Top AI Startups Founded and Led by Women
2024 Year in Review
Top AI startups founded and led by women
Co-founded by Daniela Amodei, Anthropic raised $4 billion from Amazon. The US company raised a total of $13.7 billion in venture capital.
Founded by AI pioneer and Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li, World Labs raised $230 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Ashton Kutcher, Intel Capital, AMD Ventures, and Eric Schmidt. Valued at over $1 billion, the US company recently unveiled its first project, an AI system that generates video game-like, 3D scenes from a single image.
Founded and led by Raquel Urtasun, Waabi, a Toronto-based startup developing fully driverless trucks using generative AI technology, raised a $200 million Series B round co-led by Uber and Khosla Ventures.
Co-founded and led by May Habib, Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises. The San Francisco startup secured a $200 million Series C round at a $1.9 billion valuation. Premji Invest, Radical Ventures, and Iconiq Growth co-led the round, joined by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, B Capital, Citi Ventures, IBM Ventures, Workday Ventures, Accenture, Balderton, Insight Partners, and Vanguard.
Co-founded by Stanford University Ph.D students Demi Guo and Chenlin Meng, Pika is a text-to-video AI platform on a mission to make it easier for anyone to create videos on command. The Palo Alto startup raised an $80 million round from Spark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Greycroft.
Co-founded by Elise de Reus, Cradle, an Amsterdam-based AI-powered protein engineering platform, secured $73 million in a Series B round led by IVP, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures and Kindred Capital.
Co-founded by Lucy (Eunjeong) Park and Henny (Hae in) Son, Upstage, a US and South Korea-based startup that aims to accelerate the development of purpose-trained large language models (LLMs) and document AI capabilities for enterprises, secured $72 million in Series B from Korea Development Bank and other investors.
Co-founded by Emmanuelle Martiano Rolland (COO), Aqemia, a Paris-based biotech that uses AI to fast-track drug discovery and design, secured $68 million across two fundraising rounds, bringing its total funding to over $100 million.
Co-founded and led by Wardah Inam, Overjet, a US startup developing an AI platform aimed at helping dental organizations give patients the highest quality of care, secured $53.2 million in a funding round led by March Capital.
Co-founded by Kim Parikh (SVP Data and Content), Hippocratic AI, a Palo Alto, California-based startup on a mission to develop a Large Language Model (LLM) for healthcare, secured $53 million in Series A funding. Premji Invest and General Catalyst led the round.
Co-founded by Soyoung Lee, Twelve Labs, a San Francisco-based company that develops an AI model designed to process and interpret videos, secured $50 million in Series A funding led by NVentures and NEA, and an additional $30 million round from Telecom and HubSpot Ventures, along with In-Q-Tel. Twelve Labs raised a total of $107.1 million.