Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping chemicals and materials tech in the United States. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
Explore classified startups in Radar ↗A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.
100 of 1,437 tracked companies have open roles.
606 of 1,437 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 1,472 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 26.1% of disclosed capital, while 57.8% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $660.47M | 71 | 112 |
| 2017 | $1.46B | 73 | 105 |
| 2018 | $3.17B | 70 | 127 |
| 2019 | $1.06B | 54 | 113 |
| 2020 | $1.71B | 63 | 129 |
| 2021 | $3.98B | 55 | 139 |
| 2022 | $2.56B | 32 | 131 |
| 2023 | $1.67B | 20 | 105 |
| 2024 | $1.44B | 15 | 99 |
| 2025 | $1.96B | 14 | 98 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
1,658 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in chemicals and materials tech company rounds since 2016.
Backed by Tata Steel.
Backed by Hshyosungadvancedmaterials and Capricorn Partners.
Backed by .
Backed by Climate Investment and Aramco Ventures and others.
Backed by HPI Real Estate and GOOSE Capital and others.
Backed by .
Backed by .
Backed by Invest Appalachia.
Backed by SoftBank Vision Fund.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
Backed by Brookfield Renewable U.S..
Backed by DCVC and Temasek and others.
Backed by Flagship Pioneering and Alaska Permanent Fund and others.
Backed by Baillie Gifford and Temasek and others.
Backed by DST and Nvidia and others.
Backed by SK and 5AM Ventures and others.
Backed by Flagship Pioneering and State of Michigan and others.
Backed by Baillie Gifford and Investment Corporation of Dubai and others.
Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.
Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.
FY2025 · annual statements grouped by reported fiscal year; exact entity periods remain on preview rows · 11 reporting entities from 25 eligible matches.
Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not the United States market sales.
Combined result for the same cohort.
Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.
The middle covered reporting entity.
3 of 11 covered entities.
Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.
Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.
Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.
FY2025 · 11 reporting entities
Up to eight fixed company previews show financial amounts. Search and sort the wider company list, then continue in Radar.
| Company / reporting entity | Revenue | Net profit / loss | Net margin | Revenue growth | Total assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AXT ↗1051627 | $88.3m | $-21.3m | -24.1% | — | — |
| Nanophase ↗883107 | $62.1m | $1.8m | +2.9% | — | — |
| Parkaerospace ↗76267 | $62.0m | $5.9m | +9.5% | — | — |
| LanzaTech ↗1843724 | $55.8m | $-49.0m | -87.7% | — | — |
| SCI Engineered Materials ↗830616 | $19.6m | $1.7m | +8.9% | — | — |
| SINTX ↗1269026 | $1.0m | $-10.4m | -1018.1% | — | — |
| Aspen Aerogel ↗1145986 | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar |
| Schrodinger ↗1490978 | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar | Financial figure available in Radar |
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| Industry | Covered / eligible | Revenue total | Median revenue | Net profit / loss | Aggregate margin | Profitable share | Overlap |
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Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.
Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.
The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.
Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.
How the the United States companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
9 of the 1,437 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (0.6%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 149,295 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospectorulprospector.com | 475,205 | 48 | 14.5% |
| Fabric Wholesale Directfabricwholesaledirect.com | 440,870 | 46 | 56.7% |
| KEYENCEkeyence.com | 291,314 | 48 | 14.7% |
| Vittoriavittoria.com | 181,875 | 48 | 51.6% |
| Project Repatprojectrepat.com | 149,295 | 38 | 80.7% |
| Wool&Princewoolandprince.com | 123,258 | 40 | 67.5% |
| EHS Insightehsinsight.com | 82,716 | 38 | 29.3% |
| Knowdeknowde.com | 59,874 | 36 | 29.6% |
| Wolfspeedwolfspeed.com | 51,036 | 45 | 0% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
22 of these companies (1.5%) publish at least one Android app — 31 apps in all, carrying 349.7K installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Datacolor ColorReaderDatacolor | 178.3K | 4.7 | Productivity |
| EHS InsightEHS Insight | 59K | 3.8 | Business |
| EMS.GHS/SDSChemical Safety | 51.6K | 4 | Productivity |
| ViewView | 23K | 2.2 | Productivity |
| CERES (Chemical Emergency RespVlahi Systems | 9.2K | 4.9 | Business |
| Scorpion SCAN SoftwareScorpion | 8K | 3.7 | Business |
| 3E Protect3E | 7.3K | 4.4 | Business |
| ReplenyshReplenysh | 2.9K | 3.7 | Business |
| Thorlabs Optical Power Meter 2Thorlabs | 2.2K | — | Tools |
| View WellnessView | 1.7K | — | Productivity |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2025Q4).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chemicals Tech | 14 | 316.9K | Datacolor ColorReader 178.3K | |
| Grc Software | 7 | 120.6K | EHS Insight 59K | |
| Manufacturing Tech | 2 | 59.3K | Field Insight 209 | |
| Solid Waste Management Tech | 7 | 57.2K | EMS.GHS\/SDS 51.6K | |
| Hrtech | 5 | 54.3K | EMS.Inventory 1.4K | |
| Advanced Materials | 9 | 27.6K | View 23K | |
| Construction Tech | 2 | 24.8K | View Wellness 1.7K | |
| Materials Tech | 9 | 5.4K | Replenysh 2.9K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.
Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 30 of 31 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2025Q4, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
90 companies hiring · $24.05B disclosed funding
Explore in RadarCommon revenue models; a company can use more than one.
Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
TimberHP, the first U.S.-based manufacturer of wood fiber insulation, today announced a strategic investment from FTAI Infrastructure Inc.
The agreement includes $100 million in new capital committed in a private placement of common stock and warrants.
Shrieve Chemical Company has acquired a suburban Chicago manufacturer of bio-based solvents, company officials said Thursday.
AXT announced a public offering of common stock
NanoTech Materials has now raised a total of $34.4M in total equity funding and is backed by GOOSE Capital, HPI Real Estate Services & Investments, and Milliken & Company.
The venture capital arm is among the investors that participated in the American firm’s $36 million funding round, which also drew support from Climate Investment and Marathon Petroleum Corporation, among others.
Rubi, the company pioneering the next era of manufacturing with technology that transforms carbon into essential materials, today announces a $7.5 million funding round and significant commercial traction, including multi-year offtake term sheets worth over $60M with leading fashion brands and manufacturers, eight new commercial partnerships, and moving pilots into larger-scale production testing.
Avisi Technologies – $10.8M
Backed companies include Ensilicated Technologies, which is developing technology to remove the need for cold-chain vaccine storage; Motics Technologies, an AI-powered healthcare automation platform; and Mimicrete, which is working on bio-inspired self-healing concrete.
Nitride Global announced it has closed an investment from Wichita-based venture capital firms Accelerate Venture Partners and eGrowth Ventures as part of a convertible note financing round, with the company indicating the closing took place in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Top 10 categories among 750 recorded events in the 24-month window.
5 companies with recorded IPO activity
SPAC · Nasdaq1 reports
Follow-on Offering · NASDAQ1 reports
OFS · NASDAQ4 reports
SPAC · Nasdaq Global Market3 reports
IPO · Nasdaq1 reports
28 tracked people moves
Appointment Vice President, Communications
Appointment Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer
Appointment Advisor
Appointment Director
Appointment Chief Executive Officer
Appointment President
Appointment Branded Pro Western territory representative
Appointment Branded Pro Mid-Atlantic territory Representative
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Finance
Personal Care Ingredients
Personal Care Ingredients
Coating
35 recorded customer wins
Customer: trafiguraMinerals / Metals
Customer: HP EmbalagensPackaging
Customer: Geo bio gas&carbonAviation fuel
Customer: Medical Device
Customer: spray engineering devicesRenewable fuels
Customer: trafiguraAviation
6 companies with reported reductions
71 roles
32.0% rolescost reduction
20.0% rolescost reduction
82 rolesliquidity shortage
68 rolesbusiness downturn
Scale not stated rolesproject cancellation
4 recorded events
approved for equity issuanceCommittee on Foreign Investment in the United States
received cash tax refundInternal Revenue Service
Statutory plan approvedMelz Municipal Committee
Notice of AllowanceUnited States Patent and Trademark Office
20 tracked suits
False Claims Act allegations regarding PPP loan eligibilityCivil · Settled
securities fraud, misleading statementsSecurities Fraud · Ongoing
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 65 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shrieve Chemical Company→Vertec BioSolvents ↗ | Announced | 2026-04-24 | Not stated in snapshot |
| DFX Corp→MycoWorks ↗ | Completed | 2026-02-09 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Cambium→SHD Group | Announced | 2025-12-03 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Cambium→shd composites | Completed | 2025-12-03 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Solventum→Acera Surgical ↗ | Announced | 2025-11-24 | $850.0M |
| United States government→Vulcan Elements ↗ | Announced | 2025-11-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
3,588 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 6,662-posting snapshot covers 126 employers.
39 tracked postings mention remote work.
636 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 6,662 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
Median across 669 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.
Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Thorlabs ↗ | 11 |
| CoorsTek ↗ | 11 |
| Aequor ↗ | 11 |
| Wolfspeed ↗ | 10 |
| Suterra ↗ | 9 |
| Niron Magnetics ↗ | 8 |
| Ferrotec ↗ | 8 |
| Forge Nano ↗ | 7 |
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| KEYENCE ↗ | 10,580 |
| Ferrotec ↗ | 7,380 |
| Wolfspeed ↗ | 4,802 |
| HZO Waterproof Technologies ↗ | 2,000 |
| AXT ↗ | 1,103 |
| Thorlabs ↗ | 1,094 |
| Datacolor ↗ | 489 |
| Aequor ↗ | 470 |
990 founders and chief executives across 726 companies.
Founder & CEO Valo Health · Flagship Pioneering, Omega Therapeutics, Senda Biosciences, Inari, KSQ Therapeutics, & Seres Therapeutics…
Lanzatech, ex-Uop, ex-Uop A Honeywell, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2006
Ex-Metamagnetics, Kulite Semiconductor Products, Boy Scouts of America. Stevens Institute of Technology BE 2016, Northeastern University PhD 2020
University of Delaware BS 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MS 2013, PhD 2016
Ex-Founder Xwires Communications. University of Iowa BS 2002, MS 2003, University of California, Berkeley PHD 2010
Phononic Devices, MEGE Associates, ex-CEO Siva Power, QuantumScape. MIT 1983
Ex- ARC Energy, Lam Research. UC Santa Barbara PhD 2002, University of Mumbai B. Chem. Engg 1998
Natureworks, ex-Nexeon, ex-Ingevity, Washington University in St. Louis
MD Zea2, ex-Co-Founder Shift-X Trading. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign BS, MBA, MS
Biocom, ex-Gt Life Sciences, UC San Diego, 2000
Ex-Juneau Economic Development Council, Wells Fargo, Garvey Processing. Eastern New Mexico University 2004
Ex-Staq Energy, AquaHydrex, True North Venture Partners, Intermolecular. IIT Kanpur BTech 1992, University of Minnesota MS 1994, PhD 1999…
177 profiles with education records.
17 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
317,054 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Chemicals and Materials Tech coverage across United States · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 73,626 |
| 2021Q3 | 72,713 |
| 2021Q4 | 61,274 |
| 2022Q1 | 72,618 |
| 2022Q2 | 70,860 |
| 2022Q3 | 65,593 |
| 2022Q4 | 72,242 |
| 2023Q1 | 73,619 |
| 2023Q2 | 87,941 |
| 2023Q3 | 83,336 |
| 2023Q4 | 88,183 |
| 2024Q1 | 95,902 |
| 2024Q2 | 97,493 |
| 2024Q3 | 87,006 |
| 2024Q4 | 86,493 |
| 2025Q1 | 179,979 |
| 2025Q2 | 77,864 |
| 2025Q3 | 83,091 |
| 2025Q4 | 69,981 |
| 2026Q1 | 81,878 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
1,120 recorded company events across 144 companies; percentages use that event total.
Chemicals and Materials Tech coverage across United States · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Chemicals and Materials Tech coverage across United States
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| artemis program | 2,504 | 208 | 1104% |
| angel investors | 1,344 | 590 | 128% |
| college playoffs | 1,123 | 460 | 144% |
| stock price | 1,000 | 489 | 104% |
| vaccine trials | 952 | 561 | 70% |
| ncaa updates | 939 | 232 | 305% |
| vaccine candidates | 925 | 541 | 71% |
| oil price volatility | 865 | 526 | 64% |
| campus sports | 817 | 237 | 245% |
| vaccine immunogenicity | 802 | 381 | 110% |
| chemical safety assessments | 211 | 2,019 | -90% |
| osha chemical standards | 109 | 1,400 | -92% |
| cell-based therapies | 619 | 1,059 | -42% |
| viral vector vaccines | 684 | 1,048 | -35% |
| cancer biomarkers | 670 | 1,040 | -36% |
Chemicals and Materials Tech coverage across United States
plastic recycling, plastic bans, circular plastic economy
44.8% critical · 40.5% positiveangel investors, satellite telecommunication, satellite ground stations
45.8% critical · 55.8% positiveearnings report, quarterly results, stock performance
31.1% critical · 51.0% positiveChemicals and Materials Tech coverage across United States. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
1,306 papers in the recorded india scope.
Tone counts: 1,246 positive · 56 neutral · 4 negative.
Landmark: Covalent adaptable networks: smart, reconfigurable and responsive network systems
Landmark: Global Performance Indices for Dynamic Crystals as Organic Thermal Actuators
Landmark: A review of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymer composites
Common problems researchers identify · 0147.5% of this theme group
Researchers highlight integration difficulties of nanotech and wearable computing within smart fabrics.
Smart material (14) · Textile (5) · Nanotechnology (9) · Wearable computer (3)
Smart textiles: A toolkit to fashion the future
Smart materials and devices for electronic textiles
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6039.3 |
| 2023 | 6060.7 |
| 2024 | 6433.7 |
| 2025 | 5113.6 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0228.8% of this theme group
Papers point to material stability and performance limits for biomedical and structural applications.
Smart material (11) · Structural health monitoring (2) · Biomaterial (2) · Actuator (3)
Smart Materials for Microrobots
On the road to smart biomaterials for bone research: definitions, concepts, advances, and outlook
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 80.6 |
| 2023 | 84.8 |
| 2024 | 67.8 |
| 2025 | 82.7 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0313.6% of this theme group
Studies note synthesis complexity and durability issues of thermoresponsive and spiropyran‑based polymers.
Nanotechnology (5) · Polymer (3) · Spiropyran (2) · Nanomaterials (2)
New directions in thermoresponsive polymers
Stimuli-responsive polymer gels
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6304.3 |
| 2023 | 6316.5 |
| 2024 | 6647.6 |
| 2025 | 5335.7 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0410.2% of this theme group
Works discuss insufficient mechanical strength and control precision of hydrogel‑based soft machines.
Self-healing hydrogels (5) · Biomimetics (2) · Soft robotics (2) · Flexibility (2)
Multifunctional soft machines based on stimuli-responsive hydrogels: from freestanding hydrogels to smart integrated systems
Stimuli-Responsive Chemomechanical Actuation: A Hybrid Materials Approach
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 296.5 |
| 2023 | 311.3 |
| 2024 | 328.8 |
| 2025 | 415.9 |
Opportunities · 0120.1% of this theme group
Research explores versatile responsive polymers for advanced sensing, actuation, and adaptive devices.
Smart material (152) · Nanotechnology (52) · Smart polymer (11) · Polymer (24)
Responsive Polymers as Smart Nanomaterials Enable Diverse Applications
Smart and Responsive Micro‐ and Nanostructured Materials
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6027.3 |
| 2023 | 6048.8 |
| 2024 | 6424.5 |
| 2025 | 5103.1 |
Opportunities · 0219.4% of this theme group
Papers present novel shape‑memory alloys and polymers for reconfigurable structures and biomedical uses.
Shape-memory alloy (165) · Shape-memory polymer (79) · SMA* (43) · Pseudoelasticity (16)
Magnetic Shape Memory Polymers with Integrated Multifunctional Shape Manipulation
Strong, Tailored, Biocompatible Shape‐Memory Polymer Networks
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 188.3 |
| 2023 | 195.2 |
| 2024 | 214.4 |
| 2025 | 199.0 |
Opportunities · 0316.3% of this theme group
Studies develop tunable magnetic fluids and elastomers enabling controllable stiffness and morphing mechanisms.
Magnetorheological fluid (19) · Actuator (54) · Magnetorheological elastomer (10) · Stiffness (16)
Magnetic Dynamic Polymers for Modular Assembling and Reconfigurable Morphing Architectures
Shape morphing mechanical metamaterials through reversible plasticity
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 300.5 |
| 2023 | 285.0 |
| 2024 | 229.0 |
| 2025 | 280.8 |
Opportunities · 0415.8% of this theme group
Research focuses on healable hydrogels and vitrimer systems that restore function after damage.
Self-healing hydrogels (37) · Nanotechnology (51) · Self-healing (11) · Biocompatibility (10)
Embedded 3D Printing in Self‐Healing Annealable Composites for Precise Patterning of Functionally Mature Human Neural Constructs
Shape-programmable and healable materials and devices using thermo- and photo-responsive vitrimer
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6152.9 |
| 2023 | 6180.0 |
| 2024 | 6569.7 |
| 2025 | 5319.4 |
Opportunities · 0510.1% of this theme group
Works demonstrate 4D‑printed liquid crystal elastomers for programmable actuation and soft robotic components.
Elastomer (73) · Liquid crystal (30) · Soft robotics (24) · Actuator (34)
Molecularly‐Engineered, 4D‐Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators
4D-Printable Liquid Metal–Liquid Crystal Elastomer Composites
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 175.8 |
| 2023 | 175.2 |
| 2024 | 168.9 |
| 2025 | 184.3 |
Opportunities · 069.5% of this theme group
Papers investigate recyclable composites and nanostructured sensors for wearable power generation.
Piezoelectricity (66) · Triboelectric effect (11) · Energy capture (16) · Piezoelectric sensor (10)
Growing recyclable and healable piezoelectric composites in 3D printed bioinspired structure for protective wearable sensor
Effective Properties of Carbon Nanotube and Piezoelectric Fiber Reinforced Hybrid Smart Composites
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 189.8 |
| 2023 | 196.7 |
| 2024 | 191.0 |
| 2025 | 228.6 |
Opportunities · 078.7% of this theme group
Research advances embedded piezoresistive sensors and smart aggregates for real‑time infrastructure monitoring.
Structural health monitoring (25) · Smart material (42) · Piezoresistive effect (10) · Structural engineering (13)
Smart aggregates: multi-functional sensors for concrete structures—a tutorial and a review
An Experimental Study on Static and Dynamic Strain Sensitivity of Embeddable Smart Concrete Sensors Doped with Carbon Nanotubes for SHM of L
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 63.6 |
| 2023 | 67.2 |
| 2024 | 51.7 |
| 2025 | 71.1 |
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough | 41.4% | 26.5% |
| Promising | 37.0% | 36.9% |
| Descriptive | 14.2% | 17.7% |
| Problem-identifying | 4.4% | 9.8% |
| Comparative | 1.9% | 3.7% |
| Cautionary | 0.7% | 4.5% |
| Critical | 0.4% | 0.9% |
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceLiquid crystal-polymer composites switchable windows for radiant energy flow and privacy control | 1 | 0.08% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.08% |
| Energy & datacenter footprint | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.01% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chain | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Labour & data work | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Safety & misuse | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Bias & fairness | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.02% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: United States. This may be broader than the company geography.
Published patent filings in the recorded source window.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
19.7% across the displayed hubs
6 companies hiring · $890.3M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Houston ↗15.3% across the displayed hubs
2 companies hiring · $593.9M disclosed funding
Explore companies in New York City ↗14.0% across the displayed hubs
4 companies hiring · $576.2M disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Francisco ↗12.7% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $467.0M disclosed funding
Explore companies in San Diego ↗10.5% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $171.9M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Los Angeles ↗
9.6% across the displayed hubs
5 companies hiring · $1.3B disclosed funding
Explore companies in Cambridge ↗
9.2% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $78.5M disclosed funding
Explore companies in Austin ↗
9.2% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $1.6B disclosed funding
Explore companies in Boston ↗Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
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Company ecosystem snapshot: 7 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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