Top 100 AI startups in USA

May 11, 2025 | By Siddhant Patel

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Funding: $11M
Prophet Security provides a AI SOC platform featuring an AI SOC Analyst that autonomously triages, investigates, and responds to alerts. Prophet AI connects to SIEMs, EDRs, cloud platforms, email security tools, identity providers, data lakes and data storage services, threat feeds, collaboration tools, case management tools, and more to conduct full context investigations.
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Funding: $61.9B
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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Funding: $18.2B
Anthropic is AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Funding: $16B
Waymo is Google's self-driving technology startup with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.
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Funding: $16B
Cruise Automation is a self-driving car company that develops an autopilot system for existing cars. Acquired by General Motors
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Funding: $12.4B
xAI is an AI company that seeks to understand the true nature of the universe.
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Funding: $12.1B
CoreWeave provides GPU-based general-purpose cloud computing platform optimal for generative AI technologies, like text-generating AI models.
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Funding: $4.2B
Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
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Funding: $4.2B
Aurora works at the intersection of rigorous engineering and applied machine learning to address one of the most challenging, important and interesting opportunities of our generation: transforming the way people and goods move.
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Funding: $3.7B
Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Provider of AI-based surveillance and reconnaissance solutions for the defense sector. It offers an autonomous operational platform based on sensor fusion, machine learning, and mesh networking to monitor and control warfare assets.
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Funding: $3B
Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud. Palantir revolutionizes how organizations build and deploy AI/ML by combining the enterprise data foundation with end-to-end AI/ML deployment infrastructure.
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Funding: $3B
SSI is building safe superintelligence (SSI) - the most important technical problem of our​​ time.
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Funding: $2.2B
NURO is a technology company that aims to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life.
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Funding: $2B
UiPath designs and develops robotic process automation software. The platform offers foolproof development tool, automation of intricate processes, enhanced control, cloud and on-premise deployment, robust governance, and multiple robots on a single virtual machine.
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Funding: $1.9B
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility.
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Funding: $1.5B
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
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Funding: $1.4B
AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform that uses artificial intelligence allowing professionals to make critical decisions.
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Funding: $1.4B
Freenome is connecting patients with next-generation cancer screening and diagnostic tests through the power of artificial intelligence.
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Funding: $1.3B
Shield AI works with the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and other federal, state, and local departments and agencies to deliver next generation intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance systems. Shield AI’s first product, Nova, is a Hivemind-powered drone that searches buildings while simultaneously streaming video and generating maps.
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Funding: $1.3B
Tempus is a technology company that is building the world's largest library of molecular and clinical data and an operating system to make that data accessible and to battle cancer.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org