Trending companies
The H-1B sponsors worth watching, AI labs and venture-backed startups. Membership is hand-picked; everything about each company (filings, the roles they file for, and pay) is pulled live, FY2017–2026.
🥭 MANGOES
All 10 MANGOES →
Meta
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
H-1B total
46,756
FY2025
6,635
▲8%
Median pay
$203k
Microsoft
Windows, Azure, Office & Copilot
H-1B total
75,263
FY2025
9,302
▼2%
Median pay
$170k
Apple
iPhone, Mac & services
H-1B total
37,897
FY2025
6,366
▲68%
Median pay
$175k
Amazon
E-commerce, AWS & devices
H-1B total
161,385
FY2025
23,353
▲7%
Median pay
$154k
Nvidia
GPUs & AI compute
H-1B total
9,884
FY2025
1,889
▲39%
Median pay
$185k
Netflix
Streaming & studios
H-1B total
2,690
FY2025
338
▲1%
Median pay
$226k
🤖 AI companies
All 11 AI companies →
Anthropic
Claude AI assistant
H-1B total
433
FY2025
116
▲123%
Median pay
$300k
OpenAI
ChatGPT & the GPT models
H-1B total
540
FY2025
117
▲36%
Median pay
$310k
Databricks
Data + AI lakehouse
H-1B total
2,033
FY2025
384
▲17%
Median pay
$167k
Scale AI
Data labeling for AI
H-1B total
296
FY2025
77
▲60%
Median pay
$180k
Cohere
Enterprise LLMs
H-1B total
45
FY2025
10
▼17%
Median pay
$235k
Mistral AI
Open-weight LLMs
H-1B total
67
FY2025
15
▲275%
Median pay
$260k
🚀 Rising startups
All 14 rising startups →
Stripe
Payments infrastructure
H-1B total
2,066
FY2025
292
▼1%
Median pay
$163k
Rippling
HR + IT + payroll platform
H-1B total
465
FY2025
97
▲35%
Median pay
$234k
Brex
Corporate cards & spend
H-1B total
401
FY2025
31
▼42%
Median pay
$180k
Ramp
Corporate cards & spend management
H-1B total
140
FY2025
30
▲3%
Median pay
$155k
Plaid
Bank-data connectivity
H-1B total
285
FY2025
42
▼2%
Median pay
$189k
Deel
Global payroll & EOR
H-1B total
212
FY2025
81
▲72%
Median pay
$136k
🟠 Backed by YC
All 10 YC companies →
Airbnb
Home & travel marketplace
H-1B total
2,541
FY2025
240
▲33%
Median pay
$191k
DoorDash
Food & local delivery
H-1B total
3,315
FY2025
541
▲0%
Median pay
$175k
Coinbase
Crypto exchange
H-1B total
1,202
FY2025
186
▲92%
Median pay
$183k
Dropbox
File sync & storage
H-1B total
1,359
FY2025
118
▲24%
Median pay
$187k
Instacart
Grocery delivery
H-1B total
1,089
FY2025
146
▼16%
Median pay
$190k
Reddit
Communities & discussion
H-1B total
548
FY2025
100
▲59%
Median pay
$255k
🔬 Chipmakers
All 20 chipmakers →Nvidia
GPUs & AI compute
H-1B total
9,884
FY2025
1,889
▲39%
Median pay
$185k
Intel
x86 CPUs & foundry
H-1B total
27,321
FY2025
2,824
▼25%
Median pay
$128k
AMD
CPUs, GPUs & data-center chips
H-1B total
5,615
FY2025
867
▲12%
Median pay
$148k
Qualcomm
Mobile SoCs & modems
H-1B total
18,813
FY2025
2,249
▲3%
Median pay
$136k
Broadcom
Networking & wireless chips
H-1B total
1,320
FY2025
122
▲28%
Median pay
$176k
Micron
Memory: DRAM & NAND
H-1B total
5,315
FY2025
645
▲38%
Median pay
$125k
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Curated cohorts are editorial, there is no sector or funding field in the DOL data, so we hand-pick the companies and let the filings speak. Counts use a precise employer name match; a company filing under multiple legal entities may be undercounted.