Quarterly funding report
Q4 2026 USA Startup Funding Report
150 funded US startups raised a combined $65.4B in Q4 2026. The biggest rounds, most active investors, and where the money went.
Top 10 funded companies
| # | Company | Sector | Raised | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | AI | $28B | |
| 2 | World Labs | AI | $8.2B | |
| 3 | OpenRouter | AI | $7.5B | |
| 4 | CleanSpark | Crypto | $2.3B Debt | |
| 5 | Tenstorrent | AI | $1.5B Series E | |
| 6 | Mechanize | AI | $1.5B | |
| 7 | Instinct | AI | $1B Series B | |
| 8 | Flapping Airplanes | AI | $1B Series A | |
| 9 | Oracle | AI | $1B | |
| 10 | Modal Labs | AI | $750M |
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Funding by sector
Most active investors
Notable rounds
“OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company aiming to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.”
“World Labs, founded in early 2024, focuses on spatial intelligence and large world models.”
“OpenRouter is an AI model routing startup that allows developers to send a single API call across hundreds of AI models.”
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Data from Datapile’s funding database. Generated October 2026.