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OpenAI

Foundation Models · San Francisco

Frontier reasoning models, ChatGPT, and the GPT API.

BreakoutLate stage

Funding$57.9B

Growth+44%

Team1,700

Microsoft · Thrive · Sequoia +1

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Anthropic

Foundation Models · San Francisco

Claude — safety-first frontier models for the enterprise.

BreakoutLate stage

Funding$14.4B

Growth+58%

Team950

Google · Amazon · Spark +1

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Perplexity

AI Search · San Francisco

Conversational answer engine for daily research.

BreakoutSeries C

Funding$500M

Growth+212%

Team180

IVP · NEA · Nvidia +1

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Cursor

AI Coding · San Francisco

The AI-first code editor loved by senior engineers.

BreakoutSeries B

Funding$175M

Growth+440%

Team60

Thrive · a16z · Benchmark +1

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ElevenLabs

AI Voice · London

Studio-grade voice synthesis, dubbing, and agents.

BreakoutSeries C

Funding$281M

Growth+138%

Team225

a16z · ICONIQ · Sequoia +1

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Mistral

Open Source AI · Paris

Open-weight models for builders who need full control.

Heating upSeries B

Funding$1.2B

Growth+106%

Team140

General Catalyst · a16z · Lightspeed +1

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Midjourney

Synthetic Media · San Francisco

Aesthetic-first image and video model for creators.

Heating upBootstrapped

FundingSelf-funded

Growth+62%

Team60

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Scale AI

AI Infrastructure · San Francisco

Data foundry powering frontier labs and the US DoD.

Heating upLate stage

Funding$1.6B

Growth+34%

Team900

Accel · Index · Founders Fund +1

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Runway

AI Video · New York

Gen-4 video models shipping in real production pipelines.

BreakoutSeries D

Funding$545M

Growth+88%

Team200

Google · Nvidia · Salesforce +1

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Sam Altman

OpenAI

Foundation Models$13B+

Previous: Y Combinator

Driving the commercialization of frontier AI models.

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Dario Amodei

Anthropic

AI Safety$12B+

Previous: OpenAI

Leading the safety-first foundation model movement.

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Aravind Srinivas

Perplexity

AI Search$500M+

Previous: OpenAI · DeepMind

Building the next generation of answer engines.

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Varun Mohan

Codeium

AI Coding$1B+ valuation

Previous: Nuro

Competing directly with GitHub Copilot and Cursor.

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Alexandr Wang

Scale AI

Data Infrastructure$1.3B+

Previous: MIT

Critical supplier to frontier AI labs and governments.

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The AI ecosystem, mapped

Relationships between startups, founders, investors, foundation models and enterprises.

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Startups

26.4K

Investors

3.8K

Relationships

184K

Funding Tracked

$500B+

26k nodes · 184k links

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Foundation Models

AI Startups

Investors

Enterprises

Entity Intelligence

OpenAI

Foundation Model Lab

San Francisco, California

24 Connections#1

Funding

$17B+

Network Rank

Investors

Products

ChatGPTGPT-4oSora

Competitors

Network Connections

Recent Signals

AcquisitionMar 2024

Microsoft acquires Inflection AI team.

Investor2025

Thrive leads Cursor's major funding round.

Live ecosystem activity

Recent funding

Investments tracked over the past 7 days.

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Cursor

AI Coding · $9.9B valuation

$900M

Series C

Thrive Capital

Jun 6

Sierra

Enterprise AI · $4.5B valuation

$350M

Series C

Greenoaks

Jun 4

Cognition

AI Agents · $2.0B valuation

$175M

Series A2

Founders Fund

Jun 3

Figure

AI Robotics · $2.6B valuation

$675M

Series B

Microsoft

May 30

Harvey

AI Legal · $3.0B valuation

$300M

Series D

Sequoia

May 28

Glean

Enterprise AI · $4.6B valuation

$260M

Series E

Altimeter

May 24

AI coding startups dominated Series A activityVoice AI funding +42% QoQEnterprise copilots lead Series B

GraphOne Intelligence Brief

What the data is telling us

Six ecosystem observations from our research desk this week.

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3.2×
Funding
AI coding startups raised 3.2× more capital this quarter vs. last — Cursor, Cognition and Magic absorbed two-thirds of it.
42%
Series A
Enterprise AI copilots account for 42% of all Series A rounds closed YTD, the largest single-sector share since 2021.
+31%
Open source
Investor participation in open-source AI rounds is up 31% — Mistral, Nous and Black Forest Labs lead the wave.
+41%
Talent
Voice AI is the fastest-growing hiring category, led by ElevenLabs, Cartesia and Sesame doubling research headcount.
$118B
Capital
AI infrastructure remains the largest funding category by total capital deployed YTD — driven by Nvidia-adjacent compute rounds.
11
M&A
Eleven notable AI talent or technology acquisitions closed in the last 90 days — Microsoft, Google and Amazon led activity.

Market signals

Where the AI market is moving

Funding, startup formation and geographic concentration across the AI ecosystem.

Funding by category

Capital concentration by sector.

AI Coding92%

AI Agents81%

AI Search65%

AI Video54%

AI Voice42%

Leading sectorAI Coding

Developer tooling continues to attract the largest share of new capital as enterprises prioritize productivity gains and workflow automation.

Market Momentum

Funding Velocity

Capital deployment accelerated after major foundation-model and AI coding rounds.

JanFebMarAprMayJun

6-month growth

+167%

Capital deployed

$24.8B

Funding activity accelerated sharply during Q2, driven primarily by foundation model infrastructure and AI coding platforms.

Global Ecosystem

Startup Distribution

AI startup activity remains concentrated in North America while Asia continues to gain momentum.

48%

North America

48%

Europe

22%

Asia

18%

Middle East

$18B AUM · 13 AI deals YTD

Heating up

Sector focus

AI AgentsAI RoboticsDefense AI

Recent investments

Cognition · Anduril · Physical Intelligence

Concentrated bets in autonomy, defense and physical AI.

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Reports & Deep Dives

In-house intelligence from the GraphOne research desk.

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Flagship

Jul 2026 · GraphOne Research Desk

The AI Funding Report — H1 2026

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State of AI Agents 2026

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Q2 2026 · Editorial Team

Top 100 AI Startups of 2026

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Talent

Jun 2026 · People & Talent Desk

AI Hiring Trends — Q2 2026

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Landscape

May 2026 · Sector Research

The AI Agent Landscape

56 pages 11 min read 19.7k downloads

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The AI ecosystem, mapped

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Recent funding

What the data is telling us

Where the AI market is moving

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