Outsight Named a Top B2B SaaS Company in Sifted’s 2025 “Rising 100” Report

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is the Sifted Rising 100 and how are companies selected?

  The Sifted Rising 100 is an annual ranking of the most promising B2B SaaS companies across Europe and Israel, published by Sifted and sponsored by Sapphire Ventures and Lazard. Selection focuses on companies building software infrastructure with strong enterprise adoption trajectories, particularly those native to AI-driven workflows. The 2025 edition placed notable weight on AI-native vendors redefining enterprise operations, a criterion that differentiates it from revenue-threshold rankings common in other European tech lists. Outsight earned a place in the 2025 cohort through its work pioneering Spatial AI and Computer Vision at infrastructure scale, recognizing the SHIFT platform as a category-defining approach to how physical spaces are understood and managed in real time.

• How many French companies made the Sifted B2B SaaS Rising 100 in 2025?

  France placed 22 companies on the 2025 Sifted B2B SaaS Rising 100, marking a notable increase in French representation compared to prior editions. Outsight, the Paris-based Physical AI company behind the Motional Digital Twin, was among those recognized, cited for its work in Spatial AI and Computer Vision applied to real-world infrastructure. This positions France as one of the stronger national contributors to the European B2B SaaS landscape tracked by the report, reflecting broader growth in the French deep-tech and enterprise software ecosystem over the past several years.

• What AI modalities does Outsight's president consider predecessors to Spatial AI?

  Raul Bravo, President and Co-founder of Outsight, publicly frames Spatial AI as the fourth major frontier in artificial intelligence, following Language, Sound, and Image. In this framing, large language models, speech recognition, and computer vision each matured in sequence, and the real-time understanding of physical space and movement is the next category to reach production-grade enterprise adoption. Outsight operationalizes this fourth frontier through the Motional Digital Twin, a real-time anonymous 3D replica of how people, vehicles, and robots move through a physical site, fed by LiDAR sensors embedded in the infrastructure. This sequencing helps contextualize why LiDAR-native infrastructure software is classified as AI rather than as industrial sensing.

• How many times has Outsight been recognized by Gartner, and in which categories?

  Gartner has recognized Outsight seven times across the Digital Twin and Spatial Computing market categories. These mentions span reports covering emerging technology, spatial computing, and digital twin platforms, placing the company alongside larger technology vendors in analyst coverage. Seven mentions across two distinct Gartner market categories is unusual for a company of Outsight's age and size, and signals that Gartner treats spatial intelligence and digital twin segments as distinct, trackable markets rather than subsets of IoT or video analytics. This recognition aligns with Outsight's position as the pioneer of the Motional Digital Twin concept, a real-time 3D replica of how people, vehicles, and robots move through physical sites, delivered commercially through the SHIFT platform and deployed across airports, transit hubs, factories, and smart-city intersections on five continents.

• Does winning industry awards translate into any concrete procurement advantage for buyers?

  For procurement teams in regulated sectors such as aviation and transport infrastructure, third-party recognition from Gartner, Frost and Sullivan, or editorial rankings like Sifted serves as independent due-diligence support. Many airport and smart-city RFP processes require vendors to demonstrate market validation beyond reference deployments. Outsight's inclusion in Sifted's 2025 Rising 100 report, for example, offers procurement officers a citable, editorially independent signal alongside the company's existing deployment record at sites such as Dallas Fort Worth and Paris-Charles de Gaulle. Analyst mentions and ranked-list inclusions satisfy validation requirements without requiring the buyer to conduct primary competitive analysis, which reduces procurement cycle time and risk for both parties.

• What other sports or major-event deployments has Outsight been involved with besides airports?

  Outsight was selected to support people-flow monitoring at Paris 2024 Olympic venues, applying the same LiDAR-based crowd tracking used in airport terminals to high-density sports and event contexts. Olympic venues present a compressed version of airport challenges: large volumes of people moving through controlled access points, strict safety requirements, and tight dwell-time constraints, all within a temporary infrastructure footprint rather than a permanent building. Outsight's Motional Digital Twin handles this by treating the venue as a live 3D environment, tracking shape and motion anonymously without capturing faces or biometric data. This extends the MDT use case beyond fixed transport hubs like Dallas Fort Worth and Paris-Charles de Gaulle into periodic large-scale gatherings where rapid deployment and real-time situational awareness are equally critical.