Radar · Generative AI in San Francisco
Best Generative AI Companies in San Francisco, United States
The 234 best Generative AI companies in San Francisco, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: OpenAI.
By Riya SenguptaFinancials
234companies tracked
$28.5Bdisclosed funding
17unicorns
160have raised
Ranked: Best Generative AI companies in San Francisco
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | 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 | Sam Altman Co-Founder & CEO | 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 | Benjamin Mann Co-Founder | SentryNode.jsGoogle Sign-in+22 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 3 | Magic AI AI based code completion and generation solutions | $466M | 26 mo ago | Series C | Sebastian Ro Co-Founder | Proton MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+11 | Top 5M | 445 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 4 | 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 | Johnny Ho Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+24 | Top 5k | 4 patents Enhanced query processing and client-side search acceleration for augmented search engines | — |
| 5 | 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 | Dmytro Lider Co-Founder | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceNode.js+34 | Top 5k | 93 patents AI-driven writing and code assistance using NLP for grammar, tone, and review automation | — |
| 6 | 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 | Bret Taylor Co-Founder | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+29 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 7 | Genesis Therapeutics Developer of an AI platform for discovering and designing novel drugs 48Funding top 23%Moat top 28%AI top 30%Tech top 35% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 23% Moattop 28% AItop 30% Techtop 35% Talenttop 38% Growthbottom 42% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 26% Newsbottom 21% Funding: Raised $280M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 7 yrs (0.6/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $280M | 19 mo ago | Series B | Ben Sklaroff Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 8 | 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 | Nate Mitchell Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer | DatoCMSSentryApple iCloud Mail+16 | Top 100k | 12 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 9 | 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 | Joshua Meier Co-Founder | Framer SitesReactPriority Hints+7 | Top 10M | — | 1 partnership |
| 10 | 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 | Steven Hao Co-Founder | SanityTurbopackApple iCloud Mail+22 | Top 5M | 7 patents Patents concentrated in health & consumer products | 3 launchs · 2 partnerships |
| 11 | Cresta 🦄 Developer of a platform providing real-time intelligence for contact center operations | $151M | 18 mo ago | Series D | Tim Shi Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+19 | Top 5M | 7 patents RF receiver power management and integrated tuner module packaging for mobile and TV devices | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 12 | WRITER 🦄 Developer of an enterprise AI platform for agentic work | $144M | 19 mo ago | Series C | Waseem Alshikh Co-founder and CTO | WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+37 | Top 500k | 11 patents AI-driven natural language generation using knowledge graphs and specialized neural network architectures | 1 award |
| 13 | Contextual AI Provider of a platform for building context-aware AI applications | $100M | 22 mo ago | Series A | Douwe Kiela Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 14 | Forethought AI Provider of an AI platform for customer support and service teams | $92M | 12 mo ago | Acquired | Deon Nicholas Co-Founder | WebflowSalesforceAmazon Web Services+28 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 15 | 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 | Michael Truell Co-Founder & CEO | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+9 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 16 | Wispr Flow Developer of AI-powered voice dictation software for seamless text creation 87Growth top 20%Tech top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 34% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 20% Techtop 28% AItop 30% Fundingtop 34% Markettop 35% Talenttop 38% Moattop 40% Customerstop 47% Productbottom 48% Globalbottom 45% Growth: Web rank 500,000 → 50,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Tech: 50 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 87/100 | $70M | 6 mo ago | Series A | Sahaj Garg Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowRiveAmazon Web Services+20 | Top 50k | — | — |
| 17 | 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 | Alfred Wahlforss Co-Founder & CEO | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | Top 500k | 11 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 18 | Cursor AI-powered coding platform boosting developer productivity and software creation | $62M | 21 mo ago | Unfunded | Aman Sanger Co-Founder | TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+24 | Top 10k | — | — |
| 19 | Legion Provider of AI agent orchestration platform for data and workflow automation | $58M | 19 mo ago | Series B | Jason Schnitzer Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | 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 | Kaelan R Co-Founder and CTO | WebflowThree.jsVimeo+15 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 21 | WaveForms Developer of audio language models for real-time voice conversation | $40M | 18 mo ago | Acquired | Alexis Conneau Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 22 | LINER Chrome extension for highlighting content on webpages 64AI top 20%Customers top 23%Funding top 27%Tech top 32% All 11 signals ▾AItop 20% Customerstop 23% Fundingtop 27% Techtop 32% Talenttop 38% Producttop 46% Moatbottom 48% Innovationbottom 45% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 36% Patentsbottom 30% AI: Classified as an AI company Customers: App rating 4.2★ (2,378 reviews) · Review volume +19% in 6 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $36M | 20 mo ago | Series B | Brian Woo Co-Founder | SentryNode.jsQuill+25 | Top 100k | 4 patents Road marking equipment for reflective paint and bead application on highways | — |
| 23 | Regie AI AI based platform offering software for content optimization | $36M | 15 mo ago | Series B | Matt Millen Co-Founder | WebflowPostHogMicrosoft Clarity+21 | Top 5M | 2 patents Reinforcement learning model generation for state-action decision systems | — |
| 24 | 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 | Mayank Agarwal Co-Founder & CTO | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+28 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 25 | OpusClip Provider of AI video editing tools for short-form content creation | $30M | 15 mo ago | Series A | Jay W Co-Founder & CTO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowCanny+36 | Top 50k | — | 5 launchs |
| 26 | 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 | Hrituraj Singh Co-Founder & CTO | WixSentryEnvoy+20 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 27 | Air Ops Provider of a platform for content optimization and AI search visibility | $22M | 7 mo ago | Series B | Matt Hammel Co-Founder & COO | WebflowCart FunctionalityAmazon Web Services+31 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 28 | 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 | 1 mo ago | Series C | Jeffrey Wang Co-Founder | WagtailNode.jsPython+28 | Top 500k | 120 patents Advanced CFD and multiphysics simulation tools for thermal, acoustic, and electro‑thermal systems | — |
| 29 | Artisan Provider of an AI-powered platform for outbound sales automation | $21M | 14 mo ago | Series A | Sam Stallings Co-Founder & CPTO | TurbopackSentryNode.js+33 | Top 1M | 2 patents AI-driven environmental monitoring and water remediation systems | — |
| 30 | Cluely Provider of real-time AI-powered assistance for screen and audio input | $20M | 11 mo ago | Series A | Alex Chen Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+23 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 31 | ShopOS Provider of AI platform for e-commerce content creation and management | $20M | 11 mo ago | Series A | Ajay V Co-Founder | TurbopackNode.jsThree.js+13 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 32 | RAD Security Developer of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions for real-time defense | $20M | 15 mo ago | Series A | Brooke Motta Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 33 | Functionize Cloud based platform offering software for automated testing | $19M | 10 mo ago | Series B | Tamas Cser Founder & CEO | WebflowSentryZendesk+24 | Top 5M | 34 patents AI-powered automated generation and analysis of software test cases | — |
| 34 | Gamma 🦄 Provider of AI based presentation tool for enterprise collaboration | $19M | 7 mo ago | Series B | Jon Noronha Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer | TurbopackEmotionSentry+37 | Top 5k | 14 patents Fiber-optic telecom hardware with monitoring/security and nano‑reinforced light‑metal alloys | — |
| 35 | Dashverse Provider of an AI engine and platform for digital storytelling | $18M | 10 mo ago | Series A | Lalith Gudipati Co-Founder | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+10 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 36 | Yutori Developer of AI agents that monitor the web for users | $15M | 14 mo ago | Seed | Abhishek Das Co-Founder & Co-CEO | TurbopackEmotionSentry+17 | Top 5M | — | 2 launchs |
| 37 | Recraft Platform offering AI-powered design tools | $12M | 13 mo ago | Series B | Anna Dorogush Founder & CEO | SentryInstatusZendesk+16 | Top 50k | — | 1 launch · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 38 | Skyramp AI powered performance testing platform | $10M | 11 mo ago | Seed | Nithin Michael Co-Founder | Framer SitesApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+11 | Top 50M | 4 patents Automated testing frameworks for microservice architectures | — |
| 39 | Hedra Provider of video services for enterprises | $10M | 13 mo ago | Acquired | Michael Lingelbach Co-Founder & CEO | TurbopackApple iCloud MailNode.js+22 | Top 100k | — | 4 launchs |
| 40 | Guide Labs Platform developing interpretable foundation models | $10M | 6 mo ago | Seed | Aya Ismail Co-Founder & CSO | WebflowGSAPcore-js+10 | Top 50M | 77 patents Interactive TV guide and media recommendation platform with remote content transfer | 4 launchs |
| 41 | Smallest.ai Developer of speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent artificial intelligence models | $8M | 9 mo ago | Seed | Sudarshan Kamath Co-Founder | TurbopackSentryNode.js+22 | Top 5M | — | 1 launch |
| 42 | Higgsfield 🦄 AI-powered video creation and editing platform | $8M | 5 mo ago | Series A | Alex Mashrabov Chief Executive Officer | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+17 | Top 500k | — | 6 launchs · 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 43 | Eloquent AI Developer of AI operators for automating financial service customer operations | $8M | 9 mo ago | Seed | Tugce Bulut Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+16 | Top 10M | 5 patents Real-time collaborative web conferencing with dynamic object editing and secure network routing | — |
| 44 | Deductive AI AI powered software solutions to automate debugging and root-cause analysis of software issues | $8M | 7 mo ago | Seed | Sameer Agarwal Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowGSAPAmazon Web Services+14 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 45 | Health Universe Provider of an AI platform for healthcare workflows and model deployment 42AI top 20%Growth top 35%Funding top 39%Tech bottom 46% All 6 signals ▾AItop 20% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 39% Techbottom 46% Globalbottom 29% Marketbottom 22% AI: Classified as an AI company Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $6M | 3 mo ago | Seed | — | WebflowGSAPVercel+17 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 46 | Olto Developer of an AI platform for personalized sales demo automation | $5M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Kintan Brahmbhatt Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowVimeoAmazon Web Services+19 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 47 | Entelligence Developer of an AI assistant for engineering leadership and code review | $5M | 5 mo ago | Series A | Aiswarya Sankar Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 48 | Secludy Synthetic data solutions to train AI models | $4M | 1 mo ago | Seed | Mingze He Co-Founder & CTO | — | — | — | — |
| 49 | Mode Inspect Developer of a platform that designs code with a design system | $3M | 5 mo ago | Seed | Adam Pavlisin Co-Founder | TurbopackNode.jsTailwind CSS+10 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 50 | Delty Transforming healthcare operations with AI agents | $2M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Lalit Kundu Co-Founder & CTO | VercelPriority HintsGoogle Font API+5 | Top 50M | — | — |
Top 12 Generative AI companies in San Francisco
#1
OpenAI 🦄Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 831 employees$17.9Braised▾
OpenAI 🦄
Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2015 · 831 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 97how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 7%Partners
top 9%Customers
top 9%Funding
top 10%Market
top 11%Innovation
top 12%Tech: 111 technologies across 8/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Devops: Envoy, Nginx
Partners: 47 partnership announcements in 12 mo (56 in 24 mo) · 167 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 167 deals
Customers: App rating 4.8★ (2,644,412 reviews) · Review volume +293% in 6 mo · Marquee-customer mentions: top 5% of tracked companies
Audience (LinkedIn): 11M LinkedIn followers — 79.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 4 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series G$75M
- Mar 2026Series G$40M
- Feb 2026Series G$122B
- 2025Series E—
Founders & team
Investors
Infosys, YC Research, Amazon Web Services, Flat Capital, Tiger Global Management, Sequoia Capital
Tech stack
AlgoliaAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesAmplitudeAngularjsApollo
#2
Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2021 · 73 employees$4.5Braised▾
Series G · San Francisco, California · founded 2021 · 73 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 97how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 7%Partners
top 13%Innovation
top 17%News
top 17%Talent
top 17%AI
top 20%Funding: Raised $4.5B across 17 rounds · 17 rounds over 5 yrs (3.4/yr) · Last round Series G (Apr 2026)
Partners: 11 partnership announcements in 12 mo (15 in 24 mo) · 58 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 58 deals
Innovation: 74 new-product events in 24 mo · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series G$5B
- Feb 2026Series G$30B
- Jan 2026Series F$10B
- Sep 2025Series F$13B
Founders & team
Investors
Amazon, Google, Buckhill Capital, Sapphire Ventures, MIS, Qualcomm
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#3
Sierra 🦄Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$285Mraised▾
Sierra 🦄
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2023
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 87how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 12%AI
top 20%Moat
top 26%Growth
top 28%Talent
top 28%Tech
top 32%Funding: Raised $285M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 2 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series E (May 2026)
AI: Classified as an AI company
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 9/10 · Unicorn · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 83k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- May 2026Series E$950M
- Sep 2025Series B$350M
- Oct 2024Series A$175M
- Feb 2024Seed$110M
Founders & team
Investors
Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Greenoaks, Iconiq Capital, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global Management
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailAtlassian StatuspageCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsDocusign
#4
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$196Mraised▾
Series D · San Francisco, California · founded 2023
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 80how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 13%AI
top 20%Growth
top 24%News
top 25%Moat
top 28%Talent
top 28%Funding: Raised $196M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series D (May 2026)
AI: Classified as an AI company
Growth: 5 acquisition/expansion moves in 24 mo · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Audience (LinkedIn): 81k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 3 product launches · 2 partnerships (incl. Cognition) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Aug 2025Series C$500M
- Mar 2025Series B—
- Apr 2024Series B$175M
- Mar 2024Series A$21M
Founders & team
Investors
Founders Fund, 8VC, Khosla Ventures, Conviction, Lux Capital, Neo
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag Manager
#5
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2022 · 8 employees$415.4Mraised▾
Series E · San Francisco, California · founded 2022 · 8 employees
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.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 87how this company ranks against its industry peers
Customers
top 10%Funding
top 11%Tech
top 21%Growth
top 25%Partners
top 27%Product
top 28%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) · Last round Angel (Dec 2025)
Tech: 58 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Alb, Amazon Web Services · Devops: Nginx
Audience (LinkedIn): 1.7M LinkedIn followers — 12.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Angel—
- Sep 2025Series E$200M
- Jul 2025Series E$100M
- May 2025Series E$500M
Founders & team
Investors
IVP, New Enterprise Associates, Databricks, Nvidia, Laude Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailApple Sign-InCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsDaisyui
#6
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 29 employees$28.9Mraised▾
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2020 · 29 employees
Provider of clinical research and clinical trial tracking software. The features of the software include an end-to-end platform for running clinical trials, unifying the workflows of clinical care and clinical research, and eliminating the operational inefficiencies in data collection, patient recruitment, and other laborious tasks involved in clinical research.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 60how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Funding
top 26%Talent
top 38%Moat
top 39%Tech
top 40%Growth
top 47%AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $28.9M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 5 yrs (0.6/yr) · Last round Series B (May 2026)
Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding rounds
- May 2024Series B$15M
- Dec 2022Series A$13.8M
- 2021Seed$125K
Founders & team
Investors
Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesBootstrapCalendlyCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#7
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$230Mraised▾
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2023
Developer of artificial intelligence models for de novo molecular design. The company focuses on engineering better molecules through advanced computational methods. It introduces new model series designed to achieve high hit rates in antibody design. The company provides access to its technology for molecular research and development.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 72how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 14%Talent
top 28%AI
top 30%Moat
top 32%Market
top 48%Global
bottom 48%Funding: Raised $230M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series B (Dec 2025)
Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Audience (LinkedIn): 18k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Pfizer) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Dec 2025Series B$130M
- Aug 2025Series A$70M
- Sep 2024Seed$30M
Founders & team
Investors
Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic, Yosemite, DST Global
Tech stack
CloudflareFramer SitesGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle WorkspaceHsts
#8
Exa 🦄Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2021$22Mraised▾
Exa 🦄
Series C · San Francisco, California · founded 2021
Provider of web search, AI search engine, and website crawler tools. The company offers an API to connect products to web search. It provides tools for retrieving pages on a site and summarizing web results. The company delivers search capabilities, allowing users to filter by domain and category. It offers high-volume search tiers with security and compliance features.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 83how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%Funding
top 25%Tech
top 25%Moat
top 26%Talent
top 28%Innovation
top 32%AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $22.0M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 2 yrs (2.0/yr) · Last round Series C (May 2026)
Tech: 51 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services · Observability: Sentry
Funding rounds
- May 2026Series C$250M
- Aug 2025Series B$85M
- Jul 2024Series A$5M
- May 2024Series A$20.6M
Founders & team
Investors
NVentures, Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark, Andreessen Horowitz, Newfund
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-Js
#9
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024$35Mraised▾
Series A · San Francisco, California · founded 2024
Provider of an AI platform for incident resolution and cost optimization. The platform works across code, infrastructure, and telemetry. It participates in on-call rotations and autonomously investigates incidents. The platform builds initial theories, pursues multiple hypotheses, and validates evidence. It creates code snippets, drafts pull requests, and generates post-mortems. The platform also provides answers about code, services, infrastructure, and processes. It generates Git pull requests, kubectl commands, code fixes, and scripts.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 82how this company ranks against its industry peers
News
top 20%AI
top 20%Funding
top 25%Growth
top 25%Talent
top 28%Moat
top 31%News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 8 tracked, 2 types) · +600% YoY · 7 high-value events (IPO/M&A/funding/contracts) in 12 mo
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $35.0M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Apr 2026)
Audience (LinkedIn): 20k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Apr 2026Series A$40M
- Dec 2025Series A$125M
- Oct 2024Seed$35M
Founders & team
Investors
Greylock Partners, Unusual Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Artisanal Ventures, DST Global, Salesforce Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-Js
#10
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$250Mraised▾
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2023
Developer of voice-based artificial intelligence companions and lightweight eyewear products. The company focuses on creating lifelike computer interactions through voice technology. It aims to develop a personal agent that can assist users and provide information. The company also designs eyewear with high-quality audio to provide convenient access to a companion.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 82how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 18%AI
top 28%Talent
top 28%Patents
top 34%Innovation
top 36%Tech
top 41%Funding: Raised $250M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Oct 2025)
AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) · Product described with: artificial intelligence
Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 24k LinkedIn followers
Hiring (LinkedIn): 3 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +3 · hiring: Industrial Designer, ML Scientist
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. SMPL) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
- Oct 2025Series B$250M
Founders & team
Investors
Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, Summit Partners
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailDatadogDatocmsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle WorkspaceGsap
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Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2023$69Mraised▾
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2023
AI-powered platform that revolutionizes customer research. The platform features in automating and scaling qualitative interviews. It uses AI to conduct thousands of voice and video interviews simultaneously across diverse geographies and demographics. The AI moderates conversations, asks follow-up questions, and compiles insights into detailed reports, highlight reels, and presentations, enabling companies to gain deep, real-time customer understanding quickly and cost-effectively.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 80how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 23%Growth
top 28%AI
top 30%Tech
top 33%Moat
top 37%Talent
top 38%Funding: Raised $69.0M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 1 yrs (1.0/yr) · Last round Series B (Jan 2026)
Growth: Web rank 1,000,000 → 500,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered
Funding rounds
- Jan 2026Series B$69M
- Apr 2025Series A—
- Apr 2025Seed—
Founders & team
Investors
Sequoia Capital, Ribbit Capital, Conviction, Pear VC, avra
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookiebot
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Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 659 employees$400Mraised▾
Series B · San Francisco, California · founded 2009 · 659 employees
Provider of AI and cloud-based writing assistance platform for improving writing and communication. It provides users with an AI writing assistance tool that supports users improve their writing by providing suggestions for grammar, punctuation, and tone. It offers an interface and can be accessed through ,ultiple platforms, including web browsers and mobile devices.. It also provides resources to English writers, including an online guide for English writing, an online thesaurus, and a networking platform that provides grammar tips and discussions.
Fliar Intelligence Index™ 94how this company ranks against its industry peers
Market
top 18%Patents
top 18%Customers
top 19%Innovation
top 20%AI
top 20%Moat
top 20%Market: 659 employees (top 2% of High Tech) · Top-5,000 web property · Unicorn (valued $13.0B)
Patents: 93 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 79 filings since 2022 vs 8 in 2017-21 · Latest publication 2026
Customers: Play-Store rating 4.22★ across 260,456 ratings (1 apps) · Review volume +6% in 6 mo · Marquee-customer mentions: top 8% of tracked companies
Audience (LinkedIn): 259k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
- May 2025Conventional Debt$1B
- Mar 2024Series B$145.4M
- Nov 2021Series B$200M
- Oct 2019Series A$90M
Founders & team
Investors
General Catalyst, IVP, Spark Capital, Breyer Capital, SignalFire, Baillie Gifford
Tech stack
6SenseAmazon AlbAmazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAtlassian Statuspage
Funding & investor landscape
$28.5Btotal disclosed funding
159companies funded
335disclosed rounds
6rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Y Combinator68 rounds
Accel10 rounds
Sequoia Capital10 rounds
Notable founders
Greg Brockman
Co-Foudner & President & Chairman · OpenAI
Sam Altman
Co-Founder & CEO · OpenAI
Benjamin Mann
Co-Founder · Anthropic
Jared Kaplan
Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer · Anthropic
Bret Taylor
Co-Founder · Sierra
Clay Bavor
Co-Founder · Sierra
Steven Hao
Co-Founder · Cognition
Walden Yan
Co-Founder · Cognition
Johnny Ho
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer · Perplexity
Andy Konwinski
Co-Founder · Perplexity
Hrituraj Singh
Co-Founder & CTO · Triomics
Sarim Khan
Co-Founder & CEO · Triomics
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,412,342 docs
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Generative AI coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States
How research on Generative AI is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Generative AI — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 6,538 United States-affiliated papers.
research sentiment over time
200820172026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 31% → 55% across 2008–2026.
top research entities
- Carnegie Mellon University264
- Stanford University220
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology163
- Google152
- Purdue University West Lafayette142
leading researchers
Freederia AI Researcher · Xu, Lucas Xiaochun · Giovanni Pezzulo · Kim, Jace · Michael I. Jordan · Jun-Yan Zhu · Stefano Ermon · Xin Li
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Breakthroughs3,562 · 54%
▼ 74%→52% share
▼0.7× share momentum1 median citations82% since 2021mostly methods-led
Generative grammar research is surging — US breakthrough papers grew from 103 to 1,694, dominating the segment.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Generative grammar103→1694
- Generative model140→1131
- Adversarial system15→261
- Generative adversarial network3→238
- Pattern recognition (psychology)43→198
Newly emergingTransformer 0→75 · Diffusion 0→64 · Cognition 0→54
Landmark Show and tell: A neural image caption generator · 6,266 cites
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Advancements1,636 · 25%
▲ 22%→26% share
▲1.2× share momentum0 median citations89% since 2021mostly methods-led
Generative adversarial network advancement research intensified sharply — US papers rose from 1 to 147 since baseline.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Generative grammar39→999
- Generative model46→575
- Generative adversarial network1→147
- Adversarial system1→145
- Pattern recognition (psychology)12→81
Newly emergingField (mathematics) 0→63 · Quality (philosophy) 0→52 · Transformative learning 0→37
Landmark Conditional Image Synthesis With Auxiliary Classifier GANs · 2,070 cites
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Concerns895 · 14%
▲ 3%→15% share
▲5.0× share momentum0 median citations96% since 2021mostly empirical
Concern-flagged research is intensifying — field-share tripled from 3% to 15%, with Generative grammar papers jumping 5 to 754.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
- Generative grammar5→754
- Generative model6→374
- Cognition1→29
- Set (abstract data type)1→27
- Inference1→22
Newly emergingPerception 0→61 · Adversarial system 0→53 · Field (mathematics) 0→46
Landmark Person Transfer GAN to Bridge Domain Gap for Person Re-identification · 1,959 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States
Where generative ai 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.
Boston479 · +0.67
SF Bay Area434 · +0.63
Pittsburgh297 · +0.63
New York266 · +0.56
Los Angeles177 · +0.71
Atlanta147 · +0.69
Chicago133 · +0.55
Seattle119 · +0.65
Philadelphia119 · +0.57
San Diego103 · +0.61
PATENT SIGNAL · United States
Who's filing generative ai patents in the United States
United States generative ai patent filing is accelerating — 1,831 filings from 463 assignees (2016–2025), led by Google, Adobe, IBM; annual filings 8→787.
1,831 filings463 assigneespeak 787/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
- Google314
- Adobe158
- IBM143
- Microsoft122
- Nvidia86
- SNAP65
- Qualcomm61
- Rockwell Automation TECH38
Common questions
How many Generative AI companies are there in San Francisco, United States?
Radar tracks 234 indexable Generative AI companies headquartered in San Francisco, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Generative AI companies in San Francisco, United States?
The Generative AI companies in San Francisco, United States on this list have raised a combined $28.5B in disclosed equity funding across 159 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Generative AI company in San Francisco, United States?
OpenAI is the highest-funded Generative AI company in San Francisco, United States, with $17.9B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Generative AI companies in San Francisco, United States are funded?
159 of the 234 Generative AI companies in San Francisco, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Generative AI unicorns are there in San Francisco, United States?
17 Generative AI companies in San Francisco, United States on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in San Francisco, United States Generative AI companies?
The most active investors in San Francisco, United States Generative AI companies on this list include Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Accel, Sequoia Capital.
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