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25 companies

AI becomes valuable when applied to real problems. These companies deploy machine learning and foundation models to tackle customer needs across legal, healthcare, finance, and beyond. The largest businesses of the next decade will be built here.

25 companies
Anysphere (Cursor) logo
Anysphere (Cursor)

Accelerates software development with AI.

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Series D+
Founders
Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Total Raised
$2.5B
Employees
1,001-5,000
Last Round Date
Nov 2025
Bending Spoons logo
Bending Spoons

Acquires and scales digital products.

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Series C
Founders
Luca Ferrari
HQ City
Milan, Italy
Founded
2013
Socials
💼
Total Raised
$1B
Employees
201-1,000
Last Round Date
Oct 2022
Canva logo
Canva

Powers collaborative design workflows.

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Series D
Founders
Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Cameron Adams
HQ City
Sydney, Australia
Founded
2012
Socials
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Total Raised
$572M
Employees
5,001+
Last Round Date
Sep 2021
Cognition logo
Cognition

Automates software engineering tasks.

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Series C
Founders
Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$500M
Employees
51-200
Last Round Date
Mar 2024
Conductor AI logo
Conductor AI

Transforms raw data into insight.

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Series A
Founders
Zach Long
HQ City
New York, NY
Founded
2023
Socials
💼
Total Raised
$15M
Employees
21-50
Last Round Date
May 2025
Databricks logo
Databricks

Builds AI-native data platforms.

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Series D+
Founders
Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Reynold Xin, Michael Armbrust, Patrick Wendell, Scott Shenker
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2013
Socials
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Total Raised
$4.0B
Employees
5,001+
Last Round Date
Sep 2023
Decagon logo
Decagon

Deploys enterprise AI support agents.

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Founders
Jesse Zhang (Decagon), Ashwin Sreenivas
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2023
Socials
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Total Raised
$231M
Employees
51-200
Last Round Date
Jun 2025
Epic Games logo
Epic Games

Builds game engines and worlds.

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Series D+
Founders
Tim Sweeney
HQ City
Cary, NC
Founded
1991
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$6.0B
Employees
5,001+
Last Round Date
Apr 2022
Fireworks AI logo
Fireworks AI

Serves fast AI inference at scale.

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Series C
Founders
Lin Qiao, Rocky Kuang
HQ City
Redwood City, CA
Founded
2022
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$327M
Employees
51-200
Last Round Date
Oct 2025
Glean logo
Glean

Searches enterprise knowledge with AI.

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Series D+
Founders
Arvind Jain, Vishwanath T R, Tony Gentilcore
HQ City
Palo Alto, CA
Founded
2019
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$765M
Employees
201-1,000
Last Round Date
Jun 2025
Harvey logo
Harvey

Automates legal work with AI.

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Series C
Founders
Gabriel Pereyra, Winston Weinberg
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2022
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$988M
Employees
201-1,000
Last Round Date
Dec 2025
Hebbia logo
Hebbia

Organizes enterprise knowledge with AI.

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Series B
Founders
George Sivulka
HQ City
New York, NY
Founded
2020
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$159.2M
Employees
51-200
Last Round Date
Jan 2025
Metalware logo
Metalware

Automates firmware development.

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Seed
Founders
Ryan Chow, Andrew Nedea
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2023
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$3.5M
Employees
1-20
Last Round Date
Apr 2025
Method Security logo
Method Security

Automates cyber defense.

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Seed
Founders
Daniel Kelly, Sam Jones, Sean Hacker
HQ City
New York, NY
Founded
2023
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$50.5M
Employees
1-20
Last Round Date
Nov 2025
Notion logo
Notion

Organizes work and knowledge.

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Series C
Founders
Ivan Zhao, Simon Last
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2013
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$343M
Employees
1,001-5,000
Last Round Date
Oct 2021
OpenEvidence logo
OpenEvidence

Searches medical knowledge with AI.

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Series C
Founders
Daniel Nadler
HQ City
Cambridge, MA
Founded
2021
Socials
💼
Total Raised
$485M
Employees
51-200
Last Round Date
Oct 2025
OpenRouter logo
OpenRouter

Routes requests across AI models.

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Series A
Founders
Alex Atallah, Louis Vichy, Chris Clark
HQ City
New York, NY
Founded
2023
Socials
💼
Total Raised
$60M
Employees
21-50
Last Round Date
Jun 2025
Palantir logo
Palantir

Solves complex problems with AI.

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Public
Founders
Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, Nathan Gettings
HQ City
Denver, CO
Founded
2003
Total Raised
$3.1B
Employees
5,001+
Last Round Date
Mar 2017
Perplexity logo
Perplexity

Builds AI-powered answer engines.

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Series C
Founders
Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2022
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$1.7B
Employees
201-1,000
Last Round Date
Sep 2025
Perplexity logo
Perplexity

Redefines AI-powered search.

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Series D+
Founders
Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2022
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$1.5B
Employees
201-1,000
Last Round Date
Nov 2025
Raindrop logo
Raindrop

Monitors AI agents in production.

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Seed
Founders
Alexis Gauba, Ben Hylak, Zubin Koticha
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2023
Total Raised
$11M
Employees
1-20
Last Round Date
Sep 2024
Replit logo
Replit

Hosts and runs code online.

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Series C
Founders
Amjad Masad, Haya Odeh
HQ City
Foster City, CA
Founded
2016
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$478M
Employees
51-200
Last Round Date
Oct 2025
Rippling logo
Rippling

Automates HR and payroll.

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Series D+
Founders
Parker Conrad
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2016
Socials
𝕏💼
Total Raised
$1.4B
Employees
1,001-5,000
Last Round Date
Apr 2024
Sea12 logo
Sea12

Applies AI to business workflows.

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Seed
Founders
Charles Englander
HQ City
New York, NY
Founded
2024
Total Raised
$7M
Employees
1-20
Last Round Date
Jun 2025
Sierra logo
Sierra

Deploys AI customer service agents.

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Series A
Founders
Bret Taylor, Clay Bavor
HQ City
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2024
Socials
💼
Total Raised
$700M
Employees
201-1,000
Last Round Date
Aug 2025

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