Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice
Finalists
beingAI
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
beingAI is the world’s first transmedia AI company creating AI beings that build long-term engagement and trust with digital-native consumers anywhere, anytime, across devices and media platforms. Our mission is to bring empathy and positivity into how we nurture and experience AI, so we can collaborate with AI to help humanity thrive.
CIRQ+
Scottsdale, AZ
CIRQ+ is an AI, automation, and robotics platform for commercial properties helping protect people against pathogens while reducing costs with plug and play technology. In response to COVID-19, CIRQ+, created CBOT, the world’s first IOT autonomous disinfection robot that disinfects without manual labor creating healthier and safer spaces for all.
Hume AI
New York, NY
Hume AI provides the science and technology needed to build AI with empathy. Our platform brings emotional awareness and responsiveness to voice assistants, telehealth, social networks, and other AI systems. Together with our sister non-profit, we are paving the way for AI optimized for well-being.
Mod Tech Labs
Austin, TX
MOD helps creative agencies digitize the real-world with AI-powered capture and 3D software workflows for enhanced retail marketing and monetization. Transforming photos and videos into 3D digital content faster with a no-code automated SaaS platform. Enabling 3D visuals of products, people, and worlds across devices and interactive content needs.
Sylvester.ai
Calgary, Canada
Sylvester.ai creates predictive healthcare products powered by artificial intelligence and validated science to improve animal health outcomes across species. We believe animals can live healthier, longer lives when humans are able to be more proactive in their care.
Alternates
Barometer
Chattanooga, TN
Barometer uses AI to analyze text, from tweets, to news, to podcast transcripts, and outputs consistent ratings to inform decision makers at companies and marketing agencies, managing content at scale.
The Collaboratory
Chicago, IL
The Collaboratory’s first-of-its-kind search engine leverages cutting edge NLP to help life science professionals get the technical documents they need (both public and proprietary) faster than ever. Using our platform, biopharma companies can reduce their R&D costs and accelerate time to market.
Hummingbirds AI
Miami Beach, FL
Hummingbirds AI is an Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision startup. Our goal is providing trustable AI and helping global enterprises to optimize employee performance, security and enhance companies’ efficiency. We’re on a mission to democratize responsible AI for the enterprise. Saving the planet one company at a time.
Enterprise and Smart Data
Finalists
CaseCTRL
Houston, TX
Better surgeries. Happier Patients. CaseCTRL’s patent-pending SaaS surgical management platform streamlines surgical scheduling and coordination workflows enabling collaboration across surgeons, schedulers, administrators, billing, and staff. CaseCTRL reduces surgery cancellations, complications, operational costs, and administrative burden while maximizing surgical case revenue and patient satisfaction. Built by surgeons for surgical practices.
KeyCaliber
Washington, DC
KeyCaliber automatically identifies critical cyber assets using machine learning, empowering cybersecurity and infrastructure programs with the essential business context and self-awareness needed to optimize resources and ensure business resilience
Mozart Data
San Francisco, CA
Mozart Data is an out-of-the-box Modern Data Stack that provides the easiest and quickest way to consolidate, organize, and analyze your data, without engineering or technical knowledge. Go from unstructured, siloed, and messy data to analysis-ready with just a few button clicks, SQL, and only a few hours.
Syrup Tech
New York, NY
Syrup Tech is an end-to-end inventory excellence engine for apparel & fashion. We use sophisticated AI/ML to boost profitability through fewer lost sales, enhance sustainability through reduced excess and overproduction, and significantly improve the workflows for merchandisers and planners. The inventory revolution is here.
ZeBrand
New York, NY
ZeBrand is an AI-driven brand-building platform that helps emerging businesses brand their way to growth by defining a solid brand strategy, designing digital brand guidelines, and delivering brand assets at a fraction of the cost–no skills required.
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NachoNacho
San Francisco, CA
NachoNacho is a fintech-enabled B2B SaaS marketplace. It is a one-stop shop for businesses to manage and buy all SaaS: (1) Consolidate all existing SaaS spend in 1 account. Create a separate virtual credit card for each subscription, with tight limits. (2) Get massive discounts on hundreds of SaaS products.
QualSights
Chicago, IL
Ranked the #1 fastest growing market research platform by Inc. Magazine, QualSights is an immersive insights platform that leverages innovative technology to help companies quickly generate the most authentic insights from consumers anywhere in the world.
Westcott
Los Angeles, CA
Signals-driven automated advertising platform bringing the speed and precision of high-frequency trading to ad-buying for music and streamed media.
Entertainment, Gaming & Content
Finalists
Action Face
Berkeley, CA
Action Face is the first 3D scanning app that instantly transforms users into 3D action figures that they can customize and purchased – at an affordable price as a physical 3D print. They also get a free 3D animation of their figure they can share with friends.
Feelbelt
Berlin, Germany
Feelbelt innovates the experience of multimedia content through haptic feedback. In the perception of content and sound, the fourth dimension – the sense of touch – has long been neglected. The technology of the feelbelt transmits all audible frequencies from 1-20,000hz in form of mechanical impulses directly onto the body.
Nailbot
Carlsbad, CA
Preemadonna is a California based technology startup that powers creative expression with interactive experiences by and for its community of creators. Preemadonna’s first product, Nailbot, prints personalized art on nails in five seconds.
Pianity
Paris, France
Pianity is an NFT music platform where musicians and their community can create, sell, buy and collect limited edition tracks. By restoring the status of art to music, Pianity provides a new source of income for artists, allowing them to be more independent and to live better from their passion.
Social Cipher
Los Angeles, CA
Social Cipher builds social-emotional learning games for youth of all neurotypes and software for the professionals who work with them.
Alternates
Happaning
London, UK
What’s Happaning? Like Google street view, but with video; Happaning lets you navigate events from any perspective, at any time, and from anywhere in one immersive live/on-demand experience. We call our tech multi-Vantage Videos, or simply ViiVid®. The world’s first crowdsourced storytelling platform.
Ristband
Wilmington, DE
Ristband is more than a game. We’re the ultimate destination for live music in the metaverse. Artists perform shows, fans discover new music, play games, and hang out with friends. Any concert happening in real life can also take place in Ristband.
Offbeat Media
Atlanta, GA
Offbeat Media Group is the entertainment company creating media for the digital generation. Offbeat uses a proven track record for up-and-coming trend-setting on social and digital storytelling with innovative properties to create original content. Offbeat engages a global 1B+ follower network through owned media properties across social media.
Extended Reality & Immersive
Finalists
iQ3Connect
Woburn, MA
iQ3Connect’s no-code SaaS platform provides the digital fabric for creating, delivering, and consuming complex 3D immersive applications in the enterprise Metaverse using open standard web browsers. Our mission is to help enterprises become virtual-first, sustainable businesses.
Matsuko
Kosice, Slovakia
Hologram Meetings. Star Wars-like holograms, MATSUKO brings physical presence in remote communication. MATSUKO is a SaaS, like Zoom but in 3D. No avatars, No scanning, No setup. Put on your XR glasses and you see your colleagues next to you in a lifelike way. We target businesses, their remote teams.
Mictic One
Zurich, Switzerland
Mictic AG is a fast-growing startup dedicated to developing innovative user experience in augmented reality. The Zurich based company applies proprietary technology to profoundly change the way people interact with music. Rock, Hip-Hop, EDM, Classical, Jazz: You’ll make REAL music out of thin air without the need of screens or headsets, and while staying in your true environment. Let’s introduce you to the instrument of the 21st Century!
Reality Crisis
Helsinki, Finland
Reality Crisis is an Augmented Reality mobile game development studio. Our mission is to build extraordinary communities where anyone interested in skateboarding from casual fans to icons of the industry can converge in spaces that blur the physical and virtual worlds.
Zaubar
Berlin, Germany
ZAUBAR is taking the metaverse to the streets. We’re a platform for passionate locals to create and make money with immersive urban experiences powered by the best location-based AR tech, our own AI and NFT scavenger hunts. Expert team, 1M+ USD LTM revenue and ready to be AR’s killer app!
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oVRcome
Christchurch, New Zealand
oVRcome makes treatment for anxiety disorders such as phobias and social anxiety easier to access using evidence based virtual reality exposure therapy via a smartphone. 80% of people with an anxiety disorder receive no treatment, and our goal is to reduce barriers to accessing treatment using innovative technology.
Summit Technology Laboratory
Irvine, CA
STL is a deep-tech startup with patented technology that automates the precision projection of light, animating any complex surface (e.g. curved walls, domes, non-static surfaces, objects, medical patients) with digital content (data visualizations, 3D video, medical stencils) allowing for immersive shared human interaction and understanding.
WalkThru
Austin, TX
WalkThru combats the silent epidemic of social isolation in older adults through immersive Virtual Reality. At its core, WalkThru is a mobile VR streaming platform licensed to long-term care facilities enabling community operators to offer unique and engaging solutions for their residents.
Future of Work
Finalists
Anthill
Chicago, IL
Anthill enables companies to connect with, retain, and grow their employees who don’t sit at a desk. We make it easy to include everyone in HR/Operations systems – if employees know how to text, they know how to use Anthill.
I’mbesideyou
Minatoku, Japan
“The whole society becomes a school”. Our multimodal AI analytics visualizes psychological safety and mental health status in online meetings. It brings continuous improvement to online 1on1 education, coaching and dating. We have 119 patents applied globally. All our team members are kind geniuses comprised of Japanese experts and IITians.
Lucy
Singapore, Singapore
Lucy is a digital neobank and integrated empowering community toolkit that helps entrepreneurial women become unstoppable. Lucy has been designed from the ground up to provide the tools they need to take control of their financial future, to realise their potential, to grow and thrive.
Normal
Singapore, Singapore
Normal is making expert consulting drastically more affordable to 350 million+ small businesses around the world. Their AI-powered platform offers automated, personalized business strategies for a low-cost monthly subscription, focusing on sustainable & socially responsible actions that help small businesses become more profitable and future-proof while creating a positive impact.
OnLoop
Singapore, Singapore
OnLoop is designed to reinvent how hybrid teams are assessed and developed; multi-platform across mobile, web and Slack to accommodate all styles of working. It leverages the very latest in natural language AI (OpenAI’s GPT-3) and behavioral science to help teams drive an impactful loop of fluid and dynamic goals, regular reflection, feedback and learning.
Alternates
Pond
Fort Wayne, IN
Pond is a social impact platform that empowers nonprofit organizations to find and fund the solutions they need to ‘level-up’ their impact. By creating an ecosystem where nonprofit leaders, tech solutions, and service providers connect directly, we’re redirecting money from advertising budgets into the pockets of nonprofits
Unpacking
Atlanta, GA
Unpacking is the world’s leading professional network for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We service individuals and teams with gamified certifications, a collaborative community, and on-going content to reduce turnover and shape healthy cultures for the future of work.
Vodium
Nashville, TN
Our mission at VODIUM is to empower professionals to be the most effective communicators on video. With its transparent technology, VODIUM allows you to read your remarks while maintaining eye contact while presenting virtually. VODIUM was founded by a diverse, female team at the start of the pandemic. VODIUM.US
Health, Wearables & Wellbeing
Finalists
Sonavi Labs
Baltimore, MD
Sonavi Labs is on a mission to improve patient outcomes globally by combining the most advanced acoustic technology available with clinically proven diagnostic AI software. Sonavi Labs created Feelix, a telehealth system that features apps and patented hardware embedded with diagnostic software capable of diagnosing and remotely managing respiratory diseases.
Nephrodite
Austin, TX
Nephrodite is developing HollyTM, a combined implantable and wearable device that represents a change in the way End-Stage Renal Disease and dialysis care is delivered. Our device will offer mobility and independence to patients enjoying freedom to do as they choose with their time.
NXgenPort Inc
St. Paul MN
NXgenPort Inc is addressing an unmet need in cancer care by remotely monitoring patients between chemotherapy visits with an implanted Smart Port. By measuring cell counts and heart function in vivo, NGP will alert physicians to signs of infection, reduce hospitalizations, and gather important physiological data to improve patient outcomes.
Botanisol Analytics
Boston, MA
We make autonomous disease screening kiosks. Imagine a world in which you can get screened for multiple pathogens simultaneously. That’s the world we are building.
SmartTab
Denver, CO
SmartTab is developing an advanced platform of ingestible capsules for oral drug delivery of biologics and targeted medications. The platform is intended to replace both traditional coated capsules and injections. We’re on a mission to provide novel administration routes and effective therapies that improve patient lives.
Alternates
Flaus
Los Angeles, CA
Flaus is a DTC oral beauty brand making it easier for people to look after themselves and the planet with our beautiful, impactful innovations — starting with a revolutionary electric flosser that makes flossing as quick and easy as brushing your teeth. Flaus is a Public Benefit Corporation.
Pluto Health
Durham, NC
Pluto is a multi-functional, automated technology that aggregates electronic health record data within minutes, harmozines it to highly usable levels, identifies gaps in care, and connects patients with care insights and opportunities. Pluto is a mission-focused company, with a fiercely patient-centric ethos and the highest of privacy and security.
Vincere Health
Boston, MA
Vincere Health is a Harvard-founded tech-enabled smoking cessation provider built to address the behavioral health needs of the most vulnerable people in society. We uniquely combine remote monitoring, instant behavioral rewards, centered around a deeply personal one-to-one clinical counseling experience with patients.
Innovative World
Finalists
Dastgyr
Karachi, Pakistan
Solving for fragmentation of trade by connecting sellers to retailers in a B2B marketplace model that also enables access to capital.
Hilos
Portland, OR
We believe that how we make things matters, using generative design and 3D printing to create a radically new way to make shoes: digitally crafted on-demand only after a customer’s purchase and taken back at end of life for disassembly and reuse. The future of retail is on-demand and zero-waste.
Interstellar Lab
Paris, France
At Interstellar Lab we develop and build controlled-environment modules to grow plants sustainably on Earth and in space. Our first product BioPod is an inflatable pod designed for food production and biodiversity conservation on Earth.
SAVRpak
San Juan Capistrano, CA
SAVRpak is a small sachet constructed from plants, engineered to keep food fresh longer, without chemicals. Using the laws of thermodynamics; the patented technology extracts and traps moisture away from food. SAVRpak keeps takeout and delivery fresh/crispy, as well as extending the shelf life of produce.
WearWorks
New York, NY
WearWorks® is a haptic platform company. We build products and experiences that communicate information through touch. Our mission is to reimagine your skin as a new high fidelity communications channel. Wayband®, is a haptic navigation app and a haptic wristband that gently guides you to your destination using only vibration.
Alternates
3F Waste Recovery
Newfoundland, Canada
At 3F, we leverage clean technologies to compel natural resource primary processors into the circular economy, using market forces, targeting by-product streams in the optimal sequence.
BoxedUp
Atlanta, GA
BoxedUp is an on-demand rental marketplace, connecting professional content creators with equipment owners. By aggregating listings from individual owners, local rental shops, and manufacturers, BoxedUp provides owners with a platform to monetize their gear, and content creators the equipment they need, delivered nationwide.
Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics
Finalists
4.screen
Munich, Germany
4.screen develops the digital infrastructure of connected cars. We provide an API-based infrastructure that enables local businesses and global brands to communicate in real-time with cars. Allowing drivers to enjoy frictionless access to the mobility ecosystem, to see relevant content, and to benefit from value-added services such as sponsored charging.
HeyCharge
Munich, Germany
HeyCharge delivers highly-scalable, ultra-low-cost electric car charging systems for apartment buildings and more. Their core innovation is a patent-pending system enabling smart charging infrastructure with no internet connection — perfect for underground parking garages!
Glaza
Los Angeles, CA
Glaza’s software uses the front-facing camera of a device to track where the driver is looking on the screen. When the driver blinks, it registers that as a tap. Eyesight is a natural “cursor” so the software gets rid of the need to use the driver’s fingers and allows the driver to interact with the car’s infotainment system hands-free.
JusticeText
Irvine, CA
JusticeText is building the first centralized infrastructure to store, catalog, analyze, and share video evidence in the criminal justice system. The platform is explicitly designed to improve outcomes for low-income criminal defendants by enabling greater transparency and accountability around police interactions.
Kiro Action
Austin, TX
Kiro Action, a modern refuge that is deployed in 4-hours by 4 people with no special machinery or heavy equipment built to the code of commercial and home applications. The same product can be a backyard office, yoga studio, flex room and shelter the unhoused. Scalable, flat-packed, cost effective and dignified housing.
Alternates
HOPE Hydration
New York, NY
HOPE Hydration is a water-tech startup deploying smart-city water fountains, pushing cities towards plastic-free and powering next-gen urban technologies.
N5 Sensors
Rockville, MD
N5’s mission is to keep people and communities safe from environmental hazards such as wildfires through a cloud-connected ecosystem of smarter sensors and by leveraging the endless possibilities of shared data and AI.
Vend Park
Boston, MA
Vend is an end-to-end SaaS management and digital wallet that is disrupting the mobility industry starting with parking. Vend replaces inefficient and expensive operations with a fully digital solution that lowers costs and unlocks the true value of parking real-estate.
Social and Culture
Finalists
MOGL
Miami, FL
MOGL is a marketplace that connects collegiate athletes and businesses for marketing opportunities in a compliant way in the name, image, and likeness era. MOGL is free to join and democratizes access to athletes for businesses and brands who are looking to build awareness for their products and services.
IMMAD
Quincy, MA
IMMAD-Impairment Marijuana and Driving is company specializing in research and development of products for the responsible use of marijuana. IMMAD-VR is a simple test of peripheral vision using Virtual Reality goggles. If a driver cannot see accurately, they cannot drive safely. IMMAD-VR will save lives.
Sustain.Life
New York, NY
Sustain.Life is the SaaS platform helping companies across industries measure and reduce their environmental impact. Launched through the 4Sided Venture Studio in 2021, Sustain.Life enables organizations to future-proof themselves by embracing sustainable practices that manage carbon emissions, reduce costs and distinguish them to customers, partners, investors and recruits.
Pinwheel
Austin, TX
Pinwheel is striving to create a world where kids will grow up to be masters of technology regulation instead of screen-addicted consumers. We offer parents a smartphone system designed with children’s well-being and development in mind. An early-stage B2C CPG + SaaS company, Pinwheel saw 8x revenue growth in 2021. Today’s parents demand better for their kids, and they’re finding it in Pinwheel.
Veriphix
Washington, DC
Veriphix is a behavioral science-based AI technology for brands and agencies that links the digital, physical and cognitive dimensions. Veriphix uses patent-pending AI to surface specific cognitive triggers (“nudges”) most likely to succeed in achieving population-level cognitive and physical change.
Alternates
Artnado
Moosic, PA
Artmatcher was founded to solve structural issues in the art markets, including education, inclusiveness, access, and openness. By creating a user-friendly platform, our machine learning can connect buyers and sellers, enhance communication, and guide users through curated experiences in the physical and online worlds.
College Cash
Ft. Worth, TX
College Cash leverages user generated content for brands and organizations to reduce student loan debt. We do this in a tax deductible way, that allows brands to engage users with the end result being reduction of their student loan debt. In essence we’ve created a solution that allows everyday behavior from posting pictures to gig-economy jobs to be used to help reduce student loan debt.
Vetted Pet Health
Chicago, IL
Going to the vet once a year isn’t enough to keep our pet’s in excellent health. Vetted is an annual membership that solves preventative health for pets in between the annual vet visit. We do this by empowering pet parents from home. Vetted members get three vet-curated kits delivered to their home as well as access to the Vetted mobile app, ensuring the gold standard of care from home (through automated care-task reminders, a digital health log, and access to chat with a pet professional). Vetted is revolutionizing pet care one pet parent at a time.
