CB Insights: Here are the top 100 AI companies in the world
CB Insights lays out the top 100 AI companies in its third cohort. They've collectively attracted over $6 billion in investments.
- In 2018, analysts pegged the global AI market at a whopping $7.35 billion, buoyed by the influx of machine learning-aided image recognition, object identification, detection, and classification, and geophysical detection startups, apps, and services in every conceivable sector (and particularly enterprise ).
- They today published their third annual cohort of AI startups — a compilation of 100 of the most promising companies (whittled down from a pool of over 3,000) providing hardware and data infrastructure for AI apps, optimizing machine learning workflows, and applying AI across a range of industries.
- A total of 11 made the shortlist, including Hong Kong computer vision and deep learning startup SenseTime, robotic process automation companies UiPath and Automation Anywhere, security firm Yitu Technology, U.K.-based semiconductor startup Graphcore, internet of things analytics company C3, and health care hardware provider Butterfly Network.
- Rounding out the list are 4Paradigm, driverless car startup Pony.ai, facial recognition services provider Face++, and Momenta.
- By sheer volume, Shape Security topped the list within the AI 100, with Butterfly, BioCatch, Hover, AEye, Gauss Surgical, DeepMap, Gong, SparkCognition, and IDx Technologies following close behind.