AI & models
2,250 labs and startups, 26.3% of the map. Share of new startups moved from 46% to 44.6% between the last two founding windows.
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AnthropicLab$965bnMafia
Safety-focused lab building the Claude models.
OpenAILab$852bn
Frontier model lab behind GPT and ChatGPT.
Cognition AI$48bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $48bn (September 2026).
Prometheus$41bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $41bn (June 2026).
Safe SuperintelligenceLab$32bnMafia
Research lab focused on safe superintelligence.
VAST Data$30bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $30bn (March 2026).
Scale AI$29bnHiring
Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI
Perplexity$20bnMafia
Answer engine that cites its sources.
Nscale$14.6bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $14.6bn (March 2026).
Mistral AILab$14bnMafia
Open-weight and commercial language models.
Helsing$14bn
AI software for defence.
Lovable$13.3bn
Builds working apps from plain-language prompts.
Faire$12.6bnHiring
The global online platform empowering independent retail.
Thinking Machines LabLab$12bnMafia
Research and product lab for adaptable AI systems.
ElevenLabs$11bn
Voice synthesis and audio AI.
Etched$10.3bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $10.3bn (July 2026).
Mercor$10bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $10bn (October 2025).
Vercel$9.3bn
Cloud computing / AI. Valued at $9.3bn (September 2025).
Together AI$8.3bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $8.3bn (July 2026).
Cohere$6.8bnMafia
Enterprise language models and retrieval.
DataRobot$6.3bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $6.3bn (July 2021).
Higgsfield$5.4bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $5.4bn (August 2026).
Ineffable Intelligence$5.1bnMafia
Reinforcement learning lab founded by the AlphaGo research lead.
SambaNova$5.1bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $5.1bn (April 2021).
River AI$5bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $5bn (August 2026).
Wonderful$5bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $5bn (September 2026).
Dataiku$4.6bn
AI and data analytics software company.
Gong$4.5bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $4.5bn (November 2025).
Preferred NetworksLab$3.33bn
Deep learning research and custom chips.
Instinct$2.5bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $2.5bn (August 2026).
Suno$2.45bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $2.45bn (November 2025).
6sense$2.1bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $2.1bn (March 2021).
Eightfold.ai$2.1bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $2.1+bn (June 2021).
Gamma$2.1bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $2.1bn (November 2025).
Hive$2bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $2bn (April 2021).
PixVerse$2bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $2bn (July 2026).
Simile$2bn
Artificial Intelligence. Valued at $2bn (July 2026).
Cresta$1.6bnMafia
Real-time AI for contact centre agents.
Airbyte$1.5bn
The open standard in data connectivity for AI and analytics.
Odyssey$1.45bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $1.45bn (June 2026).
HappyRobot$1.2bnHiring
Intelligence that runs your operations.
Character.AI$1bnMafia
Conversational AI characters.
Krutrim$1bn
Indian AI models and cloud infrastructure.
Shift Technology$1bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $1+bn (May 2021).
Synthesia$1bn
AI video generation with digital presenters.
Tractable$1bn
Artificial intelligence. Valued at $1+bn (June 2021).
01.AILab
Yi model family.
A*STAR I2RLab
Institute for Infocomm Research.
AI SingaporeLab
National programme behind the SEA-LION models.
Ai2Lab
Allen Institute for AI, publishing fully open models.
AI21 LabsLab
Language models for enterprise reading and writing.
AI4BharatLab
Open models for Indian languages at IIT Madras.
Alan Turing InstituteLab
UK national institute for data science and AI.
Aleph AlphaLab
Sovereign AI stack for European enterprise and government.
AmiiLab
Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, known for reinforcement learning.
Apollo ResearchLab
Evaluations for deceptive behaviour in AI models.
Apple Machine Learning ResearchLab
Apple's published ML research.
Australian Institute for Machine LearningLab
Computer vision and ML research at Adelaide.
BAAILab
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.
BaichuanLab
Language models with a focus on medicine.
Baidu ResearchLab
Baidu's research arm behind ERNIE.
Berkeley AI ResearchLab
UC Berkeley's AI research lab.
Black Forest LabsLab
Image generation models, makers of FLUX.
ByteDance SeedLab
ByteDance's foundation model team.
C4AI USPLab
Center for Artificial Intelligence at the University of São Paulo.
Carnegie Mellon University AfricaLab
CMU's engineering campus in Rwanda.
CENIALab
Chile's national AI centre, coordinating LatamGPT.
CMU Machine Learning DepartmentLab
The first academic department dedicated to ML.
Cohere LabsLab
Cohere's open research lab for multilingual models.
CSIRO Data61Lab
Australia's national data science research unit.
Data Science NigeriaLab
Nonprofit training and research in AI.
DeepSeekLab
Open-weight reasoning and coding models.
DFKILab
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Edinburgh School of InformaticsLab
One of Europe's largest computing research schools.
EPFL AI CenterLab
EPFL's network for AI research.
ETH AI CenterLab
ETH Zurich's interdisciplinary AI hub.
FAR.AILab
Alignment and robustness research nonprofit.
Google DeepMindLab
Research lab behind AlphaFold and Gemini.
Google ResearchLab
Google's research organisation across ML and science.
Google Research AfricaLab
Google's AI research centre in Ghana.
H CompanyLabMafia
Agentic models that act on computers.
hessian.AILab
Hessian centre for AI research.
IDSIALab
Swiss AI lab with roots in early deep learning.
iFlytek ResearchLab
Speech and language AI.
InriaLab
French national institute for digital science.
InstaDeep TunisLab
Decision-making AI, part of BioNTech.
KAIST Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AILab
Korea's flagship AI graduate school.
KAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AILab
Generative AI research at KAUST.
Kempner InstituteLab
Harvard institute for natural and artificial intelligence.
KyutaiLab
Nonprofit open-science lab for speech and multimodal AI.
Lelapa AILab
Language AI for African languages.
LG AI ResearchLab
EXAONE model family.
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsLab
Research on perception, action and learning.
MBZUAILab
Graduate research university dedicated to AI.
Meta FAIRLab
Meta's fundamental AI research group.
METRLab
Evaluates the capabilities of frontier AI systems.
Microsoft ResearchLab
Microsoft's global research labs.
Microsoft Research IndiaLab
Research on AI for emerging markets.
MilaLab
Quebec's deep learning research institute.
MiniMaxLab
Text, speech and video foundation models.
MIT CSAILLab
MIT's computer science and AI laboratory.
Moonshot AILab
Long-context models behind Kimi.
NAVER Cloud HyperCLOVALab
Korean-language foundation models.
NVIDIA ResearchLab
Graphics, robotics and deep learning research.
NYU Center for Data ScienceLab
NYU's data science and deep learning research hub.
Qwen (Alibaba)Lab
Alibaba's open Qwen model family.
Redwood ResearchLab
Research on AI control and alignment.
Reflection AILabMafia
Open frontier models and autonomous coding agents.
RIKEN AIPLab
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project.
Sakana AILabMafia
Nature-inspired research into model building.
Sea AI LabLab
Sea Group's research lab.
Shanghai AI LaboratoryLab
State-backed lab behind InternLM.
Silo AILab
Large European AI lab, now part of AMD.
Sony AILab
Research in gaming AI, imaging and gastronomy.
Stanford AI LabLab
Stanford's centre for AI research and teaching.
StepFunLab
Multimodal Step model family.
Technology Innovation InstituteLab
Applied research institute behind the Falcon models.
Tencent AI LabLab
Tencent's research lab for ML and games.
Tübingen AI CenterLab
Competence centre for machine learning.
UCL Centre for AILab
University College London's AI research centre.
UK AI Security InstituteLab
Government body testing advanced AI systems.
UW Paul G. Allen SchoolLab
University of Washington computer science research.
Vector InstituteLab
Independent research institute for machine learning.
Weizmann Institute AI HubLab
AI for science at the Weizmann Institute.
xAILab
Lab building the Grok models.
Zhipu AILab
GLM model family from a Tsinghua spin-out.
Superside
AI-First Creative Partner for Enterprise Teams
AmplitudeHiring
Digital Analytics Platform
HelloverifyHiring
Helloverify is a background screening platform (Checkr for India).
TractianHiring
Physical AI for asset-heavy industries
Leena AIHiring
We at Leena AI build a virtual assistant that answers employee's…
MagicHiring
Extremely talented assistants for busy people
Plivo
Voice AI Agents for customer engagement, including WhatsApp, SMS &…
SkydropX
Logistic Management System for E-commerce & Retail in Mexico.
HackerRankHiring
Change the world to value skills over pedigree
MisoHiring
We make booking services as easy as buying products online.
People.aiHiring
Harnesses business activity to unlock growth.
SendbirdHiring
The AI agent that doesn’t just support, it delights.
ShipBlu
Amazon Level Logistics for eCommerce Companies in MENA.
Humand
All-in-one app for internal communication and HR
Luciq (formerly Instabug)
Agentic Observability Platform for Mobile
RescaleHiring
High Performance Computing Built for the Cloud
Observe.AI
Contact center AI platform.
Matterport
Turn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds.
FieldguideHiring
Vertical AI for Audit & Advisory Firms
Fountain
High volume hiring made simple
Hightouch
The leading Composable CDP and AI Decisioning platform
Presto
Digital meets physical for big chain restaurants
Jasper.ai
Jasper is a leader in creating content using Artificial Intelligence
Model MLHiring
The AI for Financial Services.
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