1,324 AI SaaS Companies in 2026
AI SaaS companies sell artificial intelligence as software: AI assistants and agents, AI for sales, marketing and customer service, voice, video and image generation, and the platforms developers build AI on. This list is the AI-native ones, where AI is the product rather than a feature added to an older one, from OpenAI and Anthropic to Harvey and ElevenLabs.
- Companies
- 1,324
- In LeadWave's database, November 2026
- Total funding raised
- $494.8B
- Across 389 funded companies
- Median headcount
- 17
- Of 969 with a known headcount
- Median year founded
- 2018
- Of 998 with a known year
Top AI SaaS companies by headcount
The 30 with the most employees, of 1,324. Headcount is the latest known figure.
| Company | Website | Employees | Headcount | Funding | CEO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OpenAI | openai.com | 1,001–5,000 | 4,500 | $334.3B | Sam Altman | |
2 Databricks | databricks.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,909 | $1.9B | Ali Ghodsi | |
3 Anthropic | anthropic.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,767 | $129.8B | Dario Amodei | |
4 Writer | writer.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,267 | — | May Habib | |
5 Gong | gong.io | 1,001–5,000 | 2,095 | $583M | Amit Bendov | |
6 Intercom | intercom.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,838 | $291.8M | Eoghan McCabe | |
7 ElevenLabs | elevenlabs.io | 1,001–5,000 | 1,500 | $792M | Mati Staniszewski | |
8 Glean | glean.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,302 | $55M | Arvind Jain | |
9 Grammarly | grammarly.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,222 | $400M | Shishir Mehrotra | |
10 Mistral AI | mistral.ai | 1,001–5,000 | 1,200 | $4B | Arthur Mensch | |
11 Clay | clay.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,074 | — | Kareem Amin | |
12 Jasper | jasper.ai | 1,001–5,000 | 1,019 | $131M | Timothy Young | |
13 Kore.ai | kore.ai | 501–1,000 | 1,000 | $250M | Raj Koneru | |
14 Z.ai | z.ai | 501–1,000 | 990 | $1.3B | Zhang Peng | |
15 Dataiku | dataiku.com | 501–1,000 | 927 | $246.8M | Florian Douetteau | |
16 Harvey | harvey.ai | 501–1,000 | 843 | — | Winston Weinberg | |
17 C3 AI | c3.ai | 501–1,000 | 739 | $228.5M | Thomas M. Siebel | |
18 Cohere | cohere.com | 501–1,000 | 700 | $1.8B | Aidan Gomez | |
19 Capacity | capacity.com | 501–1,000 | 627 | $34.5M | David Karandish | |
20 Hugging Face | huggingface.co | 501–1,000 | 627 | — | Clem Delangue | |
21 Sirion | sirionlabs.com | 501–1,000 | 594 | $61M | Ajay Agrawal | |
22 Lovable | lovable.dev | 501–1,000 | 578 | — | Anton Osika | |
23 Sierra | sierra.ai | 201–500 | 453 | — | Bret Taylor | |
24 Together AI | together.ai | 201–500 | 450 | $1.3B | Vipul Ved Prakash | |
25 Cresta | cresta.com | 201–500 | 450 | — | Ping Wu | |
26 Runway | runwayml.com | 201–500 | 394 | $1.2B | Cristobal Valenzuela | |
27 Ada | ada.cx | 201–500 | 391 | $190.6M | Mike Murchison | |
28 Haptik | haptik.ai | 201–500 | 363 | $12.2M | Ahshad Jussawalla | |
29 Skit | skit.ai | 201–500 | 363 | $5.1M | Sourabh Gupta | |
30 HappyRobot | happyrobot.ai | 201–500 | 350 | $253.9M | Pablo Palafox |
AI SaaS companies at a glance
- 57% are headquartered in United States, followed by United Kingdom.
- The largest is OpenAI, with 4,500 employees.
- 389 have disclosed funding, $494.8B in total; 46 raised $100M or more.
- Half were founded before 2018, and 33% in 2020 or later.
- United States646 · 57%
- United Kingdom71 · 6%
- India61 · 5%
- Canada42 · 4%
- France35 · 3%
- Germany34 · 3%
- Machine Learning337 · 25%
- Customer Support263 · 20%
- AI Chatbot252 · 19%
- Marketing209 · 16%
- AI Infrastructure183 · 14%
- AI Marketing178 · 13%
- AI Agent168 · 13%
- Sales145 · 11%
- 1–10458 · 39%
- 11–50431 · 36%
- 51–200229 · 19%
- 201–50048 · 4%
- 501–1,00010 · 1%
- 1,001–5,00012 · 1%
- Before 200012 · 1%
- 2000–200970 · 7%
- 2010–2014163 · 16%
- 2015–2019425 · 43%
- 2020–2022205 · 21%
- 2023 or later123 · 12%
- Under $1M95 · 24%
- $1M–5M94 · 23%
- $5M–10M56 · 14%
- $10M–50M82 · 20%
- $50M–100M32 · 8%
- $100M–500M29 · 7%
- $500M–1B4 · 1%
- $1B+12 · 3%
How this list was built
A company is on this list if it is a strong match on one of LeadWave's AI software lists (AI agents, chatbots, sales, marketing, customer service, note takers, voice, video, image generation, machine learning, AI infrastructure and inference), or we added it by hand. We leave out established software companies that added AI to an older product, such as Salesforce, Adobe and HubSpot, as well as AI research labs without a product, AI chip and hardware makers, and IT services firms.
The data comes from LeadWave's database of SaaS and AI companies, last updated in November 2026. Companies that share a website are counted once. Headcount, funding and CEO come from public sources, so some fields are blank for smaller companies.
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Frequently asked questions
LeadWave's database lists 1,324 AI SaaS companies as of November 2026. This page shows the 30 largest; the full list, with CEO contacts, is part of our 15,000+ SaaS companies list.
By headcount, OpenAI, with 4,500 employees, followed by Databricks and Anthropic.
United States: 57% of those with a known headquarters, followed by United Kingdom at 6%.
OpenAI ($334.3B), Anthropic ($129.8B) and Mistral AI ($4B), by total disclosed funding.
LeadWave's AI companies list covers 9,000+ AI companies and startups, with CEO emails, LinkedIn profiles, funding and 25+ data points in one CSV. It's on the List of AI Companies page.
A company that sells AI software by subscription or by usage, hosted in the cloud: an AI assistant, an agent that does a job, or an API for AI models. What sets it apart from other SaaS is that the AI does the work the customer pays for.
AI companies also include research labs that don't sell a product yet, chip makers, robotics and AI services firms. They're all in LeadWave's list of AI companies; this page is only the ones that sell software.
By headcount, the latest known figure. Funding totals of the biggest AI companies change by billions within months, so headcount is the steadier yardstick.