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METhese companies have raised $100M+ in 2026 according to TechCrunch:
1. xAI – Elon Musk’s AI research lab (now acquired by SpaceX) focused on frontier AI development. Raised $20B Series E.
2. Arena – An LLM evaluation platform that helps benchmark and compare large language models. Raised $150M Series A.
3. Deepgram – A voice AI platform offering speech recognition and audio intelligence APIs. Raised $130M Series C.
4. SkildAI – Builds foundational AI models designed to power robots across various tasks. Raised $1.4B Series C.
5. humans& – A human-centric AI research lab founded by alumni from Anthropic, xAI, and Google. Raised $480M seed.
6. OpenEvidence – A medical AI chatbot that helps healthcare professionals access and synthesize clinical information. Raised $250M Series D.
7. Inferact – An AI inference startup commercializing vLLM to make model serving faster and more efficient. Raised $150M seed.
8. Baseten – An AI infrastructure platform for deploying and scaling machine learning models in production. Raised $300M Series E.
9. Flapping Airplanes – A research-driven AI lab focused on foundational AI research. Raised $180M seed.
10. Decagon – A conversational AI platform built for enterprise customer support automation. Raised $250M Series D.
11. PaleBlueDot AI – A compute platform scaling global AI infrastructure. Raised $150M Series B.
12. ElevenLabs – A leading voice AI company known for its realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning technology. Raised $500M Series D.
13. Fundamental – An AI research company focused on a new approach to large-scale data analysis. Raised $255M Series A.
14. Goodfire – An AI research lab working on AI interpretability and model understanding. Raised $150M Series B.
15. Runway – A media generation platform producing AI-powered video and creative tools. Raised $315M Series E.
16. Anthropic – An AI safety-focused research lab and the maker of Claude. Raised $30B Series G (valued at $380B).
17. Simile – Builds AI systems designed to replicate and mimic human decision-making processes. Raised $100M Series A.
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