TOP 10 – AI STARTUPS

TOTAL FUNDING: US $ 15.9BN EMPLOYEES: 1,200

CEO: JASON DROEGE FOUNDED: 2016

Scale AI began with Alexandr Wang, who became the youngest self-made billionaire at 24.

Now, Alexandr has moved to be head of Mark Zuckerberg’ s“ superintelligence team” with the ambition of creating smarter-than-human AI.

In his place, Jason Droege, the company’ s Strategy Chief Officer, is serving as interim CEO.

Proving the company’ s worth, Meta invested US $ 14.3bn in Q2 2025 in the quarter’ s largest funding deal, valuing Scale AI at nearly US $ 14bn.

Scale AI is known for providing highquality data labelling and ML lifecycle management – and its clients include Microsoft, OpenAI and the US Army.

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Jason Droege, Interim CEO,

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