With our new focus for the AI Hot 100 being a curated AI startup and innovation showcase connecting the Hot 100 founders to industry use cases and budgets, we’ve been busy putting together a killer team and a stellar board of advisors for 2025.

Drum roll please 🥁…

We are pumped to announce that Tey Bannerman (who was an AI Partner at McKinsey) has joined the AI Hot 100 Global team 🎉

We had initially brought Tey to speak at last year’s AI Hot 100 conference. He loved it so much that he said it was one of the triggers that made him move deeper into AI. We instantly vibed on AI startup innovation, fashion, culture, and experience – and to top it off, Tey brings a wealth of experience and connections to Fortune 100 corporate executives. Not to mention impeccable style.

While we have a finger on the pulse of the strongest AI startups and talent in the world via The AI Furnace, Tey’s experience of working with AI leadership at brands like Red Bull, Pizza Hut, Vodafone and more means that we can merge the worlds of startup innovation and industry.

As well as Tey, we have put together our initial board of advisors:

• Mara Pometti, Director of AI and Data Strategy at Mastercard

• Meng Chee, former CPO at Walmart

• Winnie Wu, GenAI Director at Adobe

• Cynthia Jurytko, former executive at eBay

• Lucas Liebenwein, AI/ML at NVIDIA

• Alexander Bricken, Applied AI at Anthropic

• Cian Ó Maidín, CEO of Nearform (exited to private equity)

We’re set to deliver the world’s most BADASS AI Startup event of the year on June 26th, 2025 in NYC. If you’re an AI founder with an industry-ready solution, you won’t want to miss this. Get your applications in below.

📈 Venture Deals To Watch Out For

• Sympera AI, an agentic AI platform for relationship banking, raised $10 million in its Seed funding. (link)

• Venteur, an AI-powered individual health platform focusing on insurance, raised $20 million in its Series A funding. (link)

• Adaptive Security, an AI powered cybersecurity company, raised $43 million in its Series A funding. (link)

• Inspiren, an AI-powered senior living solution provider, raised $35 million in its Series A funding. (link)

• Justpoint, an AI-empowered legal tech that detects harmful drugs for lawsuits, raised $45 million in its Series A funding. (link)

• Graphite, an AI code review platform, raised $52 million in its Series B funding. (link)

• Hakkoda Inc., an AI and data consultancy firm, acquired by IBM. (link)

🛠️ New Tools you Don’t Want to Miss

• Cube 3D, by Roblox, an open-source AI model that generates 3D objects from text. (Cube 3D)

• Forage Mail, an AI assistant to help with your emails. (Forage Mail)

• Wepost, an AI that create brand marketing schemes for social media. (Wepost)

• ReplyGuy, an AI tool to create context-aware replies to online discussions and posts. (ReplyGuy)

🎞️ Highlights from The AI Hot 100 Conference 2024: Trends Changing the Face of Language Models Panel

Hear from Brian Benedict (Co-Founder & CRO at Arcee AI), Andriy Mulyar (Founder & CTO, Nomic AI) and Santanu Bhattacharya (Senior Researcher at MIT Media Lab) from The AI Hot 100 Conference in NYC, September 2024.

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