The ten best-funded AI companies in the US have raised $751 billion between them, and the top five account for $582 billion of that, or about 77.5%. OpenAI alone has raised $201.1 billion. The company ranked 100th, Klaviyo, has raised $1.35 billion. Across the full list, the same investors appear again and again: NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.
This report ranks 100 US-linked companies by the total funding Crunchbase records for them and lists the top five investors behind each one.
Key Takeaways
- The top 10 companies have raised $751 billion. The top five hold about 77.5% of that, so funding is highly concentrated.
- 55 of the 100 companies list a California headquarters. New York has 13 and Texas has 9.
- NVIDIA appears in the top-five investor lists of 25 companies, Sequoia Capital in 21 and Andreessen Horowitz in 20.
What “Total Funding” Measures Here
Total funding is the cumulative amount a company has raised from outside backers, as tracked by Crunchbase. It counts venture rounds, strategic investments and, in many cases, debt and credit lines. It is not revenue and it is not valuation. A company can raise $2 billion and be valued at $12 billion, or the other way around.
Because the totals mix funding types, a ranking by “total funding” is not a ranking by venture equity. Public companies carry IPO proceeds and bonds in their totals.
Example: Scale AI shows $15.9 billion. About $1.6 billion came from venture rounds through 2024. The rest is Meta’s reported $14.3 billion purchase of a 49% stake in 2025, much of which went to existing shareholders rather than into the company.
Top 100 AI Companies in the US by Total Funding 2026
| No. | Company | Total funding | Top 5 investors (Crunchbase) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | $201.1B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, TPG, Temasek, Khosla Ventures |
| 2 | Anthropic | $128.7B | NVIDIA, General Atlantic, TPG, Temasek, Menlo Ventures |
| 3 | Alphabet | $127.4B | Berkshire Hathaway |
| 4 | Oracle | $75.8B | Sequoia Capital, HSBC, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America |
| 5 | CoreWeave | $49.2B | NVIDIA, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, La Caisse, BlackRock, Citi |
| 6 | SpaceXAI | $42.9B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
| 7 | SpaceX | $37.5B | Andreessen Horowitz, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Founders Fund |
| 8 | Databricks | $32.2B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Wellington Management, Clearlake Capital Group, TPG |
| 9 | NVIDIA | $29.1B | Sequoia Capital, ARK Investment Management, SoftBank Vision Fund, DARPA, ARPA-E |
| 10 | Waymo | $27.1B | Andreessen Horowitz, Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mubadala Capital |
| 11 | Salesforce | $25.1B | New Enterprise Associates, Emergence Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, SunBridge, Starboard Value |
| 12 | Strategy | $24.5B | Royal Bank of Canada, Silvergate Bank |
| 13 | Tesla | $20.1B | Valor Equity Partners, Craft Ventures, Citi, Deutsche Bank, DFJ Growth |
| 14 | Prometheus | $18.2B | ARCH Venture Partners, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Corner Capital Management, General Innovation Capital Partners |
| 15 | Medtronic | $18.2B | Blackstone Life Sciences, Advantage Capital, NHS England, Trade Capital Funding |
| 16 | Cruise | $16.0B | Spark Capital, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Founder Collective, T. Rowe Price |
| 17 | Scale | $15.9B | NVIDIA, Wellington Management, Accel, Index Ventures, Meta |
| 18 | Crusoe AI Data Center | $15.0B | Crusoe, Blue Owl, Primary Digital Infrastructure |
| 19 | Nexus Data Centers | $15.0B | Eagle Point Credit Management, Transition Equity Partners |
| 20 | Fox | $14.1B | Morgan Stanley Senior Funding |
| 21 | Supermicro | $13.5B | Pioneer Holding Group, Grand 365 Capital |
| 22 | Firmus Technologies | $13.1B | NVIDIA, Coatue, Blackstone, Regal Funds Management, Jane Street Capital |
| 23 | Anduril Industries | $11.4B | Andreessen Horowitz, Valor Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital |
| 24 | Pagaya | $10.9B | Citi, BlackRock, Oak HC/FT, G Squared, Tiger Global Management |
| 25 | Crusoe | $8.10B | NVIDIA, TPG, Valor Equity Partners, Radical Ventures, Spark Capital |
| 26 | Safe Superintelligence | $8.00B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SV Angel |
| 27 | Core Scientific | $7.46B | Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., JP Morgan, Celsius Network, Bitmain |
| 28 | Aspen Technology | $7.40B | Advent International, Emerson, MassVentures, Massachusetts Capital Resource Company |
| 29 | Lambda | $5.07B | NVIDIA, Alumni Ventures, Gaingels, ARK Investment Management, Citi |
| 30 | AMD | $4.75B | OpenAI, KB Securities, Daniel Loeb |
| 31 | Cerebras Systems | $4.67B | OpenAI, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, Eclipse, Alpha Wave Global |
| 32 | Upstart | $4.61B | Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, New Enterprise Associates, Kleiner Perkins, Fortress Investment Group |
| 33 | Booz Allen Hamilton | $4.23B | Not listed |
| 34 | ServiceNow | $4.08B | Sequoia Capital, Greylock, JMI Equity, KB Securities |
| 35 | OpenAI Deployment Company | $4.00B | TPG, Emergence Capital, Advent International, Bain Capital, B Capital |
| 36 | Cognition | $3.90B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, BoxGroup, Valor Equity Partners, General Catalyst |
| 37 | Ramp | $3.72B | BoxGroup, General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners |
| 38 | Argo AI | $3.60B | Ford Motor, Volkswagen Group, Lyft |
| 39 | Shield AI | $3.59B | Andreessen Horowitz, Advent International, Gaingels, ARK Investment Management, Founder Collective |
| 40 | Metropolis | $3.53B | Temasek, DFJ Growth, Fin Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Karman Ventures |
| 41 | Anysphere (Cursor) | $3.37B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Accel, Neo, Coatue |
| 42 | Napster (Formerly Infinite Reality) | $3.35B | Future Perfect Ventures |
| 43 | Atoms | $3.10B | Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, A*, Craft Ventures, Bond |
| 44 | Palantir Technologies | $3.03B | Founders Fund, ARK Investment Management, Craft Ventures, 137 Ventures, Goldman Sachs |
| 45 | Genesys | $3.02B | Salesforce Ventures, BlackRock, TCV, ServiceNow, D1 Capital Partners |
| 46 | Thrive Holdings | $3.00B | OpenAI, Altimeter Capital, SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners |
| 47 | Tempus | $2.75B | New Enterprise Associates, Ares Management, T. Rowe Price, Franklin Templeton, Novo Holdings |
| 48 | Groq | $2.75B | NVIDIA, Alumni Ventures, Plug and Play, BlackRock, 1789 Capital |
| 49 | Saronic | $2.75B | Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Advent International, Bessemer Venture Partners |
| 50 | Cyera | $2.70B | Temasek, Accel, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Spark Capital |
| 51 | Delta Air Lines | $2.65B | Berkshire Hathaway, Easybank Germany (Formerly Barclays Deutschland) |
| 52 | Lendbuzz | $2.60B | Wellington Management, Royal Bank of Canada, Goldman Sachs, O.G. Venture Partners, MUFG Innovation Partners |
| 53 | View | $2.56B | Khosla Ventures, BlackRock, SoftBank Vision Fund, The Westly Group, Corning |
| 54 | Zebra Technologies | $2.50B | Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Rev1 Ventures, Plymouth Growth, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. |
| 55 | Getty Images | $2.50B | JPMorganChase, Multiply Group, Koch Equity Development |
| 56 | SambaNova | $2.49B | General Atlantic, Temasek, Vista Equity Partners, Mayfield Fund, BlackRock |
| 57 | Rippling | $2.44B | Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Founders Fund, SV Angel, Coatue |
| 58 | Snowflake | $2.41B | Sequoia Capital, Madrona, Dragoneer Investment Group, Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone |
| 59 | Fluidstack | $2.39B | Episode 1, Seedcamp, Mana Ventures, Corner Capital Management, Mercuri |
| 60 | CCC Intelligent Solutions | $2.34B | Coatue, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, TCV, Janus Henderson Investors |
| 61 | Hadrian | $2.34B | Andreessen Horowitz, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Apollo, Lux Capital |
| 62 | Nuro | $2.34B | NVIDIA, Gaorong Capital, Woven Capital, Icehouse Ventures, Tiger Global Management |
| 63 | GoDaddy | $2.26B | TCV, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Silver Lake, Starboard Value |
| 64 | Workday | $2.23B | New Enterprise Associates, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley, Bezos Expeditions, Greylock |
| 65 | Reflection AI | $2.13B | NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SV Angel, Citi |
| 66 | Baseten | $2.09B | NVIDIA, BoxGroup, Wellington Management, South Park Commons, Spark Capital |
| 67 | OneTrust | $2.07B | Insight Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, Coatue, TCV, Franklin Templeton |
| 68 | Motive | $2.02B | General Catalyst, Insight Partners, Index Ventures, Base10 Partners, BlackRock |
| 69 | Thinking Machines Lab | $2.01B | Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Accel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Conviction |
| 70 | Mobility Global | $2.00B | Not listed |
| 71 | IBM | $1.97B | Not listed |
| 72 | UiPath | $1.95B | Accel, Sequoia Capital, Madrona, Coatue, Tiger Global Management |
| 73 | Caris Life Sciences | $1.86B | Coatue, Perceptive Advisors, Millennium Management, T. Rowe Price, Sixth Street |
| 74 | Figure | $1.85B | OpenAI, Nscale, NVIDIA, Gaingels, Coatue |
| 75 | Skild AI | $1.83B | NVIDIA, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
| 76 | Fireworks AI | $1.83B | NVIDIA, Menlo Ventures, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners |
| 77 | Harvey | $1.77B | Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, SV Angel |
| 78 | AlphaSense | $1.77B | J.P. Morgan Asset Management, BlackRock, Citi, Bond, Vitruvian Partners |
| 79 | Joulent | $1.75B | National Grid Ventures |
| 80 | Flex | $1.65B | Sequoia Capital, Silver Lake, Ciena, Shaw Kwei & Partners, Citibank |
| 81 | Poolside | $1.63B | NVIDIA, Bpifrance, Bain Capital Ventures, The Twenty Minute VC, Inovia Capital |
| 82 | Etched | $1.63B | Andreessen Horowitz, Primary Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Neo, Davidovs Venture Collective |
| 83 | Sierra | $1.58B | Sequoia Capital, Conviction, SV Angel, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global Management |
| 84 | Fermi America | $1.55B | MUFG Bank, Macquarie Group, Yorkville Advisors, CSG Investments, Keystone National Group |
| 85 | Inflection AI | $1.52B | NVIDIA, Microsoft, Employee Stock Option Fund, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt |
| 86 | Tricentis | $1.50B | Insight Partners, Claret Capital Partners, GTCR, Wipro Ventures, ViewPoint Capital Partners |
| 87 | Applied Intuition | $1.50B | Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Neo, SV Angel, BlackRock |
| 88 | Ode with Anthropic | $1.50B | General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, Apollo, Anthropic, Goldman Sachs |
| 89 | Perplexity | $1.48B | NVIDIA, Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Quiet Capital, New Enterprise Associates |
| 90 | SandboxAQ | $1.48B | NVIDIA, S32, Paladin Capital Group, BNP Paribas, T. Rowe Price |
| 91 | Box | $1.46B | Andreessen Horowitz, General Atlantic, TPG, Bessemer Venture Partners, Coatue |
| 92 | Oklo | $1.44B | Y Combinator, Draper Associates, 8090 Industries, MassChallenge |
| 93 | Alteryx | $1.41B | Insight Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, ICONIQ Growth, Toba Capital |
| 94 | Slack | $1.40B | Andreessen Horowitz, General Atlantic, Wellington Management, Accel, Index Ventures |
| 95 | Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) | $1.40B | General Catalyst, Spark Capital, BlackRock, IVP, SignalFire |
| 96 | VAST Data | $1.38B | General Atlantic, NVIDIA, Norwest, New Enterprise Associates, Tiger Global Management |
| 97 | Relativity Space | $1.36B | General Catalyst, BlackRock, Tribe Capital, Lux Capital, Y Combinator |
| 98 | Airtable | $1.35B | BoxGroup, South Park Commons, Coatue, Thrive Capital, Quiet Capital |
| 99 | Optimizely | $1.35B | Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, Y Combinator, Salesforce Ventures |
| 100 | Klaviyo | $1.35B | Accel, Sands Capital Ventures, Summit Partners, Lone Pine Capital, Shopify |
Source: Crunchbase funding totals and investor lists, checked against company announcements, filings and press reports as of November 2026.
The Ten Best-Funded Companies
Not all the money in the top ten comes from investors. The table below shows where each total really comes from. Some of it is investor money, like OpenAI’s $122 billion round. Some of it is loans and bonds, like Oracle’s and CoreWeave’s.
| No. | Company | Total funding | Latest round or what the figure reflects | Type of funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | $201.1B | $122B round at an $852B valuation, end of March 2026 | Venture equity |
| 2 | Anthropic | $128.7B | $30B at $380B (February), then $65B at $965B (May), led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital | Venture equity |
| 3 | Alphabet | $127.4B | Public parent company, not a typical funded startup | Corporate financing |
| 4 | Oracle | $75.7B | 2026 plan included a $25B bond offering and up to $20B of at-the-market equity | Mostly debt |
| 5 | CoreWeave | $49.2B | Mostly debt; CB Insights shows about $12.5B in equity-style funding | Debt-heavy |
| 6 | SpaceXAI | $42.9B | This is xAI, which SpaceX acquired in an all-stock deal on February 2, 2026 | Acquired |
| 7 | SpaceX | $37.5B | Primarily an aerospace business; now also owns xAI | Not AI-core |
| 8 | Databricks | $32.2B | $5B round at $190B in August, led by Coatue | Equity plus some debt |
| 9 | NVIDIA | $29.1B | Total reflects its history as a public company | Public company |
| 10 | Waymo | $27.1B | $16B at a $126B valuation in February, led by Alphabet | Venture equity |
Which Investors Appear Most Often
Counting the top-five investor lists across all 100 companies, a small group dominates.
| Investor | Companies listed | Note |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 25 | Strategic investor; also supplies the chips |
| Sequoia Capital | 21 | Multi-stage venture firm |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 20 | Multi-stage venture firm |
| BlackRock | 12 | Institutional asset manager |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 11 | Multi-stage venture firm |
| Coatue | 10 | Crossover investor |
| General Catalyst | 9 | Multi-stage venture firm |
| Valor Equity Partners | 8 | Growth investor, Musk-linked companies |
| SV Angel | 8 | Early-stage investor |
| Accel | 8 | Multi-stage venture firm |
Sector Comparisons
Frontier Model Labs
OpenAI and Anthropic dwarf everyone else. Safe Superintelligence raised $1 billion in 2024 and $2 billion more in 2025 at a $32 billion valuation, led by Greenoaks, for about $3 billion in total. Thinking Machines Lab closed a $2 billion seed round at $12 billion, and Reflection AI raised $2 billion at $8 billion in an NVIDIA-led round.
Infrastructure and Data Platforms
Databricks, Crusoe, Lambda, Scale AI and Cerebras supply the compute, data and tooling behind other companies’ models. Crusoe’s Series F was more than $3 billion in September 2026, co-led by Valor and Atreides, and Lambda’s Series E of more than $1.5 billion was led by TWG Global. Both totals include debt, which is common when a business buys expensive hardware.
Autonomy and Defense
Waymo, Nuro, Anduril, Shield AI and Saronic build machines that act in the physical world. Anduril raised a $5 billion Series H in May 2026 at a $61 billion valuation. Shield AI raised $2 billion in March at $12.7 billion, and Saronic closed a $1.75 billion Series D in March led by Kleiner Perkins.
Applied AI Software
Cognition, Ramp, Cyera, Harvey, Sierra and others sell AI products directly to businesses. Cognition raised more than $2 billion in September at a $48 billion valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel. Anysphere, maker of Cursor, was acquired by SpaceX in a deal that closed on August 14, 2026.
A number of entries behave differently from a typical venture-backed startup. Here are the main groups, so you can read the ranking correctly.
| Company or group | Crunchbase figure |
|---|---|
| Public conglomerates (Alphabet, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Tesla) | $20B to $127B |
| CoreWeave | $49.2B |
| SpaceXAI (xAI) | $42.9B |
| Cruise, Argo AI | $16.0B, $3.6B |
| Napster (formerly Infinite Reality) | $3.35B |
| Pagaya | $10.9B |
| Safe Superintelligence | $8.0B |
| Firmus Technologies | $13.1B |
| Klaviyo, Optimizely | $1.3B, $1.4B |
How to Use This Data
- Study who leads, not who participates. A lead investor sets the price and the terms. Compare the leads named for companies at your stage rather than the longest investor list.
- Match the check size to the round. A $2 billion model-lab round and a $20 million seed round attract different investors. Use the table to find the firms that back your category and stage.
- Read funding next to valuation. A big total with a small valuation can mean heavy dilution. A modest total with a large valuation can mean investors are paying for growth.
Example: Thinking Machines Lab raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation, so investors received roughly one-sixth of the company. Metropolis raised $1.6 billion in a mix of equity and debt, and the debt portion did not dilute existing owners.
FAQs
Planning your own AI raise? These answers cover what the headline numbers leave out.
They usually work backward from the ownership they want. A fund that wants 10% of a company will size its check to the round’s valuation, then adjust for how much capital the business needs for computing power, talent and data.
No. Funding measures capital raised, not earnings. Many AI companies spend heavily on chips and research, so large totals often signal investor belief in future growth rather than current profit.
The lead negotiates the price, sets the terms and often takes the biggest share of the round. Participants accept those terms and invest smaller amounts, sometimes to keep their ownership from shrinking.
Each new round issues shares to investors, so existing holders own a smaller percentage even if their shares are worth more. Founders typically offset this with higher valuations, option pool planning and careful cap table tracking.
Often yes, at an earlier stage. Many of the firms on this list make seed and Series A investments, so a startup with real traction and a clear market can reach them long before it needs a billion-dollar round.
Turning AI Funding Data Into Smarter Fundraising Decisions
The numbers above show a market where a few companies absorb most of the capital, while a long tail of well-funded startups competes for the rest. For founders, the takeaway is practical: know your valuation, know your ownership and know which investors fit your stage before you start the conversation.
Ready to raise? Eqvista helps AI founders build the numbers investors ask for. Work with us on financial modeling and company valuation, then contact us to see how your cap table will look after the round.
