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AI Unicorn Cap Table Index

The investors who sit on the most billion-dollar AI cap tables, ranked by a trophy-weighted score. The top 10 hold ~12% of all trophy weight, out of 2,000+ tracked firms.

Paper mark portfolio power.

Trophy-weighted scoring: $100B+ × 10, decacorns × 3, unicorns × 1. Full methodology

The Podium

The three firms that own AI

Andreessen Horowitz
100
Trophy score
4 × $100B+ · 7 deca · 39 uni
OpenAI$840Bxai$230BStripe$159B+47 more

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The League Table

Ranks 4 to 10

90
84
64
60
58
58
54

The concentration story

What the index actually shows

Breadth

Over 2,000 firms, 567 names to go around

The index covers every firm with a seat on at least one billion-dollar AI cap table since 2023. More than 2,000 qualify. Only 567 companies are big enough to count, so most firms compete for the same short list.

2,000+
firms in the running
567
billion-dollar AI names

Concentration

The top 10 hold about 12% of the weight

Trophy weight piles up at the very top. The ten highest-scoring firms hold roughly 12% of it. The top 100 hold about 40%. Everyone else splits what is left.

12%Top 1020%Top 2529%Top 5040%Top 100

The long tail

Most firms hold exactly one

About 3 in 4 of those 2,000+ firms back a single billion-dollar AI name and stop there. Only about 50 sit on eleven or more. The crowd is at the bottom of the board, not the top.

1
1,600+
2-3
~370
4-6
~130
7-10
~30
11+
~60

Crowding

Everyone crowds the same shelves

The billion-dollar names cluster in a handful of sectors, and the same firms keep turning up on the same cap tables. Crowded sectors are where the trophy race is fiercest.

Enterprise Software142
FinTech112
Developer Tools & AI Infrastructure103
Health & Biotech72
Manufacturing & Industrials57
Cybersecurity45
Gated · ranks 11 to 200

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Methodology

Each investor earns one credit per AI unicorn it backed in any 2023-2026 funding round, deduped so a single company never counts twice. Credits are weighted by tier and summed into a single score.

Formula

Score = ($100B Club × 10) + (Decacorns × 3) + (Unicorns × 1)
  • $100B Club: valuation at or above $100B (OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks...).
  • Decacorns: $10B to under $100B.
  • Unicorns: $1B to under $10B.

Window: 2023 through 2026 year to date. Counts all syndicate participants (lead and other), not just leads. 571 AI unicorns matched.

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