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2026 Honorees Announced

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The Top 120 Agentic AI Companies Shaping the Future

Curated by industry executives, investors, and technical experts — recognizing the builders of autonomous, intelligent systems transforming enterprise operations.

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About The Agentic List

2026 The Agentic List identifies the 120 most promising private companies building enterprise-grade agentic AI — autonomous systems that make decisions and take actions by themselves and collaborate with human teams. We identify companies that are trending up in the last 12 months, making significant impact in large enterprises and key industries.

Selection is driven by a rigorous, multi-stage process that begins with open nominations from industry executives and investors. Over 5,000 nominations were received, and nearly 2,000 private companies were screened across product maturity, enterprise adoption, competitive differentiation, growth momentum, and funding trajectory. Industry adoption and executive validation carry the heaviest weight — reflecting real production impact over hype.

Recognition by Stage

Early Stage

Up to $30M raised

Companies demonstrating strong product-market fit and early enterprise traction with autonomous AI capabilities.

Mid-Stage

$30M–$200M raised

Scaling enterprises with proven deployment records, expanding customer bases, and defensible differentiation in their category.

Growth Stage

$200M+ raised

Category leaders with significant enterprise adoption, substantial funding momentum, and clear trajectories toward market dominance.

120companies

Agentic Enterprises

51 companies/6 categories

Customer Experience Agents

9
Decagon
Growth
CEO: Jesse Zhang$481M
San Francisco, USA2023
Parloa
Growth
CEO: Malte Kosub$562M
Berlin, Germany2018
Sierra
Growth
CEO: Bret Taylor$635M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: David Karandish$154M
Saint Louis, USA2017
Giga
Mid
CEO: Varun Vummadi$105M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Jonathan Corbin$78M
Boston, USA2023
Nurix
Early
CEO: Mukesh Bansal$28M
San Mateo, USA2024
CEO: Parth Shah$28M
New York, USA2019
CEO: Hakob Astabatsyan$29M
Berlin, Germany2023

Finance & Operations Agents

8
Ramp
Growth
CEO: Eric Glyman$2,833M
New York, USA2019
Zip
Growth
CEO: Rujul Zaparde$358M
San Francisco, USA2020
CEO: Matt Harpe$38M
New York, USA2023
CEO: Nicolas Kopp$109M
New York, USA2021
Tabs
Mid
CEO: Ali Hussain$87M
New York, USA2023
Docyt
Early
CEO: Sidharth Saxena$25M
Santa Clara, USA2016
Narada
Early
CEO: David Park$8M
Berkeley, USA2021
Nominal
Early
CEO: Guy Leibovitz$29M
New York, USA2023

HR & Talent Agents

8
Darwinbox
Growth
CEO: Jayant Paleti$307M
Hyderabad, India2015
Mercor
Growth
CEO: Brendan Foody$486M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Benjamin Encz$131M
San Francisco, USA2018
CEO: Hari Kolam$88M
Redwood City, USA2019
CEO: Anoop Gupta$188M
Bellevue, USA2017
Alex
Early
CEO: Aaron Wang$20M
San Francisco, USA2024
CEO: Ashwarya Poddar$16M
Seattle, USA2019
Humanly
Early
CEO: Prem Kumar$25M
Seattle, USA2019

IT, Security & Compliance Agents

9
CEO: Evan Reiser$544M
Las Vegas, USA2018
Tines
Growth
CEO: Eoin Hinchy$271M
Dublin, Ireland2018
Torq
Growth
CEO: Ofer Smadari$330M
Tel Aviv, Israel2020
CEO: Gil Barak$82M
Tel Aviv, Israel2021
CEO: Jin Chang$47M
Sacramento, USA2020
CEO: Ahmed Achchak(TBA)M
New York, USA2023
XBOW
Mid
CEO: Oege de Moor$96M
Seattle, USA2024
AirMDR
Early
CEO: Kumar Saurabh$16M
Menlo Park, USA2023
Simbian
Early
CEO: Ambuj Kumar$11M
Mountain View, USA2023

Productivity & Future of Work Agents

9
Glean
Growth
CEO: Arvind Jain$765M
Palo Alto, USA2019
MainFunc
Growth
CEO: Eric Jing$435M
Palo Alto, USA2023
CEO: Aravind Srinivas$976M
San Francisco, USA2022
CEO: Dheeraj Pandey$151M
Palo Alto, USA2020
Ema
Mid
CEO: Surojit Chatterjee$61M
Mountain View, USA2021
CEO: Soham Mazumdar$73M
San Mateo, USA2023
CEO: Zheqing (Bill) Zhu$12M
Bellevue, USA2024
Simular
Early
CEO: Ang Li$27M
Palo Alto, USA2023
Strella
Early
CEO: Lydia Hylton$18M
New York, USA2023

Sales & Marketing Agents

8
Apollo
Growth
CEO: Matt Curl$251M
Covina, USA2015
Clay
Growth
CEO: Kareem Amin$202M
New York, USA2017
CEO: Kashish Gupta and Tejas Manohar$172M
San Francisco, USA2018
CEO: James Cadwallader$59M
New York, USA2023
CEO: Austin Hughes$59M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Mihir Garimella$18M
New York, USA2021
Jeeva
Early
CEO: Gaurav Bhattacharya$28M
Santa Monica, USA2018
Sybill
Early
CEO: Gorish Aggarwal$15M
Mountain View, USA2021

Agentic Engineering

34 companies/4 categories

Agent Development Platforms

9
Cohere
Growth
CEO: Aidan Gomez$1,537M
Toronto, Canada2019
CEO: Arthur Mensch$3,188M
Paris, France2023
n8n
Growth
CEO: Jan Oberhauser$254M
Berlin, Germany2019
CEO: Harrison Chase$160M
San Francisco, USA2022
CEO: Russ d'Sa$83M
San Jose, USA2021
CEO: Pavitar Singh and Ragy Thomas$81M
Gurugram, India2015
CrewAI
Early
CEO: João Moura$18M
San Francisco, USA2024
CEO: Antoni Rosinol$20M
Cambridge, USA2022
Vellum
Early
CEO: Akash Sharma$26M
New York, USA2023

Agentic Infrastructure & Data Systems

9
CEO: Clément Delangue$399M
Paris, France2016
Redpanda
Growth
CEO: Alex Gallego$266M
San Francisco, USA2019
Vercel
Growth
CEO: Guillermo Rauch$863M
Covina, USA2015
CEO: Karan Goel$191M
Daly City, USA2023
CEO: Erik Bernhardsson$110M
New York, USA2021
CEO: Parag Agrawal$130M
San Francisco, USA2023
Mem0
Early
CEO: Taranjeet Singh$24M
San Francisco, USA2023
Skyfire
Early
CEO: Amir Sarhangi$10M
San Francisco, USA2024
Tavily
Early
CEO: Rotem Weiss$25M
New York, USA2023

Safety, Alignment & Observability

7
CEO: Raj Dutt$840M
New York, USA2014
CEO: Jason Lopatecki$131M
Mill Valley, USA2020
CEO: Navrina Singh$39M
Palo Alto, USA2020
CEO: Krishna Gade$94M
Palo Alto, USA2018
CEO: James Brear$12M
London, United Kingdom2022
CEO: Zubin Koticha$15M
San Francisco, USA2023
Vijil
Early
CEO: Vin Sharma$23M
Menlo Park, USA2023

Vibe Coding & Engineering Productivity

9
CEO: Matt McClernan$252M
Palo Alto, USA2022
Cognition
Growth
CEO: Scott Wu$596M
New York, USA2023
Harness
Growth
CEO: Jyoti Bansal$775M
San Francisco, USA2017
CEO: Matan Grinberg$70M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Karri Saarinen$134M
San Francisco, USA2019
CEO: Jonathan Schneider$50M
San Francisco, USA2020
CEO: Dhruv Amin$20M
San Francisco, USA2020
CEO: Han Wang$22M
Ithaca, USA2021
CEO: Robert Brennan$24M
Boston, USA2024

Agentic Industries

35 companies/4 categories

Agents for Financial Institutions

9
CEO: Jack Kokko$1,397M
New York, USA2011
Canopy
Growth
CEO: Davis Bell$237M
South Jordan, USA2014
TIFIN
Growth
CEO: Vinay Nair$214M
Boulder, USA2018
CEO: Will Lawrence$95M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Aman Gour$31M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: George Sivulka$161M
New York, USA2020
CEO: Chaz Englander$88M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Sean Neville$18M
Boston, USA2022
CEO: Aman Goel$11M
Mumbai, India2023

Agents for Health Systems & Pharma

9
CEO: Munjal Shah$402M
Palo Alto, USA2023
CEO: Abhinav Shashank$651M
San Francisco, USA2014
CEO: Daniel Nadler$767M
Miami, USA2021
CEO: Akash Magoon$54M
New York, USA2022
CEO: Trey Holterman$160M
New York, USA2021
CEO: Brandon Rice$31M
New Haven, USA2022
CEO: Nick Derobertis$29M
Austin, USA2024
CEO: Fawad Butt$25M
Palo Alto, USA2024
Ryght
Early
CEO: Simon Arkell$9M
Anaheim, USA2023

Agents for Law Firms

9
Clio
Growth
CEO: Jack Newton$2,137M
Burnaby, Canada2008
Harvey
Growth
CEO: Winston Weinberg$1,026M
San Francisco, USA2022
Legora
Growth
CEO: Max Junestrand$266M
Stockholm, Sweden2023
Eve
Mid
CEO: Jay Madheswaran$164M
San Mateo, USA2023
CEO: Scott Stevenson$50M
Toronto, Canada2018
CEO: Jerry Zhou$85M
Seattle, USA2021
Crosby
Early
CEO: Ryan Daniels$26M
New York, USA2023
CEO: Rafie Faruq$23M
Cambridge, United Kingdom2017
CEO: Ross McNairn$30M
London, United Kingdom2023

Agents for Retail, Logistics & Manufacturers

8
Augury
Growth
CEO: Elan Greenberg$369M
New York, USA2011
Project44
Growth
CEO: Jett Mccandless$879M
Chicago, USA2014
CEO: Eli Finkelshteyn$85M
San Francisco, USA2015
CEO: Pablo Palafox$60M
San Francisco, USA2023
CEO: Natan Linder$153M
Somerville, USA2012
Cavela
Early
CEO: Anthony Sardain$9M
San Francisco, USA2024
CEO: Paul Singer$16M
Brooklyn, USA2022
Procure
Early
CEO: Konstantin von Büren and Yves Bauer$13M
London, United Kingdom2020

By the Numbers

A snapshot of the 2026 honorees

By Theme

Enterprises51
Engineering34
Industries35

By Stage

Growth Stage36
Mid Stage44
Early Stage40

Top Countries

United States101
United Kingdom4
Canada3
India3
Germany3
Israel2

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