CDL's 37 Early Startups Produced Six $500M+ Companies
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-11-11
A rundown of Creative Destruction Lab's track record: of 37 very early-stage companies from its 2015 and 2016 ML cohorts (before the AI boom), six — Tenstorrent, Blue J, Scinapsis (BenchSci), Ada, Xanadu, Deep Genomics — reached $500M+ valuations, plus 8 acquisitions and several steady growers. Legal AI firm Blue J is now valued at over $700M.
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