CB Insights AI 100

CB Insights is a top research organization for the private markets. They do a great job creating market maps and recognizing the emerging technology leaders within a theme.

Last week CB insights released their Top 100 AI-enabled companies. For a few reasons, this is an exciting list:

• “AI” as a buzzword peaked in 2016 and 2017. I believe we are now at the stage of the hype cycle where real value is being built and the firms that have converted technical leadership to customer and industry value are finally emerging
• As with any technology, industry expertise and focus is usually required to convert this broad technology advantage to specific vertical leadership. The fact that CB Insights segmented the companies by industry theme demonstrates the present day “value approach” of this AI-to-industry combination
• Two Energize portfolio companies made the list! Jupiter Intelligence for climate risk and Matroid for computer vision.

At Energize we are thrilled to see these companies gain the appropriate recognition. More exciting, however, is the real value both of these companies are providing their quickly growing customer bases. Our diligence process is always customer focused and we knew that Rich at Jupiter and Reza at Matroid had the respect to frame their technology in the customer’s problem set. I suspect we are going to see both of these firms on this list (and others from the portfolio) in 2022.