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The world’s most valuable consumer AI assistant startups

Edition 0·Published 9 Oct 2026·Next scheduled update 11 Mar 2027

Companies whose main product is an AI assistant used by individuals: answer engines, general-purpose agent apps, AI companions and character chat, voice and note-taking assistants, and AI wearables. Ranked worldwide by AI-estimated valuation. The market sets the value; our AI estimates it.

Twice a year Claude · multi-AI consensus from 1 Dec 2026· Method· Order never changed by a human

Key metrics for this segment: key milestone. Figures as published by each company or the press, dated, not recalculated. The AIs weigh them alongside funding history and comparables.

Not in this segment. Listed, so not ranked: Opera, whose AI browsers sit beside an advertising and search business, and SoundHound, whose voice AI is sold to businesses; MiniMax (Talkie) appears under Foundation models. Bought by a group: The Browser Company (Atlassian), Limitless (Meta), Humane (HP). Without outside investors: Plaud. Assistants built by model labs (ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, Kimi) belong to their makers under Foundation models; Poe is a product of Quora. In other segments: Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) under Collaboration & docs; You.com and Inflection AI, now focused on businesses, under Enterprise agents; Hume AI under Voice & audio; language tutors (Speak, Praktika) under Language learning; AI shopping agents (Daydream) and AI clones of experts (Delphi) are outside this segment. Chinese companies (Manus, Haivivi) are never ranked. A company appears in one segment only. Method

The segment at a glance

17companies ranked

2companies on the radar

5countries in the ranking

0listed benchmarks

Sources: Company announcements, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Information, TechCrunch, Dealroom, The Korea Times, Hankyung, DealSite, The Bridge, GeekWire, South China Morning Post, 36Kr. Intention counters will be shown above a threshold of amount and number of Backers.

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Global ranking · Consumer assistants

Top 17 Radar Challengers

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World · 17 ranked companies

#	Company	Last round · Key metrics	Estimated valuation (AI) · range	Pool of interests	Back
1	PerplexityUnited States · North America	Funding round · USD 200M · Sep 2025Annualised revenue above USD 750M · Aug 2026	Last known equity round: Funding round · USD 200M · Sep 2025 (Nvidia, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, IVP, NEA, Accel and others) Published valuation: USD 20bn post-money (Sep 2025)Method	—	Back
2	InstinctUnited States · North America	Series C · USD 1bn · Sep 2026Invite-only service launched; no mobile app yet · Aug 2026	Last known equity round: Series C · USD 1bn · Sep 2026 (Sequoia, Benchmark, Coatue); follows a round at USD 2.5bn in August 2026 (Index Ventures, Benchmark) Published valuation: USD 10bn (Sep 2026)Method	—	Back
3	GensparkUnited States · North America	Series B extension · USD 100M · Jun 2026Annual recurring revenue of about USD 250M (company figure) · Jun 2026	Last known equity round: Series B extension · USD 100M · Jun 2026 (Sozo Ventures, Mirae Asset, UpHonest and existing investors); Series B totals about USD 485M since Nov 2025 (Emergence Capital lead) Published valuation: USD 2.6bn post-money (Jun 2026)Method	—	Back
4	WisprUnited States · North America	Series B · USD 280M · Aug 2026Used in more than 125,000 businesses · Aug 2026	Last known equity round: Series B · USD 280M · Aug 2026 (Menlo Ventures; Acrew, Forerunner, Goodwater, Peak XV, NEA, 8VC) Published valuation: USD 2bn (Aug 2026)Method	—	Back
5	GranolaUnited Kingdom · Europe	Series C · USD 125M · Mar 2026USD 192M raised in total · Mar 2026	Last known equity round: Series C · USD 125M · Mar 2026 (Index Ventures; Kleiner Perkins) Published valuation: USD 1.5bn (Mar 2026)Method	—	Back
6	Sesame AIUnited States · North America	Series B · USD 250M · Oct 2025About USD 300M raised in total · Oct 2025	Last known equity round: Series B · USD 250M · Oct 2025 (Sequoia, Spark Capital)Method	—	Back
7	Chai ResearchUnited States · North America	Strategic investment · undisclosed · 2025Annual recurring revenue of about USD 80M (company figure) · Q1 2026	Last known equity round: Strategic investment · undisclosed · 2025 (CoreWeave, AMD); amounts undisclosed; more than USD 55M raised in totalMethod	—	Back
8	Character.AIUnited States · North America	Series A · USD 150M · Mar 2023About 20M monthly active users · 2025	Last known equity round: Series A · USD 150M · Mar 2023 (a16z; Nat Friedman, Elad Gil, SV Angel)Method	—	Back
9	Wrtn TechnologiesSouth Korea · Asia	Series C · USD 72M · Aug 2026OOC passed KRW 10bn in monthly revenue · Aug 2026	Last known equity round: Series C · USD 72M · Aug 2026 (Coreline Ventures, Eugene Asset Management; Goodwater, Antler, Woori Venture Partners, KDB); KRW 100bn Published valuation: more than KRW 1tn (about USD 722M) (Aug 2026)Method	—	Back
10	LinerSouth Korea · Asia	Series C · USD 36.1M · Aug 202614 million users in about 220 countries · Aug 2026	Last known equity round: Series C · USD 36.1M · Aug 2026 (LB Investment; Atinum, CJ Investment, KDB, Helios PE); KRW 50bnMethod	—	Back
11	Scatter LabSouth Korea · Asia	Series D · USD 35.7M · Jun 20262025 revenue of KRW 26bn, with an operating profit · 2025	Last known equity round: Series D · USD 35.7M · Jun 2026 (Atinum Investment, SBVA, Mirae Asset Venture Investment); about KRW 50bn (one source reports KRW 60bn)Method	—	Back
12	CluelyUnited States · North America	Series A · USD 15M · Jun 2025Annual recurring revenue of about USD 7M (founder figure) · Jul 2025	Last known equity round: Series A · USD 15M · Jun 2025 (a16z) Published valuation: about USD 120M (Jun 2025)Method	—	Back
13	SandbarUnited States · North America	Series A · USD 23M · Mar 2026USD 23M Series A for its note-taking ring · Mar 2026	Last known equity round: Series A · USD 23M · Mar 2026 (Adjacent, Kindred Ventures)Method	—	Back
14	Portola (Tolan)United States · North America	Series A · USD 20M · Jul 2025More than 100,000 paying users · Jul 2025	Last known equity round: Series A · USD 20M · Jul 2025 (Khosla Ventures; Homebrew)Method	—	Back
15	LuziaSpain · Europe	Funding round · USD 13.5M · May 2025More than 65M users · May 2025	Last known equity round: Funding round · USD 13.5M · May 2025 (Prosus Ventures, Monashees, Khosla Ventures); about EUR 12M; lead reported differently by sourcesMethod	—	Back
16	FeloJapan · Asia	Series A · USD 10M · Jul 2025About 1.2M users and 300,000 searches a day · Jul 2025	Last known equity round: Series A · USD 10M · Jul 2025 (Peak XV Partners, Mirae Asset Venture Investment); JPY 1.5bnMethod	—	Back
17	FriendUnited States · North America	Seed · USD 2.5M · Jul 2024Friend 2.0 pendant launched at USD 249 · Jul 2026	Last known equity round: Seed · USD 2.5M · Jul 2024 (Caffeinated Capital, Z Fellows)Method	—	Back

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Ranking in descending order of AI-estimated valuation, based on public information, with no human intervention on the order. The valuations, ranges and brackets shown are editorial estimates produced by AI, purely indicative and imperfect by nature: neither a financial valuation, nor an offer, nor investment advice. Only the market sets a company’s value, through a funding round or a sale. Ranking established by Claude (Anthropic) from public information, following the published rules. A consensus of several AIs will apply from 1 December 2026. Eligibility: at least $1M raised in equity, non-listed company, main activity in this segment (consumer AI assistants). Country shown is the country of main operations. Request a correction

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Uback aggregates investment intentions from business angels, family offices, corporates and sector specialists worldwide. Every ranked company already has professional investors on its cap table, who have negotiated a shareholders’ agreement: you don’t start from a blank page.

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Critical mass is reached

When the pool’s combined amount reaches its critical mass, a floor amount estimated by the AI, the pool is passed to the local partner, who presents this demand to the companies concerned.

The local partner structures

If the company’s expectations and the Backers’ converge, the partner builds a transaction and presents it directly to the Backers concerned.

Closing

Capital raise or sale of existing shares: small tickets are pooled in a common vehicle set up by the local partner. Each Backer decides whether to take part.

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Get notified when intentions open What happens after my declaration? Intention declarations open once the local partner signs · price per ticket band · valid for life · movable until a deal process opens

Challengers

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Radar · known eligible companies, not ranked

Sorted by date of last round, with no judgement and no AI call.

Kindroid · United States · North AmericaJul 2024 · undisclosedBack
Rabbit · United States · North AmericaDec 2023 · USD 10MBack

Chinese companies · for reference, never ranked

Facts as published, dated. Uback does not rank or value Chinese companies and no intention can be declared on them.

Haivivi · ChinaMore than 250,000 BubblePal devices sold (Aug 2025)Series A · USD 28M · Aug 2025
Manus · ChinaPublished valuation: about USD 2bn (price of the Meta deal, later unwound) (Dec 2025)Annual recurring revenue of USD 400M to 500M (Jul 2026)Series B · USD 75M · Apr 2025

Listed benchmarks

Not ranked: no intention is possible on a listed company.

Sources and method for this segment

Calendar. Global segment rankings are published twice a year. Next edition: March 11, 2027.

Eligibility. At least $1M raised in equity, non-listed company, main activity in this segment (consumer AI assistants). A company appears in one segment only.

Sources. Company announcements, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Information, TechCrunch, Dealroom, The Korea Times, Hankyung, DealSite, The Bridge, GeekWire, South China Morning Post, 36Kr.

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