🚨 Officially Launching the 2025 AI Hot 100 Market Report by The AI Furnace

After months of rigorous research and curation, we are proud to officially launch the 2025 AI Hot 100 Market Map, highlighting the Hot 100 startups building in AI.

The report was given to attendees of the AI Hot 100 Summit on June 26th, where we brought together many of the Hot 100 founders in person alongside AI executives and investors. Today we are releasing this to the wider world.

This year, we focused on specific applications of AI within industry - honing in on financial services, healthcare and retail, alongside startups sitting at the more general level (i.e. building infrastructure or applications that can be applied across industries).

We have vetted and curated startups with enterprise grade solutions that are production ready for wide scale implementation, to be showcased to AI business executives and to supercharge the application of AI in industry in 2025.

Thanks to our board of advisors and committee of AI experts, technologists and industry vertical experts who helped us with the selection.

Highlights from our 2nd Annual AI Hot 💯 Summit (2025 North America Edition)  

On June 26th in NYC we brought together 100 of the Hottest AI Startups with production ready solutions from across the US curated by The AI Furnace, for a day of tech showcases, intimate connections and themed discussions.

We connected these founders with 150 AI Executives and 40+ Investors with the mission to supercharge applied AI within industry in 2025.

We have developed a strong conviction that we are providing something very unique and needed in the market from all of the positive feedback received. The AI innovation cycle is entering a crucial stage where startup founders are in search of real use cases, and enterprise leaders are looking to cut through the hype and get real perspectives and production ready solutions from curated CEOs.

The AI Hot 100 brand is the vehicle that is bringing AI innovation to industry in a way that nobody else is, to help with Buy vs Build vs Acquire decisions.

We are happy to announce that the 2026 Edition is on the way. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PRE-REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE!

Some summit highlights:

🤝 Made over 100+ Corporate to Startup introductions to discuss demos and potential pilots.

🤝 Had over 50+ Venture Capital companies attend, a whopping $500M in AUM, to meet startups including: A16Z, Bessemer Venture Partners, Eniac, M13, NEA, Lerer Hippeua, Gradient Ventures, Link Ventures and more.

🤝 Connected multiple Founders to Government Officials from NYCEDC.

Some of the founders that attended include:

• RapidSOS (series C, raised $355M)

• Sardine AI (series C, raised $142M)

• ​Emergence AI (series C, raised $100M)

• ​Assembled (series B, raised $71M)

• ​Carbon Arc (series A, raised $56M)

• ​Ema Unlimited (series A, ex-CPO of Coinbase, raised $36M)

• ​Skyfire AI (seed, raised $8.5M)

• ​Windmill AI (seed, founder of Yext, IPO)

• ​Portia AI (seed, ex-CTO of Stripe UK, raised $7M)

• ​Maven AGI (series B, raised $28M)

• ​Nexa AI (seed, raised $10M)

• + More

Some of the AI enterprise leaders included:

• Chief Data Officer of Mastercard

• Chief Information Officer of CBRE

• Head of AI at Unilever

• Head of Global AI and Data Science at Pfizer

• Group Chief Innovation & AI Officer at Ringier AG

• Head of Enterprise Technology at Memorial Sloan Kettering

• Head of AI at Mars

• Head of AI at UBS

• SVP of Data, AI & Emerging Technologies at NBC Universal

• + More

Some of the AI VCs that joined:

• A16z

• Sequoia Capital

• Bessemer Venture Partners

• Lerer Hippeau

• Gradient Ventures

• Eniac Ventures

• M13

• Firstmark

• Creative Capital

• Link Ventures

• IBM Ventures

• Left Lane Capital

• True Ventures

• Red Sea Ventures

• Communitas Capital

• Apprentis Ventures

• + More

  Huge thanks to our 2025 sponsors 🙏 

Invisible Technologies - Carta - Niural - Zenlytics - Lyzr AI - Portia AI - RapidSOS - Nearform - Maximor - Maven AGI - Carbon Arc

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