The AI Index
The Risers

AI-native leaderboard · week of 2026-04-20

Composite velocity score — headcount growth (60%), product launches (15%), funding (15%), and HN momentum (10%). 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
+190.1%
cohort expansion
Aggregate headcount
29.4k
from 10.1k
Growing >+5% MoM
0 / 50
in this week
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Risers
Score
30d Δ
12W
01
OpenAI
ai_infra · San Francisco
100.0
score
0.0%
30d
02
Anthropic
ai_infra · San Francisco
95.1
score
0.0%
30d
03
Fireworks AI
ai_infra · Redwood City
90.9
score
0.0%
30d
04
Cursor
ai_coding · San Francisco
87.8
score
0.0%
30d
05
Replit
ai_coding · San Francisco
83.6
score
0.0%
30d
06
Hebbia
ai_search · New York
77.6
score
0.0%
30d
07
xAI
ai_infra · Palo Alto
76.8
score
0.0%
30d
08
LangChain
ai_dev_tools · San Francisco
75.1
score
0.0%
30d
09
Cresta
ai_sales · Palo Alto
74.6
score
0.0%
30d
10
Granola
productivity · London
73.7
score
0.0%
30d
11
Mistral AI
ai_infra · Paris
72.3
score
0.0%
30d
12
Retell AI
ai_voice · San Francisco
72.0
score
0.0%
30d
13
Glean
enterprise_search · Palo Alto
72.0
score
0.0%
30d
14
Sierra
ai_support · San Francisco
72.0
score
0.0%
30d
15
Otter.ai
productivity · Mountain View
71.0
score
0.0%
30d
16
Crew AI
ai_agents · San Francisco
68.4
score
0.0%
30d
17
Writer
ai_writing · San Francisco
66.4
score
0.0%
30d
18
Harvey
ai_legal · San Francisco
66.4
score
0.0%
30d
19
Vapi
ai_voice · San Francisco
66.4
score
0.0%
30d
20
Adept
ai_agents · San Francisco
66.4
score
0.0%
30d
21
Hex
data_software · San Francisco
66.4
score
0.0%
30d
22
EvenUp
ai_legal · San Francisco
65.6
score
0.0%
30d
23
Decagon
ai_support · San Francisco
65.5
score
0.0%
30d
24
ScaleAI
ai_data · San Francisco
63.9
score
0.0%
30d
25
LlamaIndex
ai_dev_tools · San Francisco
62.2
score
0.0%
30d
26
Bland
ai_voice · San Francisco
61.2
score
0.0%
30d
27
Notion
productivity · San Francisco
60.5
score
0.0%
30d
28
Vercel
dev_tools · San Francisco
59.8
score
0.0%
30d
29
Suno
ai_voice · Cambridge
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
30
Granica
ai_data · Sunnyvale
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
31
Cognition
ai_coding · San Francisco
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
32
Unify
ai_sales · San Francisco
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
33
Runway
ai_video · New York
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
34
Pinecone
ai_data · New York
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
35
Chroma
ai_data · San Francisco
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
36
Jasper
ai_writing · Austin
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
37
Copy.ai
ai_writing · Memphis
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
38
Midjourney
ai_image · San Francisco
59.1
score
0.0%
30d
39
Linear
productivity · San Francisco
58.9
score
0.0%
30d
40
Weaviate
ai_data · Amsterdam
58.1
score
0.0%
30d
41
Perplexity
ai_search · San Francisco
55.7
score
0.0%
30d
42
Lindy
ai_agents · San Francisco
52.3
score
0.0%
30d
43
Modal
ai_infra · New York
51.9
score
0.0%
30d
44
ElevenLabs
ai_voice · London
51.9
score
0.0%
30d
45
Together AI
ai_infra · San Francisco
51.9
score
0.0%
30d
46
Replicate
ai_infra · San Francisco
51.7
score
0.0%
30d
47
Tabnine
ai_coding · Tel Aviv
50.1
score
0.0%
30d
48
Read AI
productivity · Seattle
48.6
score
0.0%
30d
49
Codeium
ai_coding · Mountain View
38.0
score
0.0%
30d
50
Groq
ai_infra · Mountain View
0.0
score
0.0%
30d