Metaview Funding, Investors & Competitors

BetterUp is a San Francisco-headquartered coaching platform serving Fortune 500 companies. The service pairs employees with ICF-certified coaches via video for leadership tracks focused on DEI and resilience. BetterUp integrates with Workday for goal alignment and measures outcomes through 360 feedback. Clients include NASA and Hilton with programs in 190 countries.

Founded in Germany in 1972 by former IBM employees, SAP is the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software. Known as the leader in enterprise resource planning software, SAP’s portfolio also includes software for supply chain management, procurement, travel and expense management, and customer relationship management, among others. The company operates in more than 180 countries and has more than 400,000 customers, approximately 80% of which are small to medium-size enterprises.

micro1 is an AI data platform headquartered in San Francisco, California, converting human expertise into datasets via its Data Engine for AI model training. Founded in 2022, it offers Zara, an AI recruiter sourcing global talent, and APIs for human-in-the-loop operations. The Research Lab publishes on AI recruitment, speech-to-text, and proctoring, serving enterprises with 10,000 experts recruited quarterly.

Anthropic is an AI safety company developing large language models and researching methods to make artificial intelligence more reliable and steerable. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers including Dario and Daniela Amodei. The company's flagship product is Claude, a family of AI assistants deployed across consumer applications and enterprise APIs. Research priorities center on constitutional AI, mechanistic interpretability, and alignment techniques. Major investors include Google, Spark Capital, and Salesforce Ventures.

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops large language models, including the GPT series, and consumer-facing products such as ChatGPT. Founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab, the organization transitioned to a capped-profit structure in 2019 to attract the capital needed for large-scale AI development. The company offers API access to its models for enterprise and developer use, alongside image generation through DALL-E and code-assistance tools. Headquartered in San Francisco, OpenAI has become one of the most prominent players in the generative AI space, backed by a multibillion-dollar investments from Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank and many more.

Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a fully managed platform that consolidates data hosted on different public clouds for centralized analytics and governance. Snowflake’s cloud-native architecture allows users to independently scale the compute and storage layers, providing customers with optimized performance at lower costs. The company’s data lake and data warehouse products support a variety of use cases, including business analytics, data engineering, and artificial intelligence. Snowflake is widely used by Fortune 2000 companies in financial services, media, and retail sectors.

DeepSeek is a Chinese frontier AI lab that develops open-source large language models. DeepSeek conducts research in machine learning, natural language processing and related AI applications. DeepSeek has earned global recognition by challenging the hegemony of U.S. AI incumbents (like OpenAI and Google) through technological breakthroughs in efficiency and reasoning. DeepSeek-R1: A powerful reasoning model that rivals premium Western models. Its unique capability to mimic human thought and break down mathematical or programming tasks incrementally sent shockwaves through the tech industry.DeepSeek-V3 & V4: State-of-the-art general language models capable of running incredibly fast while consuming significantly less computational power than peer models.

Workday is a software company that offers human capital management, financial management, and business planning solutions for enterprises. Known for being a cloud-only software provider, Workday was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pleasanton, California.

Paychex is a technology company providing human capital management solutions, enabling clients to better implement payroll, talent, time, tax, and benefits administration. It has a diverse set of product offerings addressing client needs. Aside from its traditional cloud-based payroll and HCM software offering, which accounts for close to half of total revenue, the company provides outsourcing options. Paychex's administrative service organization and professional employer organization accounts generate over 40% of sales. The balance of revenue is generated through retirement services, insurance solutions, and other products. In fiscal 2025, the company had 800,000 clients and almost 2.5 million worksite employees across its ASO and PEO.

Safe Superintelligence is a Palo Alto-based AI firm building systems with embedded safety protocols. Launched in 2024, the company develops risk assessment frameworks and mitigation tools to ensure secure deployment of advanced models in enterprise settings.

Reflection AI is a Brooklyn, New York-based artificial intelligence company that develops open-weight frontier foundation models and autonomous software agents. It was founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, and its first product, Asimov, is a code-research agent that helps engineering teams understand and work across large codebases. The company has since repositioned around open frontier models and end-to-end AI systems sold to governments, large enterprises and public sector institutions that want full control over their AI stack. Reflection emerged from stealth in March 2025 with $130 million across a $25 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital and CRV and a $105 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and CRV. It raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation in October 2025 in a round led by Nvidia, and in April 2026 closed a $2.5 billion Series C at a $25 billion pre-money valuation. In June 2026 it signed a compute agreement with SpaceX worth up to $6.3 billion, and it had about 320 employees in 2026.

Mistral AI is a Paris-headquartered developer of open-source large language models outperforming GPT-3.5 benchmarks. The company releases models like Mistral 7B, Mixtral 8x7B with 46.7 percent MT-Bench scores, and Pixtral 12B for vision-language tasks. Enterprises deploy these via La Plateforme API supporting 80 billion parameter models for coding, translation, and summarization. Mistral AI partners with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA for inference hardware. Founded in 2023, it serves clients in automotive and finance across Europe and the U.S.

ElevenLabs is a London and Warsaw-headquartered AI company providing voice synthesis, cloning, dubbing, and generation tools. Its platform supports text-to-speech in over 29 languages, developer APIs for voice agents, and enterprise solutions for content localization. Features include instant voice cloning from short audio samples, emotional tone preservation, and audio editing capabilities used by creators and businesses worldwide.

Kling AI is a creative studio that produces images and videos using sophisticated artificial intelligence methods.

Fireworks AI is a San Francisco-headquartered cloud platform for deploying open-source AI models at scale. The service offers serverless inference for large language models like Llama 3 and vision transformers with sub-100ms latency via custom GPU clusters. Fireworks partners with Cerebras and Groq for hardware acceleration, serving enterprises in e-commerce and healthcare for fine-tuned deployments.

Deel is a San Francisco-headquartered global workforce management platform handling payroll, compliance, HR, and payments for employees and contractors in over 150 countries. The service includes Employer of Record and Contractor of Record options, automated invoicing, multi-currency transfers, and integrations with HRIS systems like Workday and BambooHR, ensuring local tax and benefits adherence.

Rippling is a San Francisco-headquartered workforce management platform that integrates HR, payroll, IT, and finance in one system. Founded in 2016, the company automates onboarding, benefits, device management, expense tracking, and compliance for global teams at over 100,000 organizations including Shopify and DoorDash. Its API ecosystem connects with 500-plus apps for seamless operations.

Sierra is a San Francisco company that builds conversational AI agents for customer service and sales, founded in 2023 by Bret Taylor, the former co-chief executive of Salesforce and chairman of OpenAI, and Clay Bavor, a longtime Google executive. Its platform lets large companies build branded agents that handle customer conversations over chat, voice and other channels, take actions in company systems and improve over time. Customers include SiriusXM, Sonos, ADT, WeightWatchers, SoFi, Nordstrom, Cigna and Singtel, and the company says it serves more than 40 percent of the Fortune 50. It launched in February 2024 and passed 100 million dollars of annual recurring revenue in 2025 and 150 million in 2026. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Benchmark, Greenoaks, Thrive Capital, ICONIQ, GV and Tiger Global. It raised 950 million dollars in a Series E in May 2026 at a valuation of more than 15 billion dollars. It acquired the voice-agent company Receptive AI in 2025 and the long-horizon agent company Takeoff in 2026.