Funding and advertised pay are reported in USD; filed accounts retain their stated source currency and basis.
Exchange-rate basis
Indicative conversions use ECB reference rates dated 2026-09-14, applied consistently across all periods. They are not historical exchange rates. Indian rupees may use crore (1 crore = 10 million); other currencies use K, M and B. CSV downloads, source documents and quoted news headlines retain their original currencies.
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THE THE UNITED STATES EDITION 2026
the United States’s ai and creative media tools industry, in focus.
The companies, capital and talent shaping ai and creative media tools in the United States. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
AI and Creative Media Tools industry KPIs in the United States
A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
31 August 2026
Hiring participation3.2%
35 of 1,094 tracked companies have open roles.
Funding participation17.5%
191 of 1,094 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Top 3 funding share62.3%
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Median disclosed round$2.5M
Midpoint of 225 rounds with a disclosed amount.
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Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 62.3% of disclosed capital, while 82.5% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Backed by Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins and others.
THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY
Revenue, profitability & financial strength
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
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USD · millions · consolidated
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · company accounts; aggregate reporting threshold not met · 1 reporting entities from 1 eligible matches.
Revenue in covered accounts—
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States market sales.
Net profit / loss—
Combined result for the same cohort.
Aggregate net margin—
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
Median company revenue—
The middle covered reporting entity.
Profitable entities—
None of 1 covered entities.
Top-five concentration—
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Annual account trend
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
Profitability has two perspectives
FY2025 · 1 reporting entities
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FY2025 consolidated annual accounts · amounts in USD · millions
Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.
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Revenue total
Median revenue
Net profit / loss
Aggregate margin
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Overlap
Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
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Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
Web traffic, app reach and release cadence
How the the United States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
Busiest websites
71 of the 1,094 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (6.5%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 424,840 visits.
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
App reach by segment
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q4–2026Q2).
Segment
Apps
Installs
Leading app
Release trend
Online Photos
179
3B
Picsart AI Photo Editor, Video 1.4B
Video Creation Tools
24
1.7B
Picsart Color - Painting, Draw 83.5M
Artificial Intelligence
16
602.1M
FaceApp: Perfect Face Editor 581.6M
Mobile Utility Tools
8
98.9M
Airbrush: Face & Photo Editor 98.9M
Tech For Film & Tv
8
13.8M
Shutterstock Contributor 8.2M
Construction Tech
13
12.8M
Homestyler - Home Design Game 11.7M
Online Home Improvements
2
11.7M
Plott-Creativity into reality 9K
Generative Ai
5
5.6M
Glam AI: Video & Photo Editor 5.4M
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
Release cadence by quarter
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 224 of 225 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
INSIDE THE INDUSTRY
The the United States ai and creative media tools market map
Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.
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Where companies are building
Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Consumer digital669
Enterprise tech598
Enterprise software292
Spatial computing208
Saas207
Deep tech151
Passion economy106
Artificial intelligence99
Media & entertainment saas67
Ar vr in real estate65
Marketplaces49
Content marketing34
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
SEGMENT TO EXPLORE
Consumer digital
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
Advent International, a leading global private equity investor, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Prisma and Newpay, subsidiaries of Group Prisma, to Visa (NYSE: V).
Speech Graphics (via its AI avatar division Rapport) acquired Aquifer Motion, a full‑body video animation software company, to elevate its digital human capabilities from facial animation to truly lifelike avatars with full body movement and cinematic framing.
Provisional finding that the merger is not expected to result in competition issues in the global Stock content market; may result in substantial lessening in UK Editorial marketUK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
DEMAND, SUPPLY & PLACE
Where demand signals run ahead of mapped supply — the United States
Compare demand signals in the United States’s newsflow with the ai and creative media tools categories mapped to each signal.
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HOW TO READ THE GAP
Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.
The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.
COMPARISON PERIOD2025-07-01 to 2026-07-01Against 2024-07-01 to 2025-07-01Explore the signals ↓
The opportunity, in one view
Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.
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7 the United States demand signals compared with mapped ai and creative media tools supply
Company ecosystem snapshot: 31 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
