Juniper Research
Juniper Research publishes the research we make: reports, trackers and analysis on AI assurance.
Reports
- AI Assurance Technology Report (2024): the market map and investment case for AI assurance infrastructure. It projects a $276B AI assurance technology market by 2030, doubling each year through the decade. Its venture map covers 100 startups (82 seed or early stage, 18 growth or late stage) in four categories: safeguarding, auditing, governing and verifying.
Trackers
- AI Neolab Tracker: every researcher-founded AI lab raising at $1B or more, with valuations and funding.
Analysis
- 2026.09Mission lock for early-stage AI startups: from easiest to hardest
A practical ladder of governance structures for pre-seed and seed AI startups: values, the PBC, a founder sentinel share, mission-locked IP licenses, philanthropic capital, a sidecar charity and the perpetual purpose trust.
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- 2025.06AGI Security: Rethinking Society's Infrastructure
AGI security is the proactive security-first infrastructure for a world where AI systems can reason, adapt, and act autonomously across digital and physical domains.
Esben Kran - 2024.11The concrete risks of AI misdeployment
I often talk about how a mismanaged transition to the AI economy may be a societal-scale risk.
Esben Kran - 2024.10The Expensive Internet hypothesis
There is a chance that the future internet will be more expensive than today’s, simply due to the growing capabilities of AI agents. Specifically, I expect that we’ll end up with what I’ll term…
Esben Kran