Slush 100 AI Visibility Index 2026

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Oct 26, 2026, 7:14:36 AM

Generate More is a Helsinki-based AEO and AI SEO agency for Nordic and international tech companies, founded by Lari Numminen. The Slush 100 AI Visibility Index ranks companies by how often AI answer engines cite their website. This edition covers all 100 companies in the Slush 100 pitch competition for 2026. The data was collected on 26 October 2026.

Most AI-visible Slush 100 pitch competition participants

Slicker leads the Slush 100 AI Visibility Index for 2026 with 236 AI citations, followed by Karumi and Nextesy. Across the 94 companies we could score, the median was 0.

Rank	Company	Country	AI citations	ChatGPT	Google AI Overviews	Perplexity	Change since 1 July
1	Slicker	United Kingdom	236	0	230	5	+172
2	Karumi	United States	66	0	59	3	+2
3	Nextesy	Switzerland	53	0	49	4	+53
4	Pally	United States	40	3	33	2	+26
5	Literal Labs	United Kingdom	36	0	36	0	+10
6	3mash	Türkiye	35	0	32	1	-12
7	Frizzle	United States	33	0	20	8	+10
8	Fynex AI	United States	21	0	17	2	+21
9	Momentum Health	Canada	20	1	14	4	+8
9	pyannote	France	20	0	20	0	+8

Three findings stand out:

Most of the Slush 100 is invisible to AI search. 59 of 94 companies (63%) had no AI citations at all on 26 October 2026.
ChatGPT has barely noticed them. Only 4 companies had a ChatGPT citation, with 6 citations between them.
The group is starting to move. Total citations grew from 365 on 1 July 2026 to 651, led by Slicker, which went from 64 to 236.

63% of Slush 100 2026 companies have no AI citations at all, Slush 100 AI Visibility Index by Generate More

About Slush and why we built this edition

Slush is a not-for-profit startup event that began in Helsinki in 2008 as a 250-person gathering, and it is still organized by students and recent graduates, according to Slush. The 2026 main event takes place on 18–19 November at Messukeskus, the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, with Investor Day at Finlandia Hall on 17 November (event information).

The Slush 100 is the event's pitch competition. Slush picked 100 companies from more than 1,400 applicants, 20 of them pitch as semifinalists on the first morning, and three reach the final. The winner gets €500,000 with no equity taken, plus a main-stage speaking slot at Slush 2027.

Generate More is a Helsinki company, and Lari Numminen will be at Slush 2026 on 18–19 November. We built this edition so that founders, investors and marketers at the event share one checkable picture of which companies AI answer engines already know. If you see the QR code on Lari's hoodie, it leads to generatemore.ai/visibility, where you can find all three Slush 2026 indexes.

Why AI citations matter

When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google which companies lead a category, the answer is written from sources the AI can find and link to. A cited page shapes the description, and the company behind it gets a click path back to its own story. For a Slush 100 company, the timing matters: the week of the event is when investors, journalists and future hires look it up, often with an AI assistant.

Citation counts do not prove that AI recommends a company, and they say nothing about revenue. They do show whose website the engines are reading, which is the part of AI visibility a company controls most directly.

Full ranking

Rank	Company	Country	AI citations	ChatGPT	Google AI Overviews	Perplexity	Change since 1 July
1	Slicker	United Kingdom	236	0	230	5	+172
2	Karumi	United States	66	0	59	3	+2
3	Nextesy	Switzerland	53	0	49	4	+53
4	Pally	United States	40	3	33	2	+26
5	Literal Labs	United Kingdom	36	0	36	0	+10
6	3mash	Türkiye	35	0	32	1	-12
7	Frizzle	United States	33	0	20	8	+10
8	Fynex AI	United States	21	0	17	2	+21
9	Momentum Health	Canada	20	1	14	4	+8
9	pyannote	France	20	0	20	0	+8
11	DREV	Sweden	13	0	13	0	+10
12	Nolana AI	United Kingdom	11	0	6	5	-53
13	Monako	China	7	0	7	0	+7
13	Rimba	United States	7	0	7	0	+3
15	Goldfish	United States	6	1	2	3	+6
16	Bubble Robotics	France	5	0	3	2	-7
16	Semaloop	United Kingdom	5	0	0	5	+5
18	CIWI	Netherlands	4	0	4	0	+3
18	Project-S	Germany	4	0	4	0	+1
18	Refute	United Kingdom	4	0	4	0	+4
18	SpaceFlow	United States	4	0	4	0	+4
22	AlProtein	Germany	3	0	1	2	+3
23	CommerceClarity	Italy	2	0	2	0	+2
23	Neuphonic	United Kingdom	2	0	0	2	-2
23	Pearl	France	2	0	2	0	+2
23	Planck	Norway	2	0	1	1	+2
23	Schuman Financial	France	2	0	1	1	+1
28	Altertable	France	1	1	0	0	0
28	Bios Medical	Switzerland	1	0	0	1	+1
28	Bloom Labs		1	0	1	0	0
28	DNAMIC	Lithuania	1	0	1	0	+1
28	Heywa Labs	United Kingdom	1	0	0	1	+1
28	InLoop Robotics	Germany	1	0	1	0	+1
28	Mycolever	Germany	1	0	1	0	+1
28	WeldNova	Germany	1	0	0	1	+1
36	&Volume	Finland	0	0	0	0	0
36	AgriPass Robotics	Israel	0	0	0	0	0
36	Akshar Innovation	Spain	0	0	0	0	0
36	Allude	France	0	0	0	0	0
36	Alp Bio	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	alteva	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Arios	Georgia	0	0	0	0	0
36	Arqus Aerospace	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Aurafleet	Finland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Big Kelp	New Zealand	0	0	0	0	0
36	Bloxii	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	Brainalyze	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	BTRY	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Cancierge	Netherlands	0	0	0	0	0
36	Chaser Robotics	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Cornea Sense	Finland	0	0	0	0	0
36	CURA	Canada	0	0	0	0	0
36	DAIVIN!	United States	0	0	0	0	0
36	Digity	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Divea	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Emissium	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Foundation Clinic	Finland	0	0	0	0	-1
36	GraceX	Italy	0	0	0	0	0
36	Helix Carbon	United States	0	0	0	0	0
36	Hula	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Iqana	Spain	0	0	0	0	0
36	Kampwise	Canada	0	0	0	0	0
36	Manukai	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Marentis	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Milvus Advanced	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	Morpheus	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	MorphoAI	United States	0	0	0	0	0
36	MYNERVA	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Navictus	Portugal	0	0	0	0	0
36	Nitroduck	Czechia	0	0	0	0	0
36	OREUS AI	France	0	0	0	0	0
36	PRODEEN	United States	0	0	0	0	0
36	PropTexx	France	0	0	0	0	0
36	Pyck	Germany	0	0	0	0	-7
36	Qalam Health	Canada	0	0	0	0	0
36	Quadrivia	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	Quantum Light	United States	0	0	0	0	0
36	Rhonexum	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	ROTOBOOST	Finland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Shifted	France	0	0	0	0	-1
36	Soundsafe Care	Italy	0	0	0	0	0
36	Specsight	Poland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Sqwish Labs	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	Stoa	Finland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Straintest	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Tekton Dynamics	United Kingdom	0	0	0	0	0
36	TerraSpark	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0
36	Theseus Robotics	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	UNOMR	Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Upside Robotics	Canada	0	0	0	0	0
36	Willo	Finland	0	0	0	0	0
36	Xpometer	Malta	0	0	0	0	0
36	Zalion	Germany	0	0	0	0	0
36	Zelara	Germany	0	0	0	0	0

No public website was found for Astra Mindcore, Cortisys, Seedsight, unravel health, WLF Energy and Xatoms, so they have no score.

Biggest changes since July

29 companies gained citations after 1 July 2026, 7 lost them, and the rest did not change.

Largest gains

Slicker: 64 on 1 July, 236 on 26 October
Nextesy: 0 on 1 July, 53 on 26 October
Pally: 14 on 1 July, 40 on 26 October
Fynex AI: 0 on 1 July, 21 on 26 October
Literal Labs: 26 on 1 July, 36 on 26 October

Largest losses

Nolana AI: 64 on 1 July, 11 on 26 October
3mash: 47 on 1 July, 35 on 26 October
Bubble Robotics: 12 on 1 July, 5 on 26 October
Pyck: 7 on 1 July, 0 on 26 October

What it means for Slush 100 companies

Being selected for the Slush 100 is a strong signal to the people in the room. Outside it, the AI answer engines mostly have nothing to say: the median company here has 0 citations, against 175 for the median scaleup speaking at the same event.

About half of these companies build hardware, deep tech or life science products for a small number of expert buyers, and low AI visibility costs them less than it would a software company. For the software companies in the group, the week of the competition is a rare moment of attention. Coverage and pages published around it give AI answer engines something to cite long after the final.

Method

Sample. All 100 companies on Slush's public Slush 100 list. Websites, locations and founding years come from the companies' profiles in the Slush 2026 meeting tool, where 84 of the 100 have one. We matched the remaining 16 by hand. The matches for Arios and Bloom Labs are our best reading and not confirmed by the companies.

Data. For each company website we pulled the number of times AI answers cite the domain, including subdomains, from the Ahrefs API (Site Explorer, AI responses) on 26 October 2026. The score adds up citations in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Grok. Google AI Overviews includes both of Ahrefs' AI Overview datasets, one built from prompts and one from keywords. Google AI Mode is left out, because the API reports a smaller AI Mode figure than the Ahrefs web app does. We ran the same query for 1 July 2026 to measure the change.

Ranking. Companies are ranked by total citations within their own index. Companies with the same total share a rank, and the table lists them alphabetically. Companies without a public website have no score and are listed after the table.

What this index does not show

Mentions without a link. An answer that names a company without citing its website does not count.
The prompts behind the numbers. Ahrefs runs its own prompt set, so the score reflects that set and not the questions your buyers ask.
Whether the description is accurate. A citation can come with an outdated or wrong summary of what the company does.
Commercial impact. Citations are a visibility signal, and we make no claim about pipeline or revenue.

All Slush 2026 indexes

This edition is one of three published ahead of Slush 2026. Links to the other two are added here as each one goes live.

Scaleup AI Visibility Index: Slush 2026 Edition, covering scaleups whose leaders speak at Slush 2026
Startup AI Visibility Index: Slush 2026 Edition, covering startups whose founders speak or pitch at Slush 2026

For a related study of large listed companies, see our Nordic AI Overviews Index. It measures how often Google shows an AI Overview when someone searches for a company by name.

Update log

Slush 2026 (October): first edition, data collected on 26 October 2026. If your company is missing, matched to the wrong website or listed in the wrong index, contact us and we will correct it in the next update.

This is independent analysis by Generate More, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Slush. You may use the figures with a link to this page as the source.

Frequently asked questions

Slush 100 AI Visibility Index FAQ

Short answers about how the Slush 100 AI Visibility Index is built and what its numbers mean.

What is the Slush 100 AI Visibility Index?

A ranking of the 2026 Slush 100 pitch competition companies by how often AI answer engines cite their website.

Which Slush 100 company is most visible in AI search?

Slicker, with 236 citations on 26 October 2026.

How many Slush 100 companies have no AI visibility?

59 of the 94 companies we could score had no AI citations at all.

Is this index affiliated with Slush?

No. It is independent analysis by Generate More, based on the public Slush 100 list.

My company is missing or wrong. What should I do?

Contact Generate More through generatemore.ai and we will correct it in the next update.

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