In the first half of 2025, artificial intelligence startups secured extraordinary investments, reflecting growing confidence in the transformative potential of technology in today’s world.
The most funded AI companies include OpenAI, Scale AI, XAI, Anthropic, Infinite Reality, Safe Superintelligence, Groq, Anysphere, Lambda, and Runway.
In 2025, OpenAI raised significantly more funding than any other AI company, reaching $40 billion and putting the company’s valuation at $300 billion.
In second place in fundraising is Scale, which signed a deal with Meta to take a 49% non-voting stake in the company and recruit 28-year-old Scale CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its new superintelligence division.
This article uses data from Visual Capitalist, which visualizes the biggest AI deals of 2025 as of July 8. It also highlights which companies have received the most capital, as well as who invested in them.
The 10 most funded AI companies of 2025 so far
| Company | Deal Value | Company Valuation | Investor (s) |
| OpenAl | $40 billion | $300 billion | Microsoft SoftBank Group Founders Fund Magnetar Capital |
| Scale AI | $14.3 billion | $29 billion | Meta |
| xAI | $10 billion | $80 billion pre raise | Morgan Stanley Others unannounced |
| Anthropic | $3.50 billion | $61.5 billion | Lightspeed Venture Partners Salesforce Ventures Alphabet |
| Infinite Reality | $3.00 billion | $15.5 billion | Sky Sports T-Mobile Ventures World Wrestling Entertainment |
| Safe Superintelligence | $2.00 billion | $32 billion | Greenoaks Alphabet Andreessen Horowitz |
| Groq | $1.50 billion | $2.8 billion | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| Anysphere | $900 milion | $9 billion | Thrive Capital Accel Andreessen Horowitz |
| Lambda | $480 milion | $2.5 billion | Andrej Karpathy NVIDIA ARK Invest Fincadia Advisors |
| Runway | $310 milion | $3 billion | General Atlantic Baillie Gifford Fidelity Investments NVIDIA |
OpenAI is moving forward
OpenAI is backed by big tech giants like Microsoft and SoftBank, but there is one major condition: OpenAI must transform from its current mix of nonprofit and for-profit structures to a fully independent for-profit entity by December 31, 2025.
Shortly after the deal was announced, on March 31, OpenAI said it would remain in control of its nonprofit parent company while restructuring its for-profit arm to raise more capital, according to Visual Capitalist.
On the same date, the main investor, SoftBank, said that if the change does not happen on time, it will reduce its contribution from $30 billion to $20 billion.
Key points of the Meta and ScaleAI deal
In June 2025, Meta invested $14.3 billion in American data annotation company ScaleAI, acquiring a 49% non-voting stake. This investment has raised the company’s valuation to $29 billion—a new high—from $14 billion previously.
The key highlight of the deal is that Scale CEO Alexander Wang will move to Meta to co-lead Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, a newly created artificial intelligence division that will work on Meta’s AI research and development, according to Visual Capitalist.
Other companies on the list have also raised large funding.
Note: The AI companies on this list have agreements with investors based on various terms. As a result, investors pay the companies in stages based on those terms.
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