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# 3,499 AI companies raised their first funding in 2025, up 71% on 2024
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/newly-funded-ai-companies/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:14:56.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:54.000Z
- Description: The number of newly funded AI companies rose 71% in 2025 to 3,499, the highest count since at least 2013.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Investment, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-investment

3,499

▲ 71% vs 2024

newly funded AI companies worldwide in 2025

20132025

## What the chart shows

3,499 AI companies received funding for the first time in 2025, up 71% from 2,049 in 2024 and the highest count in the series, which starts at 495 in 2013.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value |
| ------- | ----- |
| 2025    | 3,499 |
| 2024    | 2,049 |
| 2023    | 1,891 |
| 2013    | 495   |

## How to read it

- A newly funded company is one that received its first recorded private investment that year, as tracked by Quid.

**Source:** [Quid](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#quid), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 4.2.4: *Number of newly funded AI companies in the world, 2013–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.  
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