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Today I’m sharing a curated list of the angel investors behind many of the biggest AI funding rounds of 2026.
Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation. Lovable doubled to $13.3B. Fireworks AI, Together AI and Baseten raised more than $3.8B between them. And a new group of companies came out of stealth with some of the best-known founders in tech on their cap tables.
So we went through 20 of the most notable AI companies that raised in recent months and for each angel we included the essentials you need to research them or plan outreach:
Name
Role
LinkedIn profile
Company backed
So instead of just knowing who these angels are, you can also quickly understand why they matter, what kind of operator or founder they are and which breakout AI companies they’ve backed.
If you’re raising, these are the people who wrote personal checks into the companies everyone wants to back today.
👇 Let’s dig in! Below are the companies covered in the database 👇
Lovable
AI software-development platform that lets anyone build and deploy apps by describing them in plain language.
Funding: Raised a $400M Series C at a $13.3B valuation in August 2026, led by Menlo Ventures with EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund as co-lead, and with Balderton, Tencent and Kaszek joining. Lovable has raised about $952M in total.
Angels in the database: 26
ElevenLabs
AI audio platform building models for speech generation, dubbing, music and conversational voice agents.
Funding: Raised a $500M Series D at an $11B valuation in February 2026, led by Sequoia. In September 2026, a $300M employee tender offer doubled its valuation to $22B.
Angels in the database: 19
Scuba
Shared “context engine” that helps teams and their AI agents understand how a company works, built by former Slack executives Noah Desai Weiss and Dolapo Falola.
Funding: Came out of stealth in October 2026 with $34M across two rounds: a pre-seed led by Accel and a seed co-led by Accel and IVP.
Angels in the database: 12
Cognition
Developer of Devin and owner of Windsurf, AI coding agents used by enterprise engineering teams.
Funding: Raised a $2B Series E at a $48B valuation in September 2026, led by a16z with Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir. The round came four months after a $1B raise at $26B.
Angels in the database: 10
OpenEvidence
Clinical AI platform that gives physicians evidence-based answers sourced from medical literature.
Funding: Raised $250M at a $15B valuation in September 2026, co-led by a16z and Byers Capital, with hospital systems participating. It follows a $250M Series D at $12B in January 2026.
Angels in the database: 8
LiveKit
Open-source infrastructure for real-time voice and video AI. ChatGPT’s voice mode runs on it.
Funding: Raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation in January 2026, led by Index Ventures with Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter and Redpoint. In September 2026 it acquired Loophole Labs to expand its agent infrastructure.
Angels in the database: 8
Meticulous
Testing platform that checks every code change before it merges, including the ones written by AI agents.
Funding: Raised a $15M Series A in October 2026, led by Chemistry with participation from Menlo Ventures.
Angels in the database: 8
Baseten
Inference platform companies use to run AI models in production.
Funding: Raised a $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation in June 2026, led by Altimeter, Conviction and Spark Capital. In September it was reported to be in talks at about $26B.
Angels in the database: 7
Supabase
Open-source Postgres platform behind a large share of the apps built with AI coding tools.
Funding: Raised a $500M Series F at a $10.5B valuation in June 2026, led by GIC. In October 2026 it added $150M led by GIC with CapitalG and agreed to acquire the database startup Turso.
Angels in the database: 7
Together AI
Cloud platform for training, fine-tuning and running open-source AI models.
Funding: Raised an $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation in July 2026, led by Aramco Ventures with Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Nvidia and Salesforce Ventures. Total funding is about $1.33B.
Angels in the database: 7
Fireworks AI
Inference platform that serves and fine-tunes open-weight models for production workloads.
Funding: Raised a $1.5B Series D at a $17.5B valuation in July 2026, co-led by Atreides, Index Ventures and TCV, as its annualized revenue passed $1B.
Angels in the database: 4
Mercor
Marketplace that hires vetted experts to train and evaluate AI models for labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Funding: Raised a $350M Series C at a $10B valuation in October 2025, led by Felicis. In July 2026 it was reported to be raising about $500M at $20B, with annualized revenue above $2B.
Angels in the database: 4
Periodic Labs
AI lab founded by Liam Fedus (ex-OpenAI) and Ekin Dogus Cubuk (ex-Google DeepMind), training models on data from its own labs to discover new materials.
Funding: Launched with a $300M seed led by a16z in September 2025. A Series A at a $7.5B valuation was reported in mid-2026, though the company has not announced it.
Angels in the database: 4
Rogo
AI platform for investment banks and finance firms.
Funding: Raised a $160M Series D at about $2B in April 2026, led by Kleiner Perkins. In September 2026, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, MUFG and Société Générale invested about $30M.
Angels in the database: 4
Factory
AI software-engineering platform building autonomous “Droids” for enterprise development teams.
Funding: Raised $200M at a $5B valuation in September 2026 from Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Insight Partners, NEA and others, tripling its valuation in five months. Total funding is over $400M.
Angels in the database: 3
Mecka AI
Pays people to wear motion sensors while doing everyday tasks, then sells the data to companies training humanoid robots.
Funding: Raised a $60M Series B in October 2026, led by Sequoia with Nvidia, M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung. Total funding is over $120M.
Angels in the database: 3
Proximal
Turns real agent traces into evaluation environments and training data that show where frontier models fail.
Funding: Came out of stealth in September 2026 with a $15M seed at a $300M valuation, led by General Catalyst.
Angels in the database: 3
Rillet
AI-native ERP and accounting platform.
Funding: Raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation in August 2026, led by ICONIQ with Sequoia and a16z, its third round in 14 months. Total funding is $208.5M.
Angels in the database: 3
Hone
Builds AI “Engines” that are assigned a business outcome, like cutting vendor spend, and run the work for weeks or months.
Funding: Raised a $60M seed at a $285M valuation in October 2026, five months after founding, co-led by Benchmark and Index Ventures.
Angels in the database: 2
Sabi
Baseball cap with brain sensors that turns imagined words into text and commands for AI assistants.
Funding: Raised a $50M seed in October 2026, led by Khosla Ventures with Accel, Initialized and DST Global. Forbes reported a $600M valuation.
Angels in the database: 1
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