This year’s inductees reflect the booming VC interest as well as the growing variability in AI-focused startups making unique uses of existing technologies, others developing their own and many simply enabling other companies to add AI to their business model.
More than 400 companies were considered for this year’s list. Finalists were selected based on their use of AI-enabled technology, business models and financials.
While there is only one fastest runner or fastest swimmer in the world, the field of startups is much more diverse - thanks to innovation and differentiation, even small startups with part-time founders can provide value to society and be rewarded for it.
Coatue hired Sarah Cannon, an investor known for her involvement with Notion and Slack, to lead its first-ever London office. Cannon recently left VC firm Index Ventures with an eye to launch her own startup fund.
From Kenya to Kensington, one reporter takes his work from home skills on the Grand Tour in a last hurrah before settling down and (hopefully) starting a family.