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AI Industry Analytics

Deep dive into the AI landscape with category-level insights and market intelligence.

2075
Companies
74
Categories
114
Countries
$353.1B
Total Funding

Category Leaderboard

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Top Categories by Funding

Total capital raised across companies in each category.

N/A$23.6B$47.2B$70.8B$94.4B

Showing top 12 of 74 categories · hover a bar for detail · select to open the category

Top 12 AI categories by total funding
CategoryTotal fundingCompaniesCountries
Recommendation Systems$94.4B17441
Marketing AI$20.2B9623
Customer Service$15.7B10436
Conversational AI$15.5B18146
Education AI$7.7B2915
Gaming AI$7.2B1613
Drug Discovery$6.5B4011
Sales AI$5.5B447
HR Tech$4.4B3014
Drones & Aviation$2.8B74
Open Source$2.6B377
3D AI$1.8B2510

Category Deep Dive

1

Enterprise AI

650 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 241
scaleup 235
enterprise 139
commercial 31

AI Technologies

enterprise (462) ml infrastructure (234) ai agents (175) nlp (138) recommendation (112)
Avg. Founding Year
2014
2

MLOps & AI Infrastructure

625 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 241
scaleup 224
enterprise 138
commercial 19

AI Technologies

ml infrastructure (527) enterprise (215) ai agents (141) computer vision (123) developer tools (91)
Avg. Founding Year
2013
3

AI Agents

299 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 173
scaleup 64
enterprise 42
commercial 20

AI Technologies

ai agents (249) enterprise (85) conversational ai (51) generative ai (46) ml infrastructure (45)
Avg. Founding Year
2017
4

AI Research

267 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 119
scaleup 69
enterprise 34
commercial 23

AI Technologies

ml infrastructure (109) computer vision (76) llm (53) enterprise (53) ai agents (49)
Avg. Founding Year
2016
5

Generative AI

266 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 159
scaleup 52
enterprise 41
commercial 12

AI Technologies

generative ai (258) llm (65) ai agents (55) nlp (48) enterprise (47)
Avg. Founding Year
2016
6

AI Assistants

230 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

scaleup 94
startup 83
enterprise 44
commercial 8

AI Technologies

nlp (111) enterprise (100) ai agents (70) conversational ai (70) generative ai (59)
Avg. Founding Year
2014
7

Computer Vision

222 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 119
scaleup 61
commercial 20
enterprise 20

AI Technologies

computer vision (220) ml infrastructure (69) robotics (53) ai agents (35) autonomous systems (24)
Avg. Founding Year
2015
8

Conversational AI

181 companies
$15.5B
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 101
scaleup 42
enterprise 30
commercial 7

AI Technologies

conversational ai (158) nlp (87) ai agents (65) voice ai (46) enterprise (35)
Avg. Founding Year
2016
9

Fintech AI

180 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

scaleup 81
enterprise 43
startup 39
commercial 17

AI Technologies

fintech (124) enterprise (110) recommendation (58) ml infrastructure (56) fintech ai (27)
Avg. Founding Year
2013
10

Robotics

178 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 86
scaleup 47
enterprise 30
commercial 14

AI Technologies

robotics (165) computer vision (88) autonomous systems (82) ml infrastructure (46) ai agents (37)
Avg. Founding Year
2013
11

Large Language Models

177 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 102
scaleup 26
enterprise 22
commercial 15

AI Technologies

llm (148) generative ai (79) ml infrastructure (50) nlp (39) ai agents (29)
Avg. Founding Year
2017
12

NLP

176 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 101
scaleup 45
enterprise 16
commercial 11

AI Technologies

nlp (168) conversational ai (56) enterprise (42) generative ai (33) ai agents (32)
Avg. Founding Year
2015
13

Recommendation Systems

174 companies
$94.4B
Total Funding

Entity Types

scaleup 82
enterprise 71
startup 17
commercial 4

AI Technologies

recommendation (167) enterprise (92) ml infrastructure (78) search (54) fintech (49)
Avg. Founding Year
2012
14

Healthcare AI

146 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

startup 79
scaleup 47
commercial 9
enterprise 9

AI Technologies

healthcare (80) healthcare ai (60) computer vision (37) ml infrastructure (37) nlp (30)
Avg. Founding Year
2016
15

Cybersecurity AI

136 companies
N/A
Total Funding

Entity Types

scaleup 51
startup 50
enterprise 34
commercial 1

AI Technologies

enterprise (74) ai safety (62) ml infrastructure (52) fintech (33) ai agents (33)
Avg. Founding Year
2014

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