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Company Profiles

Plain-English reference pages on the companies that matter โ€” how they make money, what they're worth, who they compete with, and the latest funding. Sourced and updated regularly.

Anthropic~$965B

The AI-safety lab behind Claude โ€” now the world's most valuable AI startup.

Frontier AI / Foundation Models
OpenAI~$852B

The maker of ChatGPT โ€” the company that put generative AI in front of the world.

Frontier AI / Foundation Models
Databricks~$134B

The data + AI 'lakehouse' platform racing toward one of tech's biggest IPOs.

Data & AI Infrastructure
Stripe~$159B

The financial infrastructure that quietly powers a huge share of the internet's payments.

Fintech Infrastructure
Cursor (Anysphere)$60B (pending acquisition)

The AI-native code editor that scaled to $2B ARR in ~3 years โ€” and is now being acquired by SpaceX.

AI Coding
Perplexity AI~$20B

The AI answer engine going straight at Google โ€” sourced answers instead of ten blue links.

AI Search
Scale AI~$29B

The data foundry behind frontier models โ€” now roughly half-owned by Meta.

AI Data Infrastructure
Mistral AI~โ‚ฌ11.7B (~$13.5B)

Europe's frontier AI champion โ€” open-weight models with a sovereign-AI pitch.

Frontier AI / Foundation Models
FigmaPublic (NYSE: FIG)

The collaborative design platform that went public in 2025 after walking away from Adobe's $20B.

Design Software (NYSE: FIG)
xAI~$250B

Elon Musk's AI lab behind Grok โ€” now a $250B subsidiary of SpaceX.

Frontier AI / Foundation Models
SpaceX~$1.77T

Musk's rocket, Starlink, and AI giant โ€” the largest IPO in history at ~$1.77 trillion.

Aerospace / Satellite Internet / AI
Cohere~$7B

The enterprise-and-sovereign AI lab betting on private deployments over consumer hype.

Enterprise AI / Foundation Models
Glean~$7.2B

The enterprise AI search and work assistant turning company knowledge into an agent platform.

Enterprise AI / Work Assistant
Baseten~$13B

The AI-inference platform that turned 'running models in production' into its own infrastructure category.

AI Infrastructure / Inference
Harvey~$11B

The legal-AI leader putting autonomous agents inside the world's biggest law firms.

Legal AI / Vertical AI