This is the second year that CB Insights has released the award. The companies selected include healthcare, cybersecurity, AI hardware, marketing, robots, education and more.
It is reported that the list of nominations covers more than 2000 global 25+ field of start-up companies, the list selection criteria are also very stringent, including investor situation, technological innovation, team strength, patent activities, Mosaic points (Note: Mosaic is a set of algorithms invented by CB Insights designed to measure the overall growth and growth potential of unlisted companies), financing history, valuations, and business models, with only 100 in the end, highly competitive, with an under-selection rate of 9 %.
In this list:
Finalists completed a total of 99 financing in 2017 with a total financing amount of over 6.6 billion U.S. dollars
There are 11 companies on the list valuation reached 1 billion US dollars and above
The 33 companies on the list are also in 2017 list
Selected companies cover nine countries.
It is worth mentioning that the total number of Chinese companies selected for this project is 7, which are Kuangshe technology, go out to ask, today's headlines, fluent in English, you must choose, Shang Tang technology and Cambrian, which go out to ask and Excellent choice is second boarding.
CB Insights official website list a detailed explanation: https://www.cbinsights.com/research-ai-100