NOTES & ANALYSIS
AI Startup Insights
Explore funding trends, startup insights, and product updates from Bot Memo.
AI Startup Valuation Data: What’s Disclosed and What’s Not
Only 11.6% of 8,980 AI funding rounds from January 2025 to September 2026 disclosed a valuation. Disclosure rates by stage, round size and AI type.
How to Spot AI Washing: A VC Due Diligence Checklist (2026)
54.1% of 9,191 classified AI funding rounds went to companies where AI is the product. Seven red flags and ten questions for spotting AI washing in diligence.
Bot Memo Data Methodology
How Bot Memo measures AI startup funding: deal definitions, 18 sectors, funding stages, geography, currency, and update cadence.
Bot Memo’s 18 AI Startup Verticals & 104 Tags Explained
Bot Memo’s AI startup verticals taxonomy: 18 verticals, 104 tags, and 9 classification types tracking 13,532 deals. Multi-vertical attribution explained.
AI Startup Classifications: Native, Augmented, Adjacent
Bot Memo’s AI startup classification framework defines AI Native, AI Augmented, AI Adjacent, and AI Platforms — and how to apply the Removability Test to any company.
How Fresh Is Bot Memo’s AI Funding Data?
How fresh is Bot Memo AI funding data, why freshness decides who reaches a founder first, and what every record is checked for before it becomes queryable.