Recently, CB Insights, a venture capital research organization, released the annual list of top 100 artificial intelligence companies - consisting of 100's most promising AI companies, which stand out from the multiple candidates of 3000, whose business covers artificial intelligence hardware and data foundation. Facilities, machine learning process optimization, and a variety of industry applications.

The selection criteria include patent progress, investor profile, market potential, partnership, competitive landscape, team strength and novelty.

CB Insights provides enterprise SaaS services. It uses crawler technology to capture information on corporate investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions, and then finds the companies with the highest frequency in the news through algorithms, and scores data based on company size, financing stage, and industry classification. It is usually submitted to the investment institution in the form of a list.

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Interpretation of key points

The unicorn company with a valuation of more than 10 billion has a total of 11 homes, among which the Chinese company 5 owns half of the river. However, it is worth noting that in the top 100 list, domestic companies are not in full bloom, and there is only one extra - Horizon Robotics finalists - which means that many resources are concentrated in the head of the company.

Among the top 100 list, except for Chinese companies, there are 6 in Israel, 6 in the UK, 1 in Canada, Germany, Sweden, Japan, and India, and more than 70 companies from the United States.

However, Nuro, Pony.ai, Drive.ai, DeepMapLanding AI and other US companies are actually behind the list of Chinese companies.

The unicorn companies in the CB Insights list include:

  • Computer Vision and Deep Learning Startup Company SenseTime [China]
  • Robot Process Automation Company UiPath [USA]
  • Robot Flow Automation Company Automation Anywhere [United States]
  • Security company Yitu Technology [China]
  • Semiconductor startup Graphcore [UK]
  • Internet of Things Analysis Company C3 [United States]
  • Healthcare Hardware Provider Butterfly Network [United States]
  • Fourth Normal Form (4Paradigm) [China]
  • Driverless car startup company Pony.ai (United States)
  • Facial recognition service provider Defying Technology (Face++) [China]
  • Autopilot company Momenta [China]

Financing overview

According to the CB Insights report, in this 11 unicorn company, Shangtang Technology and Vision Technology have the most funds, which is largely due to government contracts, which attract more than 16 billion and 6 billion dollars respectively. .

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The most active investment institution

More than 680 companies, venture capital firms, CVS and angel investors have funded companies on the CB Insights list.

GV (formerly Google Ventures) ranked 1 on the list of artificial intelligence active investors and participated in the 27 round of financing. Kai Peng Hua Ying (KleiNer Perkins) ranked 22 with 2 round of financing, followed by Data Collective (21), Enron Investment (19), Accel (16), Novist Ventures and Battery Ventures (both For the 15 round), Intel Capital (14 round), IA Ventures (13 round) and AME Cloud Ventures (13 round).

Industry and intellectual property

CB Insights found that among the top companies, the company with the most focus on corporate AI is 33. Secondly, medical health (14), automatic driving (11), and the number of AI startups in the media, real estate, agriculture, and telecommunications sectors are scarce.

The top 600 AI companies have applied for a total of 100 patents in the United States. Shape Security ranked first in the AI ​​XNUMX, followed by Butterfly, BioCath, Hover, AEye, Gauss Surgical, DeepMap, Gong, SparkCognition and IDx Technologies.

Industry sorted complete list

Agriculture

  • Benson Hill Biosystems
  • Taranis

Car (Auto)

  • Nuro
  • Pony.ai
  • Drive.ai
  • Nexar
  • DeepMap
  • Mapillary
  • Momenta
  • AEye
  • DeepScale
  • Iris Automation
  • Perceptive Automata

Enterprise Technology

  • AI.Reverie
  • DefinedCrowd
  • MightyAI
  • Dataiku
  • Machinify
  • DataRobot
  • Tamr
  • H20.ai
  • Trifacta
  • Dremio
  • SigOpt
  • Mabl
  • Applitools
  • Demisto
  • Anodot
  • Shape Security
  • Vectra Networks
  • Area 1 Security
  • Agari Data
  • Jask Labs
  • Perimeter X
  • BounceX
  • Unbabel
  • Gong
  • Gamalon
  • FullStory
  • UiPath
  • Automation Anywhere
  • Orbital Insight
  • Descartes Labs
  • Element AI
  • SparkCognition
  • Prowler.io

Finance and insurance

  • 4Paradigm
  • BioCatch
  • DataVisor
  • HyperScience
  • Behavox
  • AppZen

Government

  • One Concern
  • SenseTime
  • Face ++
  • Yitu Technology
  • Fortem Technologies
  • Shield AI

Health care

  • Qventus
  • LeanTaaS
  • Insitro
  • Owkin
  • Atomwise
  • Paige.ai
  • Niramai
  • Butterfly Network
  • IDx Technologies
  • Arterys
  • Viz.ai
  • Mindstrong Health
  • Gauss Surgical
  • Medopad

Industry (Industial)

  • Sense Labs
  • Falkonry
  • C3
  • Kebotix
  • Zymergen
  • Landing AI

Legal Human Resources Management (Legal, compliance, and HR)

  • LawGeex
  • Eigen Technologies
  • Onfido
  • Textio

Media

  • AI Foundation
  • New Knowledge
  • Arraiy

Real estate

  • Hover
  • Skyline AI

Retail

  • TwentyBN
  • Bee
  • Signifyd
  • AiFi
  • Sift

Semiconductor (Semiconductor)

  • Habana Labs
  • Graphcore
  • Cerebras Systems
  • Horizon Robotics
  • Thinci
  • Syntiant
  • Mythic

Telecom

  • Mist Systems

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