The blueprint
Finding the most promising up-and-coming startups is a key need we hear from CBI customers.
So we built this list with the goal of creating a blueprint of signals that you can use — quickly and with confidence — to build your own.
For this group of hotshots, we narrowed a list of thousands of startups down to nearly 400 based on their commercial maturity, health (Mosaic scores), strong management teams, and more using the CBI platform. CB Insights customers can filter further on metrics like business model, total funding, and headcount growth rate at this link.
We then went one by one — looking at each startup’s investors, team, market, product, and business relationships, as well as reviewing their Buyer Interviews and Analyst Briefings — to reach our final list of 52 startups.
Global reach
The Future Tech Hotshots represent 8 countries around the world.
The list features startups from the US, India, Canada, Germany, Singapore, Kenya, Sweden, and the UK.
AI at the core
Nearly half of these future hotshots offer AI as a core product offering.
While some target horizontal AI applications, others are leveraging AI in specific areas ranging from cybersecurity to agriculture.
For example, this customer of legal writing platform Clearbrief identified its AI features as a key strength:
