9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025

The AI industry had a historic year in the U.S., and even beyond. TechCrunch’s count shows that 49 startups raised funding rounds of $100 million or higher in 2024. Three companies raised multiple “mega rounds” last year and seven raised rounds of $1 billion or more.

What will 2025 look like? Although it’s early in the year, the number of U.S. companies that have raised over $100 million is already in double digits. One round has exceeded $1 billion.

These are all the U.S.-based AI companies that raised more than $100m this year.

Anthropic and March

• AI Research and Large Language Model Company raised $3.5 Billion in a Series E Round that valued the startup $61.5 Billion. The round was announced by Lightspeed on March 3, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Menlo Ventures.

February

• together AIwhich creates open-source generative AI as well as AI model development infrastructure raised a The company was valued at $3.3 billion after the $305 million Series A round . The February 20th round was led by Prosperity7, General Catalyst, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Nvidia. Lux Capital and other investors also participated.
• AI Infrastructure Company Lambda raised a The $480 million Series D Round was announced on February 19, 2019. SGW and Andra Capital led the round, which valued the startup at $2.5 billion. Nvidia, G Squared and ARK Invest were also involved.
• Pittsburgh’s Abridge, an AI platform that transcribes conversations between patients and clinicians, was valued at 2.75 billion dollars in a Series-D round announced on February 17. The Series D round, announced on February 17, valued
• Pittsburgh-based Abridgean AI platform that transcribes patient-clinician conversations, at $2.75 billion. IVP and Elad Gill led the $250 million round . Lightspeed, Redpoint and Spark Capital were also involved.
• Eudia, an AI legal tech firm, raised funds. General Catalyst led a $105 million Series A round . Floodgate, Defy Ventures and Everywhere Ventures participated in the round, along with other VC firms and many angel investors. The round closed on 13th February.
• AI Hardware startup EnCharge AI raised a $100 Million Series B round which closed on the same date. Tiger Global led the round, with Scout Ventures and Samsung Ventures joining. Santa Clara, California-based company was founded in 2022.
• AI Legal Tech Company Harvey raised a The $300 million Series D Round valued the 3-year old company at $3 billion. The round was led and announced by Sequoia on February 12. The round was led by Sequoia and announced on February 12.

January

• ElevenLabs raised $180 million in a Series C round. The company was valued at over $3 billion. The news was released on January 30. ICONIQ Growth, Andreessen Horowitz and others were co-leaders of the round. Sequoia Ventures, NEA Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and others were also involved in the round.
• Hippocratic AI, which develops large-language models for the healthcare sector, announced a $141m Series B round on Monday, January 9. Kleiner Perkins led this round, which valued the company at over $1.6 billion. Andreessen Horowitz and Nvidia were also involved, as well as General Catalyst. Becca is a senior reporter at TechCrunch who covers venture capital trends. She covered the same beat previously for Forbes and Venture Capital Journal.