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Hot Off The AI Furnace - June 16
5 days left for early bird pricing, Next 20 AI Hot 100 Companies Dropped, Events and Updates
Angela & Hamza from The AI Furnace
June 16, 2025
Only 5 days left for early bird pricing ⏳
Early bird tickets for AI Hot 100 Summit ends at midnight this Friday. Grab your ticket to the Most EPIC AI Startup Event of the Year, happening on June 26 in NYC. We’ve confirmed some incredible speakers and demos including:
Co-founder & COO of Sardine AI (raised $145M), Adi Goel - He’ll be demo’ing their AI fraud detection software to help risk teams at banks combat financial crime, as part of the Best of Hot 100 Demos alongside Skyfire AI, Crew AI, Ema Unlimited and more
COO of AI at Morgan Stanley, Denise McCool - Will be speaking on the Disruptive Finance Panel, discussing how AI is being deployed to one of the world’s most regulated industries alongside the Chief Digital Officer of Mastercard (Andrew Reiskind) and the CEO/Founder of Carbon Arc (Kirk McKeown, raised $56M)
CEO/Co-founder at RapidSOS (raised $356M), Michael Martin - Will be speaking on real world impacts of AI on humans whilst tackling a massive under the radar market (emergency response), alongside the Head of Enterprise Technology at Memorial Sloan Kettering (Tsvi Gal) and the ex-CTO of Nomad Health
Co-Founder of Niural, Nabin Banskota (fmr CFO of Citi and exited fintech founder) - Will be speaking on the panel on “The Era of the AI Worker: Training and Managing Agents” alongside Windmill AI and aiXplain
The AI Hot 100 Summit is happening next week, on June 26 in NYC 🚀 — with the most amazing founders, tier 1 VCs, and enterprise AI executives. See our full agenda here.
Promo Code✨ For our loyal community, we are offering a 10% discount for our newsletter followers. Use code FURNACENEWSLETTER, with only 30 tickets left available at this price. Make sure to get yours!
Dropping the next 20 startups on the #AIHot100 List who will be attending the Summit on June 26
Check out the Linkedin post to see who made the cut. We’ll be revealing the next 20 over the next few days so keep an eye out 👀
AI Hot 100 Market Map 2025 (blurred), to be revealed in increments over the next few days
About The AI Hot 💯 Summit
June 26. NYC.
The Who’s Who of Early Stage AI. 100 of the Hottest Funded Startups in the World, All in One Place. 400 Founders, AI Business Leaders and Investors.
RapidSOS (raised $355M)
Sardine AI (raised $142M)
Emergence AI (raised $100M)
Assembled (raised $71M)
Carbon Arc (raised $56M)
Ema Unlimited (ex-CPO of Coinbase, raised $36M)
Skyfire AI (raised $8.5M)
Windmill AI (founder of Yext, IPO)
Portia AI (ex-CTO of Stripe UK, raised $7M)
Maven AGI (raised $28M)
Nexa AI (raised $10M)
+ VCs including a16z, Sequoia, Bessemer, Greycroft, Eric Schmidt Family Office
+ AI Execs including the CDO of Mastercard, CIO of CBRE, Head of AI at Unilever, Head of GenAI at Pfizer
a16z, Eniac Ventures, and Link Ventures at The AI Hot 100 Summit in 2024
Promo Code✨ For our loyal community, we are offering a 10% discount for our newsletter followers. Use code FURNACENEWSLETTER, with only 60 tickets available at this price.
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About The AI Furnace
The AI Furnace is a global network of 20,000+ 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).