Mapping the AI 100 Investor Network
Which companies are the “consensus” bets? Who are the investors backing the most exciting AI companies? Which investors co-invest the most?
1) Everyone wants to invest (in) Together: With 45 investors, Together AI has 28% more investors than the next AI 100 company.
2) General Catalyst is the most active investor (12 investments) and appears in five of the top nine overlapping pairs.
3) The Cartesia-Hippocratic AI-Together AI co-investment cluster: This triad appear to be the top consensus bets with participation from 6 of the top 9 investor overlap pairs.
4) Outside of the six investor pairings with overlapping investments into the Cartesia-Hippocratic AI-Together AI trio, four other triads have overlapping investments from top-tier investor pairings:
• General Catalyst & Lightspeed Venture Partners → Cartesia-Helsing-Saronic
• General Catalyst & AWS Generative AI Accelerator → Cartesia-PhysicsX-Symbolica
• NVentures & New Enterprise Associates → Together AI-Twelve Labs-World Labs
• Sequoia Capital & Benchmark → Decart-LangChain-Sierra
5) Firms with high portfolio overlap: The overlap between SV Angel and Greycroft is particularly notable with 75% of both firms’ AI 100 investments being into the same companies.
6) Corporate Venture is increasingly active with three of the top seven investors into AI 100 companies being CVCs.
Read CB Insights' full AI 100 report covering 100 of the top private companies defining the future of AI: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/report/artificial-intelligence-top-startups-2025/