CalmWave included in the CB Insights Future Tech Hotshots

Future Tech Hotshots 2025: 45 emerging tech startups poised to make an outsized impact

Using CB Insights predictive signals, we sifted through thousands of startups to find the ones with the most impressive business momentum, founding teams, and exit potential.

AI hype has reached fever pitch, but most startups won’t survive the transition from demos to durable businesses.

This cohort cuts through the noise to spotlight 45 companies we expect to have an outsized, lasting impact over the next 5-10 years — from AI infrastructure that powers autonomous enterprise systems to vertical AI applications in healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing that solve operational problems.

Using CB Insights’ proprietary data — including Commercial Maturity, Mosaic, patents, business relationships, and funding — we identified 45 emerging players most likely to have a strong exit in the next 5-10 years.

This post originally appeared in CB Insights 10/20/15