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xAI
Maker of Grok. AI development to accelerate human scientific discovery
At a glance
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Sector
- AI
- Power Law
- Centicorn$100B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Research & analysis
Analysis
2026 has already beaten 2025 for $100M+ VC rounds
Sep 15, 2026
Analysis
OpenAI’s $122B round is bigger than the next three of 2026 combined
Sep 15, 2026
Analysis
German diaspora have built $342.5B of unicorns abroad
Sep 15, 2026
Analysis
The most valuable companies in the German Diaspora Index
Sep 15, 2026
Analysis
NVIDIA now joins more $100M+ VC rounds than any investor
Sep 8, 2026
Analysis
The fastest startups to a $10B valuation
Sep 1, 2026
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning xAI.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series B and later31 investors entered at this stage
ARK Invest
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Andreessen Horowitz- FVFuture Ventures
- VCVy Capital
StepStone Group- KCKingdom Holding Company
- RERedstone
- ICIPO CLUB
- MGMGX
Morgan Stanley- FIFidelity International
Valor Equity Partners
Tesla- AMAMD
Fidelity Investments- OAOman Investment Authority
- MLMinju Lee
- EVE1 ventures
BlackRock- BCBaron Capital
Tribe Capital
Qatar Investment Authority- HUHUMAIN
- PVPage One Ventures
Nvidia- MPManhattan Venture Partners
SpaceX | xAI
Sequoia- GIGigafund
Cisco Investments
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former xAI employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
HUhumans&Est. 2025
Eric ZelikmanUnited States
OBOboeEst. 2024
Michael MignanoUnited States
MIMirendilEst. 2026
Shayan SalehianUnited States
RARadixArkEst. 2025
Ying ShengUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
793 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where xAI was the backer or acquirer, 2025–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
4 deals across xAI's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
xAI's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about xAI on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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