50 Most Promising AI Startups

The American publication Forbes has compiled a list of the 50 most promising startups in the field of artificial intelligence. The editors note that two clear leaders — OpenAI and Anthropic — have raised the most funding. Together, they secured $81 billion, more than half of the $142 billion total raised by all the companies on the list. Next in line are Databricks and Elon Musk’s xAI, which raised over $19 billion and $12.1 billion, respectively.

The publication also notes that compiling the list this year was particularly difficult — journalists received over 1,860 applications, highlighting the ongoing growth of the AI startup and tech ecosystem.

See the full list of the most promising AI startups along with the amount of funding they’ve raised below:

• Abridge – $458M
• Anthropic – $17B
• Anysphere – $176M
• Baseten – $135M
• Captions – $100M
• Clay – $104M
• Coactive AI – $44M
• Cohere – $1B
• Crusoe – $1.6B
• Databricks – $19B
• Decagon – $100M
• DeepL – $420M
• ElevenLabs – $281M
• Figure AI – $750M
• Fireworks AI – $77M
• Glean – $600M
• Harvey – $500M
• Hebbia – $160M
• Hugging Face – $395M
• Lambda – $863M
• LangChain – $35M
• Luminance – $165M
• Mercor – $135M
• Midjourney –
• Mistral AI – $1.1B
• Notion – $330M
• OpenAI – $63.9B
• OpenEvidence – $100M
• Perplexity – $900M
• Photoroom – $64M
• Pika – $135M
• Runway – $545M
• Sakana AI – $244M
• SambaNova – $1.1B
• Scale AI – $1.6B
• Sierra – $285M
• Skild AI – $320M
• Snorkel AI – $135M
• Speak – $162M
• StackBlitz – $106M
• Suno – $125M
• Synthesia – $330M
• Thinking Machine Labs –
• Together AI – $534M
• Vannevar Labs – $92M
• VAST Data – $381M
• Windsurf – $243M
• World Labs – $292M
• Writer – $326M
• xAI – $12.1B