Best Artificial Intelligence Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 1206 best Artificial Intelligence companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: OpenAI.
Our analysis of 101 Artificial Intelligence companies
$80.5b in tracked funding; 99% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Artificial Intelligence companies in San Francisco
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI 🦄 AI research and deployment solutions developing advanced artificial intelligence systems and tools for global… 97Tech top 7%Partners top 9%Customers top 9%Funding top 10% All 13 signals ▾Techtop 7% Partnerstop 9% Customerstop 9% Fundingtop 10% Markettop 11% Innovationtop 12% Talenttop 18% Moattop 20% Growthtop 22% Newstop 24% Producttop 26% AItop 35% Globaltop 48% Tech: 111 technologies across 8/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Partners: 47 partnership announcements in 12 mo (56 in 24 mo) · 167 contract events in 12 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 97/100 | $17.9B | 1 mo ago | Series G | ContentfulTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+27 | Top 1k | — | 4 launchs |
| 2 | Anthropic 🦄 Provider of AI safety and research company 97Funding top 7%Partners top 13%Innovation top 17%News top 17% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 7% Partnerstop 13% Innovationtop 17% Newstop 17% Talenttop 17% AItop 20% Growthtop 21% Techtop 22% Producttop 22% Moattop 24% Markettop 26% Globaltop 48% Funding: Raised $4.5B across 17 rounds · 17 rounds over 5 yrs (3.4/yr) Partners: 11 partnership announcements in 12 mo (15 in 24 mo) · 58 contract events in 12 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 97/100 | $4.5B | 1 mo ago | Series G | SentryNode.jsGoogle Sign-in+22 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 3 | Scale AI 🦄 Labeled data to train AI applications 90Funding top 16%AI top 18%Tech top 19%Moat top 23% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 16% AItop 18% Techtop 19% Moattop 23% Markettop 28% Innovationtop 28% Patentstop 32% Partnerstop 35% Growthtop 40% Globaltop 45% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 42% Funding: Raised $1.6B across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 10 yrs (0.8/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 90/100 | $1.6B | 12 mo ago | Series G | TurbopackSentryAtlassian Statuspage+40 | Top 500k | 30 patents AI-powered data labeling, dataset curation, and sampling for computer vision and document extraction | 1 partnership |
| 4 | Physical Intelligence 🦄 Developer of AI models and learning algorithms for physical robots 83Funding top 14%AI top 20%Growth top 28%Talent top 28% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 14% AItop 20% Growthtop 28% Talenttop 28% Moattop 32% Markettop 40% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 45% Funding: Raised $1.1B across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $1.1B | 6 mo ago | Series B | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+10 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 5 | GoMotive 🦄 AI-powered fleet management platform 91Funding top 18%Market top 23%Tech top 24%Product top 24% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% Markettop 23% Techtop 24% Producttop 24% Customerstop 24% Moattop 26% Innovationtop 32% AItop 32% Growthtop 36% Globaltop 36% Talentbottom 49% Funding: Raised $567M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 13 yrs (0.6/yr) Market: 4,300 employees (top 4% of Transportation and Logistics Tech) · Top-500,000 web property rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 91/100 | $567M | 12 mo ago | Series F | WordPress Site EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+41 | Top 500k | — | 1 launch · 1 expansion · 1 award |
| 6 | Gupshup Provider of a platform for conversational AI, marketing, and support 83Funding top 18%AI top 20%Growth top 28%Patents top 28% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% AItop 20% Growthtop 28% Patentstop 28% Innovationtop 29% Moattop 34% Techtop 35% Talenttop 38% Globaltop 44% Marketbottom 47% Funding: Raised $546M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 19 yrs (0.5/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $546M | 10 mo ago | Series F | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+17 | Top 1M | 27 patents Enables enterprise RCS messaging, OTP delivery, and template testing for rich communication services. | — |
| 7 | Perplexity 🦄 AI-powered search and answer generation 87Customers top 10%Funding top 11%Tech top 21%Growth top 25% All 14 signals ▾Customerstop 10% Fundingtop 11% Techtop 21% Growthtop 25% Partnerstop 27% Producttop 28% AItop 30% Newstop 31% Moattop 32% Innovationtop 35% Talenttop 45% Markettop 47% Patentstop 49% Globalbottom 39% Customers: Play-Store rating 4.58★ across 2,016,194 ratings (2 apps) · Review volume +5894% in 6 mo Funding: Raised $415M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 3 yrs (3.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100 | $415M | 6 mo ago | Series E | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+24 | Top 5k | 4 patents Enhanced query processing and client-side search acceleration for augmented search engines | — |
| 8 | Grammarly 🦄 Provider of AI and cloud-based writing assistance platform for improving writing and communication 94Market top 18%Patents top 18%Customers top 19%Innovation top 20% All 13 signals ▾Markettop 18% Patentstop 18% Customerstop 19% Innovationtop 20% AItop 20% Moattop 20% Techtop 21% Fundingtop 23% Talenttop 28% Producttop 42% Globaltop 46% Growthtop 48% Newsbottom 24% Market: 659 employees (top 2% of High Tech) · Top-5,000 web property Patents: 93 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 79 filings since 2022 vs 8 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 94/100 | $400M | 12 mo ago | Series B | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+34 | Top 5k | 93 patents AI-driven writing and code assistance using NLP for grammar, tone, and review automation | — |
| 9 | Innovaccer 🦄 Developer of healthcare data platforms and artificial intelligence agent software 93Funding top 23%Tech top 25%AI top 25%Moat top 25% All 13 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Techtop 25% AItop 25% Moattop 25% Markettop 26% Fin. healthtop 28% Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 29% Patentstop 32% Growthtop 33% Producttop 38% Globaltop 42% Newsbottom 24% Funding: Raised $379M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 11 yrs (0.7/yr) Tech: 43 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Ses rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 93/100 | $379M | 17 mo ago | Series F | WebflowGSAPNginx+22 | Top 5M | 30 patents Integrating and analyzing de‑identified healthcare data across clouds for clinical decision support | 1 partnership |
| 10 | Bedrock Robotics 🦄 Developer of autonomous technology for transforming construction and industrial equipment 82Funding top 14%AI top 20%Moat top 27%Talent top 28% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 14% AItop 20% Moattop 27% Talenttop 28% Markettop 43% Techtop 46% Globalbottom 48% Funding: Raised $350M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 82/100 | $350M | 4 mo ago | Series B | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+17 | Top 5M | — | 1 job opening |
| 11 | Sierra 🦄 A conversational AI platform that helps businesses to build customer experiences 87Funding top 12%AI top 20%Moat top 26%Growth top 28% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 12% AItop 20% Moattop 26% Growthtop 28% Talenttop 28% Techtop 32% Markettop 46% Globalbottom 37% Funding: Raised $285M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 2 yrs (2.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100 | $285M | 1 mo ago | Series E | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+29 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 12 | Sesame Developer of voice-based artificial intelligence companions and lightweight eyewear products 82Funding top 18%AI top 28%Talent top 28%Patents top 34% All 8 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% AItop 28% Talenttop 28% Patentstop 34% Innovationtop 36% Techtop 41% Growthtop 45% Globaltop 48% Funding: Raised $250M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 82/100 | $250M | 7 mo ago | Series B | DatoCMSSentryApple iCloud Mail+16 | Top 100k | 12 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 13 | Starship Technologies Operator of autonomous robots for delivery of goods and advertising 72Funding top 17%News top 17%Customers top 29%AI top 30% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 17% Newstop 17% Customerstop 29% AItop 30% Moattop 31% Techtop 35% Talenttop 38% Globaltop 39% Markettop 41% Producttop 46% Innovationbottom 47% Growthbottom 44% Funding: Raised $231M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 9 yrs (0.9/yr) News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 71 tracked, 7 types) · +600% YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $231M | 8 mo ago | Series C | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | Top 5M | — | 1 award |
| 14 | Chai Discovery 🦄 Developer of artificial intelligence models for de novo molecular design 72Funding top 14%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Moat top 32% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 14% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 32% Markettop 48% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 42% Funding: Raised $230M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $230M | 6 mo ago | Series B | Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+7 | Top 10M | — | 1 partnership |
| 15 | Domino Data Lab AI powered data science platform 83Funding top 17%Innovation top 22%Tech top 26%Talent top 28% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 17% Innovationtop 22% Techtop 26% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 31% Producttop 38% Markettop 43% Partnerstop 45% Globalbottom 48% Growthbottom 45% Newsbottom 37% Funding: Raised $224M across 7 rounds · 7 rounds over 11 yrs (0.6/yr) Innovation: 6 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $224M | 9 mo ago | Series F | SanityTurbopackSentry+33 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 16 | Factory 🦄 Developer of artificial intelligence solutions for industrial automation and optimization 80Funding top 14%Growth top 28%Tech top 28%AI top 30% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 14% Growthtop 28% Techtop 28% AItop 30% Moattop 32% Talenttop 38% Markettop 46% Patentstop 46% Innovationtop 48% Globalbottom 40% Funding: Raised $220M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 3 yrs (1.3/yr) Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 1,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $220M | 2 mo ago | Series C | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+15 | Top 1M | 24 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | 4 launchs |
| 17 | Cognition 🦄 Developer of an AI software engineer designed to automate coding 80Funding top 13%AI top 20%Growth top 24%News top 25% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 13% AItop 20% Growthtop 24% Newstop 25% Moattop 28% Talenttop 28% Techtop 37% Innovationtop 47% Markettop 50% Patentsbottom 48% Globalbottom 37% Funding: Raised $196M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $196M | 0 mo ago | Series D | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+22 | Top 5M | 7 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | 3 launchs · 2 partnerships |
| 18 | Aera Developer of a decision intelligence platform providing real-time business recommendations 74Funding top 18%AI top 30%Growth top 32%Tech top 32% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% AItop 30% Growthtop 32% Techtop 32% Moattop 35% Producttop 41% Markettop 44% Talentbottom 49% Innovationbottom 45% Globalbottom 45% Patentsbottom 24% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $172M across 9 rounds · 9 rounds over 24 yrs (0.4/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $172M | 0 mo ago | Series D | WordPressApple iCloud MailMySQL+31 | Top 5M | 2 patents Deployable aerodynamic structures for aerial vehicles (e.g., UAV wing/rotor systems) | — |
| 19 | Braintrust Provider of an AI observability platform for building quality AI products 76Funding top 19%AI top 20%Growth top 28%Tech top 36% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 19% AItop 20% Growthtop 28% Techtop 36% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 36% Funding: Raised $121M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 3 yrs (1.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $121M | 3 mo ago | Series B | TurbopackSentryNode.js+25 | Top 1M | — | 2 launchs |
| 20 | JuiceBox Provider of an AI recruiting platform offering search, CRM, and agents 82Talent top 23%Funding top 26%Growth top 28%Tech top 29% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 23% Fundingtop 26% Growthtop 28% Techtop 29% AItop 30% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 47% Talent: 5 named leaders on record · 5 C-suite/founder profiles curated Funding: Raised $110M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 4 yrs (0.8/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 82/100 | $110M | 3 mo ago | Series B | TurbopackFirebaseEmotion+29 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 21 | Augment Developer of an AI teammate for logistics and knowledge management 57AI top 8%Funding top 21%Growth top 35%Talent top 38% All 10 signals ▾AItop 8% Fundingtop 21% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 42% Techtop 49% Globalbottom 44% Patentsbottom 39% Innovationbottom 36% Marketbottom 35% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company Funding: Raised $110M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $110M | 9 mo ago | Series A | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailReact+21 | Top 10M | 2 patents Bio-signal stress monitoring and AI-driven conversational analytics for health and CRM | 1 launch |
| 22 | Reducto Provider of AI software for document parsing and data extraction 72AI top 26%Funding top 27%Talent top 28%Tech top 34% All 8 signals ▾AItop 26% Fundingtop 27% Talenttop 28% Techtop 34% Growthtop 35% Moattop 40% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 33% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: computer vision, llm Funding: Raised $108M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $108M | 8 mo ago | Series B | SentryNode.jsRadix UI+19 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch · 1 award |
| 23 | Decagon 🦄 AI-powered customer experience platform 76Funding top 15%AI top 26%News top 31%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 15% AItop 26% Newstop 31% Growthtop 35% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Markettop 46% Techtop 50% Globalbottom 39% Funding: Raised $100M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-driven, ai-powered rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $100M | 4 mo ago | Series D | WebflowMarkerThree.js+22 | Top 1M | — | 1 internship · 1 launch · 2 partnerships |
| 24 | Applied Compute Provider of AI-powered agents for company-specific data and workflows 55Funding top 28%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Tech top 50% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 28% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Techtop 50% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 31% Funding: Raised $100M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $100M | 7 mo ago | Series B | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+16 | Top 10M | — | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 25 | Deepgram Provider of AI-based speech transcription software 84Tech top 11%AI top 22%Funding top 23%Moat top 28% All 12 signals ▾Techtop 11% AItop 22% Fundingtop 23% Moattop 28% Innovationtop 35% Growthtop 37% Talenttop 38% Newstop 40% Patentstop 41% Markettop 43% Producttop 45% Globalbottom 39% Tech: 73 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 84/100 | $86M | 6 mo ago | Series C | DatoCMSTypeScriptGraphQL+38 | Top 500k | 23 patents Efficient transformer-based speech recognition and training data alignment technologies | 2 launchs |
| 26 | Vapi Voice AI platform for developers 74Funding top 21%Tech top 24%AI top 26%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 21% Techtop 24% AItop 26% Growthtop 35% Moattop 48% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 18% Funding: Raised $75.2M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 46 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $75M | 3 mo ago | Series B | TurbopackSentryNode.js+26 | Top 500k | — | 3 job openings |
| 27 | Anysphere 🦄 Developer of software and models for automating code and improving programmers 69Funding top 18%Partners top 22%Talent top 28%AI top 30% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 18% Partnerstop 22% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Newstop 32% Markettop 42% Moattop 42% Growthtop 50% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 37% Funding: Raised $71.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 3 yrs (1.7/yr) Partners: 4 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 4 deals rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $71M | 7 mo ago | Series D | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+9 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 28 | Listen Labs AI-powered platform that revolutionizes customer research 80Funding top 23%Growth top 28%AI top 30%Tech top 33% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Growthtop 28% AItop 30% Techtop 33% Moattop 37% Talenttop 38% Innovationtop 40% Patentstop 42% Producttop 46% Markettop 48% Globalbottom 46% Funding: Raised $69.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) Growth: Web rank 1,000,000 → 500,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 80/100 | $69M | 5 mo ago | Series B | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | Top 500k | 11 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 29 | Giga AI Developer of AI-powered agents for enterprise support and customer engagement 67Tech top 21%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 35% All 7 signals ▾Techtop 21% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Fundingtop 35% Moatbottom 48% Globalbottom 43% Marketbottom 36% Tech: 32 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $65M | 7 mo ago | Series A | Framer SitesThree.jsYouTube+17 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 30 | Fathom Provider of autonomous medical coding platform and related coding services 55AI top 20%Funding top 26%Moat top 31%News top 36% All 12 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 26% Moattop 31% Newstop 36% Growthtop 38% Talenttop 38% Producttop 49% Techbottom 49% Marketbottom 45% Patentsbottom 42% Innovationbottom 34% Globalbottom 31% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $61.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 5 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $61M | 1 mo ago | Series B | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | Top 10M | 9 patents On-demand additive manufacturing and automated pricing for custom 3D-printed parts and injection molds | — |
| 31 | Baseten Technologies 🦄 Platform offering low code based ML powered application development software 78Funding top 17%AI top 20%Tech top 27%Talent top 28% All 11 signals ▾Fundingtop 17% AItop 20% Techtop 27% Talenttop 28% Moattop 31% Growthtop 32% Newstop 33% Producttop 41% Innovationtop 46% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 37% Funding: Raised $60.0M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 4 yrs (1.5/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $60M | 4 mo ago | Series E | DatoCMSApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | Top 5M | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 32 | Oro Labs Provider of procurement orchestration platform that coordinates people, processes, systems 72AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 31%Growth top 35% All 8 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 31% Growthtop 35% Techtop 36% Newstop 48% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 29% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $59M | 3 mo ago | Series C | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+37 | Top 5M | — | 1 partnership |
| 33 | Strala Provider of AI-assisted claims handling and third-party administrator (TPA) solutions 67Funding top 30%AI top 30%Talent top 38%Global bottom 48% All 5 signals ▾Fundingtop 30% AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 40% Funding: Raised $55.3M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $55M | 2 mo ago | Series B | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+7 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 34 | Vizcom Developer of a platform for design visualization and 3D model generation 72Funding top 24%Talent top 35%Tech top 48%Global bottom 48% All 4 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Talenttop 35% Techtop 48% Globalbottom 48% Funding: Raised $52.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 3 yrs (1.0/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $52M | 7 mo ago | Series B | WebflowThree.jsVimeo+15 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 35 | Netic Provider of an AI-powered engine for service enterprise revenue growth 60Funding top 23%AI top 23%Tech top 28%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% AItop 23% Techtop 28% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 35% Globalbottom 33% Funding: Raised $43.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-powered rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $43M | 7 mo ago | Series B | Amazon WebstoreApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+30 | Top 5M | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 36 | Nova Intelligence Developer of an AI platform for SAP system management 72AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 29%Global bottom 48% All 4 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 29% Globalbottom 48% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $42M | 1 mo ago | Series A | — | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 37 | Voxel AI Provider of artificial intelligence software for industrial workplace safety monitoring 67Funding top 24%Tech top 29%Growth top 30%Partners top 32% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Techtop 29% Growthtop 30% Partnerstop 32% Newstop 37% AItop 45% Talenttop 45% Moattop 46% Patentstop 48% Innovationbottom 49% Marketbottom 41% Globalbottom 39% Funding: Raised $36.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 5 yrs (1.0/yr) Tech: 34 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $36M | 7 mo ago | Series B | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+21 | Top 5M | 11 patents Advanced display panel locking, pixel architecture, and 3D modeling/manufacturing technologies | — |
| 38 | Mastra Developer of framework for building artificial intelligence applications and agents 76Funding top 23%Growth top 28%Tech top 44%AI top 45% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Growthtop 28% Techtop 44% AItop 45% Globalbottom 48% Talentbottom 45% Funding: Raised $35.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 1 yrs (3.0/yr) Growth: Web rank 5,000,000 → 1,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $36M | 2 mo ago | Series A | SanityTurbopackNode.js+17 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 39 | Resolve.ai 🦄 Provider of an AI platform for incident resolution and cost optimization 82News top 20%AI top 20%Funding top 25%Growth top 25% All 9 signals ▾Newstop 20% AItop 20% Fundingtop 25% Growthtop 25% Talenttop 28% Moattop 31% Techtop 38% Markettop 50% Globalbottom 37% News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 8 tracked, 2 types) · +600% YoY AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 82/100 | $35M | 2 mo ago | Series A | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+28 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 40 | AfterQuery Platform that specializes datasets for artificial intelligences 72Funding top 25%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Growth top 35% All 7 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Growthtop 35% Techtop 40% Marketbottom 46% Globalbottom 33% Funding: Raised $30.5M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 1 yrs (2.0/yr) Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $30M | 2 mo ago | Series A | TurbopackSentryNode.js+12 | Top 1M | — | 1 partnership |
| 41 | Newo AI agents revolutionizing business communication, automating tasks, and increasing revenue 72AI top 20%Tech top 23%Talent top 28%Growth top 35% All 9 signals ▾AItop 20% Techtop 23% Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Globaltop 38% Patentstop 44% Innovationtop 46% Fundingtop 46% Marketbottom 37% AI: Classified as an AI company Tech: 53 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $30M | 4 mo ago | Series A | Node.jsGoogle CloudVue.js+24 | Top 5M | 3 patents AI-driven workflow automation and intelligent agent frameworks for enterprise software | 1 launch |
| 42 | Triomics Provider of clinical research and clinical trial tracking software 60AI top 20%Funding top 26%Talent top 38%Moat top 39% All 8 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 26% Talenttop 38% Moattop 39% Techtop 40% Growthtop 47% Globalbottom 43% Marketbottom 35% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $28.9M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $29M | 0 mo ago | Series B | WixSentryEnvoy+20 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 43 | Roadrunner Developer of software for automating sales quoting and approval workflows 72AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 35%Global bottom 33% All 4 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 35% Globalbottom 33% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $27M | 1 mo ago | Series A | — | — | — | — |
| 44 | Exa 🦄 Provider of web search, AI search engine, and website crawler tools 83AI top 20%Funding top 25%Tech top 25%Moat top 26% All 11 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 25% Techtop 25% Moattop 26% Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 32% Patentstop 38% Growthtop 41% Markettop 43% Newsbottom 43% Globalbottom 40% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $22.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 2 yrs (2.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 83/100 | $22M | 0 mo ago | Series C | WagtailNode.jsPython+28 | Top 500k | 120 patents Advanced CFD and multiphysics simulation tools for thermal, acoustic, and electro‑thermal systems | — |
| 45 | Mintlify Provider of a platform for creating and maintaining technical documentation 67Tech top 25%Growth top 28%Funding top 29%AI top 30% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 25% Growthtop 28% Fundingtop 29% AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Moattop 48% Globalbottom 32% Marketbottom 30% Newsbottom 15% Tech: 47 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services Growth: Web rank 1,000,000 → 500,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $21M | 2 mo ago | Series B | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+24 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 46 | Flux AI Developer of an AI-powered platform for PCB design and layout 74Tech top 22%Funding top 30%AI top 30%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾Techtop 22% Fundingtop 30% AItop 30% Growthtop 35% Moattop 36% Talenttop 38% Patentstop 39% Innovationtop 43% Marketbottom 45% Globalbottom 37% Tech: 44 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare Funding: Raised $12.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $12M | 3 mo ago | Series B | WebflowSentryStripe+26 | Top 500k | 22 patents In‑situ soil contamination detection and remediation monitoring technologies | 1 launch |
| 47 | Krane Provider of AI-powered platform for construction supply chain management and execution 21AI top 30%Funding top 41%Talent bottom 49%Global bottom 29% All 6 signals ▾AItop 30% Fundingtop 41% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 29% Techbottom 27% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered Funding: Raised $9.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 21/100 | $9M | 2 mo ago | Seed | WordPressUptimeRobotMySQL+16 | Top 50M | — | 2 awards |
| 48 | Champ Developer of AI-powered platform automating customer support and help desk tasks 42AI top 30%Tech top 39%Funding top 41%Talent bottom 49% All 6 signals ▾AItop 30% Techtop 39% Fundingtop 41% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 31% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered Tech: 25 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $8M | 1 mo ago | Seed | SanityTurbopackNode.js+16 | Top 10M | — | 1 job opening |
| 49 | Graphon AI Developer of software that converts multimodal data into relational memory 72Talent top 28%Innovation top 42%Patents top 45%AI top 45% All 6 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 42% Patentstop 45% AItop 45% Fundingtop 47% Globaltop 48% Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated Innovation: 32 patents (top 40% of patent-holders) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 72/100 | $8M | 1 mo ago | Seed | — | — | 32 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | 2 job openings |
| 50 | Conntour Provider of AI video analytics for security and surveillance operations 62AI top 20%Growth top 28%Funding top 35%Talent top 38% All 7 signals ▾AItop 20% Growthtop 28% Fundingtop 35% Talenttop 38% Techbottom 48% Globalbottom 48% Marketbottom 31% AI: Classified as an AI company Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $8M | 2 mo ago | Seed | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesPostHog+15 | Top 10M | — | 1 job opening · 1 award |
Top 12 Artificial Intelligence companies in San Francisco
#1
OpenAI 🦄Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 831 employees$17.9Braised▾
AI research and deployment solutions developing advanced artificial intelligence systems and tools for global use. It support a wide range of applications across productivity, development, and enterprise use cases. Engages in foundational AI research, model development, and safety work to improve the capabilities and reliability of large-scale AI systems. Operates as a public benefit organization with a mission centered on ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits humanity through safe and responsible deployment.
- Apr 2026Series G$75M
- Mar 2026Series G$40M
- Feb 2026Series G$122B
- 2025Series E—
#2
Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2021 · 73 employees$4.5Braised▾
Provider of AI safety and research company. It is an AI research and safety company offering AI models and chatbots. Its chatbot can be used for multiple industries including customer support, legal support, coaching, searching data, back-office automation, and sales.
- Apr 2026Series G$5B
- Feb 2026Series G$30B
- Jan 2026Series F$10B
- Sep 2025Series F$13B
#3
Sierra 🦄Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$285Mraised▾
A conversational AI platform that helps businesses to build customer experiences. The company provides tools to build, test, and optimize AI agents. It offers capabilities for analyzing agent performance, identifying conversations needing attention, and running tests. The company's platform allows for integrating customer data and personalizing experiences.
- May 2026Series E$950M
- Sep 2025Series B$350M
- Oct 2024Series A$175M
- Feb 2024Seed$110M
#4
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 1999 · 186 employees$171.5Mraised▾
Developer of a decision intelligence platform providing real-time business recommendations. The platform understands business operations, makes recommendations, and takes action autonomously. It refines data and delivers visibility into operations. The platform uses data and artificial intelligence to predict risks and opportunities. It engages users and drives the execution of decisions, learning from outcomes to improve recommendations.
- May 2026Series D—
- Jun 2019Series C$80M
- Jun 2017Series C$50M
- Apr 2016Series C$25M
#5
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$196Mraised▾
Developer of an AI software engineer designed to automate coding. The AI is designed to handle end-to-end development tasks independently. It helps engineering teams focus on complex problems. The AI software engineer supports software delivery and business growth.
- Aug 2025Series C$500M
- Mar 2025Series B—
- Apr 2024Series B$175M
- Mar 2024Series A$21M
#6
Factory 🦄Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$220Mraised▾
Developer of artificial intelligence solutions for industrial automation and optimization. It provides tools for process improvement and predictive maintenance. The company focuses on creating adaptable systems for various manufacturing environments. Its offerings aim to enhance efficiency and reduce operational costs.
- Apr 2026Series C$150M
- Sep 2025Series B$50M
- Jun 2024Series A$15M
- Nov 2023Seed$5M
#7
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$1.1Braised▾
Developer of AI models and learning algorithms for physical robots. The company focuses on creating foundation models to power robots and physically-actuated devices. They develop vision-language-action models with both long-term and short-term memory. These models enable robots to perform complex tasks and improve success rates. The company also provides systems for real-time action chunking with large models.
- Nov 2025Series B$600M
- Nov 2024Series A$400M
- Mar 2024Seed$70M
#8
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$350Mraised▾
Developer of autonomous technology for transforming construction and industrial equipment. The technology adapts to project needs and improves operational capabilities continuously. It enables machines to work safely and seamlessly, expanding team capabilities. The technology aims to accelerate project schedules with new efficiencies. It also seeks to protect people and equipment, and measure progress.
- Feb 2026Series B$270M
- Jul 2025Series A$80M
- Jul 2025Seed—
#9
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2022 · 8 employees$415.4Mraised▾
AI-powered search and answer generation. It enables users to ask complex questions and receive concise, well-sourced answers synthesized from multiple web sources. The platform combines natural language understanding with real-time web data to provide accurate, context-aware responses.
- Dec 2025Angel—
- Sep 2025Series E$200M
- Jul 2025Series E$100M
- May 2025Series E$500M
#10
Scale AI 🦄Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2016 · 531 employees$1.6Braised▾
Labeled data to train AI applications. The platform leverages enterprise data to customize generative models. The data engine consists of tools and features to collect, curate and annotate data, and to evaluate and optimize models.
- Jun 2025Series G$14.3B
- May 2024Series F$1B
- Apr 2021Series E$325M
- Dec 2020Series D$155M
#11
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2022$110.5Mraised▾
Provider of an AI recruiting platform offering search, CRM, and agents. The platform provides talent discovery across global profiles using diverse data sources. It builds candidate profiles using filters focused on impact and achievements. The platform also offers real-time talent market insights with AI-driven talent analytics. It automates personalized outreach and follow-ups.
- Mar 2026Series B$80M
- Sep 2025Series A$30M
- 2022Seed$500K
#12
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2017 · 79 employees$61Mraised▾
Provider of autonomous medical coding platform and related coding services. The company offers production coding, backlog processing, and real-time audit functionalities. The platform automates medical coding, aiming to reduce costs and improve accuracy. It provides coding capacity and helps to review coding work.
- May 2026Series B—
- Nov 2022Series B$46.3M
- Apr 2022Seed—
- Feb 2021Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Artificial Intelligence coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 5,214 United States-affiliated papers.
- Stanford University181
- Google161
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga139
- University of California, Berkeley129
- Harvard University111
- Robustness (evolution)12→84
- Inference42→112
- Benchmark (surveying)28→98
- Cognition3→73
- Architecture3→71
- Artificial neural network12→50
- Feature (linguistics)7→40
- Pattern recognition (psychology)18→44
- Random forest1→26
- Generative grammar3→26
- Identification (biology)5→33
- Cognition10→33
- Key (lock)8→29
- Context (archaeology)8→27
- Workflow1→20
Where artificial intelligence is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing artificial intelligence patents in the United States
United States artificial intelligence patent filing is accelerating — 228,639 filings from 8,000 assignees (2016–2025), led by IBM, Google, Microsoft; annual filings 5224→30960.
- IBM23445
- Google13809
- Microsoft13077
- Intel6215
- Qualcomm5453
- Capital One Services3809
- Nvidia3261
- Adobe2835