# Where AI Compute And Inference Startups Are Based: 2026 Map of 266 Companies

> Map of where 266 AI compute and inference startups worldwide are based, city by city: San Francisco, London and New York lead. $88B raised between them.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/geo-maps/where-ai-compute-and-inference-startups-are-based (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Each circle is a city, sized by how many startups are based there. Countries are shaded by their count.

## Leading cities

- San Francisco 38 $5.4B
- London 23 $1.9B
- New York 17 $4.2B
- Palo Alto 7 $1.3B
- Santa Clara 7 $761M
- Singapore 6 $892M
- San Jose 6 $2.8B
- Mountain View 5 $923M
- Austin 4 $370M
- Los Angeles 4 $60M
- Seattle 4 $826M
- Cambridge 4 $121M
- Seoul 4 $1.4B
- Las Vegas 3 $697M
- Utrecht 3 $2.0M

## By country

- United States 165 $71B
- United Kingdom 29 $2.4B
- Canada 8 $1.1B
- Singapore 6 $892M
- Germany 6 $634M
- Netherlands 6 $4.5B
- Australia 5 $3.6B
- China 5 $919M
- Switzerland 5 $37M
- South Korea 5 $1.5B
- Hong Kong SAR China 4 $425M
- France 4 $134M

## Best-funded

- [**Aligned Data Centers** United States · $12B](https://millionrounds.com/company/aligned-data-centers)
- [**Crusoe** United States · $9.9B](https://millionrounds.com/company/crusoe)
- [**Vantage Data Centers** United States · $8.6B](https://millionrounds.com/company/vantage-data-centers)
- [**Lambda** United States · $6.8B](https://millionrounds.com/company/lambda)
- [**Core Scientific** United States · $5.4B](https://millionrounds.com/company/core-scientific)
- [**Nebius Group** Netherlands · $4.2B](https://millionrounds.com/company/nebius-group)
- [**Baseten** United States · $4.0B](https://millionrounds.com/company/baseten)
- [**Tenstorrent** United States · $3.0B](https://millionrounds.com/company/tenstorrent)
- [**Fluidstack** United States · $3.0B](https://millionrounds.com/company/fluidstack)
- [**Sharon AI** Australia · $2.5B](https://millionrounds.com/company/sharon-ai)
- [**Fireworks AI** United States · $1.7B](https://millionrounds.com/company/fireworks-ai)
- [**NEXTDC** Australia · $1.1B](https://millionrounds.com/company/nextdc)

**How this map is made.** Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track. Each is placed at the city we hold for it, matched to that city's position in GeoNames (cities of 15,000 people or more; geonames.org, CC BY 4.0); startups without a city on record count in the totals but not on the map. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.

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