Startups that pitched on our stage.

Pitched in Toronto
6 August 2026

Stablecoins are backed by assets that take days to move, while a run takes minutes. Fiat Republic gives issuers and regulated exchanges a fully reserved banking layer with same-day liquidity, plus the EUR and GBP rails a dollar stablecoin needs to enter Europe at all.

• ▸Electronic money licences live in the Netherlands and the UK
• ▸Registered payment service provider with the Bank of Canada
• ▸Four years operating in one of the hardest regulatory lanes there is

Pitching in Tel Aviv
3 September 2026

Snowflake and Databricks bills move faster than any team can tune by hand, so data engineers spend their week on infrastructure instead of data products. Seemoredata turns that manual judgement into a continuous system that watches thousands of workloads and optimises them without slowing the business down.

• ▸Enterprise customers across the United States
• ▸Expanding from Snowflake into Databricks and wider AI infrastructure
• ▸Run by a deliberately small engineering team

Pitched in Palo Alto
6 August 2026

GraphIQ maps hundreds of millions of organisations and employees along with more than a billion news events, and crucially the relationships between them. Teams use it for market research, business development and company intelligence that a static database simply cannot answer.

• ▸One of the largest living B2B knowledge graphs anywhere
• ▸Used across SMB, enterprise and defence
• ▸Sold through API and MCP credits as well as seats

Pitching in Los Angeles
9 September 2026

Property is often a third or more of a client's net worth, and the financial advisor is the only person in the room whose pay does not depend on the answer. Leveridge gives them a documented framework for that decision, rather than a single line item buried in planning software.

• ▸Added to the Kitces AdvisorTech Map within 30 days of launch
• ▸Covered in Michael Kitces' June column
• ▸In SOC 2 observation, with advisor demand already ahead of it

Pitched in Amsterdam
18 August 2026

One in three adults in the developed world sleeps badly, and most wearables respond by tracking the problem in detail. SOVN pairs clinical-grade in-ear biosensing with targeted sensory stimulation so the device intervenes during the night rather than reporting on it in the morning.

• ▸CES Innovation Award
• ▸A patent portfolio filed on the in-ear sensing
• ▸A pilot showing effectiveness, and a letter of intent from a sleep apnea company

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Every drug batch waits on a quality review of batch records and logbooks, much of it still handwritten, and the wait ties up capital in inventory nobody can sell. Quail reads and reviews those controlled documents so people spend their time on the real exceptions.

• ▸Pilots running with top-tier contract manufacturers in the US and India
• ▸Reads handwritten factory-floor entries, not just clean digital records
• ▸Built to the regulatory bar for pharmaceutical quality release

Pitching in San Francisco
30 September 2026

AI content tools are scattered across a dozen products and as many subscriptions, and the handoffs between them are where the work dies. AICines pulls creation, editing, publishing, collaboration and monetisation into a single creator platform.

• ▸Users across more than 20 countries within weeks of launch
• ▸Seed funded
• ▸Hundreds of creators posting on the platform

Pitched in Tel Aviv
4 August 2026

Veeva and Salesforce record what already happened; neither tells a field representative what to do tomorrow, so strategy set at headquarters dies before it reaches the field. Veraniqs converts commercial data into a concrete 90-day execution plan for every rep and account, with a regulatory validation layer on every output.

• ▸A working platform in production, with a regulatory validation layer on every output
• ▸Tested by former Pfizer, Novartis and GSK field representatives
• ▸US provisional patent in filing, and a place on the AWS, Microsoft, Google and Anthropic startup programmes

Pitching in London
13 October 2026

Brands struggle to connect digital discovery with an actual visit, and shoppers have no simple way to find what is worth walking to. TOKUGO turns physical locations into measurable commerce touchpoints using spatial AI, augmented reality and location intelligence.

• ▸Letters of intent from enterprise retailers and brands
• ▸A mapped location dataset already in place
• ▸London micro-pilot completed, with over 90% task success on core journeys

Pitched in London
18 August 2026

Government, healthcare and financial institutions want AI, but cannot ship sensitive data into somebody else's cloud to get it. CyberAi builds private AI infrastructure that runs inside the organisation's own environment, with the governance and data sovereignty their regulators expect.

• ▸Paid AI deployments live
• ▸HMRC SEIS Advance Assurance secured
• ▸Pipeline across the UK and the GCC

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Every public company and every company approaching an IPO has to tag its filings, and most outsource the job at considerable cost. Briskflow puts that compliance work back inside the finance team and makes it faster and cheaper.

• ▸Channel partnership with OneStream
• ▸Built for Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC reporting obligations
• ▸Sold into the CFO's office and the IPO pipeline

Pitched in Dallas
13 August 2026

Electronic waste is difficult to value and harder to route, so most of it is written off or dumped. ReBin collects and sorts it, recovers the components worth recovering, and sells them into domestic and international markets, with a platform in build to digitise the chain.

• ▸Operating for more than two years
• ▸Cross-border recovery running from Bangladesh to Japan
• ▸US pilot transactions completed and supplier relationships established

Pitched in Miami
12 August 2026

The tools parents can buy today analyse a child's messages in a vendor's cloud and raise an alert once harm has already happened. NetStare runs detection on the device itself and intervenes in the moment, with a zero-content-egress guarantee enforced in the build pipeline rather than promised in a policy.

• ▸Detection runs entirely on the device
• ▸Zero content egress, enforced in CI rather than promised in a policy
• ▸COPPA-aligned by construction

Pitched in Toronto
6 August 2026

Runners retire expensive shoes on a forty-year-old rule of thumb that ignores the runner completely, binning good shoes early or running injured on dead ones. mylz threads a sensor into each shoelace and measures how the shoe wears and how you move in it, so the call is made on data.

• ▸Step detection at 98% walking and 95% running
• ▸Four hardware board revisions in nine months, built alongside a full-time job
• ▸Independent validation booked at York University's biomechanics lab
• ▸Accepted into ventureLAB's HardTech portfolio

Pitched in London
18 August 2026

Classifying a message or gating an agent action is too nuanced for hard-coded rules and too slow and costly to send to a live language model on every request. Sparkient trains task-specific models that answer in milliseconds and can run at the edge.

• ▸91 to 96% accuracy across four published benchmark domains
• ▸33 to 42ms at p95
• ▸Self-serve dashboard, API, MCP server and edge SDK all shipped

Pitched in Dallas
13 August 2026

AI demos are easy and AI systems are not. The moment an application grows past a single model into agents, tools, memory and human approvals, teams end up hand-stitching orchestration with no common standard. Cosmonapse standardises how those parts talk to each other.

• ▸Open source and in public beta
• ▸Python SDK published, with an early developer community forming
• ▸Visual design tools and observability built in

Pitched in Atlanta
21 July 2026

Self-directed investors are handed data, ratings and opinions, and almost nothing that names a price. Moatly gives value investors a number to work from and an AI mentor that shows the reasoning behind it rather than hiding it.

• ▸Live on the iOS App Store
• ▸Built around a Buffett and Graham style framework
• ▸Distribution through Substack, YouTube and value investing communities

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Every team shipping AI ends up wiring to several model providers, then discovers the cost is in the tokens rather than the integration. Mesh API is a token-efficient gateway to more than a thousand models behind a single interface.

• ▸Powers AI access for users in more than 100 countries
• ▸Works with large enterprise customers, including telecoms
• ▸More than 1,000 models behind one interface

Pitching in Miami
9 September 2026

Car rental in Latin America is expensive, patchy and built around airport counters. Rentennials lets owners list the car already sitting outside and travellers book it, with the trust and insurance layer that makes strangers hand over keys.

• ▸Operating across three countries: the United States, Argentina and Peru
• ▸More than 10,000 rentals completed
• ▸Around 2,000 vehicles listed on the platform

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Neurodegenerative disease is usually caught once symptoms are obvious, which is years after the biology changed. Brainalyze uses patented AI-enabled photonics to take a biochemical fingerprint from blood, aiming at detection early enough to act on.

• ▸More than 600 biochemical fingerprints generated across US, UK and European cohorts
• ▸85 to 97% diagnostic accuracy across published and unpublished studies
• ▸Two US diagnostic laboratories evaluating deployment, with pharma partners engaged

Pitching in New York
19 August 2026

Language models predict the next token. DeepMM, short for Deep Market Making, builds large event models trained to predict future events, and sells the output to institutions whose entire business is being right about what happens next.

• ▸Three recurring institutional customers
• ▸One of them a top-three bank
• ▸Selling into the hardest possible proving ground for a prediction claim

Pitched in Atlanta
21 July 2026

Small and mid-sized businesses run on accounting software that records the past and a founder who guesses at the future. Monthly reads the data already sitting in their ERP and turns it into the analysis a finance chief would produce.

• ▸Paying customers across the United States and Latin America
• ▸Reads from SAP, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero, Odoo, CONTPAQi and Microsip
• ▸Forbes 30 Under 30 Mexico 2026, and a place on Google for Startups

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Artists need short-form video for every release and cannot pay for it on every release. Echonos generates it from the track itself, with visuals synced to the beat and characters that stay consistent across cuts.

• ▸Thousands of users on the platform within weeks of launching
• ▸LabelWorx partnership, opening a route to thousands of labels
• ▸Partnership with ABODE, label and festival, with a published case study

Pitched in Los Angeles
12 August 2026

An unsold room earns nothing, but cutting the public rate damages every future booking. Deadline is a private marketplace where verified travellers bid on those rooms, so hotels capture the demand without touching their published price.

• ▸Winner, FoundersBoost Los Angeles Demo Day
• ▸Winner, NerdStage Startup competition
• ▸Six hotels onboarded and a Cloudbeds property-management integration underway

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

An autonomous drone is only as useful as its link back, and video, control and data all degrade at exactly the range that makes the mission worth flying. LongLink builds the communications layer that holds at distance.

• ▸More than 15 UAV customers have tested and validated the systems
• ▸Field tested in Ukraine
• ▸Products shipped across Taiwan, Japan, the US, Poland, Ukraine and India

Pitched in Dubai
18 August 2026

UAE and wider MENA law is spread across federal legislation, emirate-level rules, free-zone regimes and gazettes, in two languages. Nexala unifies them into one bilingual platform where every AI answer is cited back to its source.

• ▸Six modules in production across five UAE jurisdictions: Federal, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, DIFC and ADGM
• ▸Court-to-law linking and amendment tracking built in
• ▸Built by more than 25 contributors, bootstrapped without external funding

Pitching in London
15 September 2026

On-demand manufacturing never scaled because every step is a person emailing another person: tech pack, sourcing, quoting, sampling, critical path, logistics. Makea puts an AI agent on the brand side and another on the supplier side and lets them do the handover.

• ▸More than 70 brands onboarded, with a pipeline several times that
• ▸88% of brands place a repeat order
• ▸More than 120 vetted suppliers across the globe

Pitched in Miami
12 August 2026

People discover constantly and retain almost none of it, because saving is a dead end in every app that offers it. Likepost turns what you save into organised, searchable knowledge and lets you share it with communities you trust.

• ▸Reached 14,000+ monthly active users within seven months
• ▸49.9% day-seven retention
• ▸Fully native on both iOS and Android

Pitched in London
18 August 2026

Schools have to teach computing now and will have to teach with AI shortly, and the tools available were built for professional developers or for nobody in particular. Kita is a single teacher-controlled environment for both.

• ▸20 schools running pilots
• ▸300 students on the platform
• ▸Teacher-controlled by design, rather than locked down after the fact

Pitching in Paris
25 August 2026

Everyone now runs several assistants and explains themselves to each one separately, because context does not travel. Capture is a unified memory layer that carries what a model needs to know from one tool to the next.

• ▸200 design partners
• ▸Built as infrastructure rather than another assistant
• ▸From Cilantro Lab, in Paris

Pitched in London
18 August 2026

Medical history is scattered across providers, countries and languages, which is a nuisance for most people and a serious risk for anyone who moves. MediBridge lets individuals and families organise, translate and share their own records.

• ▸Consumer and business products built and in final testing
• ▸Launch set for September 2026
• ▸Early inbound interest from relocation companies

Pitching in Zurich
25 August 2026

Artists need money before release and get paid long after it, while the fans who would happily fund them have no way in. Nebula gives fans direct ownership access ahead of release, so the people who care earliest are the ones who benefit.

• ▸A closed 12-month beta run with 50 artists
• ▸Sales processed through the platform during that beta
• ▸Direct-to-fan, with no label intermediary

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Skin advice is generic because nobody measures the input. The90 is a UV-sensing wearable that tracks real exposure and turns it into skin health guidance rather than another number on a dashboard.

• ▸Launched in June with 500 units in market
• ▸A first-of-its-kind UV-sensing wearable
• ▸Hardware plus software, rather than an app alone

Pitched in Los Angeles
12 August 2026

Heavy equipment rental in the Southwest is a fragmented business of yards, phone calls and availability nobody can see. Mighty Machine Rentals is building the operator that treats it as a service business rather than a lot full of machines.

• ▸More than 400 customers served in the first 13 months
• ▸Operating across the Southwest
• ▸A real yard and real fleet, not a marketplace listing other people's

Pitched in Los Angeles
12 August 2026

Any business texting its customers is now subject to a moving set of registration, consent and delivery rules, and the penalty for getting it wrong is silent undelivered messages. CompleteSMS handles the compliance, billing and delivery underneath.

• ▸Around 1,500 active users
• ▸Partnerships developing with CPaaS providers including Twilio
• ▸Works directly with The Campaign Registry, the industry's governing body

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Everyone now has private tools, private AI workflows and a private list, and nobody has the shared picture. Bubbl reads the team's context and keeps a live view of what matters, who owns it and what is blocked.

• ▸Around 1,800 sign-ups
• ▸First enterprise contract signed
• ▸Built for AI-native founding teams

Pitched in London
18 August 2026

Data-sensitive organisations want AI and cannot accept a general model with open access to their files. MetaDesk gives them local control over context, so the model sees what governance says it may see and nothing else.

• ▸Three letters of intent
• ▸An early paying customer
• ▸Press coverage scheduled