Companies330 Funding$40.1B Rounds110 ▲5 mo Investors77 Eng roles3943 20 events pending
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  1. Palo Alto Networks is quietly standing up new infrastructure 39 new TLS endpoints appeared in certificate-transparency logs over the last 90 days (0 in the 90 before) — including staging.telemetry.paloaltonetworks.com and staging.hawkeye.services-edge.paloaltonetworks.com.
  2. Databricks is hiring like something is coming Engineering openings grew 418 → 436 in 15 days on the company's own job board — hiring velocity of this shape historically precedes announcements and rounds..
  3. Cohere is quietly standing up new infrastructure 31 new TLS endpoints appeared in certificate-transparency logs over the last 90 days (0 in the 90 before) — including staging.corgi.cohere.com and staging.checkpoint-tracker.cohere.com.

Venture intelligence before the round. 330 companies scored from SEC filings, certificate transparency, podcast transcripts, GitHub activity, and federal records — every number tracing back to the observation behind it.

⚡ Seen before the round live from the signal ledger — not a mockup

237 days before Anthropic announced its round, secondary SPVs formed to buy its shares — from SEC Form D filings:

  • Hiive Anthropic Series VII a Series of Hiive Anthropic LLC (CIK 0002065512) 2025-04-25 · 237d early
  • HII Anthropic-01, a Series of HII Anthropic, LLC (CIK 0002118444) 2026-03-13 · 139d early
  • HII Anthropic Series-02, a Series of HII Anthropic, LLC (CIK 0002134776) 2026-05-15 · 76d early

Then the round became public: Growth · $300M announced 2025-11 · now VS 44.9

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  • Largest recent raise: Socure at $156M.
  • Andreessen Horowitz is most active — 5 deals, $736.4M deployed.
  • Busiest in Aug — 38 rounds, 6.2× the 6.1/mo average.

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  1. 1 Fluidstack 79.9
  2. 2 Etched 79.4
  3. 3 A16Z 79
  4. 4 Amazon 79
  5. 5 Apple 79

AI Venture Index (112 matching, ranked by VentureSignal)

Each score is a cross-signal composite. The strip under it shows the three families it’s built from — funding, package adoption, and developer momentum — lit when present, and how many of the three back the score. Fewer signals means a coverage-discounted score, not a missing one.

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# Company Description VentureSignal ↓ Latest round Hiring (eng) Momentum AI Maturity Event
1 Fluidstack Emerging signal today Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, deliverin… 79.9
Funding $1.5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P96 early Outlook Stable WATCH
Series A · $1.5B 2026-07-21 ⚠ dissent Dissent
2 Etched Emerging signal today Co-designed chips, racks, and software to push the pareto frontier to… 79.4
Funding $700M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P95 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable WATCH
Unknown · $700M 2026-08-18 70 / 104 ⚠ dissent Dissent
3 A16Z Emerging signal 6d ago Josh Allman joined A16Z, which is a catalyst for more people to build… 79
Funding $4.5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $4.5B
4 Amazon Emerging signal 6d ago Sits in OpenAI's strategy 79
Funding $1B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $1B
5 Apple Emerging signal today Apple was taking a strategic approach to build an app store business … 79
Funding $6.6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $6.6B
6 Box Emerging signal 6d ago It was selected for investment. 79
Funding $6.6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $6.6B
7 Cerebras Emerging signal today Play original browser games, win silly prizes, watch questionable car… 79
Funding $1B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $1B 95 / 111
8 CoreWeave Emerging signal today CoreWeave is the force multiplier that empowers pioneers with momentu… 79
Funding $1.7B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P92 growth Outlook Stable WATCH
Series B · $1.7B 138 / 295 ⚠ dissent Dissent
9 HubSpot Emerging signal 6d ago HubSpot's customer platform includes all the marketing, sales, custom… 79
Funding $6.6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $6.6B
10 Meta Emerging signal today Discussed for its valuation and holding period decisions 79
Funding $6.6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable WATCH
· $6.6B ⚠ dissent Dissent
11 Paramount Emerging signal 6d ago Paramount is one of the world’s leading producers of premium entertai… 79
Funding $5.8B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $5.8B
12 Salesforce Emerging signal 6d ago Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, helping companies become Agentic Enterpr… 79
Funding $30B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable WATCH
· $30B ⚠ dissent Dissent
13 SpaceX Emerging signal today SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacec… 79
Funding $2.5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $2.5B 1299 / 2405
14 Tesla Emerging signal today Mentioned in relation to self-driving cars. 79
Funding $2.5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P92 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $2.5B
15 Waymo Emerging signal today Waymo—formerly the Google self-driving car project—makes it safe and … 79
Funding $5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P81 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable WATCH
· $5B 203 / 331 ⚠ dissent Dissent
16 XAI Emerging signal 5d ago Referred to alongside OpenAI as another large AI company. 79
Funding $6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P92 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $6B
17 Paradigm Emerging signal today 78.7
Funding $1.2B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P79 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $1.2B 2026-07-08
18 RAMP Emerging signal 2d ago Cited for releasing a study on AI adoption and headcount growth. 78.3
Funding $950M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P78 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $950M
19 Starlink Emerging signal 6d ago The second Starlink is not as good as the next two or three competito… 77.6
Funding $900M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P77 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $900M
20 Figure Emerging signal 6d ago Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a genera… 76.8
Funding $854M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P75 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $854M
21 CuspAI Emerging signal today AI-native materials-science platform ($450M Series B at $2.6B, 2026-0… 72.8
Funding $450M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P77 growth Outlook Stable WATCH
Series B · $450M 2026-07-20 ⚠ dissent Dissent
22 Adams Emerging signal today Travis Kalanick is a guest from Adams. 72.6
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P71 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
23 KDM Emerging signal today Acquired by Palo Alto Networks, one of the few investments made by Fo… 71.8
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P69 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
24 General Compute Emerging signal today General Compute is the neocloud for SambaNova, Cerebras, Positron and… 71.5
Funding $400M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P68 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $400M 2026-07-17
25 Bristol Emerging signal today A company interested in radiotherapies, part of the 15 billion M&A an… 70.7
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P64 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
26 Nscale Emerging signal today Nscale full-stack AI cloud platform and services are designed for sca… 67.5
Funding $2B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P62 growth Outlook Stable WATCH
Series C · $2B 2026-03-09 ⚠ dissent Dissent
27 AWS Emerging signal today A competitor to AWS is mentioned in relation to hosting services. 66.8
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P57 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
28 Whoop Emerging signal 6d ago Is mentioned as an example of a successful consumer hardware startup … 66.4
Funding $400M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P55 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $400M
29 JP Morgan Emerging signal today Mentioned alongside Citibank as potential beneficiaries of Anthropic'… 63.7
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P51 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
30 Humanoid Emerging signal today 63.3
Funding $152M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P49 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $152M 2026-07-21
31 Nexthop AI Emerging signal today 61.8
Funding $500M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P58 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $500M 2026-03-14
32 Norm Emerging signal today 59.9
Funding $120M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P54 growth Outlook Stable
Series C · $120M 2026-07-07
33 Oracle Emerging signal today Building AI infrastructure and providing enterprise access to leading… 57.8
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P45 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
34 Trase Emerging signal today Trase builds governed AI agents for healthcare, government, and enter… 57.6
Funding $107M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P86 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $107M 2026-06-24 2 / 6
35 8090 Labs Emerging signal today 8090 is the AI-native software development platform that keeps busine… 57.5
Funding $100M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P65 early Outlook Stable WATCH
Series A · $100M 2026-06-29 ⚠ dissent Dissent
36 Polymarket Emerging signal today Polymarket was cited as a partner providing information about the ele… 56.9
Funding $200M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P44 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $200M
37 AGI Emerging signal today 55.8
Funding $70M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P42 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $70M 2026-07-15
38 Sail Research Emerging signal today Sail is the most cost-efficient API for the best open-source models. … 55.1
Funding $80M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P58 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $80M 2026-06-25
39 Forge Emerging signal today Maintain policies, controls, and oversight for every AI agent acting … 54.3
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P40 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
40 Microagi Emerging signal today microagi is a data research lab working on end-to-end physical AGI, w… 53.8
Funding $55M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P83 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $55M 2026-07-16
41 Zipline Emerging signal 2d ago Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and ski… 53
Funding $150M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P39 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $150M
42 Valarian Emerging signal today Adopt AI at the pace it moves, without betting your institution on an… 52.8
Funding $50M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P54 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $50M 2026-07-14 6 / 7
43 DoorDash Emerging signal today CTO discussed regarding internal coding benchmarks and AI code review. 51
Funding $6.6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P79 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $6.6B 2018
44 Microsoft Emerging signal today Microsoft Office is referenced in the context of interoperability wit… 51
Funding $6.6B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P36 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable WATCH
· $6.6B 2022-01 ⚠ dissent Dissent
45 Scale AI Emerging signal today Data engine for frontier AI — labeling, RLHF and evaluation infrastru… 51
Funding $1B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P36 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Strategic · $1B 2025-06
46 Sierra Emerging signal today Sierra helps businesses build better, more human customer experiences… 51
Funding $1B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P35 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $1B 2024-10-01 74 / 210
47 AegisAI Emerging signal today Agentic AI email security. Autonomous agents stop phishing, BEC, and … 50.7
Funding $36M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P35 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $36M 2026-07-23
48 Helium Emerging signal 5d ago Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks. 48.8
Funding $111M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P30 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $111M
49 Natural Emerging signal today Natural is the agentic payments platform powering frictionless money … 48.8
Funding $30M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P30 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $30M 2026-07-20
50 Upscale AI Emerging signal today Upscale AI builds next-generation AI network infrastructure with scal… 48.8
Funding $200M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P42 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $200M 2026-01-21 23 / 25
51 Oxmiq Labs Emerging signal today OXMIQ develops licensable GPU IP and AI software that lets semiconduc… 48.5
Funding $35M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P38 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $35M 2026-07-02
52 Paper Emerging signal today Paper is a modern and powerful design tool that helps you create, sha… 48.1
Funding $34M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P35 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $34M 2026-07
53 Altimeter Emerging signal today Altimeter is mentioned as an investor that will not distribute shares… 47.6
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P27 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
54 Abstract Security Emerging signal today 47.5
Funding $25M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P27 early Outlook Stable WATCH
Series A · $25M 2026-07-23 ⚠ dissent Dissent
55 Flex Emerging signal today announced a series b round of 70 million with a valuation of 1.2 bill… 47.4
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P25 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
56 Harvey Emerging signal 2d ago Part of a suite of legal tools offered by Contemporary 47.4
Funding $100M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P25 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $100M
57 PaleBlueDot AI Emerging signal today 46.9
Funding $150M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P31 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $150M 2026-01-28
58 Inferact Emerging signal today Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLL… 46.4
Funding $150M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P66 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $150M 2026-01-22 21 / 25
59 Ropedia Emerging signal today 46.3
Funding $22M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P23 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $22M 2026-07-23
60 SkyPilot Emerging signal today 45.4
Funding $20M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P62 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $20M 2026-07-22
61 Cognition Emerging signal today Cognition operates Devin, the first autonomous software engineer. Dev… 44.9
Funding $500M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P19 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $500M 2024-04-08 37 / 93
62 Perplexity Emerging signal today Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate,… 44.9
Funding $500M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P27 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $500M 2024-12-01 55 / 115
63 Optimist Emerging signal today Stories and data that inspire rational optimism as we scale into the … 44.5
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P22 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
64 Infinity Emerging signal today Infrastructure software building alternatives to the NVIDIA CUDA ecos… 42.6
Funding $15M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P19 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $15M 2026-07-20
65 Coinbase Emerging signal today Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferrin… 41.2
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P17 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
94 / 218
66 Parasail Emerging signal today Parasail is the inference cloud for AI-native startups. Run any open … 40.4
Funding $32M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P15 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $32M 2026-04-15 6 / 8
67 Snap Emerging signal 6d ago rumors of going private again 40.4
Funding $60M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P23 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $60M
68 Walmart Emerging signal today Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for un… 40.3
Funding $300M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P16 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $300M 2017
69 Expanse Emerging signal today Renamed from KDM and acquired by Palo Alto Networks 38.7
Funding $250M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P13 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $250M 2021-10
70 Third Point Emerging signal today Third Point Management is a New York-based hedge fund founded by Dani… 38.7
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P13 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
71 Uber Emerging signal today Was part of the Chicago tech scene that Eric recalls from earlier day… 38.7
Funding $250M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P55 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $250M 2013
72 Hustle Fund Emerging signal today Hustle Fund has 70,000 portfolio companies and focuses on pre-seed st… 38.3
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P12 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
73 JetStream Security Emerging signal today JetStream is the AI governance platform for enterprises. Discover sha… 36.9
Funding $34M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P48 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $34M 2026-03-03
74 Baz Emerging signal today Baz is an AI code review platform that helps engineering teams ship b… 36.2
Funding $9M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P10 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Seed ext. · $9M 2026-06-29
75 ElevenLabs Emerging signal today Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents p… 35.8
Funding $180M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P19 growth Outlook Stable
Series C · $180M 2025-01-30 95 / 246
76 Probably Emerging signal today 35
Funding $9M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P38 pre-seed Outlook Stable WATCH
Seed · $9M 2026-06-16 ⚠ dissent Dissent
77 Ohalo Emerging signal 6d ago Boosted Breeding™ revolutionizes crop yields, achieving millennia of … 34.8
Funding $40M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P9 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $40M
78 InsightFinder Emerging signal today InsightFinder AI enables enterprises to deliver reliable, trustworthy… 33.8
Funding $15M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P15 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $15M 2026-04-16
79 hosted·ai Emerging signal today Build profitable AI clouds. Monetize GPU infrastructure. Ultra effici… 33.3
Funding $19M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P34 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $19M 2026-03-19
80 Snowflake Emerging signal today Snowflake powers AI, data engineering, applications, and analytics on… 32.6
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P8 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
81 Vikk AI Emerging signal today Get answers to legal questions through the #1 rated Legal AI Assistan… 31.5
Funding $4.2M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P6 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
Unknown · $4.2M 2026-07-21
82 StrongestLayer Emerging signal today 31.3
Funding $4.1M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P0 early Outlook Stable
Series A · $4.1M 2026-07-22
83 CodeWords Emerging signal today Describe the agent you need. Cody builds it, connects your tools, dep… 31.2
Funding $9M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P28 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $9M 2026-05-07
84 Hugging Face Emerging signal today The open model hub — hosting, transformers tooling and community infr… 30.7
Funding $101M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P21 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $101M 2023-08
85 Mistral AI Emerging signal today European frontier-model lab — open-weight and commercial LLMs (Mistra… 30.6
Funding $100M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P12 growth Outlook Stable
Series C · $100M 2025-09
86 Replit Emerging signal today Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or websit… 30.4
Funding $97.4M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P8 growth Outlook Stable
Series B · $97.4M 2023-04-25 43 / 77
87 Slack Emerging signal 6d ago Slack is discussed as a tool that can be integrated at a deeper level. 28.4
Funding $25M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P5 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
· $25M
88 Palo Alto Networks Emerging signal today Implement Zero Trust, Secure your Network, Cloud workloads, Hybrid Wo… 27.4
Funding $70M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P4 growth Outlook Stable
Series C · $70M 2005
89 Agree.com Emerging signal 25d ago new deal with agree.com for 50 off for life 19.9
Funding $13.5M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P17 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $13.5M
90 Offer Emerging signal today A hardware software bet team working on helping car manufacturers int… 18.1
Funding Adoption Developer 0/3 ↗
P3 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
91 Andrel Emerging signal 6d ago Andrel Multimedia opera a Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera e Riccione. olt… 15.8
Funding $10M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P14 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $10M
92 AOL Emerging signal 6d ago Discussed in relation to moat 0
Funding $1M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P0 pre-seed Outlook Stable WATCH
Seed · $1M ⚠ dissent Dissent
93 ByteDance Emerging signal today ByteDance is one of the names in the Magnificent 8 index. 0
Funding Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P0 UNKNOWN Outlook Stable
94 Calm Emerging signal 6d ago It is an investor of the company that works with Headspace. 0
Funding $378K Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P0 pre-seed Outlook Stable
Seed · $378K
95 Robinhood Emerging signal today Trade stocks on Robinhood with commission-free investing & advanced t… 0
Funding $25K Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P0 pre-seed Outlook Stable WATCH
Seed · $25K 74 / 126 ⚠ dissent Dissent
Established & late-stage — the bench backing the new wave. Their moves are signals, not new bets.
Fireworks established Emerging signal today Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you … 79.5
Funding $1.5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P91 late Outlook Stable WATCH
Series D · $1.5B 2026-07-16 37 / 74 ⚠ dissent Dissent
ARM established Emerging signal 6d ago ARM gained share when cell phone compute emerged, while Intel and AMD… 79
Funding $5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P78 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $5B
Google established Emerging signal today Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos an… 79
Funding $2.4B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P78 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $2.4B
Intel established Emerging signal 6d ago Deliver AI at scale across cloud, data center, edge, and client with … 79
Funding $20B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P78 late Outlook Stable WATCH
Growth · $20B ⚠ dissent Dissent
Cursor established Emerging signal 6d ago SpaceX acquired Cursor for $4 billion in revenue, at 15 times the rev… 77.6
Funding $900M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P74 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $900M
Databricks established Emerging signal today Databricks offers a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Buil… 69.5
Funding $500M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P70 late Outlook Stable WATCH
Growth · $500M 436 / 892 ⚠ dissent Dissent
Moonshot AI established Emerging signal 5d ago Frontier AI lab behind the Kimi open-weight model family (Kimi K3). 62.5
Funding $300M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P52 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $300M
OpenAI established Emerging signal today We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general in… 51
Funding $10B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P39 late Outlook Stable WATCH
Growth · $10B 2023-01 ⚠ dissent Dissent
Stripe established Emerging signal today Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of busin… 51
Funding $2.5B Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P39 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $2.5B 2021 186 / 634
Anthropic established Emerging signal today Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to buil… 44.9
Funding $300M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P30 late Outlook Stable WATCH
Growth · $300M 2025-11 276 / 595 ⚠ dissent Dissent
Cohere established Emerging signal today Enterprise LLM platform (Command, Embed, Rerank) focused on private, … 44.9
Funding $500M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P30 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $500M 2025-08
Lambda established Emerging signal today Train and scale AI on NVIDIA VR200 NVL 72, GB300 NVL 72, B300, B200, … 44.5
Funding $480M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P26 late Outlook Stable
Series D · $480M 2025-02-15 47 / 87
Rippling AI established Emerging signal today Rippling AI is an AI tool built on live global workforce data for HR … 43.9
Funding $450M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P22 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $450M 2025
Circle established Emerging signal today Stablecoin issuer (USDC) and digital-dollar payments infrastructure. 43.2
Funding $415M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P17 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $415M 2021-07
Lovable established Emerging signal today Build apps, websites, and digital products faster using Lovable's AI-… 36.7
Funding $200M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P9 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $200M 2025 35 / 82
Figma established Emerging signal today Blindsided by Anthropic's launch of Claude Design 22.5
Funding $40M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P4 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $40M 2025
Twitter established Emerging signal today From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the … 0
Funding $1M Adoption Developer 1/3 ↗
P0 late Outlook Stable
Growth · $1M

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Latest rounds

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Largest recent raise: Socure at $156M.

Andreessen Horowitz is most active — 5 deals, $736.4M deployed.

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Busiest in Aug — 38 rounds, 6.2× the 6.1/mo average.

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  • skills 9 cats
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