Reducto funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Reducto burned about $1 million before its Series B. Investors have since put more than $100 million behind the bet that AI cannot read a company's documents without it.
Distyl AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Distyl AI sends engineers into large companies to build their AI systems, the way Palantir once did with data software. Investors have put $202 million behind the bet that the model scales.
Snorkel AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Snorkel AI spent four years as a labeling software company worth about $1 billion, then nearly tripled its value in 16 months by selling finished training data to frontier labs.
Liquid AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Liquid AI raised $287.5 million to build AI that runs on phones, laptops, and cars instead of data centers, and its biggest check came from a chipmaker.
Lila Sciences funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Lila Sciences raised $550 million to build labs where AI designs the experiments and robots run them, and investors are now pricing it like a frontier AI company.
OpenEvidence funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
OpenEvidence gives its AI away to doctors for free, lets drugmakers pay for the screen, and has raised about $1 billion on the bet that the model scales.
Tenstorrent funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Tenstorrent has raised about $2.3 billion to build AI chips on open designs, and its biggest backers are the carmakers and electronics giants that license them.
EliseAI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
EliseAI raised $742 million in equity to answer the phones at apartment buildings and doctors' offices, and its first backers were the landlords using the product.
Periodic Labs funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Periodic Labs raised a $300 million seed to build an AI scientist that runs its own experiments, and investors were reported to value it at $7.5 billion before it had published a discovery.
Cyera funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Cyera went from a $5 million seed to a $12 billion valuation in five years by selling one idea: before a company can trust AI, it has to know where its data lives.
Together AI funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Together AI started as a research project on open-source models. Four years later, it sells more than $1 billion a year of computing power to run them.
n8n funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
n8n gives away its automation software to anyone who hosts it themselves, stayed a German company when investors wanted it in Delaware, and still went from a $270 million valuation to $5.2 billion in 14 months.
Crusoe funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Crusoe started by putting computers at oil wells to burn gas that would otherwise be flared. Eight years later, investors value it at $30.9 billion as a builder of AI data centers.
ElevenLabs funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
ElevenLabs raised its first $2 million to make computers sound human. Four years later, its employees sold $300 million of stock at a $22 billion valuation.
LangChain funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
LangChain gives its most popular software away for free. Investors have put about $160 million behind the bet that companies will pay for the tools that keep AI agents working.
Baseten funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Baseten spent its first five years as a small machine learning startup. Then demand for AI inference took off, and its valuation rose about 16-fold in 16 months.
Vercel funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Vercel gives away the web framework millions of developers build with, then sells them the cloud to run it. Investors have put about $863 million behind that model.
Mercor funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Mercor started as an AI hiring tool built by three college dropouts. Less than three years later, investors valued it at $10 billion for supplying the experts who train AI models.
Databricks funding: Every round, investor, and valuation (2026)
Databricks started with a $13.9 million check from Andreessen Horowitz. Thirteen years later, it is worth $190 billion and still has no plans to list this year.
