Companies
from podcasts, Product Hunt & a daily scan of 21 top VCsAI safety-focused lab and developer of the Claude model series.
AI research company behind ChatGPT and a forthcoming IPO candidate.
Semiconductor and AI infrastructure company reorganizing beyond GPU sales into broader platform businesses.
Google is a multinational technology company and a major investor in AI.
Meta's AI research division, developer of SAM2 (Segment Anything Model 2) used for video mask propagation.
Moonshot AI is a Chinese AI lab that develops the Kimi family of large language models (LLMs), offering a consumer-facing AI assistant and a developer/enterprise API platform built on its flagship Kimi models, which support ultra-long context, multimodal understanding, and agentic workflows. Its latest model, Kimi K2, is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 1 trillion total parameters, achieving state-of-the-art performance in frontier knowledge, math, and coding.
Aerospace company with significant concentration in large endowment portfolios ahead of an anticipated IPO.
Hugging Face is an open-source AI platform and community hub that hosts over 2 million models, 1.5 million datasets, and 1.5 million AI applications, enabling researchers and developers to discover, share, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models. The company also maintains widely-used open-source libraries such as Transformers and Diffusers, and monetizes through paid compute, inference services, and enterprise Hub subscriptions.
Global cloud computing and software giant; original exclusive cloud partner to OpenAI.
Leading online payments infrastructure company.
Leading VLA robotics startup founded by ex-Google/Stanford researchers building general-purpose robot policies.
Global technology and cloud company, operator of Amazon Web Services.
Consumer technology giant whose App Store is blocking the Replit app, raising platform risk concerns for AI dev tools.
Chinese AI lab known for publishing detailed technical reports on mixture-of-experts LLM architectures.
Google DeepMind's VLA system demonstrating that large vision-language backbones can be adapted into end-to-end robot controllers
Top-tier venture capital firm co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early-stage deep tech investments.
Prominent startup accelerator and seed fund based in Silicon Valley.
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI startup founded in February 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, focused on building transparent, interpretable AI systems for professional and enterprise use, including large language models and a novel "interaction model" architecture enabling real-time, full-duplex multimodal communication. The company raised a record $2 billion seed round at a $12 billion valuation in 2025, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, AMD, and others.
Global venture capital firm with significant AI and infrastructure investments.
Leading data and AI company spun out of UC Berkeley research, known for the Lakehouse architecture.
Global alternative asset manager with flagship funds across private equity, real estate, and private credit.
Prominent venture capital firm and backer of Ent's seed round.
Model routing infrastructure platform allowing enterprises to access and route between multiple AI models.
Government AI and data analytics platform with major defense and intelligence contracts.
Chinese technology conglomerate whose Qwen team developed the Qwen3-VL vision-language model.
AI coding tool built by Anysphere, formerly Anthropic's largest revenue customer, now under competitive pressure from Claude Code.
Global venture capital firm investing in technology companies.
Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent venture capital firm that backed new 24/7 media company MTS.
Global digital payments company whose CVC arm PayPal Ventures is being wound down.
Electric vehicle and autonomous driving company referenced as an example of a stock whose price prediction benefits from sub-variable pricing.
Inference and custom model API provider with evaluation tools.
Prominent venture capital firm that co-led Modal's funding round.
Ride-sharing and logistics platform whose CTO burned through the full 2026 AI budget due to token costs.
Leading venture capital firm across multiple technology sectors
Financial data and technology company providing data on private capital markets.
Prominent venture capital firm, early investor in DoorDash.
AI company founded by Elon Musk, competing with OpenAI.
AI inference chip company offering speed-optimized chips for low-latency inference.
Universal-3.5 Pro is AssemblyAI's most accurate speech-to-text model with multilingual support, speaker diarization, and contextual prompting.
Oxford-based nonprofit data platform making global research freely accessible.
Major semiconductor company whose CEO Lip-Bu Tan personally invested in NeoCognition.
Venture capital firm that led Nourish's $100M Series C round.
Warsaw-founded voice AI company that reached an $11B valuation by early 2026.
Enterprise CRM giant that announced going 'full headless' to enable agent-based access.
Global streaming entertainment platform.
Prominent US venture capital fund referenced as an early-cycle alpha generator.
SK hynix is a South Korean semiconductor company and one of the world's largest memory chip manufacturers, producing DRAM, NAND flash, SSDs, and High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) for markets spanning AI/data centers, mobile, PC, automotive, and consumer electronics. It is the global leader in HBM with a ~62% market share, supplying advanced memory solutions critical to AI infrastructure.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a South Korean technology conglomerate and one of the world's largest companies, designing and manufacturing a broad range of consumer electronics (including Galaxy smartphones, TVs, and home appliances) while also operating a major semiconductor division producing DRAM, NAND flash, HBM, and foundry services for global customers.
Global venture capital firm that backed Fervo Energy.
AI-powered meeting notes tool widely used in tech sales teams.
Open-source document-oriented NoSQL database company.
Global investment bank and financial services company with an alternatives and asset management arm.
Global investment firm and private equity giant.
Union Square Ventures, a prominent venture capital firm investing in open source AI.
The world's largest asset manager.
AI-focused newsletter and podcast covering AI strategy, infrastructure, and investment.
European AI startup that reached a $1.8B valuation just 8 months after launch.
Corporate spend management platform cited as the data source confirming Anthropic's enterprise revenue lead over OpenAI.
Independent AI cloud and GPU provider that went public at $40/share and saw its stock quadruple before falling on Blackstone/Google JV news.
Tencent is a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate best known for WeChat/Weixin, a super-app with over 1.4 billion monthly active users encompassing messaging, payments, and e-commerce, alongside one of the world's largest gaming businesses. The company also operates major cloud infrastructure, fintech, and AI services — including its proprietary Hunyuan foundation model — serving both consumers and enterprises globally.
AI-native customer support and agent platform whose CEO is a confirmed CVAI Summit speaker.
AI cloud infrastructure company (Yandex spinout) and sponsor of the CVAI Summit London 2026.
Academic research platform for Physical AI and robotics research
Builds AI models that create digital twins of real people, allowing businesses to simulate human behavior on synthetic populations before deploying real-world decisions.
Harvey is an AI platform purpose-built for legal and professional services, offering custom large language models and agentic workflow tools that help law firms and Fortune 500 enterprises streamline tasks such as contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, litigation prep, and legal research. Trusted by over 142,000 lawyers across 1,500+ organizations in 60+ countries, it is backed by investors including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and the OpenAI Startup Fund.
Jersey Mike's Subs is a fast-casual sandwich franchise chain founded in 1956 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, operating over 3,200 locations across the U.S. and Canada that serve fresh-sliced and fresh-grilled submarine sandwiches. The company operates as a franchisor, with individually owned and operated locations, and is backed by Blackstone, with ambitions to expand to 10,000 stores globally.
Major US semiconductor company specializing in memory and storage chips, seen as a key infrastructure layer for AI compute.
Top Chinese research university with a strong robotics and machine learning research group contributing to GuidedVLA.
Legora is an enterprise-grade AI operating system ("aOS") purpose-built for legal professionals, offering tools for legal research, document review, agentic workflows, drafting, and regulatory monitoring within a single platform. It serves over 1,000 law firms and in-house legal teams across more than 50 markets, with clients including elite global firms such as Cleary Gottlieb and Linklaters.
Chinese research university; Zekun Qi's affiliation, also associated with SoFar and ShapeLLM projects.
ByteDance is a global technology company best known for developing and operating AI-driven content and short-form video platforms, including TikTok, Douyin, and Toutiao, serving billions of consumers worldwide. It also offers enterprise and B2B products such as Lark, BytePlus, and e-commerce infrastructure, and is actively investing in large language models and generative AI research through its ByteDance Seed team.
Alphabet's autonomous vehicle service with commercial robotaxi operations.
Global alternative asset management firm with major private credit and private equity platforms.
Global venture capital firm with a broad technology investment portfolio.
Global growth equity firm that made a growth investment in PowerGEM.
Cloud platform for frontend developers, known for hosting Next.js applications.
Data enrichment and outreach automation platform used by go-to-market teams.
Major US cryptocurrency exchange sued by the New York Attorney General over prediction markets.
Data infrastructure and annotation company that helps train AI models at scale.
Venture capital firm that is an investor in Deep Fission.
Major semiconductor company that acquired SeaMicro for $334M.
America's dominant on-demand food delivery platform expanding into grocery, retail, autonomous vehicles, B2B SaaS, and financial products.