The AI 100

In partnership with Newcomer, Bessemer Venture Partners is launching the AI 100. Nominations open this month, and we'll announce the inaugural list on Newcomer.co and onstage at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit on November 12, 2026.

For a decade, the Cloud 100 has measured the best and most enduring software companies; the AI era is changing what great looks like. In our 2025 State of AI report, the fastest AI startups reached roughly $40 million ARR in their first year of commercialization and $125 million in their second, generating $1.13 million ARR per full-time employee, four to five times the typical SaaS benchmark. Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are growing faster than the list was ever built to capture, so we're updating it to keep pace with the transition to AI.