18 AI Startups to Watch

18 AI Startups to Watch |

Artificial intelligence has become one of the key technologies reshaping the way we search for information, work with automating repetitive tasks, study with AI-powered tutors, and more.

AI remains one of the dominant themes of venture capital investing and millions of users engage regularly with a growing number of AI apps.

Here’s a curated list of 18 growing AI startups to look out for in 2024.

Let’s dive right in!

1. VEED

Website: https://www.veed.io/

Year founded: 2018

HQ: London, United Kingdom

Users: 10 million

Funding: $35 million

Description: VEED offers an AI-powered video editing platform. The company’s video editor offers users a variety of tools, including background removal, automatic subtitles, AI avatars, and more.

According to the startup, VEED generates more than $35 million in annual recurring revenue and serves 10 million users.

2. Fliki

Fliki – Homepage

Website: https://fliki.ai/

Year founded: 2021

HQ: Dover, Delaware

Users: 6 million

Funding: No data available

Description: Fliki is an AI text-to-video platform that generates video content at scale from text scripts or idea prompts in minutes. The startup specializes in social media videos suitable for various platforms, including Instagram Reels and TikTok.

3. PhotoRoom

Photoroom – Homepage

Website: https://www.photoroom.com/

Year founded: 2019

HQ: Paris, France

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: $64 million

Description: PhotoRoom is an AI-powered photo editor designed for online sellers. The company’s editor offers a number of features, including background removal, retouche, and shadows. The software supports batch edits, enabling users to edit multiple images at once. According to the startup, Photoroom has achieved over 150 million downloads.

4. Codeium

Codeium – Homepage

Website: https://codeium.com/

Released: 2021

HQ: Mountain View, California

Users: 700 thousand users

Funding: $243 million

Description: Codeium offers “ChatGPT for developers”, an AI tool that provides developers with autocomplete code suggestions, and answers code-related questions via chat functionality. AI startup Codeium reached a $1.25 billion valuation after securing $150 million in Series C funding in August 2024.

5. Suno

Suno – Homepage

Website: https://suno.com/

Year founded: 2022

HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Users: 12 million

Funding: $125 million

Description: Suno works as an AI music generator where users can generate songs of up to 4 minutes based on a text prompt. Generated songs can be purely instrumental or with vocals depending on the user preference.

6. Anthropic

Anthropic – Homepage

Website: https://www.anthropic.com/

Year founded: 2021

HQ: San Francisco, California

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: $7.6 billion

Description: Anthropic, is the company behind Claude (a popular AI chatbot). Widely considered a top ChatGPT rival, it offers similar functionality and can be used as a work assistant for a variety of use cases from answering questions, and explaining concepts to generating text and code.

7. Gamma

Gamma – Homepage

Website: https://gamma.app/

Year founded: 2020

HQ: San Francisco, California

Users: 25 million

Funding: $20 million

Description: Gamma is an AI-powered presentation maker. Users can create customizable slide decks from scratch using a short text prompt or restyle existing content using their own documents, or presentations. According to the startup, 60 million presentations have been generated using the Gamma platform to date.

8. Fathom

Fathom – Homepage

Website: https://fathom.video/

Year founded: 2020

HQ: San Francisco, California

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: Undisclosed

Description: Fathom is a developer of an AI-powered messing assistant that automatically transcribes, and summarizes calls. It currently works with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet.

9. Vidnoz

Vidnoz – Homepage

Website: https://www.vidnoz.com/

Year founded: 2016

HQ: Los Angeles, California

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: Undisclosed

Description: Vidnoz functions as an AI-powered video creation tool that allows users to generate videos with minimal effort. The company’s software includes a number of features, including AI avatars, a wide variety of video templates, and AI voices.

10. Udio

Udio – Homepage

Website: https://www.udio.com/

Year founded: 2023

HQ: New York, New York

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: $10 million

Description: Suno functions as an AI-powered music creation platform where users can generate entire tracks from text prompts specifying genres, and topics. According to the startup, it takes less than 40 seconds of processing time to generate an entire track.

11. Perplexity

Perplexity – Homepage

Website: https://www.perplexity.ai/

Year founded: 2022

HQ: San Francisco, California

Users: 15 million

Funding: $165 million

Description: Perplexity is an AI-powered search engine designed to find and summarize up-to-date content. According to the startup, Perplexity processed more than 500 million search queries in 2023 alone.

12. Ideogram

Ideogram – Homepage

Website: https://ideogram.ai/

Year founded: 2022

HQ: Toronto, Canada

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: $96.5 million

Description: Ideogram offers an AI image generator. Users can generate realistic images, posters, and logos in a variety of styles from a text prompt. In 2023, over 1 billion images were generated on the platform.

13. Harvey

Harvey – Homepage

Website: https://www.harvey.ai/

Year founded: 2022

HQ: San Francisco, California

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: $206 million

Description: Harvey is a legal tech startup that offers an AI-powered assistant to legal professionals. The company’s software helps with common tasks from legal research to document drafting.

14. Liner

Liner – Homepage

Website: https://getliner.com/

Year founded: 2012

HQ: Seoul, South Korea

Users: 10 million

Funding: $9 million

Description: Liner offers an AI-powered search engine designed for students and researchers. The search service provides answers using credible sources and can be set to include only answers from academic papers.

15. Otter.ai

Otter – Homepage

Website: https://otter.ai/

Year founded: 2016

HQ: Mountain View, California

Users: 14 million

Funding: $70 million

Description: Otter.ai is an AI-powered transcription service. The company’s flagship product (AI meeting assistant) generates meeting notes and makes summaries with action times automatically. On top of transcription, users can get answers from meetings using an AI chat product.

16. Glean

Glean – Homepage

Website: https://www.glean.com/

Year founded: 2020

HQ: New York, New York

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: $560 million

Description: Glean offers an AI-powered enterprise search software that aims to boost workplace efficiency. The company’s platform lets users search for information, generate content, automate workflows, and build no-code, low-code AI apps. Glean achieved a $4.6 billion valuation following Series E funding.

17. Supermaven

Supermaven – Homepage

Website: https://supermaven.com/

Year founded: 2024

HQ: San Francisco, California

Users: 40 thousand

Funding: $12 million

Description: Supermaven is a developer of an AI code completion tool. Currently compatible with VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, the AI coding assistant is currently used by over 40,000 developers.

18. Leonardo.Ai

Leonardo – Homepage

Website: http://www.leonardo.ai/

Year founded: 2022

HQ: Sydney, Australia

Users: Not publicly disclosed

Funding: Acquired by Canva

Description: Leonardo.Ai is a generative AI art platform that lets users easily create and edit hyper-realistic artworks. According to the company, millions of users generated over 700 million images on the platform.

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