The Tech Atlas

Teams

A team is an ecosystem: companies tied together by ownership, backing and major partnerships, usually across sectors.

Google5 members86Nvidia6 members83Microsoft and OpenAI9 members81Amazon and Anthropic5 members75Meta4 members68

How a company joins a team

  1. Each team names its captains, the companies it is built around.
  2. A company owned by a captain joins that captain's team.
  3. Otherwise each direct tie to a captain scores: backing from the captain 10, supply 3, alliance 3, licence 2, dependency 2. Rivalry scores nothing. The highest-scoring team wins.
  4. A company owned by a member placed that way joins its owner's team.
  5. An even score is settled by hand, with the reason written down, and the build fails until it is.
  6. Anyone else is independent. Most companies are, because the Atlas draws only the relationships a source states.

Independents

Silicon

AMEC, ASML, Applied Materials, Arm, CXMT, Etched, Huawei, Intel Foundry, KLA, Lam Research, Marvell, Micron, Naura, Qualcomm, Rapidus, SK hynix, SMIC, Substrate, Tenstorrent, Tokyo Electron, UMC and GlobalFoundries

Infrastructure and data centers

Apollo, Arista Networks, Ayar Labs, Bloom Energy, Blue Owl, Celestica, Cisco, Crusoe, DDN, Dell, Digital Realty, Eaton, Equinix, Everpure (Pure Storage), Foxconn, Quanta, Wistron, GE Vernova, HPE, Lenovo, NetApp, QTS, Super Micro, Valar Atomics, Vertiv, WEKA

Cloud and compute

Alibaba Cloud, Baseten, Fireworks AI, Lambda, Modal, Together AI, Wasabi

AI models and platforms

DeepSeek, Mistral AI, Perplexity, Thinking Machines Lab, xAI (SpaceXAI)

Software

Databricks, Datadog, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Glean, Grafana Labs, Harvey, Palantir, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Sierra, Snowflake, Workday

Security

Armis, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Cyera, Fortinet, Island, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, SGNL, Zscaler

Internet and consumer platforms

Disney, Netflix, Paramount Skydance, Roblox, Tencent, TikTok US

Devices

Apple, HP, OPPO, Xiaomi, vivo

Fintech and payments

Adyen, Block, Chime, Circle, Coinbase, Mastercard, Nubank, PayPal, Revolut, SoFi, Stripe, Tether, Visa

Owners and backers

Blackstone, ByteDance, Japan's METI, MGX, Silver Lake, SoftBank, SpaceX, Tesla, Veza, Williams