Top AI Lead Investors 2026
| # | Investor | AI Deals | Lead | Representative Portfolio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreessen Horowitz | 34 | 34 | Wiz, Replit, Mistral, Cursor, Hebbia |
| 2 | Sequoia Capital | 22 | 22 | xAI, Figure AI, OpenAI, Harvey, Glean |
| 3 | General Catalyst | 18 | 18 | Mistral, AgentMail, Thinking Machines Lab, Autoscience, Cloaked |
| 4 | Accel | 15 | 15 | Scale AI, Lovable, Legora, Mind Robotics, Cyera |
| 5 | Khosla Ventures | 14 | 14 | Glean, Sakana AI, Rhoda, Glydways, Factory |
| 6 | Lightspeed Venture Partners | 13 | 13 | Anthropic, Stability AI, Isembard, Stacks, Kana Intelligence |
| 7 | Founders Fund | 12 | 12 | Anduril Industries, Nominal, Cognition, Impulse Space, Ramp |
| 8 | Index Ventures | 11 | 11 | Cohere, Parallel, Cowboy Space, Adfin, Scope |
| 9 | Thrive Capital | 11 | 11 | Databricks, Perplexity, Cursor, OpenAI, Anduril Industries |
| 10 | Kleiner Perkins | 10 | 10 | Health Universe, Harvey, Saronic, Rogo, Mind Robotics |
| 11 | Lux Capital | 8 | 8 | Sakana AI, Cellbox Solutions, AIRMO, Hugging Face, Cognition |
| 12 | Eclipse | 7 | 7 | Arc Boat Company, Wayve, True Anomaly, Genesis AI |
| 13 | Balderton Capital | 6 | 6 | Escape, Wayve, French AI real estate startup Davis, Grand Games, Geordie AI |
| 14 | Benchmark | 6 | 6 | Lovable, Gumloop, Starcloud, Sierra, Legora |
| 15 | Insight Partners | 6 | 6 | City Detect, Wonderful, Assured Health, Spur Intelligence, DataBahn |
How this ranking is calculated
Investors are ranked by the number of tracked AI funding rounds matching this angle (15 investors shown, 193 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.
Data through Sep 8, 2026. Refreshed daily as new funding rounds are ingested and the site redeploys.