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1
Create apps and websites by chatting with AI. Lovable continues to execute tremendously with a small team, only adding a handful of people over the last three months while generating ARR reported to be in excess of $40M.
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$15M
Seed
,
Feb 2024
2
2
Profound
↗︎
3
3
New
3
3
New
Show up for people searching with AI and understand how it's talking about your brand. Profound announced its $20M Series A in mid-June, adding Kleiner Perkins, Nvidia and others to an already impressive cap table as brands fight to stay relevant with evolving user search habits.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$20M
Series A
,
Jun 2025
3
Tools for every step of building AI agents. Langchain was founded in 2022 by Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola who met while working at Robust Intelligence. The company boasts an impressive client list that includes multiple members of the Hot 25.
Headcount
:
~60
Latest Funding
:
$25M
Series A
,
Feb 2024
4
4
Automating customer operations in financial services.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$500K
Pre-seed
,
Mar 2025
5
5
AI agents for procurement.
Headcount
:
~15
Latest Funding
:
$7M
Seed
,
Jul 2024
6
6
AI employees, automating outbound.
Headcount
:
~110
Latest Funding
:
$11.5M
Seed
,
Oct 2024
7
7
Build AI workflows using plain English.
Founder
s
:
Filip Kozera,
Headcount
:
~30
Latest Funding
:
$30M
Seed
,
Nov 2024
8
8
Revenue automation for B2B
Headcount
:
~60
Latest Funding
:
$25M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
9
9
Chalk
↗︎
New
New
New
AI inference.
Headcount
:
~45
Latest Funding
:
$50M
Series A
,
May 2025
10
10
Intelligence platform for finance teams.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$8.7M
Seed
,
Oct 2024
11
11
Generative AI for commercial insurance.
Headcount
:
~15
Latest Funding
:
$5M
Seed
,
Apr 2025
12
12
Automate repetitive online tasks, without code.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$17M
Seed
,
Jan 2025
13
13
AI agents against financial crime.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$15M
Series A
,
May 2025
14
14
Numeral
↗︎
New
New
New
Sales tax compliance.
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$18.1M
Series A
,
Aug 2024
15
15
Meeting assistant for financial advisors.
Headcount
:
~55
Latest Funding
:
$13.8M
Series A
,
Mar 2025
16
16
AI agents for accountants
Headcount
:
~45
Latest Funding
:
$34M
Series A
,
Dec 2024
17
17
AI call center agents for healthcare providers.
Headcount
:
~30
Latest Funding
:
$22M
Series A
,
Apr 2025
18
18
End-to-end platform for AI apps.
Founder
s
:
Ankur Goyal
Headcount
:
~35
Latest Funding
:
$36M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
19
19
Customer support platform, built for B2B.
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$17M
Series A
,
Aug 2024
20
20
Factory
↗︎
New
New
New
AI software engineers.
Headcount
:
~65
Latest Funding
:
$15M
Series A
,
Jun 2024
21
21
Data centers in space.
Headcount
:
~10
Latest Funding
:
$10M
Seed
,
Dec 2024
22
22
AI for materials R&D.
Headcount
:
~10
Latest Funding
:
$2.6M
Seed
,
Nov 2023
23
23
Pulse
↗︎
New
New
New
Automate document data interpretation.
Headcount
:
~10
Latest Funding
:
$3.9M
Seed
,
Feb 2025
24
24
Build and deploy automated agent workflows.
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$18M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
25
25
Quanta
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New
New
New
Accounting service for software companies.
Headcount
:
~15
Latest Funding
:
$4.7M
Seed
,
Feb 2025
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LangChain (rank 1 Q2 2025)
A platform to build AI apps from prototype into production. Langchain was founded in 2022 by Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola who met while working at Robust Intelligence. The company boasts a list of impressive clients and raised money from Benchmark and Sequoia.
Ankush Gola, Harrison Chase
Series A
$25M
~60
Lovable (rank 2 Q2 2025)
Build apps with no coding needed. Founded in 2023, Lovable has exploded in early 2025 after raising money from Scandinavian VC strongholds, byFounders and Creandum, as well as Hummingbird.
Anton Osika (https://linkedin.com/in/antonosika); Fabian Hedin (https://linkedin.com/in/fabian-hedin-2377b0144)
Seed
$15M
~50
Hadrius (Rank 3 Q2 2025)
SEC & FINRA compliance in one platform. Co-founders Som, Allen, and Thomas are back for their second act—after launching Quantbase (acquired by Surmount), they’re now tackling compliance with Hadrius.
Allen Calderwood, Som Mohapatra, Thomas Stewart
Seed
$2M
~20
Didero
AI agents for procurement.
Tim Spencer, Lorenz Pallhuber, Tom Petit
Seed
$7M
~15
Profound
Helping brands gain AI visibility.
Dylan Babbs, James Cadwallader
Seed
$3.5M
~20
Norm Ai
AI agents for regulatory compliance
John Nay
Series B
$48M
~35
Browser Use
Browser automation with AI agents.
Gregor Žunič, Magnus Müller
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Basis
AI agents for accountants
Mitchell Troyanovsky, Matt Harpe
Series A
$34M
~25
Zocks
Meeting assistant for financial advisors.
Ákos Ratku, Mark Gilbert
Series A
$13.8M
~30
Artisan
AI employees, automating outbound.
Sam Stallings (https://linkedin.com/in/samantha12345); Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (https://linkedin.com/in/jaspar-carmichael-jack)
Seed
$11.5M
~110
Sapien
Financial analysis platform for enterprises.
Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella)
Seed
$8.7M
<10
CrewAI
Build and deploy automated agent workflows.
João (Joe) Moura, Rob Bailey
Series A
$18M
~20
Factory
Human-AI collaboration to optimize software deployment lifescycles
Matan Grinberg, Eno Reyes
Series A
$20M
62
Star Cloud
Space-based data centers.
Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean
Seed
$21M
<10
Harper
Insurance brokerage for SMBs.
Dakotah Rice, Tushar Nair
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Albert Invent
R&D platform for chemistry and materials science.
Zach Kisner, Ken Kisner, Nick Talken, Neelesh Vaikhary
Series A
$23M
<10
Tabs 16
Revenue automation for B2B
Rebecca Schwartz, Deepak Bapat, Ali Hussain
Series A
$25M
~60
LlamaIndex
Build LLM-powered knowledge agents on top of any private data source
Simon Suo, Jerry Liu
Series A
$19M
~45
Greenboard
SEC & FINRA compliance tools.
Dave Feldman, Edward Schembor
Seed
$4.5M
<10
Pylon 19
Customer support platform, built for B2B.
Marty Kausas, Robert Eng, Advith Chelikani
Series A
$17M
~50
Agree
Contract management platform.
Will Hubbard, Evan Dudla, Marty Ringlein
Pre-seed
$3M
~10
Granola
AI meeting notepad.
Sam Stephenson (https://linkedin.com/in/stephensonsam); Christopher Pedregal (https://linkedin.com/in/pedregal)
Series A
$20M
~20
General Agency
AI coworker.
Harvey Hu, Mo Nasir
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Trace
Voice solutions for customer support in financial services.
Yash Vardhan Pansari, Saner Cakir, Kayla Lee
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Landbase
Agentic AI for go-to-market.
Emily Zhang, Daniel Saks, Raheem Syed
Seed
$13M
~50
Braintrust
End-to-end platform for building AI applications.
Ankur Goyal
Series A
$36M
~20

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