AI unicorns include only core AI companies and AI infrastructure firms; AI-adjacent businesses were excluded.
A unicorn company is a privately owned startup that has a current valuation of one billion USD or over. Once a company has gone public (IPO) or has been acquired it is no longer termed as a unicorn.
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Leading AI unicorns in the U.S. 2026 by equity funding value
As of March 2025, ****** had the largest equity funding of any artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn company in the United States, having raised ***billion U.S. dollars in total. Second in the list of leading AI unicorns in terms of equity funding was *********, with **billion U.S. dollars, followed by *****with **billion U.S. dollars.
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CrunchBase. (March 9, 2026). Leading artificial intelligence (AI) unicorns in the United States as of March 2026, by equity funding value (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 07, 2026, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1557600/highest-volume-equity-funding-ai-unicorns-usa/
CrunchBase. "Leading artificial intelligence (AI) unicorns in the United States as of March 2026, by equity funding value (in billion U.S. dollars)." Chart. March 9, 2026. Statista. Accessed May 07, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1557600/highest-volume-equity-funding-ai-unicorns-usa/
CrunchBase. (2026). Leading artificial intelligence (AI) unicorns in the United States as of March 2026, by equity funding value (in billion U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 07, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1557600/highest-volume-equity-funding-ai-unicorns-usa/
CrunchBase. "Leading Artificial Intelligence (Ai) Unicorns in The United States as of March 2026, by Equity Funding Value (in Billion U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 9 Mar 2026, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1557600/highest-volume-equity-funding-ai-unicorns-usa/
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Leading artificial intelligence (AI) unicorns in the United States as of March 2026, by equity funding value (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], CrunchBase, March 9, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1557600/highest-volume-equity-funding-ai-unicorns-usa/
