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Top 25 Sovereign AI companies based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 903 sovereign AI companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 375,335 professional contacts across them, including 110,011 with verified work emails and 38,679 with mobile numbers. San Francisco is the largest hub.

This list covers sovereign AI companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 6, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 6, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review
903Companies
375,335Contacts tracked
110,011Verified emails
38,679Mobile numbers
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The 25 largest sovereign AI companies based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 903 sovereign AI companies based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 6, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to sovereign AI companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceTeaneck, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202610001+326,658 contacts →

“Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
2Indirect evidenceSanta Clara, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,0007,568 contacts →

“Coforge announces the successful closure of the Encora acquisition.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
3Partial evidenceSan Antonio, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20265,001-10,0007,069 contacts →

“Rackspace Technology® is the operator of the full enterprise AI stack from governed private cloud to AI inference and agents in production.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
4Partial evidenceSan Francisco, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026n/a6,133 contacts →

“Scale’s mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
5Partial evidenceMiami, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0005,403 contacts →

AI-powered automation for every decision.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
6Partial evidenceMclean, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,516 contacts →

“The proven national security AI services company.[Mission Success = Trusted Human Expertise + Secure Agentic AI] Our teams have been embedded in missions that don't allow for…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
7Indirect evidenceCincinnati, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026n/a1,440 contacts →

“Government Acquisitions, LLC (GAI) stands at the forefront of a transformative era, where artificial intelligence is reshaping our world and the stakes have never been higher.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
8Partial evidenceDayton, OH, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,388 contacts →

“Evoke Technologies is a global AI and enterprise technology company headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, with offices in Dallas, London, Sydney, and development centers in Hyderabad and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
9Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 20261,001-5,0001,279 contacts →

“Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
10Partial evidencePalo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000903 contacts →

“Uniphore is the Business AI Company powering the agentic enterprise.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
11Partial evidenceMinneapolis, MN, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000742 contacts →

“phData is the leading AI and data services company.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
12Indirect evidenceHerndon, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000459 contacts →

“Zolon Tech, Inc.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
13Partial evidenceMclean, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026501-1,000432 contacts →

“BigBear.ai fuses artificial intelligence with deep mission expertise, empowering decision-makers and operators to act with speed, precision, and confidence.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
14Partial evidenceMountain View, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500405 contacts →

“Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
15Indirect evidenceMclean, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500334 contacts →

“Raft is a leading defense technology company dedicated to empowering the U.S.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
16Partial evidenceSan Diego, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500280 contacts →

“Brain Corp is the real-world AI company.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
17Partial evidenceDallas, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500263 contacts →

“CodeNinja is a full-stack AI delivery company helping enterprises, software acquirers, and governments build and operate intelligence-driven systems for mission-critical workflows.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
18Partial evidenceGlendale, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500234 contacts →

“BeyondAI delivers AI designed to reason, adapt, and operate reliably in complex enterprise environments.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
19Indirect evidencePalo Alto, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200211 contacts →

“Vannevar builds new defense capabilities for modern conflict.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
20Partial evidenceSan Jose, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500208 contacts →

“Founded in 2017, Deepen AI is the only safety-first data lifecycle tools and services company focused on unlocking the potential of machine learning and AI for autonomous systems.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
21Indirect evidenceCambridge, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500206 contacts →

“MORSE is a specially selected team of scientists, engineers, and software developers who use asymmetric and unconventional approaches to deploy practical solutions that solve…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
22Partial evidenceFremont, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500201 contacts →

“CBNITS, AI-First Engineering for Secure, Intelligent Enterprises CBNITS is a technology partner specializing in Agentic AI development, Security Software engineering, and…”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
23Partial evidencePlano, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 2026201-500191 contacts →

“At Ascentt, we build AI that truly works for enterprises-secure, intelligent, and built to scale.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
24Partial evidencePittsburgh, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200189 contacts →

“Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026
25Indirect evidenceNew York, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 6, 202651-200186 contacts →

“Most enterprises have more data than they know what to do with and less time than they need to act on it.”

Source: company website · checked Sep 6, 2026

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Sovereign AI companies based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 6, 2026
29.3%Verified-email coverage
10.3%Mobile-number coverage
415.7Average contacts per company
1-10Median size (employees)
7.4%Largest-city concentration · San Francisco
Sep 6, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
452
11-50
294
51-200
114
201-500
25
501-1,000
8
1,001-5,000
5
5,001-10,000
2
10001+
3

Freshness & accuracy

How recently the business emails on this list were verified

Email last verified

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among sovereign AI companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “sovereign AI companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names sovereign AI companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among sovereign AI companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 110,011 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 6, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names sovereign AI companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many sovereign AI companies are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 903 sovereign AI companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Cognizant, headquartered in Teaneck, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most sovereign AI companies?

San Francisco leads with 67 headquartered companies, followed by New York (54) and Austin (33).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 110,011 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 903 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 6, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.