Hot Off The AI Furnace - June 23

T-4️⃣ Days Till Lift Off, Demo Reveal, Panel Drops, Events and Updates

We’re only 4 days away from the most epic AI startup event of the year and we have some exciting updates

  • We’re dropping our first 9 startups demo’ing 💣

  • Panel Reveals — Check out the incredible line-up we’ve brought together for the summit

  • Full List of the Hot 100 Startups Revealed — All of whom will be there at the Summit on Thursday!

Mindblowing tech being showcased at The AI Hot 100 Summit

Interested in seeing the cutting edge tech that is set to transform industries in the next 18 to 24 months?

Dropping the first 9 startups demo’ing on Thursday at the Best of the Hot 100 Demos session, a combo of hot startups in the spotlight and founders building in stealth…

  • Anthropic - Model Context Protocol Demo

  • Eo Vision (backed by the founders of Hugging Face & Github) - AI for Medical Imaging and Diagnosis

  • Solaya AI - AI generated 3D images for retail commerce sites

  • Skyfire AI (raised $8.5M) - Payments for AI Agents

  • Emergence AI (raised $100M)- Agents that create agents, spin up an army of AI agents instantly

  • Sardine AI ($145M) - AI Risk Platform for fraud, credit, and compliance

  • Portia AI (raised $7M) - Build agents that are predictable, controllable and authenticated

  • Ema Unlimited (raised $61M) - Universal AI employees for enterprise workflows

  • ExactRX - The intelligence layer for modern surgery centers

  • + More to be revealed

Check out the full agenda here.

Secure your spot today, only 30 more community tickets available 👉 aifurnace.co 

Released today - The full list of startups who made it on the AI Hot 100 Market Map 2025. Catch them at the Summit on June 26th.

AI Hot 100 Market Map 2025

After months of rigorous research and curation, we are proud to officially launch the AI Hot 100 Market Map 2025 highlighting the Hot 100 startups building in AI. The full report will be given to the attendees at the Summit on June 26th before being released more widely.

This year, we focused on specific applications of AI within industry - honing in on financial services, healthcare and retail, alongside a run of 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.

🚨 Panel Reveals

Disruptive Finance: Inside the AI Strategies & Trends Reshaping Banking

Join us on June 26 to learn from the Global COO (Research) at Morgan Stanley, the Co-founder of Sardine AI (raised $145M), and the CEO of Carbon Arc (ex-head of proprietary research at Point 72, raised $50M) about where they see the future of banking with AI.

Investing at the Frontier: The Hidden of AI

Learn from Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Insight Partners about where they are investing in AI today. Get front-row seats to how top investors think, which trends they are backing, and their hot takes on the hidden value in the AI space.

How Do You Build AI When Failure isn't an Option? AI Changing The Face of Healthcare & Rapid Response

Hear from the CEO of RapidSOS (raised $356M), the CTO of Memorial Sloan Kettering and the ex-CTO of Nomad Health as they discuss how AI is being deployed to improve patient outcomes and enhance rapid response whilst delivering commercial outcomes.

The State of AI Agents: Delivering Business Impact Now and In the Future

Curious to see where AI agents are headed? What are the current capabilities and what will be the business impact now and in the future? Learn more about the State of AI Agents from Emma Burrows (Co-Founder of Portia AI, fmr CTO of Stripe), Surojit Chatterjee (CEO and co-founder of Ema Unlimited, fmr CPO of Coinbase), and Ravi Kokku (Co-founder of Emergence AI, raised $100M)

🤖 Volunteers Roles for The AI Hot 100 Summit 🚀 Are you a Student & Interesting in Volunteering?

The AI Furnace is on the lookout for talented students to volunteer at the summit on June 26th in NYC. It’s your chance to be part of a day filled with cutting-edge discussions, networking and demo’s. Open to students only.

Benefits include:

  • Being in the room with the hottest AI founders, VCs and executives;

  • Networking with AI experts and enthusiasts;

  • Free access to insightful sessions and workshops;

  • Complimentary meals and exclusive event merchandise.

👉 Fill in this form to be considered.

About The AI Hot 💯 Summit

June 26th. 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.

Some of the founders attending include:

We’ll have some dope AI VCs joining including:

  • A16z

  • Sequoia Capital

  • Bessemerv

  • 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

Some of the AI enterprise leaders include:

  • 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 Puma

  • Head of AI at UBS

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

  • + More

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.

Make sure to get yours here! Check it out the full agenda here.

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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).