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# Newly funded US AI companies jumped 82% to 1,953 in 2025
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/new-ai-companies-by-region/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:14:38.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:53.000Z
- Description: 1,953 US AI companies raised first funding in 2025, up 82%. Europe had 639 and China 161.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Investment, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-investment, #country-us

1,953

▲ 82% vs 2024

newly funded US AI companies in 2025

20132025

## What the chart shows

1,953 US-based AI companies received their first funding in 2025, up 82% from 1,073 in 2024\. Europe had 639 (up 46% from 437) and China 161 (up from 98).

## Key numbers

| Measure             | Value |
| ------------------- | ----- |
| United States, 2025 | 1,953 |
| Europe, 2025        | 639   |
| China, 2025         | 161   |
| United States, 2024 | 1,073 |

## How to read it

- Europe groups European countries as defined by the AI Index.
- Counts companies in the year of their first recorded private investment.

**Source:** [Quid](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#quid), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.2.14: *Number of newly funded AI companies by geographic area, 2013–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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