Top AI Developer Tools Startups Ranked by Funding
11 AI Developer Tools startups tracked. Also see full AI Developer Tools directory.
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Zhipu AI
Founded 2019 · Beijing
Chinese foundation model lab behind ChatGLM and GLM-4.
$1.4B - 2
01.AI
Founded 2023 · Beijing
Founded by Kai-Fu Lee — maker of the Yi model family.
$1B - 3
Cursor
Founded 2022 · San Francisco
The AI code editor built for productive engineers.
$900M - 4
Hugging Face
Founded 2016 · New York
The AI community building the future of machine learning.
$395M - 5
Replit
Founded 2016 · San Francisco
Build software collaboratively from any device.
$250M - 6
Windsurf
Founded 2021 · Mountain View
Agentic AI IDE for next-generation coding.
$243M - 7
Stability AI
Founded 2020 · London
Open models for image, video, audio, and 3D.
$100M - 8
Hex
Founded 2019 · San Francisco
The collaborative data workspace with AI.
$68M - 9
Tabnine
Founded 2013 · Tel Aviv
Private AI code assistant for enterprise developers.
$55M - 10
PlayHT
Founded 2016 · San Francisco
AI voice generation and real-time voice agents.
$15M - 11
DeepSeek
Founded 2023 · Hangzhou
Open-weights frontier AI models with breakthrough efficiency.
Undisclosed