Together AI, Apps Flyer lead list of Top dynamic companies for Q3 2026

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Every quarter, Green Flag Digital reranks the top private tech companies not only by funding, but by web traffic and brand prominence. In July 2026, the top 2 spots go to Together AI and AppsFlyer, reinforcing the current diversification of the AI ecosystem that’s dominated funding rounds and public attention.

AI projects took ~50% of all global venture cash in 2025, and in Q1 of 2026, that figure was closer to 80%. Today, which companies turn bucks into buzz is also paramount.

Mixing cash with web traffic and brand standing, we created a score that adds a new dimension to typical tech company rankings, speaking to the importance of market impact and brand authority without erasing the importance of funding altogether.

Here are our most recent findings.

Key Takeaways #

#1 Together AI nabs the top spot, with**#2 AppsFlyer** and**#3 OpenAI** joining it atop the podium.New to the top ten: 9 of the top 10 companies (except OpenAI) are new since the Q2 update in April 2026, reflecting significant turnover.In the top 100, OpenAI, AppsFlyer, and Perplexity post the strongest web traffic scores this month.- For branded web search, Eight Sleep, Perplexity, and Saronic, lead with high traffic and growth, though none can match the soaring performance of1047 Games the company that saw the biggest branded search lift this month.

Which 100 Tech Companies Score Highest? #

We analyze thousands of companies every month to determine which are leading the way in terms of industry and consumer momentum.

Methodology: To track industry buzz, we analyzed 3,290 tech companies, looking at 3 total categories: funding, monthly website traffic, and global keyword volume to assess which tech companies are riding a wave of sustained energy and which are actually turning that excitement into business progress. We measured three main buckets: Funding – 50% weight; Website Analysis (Traffic) – 25% weight; and Keyword Analysis (Brand Search) – 25%

These are the top 100 private tech companies.

Breaking Down The Top 10 Tech Companies #

Zooming in on the top 10 companies today, we see they’re not performing equally strongly across all three categories.

Typically, companies grow from funding buzz to web searches and ultimately achieve brand recognition through keyword searches.

#1 Together AI - Gold Rush Tools Win the Day

It’s notable when B2B companies soar to the top of the charts, because they’re typically doing it on funding power alone — like Together AI’s 2-day-old $800M. Web views for computing infrastructure are, after all, less about wooing traffic from massive popularity and more about roping in big deals from big players (the company ranks 2nd lowest in the top ten for branded search, ranking 963 overall). In the case of Together AI, it’s about saving corporate cash in the midst of an AI gold rush; the company claims that corporations using open-source models save 6x to 20x as much as those hosting proprietary ones. For now, they’re successfully banking on it.

#2 AppsFlyer - Massive Cash to Figure Out Which LLM Loves You

AppsFlyer last raised funds in 2020. But its mammoth new Series E round injected $1B straight into the veins of the marketing SaaS, inflating its valuation to $2.7B. And yes, that cash is earmarked for advancing AI-fueled advertising attribution, showing that even when so-called “dead” industries, like SaaS, get ahead, they’re doing so by embracing new norms; the AI revolution hasn’t yet upended companies’ enduring need to know where their voices are getting heard best. With a web rank of 14 and branded traffic ranking of 525, search power, but perhaps not brand superstar status, is working to own other brands’ search trust, too.

#3 OpenAI - ChatGPT Displaces Anthropic as King of the Models

**OpenAI **has headlined the top 10 list before, and seldom slips too far off the podium, with constant, high-ticket funding rounds in the hundreds of billions. Its most recent $75M pales in comparison, though OpenAI remains the only company in the top 10 with a total war chest measured in the hundreds of billions. In April, it had lost ground to Anthropic, but it’s proving a stable competitor today. The LLM giant behind ChatGPT ranks #6 in both web traffic and branded search, growing its traffic ~15% month over month, with branded search up 22% for the year.

#4 Groq - A Drama-Filled Year Ends with a Second Wind

Groq shouldn’t be confused with xAI’s Grok, the language model powered by Elon Musk’s company. Groq actually predates Grok by 9 years, founded by a former Google engineer to build AI inference chips built to run AI models fast and cheap. This year, Nvidia took its IP and top talent, leaving Groq at a crossroads. Its branded search collapsed (down 70% over the past 6 months). But Groq rallied, raising $650 million 11 days ago, and has steadied its web traffic, too, which is ranking #181 and hasn’t teetered in 6 months.

#5 Suno - Outplaying Legal Fears — For Now

This AI platform spins up 7 million songs daily for its 2 million active users. And in spite of legal landmines, the app has raised $400M in the past month that execs may use to tip its #19 website ranking into the top 10 (its traffic is already 2nd in the top 10), with over 94M monthly visits. That’s a feat when potential customers most often search for its tools on the App Store, not via websites. Branded search is up 22% month over month, too, suggesting that consumers in the AI music zeitgeist have crowned Suno itself their music-maker of choice. The drawback? Composing music via learning models has led to copyright claims that are still working their way through courts.

#6 xAI - $20B Still Powering the AI Arms Race

xAI brought in an oversized Series E round in January, but the power of that cash is keeping xAI ranked #27 in funding, with the biggest most recent round of any company in the top 100 (let alone the top 10). Added to its #57 website rank, the LLM model has kept it afloat in the top ten today. Branded search is lagging, ranked #214, which isn’t as concerning as it might be given the model is most often accessed via Twitter’s app, not searched directly. Nevertheless, web traffic is down month over month (-4%) and branded search, too, has tumbled (-33%). Questions remain about whether xAI can use the influx to shore up consumer excitement.

#7 Aligned - Letting More Agents Handle the Terms

AI Agents are running deals for companies, and Aligned wants to be a part of it using its new $60M in Series B money contributing to funding that’s totaled almost $74M. The brand new round will allow the company to expand its headcount by about 55%. That’s far less than any other top 10 company, but Aligned’s success in the Tech 100 is also supported by an unusually high branded search presence, in which companies seek out the company by name, suggesting its minuscule Series A budget (and profitable business model) have been put to use making its presence known. So while AI agents are hot, so too is Aligned itself, owning both category and company clout that have landed it here, with more global search volume of its brand name than far larger companies like xAI.

#8 Ramp - Riding a Wave of Corporate Dollars

Ramp offers corporate credit cards attached to smart spending controls, procurement, and bill pay. They might need it themselves to keep track of a 29-day-old Series F of $750M, bringing their total coffers to $3.7B and their valuation to $44B. There’s something ironic in the corporate push to rein in AI spending using AI finance tools, but you wouldn’t know it from Ramp’s #145 web searches and #393 branded web search. Traffic has surged over 100% to a monthly average of 4,403,691, while branded search lags, and while down year over year, has stabilized over the past 6 months.

#9 Cosm - Hoping to Make Venue Magic

Domed colosseums for live events are proliferating thanks to Cosm, which plans on making use of its recent $100M in Series C funding to expand the venues to new U.S. cities. With monthly web traffic totaling 1,408,719 curious onlookers (up 48% MoM, with this month’s traffic nearly doubling the 6-month average) keen on physical events in the years since COVID-19 exhausted the digital meetup sphere, and the Sphere in Las Vegas introducing Americans to venue-as-destination, Cosm is hopeful that the curiosity will lead to sustained engagement. They’re not there yet, with branded search down ~19% this month and ~45% over the past year.

#10 Twelve Labs - Amazon’s Video Intelligence

Amazon hosts the workloads, while Twelve Labs reaps startup funding benefits. This summer, that’s made Twelve Labs an emergent star of the top 10 as the company navigates its #2 funding ranking amidst much larger companies. Its rank is driven largely by a 2-day-old $100M in new funds for R&D on its AI video interpretation model, predicated on its presence in Amazon’s ecosystem and chips. The company is a B2B enterprise API play for now, which has meant its web and brand presence ranks accordingly: #957 for website traffic and #1237 for branded search.

The Top Ranking Tech Companies, by Category #

The Funding Index #

Fundraising is down, with 212 companies raising new money over the last 31 days (compared to 258 in April).

Together AI, Twelve Labs, and LeapXpert win the category this quarter.

But this month** (June 2026)**, the winner for total raise, recent funding, and the biggest cash infusions is Baseten. The company brought in $1.5B just days ago. Baseten’s total bank account still ranks #38. It can’t compete with OpenAI’s war chest, totaling $201,125,120,000, which is 56% higher than its closest competitor.

The Traffic Index #

**OpenAI, AppsFlyer, and Perplexity **take the top spots this month in website traffic among our 100 top-ranked startups. OpenAI’s 561M monthly visitors represent a leap from a company that was already pulling in big numbers.

Typically, when it comes to gains, the biggest winners aren’t making the top ten — yet. They’re putting up huge numbers compared to their small web footprints. If they can sustain that performance, look for companies like **Subquadratic, Nas.com, and SOND **to crack the overall top 10 index soon.

The Branded Search Index #

Branded search means more than clicks. It can indicate deeper brand authority, but it can also signal flash-in-the-pan media buzz. Users know what they want, and they’re seeking it out, not just landing on a company website through the power of SEO.

1047 Games has learned that lesson, with the highest month-over-month growth in the entire analysis. Branded search is up 511% month over month, though the company hasn’t broken into the top 100 yet (ranking 634 overall).

Meanwhile, the largest branded footprints in the top 100 belong to Eight Sleep, Perplexity, and Saronic.

Which Industries are Leading the Tech Race? #

Some industries are more cutting-edge than others. And while those organizations tend to capture more funding, do they also capture the public imagination?

We allow companies multiple industry tags, so among the 100 top-scoring companies today, 195 industries are represented, from gambling to satellites.

Here are the industries represented most often:

Ultimately, AI, which represented 46 of the top 100 in April, is now linked to 52 of the top-performing companies. AI is clustered more densely among the highest performers, too: 7 of the top 10 are specifically tagged with some version of AI.

Which Funding Types are On Top? #

Brand-new companies without proven product-market fit can sometimes catch investors’ attention. But larger, more established entities need fuel for scaling. Which types of companies are pulling in the most funding right now?

Here’s the breakdown by company size:

Where are the Top 100 Tech Companies Located? #

Nearly half of the top ten tech startups are located outside the Bay Area.

While San Francisco and Silicon Valley nurture 6 of the 10 top companies this month, they’re joined by 1 New York fintech company (Ramp), a Cambridge, Massachusetts music tech company (Suno), an LA media company (Cosm), and a Wilmington, Delaware AI company working on B2B sales workspaces (though Aligned has its roots in Tel Aviv, with offices in New York). With 43 of the top 100 companies in the Bay Area, there is much work to be done to diversify the geography of tech beyond the North Star of Northern California.

Here’s what an HQ map of the top 100 ranked tech companies reveals:

The Final Takeaway? Tech Companies Can’t Live on Funding Alone #

Funding may fuel the fire, but it’s not the whole story. By layering digital signals, we gain a better understanding of which well-funded companies are experiencing growth from being truly useful and from building momentum and public presence, ultimately capturing both funding cycles and real people’s internet searches.

So as tech categories like AI continue to draw investor attention, our index helps spotlight those companies that are succeeding in turning that visibility into velocity and real market presence.

We’ll be watching to see who keeps climbing.

Methodology #

To track industry buzz, we analyzed 3,290 tech companies, looking at 3 total categories: funding, monthly website traffic, and global keyword volume to assess which tech companies are riding a wave of sustained energy and which are actually turning that excitement into business progress.

Here’s how we broke it down:

Funding – 50%

Number of Investors
Number of Lead Investors
Most recent funding amount
Total funding amount
Most recent funding

Website Analysis (Traffic) – 25%

Monthly visits
Average visits over time
Percentage of visits (to normalize volume and allow better comparison across companies)
Trend in monthly visits over the past 6 months

Keyword Analysis (Brand Search) – 25%

Search volume
Average keyword volume over time
Search volume percent (to normalize volume and show overall strength)
Keyword volume trend over the past 6 months

We calculated a weighted composite score using funding, traffic, and branded search, then normalized the resulting scores on a 0–100 scale, with the highest-scoring company earning 100.

Data sources: Crunchbase, Keywords Everywhere, Google Trends, and Semrush.

Full table of top 100 scoring tech companies and each category score, as well as # of acquisitions as of early July 2026:

| 1 | Together AI | 100.00 | 100.0 | 56.2 | 72.9 | 2 | | 2 | AppsFlyer | 99.32 | 89.5 | 71.1 | 77.0 | 3 | | 3 | OpenAI | 95.05 | 73.4 | 75.6 | 92.1 | 22 | | 4 | Groq | 94.41 | 88.7 | 61.4 | 73.8 | 2 | | 5 | Suno | 94.39 | 79.8 | 70.2 | 82.8 | 2 | | 6 | xAI | 94.36 | 83.1 | 66.0 | 80.2 | 2 | | 7 | Aligned | 93.16 | 89.9 | 46.9 | 82.2 | | | 8 | Ramp | 92.48 | 83.1 | 62.3 | 78.3 | 6 | | 9 | Cosm | 92.35 | 82.8 | 63.0 | 77.8 | 1 | | 10 | Twelve Labs | 92.32 | 92.3 | 51.4 | 70.4 | | | 11 | Waymo | 92.28 | 83.1 | 55.5 | 84.4 | 1 | | 12 | fomo | 92.24 | 79.6 | 62.2 | 84.7 | | | 13 | Anduril Industries | 91.85 | 86.0 | 56.0 | 76.9 | 9 | | 14 | Achieve | 91.51 | 82.1 | 58.6 | 81.1 | 1 | | 15 | A24 | 91.25 | 80.7 | 62.4 | 79.4 | 1 | | 16 | Baseten | 90.78 | 91.1 | 52.6 | 67.1 | 1 | | 17 | Saronic | 90.73 | 77.8 | 51.2 | 95.0 | 1 | | 18 | Cognition | 90.52 | 81.9 | 56.9 | 80.3 | 2 | | 19 | 90.37 | 78.8 | 61.4 | 81.6 | || | 20 | ElevenLabs | 89.99 | 71.4 | 68.2 | 88.4 | | | 21 | Databricks | 89.04 | 77.2 | 60.8 | 81.5 | 18 | | 22 | NinjaOne | 88.48 | 81.6 | 57.6 | 74.3 | 1 | | 23 | Mercury | 88.47 | 75.1 | 61.6 | 83.3 | 2 | | 24 | Quince | 88.16 | 72.0 | 66.4 | 83.7 | | | 25 | Runpod | 88.09 | 82.0 | 59.9 | 69.9 | | | 26 | Sierra | 88.00 | 78.4 | 53.0 | 83.7 | 3 | | 27 | Warp | 87.82 | 81.0 | 52.2 | 78.9 | | | 28 | Redo | 87.65 | 80.6 | 57.9 | 73.5 | 2 | | 29 | Kraken | 87.46 | 71.9 | 63.8 | 84.5 | 21 | | 30 | Higharc | 87.45 | 89.3 | 51.0 | 62.2 | | | 31 | AlphaSense | 87.18 | 80.0 | 55.5 | 75.6 | 4 | | 32 | SandboxAQ | 87.17 | 85.1 | 48.3 | 72.7 | 2 | | 33 | WHOOP | 87.16 | 73.6 | 62.5 | 81.4 | 3 | | 34 | LeapXpert | 87.15 | 91.4 | 39.1 | 69.0 | 1 | | 35 | Lambda | 86.99 | 79.3 | 51.7 | 80.3 | | | 36 | Cloaked | 86.98 | 70.8 | 70.2 | 78.7 | | | 37 | Ripple | 86.35 | 74.2 | 55.1 | 85.3 | 8 | | 38 | Anysphere | 85.97 | 72.8 | 66.8 | 75.1 | 4 | | 39 | Cyera | 85.90 | 81.6 | 52.6 | 71.5 | 5 | | 40 | Eight Sleep | 85.89 | 63.7 | 60.0 | 100.0 | 1 | | 41 | Allium | 85.87 | 78.0 | 46.5 | 84.7 | | | 42 | Octane | 85.85 | 78.3 | 55.6 | 75.0 | | | 43 | Taktile | 85.84 | 82.6 | 50.7 | 71.1 | | | 44 | Quantifind | 84.95 | 86.5 | 46.0 | 65.5 | | | 45 | Stepful | 84.78 | 73.5 | 59.3 | 77.8 | | | 46 | Whop | 84.72 | 67.4 | 65.7 | 83.4 | 1 | | 47 | Upscale AI | 84.71 | 83.7 | 40.6 | 75.8 | | | 48 | Assort Health | 84.58 | 83.0 | 53.9 | 63.5 | | | 49 | Chronograph | 84.52 | 79.1 | 48.0 | 77.0 | | | 50 | Musely | 84.51 | 74.1 | 57.4 | 77.7 | | | 51 | Perplexity | 84.47 | 57.8 | 70.7 | 96.8 | 4 | | 52 | Attention | 84.43 | 77.0 | 47.3 | 81.7 | | | 53 | RADAR | 84.41 | 73.8 | 43.8 | 91.5 | | | 54 | Modal Labs | 84.25 | 76.7 | 61.9 | 67.2 | 2 | | 55 | Exa | 84.15 | 75.2 | 56.7 | 75.0 | | | 56 | Qolab | 84.11 | 89.6 | 40.5 | 62.3 | | | 57 | OpenRouter | 84.11 | 73.1 | 66.3 | 69.5 | | | 58 | Harvey | 84.08 | 70.2 | 56.9 | 84.7 | 2 | | 59 | Stord | 83.99 | 76.8 | 54.7 | 73.4 | 7 | | 60 | Skims | 83.84 | 65.3 | 64.1 | 86.6 | 1 | | 61 | Peregrine Technologies | 83.77 | 84.6 | 51.2 | 60.7 | | | 62 | Digital Asset | 83.52 | 81.5 | 42.4 | 74.9 | 4 | | 63 | Turnout | 83.18 | 72.5 | 58.2 | 76.0 | | | 64 | Decart | 83.15 | 75.7 | 57.6 | 70.1 | | | 65 | Kin Insurance | 83.07 | 75.2 | 56.4 | 72.2 | | | 66 | Shield AI | 82.99 | 78.0 | 50.6 | 72.1 | 4 | | 67 | Bland AI | 82.64 | 75.7 | 52.3 | 74.1 | | | 68 | Impulse Space | 82.57 | 80.5 | 47.5 | 69.1 | | | 69 | Flock Safety | 82.41 | 71.8 | 58.8 | 74.5 | 2 | | 70 | Armada | 82.40 | 75.1 | 48.8 | 78.1 | | | 71 | Sardine | 82.40 | 67.7 | 61.9 | 79.6 | | | 72 | Clear Street | 82.34 | 79.6 | 49.9 | 67.7 | 4 | | 73 | PsiQuantum | 82.29 | 74.1 | 50.1 | 78.3 | | | 74 | Vapi | 82.26 | 68.0 | 57.1 | 83.4 | | | 75 | Kalshi | 82.24 | 75.9 | 63.6 | 61.0 | | | 76 | Luma AI | 82.01 | 69.3 | 62.8 | 74.5 | 1 | | 77 | TensorWave | 81.96 | 80.8 | 47.4 | 66.7 | | | 78 | Honeycomb | 81.88 | 71.4 | 50.8 | 81.8 | 1 | | 79 | Parallel | 81.85 | 69.6 | 53.7 | 82.5 | | | 80 | Grow Therapy | 81.80 | 67.0 | 62.9 | 78.4 | 2 | | 81 | Verse | 81.77 | 76.5 | 43.6 | 78.5 | | | 82 | Figure | 81.70 | 68.4 | 55.8 | 82.3 | | | 83 | VoltaGrid | 81.57 | 79.7 | 47.1 | 68.1 | 1 | | 84 | Crusoe | 81.50 | 70.5 | 58.7 | 74.6 | 3 | | 85 | VAST Data | 81.36 | 76.2 | 50.3 | 71.3 | 1 | | 86 | Onyx Odds | 81.28 | 75.7 | 56.4 | 65.8 | | | 87 | Factory | 81.20 | 69.6 | 53.6 | 80.6 | | | 88 | Niural | 81.19 | 76.0 | 48.8 | 72.7 | | | 89 | Collate | 81.11 | 74.0 | 44.6 | 80.5 | | | 90 | Vercel | 81.00 | 64.5 | 68.0 | 75.8 | 3 | | 91 | Fora Financial | 80.79 | 75.0 | 49.4 | 72.8 | 1 | | 92 | Orderful | 80.75 | 78.5 | 49.7 | 65.4 | | | 93 | Amca | 80.61 | 75.8 | 35.2 | 84.8 | 5 | | 94 | Novellia | 80.49 | 67.3 | 53.2 | 83.6 | | | 95 | ClickHouse | 80.49 | 68.8 | 57.7 | 76.0 | 4 | | 96 | Solace | 80.47 | 65.1 | 60.4 | 80.6 | | | 97 | Atom Computing | 80.45 | 78.2 | 45.8 | 68.9 | | | 98 | Apex | 80.44 | 78.1 | 45.0 | 70.0 | | | 99 | Imprint | 80.29 | 64.6 | 64.1 | 77.5 | | | 100 | Commure | 80.17 | 72.0 | 54.2 | 72.2 | 8 |

FAQs #

Funding tells one story. Traffic tells another. Brand demand tells a third. We wanted a view that reflects how companies actually gain leverage in the market, not just how much money they raised.

So we built our own ranking, the tech ranking we wanted to see. The one built for those trying to understand real market traction.

By looking at these three categories together we can see who turns capital into attention, and attention into brand demand.

Companies that raise big rounds but stall in visibility fall fast. Companies with modest funding but outsized momentum have greater potential to rise quickly.

Private companies operate in a different growth phase, where momentum signals matter more than quarterly earnings. Ranking private companies allows the index to surface emerging leaders before public market pressures reshape behavior and visibility. Some companies grow steadily without headline-grabbing funding rounds. Strong traffic growth or rising branded search can push these firms higher, reflecting meaningful adoption and awareness that funding coverage alone may overlook.

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