๐ Newly added AI startups
The 40 most recent additions.
April 2026
OpenAI
Founded 2015 ยท San Francisco
Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the leading frontier AI lab.
Anthropic
Founded 2021 ยท San Francisco
AI safety lab building Claude โ a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant.
Jasper
Founded 2021 ยท Austin
AI copilot for enterprise marketing teams.
Writesonic
Founded 2020 ยท San Francisco
AI writer, editor, and SEO tool for content teams.
ElevenLabs
Founded 2022 ยท London
The most realistic AI voices for creators, developers, and enterprise.
Midjourney
Founded 2021 ยท San Francisco
Independent AI image generation lab.
Perplexity
Founded 2022 ยท San Francisco
The answer engine โ AI search with real-time citations.
Synthesia
Founded 2017 ยท London
AI video creation platform with realistic avatars.
Cursor
Founded 2022 ยท San Francisco
The AI code editor built for productive engineers.
Copy.ai
Founded 2020 ยท Memphis
AI platform for go-to-market teams.
Grammarly
Founded 2009 ยท San Francisco
AI writing assistant for individuals and teams.
Stability AI
Founded 2020 ยท London
Open models for image, video, audio, and 3D.
Leonardo.Ai
Founded 2022 ยท Sydney
AI-powered creative suite for image and video generation.
Runway
Founded 2018 ยท New York
Applied AI research for video, image, and 3D.
HeyGen
Founded 2020 ยท Los Angeles
AI video platform with hyper-realistic avatars.
Descript
Founded 2017 ยท San Francisco
AI video and podcast editing โ edit by editing the transcript.
InVideo AI
Founded 2017 ยท Mumbai
Create publish-ready videos with a text prompt.
Windsurf
Founded 2021 ยท Mountain View
Agentic AI IDE for next-generation coding.
Replit
Founded 2016 ยท San Francisco
Build software collaboratively from any device.
Tabnine
Founded 2013 ยท Tel Aviv
Private AI code assistant for enterprise developers.
Chatbase
Founded 2023 ยท San Francisco
Custom AI chatbots trained on your data.
Cognition
Founded 2023 ยท San Francisco
Applied AI lab building Devin, the AI software engineer.
Character.AI
Founded 2021 ยท Menlo Park
Chat with millions of user-created AI characters.
Candy AI
Founded 2023 ยท Limassol
AI companion platform for meaningful conversations.
PlayHT
Founded 2016 ยท San Francisco
AI voice generation and real-time voice agents.
Murf AI
Founded 2020 ยท Bangalore
Studio-quality AI voiceovers in 20+ languages.
Suno
Founded 2022 ยท Cambridge
Make any kind of song with AI.
Udio
Founded 2023 ยท New York
Discover, create, and share music with AI.
You.com
Founded 2020 ยท Palo Alto
The productivity search engine with AI agents.
Otter.ai
Founded 2016 ยท Mountain View
AI meeting assistant for notes, summaries, and action items.
Clay
Founded 2017 ยท New York
AI-powered sales prospecting and data enrichment.
Surfer SEO
Founded 2017 ยท Wrocลaw
AI-powered SEO content optimization platform.
Hex
Founded 2019 ยท San Francisco
The collaborative data workspace with AI.
Harvey
Founded 2022 ยท San Francisco
The AI platform for elite law firms.
Hugging Face
Founded 2016 ยท New York
The AI community building the future of machine learning.
DeepSeek
Founded 2023 ยท Hangzhou
Open-weights frontier AI models with breakthrough efficiency.
Moonshot AI
Founded 2023 ยท Beijing
Maker of Kimi โ the long-context AI chatbot.
Zhipu AI
Founded 2019 ยท Beijing
Chinese foundation model lab behind ChatGLM and GLM-4.
MiniMax
Founded 2021 ยท Shanghai
Chinese AI lab behind Hailuo video and Talkie companions.
01.AI
Founded 2023 ยท Beijing
Founded by Kai-Fu Lee โ maker of the Yi model family.