Startups that pitched on our stage.

Pitching in Dubai
27 October 2026

Most cloud bills are decided by an engineer choosing a server, a GPU or a model weeks before finance sees the number. SKYXOPS prices every infrastructure and AI change inside the delivery pipeline, before it merges, then tracks spend and ranks savings across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

• ▸Validated through the AWS Foundational Technical Review and listed on AWS Marketplace
• ▸Member of the FinOps Foundation
• ▸Cost checks on pull requests for Terraform, CloudFormation and Helm changes

Pitching in Dubai
27 October 2026

A restaurant runs on a hundred small jobs that owners do after close: filling shifts, running payroll, reading supplier invoices, answering reviews. Clockout's AI manager, Ro, does them from one place connected to the POS, and the owner approves anything that spends money or reaches a customer.

• ▸Scheduling, payroll, food cost and reviews on one staff list and one POS feed
• ▸Endorsed by a Sharetea owner, with integrations for Square, Toast, Clover, Gusto and ADP
• ▸Month to month, priced per location, with a 30-day free trial on a real week of service

Pitched in Sydney
16 October 2026

Australia's new-home market still moves on spreadsheets, PDFs and group chats between builders and the advisers who sell their stock. Kenekt gives wholesale builders one place to publish house-and-land packages, and gives property advisers, buyer agencies and brokers a live, searchable stocklist with branded brochures and transaction support.

• ▸Free for property advisers, mortgage brokers and accountants, with builders on a subscription
• ▸White-label portals for agencies, with live Kenekt stock published on their own websites
• ▸Performs the AML customer due diligence on every transaction under Australia's new Tranche 2 rules

Pitched in Sydney
16 October 2026

Buildings are designed without live numbers, so cost blowouts and embodied carbon are discovered after the drawings are done. Nezo connects to Revit, Archicad and SketchUp and shows architects, engineers, ESD consultants and quantity surveyors the cost, carbon and weight of every decision as they make it, then generates compliant LCA, NABERS, Green Star and BASIX reports in seconds.

• ▸Official technology partner of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• ▸Used by Hassell to understand carbon earlier in the design process
• ▸Partners include UNSW, Griffith University and Massey University, with an education programme for students

Pitched 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
13 October 2026

Retail traders increasingly point an AI at stock analysis, and when everyone feeds the same data into the same models the edge disappears and the crowd becomes something to trade against. Visual Sectors sells the input rather than the answer: a data layer for people writing their own strategies.

• ▸A paying subscriber base built over two and a half years
• ▸Lifetime value per subscriber has risen fourfold over that period
• ▸Sells to retail investors and to the people writing their own algorithmic strategies

Pitched in London
13 October 2026

Cheap drones now kill soldiers faster than they can react, and the air defence that exists protects bases and infrastructure, not units on the move or small boats. StagOn Defence builds portable, battery-powered systems that detect low-altitude threats early enough for a team to take cover or respond.

• ▸Detection range of up to 1,000 metres, fusing several sensor types
• ▸Lightweight, battery powered and carried by the unit that deploys it
• ▸UK-based, serving Europe, NATO and NATO-friendly countries

Pitched in London
13 October 2026

Recruitment agencies win clients by reaching a company the week it starts hiring, and finding that moment is slow, manual work squeezed between placements. Execue checks the market, the agency's own ATS and its network every morning, finds who is hiring in its niche, writes the outreach in the consultant's own words and books the meeting. Nothing goes out until the consultant presses send.

• ▸Buying signals from the market, the agency's ATS and placed candidates who move jobs
• ▸Every check shows what it read, what passed and what failed, so a shortlist can be audited
• ▸Outreach written from the consultant's own sent mail and sent only on their approval

Pitched in London
13 October 2026

Authentic chai means milk, water, tea and spices boiled together, watched for fifteen minutes so it does not boil over, and then cleaned up. The alternative is a weak latte. Dostea is a countertop machine with capsules of blended tea and masala that brews a traditional cup in a few minutes, with a built-in mechanism that stops it boiling over.

• ▸Funded on Kickstarter by 233 backers, several times over its goal
• ▸Covered by Yanko Design and Trend Hunter
• ▸Designed with Analogy Design, now in final engineering for manufacture

Pitched in Melbourne
9 October 2026

Independent cafés, salons and barbers live on repeat customers, yet most still run loyalty on paper cards that get lost, forgotten and faked, leaving owners with no idea who their regulars are. PunchPass replaces the card with a tap of the phone on a small counter stamper, and gives the venue a list of customers it can actually reach.

• ▸A counter stamper with no power, screens or batteries, shipped as a ready-to-use starter kit
• ▸Push notifications and promotions to every customer who holds a card
• ▸Built in Brisbane and used by cafés such as Fonzie Abbott, Billy Kart and Clancy's Espresso

Pitched in Melbourne
9 October 2026

Once the instructions are finished, a tub of bricks has nothing new to say, and fans age out into screens. emagineer scans a collection, shows every official set the parts can already make, uses patented AI to find new builds hiding in the spare pieces, and turns a selfie into a buildable brick figure with step-by-step instructions.

• ▸Live on the App Store and Google Play, with a free tier and a one-time lifetime licence
• ▸Patented AI build discovery from a scan of a collection's spare bricks
• ▸An independent app built in Australia, not affiliated with the LEGO Group

Pitched in Dallas
8 October 2026

A restaurant or salon owner pays for a POS, a website vendor, online ordering, a marketing agency and a spreadsheet, then spends evenings keeping them in step. HappySpace replaces the stack with one AI employee that builds the website, runs the ads and reviews, takes bookings and processes payments, and reports the numbers back in real time.

• ▸Website, ads, reviews, scheduling, payments and an AI receptionist in one plan
• ▸Live with Dallas restaurants since May 2026, sold door to door by the founder
• ▸Expanding from restaurants into retail, salons, services and e-commerce

Pitched in Dallas
8 October 2026

Hiring for a small business means money on job boards, hours of rescheduled interviews and often nothing to show for it. Levelzi keeps a bench of pre-vetted professionals already profiled with their rates, matches them to a role described in plain words, and takes the hire from interview to offer in one place.

• ▸2,000+ pre-vetted professionals, each with a video introduction and a match scorecard
• ▸An MCP server so an AI agent can search talent, schedule interviews and send offers
• ▸Built by a founder who ran a multi-location retail business and lived the hiring problem

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

A team building on AI ends up wired into a dozen provider APIs, each with its own outages, rate limits and pricing. Infron consolidates them behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint and routes each call to a reliable, cost-effective provider, with automatic failover when one goes down.

• ▸400+ models from 100+ providers behind a single endpoint
• ▸Six trillion tokens processed a month, on a 99.99% uptime SLA
• ▸Used in production by Agnes AI, Pax Historia and YTL AI Labs

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

Commercial cleaning is mostly labour, and most of it still runs on fixed routes drawn up without knowing which rooms were used. Zan Compute's ZanI platform reads occupancy, foot traffic and restroom sensors, then schedules, dispatches and audits the work, so crews go where the demand is.

• ▸ZanI, an agentic AI platform built for janitorial service providers
• ▸Deployed in commercial office buildings and airports
• ▸Strategic backing from Bobrick Washroom Equipment and a partnership with The Service Companies

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

A warehouse or plant runs on cameras that nobody watches, so the questions that matter, where time goes and where work piles up, get answered by a consultant or not at all. Fortune AI reads the existing feeds and returns the number every shift. You describe the measure in a sentence and it builds and deploys the analysis itself.

• ▸Live inference across paying sites in five countries
• ▸Backed by Berkeley SkyDeck, part of the NVIDIA Inception programme
• ▸Publishes its own benchmarks: ten times faster to deploy and 90% fewer false alerts than rule-based analytics
• ▸Its pool-safety product has three documented rescues

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

Nearly half of young investors take their investing advice from social media, where nobody has an audited track record and nobody is accountable when a call goes wrong. PiTrade lets anyone build a US stock portfolio or mirror a verified expert's portfolio in real time, executed at the same price, under a regulated advisory relationship.

• ▸Advice provided through Pioneer Advisory LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser
• ▸Custody and execution through Interactive Brokers, with SIPC protection
• ▸Live on iOS and Android, with coverage in Benzinga, Grit Daily and Authority Magazine
• ▸Supported by DraperU Ventures

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

Professional broadcasts cover a tiny fraction of the sport actually played, and a pool hall or club has no practical way to stream its own tables and courts. EvoSports gives venues a three-piece self-install kit for streaming, scoring and brackets, and gives players a place to watch, share and commentate on their own matches.

• ▸Self-install streaming, scoring and bracket kit for venues on a monthly subscription
• ▸Remote commentary from anywhere in the world through a single web link
• ▸Started in billiards, expanding into volleyball, pickleball and badminton

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

Robots create the most value where humans are hardest to train and most at risk, and those are exactly the places with no training data: mines, pipelines, oil and gas sites and data-centre builds. Cervo equips workers on shift with head, chest and wrist cameras, then has licensed electricians, miners and pipefitters annotate the footage so robot builders can train on it.

• ▸Egocentric footage collected on live sites by workers wearing Cervo's rig
• ▸Annotation corrected by licensed tradespeople rather than crowd workers
• ▸Evaluation benchmark partnership with Columbia University

Pitched in Los Angeles
7 October 2026

Military logistics depends on runways, and runways are exactly what an adversary attacks first. Wayfarer builds Waylift, a patented, stowable electric blown-wing system that retrofits in-service aircraft to take off and land in up to 80 percent less distance without giving up payload, speed or range.

• ▸US patent 11,305,869 for the Waylift lift-enhancement system
• ▸Flight-validated on a subscale demonstrator, with research published at AIAA forums
• ▸Non-dilutive R&D funding from NASA and the National Science Foundation
• ▸Covered by Aviation Week and named to San Diego's Hardtech Next Wave 30

Pitched in Los Angeles
7 October 2026

Licensing a song for a film, an ad or a game can take weeks and hundreds of emails, because who controls which share in which territory is scattered across incompatible databases. ALLOY digitises worldwide sync rights and permissions for songs and recordings into one impartial, standardised terminal that music supervisors, labels and publishers can read and verify instantly.

• ▸Founded by the former Global President of Sync at Hipgnosis, previously in senior sync roles at Universal and BMG
• ▸Designed with music supervisors, with beta access open to studios, agencies and rightsholders
• ▸Launch covered by Music Business Worldwide; API and MCP access for sync platforms announced for 2026

Pitched in Los Angeles
7 October 2026

A first-time founder is expected to become a strategist, marketer, salesperson and finance lead overnight, and pieces that together from AI chats, documents and nine disconnected tools. Vora IQ scores the idea, turns the score into a roadmap, and hands the founder the next task each morning, with an AI team for strategy, finance, marketing and legal that already knows the business.

• ▸Microsoft for Startups partner
• ▸Live on web and iOS: a viability report card, a living roadmap, landing pages and a content calendar
• ▸Connects Stripe and QuickBooks so the plan follows the real numbers

Pitched in San Francisco
7 October 2026

Contracts, change orders, invoices and site emails live in different places, and the gaps between them add up quietly until the owner finds out the money is gone. Captus reads everything across a project the way a sharp project lead would, connects the dots, and puts cost, schedule and labour risk on a dashboard while there is still time to act.

• ▸Runs on live capital projects for University Place Associates, including a life sciences building and a precast parking garage
• ▸PERI Group among the industry partners named on its site
• ▸No data entry: it connects to email, drawings, contracts and project records as they are

Pitched in Boston
7 October 2026

Pharmacies cannot hire enough technicians, so pharmacists are pulled off patient care to sort and pack, and the automation that exists only counts loose pills into vials. Dunster builds a human-sized robot with grippers that change stiffness on demand, so it can handle cartons, bottles, bags and vials at the shelves a pharmacy already has.

• ▸Proprietary variable-stiffness gripper, CS-VSG: soft where it touches, rigid where it counts
• ▸On track to be the first physical AI spinout from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• ▸The same fail-safe platform is aimed next at hospital logistics and data-centre maintenance

Pitched in Dubai
6 October 2026

Most retail, hospitality and service revenue is made face to face, and no manager or mystery shopper can hear every conversation. Lansy records in-person conversations at the counter, on the floor and in the classroom, then turns them into personal coaching for each employee and a clear picture of what to change for managers.

• ▸Built for in-person conversations, not call centres: cafés, retail, schools, pharmacies and hotels
• ▸Tracks the metric a client chooses, such as whether the add-on or the current promotion was offered
• ▸Founded by the former CEO of Urbi, the 2GIS mapping business in the Gulf

Pitched in Dubai
6 October 2026

Schools and clinics have no engaging, continuous way to see how a child's attention, memory and emotional wellbeing change over time, so support needs surface only once they affect learning. UR Health VR runs weekly immersive activities across five spaces, from attention and memory to calm and movement, and turns them into longitudinal, non-diagnostic insights for therapists, schools and parents.

• ▸Used by 10+ schools and 200+ therapy centres, with 25+ interactive experiences
• ▸Weekly VR wellness lab sessions with AI progress tracking and reports to school and parents
• ▸Endorsed on its site by an associate professor at Northumbria University

Pitched 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 New York
30 September 2026

Beauty has more products, treatments, clinics and experts than ever, and finding the right one is still hard, because discovery rewards whoever spends most on being visible. Plume connects discovery, commerce, booking, community and media in one place for beauty lovers, independent brands and clinics.

• ▸More than ten beauty brands and clinics committed before launch
• ▸Early partners already outside the United States, including Dubai
• ▸Built as one ecosystem across discovery, booking and commerce rather than a single tool

Pitched in New York
30 September 2026

Male factor is involved in close to half of infertility cases, yet the man's test is the one that most often never happens: labs are hard to find, the paperwork is manual and results arrive without guidance. Hera runs the semen analysis order end to end, from booking a lab to an interpreted result and the next step.

• ▸A network of more than 700 CLIA-certified labs across the United States and Canada
• ▸Selected for Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate to clinically validate its AI models
• ▸Backed by Techstars

Pitched in New York
30 September 2026

Small businesses have work that was never anybody's job, and every AI option that could do it needs an engineer to set up. CellCog lets an owner hire an AI employee in one sentence: it arrives with a name, an inbox, a schedule and memory, forms teams with other AI employees, and reports back at the end of every shift. Anything risky waits for a yes.

• ▸Ranked #1 on the public DeepResearch Bench leaderboard, July 2026
• ▸Rated 4.9 on G2
• ▸Works inside 1,500+ tools, with its own inbox, task board and computer

Pitched in Sydney
18 September 2026

Most mental wellbeing apps leave a person alone with a screen, which is a strange answer to a problem that is often about isolation. Anika combines guided tools with human connection and real-world support, so the app is a way into company rather than a substitute for it.

• ▸Live and downloadable, with an early member community
• ▸Combines AI-guided tools with human connection and in-person wellness support
• ▸A workplace wellbeing offering alongside the consumer product

Pitched in Toronto
17 September 2026

Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than anyone is tracking them, and the executives who answer for those agents often cannot say how many are running or who owns each one. Arkion discovers the non-human identities an enterprise has created, gives each one a verifiable certificate-based identity, and revokes it when the agent is retired.

• ▸Founded by the founder of Difenda, the Microsoft security practice acquired by Quorum Cyber in 2024
• ▸Won the start-up pitch competition at Identity Week America, 2026
• ▸Publishes a Non-Human Identity Governance Standard, version 1.1, open for public comment
• ▸Publishes a compliance crosswalk mapping DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 and SEC cyber-disclosure controls

Insurers, law firms and defence buyers are being asked to underwrite AI systems whose runtime behaviour nobody can audit. Whitebox scores a system against a published standard and issues a certificate with a deployment envelope, so the risk can be priced before procurement rather than discovered afterwards.

• ▸Granted US patent 12,613,849 B1, with 21 further filings in the same family
• ▸Five signed letters of intent from prospective customers
• ▸Academic consortium with Aalborg University and Aarhus University

Pitched in San Francisco
16 September 2026

Most car buyers need a loan, and a private seller cannot offer one, so financed buyers get funnelled back to a dealer who marks the car up. Zoooom is the infrastructure that makes a private sale work: identity checks, AI vehicle verification, condition reports and an inspection network, with escrowed payment and financing behind them.

• ▸8,700 vehicles listed across more than 50 cities
• ▸Identity verification, AI vehicle inspection and VIN-level condition reports shipped and running in production
• ▸A mechanic inspection network live alongside the software

Pitched in San Francisco
16 September 2026

Selling is two jobs: winning the deal, and operating the pipeline. Reps signed up for the first, which is why the CRM drifts, the stages lie and the forecast misses. Dynamiks puts an AI coworker on the second job, so it reads every deal's trajectory, keeps the pipeline honest and calls the next play with the rep.

• ▸Deployed with its first customers
• ▸Learns from deals won and lost rather than scoring against a fixed playbook
• ▸Founded by a repeat enterprise software founder, building across San Francisco and Paris

A child with developmental needs sees several therapists and specialists, and most of the actual work happens in the weeks between appointments, where a parent is left to remember recommendations and coordinate everyone. Genex is the coordination layer: personalised home programmes, shared progress and less admin for the clinician.

• ▸Live parent product tested with early families, with a therapist-facing pilot in preparation
• ▸Advised by a UCSF paediatric geneticist and a paediatric speech-language pathologist
• ▸Designed so the family side stays free, with clinics as the paying customer

Pitched in New York
16 September 2026

Students are inspired by different things, and one worksheet for thirty of them engages few while teachers rebuild lessons at night. UniqLearn generates standards-aligned practice around each student's interests, gives instant feedback and shows teachers and districts where every student stands.

• ▸Assignments aligned to state standards and built from each student's approved interests
• ▸UniqPath turns any career a student is curious about into a full course
• ▸Connects to district LMS and SIS platforms, with support for tiered interventions

Pitched in San Francisco
16 September 2026

Payers spend billions on psychotherapy with no way to tell effective sessions from ineffective ones, because the only reliable measure is an expert reviewing a session by hand. Therassist.ai automates that review, scoring sessions against the gold-standard adherence instrument for DBT and giving therapists feedback on every one.

• ▸The first AI version of the DBT Adherence Checklist, built with the psychologist who created it
• ▸Net Promoter Score of 75, as published by the company
• ▸Writes the clinical note too, without retaining protected health information

A food or beverage brand that needs a co-packer can lose months emailing factories that never reply, because the manufacturers with spare capacity rarely have sales teams. Aekovera matches brands with vetted co-manufacturers, co-packers and packaging suppliers, and runs the outreach until a maker commits.

• ▸Penn Wharton Innovation Fund implementation award
• ▸Won the NGEN Trailblazers pitch competition, backed by Blue and Gold Ventures
• ▸Founder selected for the Dorm Room Fund PhD Track, 2025 cohort
• ▸Supplier network includes makers behind major beverage and snack brands

Pitched in New York
16 September 2026

AI agents now issue refunds, change records and grant access, yet most testing only asks whether they can be broken or whether their answers are good. iFixAi audits whether an agent actually does the job it was given, within its permissions and approval chains, and grades it with a panel of judges from different vendors.

• ▸Open source under Apache 2.0, with about 15.7k stars on GitHub
• ▸Trended on Trendshift's weekly list for Python
• ▸Connects over MCP from Claude Code, Cursor and other coding tools, or straight from GitHub
• ▸Paid tiers live alongside the free, self-hosted version

Pitched in Dubai
15 September 2026

Machines now produce output faster than any human can check it, which makes acceptance, not generation, the bottleneck in high-stakes work. Inference Labs verifies what an AI system actually did and turns that into a tamper-proof proof, so a business can act on a machine decision without a person re-doing it.

• ▸Supports more than a million agents
• ▸Paid deployments in aviation, defence, energy and logistics
• ▸Canadian company operating globally

Pitched 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 Dubai
15 September 2026

A small company runs sixteen or more apps, and its customer is a different half-matching record in every one. Connectors join the apps but nothing joins the customer, so AI has no context to act on and work stalls between departments. NearSync puts nine departments on one shared data model, with AI that can act across all of it.

• ▸Launched July 2026 and billing paying customers within weeks
• ▸Nine departments and nine applications on a single shared data model
• ▸Priced flat per seat, including a self-hosted option for regulated buyers

Pitched in London
15 September 2026

A smart home usually means a keypad, a thermostat, a hub and an app for each system, fitted by a specialist at a specialist's price. Rithum replaces a standard light switch with one touchscreen that controls lighting, music, heating and door entry, sold and fitted through electrical installers.

• ▸Best Dedicated Touchscreen Controller, Smart Building Awards 2024
• ▸Best Control Panel and Best HVAC Thermostat, CE Pro TNT Awards at ISE 2023
• ▸Tech Company of the Year, National Technology Awards 2023

Pitched in London
15 September 2026

Merchandise is often the most dependable income an artist or brand has, yet most either run the supply chain themselves or hand it to a middleman who takes a large cut and an advance. float, built by the merch company terrible*, runs design, production, fulfilment, sales and data as one managed layer on a lower commission.

• ▸Trusted by artists including The xx, Jamie xx, Sampha, King Krule and CHVRCHES
• ▸90 full-service clients and 89% client retention, per the company
• ▸Operating across the UK, the US and Ireland

Pitched in Dubai
15 September 2026

People already own the ring, the watch and the lab results, and still do not know what to do on Monday morning. YoLongevity reads that data and turns it into one daily protocol for food, training, sleep and supplements, delivered by AI coaches and overseen by doctors.

• ▸Co-founded with a cardiologist, with a medical team reviewing what the coaches flag
• ▸Works with Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Garmin and any Health Connect device
• ▸Coaching runs over WhatsApp and Telegram, not another app
• ▸Launched in Europe in June 2026, now opening in the Gulf

Pitched in Dubai
15 September 2026

Most guardrails for AI systems learn what past attacks looked like, so a reworded prompt or an attack spread slowly across a long conversation slips through. ImposterHunter detects the persuasion mechanism an attack relies on, which survives rewording, and shows exactly which words carried it.

• ▸Member of the NVIDIA Inception programme
• ▸Screens prompts, agent inputs, MCP tool responses and voice transcripts
• ▸Runs on AWS Bedrock, pinned to a US or EU region, and fails closed
• ▸Incorporated in the Dubai International Financial Centre, with research in Bucharest

Pitched in London
15 September 2026

Small and mid-sized businesses have been told to become AI-native, but they have no engineers to build automations, no way to see what the AI is doing and no clear return on the spend. Flero builds and runs their workflows for them, with a person approving each step and every action logged.

• ▸Published case studies with Uncommon and Gooey Digital
• ▸Every plan comes with hours from a dedicated AI engineer
• ▸Customer data stays in its own instance and is never used for training

Pitched in Dubai
15 September 2026

Charging sites and battery systems are usually assembled from other people's chargers, controllers and software, so every fault or change waits on several suppliers. Tobor designs and builds its own chargers, control electronics and charging software in Gurugram, so it can adapt, diagnose and extend a site without that chain of hand-offs.

• ▸Chargers from 3.3 kW home units to 60 kW DC fast chargers, made in-house
• ▸50 active chargers across residential, commercial and public sites, per its own site
• ▸Its own charging app on the App Store and Google Play, plus station and fleet management software
• ▸In-house controllers and PLC communication modules, from PCB design to casing

Pitched in London
15 September 2026

Players want to wear things they made, and game creators want to sell them, but every platform has its own templates, export rules and publishing steps, and traditional 3D tools are built for professionals. Alive Games is a browser studio where anyone can design, preview and publish cosmetics for Roblox, FiveM and CS2, with AI doing the fiddly parts.

• ▸More than 180,000 registered users and 100,000 creations, per its own site
• ▸A native Roblox experience with about 300,000 plays a month, per its own site
• ▸One studio covering Roblox, FiveM and CS2
• ▸AI tools that turn an image or a text prompt into a ready-to-publish template

Pitched in Melbourne
11 September 2026

Governments make enormous decisions using public opinion that is fragmented, infrequent and filtered through whoever shows up. Pulse Check lets Australians vote on individual policy ideas continuously, and turns that into electorate-level opinion data for the people making the decisions.

• ▸2,400 users and 16,000 votes cast
• ▸Used at a political fundraising event in Canberra
• ▸Results structured by electorate, so a representative can see their own constituents

Pitched in Dallas
10 September 2026

Enterprises are deploying thousands of AI agents that take real business actions, and the controls around them were designed for software that behaves predictably. AgentTrust OS certifies an agent before it ships, governs each action as it runs, and leaves tamper-evident evidence afterwards.

• ▸Three products covering certification, runtime governance and audit evidence
• ▸Edge-first architecture, so no customer data leaves their network
• ▸Continuous runtime monitoring rather than a one-time review

Pitched in Miami
9 September 2026

AI can now write an essay in seconds, and a detector that returns a bare percentage leaves a teacher accusing a student on a guess. Integrito, from the team behind PlagiarismCheck.org, checks writing for AI generation and plagiarism and shows how a document was actually written, so the decision rests on evidence.

• ▸Activity Report replays how a Google Doc was written, session by session
• ▸Works inside Canvas, Brightspace, Moodle, Blackboard and Google Classroom
• ▸Used in more than 70 countries through PlagiarismCheck.org

Pitched 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 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 Boston
9 September 2026

Cancer prevention advice is mostly generic, because nobody can tell you which carcinogens you personally have been exposed to. Survalence's CaSe assay identifies the chemicals bound to a person's DNA and how much of each, which points back at the source, whether that is diet, workplace, or the water supply.

• ▸Built on DNA adductomics, the founder's own research field
• ▸Team drawn from Northeastern chemistry and cancer-prevention research, including a Dana-Farber specialist
• ▸Aimed at primary prevention: identify the exposure, then remove it

Pitched in Boston
9 September 2026

Social platforms were meant to bring people together and instead optimised for time spent looking at them. SocialIRL shows what people near you are doing right now, coffee at ten, a run in forty-five minutes, and lets you join. No algorithm, no follower counts, and phone verification on every account.

• ▸Live on the App Store
• ▸Every user phone-verified, with trust scores and built-in safety reporting
• ▸Exact location shared only an hour before, not on the public listing

Pitched in Miami
9 September 2026

Text flattens tone and video demands a face, so a lot of people say less than they mean online or say nothing at all. Voice It is built on spoken posts and spoken replies, with expressive avatars instead of cameras, so tone survives without anyone having to be camera-ready.

• ▸Full-stack web application deployed, with in-browser recording, transcription and live audio channels built
• ▸Avatar rendering and voice tagging shipped rather than planned
• ▸Running on containerised cloud infrastructure with edge caching from the start

Pitched in Los Angeles
9 September 2026

Behind every concert, corporate event and touring show is a crew booked, scheduled and paid through spreadsheets, group texts and payment apps. Soundcheck Live gives agencies, production companies and venues one system for staffing gigs, running logistics and paying crew and talent.

• ▸Selected for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200, 2026
• ▸Booking, call sheets, crew comms and payouts in one platform
• ▸Founder a confirmed speaker at Pollstar Live! 2026

Pitched in Amsterdam
8 September 2026

Building a system of AI agents that work together means writing orchestration code: invisible, fragile and reachable only by programmers, while the people who know how the work should flow think in roles and reporting lines. Agentwerk lets you draw the organisation, and the drawing is what deploys.

• ▸Canvas designer where departments, roles and typed connections are the deployable artifact
• ▸Runs agents through Claude CLI, Codex CLI or OpenRouter rather than locking to one provider
• ▸Every run persisted and streamed, so the org can be observed and governed as it works

Pitched in Amsterdam
8 September 2026

At a wedding or a conference a hundred phones take pictures, and the next morning the host has only the twenty they took themselves. Dumpbox is one box per event and one link to share: everyone who was there drops in their photos at full quality, with no app to install and no account to create.

• ▸Live in production in four languages, with an Android build in testing
• ▸Guests contribute by scanning a QR code, with no sign-up at all
• ▸Sold through venues, agencies and organisers, where one partner brings many events a year

Pitched in Amsterdam
8 September 2026

A therapist's day is split between patients and paperwork, and the paperwork wins often enough that new patients wait longer for a first appointment. xCroPsych automates the repetitive part: session notes, clinical reports, assessments and the scheduling around them.

• ▸In clinical use with practices in India and the UAE, including Mind Weaver and MindHeal Clinic
• ▸Covers assessments, AI-generated clinical reports, teleconsultation and a secure patient portal in one platform
• ▸Built by a founder with a doctorate, working directly inside real clinical workflows

Pitched in Amsterdam
8 September 2026

Lean teams move fast and spend a lot of that speed in the wrong direction, because nobody has time to work out which product and marketing bets are worth making. AI Navi is a growth system that keeps that question under continuous review rather than revisiting it once a quarter.

• ▸Working with small and mid-sized digital businesses across a global team
• ▸Founding team previously built an FCA-regulated fintech platform from zero and led data and AI globally for a multinational consumer goods business
• ▸One of the founders wrote Build the Right Thing, which is the thesis the product runs on

Pitched 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
3 September 2026

Trading through an intermediary means someone can see your order before it settles and take a slice of it. Gravity is building a decentralised exchange on Cardano with deterministic swaps and protection against that reordering, so the price a trader is shown is the price they get.

• ▸More than 5,000 users on the whitelist before launch
• ▸Live on testnet, with unique wallets trying it in the first month without any incentive to do so
• ▸Built for retail and institutional traders alongside existing DeFi users

Pitched in Palo Alto
3 September 2026

Assistants can tell you how to do something on your phone but cannot do it, because they sit in an app rather than in the operating system. ConscioussAI integrates at that level and operates the phone and computer the way their owner would, choosing between the underlying models per task.

• ▸Downloadable product in beta with a waitlist in the high hundreds
• ▸Works at the operating-system level rather than inside a single app
• ▸Routes between the leading models rather than being tied to one provider

Pitched in Palo Alto
3 September 2026

Millions of older people spend most of the day alone, and the phones and tablets meant to keep them connected were designed for somebody else. SteffiCare makes a small round screen that sits in the room and holds a conversation: it remembers habits and interests, asks follow-up questions, carries reminders, and answers a video call with one press. Care staff set reminders, events and meal plans from a dashboard, and families follow along in their own app.

• ▸Supported by the Berliner Startup Stipendium, the Berlin universities' startup programme
• ▸Lists Fraunhofer HHI, TUM Venture Labs and robo.innovate among its supporters
• ▸Runs a pilot programme that care facilities apply to join
• ▸Interviewed on AI companions in care by Bayern Innovativ's healthcare magazine

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Trans people have been left to use platforms designed for someone else, where harassment and fetishisation arrive with every swipe and safety features are an afterthought. Afterly matches intentionally, so the people you see are people who are genuinely interested in you.

• ▸More than 2,400 users since launching in March, on no paid marketing
• ▸Live on the App Store, with most of the user base in New York
• ▸Built by and for the community it serves

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Manufacturers negotiate against supplier quotes without knowing what a part ought to cost to make. Building that number from the ground up is how enterprises find margin, and the tools that do it today are slow and inaccurate. Apex Current does the costing agentically, then watches the commodity, tariff and quality signals that move the number after the quote lands.

• ▸Built on more than a decade of cost analysis for Fortune 500 manufacturers, including Google and Whirlpool
• ▸Ongoing service engagements with large manufacturers, convertible to platform licences
• ▸Built for the enterprise checklist from day one: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness, GDPR, audit trails

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Standard endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm needs large devices delivered through both groins, which rules out many patients with small or diseased vessels. AxSES is an ultra-low-profile stent graft delivered from one puncture in the shoulder area, in the direction of natural blood flow.

• ▸Granted claim in Japan covering single arterial puncture above the diaphragm for aneurysm repair, with further patent families and international filings
• ▸Scientific advisory board of vascular chiefs from Columbia-Presbyterian, Emory, OHSU, MedStar and Yale-New Haven
• ▸Mature prototypes with bench, durability and animal data completed
• ▸In an anonymous survey of 73 practising vascular surgeons, 86% identified a high unmet need in this patient group

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

The most expensive calls a small law firm takes are the ones that never become cases. Paralegals are good people, so they listen, and the day goes. Clara runs the intake call by voice, screens out the venting and the free-advice hunting, and hands back only the leads worth chasing.

• ▸AI voice intake live for small firms, set up in minutes rather than as an implementation project
• ▸Configured per practice area rather than as one generic script
• ▸A demo line anyone can call before buying

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Wellness hands people protocols and expects them to run the experiment alone, which is why adherence collapses and nobody learns anything. Intero collects reported outcomes and biometrics over time, generates candidate explanations, then systematically tests each one until a hypothesis survives.

• ▸Voice-first intake supporting more than thirty languages
• ▸Combines patient-reported outcomes, lab results and wearable data on one timeline
• ▸First business customer live

Pitched in Tel Aviv
2 September 2026

Someone who wants into a skilled trade faces fragmented training, inconsistent apprenticeships and state rules that differ everywhere, and then a second gap between learning the skill and earning the first pound from it. NALA teaches locksmithing online and packages the business setup that follows.

• ▸US training platform and curriculum built and preparing for launch, onboarding its first cohort
• ▸Model already proven by the founders' established, profitable Israeli locksmith-training business, which owns the majority of the US company
• ▸Sells the business setup alongside the certification, not just the course

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Most people with a spare home will never list it publicly, because the regulation, the platform rules and the idea of a stranger in their bedroom rule it out. Stay is invite-only home sharing: private listings, access by code, a host you know and a guest you know.

• ▸Invitation-only by design, with private listings and access codes rather than public search
• ▸Live product with hosts taking bookings
• ▸Built for existing short-let hosts and for homeowners who would never list publicly

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Dating apps put months between a match and a meeting, which is where the fake profiles and the fatigue live. VenueVibe only shows people checked into the same bar, lounge or event as you, so the introduction and the meeting are the same moment.

• ▸Working product with venue check-in as the matching primitive
• ▸Growth built through venue, organiser and promoter partnerships rather than paid installs
• ▸A published safety, reporting and child-protection policy set, unusual for an app this early

Pitched in New York
2 September 2026

Materials science produces alloys that are lighter, stronger or cheaper to work with, and manufacturers rarely hear about them, because the people who develop a metal are not the people who sell into a production line. Vittori partners with materials companies to take new alloys and the printing systems that use them to manufacturers.

• ▸Partnerships with materials science companies to commercialise new alloys
• ▸Sells the alloys alongside the additive manufacturing systems that use them
• ▸Operating across the United States and Italy

Pitched in Toronto
27 August 2026

Wanting AI built around your own data is easy. Getting it means choosing models, preparing knowledge, building infrastructure, connecting systems and finding engineers who can do all of it, which is why owning intelligence has stayed a large-company privilege. Crowther packages that whole path so an organisation can specialise, deploy and operate its own models without assembling the team first.

• ▸Live enterprise deployments including a government technology project reaching more than 200,000 users
• ▸A training partner running its curriculum with roughly 1,500 students
• ▸Launched February 2026 and already running multi-year transformation work

Pitched in Toronto
27 August 2026

Large manufacturers have systems that flag a supply disruption early. Smaller ones find out when production stops. Chainsilience turns global disruption signals into scored, explainable risks on a live model of a company's own supply chain, then ranks the actions that protect service and revenue.

• ▸Risk scoring built on NVIDIA Nemotron, with an explainable breakdown of what drove each score
• ▸Draws on more than sixteen global intelligence sources, monitored continuously
• ▸Runs thousands of simulations per risk to rank mitigations rather than just raise an alert

Pitched in Toronto
27 August 2026

Families needing home health support hunt through agencies and word of mouth to find someone they can trust, while independent support workers hunt just as hard for reliable hours. MYHSW is the two-sided marketplace in between: verified workers, direct booking, in Ontario first.

• ▸Hundreds of workers and clients being verified and onboarded onto the platform
• ▸Every support worker verified before they can be booked
• ▸Focused on Ontario first rather than launching nationally at once

Pitched in Toronto
27 August 2026

Social platforms reward edited photographs and video, so posting became performing and connection got worse. Moodsync is built on songs instead, which say a lot and cost nothing to share, and it works whichever streaming service you are on.

• ▸Closed prototype in testing with an invite-only waitlist
• ▸Works across streaming services rather than locking to one
• ▸Privacy-focused by design, with no follower counts to perform for

Pitched in San Francisco
26 August 2026

Fans expect daily contact from the artists they follow, and studios cannot give it: they release, go quiet for months, and attention decays before the next drop. Secret Mountain is six photoreal virtual artists with original music who hold real-time conversations with fans every day, built with A. R. Rahman as a co-founding partner.

• ▸Co-founded with A. R. Rahman, winner of two Oscars, two Grammys, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe
• ▸Announced partnership with Google Cloud
• ▸Original music and content released under the Secret Mountain name since 2024

Fraud systems look at the transaction, by which point the victim has already been persuaded. Behavioral AI Lab reads the conversation instead, detecting the psychological pressure a scam applies over days or weeks, so the warning arrives while it can still change the outcome.

• ▸Selected for the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance Partnerships Hub
• ▸Building manipulation detection with Shisa.AI, with BEworks supporting the behavioural side
• ▸Research base of more than 175 documented scam cases and 15,000 real scammer messages
• ▸Working English and Japanese product, ready for enterprise pilots

Pitched 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 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 Zurich
25 August 2026

Companies lose their sense of themselves gradually: knowledge scatters, client context goes stale, decisions get separated from the reasons behind them and commitments are remembered differently by different people. Haoman connects those threads and surfaces the gaps and tensions worth looking at.

• ▸In private beta with early users
• ▸Connects knowledge, commitments and relationships rather than adding another place to file things
• ▸Surfaces the contradictions between them instead of producing another dashboard

Pitched in Sydney
21 August 2026

A new migrant to Australia has two options and both are bad: pay an agent thousands for advice that stops at the visa, or ask a Facebook group and get answers that are confidently wrong. Immibook is a marketplace for the part nobody covers, connecting people who have just arrived with mentors who made the same move.

• ▸More than 17,000 app downloads and 17 million organic views, with no paid acquisition
• ▸20 mentors live on the platform, with bookings running
• ▸Built by a founder who went through the process, and its failures, personally

Pitched in Sydney
21 August 2026

Almost every large company runs a mentoring programme and almost no small business does, because the platforms are priced and built for thousands of employees. Leverage gives every person on a team of up to 25 a mentor, theirs or one it provides, and structures the journey so conversations turn into progress.

• ▸Live product with its first transactions processed
• ▸Every person on a team gets a mentor, rather than mentoring being a perk for a chosen few
• ▸Structures the whole journey rather than only making the introduction

Pitched 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 New York
19 August 2026

A one-person business loses hours a week to the back and forth of arranging appointments, and the tools that fix it are priced for teams. Noelle is a free booking link and assistant that syncs a calendar, takes the appointments and does the follow-up.

• ▸Live on the web and on Google Play, with an iPhone app in preparation
• ▸Free scheduling with a shareable booking page, set up in four steps
• ▸Working with early users running their own businesses

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

Pitched in Dubai
18 August 2026

Most people facing a family legal problem in India cannot afford the advice that would resolve it, and the free information available is scattered, outdated or wrong. HaqSe is a free platform that puts the guidance and the support pathway in one place.

• ▸Platform launched and free to use
• ▸Focused on family rights, where the need is highest and paid advice least accessible
• ▸Built for India, in the languages of the people it serves

Pitched in Amsterdam
18 August 2026

After a breakup people spend nights re-reading the same messages, and the help available is either a therapist they will not book or a feed of strangers' advice. Soul Union Journey is a guide on WhatsApp, where the conversation is already happening, offering paid journeys that turn panic into a next step.

• ▸Live product with paying customers in India
• ▸Whole funnel owned in-house: acquisition, the WhatsApp conversation, checkout and fulfilment
• ▸Thousands of real relationship conversations handled

Pitched in Dubai
18 August 2026

Every regulated service re-runs the same identity check from scratch, so a person hands over their documents again and again and each copy becomes someone else's breach risk. Passtru is building a compliance-grade identity layer the user owns, for people and increasingly for the AI agents acting on their behalf.

• ▸Compliance-grade design rather than a convenience login
• ▸Covers AI agents as well as people, ahead of agents transacting on someone's behalf
• ▸Pilot agreed with a regulated online platform

Pitched in Dubai
18 August 2026

Rotating savings circles move enormous sums informally, on trust between members and with no institution in sight. Stashr is the infrastructure a bank needs to offer them properly, so founders, small businesses and communities get the same mechanism with structure behind it.

• ▸Non-custodial architecture, so the bank retains the customer relationship and the funds
• ▸Built as infrastructure for bank partners rather than as a consumer app
• ▸Aimed at founders and small businesses, where formal credit is hardest to get

Pitched in Amsterdam
18 August 2026

Swiping turned dating into a feed, and a feed is designed to be consumed rather than exited. Two Chairs runs on a weekly cycle instead: you watch a handful of real people from Monday, choose on Thursday, and meet the one who chose you back that evening.

• ▸Built and ready, opening city by city rather than everywhere at once
• ▸One guaranteed match per person per week, with no swiping at all
• ▸Short video of real people rather than a static profile grid

Pitched in Dubai
18 August 2026

A small business answers the same question on WhatsApp, Instagram, email and its website, from four different inboxes, and the customer gets four different standards of answer. Replyable is one intelligent assistant behind all of them.

• ▸Product built and in early use
• ▸Omnichannel by design rather than a website widget with integrations bolted on
• ▸Aimed at small businesses without a support team

Pitched in Melbourne
14 August 2026

Most automation tools ask for a diagram and most AI tools run somewhere you do not control. urauto takes plain language, plans and writes the code, and provisions dedicated cloud infrastructure to run it on, billed only while it is running.

• ▸Delivered projects for four small and medium businesses
• ▸Agents run on dedicated servers in the customer's chosen region rather than shared infrastructure
• ▸Provisions from small machines to multi-GPU, on demand or on a schedule

Pitched in Melbourne
14 August 2026

Email and chat were designed for people writing to people, and are now carrying a rising volume of machine-generated traffic they were never shaped for. fmsg.io is a messaging layer built for that world from the start.

• ▸Working product with early users
• ▸Designed for agent and machine senders rather than retrofitted for them
• ▸Built as open internet messaging rather than another closed inbox

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 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 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 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 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 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 Miami
12 August 2026

An event puts a hundred relevant people in one place and leaves everyone to find each other by luck. Mixer uses the AI a guest already uses, with their permission, to work out who they should meet and why, then tells the organiser whether the room actually connected.

• ▸Live on the App Store and Google Play
• ▸Guests join by scanning a QR code, with context from ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini rather than a new profile to fill in
• ▸Organisers get analytics on whether introductions happened, not just attendance

Pitched in Los Angeles
12 August 2026

A backend and the specification describing it drift apart from the first week, because the spec is documentation and the code is the truth. ARC inverts that: the validated OpenAPI spec is the source, and the AWS backend is generated from it.

• ▸Published pilot case study: five services and 663 AWS resources generated from one validated spec
• ▸85% of the pilot system generated on day one
• ▸Working with an agency customer, with further case studies in preparation

Professional services firms set goals quarterly and then discover in month three that nobody moved. Zata sits on the KPIs a team already has and turns them into recommendations and prompts, so the target is something that gets worked on rather than reviewed.

• ▸More than 700 users on the platform
• ▸Built for professional services teams rather than as a generic dashboard
• ▸Produces recommendations and next actions, not just reporting

Pitched in Boston
12 August 2026

Online clothes shopping runs on ordering two sizes and returning one, which is expensive for the retailer and worst for anyone whose body sits outside the standard grid. Xoori predicts fit from a product link, so the size is decided before the parcel ships.

• ▸Live beta with users running real fit predictions
• ▸Works from any product link rather than requiring a partner integration
• ▸Built for shoppers poorly served by standard sizing

Pitched in Los Angeles
12 August 2026

Performance parts carry a large markup between the manufacturer and the enthusiast fitting them, and the buyer has no way to see it. Aetheris runs a membership model instead, where members get pricing closer to the real cost of the part.

• ▸Live store shipping orders to customers internationally
• ▸Membership pricing rather than a markup nobody can see
• ▸Run by enthusiasts buying the same parts they sell

Pitched in Boston
12 August 2026

Astrology apps hand out predictions and stop there, which is entertainment rather than help. Lumora uses the chart as a way of naming the structural challenge someone is actually living through, then connects them to insights, people and workshops that fit it.

• ▸Running pilots with members
• ▸Pairs one-to-one readings with workshops and a member collective rather than a horoscope feed
• ▸Positioned explicitly as a lens on a person's situation rather than a prediction of it

Pitched in Boston
12 August 2026

Social platforms are archives: everything posted is about something that already happened. WAVR is built for the live moment instead, showing what is going on around a person now and letting them join it.

• ▸Letter of intent with AroundU AI covering spatial intelligence and augmented reality features
• ▸Built around real-time moments rather than a permanent feed
• ▸Focused on the physical places people are already in

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

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

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 Toronto
6 August 2026

Sending a very large file between two computers usually means uploading it to someone else's server and downloading it again, which is slow, costly and a privacy decision nobody consciously made. RocketBox is an edge appliance that connects existing USB systems directly to move data locally instead.

• ▸Patented approach to connecting existing USB-enabled systems
• ▸RocketBox hardware built and heading to market
• ▸Works with the billions of devices already in use rather than requiring new ones

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

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 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

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

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 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 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 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 San Francisco
5 August 2026

Most oncology programmes are built around a single tumour type, which means a drug that works has to be rediscovered for the next disease. Accanito is developing a therapy with a mechanism of action it believes applies across multiple cancers, and is taking it forward with pharmaceutical partners rather than alone.

• ▸Lead programme GAM-05, with a combination therapy alongside it
• ▸Letters of intent in place with prospective partners
• ▸Built to licence to pharmaceutical partners rather than to commercialise alone

Pitched in San Francisco
5 August 2026

Insurance brokerages run on quoting, chasing and renewal admin that has barely changed in decades, and buying software has not fixed it because the workflow is the business. Klaris is a brokerage built the other way round, with the automation at the centre and the brokerage wrapped around it.

• ▸Operating as a licensed brokerage with paying clients rather than selling software to brokers
• ▸Automation applied to quoting, renewals and the follow-up in between
• ▸Revenue growing on a small team

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

Pitched in Tel Aviv
4 August 2026

Finding a flat or a flatmate in Israel means scrolling group chats and filtering listings that were gone yesterday. HomeSprint replaces the filters with matching, pairing tenants, roommates and landlords on the things that actually decide whether it works: budget, neighbourhood, lifestyle and dealbreakers.

• ▸Grown out of WhatsApp communities with more than 3,000 members
• ▸Verified listings, in Hebrew and English
• ▸Matches roommates and landlords as well as apartments

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 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 Toronto
3 June 2026

Everything a CIO needs to judge delivery risk exists, and none of it is in one place: requirements, code, tests, pipelines, security and incidents each live in their own tool. Digy4's platform, RITA, connects them, explains where the risk is, and recommends the next action with the evidence attached.

• ▸Multi-year contracts with large enterprises in financial services and telecommunications
• ▸SOC 2 Type II, with more than 50 enterprise engineering integrations
• ▸Operating across Canada, the United Kingdom and India