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Top Seed AI companies

Companies building AI products, foundation models, and applied ML platforms. Filtered to companies whose latest disclosed round is Seed.

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Ranked by current headcount across Seed AI companies. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    IDEXX· Westbrook, Maine, United States
    • Seed
    • 8.1k employees
    • Founded 1983
  2. 2
    TNO· Netherlands
    • Seed
    • 5.7k employees
    • Founded 1932
  3. 3
    Liquid Trees· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 1.6k employees
    • Founded 2022
  4. 4
    International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)· Washington, District of Columbia, United States
    • Seed
    • 920 employees
    • Founded 1975
  5. 5
    Smithers· Akron, Ohio, United States
    • Seed
    • 783 employees
    • Founded 1925
  6. 6
    Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour· Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands
    • Seed
    • 595 employees
    • Founded 2020
  7. 7
    Lactec· Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
    • Seed
    • 565 employees
    • Founded 1959
  8. 8
    ABEC· Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
    • Seed
    • 560 employees
    • Founded 1974
  9. 9
    Stealth Mode Biotech· Sevenoaks, England, United Kingdom
    • Seed
    • 544 employees
    • Founded 2021
  10. 10
    Masterschool· United States
    • Seed
    • 471 employees
    • Founded 2021
  11. 11
    The Post· New York, New York, United States
    • Seed
    • 469 employees
    • Founded 2021
  12. 12
    Shanghai AI Laboratory· China
    • Seed
    • 399 employees
    • Founded 2020
  13. 13
    OPTIC· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 265 employees
    • Founded 2021
  14. 14
    Cadence· Singapore, Singapore
    • Seed
    • 261 employees
    • Founded 2014
  15. 15
    Athena Alliance· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 248 employees
    • Founded 2021
  16. 16
    Noun· Irvine, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 222 employees
    • Founded 2009
  17. 17
    Respondent· Brooklyn, New York, United States
    • Seed
    • 211 employees
    • Founded 2016
  18. 18
    deCODE genetics· Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland
    • Seed
    • 189 employees
    • Founded 1996
  19. 19
    Caliper Life Sciences
    • Seed
    • 149 employees
    • Founded 1995
  20. 20
    3i Members· New York, New York, United States
    • Seed
    • 143 employees
    • Founded 2021
  21. 21
    Drug Hunter· Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Seed
    • 143 employees
    • Founded 2018
  22. 22
    GeneSys Biologics· Hyderabad, Telangana, India
    • Seed
    • 141 employees
    • Founded 2014
  23. 23
    Kaycha Group· Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
    • Seed
    • 121 employees
    • Founded 2014
  24. 24
    Offline· Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    • Seed
    • 121 employees
    • Founded 2023
  25. 25
    Della Leaders· Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
    • Seed
    • 116 employees
    • Founded 2021

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Seed AI companies are some of the most active hirers in the market. The list above ranks the largest AI companies whose latest disclosed round is Seed, by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. Across 1,380matching companies, you’ll find senior engineers, founding designers, and operators worth tracking.

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Refolk pulled AI companies whose latest disclosed funding round is Seed from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 5 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

Last refreshed: Thu, 07 May 2026 06:18:55 GMT

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