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US AI 50 founders origin

Source:https://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/
US-based companies with a foreign-born founder
82%
36/44
US-based companies in the AI 50
88%
44/50
US AI 50 founders origin
🇨🇳China Mainland
11 founders
8 companies
🇮🇳India
16 founders
10 companies
🇷🇺Russia
5 founders
5 companies
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OpenAI

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Sam Altman
    United States
  • Elon Musk
    South Africa
  • Greg Brockman
    United States
  • Ilya Sutskever
    Russia
  • Wojciech Zaremba
    Poland
  • John Schulman
    United States
Details
What it does
AI models and products
Funding
$182.6B
Year founded
2015
Anthropic

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Dario Amodei
    United States
  • Daniela Amodei
    United States
  • Tom Brown
    United States
  • Chris Olah
    Canada
  • Sam McCandlish
    United States
  • Jack Clark
    UK
  • Jared Kaplan
    United States
Details
What it does
AI models and products
Funding
$60B
Year founded
2021
Databricks

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Ali Ghodsi
    Iran
  • Matei Zaharia
    Romania
  • Reynold Xin
    China Mainland
  • Ion Stoica
    Romania
  • Andy Konwinski
    United States
  • Patrick Wendell
    United States
  • Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
    Iran
Details
What it does
Data storage and analytics
Funding
$20B
Year founded
2013
Cursor

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Michael Truell
    United States
  • Sualeh Asif
    Pakistan
  • Arvid Lunnemark
    Sweden
  • Aman Sanger
    United States
Details
What it does
AI coding software
Funding
$3.3B
Year founded
2022
Mistral AI

Paris, France

Founders
  • Arthur Mensch
    France
  • Guillaume Lample
    France
  • Timothée Lacroix
    France
Details
What it does
Open source AI model developer
Funding
$3.1B
Year founded
2023
Safe Superintelligence

Palo Alto, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Ilya Sutskever
    Russia
  • Daniel Gross
    Israel
  • Daniel Levy
    Israel
Details
What it does
AI research
Funding
$3B
Year founded
2024
Crusoe

Denver, Colorado, United States

Founders
  • Chase Lochmiller
    United States
  • Cully Cavness
    United States
Details
What it does
AI data center builder
Funding
$2.9B
Year founded
2018
Reflection

New York, New York, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Misha Laskin
    Russia
  • Ioannis Antonoglou
    Greece
Details
What it does
Open source AI models
Funding
$2.1B
Year founded
2024
Skild AI

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Deepak Pathak
    India
  • Abhinav Gupta
    India
Details
What it does
AI systems for robotics
Funding
$2B
Year founded
2023
Thinking Machines Lab

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Mira Murati
    Albania
  • John Schulman
    United States
  • Barrett Zoph
    United States
  • Lilian Weng
    China Mainland
  • Andrew Tulloch
    Australia
  • Luke Metz
    United States
Details
What it does
AI research and products
Funding
$2B
Year founded
2025
Cyera

New York, New York, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Yotam Segev
    Israel
  • Tamar Bar-Ilan
    Israel
Details
What it does
AI data security
Funding
$1.7B
Year founded
2021
Perplexity

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Aravind Srinivas
    India
  • Denis Yarats
    Russia
  • Johnny Ho
    United States
  • Andy Konwinski
    United States
Details
What it does
AI search engine
Funding
$1.7B
Year founded
2022
Cohere

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Aidan Gomez
    UK
  • Nick Frosst
    Canada
  • Ivan Zhang
    Canada
Details
What it does
AI model developer
Funding
$1.6B
Year founded
2019
SambaNova

San Jose, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Rodrigo Liang
    Brazil
  • Kunle Olukotun
    Nigeria
  • Christopher Ré
    United States
Details
What it does
AI chipmaker
Funding
$1.5B
Year founded
2017
Cognition

San Francisco, California, United States

Founders
  • Scott Wu
    United States
  • Steven Hao
    United States
  • Walden Yan
    United States
Details
What it does
AI coding agents
Funding
$1B
Year founded
2024
Harvey

San Francisco, California, United States

Founders
  • Winston Weinberg
    United States
  • Gabriel Pereyra
    United States
Details
What it does
Legal automation software
Funding
$1B
Year founded
2022
Physical Intelligence

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Karol Hausman
    Poland
  • Sergey Levine
    Russia
  • Chelsea Finn
    United States
  • Brian Ichter
    United States
  • Lachy Groom
    Australia
Details
What it does
AI models for robotics
Funding
$1B
Year founded
2024
World Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Fei-Fei Li
    China Mainland
  • Justin Johnson
    United States
  • Ben Mildenhall
    United States
  • Christoph Lassner
    Germany
Details
What it does
Spatial AI model developer
Funding
$1B
Year founded
2023
Replit

Foster City, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Amjad Masad
    Jordan
  • Haya Odeh
    Jordan
  • Faris Masad
    Jordan
Details
What it does
AI app and website builder
Funding
$880M
Year founded
2016
Runway

New York, New York, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Cristóbal Valenzuela
    Chile
  • Alejandro Matamala
    Chile
  • Anastasis Germanidis
    Greece
Details
What it does
Video and image editing software
Funding
$860M
Year founded
2018
Applied Intuition

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Qasar Younis
    Pakistan
  • Peter Ludwig
    United States
Details
What it does
Self-driving software
Funding
$850M
Year founded
2017
Abridge

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Shiv Rao
    India
  • Sandeep Konam
    India
Details
What it does
AI notetaker for doctors
Funding
$830M
Year founded
2018
Legora

Stockholm, Sweden

Founders
  • Max Junestrand
    Sweden
  • Sigge Labor
    Sweden
  • Anton Qvarfordt
    Sweden
Details
What it does
Legal automation software
Funding
$815M
Year founded
2023
ElevenLabs

New York, New York, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Mati Staniszewski
    Poland
  • Piotr Dąbkowski
    Poland
Details
What it does
Voice generation software
Funding
$800M
Year founded
2022
Glean

Palo Alto, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Arvind Jain
    India
  • T.R. Vishwanath
    India
  • Piyush Prahladka
    India
  • Tony Gentilcore
    United States
Details
What it does
Enterprise search engine
Funding
$770M
Year founded
2019
OpenEvidence

Miami, Florida, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Daniel Nadler
    Canada
  • Zachary Ziegler
    United States
Details
What it does
AI search for doctors
Funding
$700M
Year founded
2022
Sierra

San Francisco, California, United States

Founders
  • Bret Taylor
    United States
  • Clay Bavor
    United States
Details
What it does
AI agents for customer service
Funding
$635M
Year founded
2023
Baseten

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Tuhin Srivastava
    India
  • Amir Haghighat
    Iran
  • Pankaj Gupta
    India
  • Philip Howes
    United States
Details
What it does
AI app deployment software
Funding
$585M
Year founded
2019
Lovable

Stockholm, Sweden

Founders
  • Anton Osika
    Sweden
  • Fabian Hedin
    Sweden
Details
What it does
AI app and website builder
Funding
$552M
Year founded
2023
Together AI

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Vipul Ved Prakash
    India
  • Ce Zhang
    China Mainland
  • Chris Ré
    United States
  • Percy Liang
    Taiwan
Details
What it does
AI cloud provider
Funding
$548M
Year founded
2022
Genspark

Palo Alto, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Eric Jing
    China Mainland
  • Kay Zhu
    China Mainland
Details
What it does
AI tools for knowledge workers
Funding
$545M
Year founded
2023
Synthesia

London, UK

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Victor Riparbelli
    Denmark
  • Steffen Tjerrild
    Denmark
  • Matthias Nießner
    Germany
  • Lourdes Agapito
    Spain
Details
What it does
AI avatar and video generator
Funding
$535M
Year founded
2017
Mercor

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Brendan Foody
    United States
  • Adarsh Hiremath
    India
  • Surya Midha
    India
Details
What it does
Data labeling service
Funding
$483M
Year founded
2023
Decagon

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Jesse Zhang
    United States
  • Ashwin Sreenivas
    India
Details
What it does
AI agents for customer service
Funding
$481M
Year founded
2023
Black Forest Labs

Freiburg, Germany

Founders
  • Robin Rombach
    Germany
  • Patrick Esser
    Germany
  • Andreas Blattmann
    Germany
Details
What it does
Image and video generation software
Funding
$450M
Year founded
2024
EliseAI

New York, New York, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Minna Song
    South Korea
  • Tony Stoyanov
    Bulgaria
Details
What it does
AI agents for housing and healthcare
Funding
$392M
Year founded
2017
Suno

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Mikey Shulman
    United States
  • Georg Kucsko
    Austria
  • Martin Camacho
    United States
  • Keenan Freyberg
    United States
Details
What it does
Music generation software
Funding
$375M
Year founded
2022
Fal

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Burkay Gur
    Turkey
  • Gorkem Yurtseven
    Turkey
Details
What it does
Generative media infrastructure
Funding
$330M
Year founded
2021
Notion

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Ivan Zhao
    China Mainland
  • Simon Last
    United States
Details
What it does
Productivity software
Funding
$330M
Year founded
2013
Fireworks AI

San Mateo, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Lin Qiao
    China Mainland
  • Dmytro Dzhulgakov
    Ukraine
  • Benny Chen
    China Mainland
  • Pawel Garbacki
    Poland
Details
What it does
AI app development software
Funding
$327M
Year founded
2022
Chai Discovery

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Joshua Meier
    United States
  • Jack Dent
    UK
Details
What it does
AI drug discovery
Funding
$225M
Year founded
2024
Clay

New York, New York, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Kareem Amin
    Egypt
  • Varun Anand
    India
  • Nicolae Rusan
    Romania
Details
What it does
AI go-to-market tools
Funding
$204M
Year founded
2017
Speak

San Francisco, California, United States

Founders
  • Connor Zwick
    United States
  • Andrew Hsu
    United States
Details
What it does
AI language tutor
Funding
$162M
Year founded
2016
Rogo

New York, New York, United States

Founders
  • Gabriel Stengel
    United States
  • Tumas Rackaitis
    United States
  • John Willett
    United States
Details
What it does
AI finance tools
Funding
$150M
Year founded
2022
Listen Labs

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Alfred Wahlforss
    Sweden
  • Bilal Mahmood
    UK
Details
What it does
AI customer research tool
Funding
$100M
Year founded
2023
Gamma

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FounderForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Grant Lee
    United States
  • Jon Noronha
    India
  • James Fox
    United States
Details
What it does
AI graphic design tools
Funding
$91M
Year founded
2020
Krea

San Francisco, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Victor Perez
    Spain
  • Diego Rodriguez
    Spain
Details
What it does
Image generation software
Funding
$83M
Year founded
2022
HeyGen

Los Angeles, California, United States

Foreign Born FoundersForeign-born founder: yes
Founders
  • Joshua Xu
    China Mainland
  • Wayne Liang
    China Mainland
Details
What it does
AI video generation
Funding
$74M
Year founded
2022
Midjourney

San Francisco, California, United States

Founders
  • David Holz
    United States
Details
What it does
Image generation software
Funding
$0
Year founded
2021
Surge AI

San Francisco, California, United States

Founders
  • Edwin Chen
    United States
Details
What it does
Data labeling service
Funding
$0
Year founded
2020