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Even as Silicon Valley giants cut jobs like a hot knife through butter, the competition among startups for the best global talent remains as fierce as ever. And with critical skills, particularly in artificial intelligence, still in short supply, startups like OpenAI and Anthropic rely on the H-1B visa program to bring in skillful foreign workers and secure their place in the race.
For a startup to hire a foreign worker, it sponsors their petition for an H-1B visa, which lets them work in the US for up to six years. The job candidate is entered into a lottery for one of 85,000 visas. Despite challenges, including a demand for visas that has outstripped supply and ongoing discussions about reforms, startups continue to recruit talent abroad through this Rube Goldberg system to gain a competitive edge.
Using data from the Department of Labor and US Citizenship and Immigration Services, we ranked the startup employers that filed the most H-1B requests during the 2024 government fiscal year. The data comes from applications submitted by businesses seeking to sponsor workers' visas.
Here are the startups leading the charge, ranked by their number of filings.
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $325 million, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 26
Coda
Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $400 million, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 28
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $734 million, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 28
Carta
Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $1.19 billion, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 30
Thumbtack
Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: More than $500 million, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 31
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: Elon Musk took X private at a purchase price of $44 billion in 2022.
Total certified H-1B filings: 32
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: More than $17 billion, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 35
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Headquarters: South San Francisco, California
Total funding: $1.23 billion, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 35
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $527 million, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 36
Scale AI
Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $1.6 billion, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 42
Gusto
Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $751 million, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 48
Verkada
Headquarters: San Mateo, California
Total funding: $700 million, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 52
Nuro
Headquarters: Mountain View, California
Total funding: More than $2 billion, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 59
Cohesity
Headquarters: San Jose, California
Total funding: $1.8 billion, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 61
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $63.92 billion, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 74
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Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: $2.65 billion, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 101
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Headquarters: San Francisco and Dublin
Total funding: $8.73 billion, according to PitchBook
Total certified H-1B filings: 265
Ali Ghodsi
Headquarters: San Francisco
Total funding: More than $14 billion, according to the company
Total certified H-1B filings: 283
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Headquarters: Los Angeles and Singapore
Total funding: TikTok is a subsidiary of ByteDance, which has raised $18.95 billion in venture capital, according to PitchBook.
Total certified H-1B filings: 614
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