AI21 Labs - About the company
AI21 Labs is a series D company based in Tel Aviv (Israel), founded in 2017 by Ori Goshen and Amnon Shashua. It operates as a Platform offering AI focused writing and reading assistants. AI21 Labs has raised $636M in funding from investors like Pitango, Walden Catalyst and Samsung NEXT, with a current valuation of $1.4B. The company has 994 active competitors, including 204 funded and 91 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like OpenAI, Anthropic and data.ai.
Sectors and market segments that AI21 Labs operate in
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Company Details
Platform offering AI focused writing and reading assistants. It provides users with AI systems with a high capacity to understand and generate natural language. Its product WordTune also uses AI to give suggestions for rewriting texts.
- Website
- ai21.com
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@ai21.com
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2017
Location
Tel Aviv, Israel
Stage
Series D
Total Funding
$636M in 7 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Post Money Valuation
$1.4B as on May 09, 2025
Ranked
18th among 994 active competitors
Employee Count
160 as on Sep 30, 2026
Legal entities associated with AI21 Labs
AI21 Labs is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Reports |
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Ai21 Labs Ltd CIN: 515741320 , Israel, Active | Nov 07, 2017 | - | - | - |
A I Improvement Ltd CIN: 13494401 , United Kingdom, Active | Jul 04, 2021 | £0 - £1M (As on Jul 31, 2025) | 3 (As on Jul 31, 2024) |
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AI21 Labs's funding and investors
AI21 Labs has raised a total funding of $636M over 7 rounds. Its first funding round was on 2019. Its latest funding round was a Series D round on May 09, 2025 for $300M. 2 investors participated in its latest round. AI21 Labs has 14 institutional investors and 2 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of AI21 Labs:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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May 09, 2025 | $300M | Series D | $1.4B | - | - | |
Nov 21, 2023 | $53M | Series C | $1.4B | - | - | |
Aug 30, 2023 | $155M | Series C | $1.4B | - |
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AI21 Labs' founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere are the details of AI21 Labs' key team members:
- Ori Goshen: Co-Founder & Co-CEO of AI21 Labs and founder of 4 other companies, including Human or Not, Word Tune and Tawkon. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Amnon Shashua: Co-Founder of AI21 Labs and founder of 1 other company.
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AI21 Labs' employee count trend
AI21 Labs has 160 employees as of Sep 26. Here is AI21 Labs's employee count trend over the years:
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AI21 Labs's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of AI21 Labs include OpenAI, Anthropic and data.ai. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of AI21 Labs, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st |  OpenAI 2015, San Francisco (United States), Series F | Artificial intelligence research and development platform offering advanced language models | $180B | 89/100 | |
2nd | Anthropic 2021, San Francisco (United States), Series H | Provider of AI safety and research company | $132B | 83/100 | |
3rd |  data.ai 2010, San Francisco (United States), Acquired | AI based market data analysis for generating consumer insights | $157M | 81/100 | |
4th | Mistral AI 2023, Paris (France), Series D | Provider of customizable, open-source artificial intelligence models and solutions for various applications | $6.54B | 78/100 | |
5th | Developer of enterprise AI platform and multilingual language and retrieval models | $1.54B | 78/100 | ||
6th |  Glean 2019, San Francisco (United States), Series F | Cloud-based platform for enterprise search | $765M | 77/100 | |
7th | Provider of AI-powered search and recommendation solutions for enterprise businesses | $358M | 74/100 | ||
8th | Elastic 2012, San Francisco (United States), Public | Cloud based text analytics platform | $104M | 72/100 | |
9th |  Aviso 2012, Redwood City (United States), Series B | AI powered predictive analytics platform | $31M | 71/100 | |
10th | Provider of AI research laboratory services | $379M | 71/100 | ||
18th | Platform offering AI focused writing and reading assistants | $636M | 66/100 |
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AI21 Labs's Investments and acquisitions
AI21 Labs has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to AI21 Labs
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News related to AI21 Labs
Filter this listMedia has covered AI21 Labs for a total of 8 events in the last 1 year, 2 of them have been about partnerships and 1 about company updates.
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AI21 Labs Layoffs: Israeli AI Startup Slashes Workforce by 60% to Focus on Agent OptimizationLatestly•May 18, 2026•AI21 Labs
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Report: Nvidia could acquire LLM startup AI21 Labs for $3BSiliconAngle•Dec 31, 2025•Nvidia, AI21 Labs
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AI21 Labs and Fnac Darty, Partner to Drive Retail AI TransformationAccess Newswire•Dec 08, 2025•Fnac Darty, AI21 Labs
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AI21 Launches Maestro on Amazon VPC, Bringing Enterprise-Grade Agentic AI to Every OrganizationAccess Newswire•Dec 01, 2025•AI21 Labs, Amazon
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One Zero Seeks $60-90 Million Funding Amid Valuation PushbackCTech•Nov 30, 2025•AI21 Labs, ONE ZERO, Julius Baer, Tencent and 2 others
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AI21 Labs and Together AI Partner to Expand Access to Open-Source ModelsAccess Newswire•Nov 26, 2025•Together AI, AI21 Labs
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AI12 Establishes Presence in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)Reinsurance News•Aug 04, 2025•AI21 Labs
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AI21's Jamba 1.6 Available on HPE Private Cloud AI Accelerating On-Premises GenAI Enterprise DeploymentsNewswire•Jun 27, 2025•AI21 Labs
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Nvidia And Google Back AI21 Labs In $300M Series D To Build Proprietary LLMs, Challenging OpenAI And Anthropic In Enterprise AIBenzinga•May 20, 2025•AI21 Labs, Nvidia, Google, Intel Capital and 4 others
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