded 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Dominant in large hospital systems (~40% market share among >500-bed hospitals). Epic Cosmos research database includes 250M+ patient records. AI features rolled out 2023-2024 include Inbox-message drafting (in partnership with Nuance/Microsoft), summarization, and predictive insights. Headquartered on a famously elaborate Verona, WI campus. Estimated annual revenue $4-5B.

Innovaccer

San Francisco, CA

Healthcare data and AI platform unifying clinical, claims, and operational data for hospitals and payers. Founded 2014; private; ~$3.2B valuation (2022 Series F). Health Cloud platform serves 1,600+ care facilities and 96,000+ providers. Multi-product portfolio includes Care, Marketing, and Clinical Decision Support modules. AI features for population health, care management, and physician workflow automation.

PointClickCare

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Dominant cloud EHR for skilled nursing, senior living, and home health (Hellman & Friedman portfolio). Founded 1995; ~27,000 long-term and post-acute care facilities; multi-product (clinical, financial, marketing). AI features for resident risk prediction, regulatory compliance, and revenue cycle. Acquired Collective Medical (2020, $650M), American HealthTech (2021), and Audacious Inquiry (2022) to extend across LTPAC, hospital, and population health markets.

Abridge

Pittsburgh, PA

Best-funded ambient clinical-documentation AI startup; founded 2018 by physician Dr. Shiv Rao. ~$5B valuation (2025 Series E). Platform listens to patient encounters and generates structured notes that integrate with Epic, Cerner, and other major EHRs. Major health-system deployments include Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic, UPMC, Christus Health, and Yale New Haven. Revenue is reportedly in the high tens of millions annually.

Suki AI

Redwood City, CA

Voice-driven AI assistant for clinical documentation, founded 2017 by former Google product leader Punit Soni. ~$165M raised; latest valuation ~$700M (2024 Series D). Major health-system deployments include MedStar Health, Northwell Health, MultiCare, and Children's Hospital of Orange County. Suki Assistant integrates with Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, and other major EHRs.

Paige.AI

New York, NY

Pathology AI company founded 2017 by Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers. ~$220M raised; backed by Goldman Sachs, Healthcare Venture Partners. First FDA-approved AI for cancer detection in pathology (Paige Prostate Detect, 2021). Multi-cancer product pipeline includes prostate, breast, and bladder cancer modules. Used by major academic medical centers and reference laboratories worldwide.

Wysa

Boston, MA

Conversational AI for mental-health support, founded 2015 by Jo Aggarwal and Ramakant Vempati. Privately held; ~$30M raised. Clinically validated CBT-based chat assistant deployed across ~6 million users in 95 countries. B2B and B2B2C distribution through employers (Aetna, Cigna, Astra Zeneca, etc.), health plans, the UK NHS, and direct-to-consumer. Multi-language support and FDA Breakthrough Device designation for adolescent depression.

Augmedix

San Francisco, CA

Public ambient clinical-documentation company (NASDAQ: AUGX, ~$200M market cap). Founded 2012; multi-segment delivery (in-person + virtual scribes) supplemented by AI ambient transcription. Customers include CommonSpirit Health, Sutter Health, Dignity Health, and HCA Healthcare. FY2024 revenue ~$50M. Acquired by Commure (Sequoia / General Catalyst-backed) in October 2024 for $139M.

Bloomberg L.P.

New York, NY

Dominant financial-data platform; privately-held since founding by Michael Bloomberg in 1981. Bloomberg Terminal serves ~325,000 subscribers at $24K/year each (~$7.8B revenue from terminals alone). Bloomberg AI (terminal-integrated) and BloombergGPT — a 50B-parameter financial NLP model trained on Bloomberg's proprietary data — anchor the AI strategy. Cross-vertical: financial services, news, media, government data.

BlackRock

New York, NY

World's largest asset manager — $11.6T assets under management (Q4 2024). NYSE: BLK, ~$135B market cap. Aladdin platform powers $20T+ in assets across 200+ external clients. Aladdin AI features include portfolio risk analytics, scenario stress-testing, and ESG analytics. Founded 1988 by Larry Fink and others; IPO 1999. ~21,000 employees worldwide.

Verisk Analytics

Jersey City, NJ

Major insurance and risk analytics platform (NASDAQ: VRSK, ~$45B market cap). Founded 1971 (as the Insurance Services Office); IPO 2009. FY2024 revenue ~$2.8B. Embedded in most US P&C insurance carriers for underwriting, claims, fraud detection, and catastrophe modeling. Multi-product portfolio includes Lightspeed (auto claims AI), Mozart (commercial-lines underwriting AI), and Discovery Navigator (claims investigation AI).

Guidewire Software

San Mateo, CA

Insurance core-system leader (NYSE: GWRE, ~$15B market cap). Founded 2001; IPO 2012. FY2024 revenue ~$980M. PolicyCenter, ClaimCenter, and BillingCenter form the dominant P&C insurance core platform; deployed at 540+ insurers globally. Guidewire AI (rolled out 2023-2024) provides embedded ML for underwriting decisions, claims automation, and customer service. Cloud-first transition (Guidewire Cloud) accelerated AI adoption.

NICE Ltd.

Ra'anana, Israel

Israeli enterprise-software company (NASDAQ: NICE, ~$10B market cap). Founded 1986; IPO 1996. FY2024 revenue ~$2.7B. Multi-vertical platform: NICE Actimize (financial crime — anti-money-laundering, fraud detection), CXone (customer-experience cloud platform), and public-safety solutions. Customers include 85 of the Fortune 100 banks plus most major broker-dealers, retailers, and government agencies.

Insilico Medicine

New York, NY / Hong Kong

AI-driven drug discovery company with multiple AI-discovered candidates in Phase II clinical trials. Founded 2014 by Alex Zhavoronkov; ~$400M raised across multiple rounds. Pharma.AI suite spans target identification, generative chemistry, clinical-trial design. Lead asset INS018_055 (idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) is the world's first wholly AI-discovered, AI-designed drug to enter Phase II trials.

New York AI research lab building brain-inspired "Cortex AI" models aimed at radical energy efficiency. Co-founded by Internet Explorer creator and CTRL-labs founder Thomas Reardon; emerged from stealth in 2026 with $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation, backed by Jeff Bezos.

Schrödinger

New York, NY

Computational drug-discovery and materials-science platform (NASDAQ: SDGR, ~$2.5B market cap). Founded 1990 (named for Erwin Schrödinger). Schrödinger Suite combines physics-based simulation and machine learning for molecular design. FY2024 revenue ~$200M software + ~$70M drug-discovery collaborations. Public partnerships with Bristol-Myers Squibb, Otsuka, Sanofi; ownership stakes in Nimbus Therapeutics and Morphic Holding (acquired by Lilly).

Dominant electronic design automation (EDA) vendor (NASDAQ: SNPS, ~$80B market cap). Founded 1986; IPO 1992. FY2024 revenue ~$6.1B. DSO.ai is the industry's first reinforcement-learning EDA tool for chip-design optimization, used by major fabless and IDM semiconductor firms. Pending $35B acquisition of Ansys (engineering simulation) extends platform into multiphysics simulation. Customers include nearly every major chip designer worldwide.

Major electronic design automation (EDA) vendor (NASDAQ: CDNS, ~$80B market cap). Founded 1988 from the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD; IPO 1988. FY2024 revenue ~$4.6B. Cerebrus is the company's reinforcement-learning chip-implementation tool. Multi-product portfolio spans digital and analog design, verification (Palladium emulation), system design (Allegro, OrCAD), and the rapidly-growing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and AI infrastructure design segments.

LexisNexis

New York, NY (US HQ)

Major legal-information and risk-intelligence platform (RELX subsidiary). Founded 1973 (Mead Data Central). Lexis+ AI is the company's generative-AI legal-research and drafting platform, competitive with Westlaw and Harvey. Cross-vertical: legal research, news (Nexis), risk and compliance (LexisNexis Risk Solutions). Parent RELX is public (LSE: REL, NYSE: RELX) with a ~$70B market cap.

Mobileye

Jerusalem, Israel

Dominant ADAS (advanced driver assistance) supplier (NASDAQ: MBLY, ~$15B market cap). Founded 1999 in Jerusalem; acquired by Intel 2017 ($15.3B); IPO'd 2022. EyeQ system-on-chip and computer-vision software in 30+ automakers. Multi-product portfolio: SuperVision (hands-off highway autonomy), Chauffeur (eyes-off highway autonomy), Drive (full-stack autonomous-vehicle platform). 165M+ vehicles deployed worldwide.

Sage Group

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Major UK enterprise software vendor for SMBs and mid-market (LSE: SGE, ~$15B market cap). Founded 1981 in Newcastle. FY2024 revenue ~£2.3B. Multi-product portfolio: Sage Business Cloud (accounting, payroll, HR, ERP), Sage Intacct (mid-market financial management), Sage People (HR for mid-market). Sage Copilot (launched 2024) is the company's generative-AI assistant embedded across all platforms.

Xero

Wellington, New Zealand

Cloud accounting platform for small businesses (ASX: XRO, ~$23B market cap). Founded 2006 in Wellington, New Zealand. FY2024 revenue ~NZ$1.7B. Multi-product portfolio: Xero accounting (3.95M+ subscribers), payroll, expense management, project management, payments. Xero Just Ask AI assistant launched 2024. Major partner ecosystem with 1,000+ third-party app integrations.

Walmart

Bentonville, AR

Largest US retailer (~$680B annual revenue) and the dominant US grocery operator. Sparky AI assistant (powered by Anthropic Claude) deployed across associate-facing tools and the customer Walmart app. Major investments in last-mile delivery automation, AI-driven inventory and fulfillment, and AI-augmented merchandising. Founded 1962; NYSE: WMT, ~$700B market cap.

Costco

Issaquah, WA

Warehouse-club retail giant (~$255B annual revenue). 130+ million paid members across 900+ warehouses globally. Famously thin AI deployment compared to peers (Costco's minimal-marketing, treasure-hunt model is structurally less AI-dependent). Founded 1983; NASDAQ: COST, ~$420B market cap.

Kroger

Cincinnati, OH

Second-largest US grocery retailer (~$150B annual revenue) after Walmart. 84.51° subsidiary is one of the most-developed retail-data-and-AI platforms globally. Founded 1883; NYSE: KR, ~$45B market cap. Proposed Albertsons merger blocked by FTC in 2024.

Target

Minneapolis, MN

Major US general-merchandise retailer (~$110B annual revenue) — known for design-forward private-label brands and the rapidly-growing Target Circle loyalty program. Generative AI rolled out 2024-2025 across merchandising, supply-chain, and customer-facing tools. Founded 1902 (predecessor Dayton Dry Goods); NYSE: TGT, ~$70B market cap.

Home Depot

Atlanta, GA

Largest home-improvement retailer globally (~$155B annual revenue). Magic Apron (the Home Depot generative-AI assistant, launched 2024) helps customers diagnose home-improvement projects. Major investments in pro-customer AI tools, supply-chain optimization, and the recent SRS Distribution acquisition (~$18B). Founded 1978; NYSE: HD, ~$400B market cap.

CVS Health

Woonsocket, RI

Largest US pharmacy chain (~$370B annual revenue) plus the Caremark PBM and Aetna health-insurance arm. AI deployed across pharmacy automation, MinuteClinic retail-clinic operations, and Aetna underwriting and claims. Founded 1963 (CVS); NYSE: CVS, ~$70B market cap.

AT&T

Dallas, TX

One of the largest US telecom carriers (~$120B annual revenue). Ask AT&T (built on Microsoft Azure OpenAI) is one of the most-publicly-deployed enterprise generative-AI initiatives. Founded as Bell Telephone 1885; NYSE: T, ~$165B market cap.

Verizon

New York, NY

Largest US telecom carrier by mobile-wireless revenue (~$135B annual revenue). Major AI investments in network operations, customer service automation, and the Verizon Business managed-services portfolio. Founded 2000 (from Bell Atlantic + GTE merger); NYSE: VZ, ~$170B market cap.

T-Mobile

Bellevue, WA

Largest US mobile-wireless carrier by subscribers post-Sprint merger (~$80B annual revenue). T-Priority 5G + AI initiatives, plus the rapidly-growing satellite-direct-to-cell partnership with SpaceX Starlink. Founded 1994 (US predecessor); NASDAQ: TMUS, ~$245B market cap.

Comcast

Philadelphia, PA

Largest US cable-broadband provider (~$120B annual revenue) plus NBCUniversal (Peacock, NBC, Universal Pictures, Universal theme parks) and Sky (Europe). Major AI investments across Xfinity broadband, NBCUniversal media production, and the rapidly-evolving streaming/cable distribution mix. Founded 1963; NASDAQ: CMCSA, ~$170B market cap.

Netflix

Los Gatos, CA

Largest US streaming service (~$40B annual revenue, ~285M global subscribers). One of the most-developed AI-driven content platforms — recommendation, personalization, content production, and the rapidly-rolling-out AI dubbing initiative. Founded 1997; NASDAQ: NFLX, ~$330B market cap.

Disney

Burbank, CA

World's largest media-and-entertainment company (~$93B annual revenue) — Disney+, ESPN, Hulu, Disney theme parks, Walt Disney Studios, ABC. Famously cautious AI adoption due to creative-talent and brand considerations, but expanding generative-AI use across animation, theme-park experiences, and streaming personalization. Founded 1923; NYSE: DIS, ~$200B market cap.

Spotify

Stockholm, Sweden

World's largest music-streaming service (~$15B annual revenue, ~640M users, ~250M Premium subscribers). DJ AI feature is one of the most-used consumer AI products globally. Major investments in podcasting (Joe Rogan, parade of acquisitions in 2019-2022) and now audiobook content. Founded 2006 in Stockholm; NYSE: SPOT, ~$95B market cap.

Universal Music Group

Hilversum, Netherlands

World's largest music label (~€11B annual revenue) — owner of the largest music catalog and roster (Taylor Swift, Drake, Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo, Lady Gaga). Active litigant against Suno and Udio over AI music training. Founded 1934 (Decca Records); Euronext: UMG, ~€45B market cap.

Live Nation Entertainment

Beverly Hills, CA

Dominant global concert-promotion and ticketing company (~$23B annual revenue) — owner of Ticketmaster. Subject of major 2024 DOJ antitrust lawsuit. AI deployed across dynamic-pricing, fraud detection, lineup optimization, and venue operations. Founded 2010 (from Live Nation + Ticketmaster merger); NYSE: LYV, ~$30B market cap.

UPS

Atlanta, GA

Largest US package-delivery company (~$95B annual revenue, ~22M packages daily). UPS ORION route-optimization AI saves an estimated 100M miles annually. Major investments in autonomous delivery, AI-augmented logistics, and the Network of the Future modernization. Founded 1907; NYSE: UPS, ~$95B market cap.

FedEx

Memphis, TN

Major US package-delivery company (~$87B annual revenue) — FedEx Express (air), FedEx Ground (renamed FedEx One Rate post-2024 reorganization), FedEx Freight, FedEx Office. Major investments in AI-augmented operations, the Surround visibility platform, and autonomous delivery. Founded 1971; NYSE: FDX, ~$70B market cap.

McDonald's

Chicago, IL

Largest QSR company globally (~$25B in US system sales, ~$26B company revenue). 40,000+ restaurants in 100+ countries. Famously paused IBM-partnership AI drive-thru pilot in 2024 and is exploring next-generation voice-AI options. McDonald's App is one of the most-downloaded retail apps globally. Founded 1940; NYSE: MCD, ~$210B market cap.

Starbucks

Seattle, WA

Largest US coffee chain and second-largest QSR brand by US system sales (~$36B annual revenue). Deep Brew AI personalization platform powers the Starbucks Rewards loyalty engine. Founded 1971; NASDAQ: SBUX, ~$110B market cap.

Marriott International

Bethesda, MD

Largest hotel company globally (~$25B annual revenue, ~9,000 properties across 30+ brands). 200+ million Marriott Bonvoy loyalty members. Major investments in AI-personalization, customer-service automation, and the recently-launched Anthropic Claude partnership for guest services. Founded 1927 (Hot Shoppes); NASDAQ: MAR, ~$80B market cap.

John Deere

Moline, IL

Largest US agricultural equipment manufacturer (~$55B annual revenue) — autonomous tractors, See & Spray AI weed-detection, the smart-farm-equipment portfolio, and the AI-acquisition strategy (Bear Flag Robotics, Light, Blue River Technology). Founded 1837; NYSE: DE, ~$120B market cap.

ExxonMobil

Spring, TX

Largest US-headquartered oil major (~$340B annual revenue). AI applied across reservoir modeling, drilling optimization, methane-emissions monitoring, and the Low Carbon Solutions division (Direct Air Capture, hydrogen). Founded 1870 (Standard Oil predecessor); NYSE: XOM, ~$520B market cap.

Chevron

Houston, TX

Second-largest US-headquartered oil major (~$200B annual revenue). AI deployed across reservoir modeling, drilling optimization, the Permian shale operations, and the Chevron New Energies division. Recently completed Hess acquisition (~$53B). Founded 1879 (Standard Oil predecessor); NYSE: CVX, ~$300B market cap.

Largest US defense contractor (~$72B annual revenue) — F-35 fighter, Aegis missile defense, Sikorsky helicopters, plus rapidly-growing AI/autonomy investments via Lockheed AI Initiative and partnerships with Anduril, Palantir, and Microsoft. Founded 1995 (Lockheed-Martin Marietta merger); NYSE: LMT, ~$110B market cap.

RTX

Arlington, VA

Major US defense and aerospace contractor (~$80B annual revenue) — formed from the 2020 Raytheon-United Technologies merger. Pratt & Whitney engines, Collins Aerospace, Raytheon (missiles, defense electronics, command-and-control). Founded 2020 (merger), with predecessor Raytheon dating to 1922; NYSE: RTX, ~$190B market cap.

Concentrix

Newark, CA

One of the largest customer-experience (CX) outsourcing companies globally (~$10B annual revenue). Formed from 2023 merger of SYNNEX's CX division and Webhelp. Major investments in AI-augmented customer service, agent-assist tools, and enterprise generative-AI deployment services. Founded 1983; NASDAQ: CNXC, ~$3B market cap.

NextEra Energy

Juno Beach, FL

Largest US electric utility by market capitalization (~$160B) — Florida Power & Light plus the largest US renewable-energy generator (NextEra Energy Resources). Major beneficiary of the data-center power-procurement boom for AI infrastructure. Founded 1925; NYSE: NEE.

Hilton

McLean, VA

Major global hotel company (~$11B annual revenue, ~7,800 properties across 24 brands). 195+ million Hilton Honors loyalty members. Major investments in AI-personalization, customer-service automation, and on-property experience optimization. Founded 1919; NYSE: HLT, ~$60B market cap.

Coursera

Mountain View, CA

Major online education platform (~$700M annual revenue, ~150M registered learners). Coursera Coach (powered by ChatGPT) provides AI tutoring within courses. AI-skills training is the fastest-growing segment. Founded 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller; NYSE: COUR, ~$1.5B market cap.

Wealthfront

Palo Alto, CA

Direct-to-consumer robo-advisor managing $50+ billion across 700,000+ clients. Founded in Palo Alto in 2008 by Andy Rachleff and Dan Carroll; pioneered algorithmic-portfolio-construction at retail scale. Privately held; planned UBS acquisition in 2022 fell through; continues operating independently. Differentiated by daily tax-loss harvesting and direct indexing for accounts above $100K.

Betterment

New York, NY

Largest independent US robo-advisor managing roughly $50 billion across more than 850,000 clients. Founded in New York in 2008 by Jon Stein and Eli Broverman; launched publicly in 2010. Privately held with backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and Kinnevik. Three-segment model: retail Digital robo, Premium tier with CFP access, employer 401(k) (Betterment for Business), and B2B advisor platform (Betterment for Advisors).

Orion Advisor Solutions

Omaha, NE

Dominant AI-augmented advisor-tech platform serving the registered investment advisor (RIA) channel. Built around portfolio accounting and reporting, expanded over two decades to integrate financial planning (Advizr acquisition 2018), CRM (Redtail Technology acquisition 2022), compliance, billing, and trading. Supports thousands of RIA firms managing roughly $3 trillion in assets. Privately held; backed by Genstar Capital and TA Associates.

eMoney Advisor

Radnor, PA

Dominant retail financial-planning platform owned by Fidelity Investments since 2015 (~$250M acquisition). Used by approximately 95,000 financial advisors at independent RIA firms, broker-dealers, banks, and Fidelity-affiliated practices. Cash flow planning methodology distinguishes eMoney from goals-based competitors like MoneyGuidePro. Operated independently within Fidelity.

Skydio

San Mateo, CA

Leading US-built autonomous drone manufacturer. Founded in 2014 by MIT graduates Adam Bry, Abe Bachrach, and Matt Donahoe; raised $750M+; reached unicorn valuation. Three customer segments post-2023 consumer-exit: enterprise inspection (utilities, infrastructure), public safety (Drone-as-First-Responder), and defense (X10D Blue UAS-approved variant). NDAA-compliant US-built hardware.

DroneDeploy

San Francisco, CA

Leading drone-software platform for surveying, mapping, and construction site monitoring. Founded 2013 in San Francisco. Drone-agnostic: works with DJI, Skydio, Parrot, Autel. AI-powered photogrammetry produces 2D orthomosaics, 3D models, and BIM-integrated progress reports. 5,000+ enterprise customers across construction, energy, agriculture, insurance. Acquired StructionSite (2023) for 360° interior captures.

Pix4D

Lausanne, Switzerland

Swiss-built survey-grade photogrammetry standard. Founded 2011 as EPFL spinoff. Specialized in structure-from-motion algorithms producing centimeter-level survey-precision deliverables. Product lineup: Pix4Dmapper (general), Pix4Dmatic (large-scale survey), Pix4Dfields (precision agriculture), Pix4Dcloud (online), Pix4Dcatch + viDoc (mobile reality capture). Preferred by licensed land surveyors and infrastructure-grade civil engineers.

OpenSpace

San Francisco, CA

Leading 360° construction-site capture platform. Founded 2017 in San Francisco. Workers walk job sites with helmet-mounted 360° cameras while AI automatically maps every photo to BIM coordinates, producing time-stamped navigable visual records. Used by ENR Top 400 contractors including Skanska, Suffolk, McCarthy, Mortenson. Over 20 billion sq ft of captured construction since launch.

Buildots

Tel Aviv, Israel

Schedule-grade AI construction-progress platform. Founded 2018 in Tel Aviv, Israel; operates globally. 360° helmet-camera site walks compared against BIM schedule to flag delays and rework risk before they cascade into budget overruns. Trade-specific AI training (drywall, doors, ceilings, MEP, finishes) measures actual percent-complete versus scheduled. Daily PM dashboards integrate with Procore + Primavera P6 for earned-value reporting.

Esri

Redlands, CA

Dominant commercial GIS vendor globally. Founded 1969 in Redlands, California by Jack Dangermond and Laura Dangermond. Privately held. Roughly 40% global GIS market share by revenue. Customers span federal/state governments, utilities, telecommunications, defense, transportation, and Fortune 500 enterprises. ArcGIS Pro is the desktop GIS standard; ArcGIS Online + Enterprise are the cloud + on-premises tiers. AI layer announced 2024-2025.

Hinge Health

San Francisco, CA

Dominant US digital MSK platform serving 19+ million people via employer benefits and health plan partnerships. Founded 2015 by Daniel Perez and Gabriel Mecklenburg in San Francisco. NYSE-listed (2025). Smartphone exercise programs, AI motion tracking via camera, optional Hinge Connect Bluetooth wearables, human care navigators (PTs, pain coaches, orthopedic surgeons), surgery decision support.

Kaia Health

Munich, Germany

Broad digital therapeutics platform spanning MSK pain (back, knee, hip, neck) plus COPD pulmonary rehabilitation. Founded 2016 in Munich, Germany. FDA clearance for several indications. DiGA reimbursement framework in Germany — physician-prescribed, statutory-insurance-reimbursed. Multimodal pain therapy combines exercise, behavioral intervention (CBT for chronic pain), and education.

SWORD Health

Porto, Portugal

FDA-cleared sensor-driven digital physical therapy platform. Founded 2015 in Porto, Portugal. Proprietary motion sensors plus licensed PT supervision deliver in-clinic-quality care to thousands of employer + health plan partners covering millions of members across US + Europe. Three product lines: MSK (musculoskeletal), Bloom (women's health + pelvic floor), Atlas (post-surgical rehab). Mind behavioral health add-on.

CarePredict

Plantation, FL

Wearable AI for elderly activity, fall, and behavior-pattern monitoring. Founded 2013 in Plantation, Florida. Tempo wrist-worn device captures continuous accelerometer + indoor-location data. ML models on continuous data detect routine changes that predict urinary tract infection, falls, and depression days-to-weeks before clinical symptoms emerge. Used in skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, and home settings.

Inspiren

New York, NY

AI vision platform (AUGi) for senior-living facilities. Founded 2017 in New York; clinician-led founding team. AUGi camera system uses computer vision to track falls, exit-seeking, and clinical events from in-room cameras without requiring residents to wear devices. Used by Brookdale Senior Living, Atria Senior Living, and other large operators across thousands of resident rooms. Privacy-respecting by default.

Sudowrite

San Francisco, CA

AI writing assistant built specifically for fiction authors. Founded 2020 by James Yu and Amit Gupta. Novel-craft conventions baked into model behavior — show-don't-tell, deep POV, scene-and-sequel structure, genre-specific tropes. Used by indie + traditionally-published novelists for first-draft expansion, brainstorming, and rewriting. Consumer subscription pricing $10-44/month.

Automated Insights

Durham, NC

Natural-language-generation pioneer. Founded 2007 in Durham, North Carolina. Built Wordsmith — the platform that automatically writes data-driven narratives from structured datasets at scale. Acquired by Vista Equity Partners (2015), now part of Stats Perform. Powers AP corporate-earnings recaps, Yahoo fantasy football, Allstate claims summaries, and Fortune 500 enterprise customers.

Enflame (known in China as Suiyuan Technology) is a Shanghai-based designer of data-center AI accelerators. Its CloudBlazer cards, built on in-house DTU chips, target large-scale training and inference as a domestic Chinese alternative to NVIDIA. Tencent is its largest shareholder, and the company is heading for a Shanghai STAR Market IPO.

Neura Robotics

Metzingen, Germany

Neura Robotics is a German maker of cognitive robots — machines with on-board AI and sensing that learn and adapt rather than follow fixed scripts. Its lineup spans the 4NE-1 humanoid, the MiPA assistant, and the Neuraverse skills ecosystem. In 2026 it raised one of the largest funding rounds in robotics history.

Genesis AI

United States

Full-stack robotics startup pairing the GENE-26.5 foundation model with proprietary human-anatomy-mimicking robotic hands and a sensor-laden data collection glove.

Zyphra

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco AI lab specializing in efficient mixture-of-experts language models. Released ZAYA1-8B in May 2026, the first frontier-quality math model trained entirely on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs.

Span

San Francisco, California, United States

AI infrastructure company turning underutilized residential electrical capacity into distributed AI compute via the XFRA network.

Vapi

San Francisco, California, United States

AI voice-agent platform processing over 1 billion calls; chosen by Amazon Ring over 40 competitors after the company's May 2026 Series B raised $50 million at a $500 million valuation.

Jeff Bezos's physical-AI startup, building an "artificial general engineer" for engineering, manufacturing, and scientific discovery.

Reflection AI

New York, NY

Open-source frontier AI lab founded by ex-DeepMind researchers building large-scale Mixture-of-Experts foundation models with reinforcement learning. Raised $2 billion in October 2025 (NVIDIA, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt). Initial deployment focus: autonomous coding. Selected by the Pentagon in May 2026 to deploy AI on Impact Level 6 and 7 classified networks alongside NVIDIA, Microsoft, and AWS.

Liquid AI

Cambridge, MA

MIT CSAIL spinoff (2023) building Liquid Foundation Models — a family of open-weight LLMs explicitly designed for on-device inference on laptops, phones, and edge hardware. Founders: Ramin Hasani, Mathias Lechner, Alexander Amini, and MIT robotics director Daniela Rus. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Headline 2026 release: LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an 8 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model pretrained on 38 trillion tokens with a 128,000-token context window and day-one runtime support across llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX.

Legora

Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish legal AI platform serving 1,000-plus law firms across 50 markets. Built for collaborative document review, contract analysis, due diligence, and AI-native legal research. Closed a $50 million Series D extension in April 2026 led by NVentures (NVIDIA) and Atlassian at a $5.6 billion post-money valuation, with reported ARR exceeding $100 million.

Modular

Los Altos, California

AI-native developer platform company building the Mojo programming language and the MAX inference engine — founded by LLVM/Swift creator Chris Lattner.

OpenRouter

Multi-model API gateway routing requests across 400+ LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, DeepSeek, and others — letting developers optimize for cost, latency, and capability without vendor lock-in.

Robinhood Markets

Menlo Park, California

US retail brokerage and financial services platform; first to expose live brokerage trading to third-party AI agents over the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Circle

New York, NY

USDC stablecoin issuer (NYSE: CRCL) now shipping Agent Stack — open-source primitives (Circle CLI, Agent Wallets, Agent Marketplace, Nanopayments) that let autonomous AI agents hold, discover, and spend USDC across blockchains, including the new Arc settlement layer.

Be My Eyes

Copenhagen, Denmark

Accessibility platform connecting blind and low-vision users to AI vision and sighted volunteers via video call.

Panthalassa

Portland, OR

Oregon-based AI compute startup developing wave-powered floating ocean data centers ($1 billion valuation, $140 million Peter Thiel-led round). Massive floating orbs pair wave-energy generation with on-board AI compute and cold ocean-water cooling, with results uplinked to land via low-Earth-orbit satellites. Ocean-3 pilot pacing for the northern Pacific in 2026.

MinishLab

Two-person non-profit open-source NLP lab specializing in fast, efficient models for embedding, semantic deduplication, and code search.

Ocean

United States

AI-native email security platform that analyzes every incoming email through an agentic investigation engine to flag fraud, impersonation, and AI-driven phishing.

Odyssey

San Francisco, California

AI startup building learned world models for interactive simulation, gaming, robotics, and multi-agent reinforcement learning. Founded and led by CEO Oliver Cameron (previously of Voyage and Cruise).

SandboxAQ

Palo Alto, California

Quantitative-AI company spun out of Alphabet in 2022, applying Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) to drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and financial-risk modeling. Led by CEO Jack Hidary.