Top software startups (2026)
81,499
Startups
100
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164,659
All startups
4 September 2026
Data as of
100 rows
| # | Company | City | Stage | Last round | Date | Total raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xAI | Palo Alto | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-01-06 | $42.7B |
| 2 | DeepSeek | Hangzhou | Series A | Series A | 2026-06-16 | $7.4B |
| 3 | Nothing | London | Series C | Series C | 2023-06-28 | |
| 4 | Lovable | Stockholm | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $952.5M |
| 5 | Etched | San Jose | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-08-18 | $1.6B |
| 6 | Socure | Incline Village | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-08-27 | $900.4M |
| 7 | Suno | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-06-03 | $775.0M |
| 8 | Fireworks AI | Redwood City | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-07-15 | $1.8B |
| 9 | Higgsfield | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-17 | $538.0M |
| 10 | Emerald AI | Washington | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-25 | $216.5M |
| 11 | Moonshot AI | Haidian | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-07-29 | $8.3B |
| 12 | n8n | Berlin | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-08 | |
| 13 | Together AI | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-01 | $1.3B |
| 14 | Agibot | Shanghai | Seed | Seed | 2025-08-01 | $84.8M |
| 15 | Starcloud | Redmond | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-21 | $443.9M |
| 16 | Apollo.io | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2023-08-29 | $251.3M |
| 17 | CodeRabbit | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $230.6M |
| 18 | CuspAI | Cambridge | Series B | Series B | 2026-06-17 | $580.0M |
| 19 | Stability AI | Los Angeles | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-25 | $332.0M |
| 20 | Horizon3.ai | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-08-03 | $428.5M |
| 21 | Legora | Stockholm | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-30 | |
| 22 | Anysphere | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-05 | |
| 23 | Zepto | Parel | Series D+ | Series H | 2025-10-16 | $2.6B |
| 24 | Terra Industries | Abuja | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-17 | $51.8M |
| 25 | Rillet | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-17 | $208.5M |
| 26 | Zenity | New York | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-03 | $184.5M |
| 27 | Pepper | New York | Series C | Series C | 2026-02-20 | $100.0M |
| 28 | Gravis Robotics | Zürich | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-17 | $223.0M |
| 29 | Harness | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-12-11 | $815.0M |
| 30 | Craif | Tokyo | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-08-18 | $68.7M |
| 31 | Tether | Stockholm | Pre-seed | Pre-seed | 2025-06-19 | |
| 32 | Generalist AI | San Mateo | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-24 | $753.0M |
| 33 | Insilico Medicine | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series E | 2025-03-13 | $624.3M |
| 34 | Form Energy | Somerville | Series D+ | Series G | 2026-08-12 | $2.3B |
| 35 | Fasset | Dubai | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-24 | $145.7M |
| 36 | Chainguard | Kirkland | Series D+ | Series D | 2025-04-23 | |
| 37 | Multiverse Computing | Donostia-san Sebastián | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-27 | $843.7M |
| 38 | Humanoid | London | Series A | Series A | 2026-07-21 | $152.0M |
| 39 | Sarvam AI | Bengaluru | 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 | Cognition | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-08 | |
| 43 | GitLab | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2019-09-17 | $413.5M |
| 44 | Greyparrot | London | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-28 | $57.9M |
| 45 | Modular | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-24 | $380.0M |
| 46 | Nous Research | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-14 | $145.0M |
| 47 | Reltio | Redwood Shores | Series D+ | Series E | 2021-11-04 | $237.0M |
| 48 | Callosum | London | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-20 | $110.2M |
| 49 | Spring Health | New York | Series D+ | Series E | 2024-07-31 | $466.5M |
| 50 | Meshy AI | Sunnyvale | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-20 | $450.0M |
| 51 | Character.ai | Menlo Park | Series A | Series A | 2023-03-23 | |
| 52 | TRM Labs | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-02-04 | $219.9M |
| 53 | Checkout.com | London | Series D+ | Series D | 2022-01-12 | |
| 54 | Entrepreneurs First | London | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-03-11 | $380.0M |
| 55 | Helsing | Munich | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-07-13 | $3.3B |
| 56 | Sesame | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2025-10-21 | |
| 57 | Corgi Insurance | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-22 | $374.5M |
| 58 | OpenEvidence | Cambridge | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-01-21 | $767.0M |
| 59 | Clay | New York | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-13 | $202.0M |
| 60 | VAST Data | New York | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-04-09 | $1.4B |
| 61 | Writer | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2024-11-12 | $326.0M |
| 62 | Inspiren | Brooklyn | Series B | Series B | 2025-09-25 | |
| 63 | Stellar Development Foundation | San Francisco | Seed | Seed | 2014-08-01 | $3.0M |
| 64 | Unitree Robotics | Hangzhou | Series C | Series C | 2025-06-19 | |
| 65 | X Square Robot | Shenzhen | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-29 | $591.0M |
| 66 | skan.ai | Menlo Park | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-12 | $117.0M |
| 67 | Emergent | Pleasanton | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-15 | $230.0M |
| 68 | Fora | New York | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-07-16 | $138.5M |
| 69 | InVideo | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2021-07-06 | $52.5M |
| 70 | Chai Discovery | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-07-14 | $631.0M |
| 71 | Findem | Redwood City | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-21 | |
| 72 | Reflection AI | New York | Series B | Series B | 2025-10-09 | $2.1B |
| 73 | NEURA Robotics | Metzingen | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-10 | $1.7B |
| 74 | Pathway | Palo Alto | Seed | Seed | 2026-08-11 | $45.5M |
| 75 | Windsurf | Mountain View | Series C | Series C | 2024-08-29 | |
| 76 | Assort Health | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-06-24 | $221.5M |
| 77 | Deepgram | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-18 | $215.9M |
| 78 | Advanced Machine Intelligence | Paris | Seed | Seed | 2026-03-10 | $1.0B |
| 79 | Baseten | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series F | 2026-06-22 | $2.1B |
| 80 | Crunchbase | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series D | 2022-07-20 | $106.5M |
| 81 | Blacksmith | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-12 | $59.0M |
| 82 | Sierra | San Francisco | Series D+ | Series E | 2026-05-04 | $1.6B |
| 83 | River AI | Palo Alto | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-11 | $1.1B |
| 84 | Cambridge Aerospace | Cambridge | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-10 | $600.0M |
| 85 | Agility Robotics | Albany | Series C | Series C | 2025-09-10 | |
| 86 | OLIX | London | Series B | Series B | 2026-08-03 | $562.0M |
| 87 | Harmonic | Palo Alto | Series C | Series C | 2025-11-25 | |
| 88 | Mercor | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2025-10-27 | $483.6M |
| 89 | OpenRouter | New York | Series B | Series B | 2026-05-26 | $153.0M |
| 90 | Augustus | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-07-21 | $249.4M |
| 91 | Saronic | Austin | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-03-31 | $2.6B |
| 92 | Saviynt | El Segundo | Series B | Series B | 2025-12-09 | $1.1B |
| 93 | Cowbell | Pleasanton | Series C | Series C | 2024-07-26 | $208.3M |
| 94 | Bluesky | Seattle | Series A | Series A | 2024-10-24 | |
| 95 | ClickHouse | Mountain View | Series D+ | Series D | 2026-01-16 | $1.1B |
| 96 | Cursor | San Francisco | Series A | Series A | 2024-03-20 | |
| 97 | HappyRobot | San Francisco | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-04 | $210.7M |
| 98 | Neros Technologies | Los Angeles | Series C | Series C | 2026-08-11 | $369.5M |
| 99 | Sapiom | San Francisco | Series A | Series A | 2026-08-05 | $50.8M |
| 100 | Upwind Security | San Francisco | Series B | Series B | 2026-01-26 | $430.0M |
Table 1. Top software startups (2026), by total raised. Source: FundingWatcher. Data as of 4 September 2026. Base: 81,499.
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Cite: FundingWatcher, 81,499 startups, 4 September 2026. https://fundingwatcher.com/startups/software/