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The AI agent market map

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CB Insights - Enterprise Ai Title: The AI agent market map Date: 2025-11-10 20:14 Source: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/ai-agent-market-map-2025/ <p>The AI agent moment is reshaping enterprise software.</p> <p>Since <a href="https://www.cbinsights.com/research/ai-agent-market-map/">our last mapping in March 2025<…
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  • Horizontal AI agent startups outnumber verticalized solutions nearly 2-to-1 in the landscape.

    80% confidence

  • Agentic solutions have become a leading acquisition target for enterprise software incumbents.

    80% confidence

  • AI agent startups focused on cybersecurity operations are most primed to exit based on average CB Insights M&A probability scores.

    80% confidence

  • The private AI agent market is moving towards greater specialization, with industry-specific solutions surging since March 2025.

    80% confidence

  • Since March 2025, the AI agent landscape has exploded from roughly 300 players to thousands as tech companies race to launch AI agent offerings.

    80% confidence

  • AI-related cybersecurity M&A has already reached record levels in 2025.

    80% confidence

  • The healthcare and life sciences AI agent category grew from 7 companies in March 2025 to 47 companies in the November 2025 map iteration.

    80% confidence

  • Emerging startups are betting that highly regulated industries will favor specialized AI agent solutions over horizontal tools.

    80% confidence

  • 1 in 5 new unicorns ($1B+ valuation) are now developing AI agents.

    80% confidence

  • AI agents combine reasoning, memory, tool use, and planning capabilities.

    80% confidence

  • The software development AI agent market is the most crowded on the map, reflecting the value agents bring to well-defined workflows and testable environments.

    80% confidence

  • The coding AI agent market is facing challenges as reasoning models drive higher inference costs, previewing pricing pressures other agent categories will face.

    80% confidence

  • The top 20 AI agent revenue leaders average just 3.8 years old, with software development leading revenue activity featuring 6 coding agents.

    80% confidence

  • Nullify and Strike Ready top the cybersecurity acquisition probability list with 70%+ probability of getting acquired within the next two years.

    80% confidence

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