The Software Report is pleased to announce The Top 25 AI Companies of 2025. This year’s awardees are capitalizing on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to drive innovation across industries. Companies like Anthropic, Scale AI, and Hugging Face are creating massive models, providing essential data, and building open platforms that serve as the foundational layer of AI capabilities. Drawing on this foundation, others are applying that expertise to specific industries, such as with Phenom’s HR solutions, Ada’s AI-powered customer service, and Helsing’s defense technology.
Beyond the practical applications, these companies are also striking the delicate balance between democratizing AI and building proprietary and safety-focused models for specific enterprise or ethical needs. With the rapidly evolving market supplying constant challenges, these awardees are capably negotiating the need to bring new advancements to market while ensuring that their solutions are developed responsibly.
As AI continues to usher in a new era of productivity, these companies will continue to lead the charge, automating workflows, reducing risk, and optimizing essential business functions. The architects of this cognitive leap in the software industry, the awardees’ contributions will persist in pushing the boundaries of what AI and ML technologies can offer to enterprises of all types.
The recipients of this year’s award were selected based on comprehensive criteria that evaluated each company’s industry expertise and overall contributions to AI and the markets they serve. Each awardee has demonstrated measurable results through their AI-powered platforms and solutions and their commitment to continuous innovation. Please join us in celebrating The Top 25 AI Companies of 2025.
1. Anthropic
Founded in 2021, Anthropic is an AI startup committed to building dependable, interpretable, and steerable artificial intelligence. With a core mission to ensure that AI systems are aligned with human values, the company focuses on developing tools that are not only powerful but also safe and ethical. Anthropic’s flagship product, Claude, is an advanced AI assistant designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless. The company’s capabilities span large-scale model training, safety research, and practical AI deployment—delivering solutions that help organizations integrate AI responsibly while maximizing real-world impact.
Anthropic’s customer base includes enterprise-level organizations across industries, with a global reach that continues to expand. Supported by leading investors like Google and Salesforce, Anthropic has formed key partnerships that enhance its research, infrastructure, and product offerings. As the company scales, it remains focused on advancing AI alignment, expanding access to Claude through strategic collaborations, and leading the development of safer, more reliable AI systems worldwide.
2. Rossum
Rossum is an AI company building the next generation of intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions. Its cloud-native platform delivers a state-of-the-art transactional document automation solution to over 450 global enterprises, helping them eliminate document chaos, drive productivity, and unlock strategic value from their operations. To date, Rossum has processed more than $1.3 trillion in business transactions across high-volume, document-intensive processes.
At the core of Rossum’s platform is Rossum Aurora, a specialized AI engine built for high-accuracy document understanding and automation. Powered by the Transactional Large Language Model (T-LLM)—trained on millions of annotated transactional documents—Rossum Aurora delivers unmatched accuracy and performance straight out of the box. Rossum takes automation a step further with specialist AI agents: purpose-built agents that handle complex, document-heavy workflows with powerful new skills.
Founded in 2017 by Tomáš Gogar (CEO), Petr Baudiš (CTO), and Tomáš Tunys (Chief Science Officer), Rossum has quickly become a key player in the IDP space. With headquarters in Prague, an office in London, and a globally distributed team of 180, Rossum is backed by $109.5M in venture capital from top-tier investors including General Catalyst. Rossum’s AI-first, cloud-native approach fuses human expertise with cutting-edge technology, helping enterprises reduce risk, maximize efficiency, improve relationships, and capture real-time insights with automation that actually works.
3. Phenom
Phenom provides advanced AI and AI agents for the human resources sector. Aiming to solve industry-specific hiring, development, and retention challenges, it’s using its innovative solutions to connect people, data, and interactions. Phenom was founded in 2010 by Mahe Bayireddi, Hari Bayireddi, and Brad Goldoor, and has since supported 400 million candidates in finding the right job while also serving thousands of recruiters, talent marketers, and hiring managers.
With platforms for talent acquisition, talent management, and HRIT, Phenom is using AI technology to eliminate time-consuming tasks and attract best-fit talent. With API automation, the company’s solutions also integrate with third-party vendors, including ATS, HCM, BI, performance management, job distribution, and LMS tools. The company’s name draws inspiration from a 19th-century term that refers to a particularly gifted or talented person. Now, Phenom is hoping to help companies recruit and retain that exact kind of talent, demonstrating its commitment to using advanced technologies to humanize processes while creating value and efficiencies for its customers.
4. Scale AI
Scale AI, a leading data infrastructure platform for artificial intelligence, has been a pivotal force in accelerating AI development since its founding in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo. Headquartered in San Francisco, Scale AI provides the essential data backbone for some of the world’s most advanced AI systems. Its core offerings include the Scale Generative AI Platform, which enables enterprises to fine-tune base generative models using their proprietary data, and the Scale Data Engine, a suite of tools for collecting, annotating, curating, and evaluating high-quality data.
With over 13 billion annotations and 87 million generative AI data points labeled, Scale AI plays a critical role in enhancing model performance, safety, and alignment for clients across the AI ecosystem. Scale AI serves a global and diverse customer base, including tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI, leading enterprises such as Fox and Accenture, startups like Brex, and key U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Army and Air Force. With strong public and private partnerships and a commitment to frontier innovation, Scale AI continues to shape the future of AI across industries.
5. CentralReach
CentralReach is a leading provider of Autism and IDD Care software, providing a complete, end-to-end software and services platform for applied behavior analysis (ABA) and multidisciplinary therapy. CentralReach, founded in 2012, is transforming the way care is delivered to help children and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and related intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)—and those who serve them—unlock potential, achieve better outcomes, and live more independent lives.
With its roots in ABA, the company is revolutionizing how the lifelong journey of autism and IDD care is enabled at home, school, and work with powerful and intuitive solutions purpose-built for each care setting.
Trusted by hundreds of thousands of professionals globally, CentralReach is committed to ongoing product advancement, market-leading industry expertise, world-class client satisfaction, and support of the autism and IDD community to propel autism and IDD care into a new era of excellence.
6. MiniMax
Founded in 2021, MiniMax is a global technology company at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation. The company specializes in the development of large-scale multimodal AI models, including work in speech, text, and video generation.
MiniMax’s mission is to build a world where intelligence thrives with everyone, and its suite of products reflects this vision—ranging from MiniMax Chat and Talkie, to the globally recognized Hailuo AI and its trillion-parameter MoE architecture. Through its secure and scalable API platform, launched in 2023, MiniMax empowers enterprises and developers to seamlessly integrate advanced AI capabilities into their workflows. The company’s offerings enable 3 billion daily interactions and generate over 70,000 hours of speech and 20 million images, processing over 3 trillion tokens daily, underscoring its global impact.
In April 2025, strategic innovations like the recently launched MiniMax Audio & Speech-02 models with support for 30+ languages and real-time performance, continue to strengthen MiniMax’s position as a trailblazer in multilingual, multimodal AI. As the company expands its product suite and global presence, its strategic focus remains on enhancing generative AI tools for creators, enterprises, and developers alike.
7. Glean
Glean provides an AI-powered enterprise search and knowledge discovery platform. Founded in 2019 by a team that includes former Google search engineers and industry veterans, Glean helps employees find information scattered across various company applications (like Slack, Google Workspace, Jira, Salesforce, etc.). It uses AI, particularly natural language processing and large language models, to understand user queries, find the most relevant documents or answers, summarize information, and personalize search results based on the user's role and access permissions.
Glean aims to expand human potential with the belief that “AI-centric employees create AI-transformed businesses.” With an average of 110 hours saved per year for Glean users, employees across the world are using the company’s tools to find answers, generate content, and automate work, drastically improving efficiency and productivity.
8. LinkSquares
LinkSquares is the leading AI-powered contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform, trusted by more than 1,000 customers, including DraftKings, ProPharma, Wayfair, and the Boston Celtics. LinkSquares' advanced AI engine, LinkAI, is uniquely designed with a proprietary blend of predictive and generative AI, specifically trained to excel with legal documents. Since 2015, LinkSquares has revolutionized contract management by delivering powerful analytics, minimizing organizational risk, and enhancing the speed and precision of contract workflows at every stage—unlocking greater efficiency, reliability, and strategic value for teams across the business.
LinkSquares’ end-to-end CLM, powered by LinkAI, delivers actionable insights and powerful workflows with unmatched speed and precision—at every stage of the contract lifecycle. With its platform, the company’s mission is to elevate legal teams, empowering them as valued business partners by eliminating manual, time-consuming tasks and equipping them with modern, purpose-built tools.
9. Helsing
Helsing, headquartered in Europe and founded in 2021, is a defense technology company harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to safeguard democratic societies. With a mission rooted in civic duty and the protection of liberal values, Helsing is redefining defense by transforming it into a software-first domain. The company’s platform integrates sensor data—from infrared, sonar, and video to radio frequencies—to deliver real-time battlefield awareness and decision-making advantages. Helsing’s capabilities extend beyond software development; the company works closely with governments and industry partners to augment existing military hardware with cutting-edge AI, offering transformative solutions for modern defense challenges.
With over 200 employees, Helsing operates at the intersection of innovation and strategic collaboration. The company supports a wide range of allied democratic nations, including a significant partnership with Ukraine, delivering and scaling the deployment of HX-2 strike drones. Helsing recently launched its first Resilience Factory (RF-1) in Southern Germany, a high-throughput production facility. This initiative underscores its commitment to sovereign manufacturing and technological self-reliance. Helsing aims to expand its impact across Europe, delivering precision at scale and bolstering regional security through deeper industrial collaboration.
10. Joveo
As the global leader in AI-led, high-performance recruitment marketing, Joveo is transforming talent attraction and recruitment media buying for the world’s largest and smartest employers, staffing businesses, RPOs, and recruitment marketing agencies. Joveo’s AI-led, high-performance recruitment marketing platform brings together best-of-breed programmatic job advertising technology, a proprietary AI CMS to create world-class career sites, and a talent engagement platform.
The Joveo platform enables businesses to attract, source, engage, and hire the most qualified candidates on time, within their budget. Powering millions of jobs every day, the platform uses advanced data science and AI to dynamically manage and optimize talent sourcing and applications across all online channels, while providing real-time insights at every step of the job seeker journey, from click to hire.
11. Ada
Ada is a company specializing in AI-powered customer service automation. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Ada provides an AI chatbot platform designed to resolve customer inquiries automatically across various digital channels, without requiring human intervention for a significant portion of interactions. Its platform leverages conversational AI, natural language processing, and machine learning to understand customer intent, provide personalized answers, perform actions (like booking appointments or processing returns), and escalate complex issues to human agents smoothly.
Seeking to address the question “why do businesses talk to their customers less the bigger they get?”, Ada’s founders wanted to eliminate the tradeoff between high-quality service and cost control. Serving the e-commerce, financial services, SaaS, and gaming industries, Ada wants to create automated customer service that is so advanced that customers genuinely prefer it.
12. Prezent
Prezent, headquartered in Los Altos, California, is the first enterprise business communication platform designed to transform how enterprise teams create and deliver impactful presentations and narratives.
By combining cutting-edge AI-powered software with expert services, Prezent empowers businesses to craft professional, consistent, and relevant communications—quickly and at scale. Unlike generic AI tools, Prezent’s platform leverages contextual intelligence to adapt to industry-specific requirements, incorporating branding, terminology, and individual preferences.
Prezent serves nearly 150 Fortune 2000 clients, primarily in the biopharma and technology sectors. The company recently raised $20 million in additional funding from True Global Ventures (TGV), Manulife Ventures, and Alumni Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45 million. This latest round, along with continued backing from Greycroft Ventures, Zoom Ventures, Emergent Ventures, and WestWave Capital, will fuel Prezent’s expansion into new industries and geographies. With strong momentum and a clear mission, Prezent is well-positioned to lead the next wave of innovation in enterprise communication.
13. Adept
Adept, a market intelligence and AI automation platform, has been a pivotal player in empowering knowledge workers since its founding in 2022. Headquartered in San Francisco, Adept is redefining human-machine collaboration by building general intelligence through software agents capable of executing complex digital tasks.
Its proprietary model, ACT-1, allows users to command software tools through natural language, automating workflows across applications like forms, websites, and enterprise SaaS systems. This human-centered approach powers Adept’s mission to unlock creativity and productivity by eliminating repetitive tasks and letting users focus on higher-value work. The company’s innovations—like the Adept Workflow Language (AWL), a custom scripting and natural language framework—underscore its commitment to developing reliable, robust, and easy-to-author AI agents capable of multimodal interactions across diverse digital environments.
Adept serves a broad global base of enterprise customers and continues to scale its AI platform to support diverse industries. Strategic partnerships and a focus on practical, human-aligned AI are central to Adept’s momentum, with goals centered on productization, broader model integration, and shaping the future of natural language interfaces in the workplace.
14. Stellar Cyber
Stellar Cyber empowers mid-sized organizations and managed security service providers (MSSPs) to see incoming attacks, know how to fight them, and act decisively—protecting what matters most. Stellar Cyber’s open security operations platform includes AI-SIEM, live network traffic analysis, Open XDR, and Multi-Layer AI™—all under one license. With one-third of the top 250 MSSPs and over 12,000 customers worldwide, Stellar Cyber is one of the most trusted leaders in security operations.
The Stellar Cyber founding team is comprised of technology entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds in networking, cybersecurity, big data, and machine learning. Its team members have helped grow companies like NetScreen, Juniper, Fortinet, Barracuda Networks, Cisco, Gigamon, Lastline, A10 Networks, and more. The company also created the Stellar Cyber University Program to help bridge the cybersecurity skills gap and prepare the next generation of cybersecurity analysts and innovators.
15. Axelera AI
Axelera AI is a hardware and software company that optimizes for inference acceleration. It has built a revolutionary approach through Digital In-memory compute and Risc-V technology that brings high performance and energy efficiency to every segment of compute, without costly adoption. Through a technology platform that scales across use cases, Axelera AI supports multiple industries, from healthcare to industrial automation, from retail to security.
Today, Axelera ships the Metis AIPU, an inference accelerator optimized for edge computing, and the Voyager SDK, which simplifies adoption and optimizes the data pipeline. The company’s roadmap is expanding from edge to data center, but always centers on its D-IMC technology. Founded in 2021, Axelera AI is a mature and efficient organization, having taped out 3 chips in just 3 years, scaled its expertise to over 220 professionals, and raised ~$200 million in equity and grants. Axelera is solving real-world problems and unlocking future possibilities.
16. Together AI
Together AI, founded in 2022, is changing how developers build and deploy generative AI through open-source research and decentralized cloud infrastructure. Based in San Francisco, this research-driven company offers powerful tools for training, fine-tuning, and aligning large language models (LLMs) across industries. Together AI’s Fine-Tuning Platform supports advanced techniques such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO)—introduced in April 2025—as a human-aligned alternative to traditional RLHF approaches. The company recently expanded its offering with continued fine-tuning capabilities, allowing developers to build upon existing models for multilingual adaptation, task-specific improvements, and long-term performance retention. These innovations reflect Together AI’s mission to create transparent, flexible AI systems that evolve alongside real-world needs.
Together AI serves a global community of developers, enterprises, and research institutions. Its commitment to open-source collaboration is further exemplified by the recent launch of Open Deep Research—a fully open-source tool capable of multi-hop reasoning, report generation, and podcast production. Backed by strategic community engagement and continuous innovation, Together AI is focused on driving accessible, human-aligned AI across diverse industries.
17. Harvey
Harvey is redefining professional services through advanced generative AI solutions purpose-built for the legal industry. With a mission to streamline complex legal workflows, Harvey delivers AI-powered tools that automate repetitive tasks, enhance efficiency, and elevate the quality of legal work. The company’s core offerings include its AI assistant, specialized case law models, and the Vault feature, which enables users to run prompts across large document collections.
In early 2025, Harvey introduced agentic workflows—a new approach that embeds agents to proactively guide legal professionals through real-world tasks. These workflows are designed to collaborate with users, planning and adapting to deliver precise, purpose-built legal outputs without the need for complex prompting. Backed by Sequoia Capital and OpenAI’s startup fund, Harvey secured $300 million in Series D funding in February 2025, bringing its valuation to $3 billion. As it scales, Harvey is focused on expanding access to its commercial offerings, deepening enterprise partnerships, and leading innovation at the intersection of AI and legal services.
18. Perplexity AI
Perplexity AI offers an AI-powered search engine that aims to improve how users access and interact with information online. Founded in 2022, the company leverages advanced artificial intelligence to deliver direct, conversational answers backed by credible sources—streamlining the traditional search experience. With a clear mission to make information discovery more intuitive and transparent, Perplexity AI blends the accuracy of searches with the fluidity of an AI assistant. Its platform offers real-time citation, contextual follow-ups, and a user-friendly interface that enhances decision-making for both casual users and professionals.
Perplexity AI has rapidly gained traction, and the platform has seen significant user growth and secured strong funding, enabling expansion into new use cases, including recent ventures into e-commerce search experiences. As it continues to build partnerships and refine its technology, Perplexity AI remains focused on transforming how people explore, trust, and interact with digital information, positioning itself as a next-generation search solution in a highly competitive space.
19. Inflection AI
Inflection AI, founded in 2022, launched its first flagship product, Pi—short for “personal intelligence”—as a chatbot designed to offer empathetic, kind, and emotionally supportive dialogue through text and voice. Built from a 350B+ frontier model and fine-tuned with over 10 million examples, Pi exemplifies Inflection’s mission to create deeply human-like interactions powered by state-of-the-art AI. Now focused on the enterprise sector, Inflection AI is building systems that deliver meaningful AI support to organizations while maintaining its core values of emotional resonance, adaptability, and innovation.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Inflection AI restructured in March 2024 under CEO Sean White and operates with a small but nimble team. With a global vision and strong technological foundation, Inflection AI is poised to expand its impact across industries by blending emotional intelligence with enterprise-grade AI.
20. Mistral AI
Founded in 2023, Mistral AI is a Paris-based artificial intelligence startup focused on advancing open-source AI models to make cutting-edge technology more accessible worldwide. Established by Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée Lacroix, Mistral AI was born from a desire to challenge the “black box” nature of traditional AI systems. The company is dedicated to democratizing AI by developing efficient, transparent, and high-performing open-source models and solutions. With an ambitious vision to empower developers and businesses globally, Mistral AI is building foundational tools that foster innovation, collaboration, and practical AI implementation at scale.
The company serves a broad customer base spanning industries and geographies. Mistral has gained traction through strategic partnerships and a growing community of developers and collaborators committed to open innovation. Looking ahead, the company aims to scale its impact through expanded model releases, deepened industry alliances, and a continued focus on transparency and technological leadership in AI.
21. Poolside AI
Poolside AI, an artificial intelligence platform advancing the future of software development, is building specialized foundation models to empower developers. With a mission to pursue AGI through targeted capabilities rather than general-purpose AI, Poolside offers sophisticated generative models—Malibu and Point—that are designed for secure, high-performance deployment in enterprise environments. Its platform enables fine-tuned, developer-focused software assistance that aligns with stringent data governance and privacy requirements. As noted on its website, Poolside aims to build “the world’s most capable AI for software development,” helping organizations accelerate innovation while maintaining control over their data and IP.
Poolside has made notable strides in a short time. It has raised over $600 million from leading investors, including Bain Capital, eBay Ventures, and Nvidia, and recently announced a transformative first-party partnership with AWS, making its models directly accessible through Amazon Bedrock and EC2. This collaboration enhances scalability, security, and deployment ease for enterprises worldwide. Poolside continues to focus on tailored AI solutions and infrastructure flexibility to support its broader vision of ubiquitous software intelligence.
22. World Labs
World Labs is a leader in spatial intelligence and generative AI technology, specializing in the creation of Large World Models (LWMs) that enable AI to perceive, generate, and interact with 3D environments. Founded in 2024 by renowned AI pioneers Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson, Christoph Lassner, and Ben Mildenhall, the company is redefining the visual AI landscape by shifting from flat, pixel-based models to immersive, 3D-native systems.
With a mission to elevate AI’s spatial reasoning to match human-level perception, World Labs offers groundbreaking capabilities that allow users to create fully navigable 3D scenes from a single image. These LWMs fill in unseen areas, simulate real-world physics, and provide creators with tools to explore, modify, and personalize virtual worlds in real time. By building strong industry partnerships and pioneering a new generation of spatially aware generative AI tools, World Labs aims to unlock the next frontier in AI creativity and user empowerment.
23. Liquid AI
Liquid AI, a market intelligence and search platform, has been a pivotal player in empowering enterprises with general-purpose AI systems since its founding in 2023. Spun out of MIT and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Liquid AI focuses on building efficient, scalable foundation models designed for real-world impact across industries such as finance, healthcare, and logistics.
The company’s mission is to develop the most capable and efficient AI systems at every scale, ensuring that businesses can build, access, and control sovereign AI experiences tailored to their needs. Its flagship model, LFM-7B, is optimized for multilingual chat, code generation, instruction following, and agentic workflows. With native support for English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Japanese, and optimized memory efficiency, LFM-7B is engineered for enterprise deployment—on-device and in secure, high-throughput environments. Collaborating with partners like AMD and ITOCHU Techno-Solutions, Liquid AI continues to push the boundaries of efficient AI development and multilingual model optimization. The company is focused on expanding the accessibility and customization of its AI solutions to drive innovation and performance at global enterprises.
24. Hugging Face
Hugging Face, founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York City, has emerged as a leading force in the open-source AI movement. With a strong foundation in machine learning, natural language processing, and deep learning, the company has built a collaborative platform that empowers developers, researchers, and organizations to share and deploy state-of-the-art models and datasets. Its ecosystem includes the popular Transformers library, the Hugging Face Hub, and tools that streamline model training and deployment. By lowering the barriers to entry and championing transparency, Hugging Face continues to drive innovation and accessibility in the AI space.
Hugging Face serves a global community of users ranging from individual developers to leading academic institutions and enterprises. The company has partnered with major technology players such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft to expand its reach and capabilities. In April 2025, Hugging Face announced its acquisition of Pollen Robotics, the creators of Reachy 2—an open-source, VR-compatible humanoid robot designed for research, education, and embodied AI experiments. Already in use at institutions like Cornell and Carnegie Mellon, Reachy 2 marks a major step toward the company’s vision of open, affordable, and hackable robotics as the next frontier for AI interaction.
25. Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI, a trailblazer in intelligent systems, has been transforming the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital experience since its founding in 2023. Headquartered in Beijing, China, the company focuses on building foundational models with the long-term vision of achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Moonshot’s core offerings include its advanced chatbot Kimi, capable of processing up to 2 million Chinese characters per conversation, and the Mooncake platform, which supports Kimi and processes 100 billion tokens daily.
Moonshot also introduced the scalable Muon optimizer and continues to push boundaries in reinforcement learning for large language models. Its offerings are designed to deliver high computational efficiency, robust multimodal reasoning, and real-world performance that rivals industry leaders like OpenAI. In the future, Moonshot aims to continue innovating in AI infrastructure and model scalability, reinforcing its position at the forefront of AGI research and large-scale AI deployment.
