AI Startup Screener: New AI Companies and Funding Rounds

Which AI startups are raising money right now, and how many new AI companies are founded each month? ABXK.AI screens two official registers for companies with AI in the name. In the US, 55 such companies reported a funding round to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the last 8 weeks, raising 1,161 million US dollars together. In the UK, 249 new software and IT companies with AI in the name were incorporated in September 2026. Every update is saved, so the monthly tables grow over time.

US: funding rounds of AI startups

When a US company sells shares or other securities without going public, it usually relies on an exemption called Regulation D and has to file a short notice with the SEC, the Form D, within 15 days of the first sale. The notice names the company, its industry and the size of the round, but not the investors’ stakes. The list shows the funding rounds of young companies with AI in the name that were filed in the last weeks, newest first.

US: rounds per month

The monthly table goes back to January 2023: 764 funding rounds of companies with AI in the name so far. The median round in the list above raised 440,000 US dollars.

UK: new AI companies

Companies House, the UK company register, publishes all active companies once a month. We take the companies incorporated in the last full month that have AI in the name and a software, IT or research activity code (SIC). A new company is not yet a startup with a product, but the count shows how many people start an AI business.

UK: new AI companies per month

From October 2024 to September 2026, 5,312 new software and IT companies with AI in the name were incorporated. In September 2026, they were 0.36 percent of all new companies.

How the screener works

What counts as an AI startup. A company counts if its name contains an AI term: “AI” as a separate word or as “.ai”, “artificial intelligence”, “machine learning”, “deep learning”, “neural”, “LLM”, “GPT” or “AGI”. That is a simple, checkable rule, and it has a clear limit: AI companies without such a name are missing, and a few companies use the term only as a label.

Not a recommendation. The lists repeat what the companies filed. We have not checked the companies, their products or their claims, and a funding round says nothing about quality. Amounts are as reported in the notice.

Sources: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Form D data sets and EDGAR, as of October 15, 2026; Companies House, Free Company Data Product, as of October 1, 2026. Selection, classification and the casing of names: ABXK.AI. Not a recommendation, not vetted.