Top AI Companies
Ranked by valuation — 135 companies tracked
IPO Watchlist
Expected to IPO in next 12-24 months
OpenAI
S-1 Filed — Imminent
OpenAI is valued at $920B — the world's most valuable AI company, backed by over $65B in funding. The company recently restructured as a Public Benefit Corporation to support its mission of developing safe AGI.
$920.0B
IPO Readiness
81
Hugging Face
12-18 months
Hugging Face is an AI/ML platform and open-source community used by 50,000+ companies for hosting and deploying machine learning models and datasets. The company remains private as of May 2026 with a $4.5B valuation from its August 2023 Series D ($235M led by Salesforce). No IPO date or S-1 filing has been announced. Investors include Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Salesforce, Intel, AMD, and IBM.
$20.0B
IPO Readiness
81
Palantir Technologies
S-1 Filed — Imminent
Data analytics and AI platform for government intelligence and enterprise operations.
$312B
IPO Readiness
78
Anthropic
S-1 Filed — Imminent
Anthropic builds Claude — one of the world's leading AI systems. Valued at $380B with $18.5B raised. Track IPO readiness, funding rounds, and timeline.
$380B
IPO Readiness
77
Legora
S-1 Filed — Imminent
AI-native legal platform — automates legal research, contract review, and due diligence for law firms and legal teams.
$18.5B
IPO Readiness
77
Cognichip
S-1 Filed — Imminent
Semiconductor AI platform using physics-informed Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI®) to reduce chip design costs 75% and timelines 50%.
$62.1B
IPO Readiness
76
Cohere
18-24 months
Enterprise LLM specialist. Command R series models for business use. Included in Hiive institutional fund roster. Growing Cohere IPO searches as enterprise AI adoption accelerates.
$32.0B
IPO Readiness
76
Astera Labs
S-1 Filed — Imminent
Semiconductor connectivity solutions company enabling AI and cloud data center infrastructure.
$21.4B
IPO Readiness
76
Sector Pipeline
Company count by funding stage
Series A
11
Series B
22
Series C
15
Series D
17
Series E
12
Series F
10
Pre-IPO
2
Public
22
Series D+
6
Series G
5
series_d
3
Series H
3
series_c
1
Acquired/Licensed
1
Series I
1
Acquired
1
Late Stage Private / Strategic
1
PE-backed
1
Private Equity Backed
1
Recent Funding Rounds
Latest deals in the AI sector
Cohere
Series I · Aug 2026
$815M
Gimet Labs
Series G · Aug 2026
$1.2B
Relation Therapeutics
Series C · Aug 2026
$120M
Vapi
Series C · Aug 2026
$150M
Eikon Therapeutics
Series D · Aug 2026
$500M
Iambic Therapeutics
Series D · Aug 2026
$150M
Hightouch
Series F · Aug 2026
$200M
Viz.ai
Series E · Aug 2026
$150M
Generate Biomedicines
Series D · Aug 2026
$350M
Runway
Series F · Aug 2026
$1.2B
Sector Themes
Key narratives driving the AI sector in 2026
1
Foundation model consolidation driving valuation compression
2
AI inference chips becoming the new bottleneck
3
Enterprise AI agents replacing SaaS point solutions
4
Open-source models closing the capability gap
5
Multimodal AI unlocking physical world applications
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