Top software startups
Updated 23 Oct 2026
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| # | Company | City | Stage | Last round | Date | Total raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mistral AI | Paris | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-09-08 | $7.5B |
| 2 | DeepSeek | Hangzhou | Series A | Series A | 2026-06-16 | $7.4B |
| 3 | Instinct | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-28 | $1.3B |
| 4 | Harvey | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series H | 2026-09-09 | $1.8B |
| 5 | EliseAI | New York | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-09-29 | $741.9M |
| 6 | Cognition | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-09-08 | $3.9B |
| 7 | SpaceXAI | Palo Alto | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-01-06 | $42.9B |
| 8 | TypeSafe AI | San Francisco | Series A | Series A | 2026-10-09 | $910.0M |
| 9 | Suno | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-06-03 | $775.0M |
| 10 | n8n | Berlin | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-08 | |
| 11 | Together AI | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-01 | $1.3B |
| 12 | Cyera | New York | Series D+ | Series G | 2026-09-22 | $2.7B |
| 13 | Lovable | Stockholm | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $952.5M |
| 14 | Agibot | Shanghai | Seed | Seed | 2025-08-01 | $84.8M |
| 15 | Fireworks AI | Redwood City | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-07-15 | $1.8B |
| 16 | Corgi Insurance | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-26 | $438.5M |
| 17 | Reflection AI | New York | Series C | Series C | 2026-04-23 | $2.1B |
| 18 | Socure | Incline Village | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-08-27 | $900.4M |
| 19 | Armadin | Palo Alto | Series B | Series B | 2026-10-01 | $454.2M |
| 20 | SiMa.ai | San Jose | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-28 | $505.0M |
| 21 | CuspAI | Cambridge | Series B | Series B | 2026-06-17 | $580.0M |
| 22 | Legora | Stockholm | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-30 | |
| 23 | Anysphere | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-05 | |
| 24 | Nous Research | Austin | Series B | Series B | 2026-10-07 | $160.0M |
| 25 | Pepper | New York | Series C | Series C | 2026-02-20 | $100.0M |
| 26 | GMI Cloud | Mountain View | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-30 | $750.0M |
| 27 | Apollo.io | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2023-08-29 | $251.3M |
| 28 | Ema | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-23 | $138.0M |
| 29 | Harness | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-12-11 | $815.0M |
| 30 | OpenEvidence | Miami | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-09-16 | $1.0B |
| 31 | Wonderful | Amsterdam | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-02 | $848.0M |
| 32 | Island | Dallas | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-09-24 | $1.2B |
| 33 | Tether | Stockholm | Pre-seed | Pre-seed | 2025-06-19 | |
| 34 | Insilico Medicine | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-03-13 | $624.3M |
| 35 | Confido | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-22 | $75.0M |
| 36 | Pervaziv AI | Sunnyvale | Pre-seed | Pre-seed | 2026-09-22 | $750K |
| 37 | Entrepreneurs First | London | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-03-11 | $380.0M |
| 38 | Chainguard | Kirkland | Series D+ | Series D | 2025-04-23 | |
| 39 | Sarvam AI | bangalore-karnataka | Series B | Series B | 2026-06-15 | $349.0M |
| 40 | SurrealDB | London | Series A | Series A | 2026-02-17 | $44.0M |
| 41 | Twelve Labs | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-01 | $210.1M |
| 42 | GitLab | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2019-09-17 | $413.5M |
| 43 | Miro | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2022-01-05 | $476.3M |
| 44 | Modular | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-24 | $380.0M |
| 45 | Positron | Reno | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-10 | $1.2B |
| 46 | Emerald AI | Washington | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-25 | $216.5M |
| 47 | Terra Industries | Abuja | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-17 | $52.5M |
| 48 | Character.ai | Menlo Park | Series A | Series A | 2023-03-23 | |
| 49 | Checkout.com | London | Series D+ | Series D | 2022-01-12 | |
| 50 | Profound | New York | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-09-15 | $334.5M |
| 51 | Sesame | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2025-10-21 | |
| 52 | Spring Health | New York | Series D+ | Series E | 2024-07-31 | $466.5M |
| 53 | Evvy | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-15 | $59.0M |
| 54 | Baselayer | New York | Series A | Series A | 2026-09-22 | $82.0M |
| 55 | Clay | New York | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-09-09 | $392.0M |
| 56 | Writer | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2024-11-12 | $326.0M |
| 57 | Higgsfield | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-17 | $538.0M |
| 58 | Stellar Development Foundation | San Francisco | Seed | Seed | 2014-08-01 | $3.0M |
| 59 | Etched | San Jose | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-08-18 | $1.6B |
| 60 | Unitree Robotics | Hangzhou | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-19 | |
| 61 | X Square Robot | Shenzhen | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-29 | $591.0M |
| 62 | Starcloud | Redmond | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-21 | $443.9M |
| 63 | Temporal Technologies | Bellevue | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-09-14 | $1.3B |
| 64 | InVideo | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2021-07-06 | $52.5M |
| 65 | Barq | Riyadh | Series A | Series A | 2026-09-15 | $329.5M |
| 66 | Findem | Redwood City | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-21 | |
| 67 | NEURA Robotics | Metzingen | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-10 | $1.7B |
| 68 | Windsurf | Mountain View | Series C | Series C | 2024-08-29 | |
| 69 | Assort Health | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-24 | $221.5M |
| 70 | Stuut | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-10-07 | $88.0M |
| 71 | Advanced Machine Intelligence | Paris | Seed | Seed | 2026-03-10 | $1.0B |
| 72 | Baseten | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-06-22 | $2.1B |
| 73 | Crunchbase | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2022-07-20 | $106.5M |
| 74 | micro1 | Palo Alto | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-22 | $141.6M |
| 75 | Arena | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-10-08 | $450.0M |
| 76 | Sierra | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-05-04 | $1.6B |
| 77 | Meshy AI | Sunnyvale | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-20 | $450.0M |
| 78 | Inspiren | Brooklyn | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-10 | $212.8M |
| 79 | Valon | New York | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-10-05 | $347.1M |
| 80 | Agility Robotics | Albany | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-10 | |
| 81 | Helsing | Munich | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-07-13 | $3.3B |
| 82 | Ramp | New York | Series D+ | Series G | 2026-10-09 | $5.6B |
| 83 | Harmonic | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2025-11-25 | |
| 84 | Mercor | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-27 | $483.6M |
| 85 | OpenRouter | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-05-26 | $153.0M |
| 86 | Saronic | Austin | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-03-31 | $2.6B |
| 87 | Cowbell | Pleasanton | Series C | Series C | 2024-07-26 | $208.3M |
| 88 | Sensible Biotechnologies | Oxford | Series A | Series A | 2026-10-06 | $70.9M |
| 89 | Bluesky | Seattle | Series A | Series A | 2024-10-24 | |
| 90 | ClickHouse | Mountain View | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-01-16 | $1.1B |
| 91 | Kapital | Mexico City | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-09 | $596.1M |
| 92 | Enveda | Boulder | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-09-23 | $840.9M |
| 93 | Cursor | San Francisco | Series A | Series A | 2024-03-20 | |
| 94 | Serval | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2025-12-11 | $122.0M |
| 95 | KAST | Mutsamudu | Series A | Series A | 2026-03-09 | $90.0M |
| 96 | Reco | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-29 | $140.0M |
| 97 | LaunchDarkly | Oakland | Series D+ | Series D | 2021-08-10 | |
| 98 | Gimlet Labs | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-09-04 | $392.0M |
| 99 | Paymob | Cairo | Series C | Series C | 2026-09-21 | $125.5M |
| 100 | Fal | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2025-12-09 | $337.5M |
Table 1. Top software startups, by total raised. Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 23 October 2026. Base: 82,702.
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Cite: FundingWatcher, 82,702 startups, 23 October 2026. https://fundingwatcher.com/startups/software/