Synthesia is named to the inaugural 2026 AI 100

Synthesia has been named to the inaugural AI 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private AI companies in the world, published by Newcomer in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners.

Synthesia has continued its growth and market leadership in 2026, including closing its $200M Series E at a $4B valuation and launching Syren, its new AI video agent that turns a prompt into an on-brand video. It also brought video creation into ChatGPT and Claude through its new MCP integration. The company works with more than 65,000 customers, including 90% of the Fortune 100.

“AI is changing how people communicate, and video is becoming the default medium. Syren is the ChatGPT moment for agentic video: with one prompt, anyone can go from an idea to a fully on-brand video, ready to edit by chat. Being named to the inaugural AI 100 reflects what our team and users have built, and we’re just getting started,” said Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO, Synthesia.

The inaugural AI 100 evaluated nominated companies and recognized category leaders across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). Only independent AI companies that have not had a majority strategic or private equity M&A transaction or a public listing were eligible. Honorees span foundation models, AI infrastructure and compute, developer tools and agents, AI apps, vertical AI, security, physical AI and robotics, and deeptech and AI for science.

“The artificial intelligence startup set plays by its own rules: there are upstarts with unprecedented revenue growth, companies profiting off of seemingly insatiable inference spending, highly valued speculative research labs, and wildly ambitious robotics companies. These AI native startups are already reshaping the global economy. With our friends at Bessemer, we rethought what matters for the AI age, bringing together the most promising startups harnessing foundation models to transform our digital and physical world,” said Eric Newcomer, founder of Newcomer.

“The AI 100 puts a spotlight on the top 100 companies driving the AI economy forward, built by a generation of founders moving at a speed and scale we’ve never seen before. We’re already seeing that exponential value creation play out across infra, AI applications, and physical AI. The remarkable part is that it’s still early: this inaugural cohort is just the starting point, a natural evolution of our decade-long Cloud 100 franchise,” said Byron Deeter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 is published at ai100.newcomer.co, and was unveiled live onstage at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco.

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