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Cursor (Anysphere)The Built 100
Week of Jun 22, 2026Ranked by momentum — the companies generating the most signal right now.
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OpenAI#1 in AI
Builds ChatGPT and GPT frontier foundation models
AI·Late-stage·San Francisco, CA
Still the gravitational center of the AI boom — ChatGPT's reach and a relentless model cadence keep every other company on this list reacting to it.
Read feature →▲ 2Peak #1 · 25 wks
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▲ 7Peak #2 · 2 wks
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Stripe#1 in Fintech
Payments infrastructure and APIs for businesses
Fintech·Late-stage·San Francisco, CA
▼ 2Peak #1 · 21 wks
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Databricks#1 in Dev Tools
Data lakehouse and AI/ML analytics platform
Dev Tools·Late-stage·San Francisco, CA
–Peak #5 · 3 wks
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Perplexity#1 in Consumer
AI-powered conversational answer engine
Consumer·Late-stage·San Francisco, CA
▲ 4Peak #6 · 16 wks
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Cursor (Anysphere)Editors' Choice
AI-native code editor with agent mode
Dev Tools·Series D·San Francisco, CA
The AI code editor developers actually switched to. Adoption exploded across engineering teams this year, and a reported acquisition only underscores how central…
Read feature →–Peak #7 · 15 wks
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CognitionEditors' Choice
Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer
AI·Series D·San Francisco, CA
Devin moved from viral demo to teams merging its pull requests. The question is no longer whether agents can code — it's how much you'll hand them.
Read feature →▼ 2Peak #6 · 17 wks
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Wiz#1 in Cybersecurity
Agentless cloud security and risk platform
Cybersecurity·Late-stage·New York, NY
▲ 2Peak #9 · 22 wks
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▼ 6Peak #4 · 21 wks
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Notion#1 in SaaS / B2B
All-in-one workspace: docs, wikis, projects
SaaS / B2B·Late-stage·San Francisco, CA
▲ 1Peak #12 · 15 wks
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