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Get ready for a day of incredible AI startup innovation

It’s D-Day and we’re so excited for the AI startup event of the year

Today is the day for The AI Hot 100 Summit.

Get ready to:

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

  • Meet over 30+ Tier 1 VCs for a founder-funder mixer, including funds like a16z, Insight Partners, m13, Bessemer Venture Partners, Gradient Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, and more!

  • Breakthrough demos including payments for AI agents, AI for medical detection and diagnosis, and AI agents that build agents instantly!

See full agenda below 👇

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

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

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.

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).