Recently Funded Artificial Intelligence Startups
Updated Oct 2026
Funded Artificial Intelligence startups number 7,241 in FundedIQ, tracked with their funding rounds, amounts, investors, industries, locations and company details. This page provides an overview of the Artificial Intelligence startup funding landscape, along with the 100 most recently funded Artificial Intelligence startups.
San Francisco and New York hold the deepest concentrations of these companies. Artificial Intelligence startups closed 4,093 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 2,260 of them in the last 12 months, and raised $134B in disclosed capital. The median disclosed round is $6.0M, with the middle half of rounds falling between $1.3M and $25M.
Y Combinator and Alumni Ventures dominate the funding activity, marking a heavy concentration of early stage capital. This pattern indicates a preference for lean teams over established corporations. With NVIDIA providing strategic backing, the segment blends venture bets with hardware alignment. This mix creates a high density of early ventures that are agile and lean.
Artificial Intelligence funded startup statistics
Most recent funding round on record: Oct 2026. Investors appearing most often across Artificial Intelligence funding rounds: Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, Insight Partners, NVIDIA, Plug and Play.
100 most recently funded Artificial Intelligence startups
100 of 7,241Ordered by the date of the latest funding round. Each row gives the company, its location and industry, what it does, the stage and date of that round, and the disclosed amount.
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Artificial Intelligence startup funding trends
Funding activity
Artificial Intelligence startups closed 4,093 funding rounds over the last 24 months, 2,260 of them in the last 12, adding up to $134B in disclosed capital.
Round sizes
The median disclosed round is $6.0M, with the middle half running from $1.3M to $25M. 3,356 of 4,093 rounds disclosed an amount.
Company size
The most common headcount band across the segment is 11-50.
Investors
Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures and Insight Partners appear most often across funded Artificial Intelligence startups on record.
Countries with the most funded Artificial Intelligence startups
Where funded Artificial Intelligence startups are headquartered, by the country on the company record.
Where are funded Artificial Intelligence startups located?
Where funded Artificial Intelligence startups are based, by the city on the company record.
Top investors in Artificial Intelligence startups
The investors named most often across funded Artificial Intelligence startups.
Counts companies in this segment that name the firm as a backer. Investor names entered the pipeline in July 2026, so they cover the companies funded since.
Funding stages of funded Artificial Intelligence startups
How the last 24 months of funding rounds for funded Artificial Intelligence startups break down by stage.
A further 1,045 rounds in this period were announced without a stage label and are not ranked above.
About the FundedIQ Artificial Intelligence startup funding data
FundedIQ tracks announced startup funding rounds and organises them by company, funding date, stage, amount, industry, location and investor. The dataset is refreshed weekly, and new rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, so the same round reported twice on different dates is recorded once.
Figures on this page cover the 7,241 funded Artificial Intelligence startups currently tracked. Round counts, capital totals and the median round are computed over a trailing 24 months. Rounds whose amount was not disclosed (737 of 4,093 in that period) are counted as rounds but excluded from capital totals and from the median. The most recent round on record for funded Artificial Intelligence startups is dated Oct 2026.
The table above shows the 100 most recently funded companies. Full funding histories, investor lists and founder contacts across the whole dataset open on a FundedIQ plan.
Frequently asked questions
How many funded Artificial Intelligence startups are there?
FundedIQ tracks 7,241 funded Artificial Intelligence startups. This page lists the 100 most recently funded of them, ordered by the date of their latest round, and the full set is available on a FundedIQ plan.
How much funding have Artificial Intelligence startups raised?
Artificial Intelligence startups tracked by FundedIQ have raised $134B in disclosed capital across 4,093 funding rounds over the last 24 months, including 2,260 rounds in the last 12 months. 3,356 of those 4,093 rounds disclosed an amount; undisclosed rounds are excluded from the capital total.
Which countries have the most funded Artificial Intelligence startups?
United States leads with 3,977 companies, ahead of United Kingdom (605), Canada (274) and India (264).
Which cities have the most funded Artificial Intelligence startups?
San Francisco leads with 1,007 companies, then New York (507), London (426) and Palo Alto (155).
Which investors back the most Artificial Intelligence startups?
Y Combinator, Alumni Ventures, Insight Partners, NVIDIA and Plug and Play appear most often across funded Artificial Intelligence startups in the FundedIQ dataset. The count is the number of tracked companies naming each firm as a backer, so it reflects the companies on record rather than every deal a firm has ever done.
What is a typical funding round size for Artificial Intelligence startups?
The median disclosed round over the last 24 months is $6.0M, and the middle half of rounds fall between $1.3M and $25M. Round sizes vary widely by stage, so the seed and later-stage bands sit well either side of that figure.
What is the most common funding stage for Artificial Intelligence startups?
Seed is the most common labelled stage, with 1,236 rounds in the last 24 months, ahead of Pre-Seed (713) and Series A (567). A further 1,045 rounds were announced without a stage label and are not counted here.
How often is the Artificial Intelligence startup funding data updated?
The dataset is refreshed weekly. New rounds are normalised and de-duplicated before they are published, and the most recent round currently on record for funded Artificial Intelligence startups is dated Oct 2026. Counts and totals on this page are recomputed on every refresh.
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