Auquan Named to the 2025 CB Insights List of the 100 Most Innovative AI Startups

CB Insights today named Auquan, the market leader in generative AI for deep work in financial services, to its ninth annual AI 100, showcasing the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies in the world.

“The AI 100 winners are future movers and shakers, taking big swings that will shape the future of AI,” said Manlio Carrelli, CEO at CB Insights. “This year’s cohort is pushing AI applications from emerging to emerged, working on everything from AI agents for complex processes to security and robotics. They’ve also zeroed in on new and promising technologies that might not be on the radar of many enterprises — multi-agent systems, novel computing and data curation approaches, and physical AI.”

“Being named to the CB Insights AI 100 validates our mission of transforming financial services through AI agents that autonomously complete entire workflows end-to-end, not just make existing processes more efficient,” said Chandini Jain, co-founder and CEO of Auquan. “We’re liberating brilliant professionals from soul-sapping manual tasks so they can focus on the strategic, creative work that originally drew them to finance — making an impact through judgment and decision-making rather than data gathering and report writing.”

The list recognizes early- and mid-stage startups that are leading the way in applying AI across industries and architectures. The research team picked winning companies based on CB Insights datasets, including deal activity, industry partnerships, team strength, investor strength, employee headcount, and proprietary Commercial Maturity and Mosaic scores. We also dug into analyst briefings submitted directly to us by startups.

Auquan’s AI agent platform transforms how financial services professionals handle complex, knowledge-intensive workflows. Unlike general AI tools that enhance research, Auquan’s system of action autonomously completes entire processes end-to-end — so professionals start each day with investment and credit memos, risk insights, and compliance and sustainability reports fully drafted and ready for review. Trusted by 40% of the top 50 financial institutions globally, including UBS, MetLife, and T. Rowe Price, Auquan enables teams to evaluate 2-3x more deals without adding headcount, identify risks earlier, and save tens of thousands of hours of manual work. This recognition from CB Insights validates Auquan’s approach of not just improving efficiency but fundamentally changing how critical work gets done in institutional finance.

Quick facts on the 2025 AI 100

• The 100 winners include 21 startups in AI agent platforms and infrastructure, 12 in AI observability and governance, and 12 in physical AI technology and building blocks.
• The 2025 cohort is deploying AI across horizontal applications (customer service, process automation), infrastructure (AI observability, AI agent building), and verticals (healthcare and life sciences, industrials, financial services).
• Collectively, these companies have raised $11.4 billion in equity funding over time, including more than $2.3 billion in 2025 (as of 4/16/2025).
• Nearly 75% are early-stage companies (Series A or earlier).
• 27 companies are based outside the United States, spanning 13 countries. This includes companies in developing and competitive AI markets like France and South Korea.
• The cohort has formed over 315 business relationships since 2023, including with industry leaders like NVIDIA, Google and Uber.