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Lounge is where experienced AI founders and builders meet, ship and help each other, and it publishes open data on the AI market: who's selling, which models win, which agents matter, and every AI round and acquisition of 2026.
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Open data on the AI market
Free to read and cite with credit and a link to Lounge. Updated continuously.
Revenue Leaderboard2,103private AI and SaaS companies ranked by revenueTwo boards, AI-native and SaaS, by category and country, every figure sourced. Free and public.Open →AI Model Benchmarks109model versions from 13 labsSWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, GPQA, HLE, ARC-AGI-2 and Arena, next to price per million tokens. Charts free to republish.Open →The Agentic 5050AI agent platforms that matter in 2026Consumer and business agents, ranked by scale: capital raised, valuation, ARR and users, as reported.Open →M&A Deals Data152AI acquisitions in 2026, $459B disclosedEvery AI acquisition with acquirer, price, date and source, updated daily.Open →VC Investments Data2,860AI venture rounds in 2026, $543B raisedSeed to growth, with lead investors, round size, valuation and the partners behind each round.Open →
Who's on Lounge
Real profiles only: name, photo, role, company and city. Mostly founders, by design.
Exited, high-ARR and VC-backed founders
- Advait Shinde$1B exitFounded GoGuardian, a $1B edtech company
- John RyanIPOTook Entrust Technologies public on Nasdaq
- David Hassell$50M+ ARRGrew 15Five past $50M ARR as CEO
- Pavan Sondur$111M exitCo-founded Unbxd, acquired by Netcore Cloud
- Nevo ElmalemVC-backedRaised a $98M Series C for Sensi AI
- Massimo Arrigoni$10M+ ARRBeefree runs inside 1,100+ SaaS apps
Developers with the most GitHub stars
- Kenneth Estanislao97K★
- Mahipal37K★
- Fathah CR14K★
- Wenyu Chiou8K★
- Shengjia Yan6K★
The press deck
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Press kit
Press deck12 slides: members, growth, where they are, standout founders and developers, and our data.Download PDF
Press contact
Ryan Allis, CEO and co-founder of Lounge (previously founded iContact, acquired by Vocus for $169M). Interviews, data requests, custom cuts of our data, and introductions to founders in any city or ARR band.