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#1
$220M/yr
T3
PhotoRoom
AI product photos: one-tap background removal and white-background shots, built only for small e-commerce sellers
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#2
$155M/yr
T3
PictureThis
Snap a photo to ID plants + care advice: "a plant expert in your pocket"
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#3
$56M/yr
T3
HeyGen
AI avatars: clone your face and voice, batch-generate talking-head videos in any language
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#4
$30M/yr
T3
Chai
AI companion chat: it talks about what others won't (gray zone — watch the space, don't copy the form)
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#5
$500M/yr
T3
Cursor (Anysphere)
AI code editor: $500M/yr in 3 years, zero marketing spend
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#6
$125M/yr
T3
ElevenLabs
AI voice cloning: a few minutes of audio perfectly replicates a voice
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#7
$500M
T3
Monica → Manus (Butterfly Effect)
The benchmark for Chinese teams going global: started as a browser extension, leveled up into a phenomenon-level AI agent
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#8
$36M
T3
Genspark (MainFunc)
General-purpose AI agent: $0 to $36M ARR in 45 days
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#9
$80M
T3
Base44
A vibe coding platform built solo in 6 months, sold to Wix for $80M
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#10
$650M
T3
CaseText / CoCounsel
An AI assistant built for lawyers, sold to Thomson Reuters for $650M in cash
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#11
$1.3B
T3
Windsurf (Codeium)
A $1.3B agentic AI coding IDE, built on one fast pivot
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#12
$3B
T3
Replit
The vibe coding platform brought back from the dead by an AI agent — $3B valuation
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#13
Customers incl…
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GigaML
Enterprise-grade voice support AI agents — a 4-5 person team used an in-house agent to take DoorDash
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#14
$200M+
T3
Mob Control (Voodoo) — the hybrid-casual playbook
A one-week prototype that became a $200M game — the exact prototype-test-scale system that turns simple mechanics into money printers.
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#15
$1.6B
T3
Palantir (the ontology layer, and the bootcamp sales motion behind it)
$1.6B in a quarter growing 85%, 150% net revenue retention, and a sales motion that compresses a year-long enterprise cycle into a five-day workshop on the customer's own data.
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