The AI Hot 100 Conference is tomorrow 🎉

Get ready for a day of incredible AI startup innovation 🏎️

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Only 1 day left till the AI startup event of the year

Hey fam 👋 We’re only one day away from The AI Hot 100 Conference.

Get ready to:

  • Meet 100+ early stage AI founders all in one room

  • A Founder-Funder meet and greet with top funds like a16z, Insight Partners, m13, Bessemer Venture Partners, Gradient Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and more!

  • Breakthrough demos including AI fashion models, AI agents, AI generated anime and more!

  • Lightning talks discussing AI at the cutting edge, covering small language models, on device compute, RAG and more

Only a few tickets left, see full agenda below 👇

If you haven’t already, grab your ticket while you can!

Interested in The AI Hot 100 Market Map 🎯

Next week, we’re going to be publishing our AI Hot 100 marketmap with the world, sharing our fave 100 startups from across the east coast.

If interested in checking it out, like and comment on the post below and we’ll be sharing more details next week!

About The AI Hot 💯 Conference

September 18th. NYC.

The Who’s Who of Early Stage AI. 100 of the Hottest Funded Startups in the World, All in One Place. 500+ Investors, Founders, Corporate Leaders and Researchers.

Make sure to get yours here!

Some of the AI Startups we’re bringing together for this incredible event include:

  • Maven AGI (raised $28M from M13)

  • Arcee.ai (raised $29M from Emergence)

  • Reality Defender (raised $15M from DCVC)

  • Seek AI (raised $10.5M from Conviction and Battery Ventures)

  • VoyceMe (raised $10M from Redpoint Ventures)

  • LastMile AI (raised $10M from Gradient Ventures)

  • Nexa AI (raised $8.75M from Fusion Fund)

  • Laws of Motion (raised $6.5M from Corazon Capital and Leadout Ventures)

  • Piramidal (YC W24, raised $6M from Lionheart Ventures)

  • TextQL (raised $4.1M from Neo and DCM)

  • +More

We’ll have some dope AI VCs joining including:

  • A16z

  • Lerer Hippeau

  • Gradient Ventures

  • Flybridge

  • Eniac Ventures

  • M13

  • Firstmark

  • Creative Capital

  • Link Ventures

  • IBM Ventures

  • Left Lane Capital

  • True Ventures

  • Red Sea Ventures

  • Communitas Capital

  • Apprentis Ventures

  • +More

📢 Interested in sponsoring The AI Hot 100 Conference? Reach out to us at [email protected] to get your brand in front of 500+ AI entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, executives, and AI leaders.

📣 Are you creating the next big AI company or know of anyone who is? Apply here to be part of the AI Hot 100 today!

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About the AI Furnace Community

The AI Furnace is a global network of 15,000+ AI founders, developers and researchers. It was started by Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, AI founders from NYC and London who started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco).