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Israel vs United States

United States has 458x more tracked AI funding, so the useful question is where the smaller side still punches above weight. This page picks the chart shape from the data instead of forcing every comparison into the same visual.

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00 — Dated funding timeline
Israel's dated AI funding tape stops at Alta; United States's latest named round is 136× larger.
Israel
Alta
$7M · Mar 4, 2025
United States
Sierra
$950M · May 4, 2026
Jan 2025 last 12 months shaded Jul 2026
$0 vs $346.3B in dated equity since 2025-07-02. Dataset qualifier: dated rounds on file only; missing structured rounds are not treated as zero market activity.
TRACKED AI-NATIVE EQUITY · DEDUPED BY ORG, DATE, AMOUNT NO TOTAL-ECOSYSTEM CLAIM IMPLIED
note — United States runs 458× more AI capital than Israel. Whether that translates to frontier compute is what the next chart shows.
— ai-race-map · methodology @ /m
03 — Org capital concentration
United States's top 3 are 352× Israel's total
Israel has 6 tracked orgs; United States's top three alone carry $267.2B.
top-heavy
🇮🇱 Israel 6 orgs · $758M
top 1 44%
top 3 82%
biggest carrier: AI21 Labs · $336M
🇺🇸 United States 136 orgs · $347.2B
top 1 49%
top 3 77%
biggest carrier: OpenAI · $170.8B
🇮🇱 Israel top 3 $623M
1 AI21 Labs 44% of Israel tracked AI-native funding $336M 2 Decart 20% of Israel tracked AI-native funding $153M 3 Wonderful 18% of Israel tracked AI-native funding $134M
🇺🇸 United States top 3 $267.2B
1 OpenAI 49% of United States tracked AI-native funding $170.8B 2 Anthropic 17% of United States tracked AI-native funding $59.4B 3 xAI 11% of United States tracked AI-native funding $37.0B
Israel: 6 orgs · United States: 136 orgs. HQ-BASED AI-NATIVE FUNDING ONLY · TOP-3 ROWS SHARE THE HEADLINE BASIS
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