A ranking of the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies.
It is a purely data-driven/algorithmic process that uses CB Insights data. We’ve gathered this data via our
machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher) as well as via several thousand direct submissions
from firms and individual professionals using The Editor.
The Company Mosaic page walks through the factors considered in the algorithm in some detail but at a
high level, it considers several factors including:
- Momentum – Considers non-traditional signals including news mentions, sentiment, jobs data/hiring,
social media, web traffic and usage, partnerships, and more.
- Market – Quantifies the health of the sector and industry the company is involved in, including funding,
deals, exit activity, and hiring.
- Money — Assesses financial signals including funding recency and total raised.
- Investor quality – Weighs the quality of the investors participating in deals to the company, judging
investors based on exits, returns, and portfolio quality.
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Are we on the eve of an era where the Fortune 500 is replaced by the "AI 100"?
This may be more realistic than you think if the current predictions regarding the future of work push humans to service each other and let all the "work" be done by machines - robots and AI.
We are not there yet and this list merely reports 100 startups that are very active in the field AI. Nevertheless, it is interesting to consider what impact AI may have and adjust our digital strategies accordingly...
Fortune magazine has also created a very interesting infographics from this mountain of data: http://fortune.com/2017/02/23/artificial-intelligence-companies/