Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice
Finalists
Bloomfield Robotics
Pittsburgh, PA
Specialty crop growers across the US use Bloomfield’s Flash cameras and deep learning to inspect any type of crop. The result is very early and precise yield prediction, well-timed harvests and early detection of and protection from infestation and disease. In a sense, every single plant is monitored from seed through harvest, creating an unprecedented level of transparency in the life of every grower’s plants.
Cradlewise
San Francisco, CA
Cradlewise is a smart crib that spots the first signs of wakeup, learns from the baby’s sleep patterns and starts rocking automatically along with soothing music to soothe the baby back to sleep.
Our Kettle
Berkley, CA
The first reinsurer in the world using deep learning to protect people against climate change.
Parrots
Seattle, WA
Parrots Inc. has built “Polly” which is an inclusive platform using AI and ML to give a smart voice and telecare to people with neurological disorders. Our solutions empower them with real-time communication, control their environments, and provide telecare services to improve patient-centered care and maximize independence.
Wisear
Paris, France
Wisear enables people to finally get seamless, voiceless & touchless control of their devices, by licensing our neuronal biosensing solution to device makers.
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Genus AI
San Francisco, CA
Genus AI is an artificial intelligence company focused on scaling emotional intelligence in interactions between brands and customers to drive business growth. The Genus AI Growth Platform includes all AI-powered digital tools needed for better customer understanding and engagement, which lead to next generation efficiencies for business growth.
Epic Blue
Brussels, Belgium
Epic Blue is a leading technology company providing high-performance and highly accurate location intelligence for business critical operations. We are re-inventing how people can be located in the most demanding environments, even when GPS or other infrastructures are not available.
Enterprise and Smart Data
Finalists
Matidor
Vancouver, Canada
Matidor offers the best way to visualize and collaborate on location-based projects by putting all key project information into one secure, centralized database, eliminating the need to switch between multiple fragmented tools. With its user-friendly GIS tools and easy integration with 3rd party data sources, Matidor makes it easy for non-technical users to update and share geospatial information.
Persefoni
Tempe, AZ
Persefoni is a ClimateTech startup that enables enterprises and institutional investors to calculate and report their carbon footprints through its SaaS platform. Launched in 2020, the company is based in Tempe, Arizona but operates across the globe. Our mission is to enable every organization and person with the technology to positively impact the health of planet Earth.
RudderStack
San Francisco, CA
RudderStack is the smart customer data pipeline. Easily build pipelines connecting your whole customer data stack, then make them smarter by pulling analysis from your data warehouse to trigger enrichment and activation in customer tools for identity stitching and advanced use cases like lead scoring and in-app personalization.
Slate Digital
New York, NY
Slate is both a content creation and digital asset management platform that gives enterprises the ability to control their brand output on social media and produce social content in seconds. Slate gained traction among top sports brands in 2020 for allowing them to streamline their social media content creation, empower influencers, and monetize their ephemeral content.
Vocalytics
Costa Mesa, CA
Vocalytics is a machine-listening platform that listens to ambient sound, analyzes events & trends, and sends real-time alerts when you need them most. We turn dumb noise into intelligent sound to improve health, safety, security, and experience with ambient intelligence solutions across healthcare, smart buildings, defense, and other sectors.
Alternates
Dearduck
Austin, TX
Dearduck help retailers talk to each customer like they are best friends.
Patturn
Fort Worth, TX
Patturn helps resellers monetize and crosspost their old, used, and vintage products across multiple marketplaces. In addition, it contains features that support ReCommerce. Whether it’s managing online/offline inventory, shipping and fulfilling orders, or tracking costs on a per item level, Patturn is a built as an end-to-end software solution for resellers.
Entertainment, Gaming & Content
Finalists
Anything World
London, England
Anything World is a platform for creating endless 3D worlds. In realtime, using your voice if you wish, with AI behaviours applied!
DanceFight App
Austin, TX
DanceFight is a social head-to-head video competition platform that allows users to challenge each other to virtual “dance offs.” Within the context of a challenge, users record their dance, challenge friends or the world and the crowd then votes on their favorites. This generates leaderboards and a gamified environment that’s engaging for creators and audience alike.
holoride
Munich, Germany
holoride takes everyday journeys and transforms them into hyper-immersive experiences by combining navigational and car data with XR. The technology has the power to change backseat entertainment forever, can help reduce motion sickness, and opens up a new layer of immersion in games and educational content.
Teleportal
Los Angeles, CA
Teleportal is a spatial computing company building technologies that empower people to develop and experience multi-user spatial software. With Vortex, Teleportal’s virtual production toolkit for mobile, the next generation of creators can collaborate on VFX and 3D animation videos in real-time.
Virsix Games
Austin, TX
Virsix Games is an award-winning, interactive gaming and entertainment company co-founded by Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari) and Zai Ortiz (Hollywood Creative Director behind J.A.R.V.I.S. in Iron Man). At Virsix Games we are creating next-gen play, gaming and entertainment, enhanced by cutting-edge technologies that get people playing together like never before.
Alternates
Colorcast
Austin, TX
Colorcast is changing live sports and events forever by supporting the creation and consumption of user-generated, synchronized, over-the-top audio content. We’re basically “Twitch for TV” or “Clubhouse with Context.”
Andromeda Entertainment
Austin, TX
The first game publisher to super-serve the growing interest in wellness with transformative interactive experiences.
Future of Work
Finalists
Clair
New York, NY
Clair is a social impact fintech that helps America’s workers get paid as soon as they clock out of work. We do this by embedding our financial services and instant payment products within the payroll, workforce management, and freelancing apps that these workers already use every day.
Honest Jobs
Columbus, OH
The Honest Jobs marketplace helps people impacted by the criminal justice system find employment fast. Our proprietary technology analyzes job descriptions and considers the most important data points to make “smart matches” that are unique for each job seeker.
OthersideAI
Melville, NY
OthersideAI takes in a simple summary of what you want to say and generates a perfect email in your unique style, using the world’s most powerful AI technology.
TalkMeUp
Pittsburgh, PA
TalkMeUp is an AI based software company focused on communication training. We integrate industry leading training methodologies and cutting edge AI technologies, and provide individuals and organizations with on-demand, analytical, and customizable communication training solutions, reducing training costs by over 90%.
v.one
Los Angeles, CA
v.one is the easiest place to build and monetize a native mobile app by bringing in designs right from canva.
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Hardly Dash
Dallas, TX
Hardly is here to help you work smarter—not harder. Our first product, Hardly Dash, improves your workflow by simplifying actions and keeping important information front and center. By using our wrist-activated shortcut buttons, you can navigate apps while your hands stay on the keyboard—saving you both time and headaches!
Lendtable
San Francisco, CA
Lendtable helps people build generational wealth, by giving them all of the money upfront to max out their 401k match, ESPP and employee benefits
Health, Wearables & Wellbeing
Finalists
AlphaBeats
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
AlphaBeats is an application that uses an ingenious algorithm to help the user relax with music. The AlphaBeats app turns your smartphone or wearable into a biosensor that registers your HRV or even brainwaves. Then our algorithm uses this biofeedback to tweak the quality of whatever music you like listening to. This stimulates your brain to slide into the relaxing alpha-mode faster.
Leda Health Company
New York, NY
At Leda Health, our mission is to support sexual assault survivors at all stages following a sexual assault. We work toward sexual assault prevention, care, and justice in an effort to better serve survivors and the communities in which they live.
Nourished
Birmingham, UK
Nourished is the world’s first personalised nutrition product. We’ve developed a patented 3D printing technology which allows us to combine 7 different, high impact active ingredients into customised nutrition gummy stacks. Our passionate & dedicated team are devoted to making truly tailor-made nutrition which is also 100% vegan, sugar free & packed in 100% plastic free packaging.
PillBot
Redwood, CA
Endiatx makes tiny pill robots that actively swim inside the stomach. We use a quad-pumpjet propulsion system to swim the way quadcopters fly. Skip an invasive and expensive hospital visit, and let your doctor give you a world-class active diagnostic in the comfort of your own home.
Sisu Global
Baltimore, MD
Sisu Global designs medical devices made for low-resource settings, from emerging markets to combat zones. Sisu is proving its model with Hemafuse: a handheld autotransfusion device addressing the global blood shortage. Hemafuse is currently sold in Africa: the first step of an expansion strategy focused on emerging markets and the military.
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Sonic Incytes Medical
Vancouver, CA
Sonic Incytes believes in creating accessible and affordable solutions for healthcare providers with health insights they can count on. Our lead product, Velacur, is redefining the standard of care in quantifying chronic liver disease with diagnostic accuracy comparable to MRI.
Oxiwear
Arlington, VA
OxiWear is committed to reducing patient vulnerability to hypoxic injury through wearable, continuous oxygen monitoring, to help increase safety and peace of mind for those prone to silent-hypoxia, to help reduce healthcare costs and save lives.
Innovative World
Finalists
ConstellR
Freiburg, Germany
We provide precise, global temperature data for a growing planet. As a spin-out of Europe’s largest organization for applied science, we employ space technology to enable a sustainable agriculture on the planetary scale.
Dimer
Los Angeles, CA
We are Dimer. Our mission is to prevent infections by making hospital grade UV disinfection available in all work environments. Our unique patented designs consistently deliver faster and more comprehensive disinfection than our competition at a fraction of the cost.
Future Fields
Edmonton, Canada
Future Fields makes the most important ingredient for lab grown meat – cell growth media. We harness the power of nature to produce recombinant proteins 1000 times cheaper than anyone else through our novel, bioreactor-free technology.
Lofty AI
Los Angeles, CA
We help real estate investors instantly find the best A.I. vetted, off-market properties across the U.S.
MolyWorks
Los Gatos, CA
MOLYWORKS Materials Corporation, a California-based, developer of the circular economy for metal was founded in a shipping container on our home driveway. The MolyWorks’ Greyhound has expertise in over 21 metals for AM and has been contracted for land, air, sea, and space applications.
Alternates
AgUnity
Queensland, Australia
AgUnity Response creates resilient food supply chains in the face of COVID-19 with our technology platform that enables farmers to safely connect with buyers and ensure uninterrupted food supply chains worldwide.
Exosonic
Los Angeles, CA
Exosonic is developing the world’s first quiet supersonic passenger airliner to fly supersonic everywhere — overland and overwater with a muted boom. The company already has interest from a major international carrier and the USAF to produce both commercial and executive transport versions of the airliner.
Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics
Finalists
ClearFlame Engine
Geneva, ILL
ClearFlame Engine Technologies provides the fastest pathway to scalable and equitable emissions reductions for heavy duty engines. Our patented technology meets all emissions regulations using decarbonized liquid fuels, leveraging existing global infrastructure. We offer lower costs than using petroleum fuels enabling rapid adoption in developing nations and frontline communities.
Lucky
New York, NY
Lucky enables eCommerce brands to utilize retailers and specialty stores as distribution networks.
MicroTraffic
Winnipeg, Canada
MicroTraffic measures near-misses at intersections with AI-powered computer vision. We help cities to plan and monitor the effectiveness of intersection safety improvements by combining our diagnostic technology with their existing overhead cameras.
TransPod
Toronto, Canada
TransPod is developing the next generation of affordable and sustainable ultra-high-speed transportation for a better connected and fossil fuel-free society.
VideowindoW
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
VideowindoW is a startup based in the Delft University in The Netherlands. Our 8 people strong team aims to disrupt conventional glare control by developing a transparent, interactive video screen in glass façades. Offered as a service, VideowindoW reduces the carbon footprint, adds experience and yields an immediate return by showing commercial content.
Alternates
Airflow.Aero
Orinda, CA
Airflow is building the first electric Short Take-Off and Landing (eSTOL) aircraft designed for sustainable same-day e-commerce. Airflow’s eSTOL aircraft can move cargo quickly and cost-effectively by flying over traffic.
Dastgyr Technologies
Singapore, Singapore
30% of the entire GDP of Pakistan is spread across 2 million small retailers. However, the industry is highly fragmented causing retailers to face procurement challenges as they are charged high prices, face in-convenience, and can’t get a loan.
Social and Culture
Finalists
Applied BioPlastics
Austin, TX
Applied Bioplastics enables manufacturers to materially and affordably reduce their CO2 footprint. We have brought together the IP, the team, market-ready products, and interested buyers to substitute carbon-negative plant material for petrochemical feedstock without sacrificing quality or margin.
Collective Liberty
Washington, DC
Collective Liberty gets actionable intelligence to law enforcement, equipping them with curated data to arrest & convict human traffickers.
Dayrize
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dayrize is a consumer marketplace that has developed a proprietary scoring tool driven by machine-learning (AI) that will assess and standardise the sustainability credentials of products across all categories. For the first time, consumers will be able to compare and buy products based on their measured environmental impact.
Refiberd
Cupertino, CA
Refiberd is solving the 93 million ton problem of global textile waste. We are developing a novel textile recycling system that uses AI and a patent-pending green chemical recycling process to convert used, discarded textiles into new, reusable thread.
Readocracy
Toronto, Canada
Readocracy gives you credit for all the articles, books, podcasts, videos you consume and contribute. So you can understand your information diet, showcase the best of it to prove yourself on any subject, and unlock exclusive perks. All privacy-first. For a less polarized world where how we inform ourselves counts.
Alternates
Agrona
Cairo, Egypt
Agrona makes wood out of agriresidues without cutting a single tree. We are not only protecting forests but we also save the earth GHG gasses when burning the agriresidues; instead we turn it to composite panels that are strong, durable to be used in many furniture and construction applications
Euphoria.LGBT
Austin, TX
Euphoria builds first-in-the-world technology solutions to restore individual agency to the process of gender transition. We help transgender individuals accomplish life-saving transition goals in a manner that is quicker, safer, and more dignified than ever before. Euphoria aims to augment the phrase “It Gets Better” into “How It Gets Better.”
Mandela SH Dixon is the CEO of Founder Gym, the leading online training program helping underrepresented founders build successful businesses. In less than three years, Founder Gym has trained over 500 founders across 24 countries and six continents, who have gone on to raise over $77 million in startup capital.
Paige Hendrix Buckner is the COO of Founder Gym, the leading online training program helping underrepresented founders build successful businesses. In less than three years, Founder Gym has trained over 500 founders across 24 countries and six continents, who have gone on to raise over $80 million in startup capital.
Andrew Hyde is the founder of Startup Weekend and Glider. Hyde has travelled to 95 countries supporting entrepreneurs.
