๐Ÿ†• Newly added AI startups

The 40 most recent additions.

April 2026

OpenAI logo

OpenAI

Founded 2015 ยท San Francisco

Creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, and the leading frontier AI lab.

$13B
Anthropic logo

Anthropic

Founded 2021 ยท San Francisco

AI safety lab building Claude โ€” a helpful, harmless, honest AI assistant.

$15B
Jasper logo

Jasper

Founded 2021 ยท Austin

AI copilot for enterprise marketing teams.

$131M
Writesonic logo

Writesonic

Founded 2020 ยท San Francisco

AI writer, editor, and SEO tool for content teams.

$2.6M
ElevenLabs logo

ElevenLabs

Founded 2022 ยท London

The most realistic AI voices for creators, developers, and enterprise.

$281M
Midjourney logo

Midjourney

Founded 2021 ยท San Francisco

Independent AI image generation lab.

Undisclosed
Perplexity logo

Perplexity

Founded 2022 ยท San Francisco

The answer engine โ€” AI search with real-time citations.

$500M
Synthesia logo

Synthesia

Founded 2017 ยท London

AI video creation platform with realistic avatars.

$156M
Cursor logo

Cursor

Founded 2022 ยท San Francisco

The AI code editor built for productive engineers.

$900M
Copy.ai logo

Copy.ai

Founded 2020 ยท Memphis

AI platform for go-to-market teams.

$13.9M
Grammarly logo

Grammarly

Founded 2009 ยท San Francisco

AI writing assistant for individuals and teams.

$400M
Stability AI logo

Stability AI

Founded 2020 ยท London

Open models for image, video, audio, and 3D.

$100M
Leonardo.Ai logo

Leonardo.Ai

Founded 2022 ยท Sydney

AI-powered creative suite for image and video generation.

$31M
Runway logo

Runway

Founded 2018 ยท New York

Applied AI research for video, image, and 3D.

$236.5M
HeyGen logo

HeyGen

Founded 2020 ยท Los Angeles

AI video platform with hyper-realistic avatars.

$74M
Descript logo

Descript

Founded 2017 ยท San Francisco

AI video and podcast editing โ€” edit by editing the transcript.

$100M
InVideo AI logo

InVideo AI

Founded 2017 ยท Mumbai

Create publish-ready videos with a text prompt.

$35M
Windsurf logo

Windsurf

Founded 2021 ยท Mountain View

Agentic AI IDE for next-generation coding.

$243M
Replit logo

Replit

Founded 2016 ยท San Francisco

Build software collaboratively from any device.

$250M
Tabnine logo

Tabnine

Founded 2013 ยท Tel Aviv

Private AI code assistant for enterprise developers.

$55M
Chatbase logo

Chatbase

Founded 2023 ยท San Francisco

Custom AI chatbots trained on your data.

$3M
Cognition logo

Cognition

Founded 2023 ยท San Francisco

Applied AI lab building Devin, the AI software engineer.

$196M
Character.AI logo

Character.AI

Founded 2021 ยท Menlo Park

Chat with millions of user-created AI characters.

$193M
Candy AI logo

Candy AI

Founded 2023 ยท Limassol

AI companion platform for meaningful conversations.

Undisclosed
PlayHT logo

PlayHT

Founded 2016 ยท San Francisco

AI voice generation and real-time voice agents.

$15M
Murf AI logo

Murf AI

Founded 2020 ยท Bangalore

Studio-quality AI voiceovers in 20+ languages.

$13M
Suno logo

Suno

Founded 2022 ยท Cambridge

Make any kind of song with AI.

$125M
Udio logo

Udio

Founded 2023 ยท New York

Discover, create, and share music with AI.

$10M
You.com logo

You.com

Founded 2020 ยท Palo Alto

The productivity search engine with AI agents.

$99M
Otter.ai logo

Otter.ai

Founded 2016 ยท Mountain View

AI meeting assistant for notes, summaries, and action items.

$63M
Clay logo

Clay

Founded 2017 ยท New York

AI-powered sales prospecting and data enrichment.

$40M
Surfer SEO logo

Surfer SEO

Founded 2017 ยท Wrocล‚aw

AI-powered SEO content optimization platform.

Undisclosed
Hex logo

Hex

Founded 2019 ยท San Francisco

The collaborative data workspace with AI.

$68M
Harvey logo

Harvey

Founded 2022 ยท San Francisco

The AI platform for elite law firms.

$206M
Hugging Face logo

Hugging Face

Founded 2016 ยท New York

The AI community building the future of machine learning.

$395M
DeepSeek logo

DeepSeek

Founded 2023 ยท Hangzhou

Open-weights frontier AI models with breakthrough efficiency.

Undisclosed
Moonshot AI logo

Moonshot AI

Founded 2023 ยท Beijing

Maker of Kimi โ€” the long-context AI chatbot.

$1.3B
Zhipu AI logo

Zhipu AI

Founded 2019 ยท Beijing

Chinese foundation model lab behind ChatGLM and GLM-4.

$1.4B
MiniMax logo

MiniMax

Founded 2021 ยท Shanghai

Chinese AI lab behind Hailuo video and Talkie companions.

$600M
01.AI logo

01.AI

Founded 2023 ยท Beijing

Founded by Kai-Fu Lee โ€” maker of the Yi model family.

$1B