The AI Index
The Risers

AI-native leaderboard · week of 2026-05-25

Composite velocity score — headcount growth (80%) and funding activity (20%). Normalized within the cohort weekly.

Risers cohort · aggregate momentum

Sum of headcount across 50 companies · indexed to 100 at week 1 · 156 weeks
1092d change
+163.6%
cohort expansion
Aggregate headcount
29.4k
from 11.2k
Growing >+5% MoM
0 / 50
in this week
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47 companies
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Risers
Score
30d Δ
12W
01
Replit
AI Coding · San Francisco
100.0
score
0.0%
30d
02
Sierra
AI Support · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
03
Crew AI
AI Agents · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
04
Writer
AI Writing · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
05
Mistral AI
AI Infrastructure · Paris
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
06
xAI
AI Infrastructure · Palo Alto
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
07
Pinecone
AI Data · New York
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
08
Cognition
AI Coding · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
09
Codeium
AI Coding · Mountain View
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
10
Tabnine
AI Coding · Tel Aviv
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
11
Harvey
AI Legal · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
12
Cresta
AI Sales · Palo Alto
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
13
Bland
AI Voice · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
14
Retell AI
AI Voice · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
15
Runway
AI Video · New York
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
16
Weaviate
AI Data · Amsterdam
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
17
LangChain
AI Dev Tools · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
18
LlamaIndex
AI Dev Tools · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
19
Together AI
AI Infrastructure · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
20
Groq
AI Infrastructure · Mountain View
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
21
Adept
AI Agents · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
22
Lindy
AI Agents · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
23
Copy.ai
AI Writing · Memphis
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
24
Read AI
Productivity · Seattle
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
25
Hex
Data Software · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
26
Vercel
Dev Tools · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
27
OpenAI
AI Infrastructure · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
28
Anthropic
AI Infrastructure · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
29
Glean
Enterprise Search · Palo Alto
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
30
Linear
Productivity · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
31
Midjourney
AI Image · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
32
Replicate
AI Infrastructure · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
33
Perplexity
AI Search · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
34
Suno
AI Voice · Cambridge
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
35
Granica
AI Data · Sunnyvale
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
36
Cursor
AI Coding · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
37
Hebbia
AI Search · New York
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
38
Decagon
AI Support · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
39
Vapi
AI Voice · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
40
ElevenLabs
AI Voice · London
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
41
Chroma
AI Data · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
42
Fireworks AI
AI Infrastructure · Redwood City
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
43
Jasper
AI Writing · Austin
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
44
Otter.ai
Productivity · Mountain View
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
45
ScaleAI
AI Data · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
46
Notion
Productivity · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d
47
EvenUp
AI Legal · San Francisco
0.0
score
0.0%
30d