AI funding has never moved faster. In the first quarter of 2026, AI companies pulled in $242 billion, or 80% of all global venture funding, up from 55% a year earlier.
But that money is pooling at the very top: just three frontier labs, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, raised $172 billion between them, so for everyone else real organic demand is what separates the winners from the merely well-funded.
So the question we set out to answer is: which AI companies, across every category from foundation models to AI agents to generative tools, are actually growing real demand right now?
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Below are the AI companies whose brand-name search demand has climbed fastest this year versus last, ordered from the steepest growth down, each with a chart, the key numbers, and a short read on what’s actually driving the momentum.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +1,840%
- Search growth forecast: n/a
- Monthly brand searches: 38,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 301,100
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco, United States
What they do
Fish Audio is an AI voice platform where developers and creators can clone voices, train custom text-to-speech models, and browse a marketplace of community-built voice models for audio generation.
Fish Audio has raised $30 million in a single venture round, closed in 2025 at a reported valuation of $500 million, with no lead investor publicly named.
Fish Audio is the fastest growing company on our list, and the +1,840% figure is about as eye-catching as brand growth gets. What made it possible was a combination of genuinely useful voice cloning tech, a developer-friendly API, and a marketplace model that let the community do a lot of the promotional heavy lifting. The S1 model launch in particular pulled a wave of new users in, with the team claiming a 20% higher win-rate over competitors on TTS benchmarks.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +320%
- Search growth forecast: +46%
- Monthly brand searches: 15,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 26,500
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Retell AI is a platform for building and deploying AI-powered voice agents, used by companies that want to automate phone-based conversations like customer support, appointment booking, and outbound calling.
Retell AI has raised a total of around $5.1 million across two rounds: a $4.6 million seed led by Alt Capital in August 2024, and a $500K pre-seed from Y Combinator in late 2023, with angels including Aaron Levie, Michael Seibel, and Rajat Suri also participating.
The +320% growth here reflects a real shift in how businesses think about phone automation. AI voice agents went from a novelty to a serious budget line item for operations teams over the past year, and Retell built one of the cleaner platforms for companies that want to stand up those workflows without a research team. The founders reportedly hit $15 million ARR within two years of launching, which for a team that raised under $6 million total is a pretty compelling ratio.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +250%
- Search growth forecast: +41%
- Monthly brand searches: 118,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,825,200
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Los Angeles, USA
What they do
HeyGen is an AI video generation platform that lets users create talking-avatar videos from text, used heavily by marketing teams, content creators, and businesses localizing video for multiple languages.
HeyGen has raised a total of $74 million, with its most recent round being a $60 million Series A led by Benchmark in June 2024 at a $500 million valuation, with participation from Conviction, Thrive Capital, BOND Capital, and others.
HeyGen’s growth to ~120K monthly brand searches isn’t an accident. The video translation feature in particular went viral more than once, with clips of people speaking fluently in languages they don’t know spreading across social media and pulling in curious new users at scale. The product is genuinely impressive in demos, and impressive demos on social media turn into search demand faster than almost any other distribution channel.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +240%
- Search growth forecast: n/a
- Monthly brand searches: 258,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 2,277,100
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Anthropic needs little introduction: it’s the AI safety company behind the Claude models, used by developers, enterprises, and consumers as a direct ChatGPT alternative and API backbone for AI-powered products.
Anthropic’s funding story has moved at a remarkable pace. The company closed a $65 billion Series H in May 2026 at a reported $965 billion valuation, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, following a $30 billion Series G at a $380 billion valuation just months earlier.
A +240% jump in brand searches for a company already operating at this scale tells you something real is happening. Claude has steadily built a reputation among developers and power users as the model that’s actually good at complex reasoning and long documents, and that word-of-mouth has translated into search demand that compounds month over month. At ~260K monthly brand searches, the volume is substantial, and the trajectory suggests it hasn’t plateaued yet.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +220%
- Search growth forecast: +16%
- Monthly brand searches: 7,100
- Organic traffic (monthly): 4,600
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: Cambridge, USA
What they do
Liquid AI is an AI research company building a new class of sequence models called Liquid Foundation Models, designed to be more efficient and capable than standard transformer architectures, with applications across enterprise and edge deployments.
Liquid AI has raised a total of $287.6 million, including a $250 million Series A led by AMD Ventures in December 2024 at a $2.4 billion valuation, and a $37.6 million seed round in December 2023 led by OSS Capital and The Pags Group.
Liquid AI is one of the lower-traffic sites on our list, which makes a +220% growth in brand searches more meaningful in relative terms. It’s a research-heavy company that hasn’t chased consumer virality, so the demand is coming from a specific audience: ML engineers, enterprise architects, and investors paying close attention to what happens beyond the transformer paradigm. The MIT-rooted team and the AMD backing have given it credibility in those circles that search volume alone doesn’t capture.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +180%
- Search growth forecast: +44%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 170,000
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Lindy is an AI agent platform where individuals and teams can build personal AI assistants that automate tasks across email, calendar, CRM, and other tools without writing code.
Lindy has raised a total of around $49.9 million across three rounds announced in early 2023, including a $35 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, an $11 million Series A, and a $3.9 million seed, with other backers including Menlo Ventures, Coatue, Tiger Global, and Elad Gil.
Lindy is one of the smallest brands here by monthly search volume, but the +180% growth suggests the AI agent category is starting to pull real consumer and SMB interest rather than just developer curiosity. The no-code angle matters: a lot of the demand for AI agents has been locked behind tools that require either engineering resources or a tolerance for complexity, and platforms that lower that barrier tend to see the kind of word-of-mouth growth that shows up in brand search data.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +150%
- Search growth forecast: -32%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,470,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 11,349,200
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Perplexity is an AI-powered answer engine that responds to search queries with cited, conversational answers instead of a list of links, used by researchers, students, and professionals who want faster access to sourced information.
Perplexity has raised a total of $1.51 billion in venture funding, with a notable $200 million round in September 2025 at a $20 billion valuation, backed by investors including Accel, Nvidia, SoftBank, IVP, and NEA.
Perplexity is one of the biggest brands on this list, and growing at +150% from that base is genuinely hard. It now draws around 1.5 million monthly brand searches, which puts it in the same conversation as established search products. The negative forecast is worth watching, but the current demand reflects how much traction AI search has built with users who’ve made it a daily habit rather than an occasional experiment.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +150%
- Search growth forecast: +8%
- Monthly brand searches: 3,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 60,300
- Year founded: 2016
- Location: San Francisco, CA
What they do
Fireflies.ai is an AI meeting assistant that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes calls across video platforms, then surfaces searchable notes and action items to teams and their CRM systems.
Fireflies.ai has raised a total of around $19.1 million across a $14 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures in May 2021 and a $5 million seed led by Canaan Partners in 2019. Notably, in June 2025 the company completed a secondary tender offer that established an estimated $1 billion valuation, without raising new primary capital.
Fireflies is one of the most established companies on our list, and it’s had a long time to build quietly. The +150% growth is interesting precisely because it didn’t come from a big funding announcement or a product launch that went viral: it came from the broader explosion of AI meeting tools becoming table stakes for distributed teams. Growing profitably to 20 million users without raising primary capital since 2021 is the kind of backstory that tends to be underappreciated.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +150%
- Search growth forecast: +24%
- Monthly brand searches: 163,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 4,760,400
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: London, UK
What they do
ElevenLabs is an AI audio and voice platform that generates realistic speech, clones voices, and produces audio content in dozens of languages, used by podcasters, game developers, publishers, and enterprise teams building voice-enabled products.
ElevenLabs has raised a total of $781 million in venture funding, with its most recent round being a $500 million Series D led by Sequoia Capital in February 2026, valuing the company at $11 billion, with Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ Growth both significantly increasing their positions.
ElevenLabs is one of the highest-traffic sites on our list, pulling in nearly 5 million organic visits a month, and it’s still growing brand searches at +150%. That’s what happens when a product becomes the default reference point for an entire category: voice AI is increasingly synonymous with ElevenLabs in the way that vector search is synonymous with certain database names. The Series D extension in May 2026, which brought in BlackRock, Nvidia, and Salesforce, signals the market sees this as a platform play rather than a single-product company.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +120%
- Search growth forecast: +1%
- Monthly brand searches: 15,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 107,300
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Hedra is an AI video generation platform focused on creating lifelike digital characters and avatar-based video from text and audio inputs, used by creators and developers building character-driven content.
Hedra has raised a total of $44 million, including a $32 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz’s infrastructure fund in May 2025 at a $200 million valuation, and a $10 million seed round in July 2024 backed by a16z, Sequoia Capital, and Creandum.
Hedra landed in a crowded corner of the generative AI space but found a distinct angle in character-based video, where the quality bar for lip sync and facial expressiveness matters more than raw speed. The +120% growth reflects a user base that’s expanded well beyond early adopters, with over 10 million videos generated through the platform. For a company that’s been around less than three years, getting to ~20K monthly brand searches without a consumer viral moment is a solid signal of steady, compounding word-of-mouth.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +110%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 4,800
- Organic traffic (monthly): 8,900
- Year founded: 2019
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Baseten is an ML inference infrastructure platform that lets teams deploy and serve machine learning models at scale, used primarily by engineering teams at AI companies and enterprises running production model workloads.
Baseten has raised around $2.085 billion in total funding, with the most recent being a $1.5 billion Series F in June 2026 at a $13 billion valuation, led by Sands Capital and Wellington Management, following a $300 million Series E in January 2026 at $5 billion with Nvidia investing $150 million.
Baseten is an infrastructure company, which means its growth story is quieter than a consumer app but arguably more durable. The +110% jump in brand searches reflects the industry-wide race to solve inference at scale: as more companies move AI models from prototype to production, the tooling around serving those models has become a serious engineering priority, and Baseten has positioned itself near the center of that conversation.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +110%
- Search growth forecast: +15%
- Monthly brand searches: 35,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,895,500
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: Hong Kong, China
What they do
SeaArt AI is an AI image generation platform where users create, edit, and share AI-generated artwork using a range of generative models, with a particular focus on community sharing and stylistic variety.
SeaArt AI is fully bootstrapped with no disclosed venture funding, which makes its scale all the more notable. The company is reportedly approaching $50 million in ARR and is said to be in discussions to raise at a $200 million valuation, according to people with direct knowledge cited in recent reporting.
Pulling in nearly 2 million organic monthly visits and ~40K monthly brand searches without a single venture round is the kind of outcome that tends to get dismissed until the numbers become too large to ignore. SeaArt built a sticky community around AI art creation, particularly with users who want more stylistic control and model variety than the more polished consumer tools offer, and it’s scaled largely on the strength of that community and word-of-mouth.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +110%
- Search growth forecast: +40%
- Monthly brand searches: 384,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 3,672,000
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: Cambridge, USA
What they do
Suno is an AI music generation platform that turns text prompts into fully produced songs with vocals and instrumentation, used by hobbyists, content creators, and musicians experimenting with AI-assisted composition.
Suno has raised a total of $775 million across three disclosed rounds, most recently a $400 million Series D led by Bond Capital in June 2026 at a $5.4 billion valuation, following a $250 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures in November 2025.
Suno is one of the biggest brands on our list, with ~380K monthly brand searches and nearly 4 million organic visits a month. The +110% growth from that base is a reminder that AI music generation is still in an early, expansive phase rather than a maturing one. The ability to type a prompt and get back a genuinely listenable song in seconds remains a genuinely surprising experience for most people who try it, and that surprise travels well on social media.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +91%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 109,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,234,900
- Year founded: 2016
- Location: New York, USA
What they do
Hugging Face is the central hub for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools, used by researchers, developers, and companies to find, share, and deploy machine learning models across virtually every modality.
Hugging Face has raised a total of $395.2 million in venture funding, with the most recent major round being a $235 million Series D led by Salesforce Ventures in August 2023 at a $4.5 billion valuation, with participation from Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.
Hugging Face is one of the most established companies on our list, and a +91% growth in brand searches at its scale reflects something real: the open-source AI ecosystem has genuinely gone mainstream. Every new open-weights model release pulls a fresh wave of developers to the platform, and the 2025 acquisition of Pollen Robotics extended its footprint into physical AI in a way that’s kept the brand in the conversation beyond its traditional ML audience.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +88%
- Search growth forecast: -5%
- Monthly brand searches: 5,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 19,600
- Year founded: 2019
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
What they do
Weaviate is an open-source vector database used by developers and engineering teams to build AI applications that require fast semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and similarity-based querying over large datasets.
Weaviate has raised a total of around $67.7 million across three rounds, including a $50 million Series B led by Index Ventures in April 2023, a $16.5 million Series A, and a $1.2 million seed round.
The vector database category didn’t really exist as a mainstream developer concern before retrieval-augmented generation became a standard pattern for building with LLMs. Weaviate has benefited from that shift in a direct and measurable way: developers building RAG pipelines need somewhere to put their embeddings, and Weaviate’s open-source roots and solid documentation have made it a common first port of call. The +88% growth in brand searches is essentially a proxy for how fast that builder community is expanding.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +84%
- Search growth forecast: +10%
- Monthly brand searches: 25,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 2,711,600
- Year founded: n/a
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
What they do
NoteGPT is an AI-powered tool that summarizes YouTube videos, web articles, and other content, and helps users take structured notes using ChatGPT-based technology.
The company appears to be bootstrapped.
NoteGPT is pulling in 2.7 million organic monthly visits with no outside funding, which is an unusual profile for any software company, let alone one competing in the crowded AI productivity space. The +84% growth in brand searches suggests the product has found a real use case: students and knowledge workers who want to extract the substance from long-form content without sitting through it. AI summarization tools have a habit of spreading through student networks fast, and that’s probably the core engine here.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +83%
- Search growth forecast: +33%
- Monthly brand searches: 89,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 496,200
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
xAI is Elon Musk’s AI company, best known for the Grok models and their integration into the X platform, with ambitions across consumer AI, enterprise APIs, and frontier model research.
xAI has raised over $42 billion in total venture funding according to PitchBook, with the most recent major round being a $20 billion Series E announced in January 2026 at a roughly $230 billion valuation, led by Nvidia, Cisco Investments, and the Qatar Investment Authority, among others.
xAI’s brand search growth is driven by a combination of Grok’s improving model quality and its distribution advantage inside X, where hundreds of millions of users encounter it as a default feature rather than something they have to seek out. The +83% growth from ~90K monthly searches reflects a real audience building around the Grok brand specifically, separate from the broader Elon Musk news cycle that would show up differently in search data.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +80%
- Search growth forecast: +1%
- Monthly brand searches: 19,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 109,900
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: Seattle, USA
What they do
Read AI is an AI meeting intelligence platform that records, transcribes, and analyzes video calls, then generates summaries and insights that connect across meetings, emails, and messages.
Read AI has raised a total of $81 million across three rounds: a $50 million Series B led by Smash Capital in October 2024, a $21 million Series A led by Goodwater Capital in April 2024, and a $10 million seed led by Madrona Venture Group in 2021.
Read AI is operating in a space where several well-funded tools are competing for essentially the same buyer, so the +80% growth in brand searches suggests it’s carved out a meaningful position rather than just floating on category tailwinds. The expansion into Gmail and Slack, connecting meeting notes to asynchronous communication, gave the product a stickiness that pure transcription tools don’t have. The 100,000 new accounts metric cited at its Series B suggests the top-of-funnel is genuinely healthy.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +70%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 900
- Organic traffic (monthly): 3,900
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
What they do
MarqVision is an AI-powered brand protection platform that helps companies identify and remove counterfeit products across online marketplaces, social platforms, and rogue websites, used by global brands managing intellectual property enforcement at scale.
MarqVision has raised a total of $90 million in venture funding, including a $48 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners in September 2025, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, HSG, Coral Capital, Y Combinator, and Altos Ventures.
MarqVision is one of the smallest brands on our list by search volume, but +70% growth in a B2B niche is meaningful when the buyers are enterprise legal and brand teams with real budgets. Counterfeiting has become a more acute problem for brands as marketplaces proliferate and generative AI makes it easier to produce convincing knockoffs, and MarqVision is one of the few platforms using AI specifically to fight that problem at the scale and speed that manual enforcement can’t match.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +70%
- Search growth forecast: +11%
- Monthly brand searches: 57,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 706,900
- Year founded: 2024
- Location: Beijing, China
What they do
Kling AI is an AI video generation platform developed by Kuaishou, capable of producing high-quality short videos from text and image prompts, and has gained significant traction internationally as one of the stronger Chinese-origin AI video tools.
Kling AI has raised approximately $4.8 billion in total, including a nearly $3 billion round announced in July 2026 at an $18 billion valuation, co-led by BlueFive Capital, CPE, Tencent, and CITIC Securities, with additional participation from Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and major Chinese state banks.
Kling AI is one of the youngest companies on our list, which makes its current search volume of ~60K monthly brand searches particularly notable for something that’s been a standalone brand for such a short time. The product quality has genuinely impressed the AI video community, with creators regularly benchmarking it against Western alternatives and finding it competitive or better on specific tasks, and that kind of peer-to-peer comparison content drives organic brand discovery in ways that paid acquisition can’t replicate.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +69%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 100,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 455,100
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
What they do
PixAI is an AI art generation platform built around anime-style imagery, where users create high-quality AI artwork using text prompts and access a library of fine-tuned models contributed by the community.
PixAI appears to be bootstrapped, with no verified venture funding publicly disclosed for the platform. Various database entries reference unrelated companies with similar names, so the funding status here is genuinely unclear rather than simply undisclosed.
The anime-focused AI art niche is more competitive than it might look from the outside, with several platforms fighting for the same core user. PixAI has built a loyal community around model quality and stylistic fidelity, pulling in ~100K monthly brand searches and 460K organic visits a month from what is essentially a word-of-mouth and community-driven funnel. The +69% growth reflects a user base that keeps expanding and keeps coming back.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +64%
- Search growth forecast: +52%
- Monthly brand searches: 11,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 340,100
- Year founded: 2024
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Gumloop is a no-code AI automation platform that lets business users and operators build complex workflows by connecting AI models to tools and data sources through a visual interface.
Gumloop has raised a total of $70.1 million across three rounds, including a $50 million Series B led by Benchmark in March 2026, a $17 million Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners in January 2025, and a $3.1 million seed led by First Round Capital.
Gumloop is one of the youngest companies on our list, founded in 2024, and a +64% growth in brand searches alongside a +52% forecast suggests the momentum is building rather than plateauing. No-code automation isn’t a new idea, but pairing it with genuinely capable AI models has unlocked use cases that earlier tools couldn’t handle, and Gumloop has found a user base of operators and growth teams who want to build sophisticated workflows without engineering dependencies.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +51%
- Search growth forecast: +28%
- Monthly brand searches: 16,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 277,800
- Year founded: n/a
- Location: Des Moines, United States
What they do
Roboflow is a computer vision development platform that gives developers tools to manage image datasets, annotate and label data, train models, and deploy them via API or to edge devices.
Roboflow has raised a total of around $99.7 million across six rounds, including a $40 million Series B led by GV in November 2024, and an earlier $37.5 million Series B in August 2024, with participation from Craft Ventures, Y Combinator, and angel investors including Guillermo Rauch and Jeff Dean.
Computer vision has been one of the quieter corners of applied AI, overshadowed by the LLM wave, but the underlying demand for tools that help teams work with visual data has continued to grow steadily. Roboflow’s +51% growth and a healthy +28% forecast suggest it’s picking up momentum rather than coasting, which tracks with the expansion of use cases across manufacturing, logistics, retail, and security that don’t generate much press coverage but represent real and growing enterprise spend.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +49%
- Search growth forecast: +23%
- Monthly brand searches: 92,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 350,100
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco, USA
What they do
Civitai is an online platform and marketplace where AI art creators share, discover, and download image generation models, particularly Stable Diffusion checkpoints, LoRAs, and related assets, with a large and active community of contributors.
Civitai has raised a total of $5.1 million in a single seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, announced in June 2023, at a post-money valuation of $20 million.
Civitai’s +49% growth is driven by something genuinely hard to replicate: a community of creators who use the platform every day and contribute models that keep the catalog fresh. With ~90K monthly brand searches and 350K organic visits on a $5.1 million seed raise, the capital efficiency here is notable. The platform has become the de facto home for the open-source AI art community in a way that makes it sticky to a degree that most venture-backed consumer AI tools never achieve.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +44%
- Search growth forecast: +25%
- Monthly brand searches: 159,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,093,400
- Year founded: n/a
- Location: San Francisco, CA
What they do
Databricks is a data and AI platform used by enterprises to unify data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workloads, built by the original creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow.
Databricks has raised approximately $20.2 billion in total venture funding, including a $10 billion Series J announced in December 2024 at a $62 billion valuation led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, and a subsequent $5 billion round in February 2026 at $134 billion.
Databricks growing brand searches at +44% while pulling in ~160K monthly searches and 1.1 million organic visits a month tells you something about the pace of enterprise AI adoption. The company reported $6.9 billion in annualized revenue as of June 2026, growing at 80% year-over-year, which means it’s one of the fastest-growing large enterprise software companies in the world right now, and the search demand is following the revenue story rather than leading it.
The full 50: fastest-growing AI companies by brand search
| # | Company | Industry | Brand search growth | Monthly brand searches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fish Audio | AI / ML | +1,840% (this year vs last) Breakout | 38,000 |
| 2 | Retell AI | AI / ML | +320% (this year vs last) | 15,000 |
| 3 | HeyGen | Video | +250% (this year vs last) | 118,000 |
| 4 | Anthropic | AI / ML | +240% (this year vs last) | 258,000 |
| 5 | Liquid AI | AI / ML | +220% (this year vs last) | 7,100 |
| 6 | Lindy | AI / ML | +180% (this year vs last) | 1,300 |
| 7 | Perplexity | AI / ML | +150% (this year vs last) | 1,470,000 |
| 8 | Fireflies.ai | Productivity | +150% (this year vs last) | 3,300 |
| 9 | ElevenLabs | AI / ML | +150% (this year vs last) Breakout | 163,000 |
| 10 | Hedra | Video | +120% (this year vs last) | 15,000 |
| 11 | Baseten | Data infrastructure | +110% (this year vs last) | 4,800 |
| 12 | SeaArt AI | Design | +110% (this year vs last) Breakout | 35,000 |
| 13 | Suno | AI / ML | +110% (this year vs last) | 384,000 |
| 14 | Hugging Face | AI / ML | +91% (this year vs last) Breakout | 109,000 |
| 15 | Weaviate | Data infrastructure | +88% (this year vs last) | 5,300 |
| 16 | NoteGPT | Productivity | +84% (this year vs last) Breakout | 25,000 |
| 17 | xAI | AI / ML | +83% (this year vs last) | 89,000 |
| 18 | Read AI | Productivity | +80% (this year vs last) | 19,000 |
| 19 | MarqVision | Security | +70% (this year vs last) | 900 |
| 20 | Kling AI | Video | +70% (this year vs last) | 57,000 |
| 21 | PixAI | Design | +69% (this year vs last) Breakout | 100,000 |
| 22 | Gumloop | No-code | +64% (this year vs last) | 11,000 |
| 23 | Roboflow | AI / ML | +51% (this year vs last) | 16,000 |
| 24 | Civitai | AI / ML | +49% (this year vs last) Breakout | 92,000 |
| 25 | Databricks | Data infrastructure | +44% (this year vs last) | 159,000 |
| 26 | Copyleaks | Security | +44% (this year vs last) Breakout | 45,000 |
| 27 | Descript | Video | +42% (this year vs last) Breakout | 87,000 |
| 28 | Otter.ai | Productivity | +37% (this year vs last) | 17,000 |
| 29 | Synthesia | Video | +34% (this year vs last) | 55,000 |
| 30 | Recraft | Design | +30% (this year vs last) | 450 |
| 31 | Narakeet | Video | +29% (this year vs last) | 5,400 |
| 32 | Creatify AI | Marketing | +26% (this year vs last) | 5,000 |
| 33 | Deepgram | AI / ML | +25% (this year vs last) | 13,000 |
| 34 | Snorkel AI | AI / ML | +23% (this year vs last) | 8,600 |
| 35 | Anyscale | Data infrastructure | +23% (this year vs last) | 8,300 |
| 36 | V7 | AI / ML | +22% (this year vs last) | 3,200 |
| 37 | Pika | Video | +18% (this year vs last) | 67,000 |
| 38 | Runway | Video | +18% (this year vs last) | 41,000 |
| 39 | Copy.ai | Marketing | +17% (this year vs last) | 13,000 |
| 40 | Deep Dream Generator | Design | +16% (this year vs last) | 9,300 |
| 41 | Writesonic | Marketing | +14% (this year vs last) | 15,000 |
| 42 | Krisp | Productivity | +13% (this year vs last) | 700 |
| 43 | Labelbox | AI / ML | +11% (this year vs last) | 5,600 |
| 44 | You.com | AI / ML | +10% (this year vs last) | 2,570,000 |
| 45 | Capacity | Customer support | +9% (this year vs last) | 58,000 |
| 46 | Submagic | Video | +8% (this year vs last) | 6,300 |
| 47 | Sift | Security | +8% (this year vs last) | 20,000 |
| 48 | Reality Defender | Security | +6% (this year vs last) | 1,300 |
| 49 | iDenfy | Security | +6% (this year vs last) | 700 |
| 50 | Tabnine | Dev tools | +5% (this year vs last) | 5,800 |
Brand search growth = growth in average monthly searches for the company name this year versus last year (last 12 months vs the prior 12 months). Monthly brand searches = current US search volume for the brand name. Data: Ahrefs · July 2026.
You can rebuild this entire analysis yourself in Ahrefs. Here’s the short version:
- Open Keywords Explorer, enter a company’s brand name as the keyword, and look at the Volume graph. The trend over the last few years is the brand-search growth we ranked on, and the forecast line is Ahrefs’ projection.
- To compare many companies at once, drop a list of brand names into Keywords Explorer and sort by Volume or by Growth to see which names are climbing fastest.
- Use Site Explorer on each company’s domain to pull the Organic traffic, Referring domains, and other figures in the profiles above.
- Or skip the manual work and let Agent A run the whole pull, filtering, and ranking for any niche you choose, the same way it built this list.
What comes through clearly across this list of fastest growing AI companies is how varied the categories are: voice cloning, AI search, meeting intelligence, vector databases, music generation, brand protection, and inference infrastructure all appear here, which is a useful reminder that AI demand isn’t concentrated in one corner of the market.
There’s a thread running through the fastest growing companies on this list too: genuine product capability that earned word-of-mouth before it earned press coverage, whether that’s a bootstrapped image platform approaching $50M ARR or a voice AI startup hitting $15M ARR on under $6M raised.
If you’re watching where AI demand is actually forming, the brand search signal is one of the cleaner ways to see it: it’s hard to fake, it rolls forward every month, and the companies showing up here are the ones people are actively looking for by name.
