The 2026 leaderboard of private capital raised — every figure traced to recorded rounds, re-ranked nightly.
| # | Company | Industry | Valuation | Raised | 52-wk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | Software Development Applications | $1.2T | $178.1B | +91.2% |
| 2 | Anthropic | Business/Productivity Software | $965.0B | $68.2B | +263.3% |
| 3 | Databricks | Business/Productivity Software | $201.6B | $20.6B | +49.2% |
| 4 | xAI | Business/Productivity Software | $250.0B | $47.2B | +85.3% |
| 5 | Scale AI | Business/Productivity Software | $29.0B | $15.9B | +33.4% |
| 6 | Anduril Industries | Aerospace and Defense | $123.9B | $12.0B | +57.5% |
| 7 | SpaceX | Aerospace and Defense | $1.6T | $10.1B | +222.0% |
| 8 | Stripe | Other Financial Services | $184.4B | $8.7B | +99.6% |
| 9 | Epic Games | Entertainment Software | $12.5B | $7.5B | −25.9% |
| 10 | Fanatics | Commerce | $23.1B | $4.4B | +35.1% |
| 11 | DataRobot | — | $1.1B | $3.4B | +468.9% |
| 12 | Crusoe | Systems and Information Management | $26.6B | $2.6B | +666.2% |
| 13 | Shield AI | Aerospace and Defense | $13.8B | $2.5B | +117.7% |
| 14 | Kalshi | Other Financial Services | $36.4B | $2.5B | +499.0% |
| 15 | Liquid Death | Consumer | $716.6M | $2.5B | −24.7% |
| 16 | Cerebras Systems (NAS: CBRS) | Application Specific Semiconductors | $40.6B | $11.0B | +266.3% |
| 17 | Lambda | Systems and Information Management | $10.7B | $2.4B | +43.5% |
| 18 | Polymarket | — | $13.6B | $2.3B | +28.3% |
| 19 | Perplexity AI | Business/Productivity Software | $20.0B | $1.7B | −0.1% |
| 20 | Perplexity | — | $17.7B | $2.3B | −13.7% |
| 21 | Skild AI | Other Hardware | $16.4B | $2.2B | +209.5% |
| 22 | Nuro | Automotive | $4.0B | $2.2B | −22.4% |
| 23 | Ramp | Financial Software | $60.0B | $2.2B | +146.2% |
| 24 | EquipmentShare | Other Commercial Services | $5.6B | $14.5B | +73.1% |
| 25 | Redwood Materials | Other Materials | $4.7B | $2.2B | −20.3% |
| 26 | Flexport | Logistics | $828.9M | $2.1B | +47.5% |
| 27 | Rappi | Marketplace | $1.5B | $2.1B | −0.9% |
| 28 | Impossible Foods | Food Products | $427.4M | $2.0B | −11.2% |
| 29 | SambaNova Systems | Business/Productivity Software | $5.0B | $1.5B | −40.6% |
| 30 | Cohesity | — | $4.7B | $2.0B | +0.1% |
| 31 | Zipline | Logistics | $11.3B | $2.0B | +209.0% |
| 32 | Cityblock Health | — | $2.4B | $1.8B | +50.4% |
| 33 | Groq | General Purpose Semiconductors | $20.0B | $672.2M | +51.2% |
| 34 | PsiQuantum | Computers, Parts and Peripherals | $4.6B | $1.7B | −14.2% |
| 35 | SambaNova | Semiconductors | $6.1B | $1.4B | +299.1% |
| 36 | Rippling | Business/Productivity Software | $15.3B | $1.4B | −13.6% |
| 37 | Neuralink | — | $59.2B | $1.3B | +311.1% |
| 38 | Airtable | Software Development Applications | $2.7B | $1.4B | −27.9% |
| 39 | Sila Nanotechnologies | — | $2.3B | $1.3B | +15.4% |
| 40 | Brex | Financial Software | $4.3B | $1.2B | +25.4% |
| 41 | Sila | Other Materials | $2.0B | $1.3B | +2.6% |
| 42 | BigID | — | $413.1M | $1.2B | −21.5% |
| 43 | Plaid | Financial Software | $8.0B | $1.3B | +75.0% |
| 44 | Stoke Space | E-Commerce | $10.0B | $1.2B | +272.4% |
| 45 | TAE Technologies | — | $2.5B | $1.2B | +125.0% |
| 46 | Tae | Alternative Energy Equipment | $6.0B | $1.8B | +125.0% |
| 47 | Navan | — | $5.1B | $1.3B | 0.0% |
| 48 | Zocdoc | Other Healthcare Technology Systems | $446.5M | $1.1B | −21.0% |
| 49 | Greenlight | — | $601.0M | $1.1B | 0.0% |
| 50 | Netskope | Network Management Software | $8.2B | $1.1B | +58.2% |
