A ranking of the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world.

ABOUT

The AI 100 recognizes the teams and technologies that are successfully using AI to solve big challenges. The award winners were announced in December 2017 at the A-ha! conference hosted at SFJAZZ in San Francisco on December 12 & 13.

Last year's AI 100 enjoyed amazing success in the year since earning this recognition. 55 of them went on to raise additional funding nearing $2B and 5 were acquired.  

This year's list was culled from 2,000+ applications and looks even more impressive.  These are companies using artificial intelligence in industries from drug discovery and cybersecurity to robotics and legal tech.  I'm happy that CB Insights is able to shine a light on the founders and companies that will revolutionize these industries and look forward to seeing what they do in 2018 and beyond.

- Anand Sanwal 

  CEO & Co-Founder

  CB Insights

PROCESS & ELIGIBILITY

The companies were selected from a pool of 2,000+ startups based on several criteria, including investor profile, tech innovation, team strength, patent activity, mosaic score, funding history, valuation, and business model. Companies can be located anywhere and must be privately-held. There is no cost to apply, nominate or receive the AI 100 award.

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CB Insights is the authority on emerging trends in artificial intelligence with its AI trends data regularly featured by leading media.

Past artificial intelligence research briefs include deep dives into retail, healthcare, financial services to name just a few as well as analysis of M&A activity in AI and startups using deep learning.

AI 100 2018

AEYE 

Affirm

Afiniti

AiCure

Algolia

Amplero

Anki

Appier

Applitools

Appthority

Aquifi

Arterys

babylon

Benson Hill Biosystems

Brain Corporation

Bytedance

C3 IoT

Cambricon

Cape Analytics

Captricity

Casetext

Cerebras Systems

CloudMinds

CognitiveScale

Conversica

CrowdFlower 

CrowdStrike

Cybereason

Darktrace

DataRobot

Deep Sentinel

Descartes Labs Drive.ai

Dynamic Yield

Element AI

Endgame

Face++

Flatiron Health

FLYR

Foghorn Systems

Freenome

Gong

Graphcore

InsideSales.com

Insight Engines

Insilico Medicine

Invoca

Kindred Systems

KYNDI

LeapMind

Liulishuo

MAANA

Merlon Intelligence

Mighty AI

Mobalytics

Mobvoi

MOOGsoft

Mya Systems

Mythic

Narrative Science

NAUTO

Neurala

Numerai

Obsidian Security

Onfido

Orbital Insight

OrCam Technologies

Osmo

PerimeterX

Petuum

Preferred Networks

Primer

Prospera

Recursion Pharmaceuticals

Reflektion

SenseTime 

Shape Security

Sher.pa

Shield AI

Shift Technology

Socure

SoundHound

SparkCognition

Sportlogiq

Tamr

Tempus Labs

Text IQ

Textio

Tractable

Trifacta

Twiggle

UBTECH Robotics

Upstart

Versive

Vicarious Systems

Workey

WorkFusion

ZestFinance

Zoox

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