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No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.
The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is reachable but not ranked: a sourced buyer-fit check placed it outside the seed/Series-A mandate. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.
Evidence places this company outside this buyer’s market. The profile stays published; this labels it.
Assessed 2026-10-24 for seed/Series-A sourcing.
Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. 6 signals in the last 60 days back this number.
Derived connections from primary evidence — Form D officer rosters and shared lead investors. A shared name is a lead, not proof of identity.
Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.
↗ Strongest signal: funding_magnitude (26% of the score).
↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.
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The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake, and where one preceded a real raise, the measured lead.
VentureSignalScore 56.1/100 for nexthop-ai, composed from 2 of 4 components (unclassified formula), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage
| Component | Weight | Normalized | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| funding_recency | 0.2 | 0.332 | |
| funding_magnitude | 0.3 | 0.8796 |
funding.round.announced_on 2026-07-14 artifact ↗ funding.round.amount_usd 2026-07-14 artifact ↗ An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.
A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.
A reported round dated 2026-03-14 by its own source.
Companies coupled to this one by a shared investor — if a common backer pulls back or a fund hits trouble, the shock propagates across the set. More shared investors = tighter coupling.
Showing the 26 current records. Full observation history — 817 superseded records →
| Attribute | Value | Kind | Source | Observed | State | Conf. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ai.technical.assessment | {"council": {"dissent": false, "members": [{"agent": "technical_specialist", "domain": "technical", "signal": 0, "signal_source": "model"}, {"agent": "product_docs_specialist", "domain": "product_docs | derived | council | 2026-07-16 | promoted | 0.10 |
buyer_fit.assessment | {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. | observed | assessment | 2026-10-24 | normalized | 0.90 |
buyer_fit.status | not_a_fit | observed | assessment | 2026-10-24 | normalized | 0.90 |
common_name | Nexthop AI | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
common_name | Nexthop AI | observed | curated | 2026-07-16 | normalized | 0.95 |
common_name | Nexthop.ai | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-21 | normalized | 0.60 |
community.hn.max_points | 0 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 0 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [] | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
domain | nexthop.ai | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.95 |
funding.round.amount_usd | 500000000 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.announced_on | 2026-03-14 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.lead_investors | ["Lightspeed"] | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.source_url | https://www.crescendo.ai/news/latest-vc-investment-deals-in-ai-startups | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
funding.round.stage | series_b | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
gate.accumulation | {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 16, "source_id": "01KXZME3YM9GW2TRJAPWBH444D", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 4, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-20 | normalized | 0.60 |
index.ai_tie | AI_ADJACENT | observed | classify | 2026-07-25 | derived | 0.60 |
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd | 500000000 | derived | calc | 2026-07-14 | derived | 0.90 |
metric.venture.funding_recency_days | 244.3319 | derived | calc | 2026-11-13 | derived | 0.90 |
score.venture_signal | 56.1 | derived | calc | 2026-11-12 | derived | 0.60 |
sector | unclassified | derived | calc | 2026-11-06 | normalized | 0.30 |
source.document.reference | {"kind": "document", "title": "nexthop-ai: Nexthop.ai – Building the most efficient Al infrastructure for the world’s largest cloud operators", "source_id": "01KXZME3YM9GW2TRJAPWBH444D", "extract_ref" | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-20 | normalized | 0.95 |
website_url | https://nexthop.ai | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.90 |
website_url | https://nexthop.ai | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.95 |
website.homepage.has_pricing_link | false | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-07-14 | normalized | 0.80 |