Trayo Research
We count people, roles and job changes one profile at a time, using the same entity resolution that powers the Trayo signals platform.
Latest AI startups
We ranked the most valuable private AI startups in the United States and the European Union by their latest valuation. Mistral leads Europe at $24.4B, twelve American AI startups are worth more, and the US company comes out ahead at every one of the 32 matched ranks.
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#13
where Europe's top AI startup would rank in the US
5 of 889
open GTM engineer roles are leadership
We counted every GTM engineer we could find. 2,957 people hold the title and two thirds took it in the last twelve months, but across 889 open roles worldwide only five are leadership. The market is buying the work long before it decides who should run it.
GTM teams ·
3 in 4
came through an American employer
The last employer of 7,308 people at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI and Thinking Machines Lab, placed on the map. The non-American quarter splits so unevenly that each lab has a recruiting signature, and no two of the five look alike.
AI talent ·
84
left military nuclear roles for AI datacenters
We traced 84 people who left military nuclear roles for the AI datacenter buildout. Every one trained in an American service, and the GPU clouds have hired none of them.
AI infrastructure ·
21,166
education histories across five labs
The education history of 21,166 people at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, xAI and Thinking Machines Lab. Two schools dominate, and after that each lab recruits from a different world.
AI talent ·
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