The Google DeepMind Mafia — Dealroom

Alumni who left Google DeepMind and founded venture-backed startups. 68 startups spanning AI, enterprise software, robotics. 18 unicorns, 10 countries, $1.2T+ combined enterprise value. Notable names include OpenAI, xAI, Perplexity.

• 68 companies
• 18 unicorns ($1B+)
• $1.2T combined enterprise value
• 10 countries
• Founded 2015–2025

Companies

1. OpenAI

   Founder: Durk Kingma · Valuation: $852B · Founded 2015 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

2. xAI

   Founder: Jimmy Ba · Valuation: $250B · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

3. Perplexity

   Founder: Aravind Srinivas · Valuation: $20B · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

4. Mistral AI

   Founder: Arthur Mensch · Valuation: $13.8B · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: Paris, France

5. Harvey

   Founder: Gabriel Pereyra · Valuation: $11B · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

6. Isomorphic Labs

   Founder: Demis Hassabis · Valuation: $8.4B · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: London, United Kingdom

7. Reflection AI

   Founder: Ioannis Antonoglou · Valuation: $8B · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: New York City, United States

8. AMI - Advanced Machine Intelligence

   Founder: Saining Xie · Valuation: $4.5B · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: Paris, France

9. humans&

   Founder: Noah Goodman · Valuation: $4.5B · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

10. Ricursive Intelligence

    Founder: Anna Goldie · Valuation: $4B · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

11. Inflection AI

    Founder: Mustafa Suleyman · Valuation: $4B · Founded 2022 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

12. Character.AI

    Founder: Daniel De Freitas · Valuation: $2.7B · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: Menlo Park, United States

13. Generalist AI

    Founder: Andy Zeng · Valuation: $2B · Founded 2024 · Sector: robotics · HQ: San Mateo, United States

14. Sunday

    Founder: Tony Zhao · Valuation: $1.1B · Founded 2024 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Mountain View, United States

15. Reka AI

    Founder: Cyprien De Masson D'Autume · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: Sunnyvale, United States

16. Periodic Labs

    Founder: Ekin Dogus Cubuk · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

17. Adept

    Founder: Erich Elsen · Valuation: $1B · Founded 2021 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: San Francisco, United States

18. Inferact

    Founder: Woosuk Kwon · Valuation: $800M · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

19. EquiLibre Technologies

    Founder: Martin Schmid · Valuation: $500M · Founded 2021 · Sector: gaming · HQ: Dover, United States

20. H Company

    Founder: Laurent Sifre · Valuation: $370M · Founded 2024 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Paris, France

21. Moonvalley

    Founder: Mateusz Malinowski · Valuation: $336M · Founded 2021 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Toronto, Canada

22. Even

    Founder: Alessandro Davide Ialongo · Valuation: $300M · Founded 2020 · Sector: health · HQ: Bengaluru, India

23. Fetch.AI

    Founder: Toby Simpson · Valuation: $250M · Founded 2017 · Sector: AI · HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom

24. Latent Labs

    Founder: Simon Kohl · Valuation: $200M · Founded 2023 · Sector: health · HQ: London, United Kingdom

25. Phaidra

    Founder: Vedavyas Panneershelvam · Valuation: $200M · Founded 2019 · Sector: AI · HQ: Seattle, United States

26. P-1 AI

    Founder: Aleksa Gordić · Valuation: $200M · Founded 2024 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Henderson, United States

27. DatologyAI

    Founder: Ari Morcos · Valuation: $184M · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: Redwood City, United States

28. Orbital Materials

    Founder: Jonathan Godwin · Valuation: $96M · Founded 2022 · Sector: climate · HQ: London, United Kingdom

29. Ethos

    Founder: Daniel Mankowitz · Valuation: $91M · Founded 2023 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: London, United Kingdom

30. Simular

    Founder: Ang Li · Valuation: $86M · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Carlos, United States

31. Artificial.Agency

    Founder: Michael Johanson · Valuation: $64M · Founded 2023 · Sector: gaming · HQ: Edmonton, Canada

32. Doji

    Founder: Jim Winkens · Valuation: $56M · Founded 2024 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: New York City, United States

33. Haiper AI

    Founder: Yishu Miao · Valuation: $55M · Founded 2021 · Sector: AI · HQ: London, United Kingdom

34. Tomato AI

    Founder: Ye Jia · Valuation: $55M · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: United States

35. Unreasonable Labs

    Founder: Yuan Cao · Valuation: $54M · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: Cambridge, United States

36. Attuned Intelligence

    Founder: Domenic Donato · Valuation: $52M · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: Orlando, United States

37. NYM

    Founder: Ania Piotrowska · Valuation: $52M · Founded 2017 · Sector: health · HQ: Neuchâtel, Switzerland

38. Iconic

    Founder: Piotr Trochim · Valuation: $52M · Founded 2023 · Sector: gaming · HQ: London, United Kingdom

39. Finster AI

    Founder: Siddhant Jayakumar · Valuation: $48M · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: London, United Kingdom

40. Reliant AI

    Founder: Marc G. Bellemare · Valuation: $45M · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: Montreal, Canada

41. VideoTutor

    Founder: Jevon Mao · Valuation: $44M · Founded 2025 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

42. Dedalus Labs

    Founder: Windsor Nguyen · Valuation: $44M · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: San Francisco, United States

43. qeen.ai

    Founder: Morteza Ibrahimi · Valuation: $40M · Founded 2023 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates

44. Udio

    Founder: Charlie Nash · Valuation: $40M · Founded 2023 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: New York City, United States

45. Uncharted Labs

    Founder: David (Fengning) Ding · Valuation: $34M · Founded 2023 · Sector: AI · HQ: United States

46. Glyphic AI

    Founder: Devang Agrawal · Valuation: $33M · Founded 2022 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: London, United Kingdom

47. Highlight

    Founder: Jay Khatri · Valuation: $32M · Founded 2020 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Seattle, United States

48. SRE.ai

    Founder: Rajsekhar (Raj) Kadiyala · Valuation: $29M · Founded 2024 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: San Francisco, United States

49. Bloomsbury AI

    Founder: Tim Rocktäschel · Valuation: $29M · Founded 2015 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: London, United Kingdom

50. Suvera

    Founder: Ivan Beckley · Valuation: $26M · Founded 2019 · Sector: health · HQ: London, United Kingdom

51. RL Core Technologies

    Founder: Alden Christianson · Valuation: $20M · Founded 2018 · Sector: AI · HQ: Edmonton, Canada

52. Hiverge

    Founder: Alhussein Fawzi · Valuation: $20M · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom

53. Orbitmarkets

    Founder: Tianjiao Sun · Valuation: $18M · Founded 2022 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Singapore

54. Mantic ai

    Founder: Toby Shevlane · Valuation: $16M · Founded 2024 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: London, United Kingdom

55. Human Native AI

    Founder: James Smith · Valuation: $15M · Founded 2024 · Sector: AI · HQ: London, United Kingdom

56. Neuracore

    Founder: Stephen James · Valuation: $12M · Founded 2024 · Sector: robotics · HQ: London, United Kingdom

57. JusticeText

    Founder: Devshi Mehrotra · Valuation: $12M · Founded 2019 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Irvine, United States

58. Omnisent

    Founder: Ann-Kristin Balve · Valuation: $11M · Founded 2025 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Munich, Germany

59. Gibran

    Founder: Suzanne Sadedin · Valuation: $10M · Founded 2025 · Sector: AI · HQ: London, United Kingdom

60. Aggero

    Founder: Dr. Mrudul (Muddy) Bhatt · Valuation: $8M · Founded 2018 · Sector: gaming · HQ: London, United Kingdom

61. Tensorflight

    Founder: Zbigniew Wojna, PhD · Valuation: $8M · Founded 2016 · Sector: proptech · HQ: New York City, United States

62. Impact Vision

    Founder: Abi Ramanan · Valuation: $5M · Founded 2015 · Sector: consumer · HQ: San Francisco, United States

63. Segments.ai

    Founder: Bert Brabandere · Valuation: $4M · Founded 2020 · Sector: robotics · HQ: Leuven, Belgium

64. Komugi

    Founder: Pauline Coquinot · Valuation: $4M · Founded 2020 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Thonon-les-Bains, France

65. Convergent Research

    Founder: Adam Marblestone · Founded 2021 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: Palo Alto, United States

66. Common Sense Machines

    Founder: Tejas Kulkarni · Founded 2020 · Sector: AI · HQ: Cambridge, United States

67. Open Climate Fix

    Founder: Jack Kelly · Founded 2018 · Sector: enterprise software · HQ: London, United Kingdom

68. Daimon

    Founder: Ryan Benmalek · Founded 2022 · Sector: AI · HQ: New York City, United States

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