What are the top 5 venture studios?
Asked "What are the top 5 venture studios?", ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity named 17 distinct names across 15 answers on September 7, 2026, and 15 of them in two or more answers, and all 4 engines agreed on Atomic, the only name every engine named.
15 of 17 names confirmed · named in 2 or more of 15 answers · asked September 7, 2026 · 4 engines
The top 5 venture studios include Atomic, High Alpha, Idealab, Pioneer Square Labs, and Hexa, known for their track records, company creation, and notable exits in various sectors such as consumer tech, B2B SaaS, and enterprise software.
- 1Atomicnamed in 10 of 15 answers
- 2High Alphanamed in 10 of 15 answers
- 3Pioneer Square Labsnamed in 8 of 15 answers
- 4Idealabnamed in 7 of 15 answers
- 5Betaworksnamed in 5 of 15 answers
- 6Science Inc.named in 5 of 15 answers
- 7Hexanamed in 4 of 15 answers
- 8Expanamed in 4 of 15 answers
- 9Founders Factorynamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 10Y Combinatornamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 11Techstarsnamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 12500 Globalnamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 13IndieBionamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 14eFoundersnamed in 3 of 15 answers
- 15Startup Healthnamed in 2 of 15 answers
- 16Andreessen Horowitznamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
- 17Flagship Pioneeringnamed in 1 of 15 answersone answer
The full measurement
- The position each of the 4 engines gave all 17 names.
- How many of the 15 answers named each of them.
- 21 sampled observations behind this ranking, and where the engines disagree.
- Fan-out — the query each engine actually searched.
- Every citation, and the sources nobody cited.