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CB Insights AI 100 2026

CB Insights AI 100 2026 by CB Insights: 100 startups listed. Full list with movement since the last edition and method notes.

Publisher
CB Insights
Published
May 5, 2026
On this page
100 of 100 listed
Method
Mixed
Reliability
Grade C

10th annual AI 100, picked from 40,000+ companies. Winners are grouped into enterprise applications, industry applications, infrastructure and compute, and physical AI, which appears as a standalone category for the first time. CB Insights says 64% of winners across five cohorts closed follow-on rounds versus 31% of comparable AI companies.

Added hiring momentum and Commercial Maturity scores; selection pool grew to 40,000+.

The full list

Name
Anam
Strella
7AI
Aurascape
depthfirst
Lumana
Prophet
Simbian
Alex
Tako
Bluefish
Creatify AI
Newton Research
Profound
MainFunc
Narada
Pokee AI
Serval
Actively AI
Netic
Reevo
Antithesis
PlayerZero
Resolve AI
Superblocks
AgentSmyth
Avantos
Bretton AI
Casap
Further AI
Light
Questflow
Salient
TidalWave
Assort Health
Boltz
Chai Discovery
Elicit
Ellipsis Health
Layer Health
Penguin Ai
Periodic Labs
Qualified Health
Atomic Canyon
CuspAI
Leo AI
Procure Ai
Qbiq
Ankar
DeepJudge
Enter
Alta
Oboe
Raspberry AI
Rhino Federated Computing
Aaru
LanceDB
AMESA
Applied Compute
E2B
Linkup
Lyzr
Maisa AI
Parallel
Seekr
StackOne
Thread AI
Browser Use
LlamaIndex
FriendliAI
Ami Labs
Black Forest Labs
Moonlake AI
Moonvalley
Paid
ChipAgents
SiPearl
Majestic Labs AI
Positron
Unconventional AI
Dash0
Geordie AI
InCountry
Knostic
Thinking Machines Lab
LMArena
Keycard
Straiker
Virtue AI
Augmentus
FieldAI
Generalist AI
InOrbit
Blue Water Autonomy
BOS Semiconductors
DYNA
Gravis Robotics
Humanoid
Persona AI
The Bot Company

This list is reproduced as CB Insights published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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