Top AI Startups (2026)
Nathan Latka interviews the founders of the fastest-growing AI startups on his podcast, The Top Founders. These rankings feature the most impressive founders pushing the boundaries in AI.
- Founders interviewed
- 15
- Combined revenue
- $386.8M
- Combined funding
- $667.3M
- Countries
- 3
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AI marketing and sales
AI that helps teams find, market to, and close customers.
AI hardware
AI built into physical devices, robotics and chips.
Fastest growing
Ranked by year-over-year revenue growth, self-reported by the founder.
Highest revenue
The largest verified revenue figures on the list.
Vertical AI
AI purpose-built for a specific industry.
The full ranked list
Ranked by verified revenue. Expand any row to hear the founder.
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CentsCo-Founder and CEO Alex Jekowsky · New York, New York, United States
Revenue$60MGrowth67%Interviewed - 3
VeedCo-Founder, CEO Sabba Keynejad · London, England, United Kingdom
Revenue$50MGrowth14%Interviewed - 5
Fathom.aiCEO/Founder Richard White · San Francisco, California, United States
Fathom.ai is a free AI meeting assistant founded in 2020 by Richard White, who serves as CEO. The product records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, and is used by organizations ranging from small teams to large enterprises. White built Fathom on a deliberately capital-efficient model, raising approximately $30 million in total across multiple tranches and a Series A, while growing annual recurring revenue from $1 million in 2023 to $10 million in 2024 and $30 million in 2025. The company kept no more than roughly $1 million to $2 million in cash at any given time during its early years. Fathom prices at $25 per seat per month, with an average account size of 8 to 10 seats and an average contract value of approximately $200 per month. The company offers its core individual product for free and monetizes through a team-tier product layered on top, a structure White credits with enabling generous free access while sustaining revenue growth.
- Revenue
- $30M
- Growth
- 200%
- Raised
- $30M
- Valuation
- $73M
- Customers
- 10K
- Founded
- 2020
Notable customers: Founderpath
I interviewed Richard White on the Top Founders podcast. Here is what he told me:
Total Funding$30M "We actually raised about 30 million to date."
Watch at 1:57Pricing per seat$25 "The average user is about $25 if you'll get across all our plans of it, dollars 25 per seat."
Watch at 8:00Growth tacticApp Exchanges "Zoom launched a marketplace and we were one of their launch partners. We were one of like 50 apps that launched on that marketplace. So that was what was driving kind of our like, okay, we have to launch at this point."
Watch at 14:45Revenue$1M "Overall we basically went, in the first year we went zero to a million. Took about a year to get to a million in ARR."
Watch at 17:01Growth tacticVirality "We gave equity to our first 100 users — actually I think it's maybe like 200, 250. And so we kind of set up this principle where every time we raised a round, we reserved 15% of it for our users to invest. We did that at our seed round and at our series A."
Watch at 18:36Valuation$73M "Nathan Latka: You'd raise us at a 73,000,000 valuation. Looks like is this right? You're doing about 7,700,000 of ARR then. Is that right? Richard White: I think when we raised our series A, we were doing actually around, I guess by the time it got announced maybe, when we first tapered it, it was like 3,500,000, but we were ramping pretty quickly."
Watch at 19:40 - 9
Lyzr AICEO & Co-Founder Siva Surendira · Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Revenue$12MGrowth200%Interviewed - 15
LedgeCo-Founder and CEO Tal Kirschenbaum · New York, New York, United States
Revenue$1.5MInterviewed - 16
Mobile First Company (Allo)Founder and CEO Jérémy Goillot · Miami, Florida, United States
Revenue$1MInterviewed
