Top Startups in San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco's AI surge continues as OpenAI and Waymo secure massive rounds. View the top startups that raised in the Bay Area over the last year.
- 01Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$110BEquity
OpenAI raised a $110 billion private funding round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, backed by Amazon ($50 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion).
- 02Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$50BSeries H
Anthropic, an AI company, raised $65 billion in a Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$16BEquityWaymo, the autonomous robotaxi developer, raised a $16 billion funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital with participation from Alphabet and a wide syndicate of top-tier investors.
- 04Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$10BEquity
Project Prometheus, a physical AI laboratory, raised $10 billion in a funding round at a roughly $38 billion valuation with JPMorgan and BlackRock among participating investors and no lead investor.
- 05Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$4BSeries L
Databricks, a data-intelligence and AI infrastructure company, raised a $4 billion Series L led by Insight Partners, Fidelity, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
- 06Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$1BSeries D
Cognition, an AI startup building autonomous AI software-engineering agents, raised over $1 billion in a Series D at a $26 billion valuation led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC.
- 07Energy • Natural Resources•California$1BEquity
SB Energy, a builder of large-scale AI data centers and energy infrastructure, raised $1 billion in new equity from SoftBank Group and OpenAI and secured $800 million in redeemable preferred equity from Ares.
- 08Biotechnology • Health Care•California$1BSeries A
Retro Biosciences, a San Francisco longevity biotech aiming to extend human healthspan, is raising a $1B Series A with participation from Sam Altman (who previously funded its $180M seed round).
- 09Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$1BEquity
AI world-model startup World Labs secured a $1 billion funding round from Nvidia, AMD and Autodesk.
- 10Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$950MSeries E
Sierra, an AI customer service agents startup, raised $950 million in a Series E at a $15.8 billion post-money valuation led by Tiger Global and Google's GV with participation from Benchmark, Sequoia, Greenoaks and other existing investors.
- 11Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$700MSeries A
Hark, an AI lab building models and hardware for personal assistants, raised $700M in a Series A at a $6 billion post-money valuation led by Parkway Venture Capital and including Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global.
- 12Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Consumer Electronics•California$650MEquity
Groq, an AI chip startup, raised $650 million in an internal funding round from existing investors.
- 13Consumer Electronics • Consumer Goods•California$600MEquity
Autonomous drone-delivery startup Zipline raised a $600 million funding round from Fidelity Management & Research Company, Baillie Gifford, Valor Equity Partners, Tiger Global, and other investors.
- 14Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Consumer Electronics•California$500MSeries E
Co-packaged optics startup Ayar Labs raised a $500M Series E led by Neuberger Berman with ARK Invest, Insight Partners, Qatar Investment Authority, Sequoia Global Equities, 1789 Capital, AMD, Alchip, MediaTek, and NVIDIA participating.
- 15Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$500MSeries B
AI-chip startup MatX raised a $500 million Series B round led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, with participation from Marvell Technology, NFDG, Spark Capital, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison.
- 16Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$450MSeries A
Rhoda AI, a robotics foundation-model startup, raised a $450 million Series A equity round from Capricorn Investment Group, Khosla Ventures, Leitmotif, Matter Venture Partners, Mayfield, Premji Invest, Prelude Ventures, Temasek, Xora, and angel investor John Doerr.
- 17Energy • Sustainability•California$450MSeries A
Inertial-confinement fusion startup Inertia Enterprises raised a $450 million Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from GV, Modern Capital, Threshold Ventures, and others.
- 18Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$400MSeries D
ClickHouse, a real-time analytics and AI data platform, raised a $400 million Series D led by Dragoneer Investment Group with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, GIC, Index Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, and WCM Investment Management.
- 19Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$350MSeries E
AI infrastructure startup SambaNova Systems raised an over $350 million Series E round led by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital, with participation from Intel Capital, Assam Ventures, Battery Ventures, Gulf Energy, Mayfield Capital, Saudi First Data, Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price–advised accounts, and several existing investors.
- 20Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics•California$350MEquity
AI cloud provider Lambda is reportedly raising a $350 million equity round led by Mubadala Capital.
