Top AI Lead Investors 2026
| # | Investor | AI Deals | Lead | Representative Portfolio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreessen Horowitz | 30 | 30 | Wiz, Replit, Mistral AI, Cursor, Hebbia |
| 2 | Sequoia Capital | 18 | 18 | xAI, Figure AI, OpenAI, Harvey, Glean |
| 3 | General Catalyst | 14 | 14 | Mistral AI, AgentMail, Thinking Machines Lab, Autoscience, Cloaked |
| 4 | Accel | 13 | 13 | Scale AI, Lovable, Legora, Mind Robotics, Cyera |
| 5 | Khosla Ventures | 13 | 13 | Glean, Sakana AI, Rhoda, Glydways, Factory |
| 6 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | 13 | 13 | Anthropic, Stability AI, Isembard, Stacks, Kana Intelligence |
| 7 | Founders Fund | 10 | 10 | Anduril Industries, Nominal, Cognition, Impulse Space, Ramp |
| 8 | Index Ventures | 10 | 10 | Cohere, Parallel, Cowboy Space, Adfin, Scope |
| 9 | Kleiner Perkins | 10 | 10 | Health Universe, Harvey, Saronic, Rogo, Mind Robotics |
| 10 | Thrive Capital | 10 | 10 | OpenAI, Databricks, Perplexity, Cursor, Anduril Industries |
| 11 | Benchmark | 5 | 5 | Lovable, Gumloop, Starcloud, Legora, Fireworks |
| 12 | Lux Capital | 5 | 5 | Sakana AI, Cellbox Solutions, AIRMO, Hugging Face, Cognition |
| 13 | Bain Capital Ventures | 4 | 4 | Swish, Poolside, Crusoe |
| 14 | Balderton Capital | 4 | 4 | French AI real estate startup Davis, Grand Games, Geordie AI, Quantum Systems |
| 15 | Coatue Management | 4 | 4 | Cyera, Science Corp., CoreWeave |
How this ranking is calculated
Investors are ranked by the number of tracked AI funding rounds matching this angle (15 investors shown, 163 qualifying deals total). Rankings are computed directly from publicly reported rounds in our database and update as new deals are added. The “undisclosed” placeholder is excluded. Ties break by lead-investor count. Placement cannot be purchased.