| 01 | Canva | Online graphic design platform that makes design accessible to everyone, offering an intuitive drag-and-drop editor with AI-powered Magic Studio tools used over 5 billion times. | Sydney, AU | Private | $1.1B |
| 02 | Figma | Collaborative interface design tool that runs in the browser, enabling real-time multiplayer editing for design teams. | San Francisco, US | Public | $749M |
| 03 | Squarespace | All-in-one website building and hosting platform that enables individuals and businesses to create professional websites, online stores, and portfolios. Known for its design-forward templates and drag-and-drop editor, serving millions of customers globally. | New York City, United States | Acquired | $579M |
| 04 | Miro | Online collaborative whiteboarding platform used by over 60 million users for brainstorming, planning, and design. One of the most widely adopted visual collaboration tools in the tech industry. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $475M |
| 05 | Webflow | Visual web development platform that lets designers and developers build professional, custom websites without writing code, generating clean HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in real time. Bootstrapped for five years before raising venture capital. | San Francisco, US | Private | $335M |
| 06 | Machine Zone | Mobile gaming company best known for Game of War: Fire Age, Mobile Strike, and Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire, which collectively generated over $5 billion in revenue. Originally founded as Addmired and a Y Combinator W08 graduate, the company pioneered real-time massively multiplayer mobile gaming. | Palo Alto, US | Acquired | $263M |
| 07 | Stability AI | Generative AI company best known for creating Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image model, and develops a range of open AI models for image, video, audio, and 3D generation. | London, United Kingdom | Private | $256M |
| 08 | Tripo AI | AI-native 3D foundation models for asset generation, operated by Beijing/San Francisco-based VAST. Launching Project Eden, a persistent multiplayer world-model initiative. Founded 2024 by ex-MiniMax co-founder Simon Song. | San Francisco, USA | Private | $250M |
| 09 | Magic Patterns | San Francisco-based AI-native design platform that lets product teams generate, edit, and ship React + Tailwind UI from natural language prompts. Used by Vercel, Linear, Datadog, and CrowdStrike design orgs. Founded 2023. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $90M |
| 10 | VEED | Online, browser-based video editing platform that lets individuals and teams record, edit, repurpose and share videos with no prior editing experience. AI-powered toolset includes auto-subtitles, text-to-video, AI avatars, Magic Cut and AI dubbing, serving over 10 million monthly users as a leading AI-native video editor. | London, United Kingdom | Private | $35M |
| 11 | Wirestock | San Francisco / Yerevan multimodal AI training-data supplier. Pivoted from a stock-photo distribution layer into a training-data marketplace serving foundation model labs (six of the largest are customers). Covers images, video, design, gaming, and 3D. 700K+ contributing artists and $40M ARR. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $23M |
| 12 | Davis | Paris-based AI-native real estate development and architectural design platform. Uses discrete-diffusion models (Gaudi-1) to compress feasibility analysis from months to days and generate compliant architectural designs under real-world regulatory constraints. | Paris, France | Private | $6M |
| 13 | Adobe | Creative software and digital experience company. Develops Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Acrobat, and the Adobe Experience Platform for marketing and analytics. | San Jose, US | Public | - |
| 14 | Midjourney | Independent AI research lab that develops generative AI tools for creating images from text prompts, operating as one of the most profitable bootstrapped AI companies with over $500M in annual revenue and zero external funding. | San Francisco, United States | Private | - |
| 15 | Nura Studios | San Francisco AI animation platform emerging from stealth with Showcraft, an AI-assisted production tool that turns existing creative assets into episodic animated content. Team includes veterans from Apple, Unity, Roblox, Adobe, Softimage, Canva, and Disney. Early Access begins May 19, 2026. | San Francisco, United States | Private | - |