AI Startup Funding Statistics
Updated 2026-08-01 · Source: AI Market Watch — free to cite with a link back to this page (CC BY 4.0).
These figures describe the curated set of AI startups AI Market Watch tracks — a sample, not a global census — so country and category counts are best read as coverage, not total market size. The most robust signals here are structural: funding concentration and stage mix, which track with broader venture data.
Headline numbers
- • AI Market Watch curates a tracked set of 4,928 AI startups.
- • Combined disclosed funding: $907.2B across 4,341 companies with disclosed amounts.
- • Median total raise per funded company: $17.7M.
- • 910 companies have raised $100M or more.
- • 614 were founded in the last two years.
Largest categories in our tracked set
- AI Agents — 668 companies
- AI Infrastructure — 602 companies
- AI in Healthcare — 485 companies
- AI in Fintech — 443 companies
- Robotics / Embodied AI — 271 companies
- AI in Cybersecurity — 258 companies
- AI in Marketing — 242 companies
- AI Developer Tools — 192 companies
Where the tracked companies are based
- US — 2,389 companies
- IN — 413 companies
- GB — 282 companies
- KR — 281 companies
- CN — 188 companies
- IL — 142 companies
- JP — 121 companies
- DE — 121 companies
Methodology & citation
Figures are aggregated daily from the curated set of AI startups AI Market Watch tracks, combining public funding disclosures, company data, and editorial verification. This is a sample, not a global census, so absolute counts and country rankings are best read as coverage rather than total market size. Structural signals — funding concentration and stage mix — are more robust because they track with broader venture data. Funding totals cover disclosed amounts only, in USD.
Cite as: "AI Market Watch, AI Startup Funding Statistics, ai-market-watch.com/stats". For deeper analysis see our data reports, the interactive market analytics, or download the open dataset on GitHub (CC BY 4.0).