Companies by layer, ranked by LinkedIn following — a map of where attention and capital sit, and where the next gaps are.
SNAPSHOT · JUNE 2026 · 42 COMPANIES
LinkedIn following is an imperfect but useful proxy for mindshare, hiring gravity, and go-to-market reach. It rewards consumer/Western brands and undercounts Chinese labs (whose products dwarf their LinkedIn footprint — see DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot). Read the table as a popularity-and-reach map, and read the analysis below for where the actual opportunity sits across applications, models, and infrastructure.
Companies ranked by LinkedIn followers
Click any column header to re-sort. Use the filters to isolate a layer. "est" = estimated / low-confidence count.
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Company
Layer
Followers ▼
Valuation
HQ
The three layers — how crowded, where the gap is
Where defensibility and open whitespace currently sit.
Where the next opportunity sits
Theses on the highest-leverage open spaces, given the map above.