Top 4 Marketing AI Startups

Depending on your world view, that may or may not seem like a lot of money (or Whoppers). But here's a stat that's big in any context: based on CB Insights' data, 2016's $5 billion resulted from a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 53.5%, starting from $589 million invested in 2012. Keep multiplying $5 billion by 1.5 for a few more years and pretty soon you get to serious money -- on top of the already invested $12.5 billion cumulative total for 2012-2016. Earlier this year, CB Insights ranked the top 100 most promising AI startups, and Fortune magazine produced this cool info graphic divvying up the top 50 by industry and global region (speaking of region, 62% of VCs' invested AI dollar value went to U.S. startups in 2016, compared with 79% in 2012). Which brings us to the top four advertising/marketing AI tech startups, as agreed on by CB Insights and Fortune.