The Podium

Builds and operates large AI data centres in Australia powered by Nvidia chips.

Designs chips for running AI models and publishes the designs openly, positioning itself against Nvidia.

Designs chips for running trained AI models, claiming better efficiency than Nvidia's professional cards.

Software that lets one AI model run efficiently across chips from different makers.

Designs specialised silicon chips to replace general-purpose GPUs for AI inference workloads.

Building energy-efficient chip systems for running large AI models, with the first hardware due from 2028.

Designs chips that run already-trained AI models, and is preparing to make them in volume.

Switching chips that move data between AI servers using light instead of electrical signals.

Systems software that routes AI workloads to the cheapest suitable models and chips.

Designs AI processor chips for edge devices; says it has secured over 30 mass-production contracts across eight countries.

Designs a single general-purpose processor chip for autonomous machines and other hardware that has to run AI on board.

Makes the lasers that carry data between AI chips, aiming at the millions needed as clusters grow.

An AI infrastructure platform that helps companies run AI workloads across different chips and models.

Designs chips small and frugal enough to sit inside neural implants and wearable devices.

Silicon-nitride photonic chips for AI data centres, moving toward mass manufacturing.

Software that builds a digital twin of computer chips and uses AI to auto-generate the integration code needed for physical-AI devices.

Develops a diamond-coating material that stops AI computer chips from overheating.

Designs AI inference chips for running AI models efficiently.

Designs 3D-stacked chips built to run large AI models faster when they are answering, rather than training.

The company behind Manus, a Chinese AI agent.

AI agents that take on routine office jobs, sold to companies as though they were extra staff.

Software that runs a mortgage lender's application process using teams of AI agents.

Plumbing that keeps a long multi-step job running correctly when a step fails halfway - first used in banking, now under AI agents.

Security controls for companies letting AI agents loose on internal systems — what each agent may touch and what it did.

A $3,499 desktop computer built to run AI agents that act on their owner's behalf.

A sales prospecting workspace where AI agents find leads and run the outreach a sales team would otherwise do by hand.

One place for a company's IT team to handle laptops, software accounts, logins and support requests, with AI agents doing the routine jobs.

A platform consumer-goods brands run their day-to-day operations on, with AI agents doing the legwork.

Automates the paperwork behind hiring and staff admin, with AI agents that work alongside an HR team.

Tooling that lets a company put AI agents into live use and keep them behaving predictably.

Sells cloud infrastructure, software and hardware built to run AI agents.

Security software that watches what AI agents do while they are running and stops the actions that should not happen.

Speeds up the way AI agents click and read their way through websites.

Decides which confidential company files an AI agent is allowed to open, by checking the identity behind each request.

AI agents that learn how an individual investment firm does its research, then run parts of that work for it.

Gives institutional investors AI-driven portfolio management tools using autonomous 'agentic' AI.

Makes the silicon-based materials that go inside batteries, sold to battery and vehicle manufacturers.

Trades the electricity sitting in household batteries and electric cars on the wholesale power market.

Long-duration batteries that can store energy for several days at a time.

Runs a network of stations where electric-vehicle riders swap a flat battery for a charged one instead of waiting to recharge.

Off-the-shelf batteries and power systems for satellites, in place of the one-off custom builds spacecraft normally carry.

Manganese flow batteries that hold electricity for days at a time, aimed at grid-scale storage.

Installs grid-scale battery storage and sells the software that decides when those batteries charge and discharge.

Recycles lithium iron phosphate batteries to recover the materials inside them, from a plant in Singapore handling 1,300 tonnes a year.

Smart thermostats and software that turn home heating and cooling systems into flexible capacity for the power grid.

Pulls the data from wind, solar and battery sites into one place, with an AI interface doing work operations teams did by hand.

Builds battery storage systems out of batteries taken from used electric vehicles.

Software for running battery storage at factories and other industrial sites so that the batteries pay their way.

Tests batteries on the production line using sound, to catch faults before the cells reach a customer.

Builds low-cost interceptor missiles for European and allied militaries.

Genetically engineers dogs for military and police work and fits them with Anduril equipment.

Makes drones and other unmanned vehicles, selling to civilian and military buyers alike.

Photographs other satellites while they are in orbit, so operators and defence agencies can see what is up there.

Laser systems that bring down drones, sold to defence and critical-infrastructure operators.

Builds autonomous aircraft systems for military use, developed under wartime conditions in Ukraine.

Drone technology built for both civilian and military uses.

Onboard software that lets military drones and other unmanned vehicles navigate and act without someone flying them.

Communications kit that keeps drones connected, built for defence buyers.

Low-cost smart sensors that detect drones, sold to security and defence customers.

Uses acoustic sensors to detect and track drones for security and defence.

Makes ultra-lightweight autonomous sensing systems for use in harsh defence and space environments.

Develops autonomous-driving technology for heavy construction machinery.

Uses 360-degree cameras worn on site managers' helmets to track how construction work is progressing.

Construction robots that carry out building-site work on their own.

An AI model of how buildings behave, trained on permit records, so construction teams can test designs against real physics and codes.

Software that helps companies find public-sector tenders, work out whether to bid, and put the bid together.

AI-powered operating system to help construction and trades businesses run projects.

Engineers wood into a high-strength building material meant to replace some of the concrete used in construction.

An engineering firm for the construction industry that does its design work with AI rather than by hand.

Automates the back-office paperwork and financial admin of construction and property companies.

AI platform that helps construction companies manage tendering and preconstruction planning.

Manages fleets of autonomous vehicles, including Waymo robotaxis, for ride-hailing operators.

Runs a fleet of self-driving taxis, spun out as its own business from a Chinese mobility group.

Electric two-wheeler ride-sharing and fleet operator, expanding into full-size electric scooters.

Electrification systems and charging infrastructure for heavy-duty commercial vehicle fleets.

Software that coordinates charging for electric lorry fleets, linking logistics schedules with the energy supply.

Finances fleets of taxis for professional drivers in emerging markets.

Shared charging depots where electric lorries from different haulage firms can recharge.

Manages the billing and payments for charging electric vehicle fleets.

Sensors and perception software that let robots see and interpret what is around them.

Makes tactile-sensing "skin" that gives robots a sense of touch.

Electronic skin that gives a robot a sense of touch across its whole body.

Touch sensing for robots, built on thousands of hours of recorded tactile data so machines can judge what they are handling.

A small desktop robot that gives a personal AI assistant a body, with movement and vision, alongside the user's computer.

Designs the chips that handle a robot's perception and movement control.

Robots that clean vertical surfaces, countertops and bathroom fixtures, using force control to judge their touch.

Makes touch sensors, including gloves that record how human hands handle objects so robots can learn from it.

Robots with hands dexterous enough to pick up and manipulate objects, from a Chinese embodied-AI company.

Gives factory robots eyes and reflexes, so an arm can adjust to a part that is not quite where it was expected instead of stopping.

AI that teaches an industrial humanoid robot a new task from only a handful of demonstrations.

Rents humanoid robots to warehouses and factories by the month instead of selling them outright.

Rents out humanlike warehouse robots by the shift, with the software layer that tells them what to do — a temp agency for robots.

Builds humanoid robots out of interchangeable modules, aimed at factory and warehouse work.

Modular industrial robots that smaller manufacturers can reconfigure for different jobs on their own factory floor.

Brain implants that read signals through flexible electrodes and send them out wirelessly, now heading into multi-site trials.

A certification body that signs off AI and software-based medical devices so they can legally be sold.

Tests medical devices on simulated virtual patients, so a device can be tried on body types a real trial would miss.

Designs chips small and frugal enough to sit inside neural implants and wearable devices.

An implant that stimulates the brain directly to give some sight back to people who are profoundly blind.

Augmented-reality software, regulated as a medical device, used to rehabilitate people with neurological conditions.

Develops humanoid robots, spun out from EV maker XPeng.

Pays people to record themselves doing everyday tasks, and sells the motion data to train humanoid robots.

AI that teaches an industrial humanoid robot a new task from only a handful of demonstrations.

Rents humanoid robots to warehouses and factories by the month instead of selling them outright.

Builds humanoid robots out of interchangeable modules, aimed at factory and warehouse work.

Buy-now-pay-later payments that let shoppers in the Gulf pay for purchases over time.

Sells its own fitness gear and sportswear straight to shoppers online, and is now opening physical stores.

Sells nutrition and dietary supplements direct to shoppers online, and is now paying for clinical trials of them.

A fashion and accessories brand that sells direct to shoppers online and is now opening physical stores in Indian cities.

An app that tells shoppers how heavily processed the food in front of them is.

Runs a network of stations where electric-vehicle riders swap a flat battery for a charged one instead of waiting to recharge.

Manufactures components for electric vehicles.

Builds battery storage systems out of batteries taken from used electric vehicles.

Manufactures charging equipment for electric vehicles.

Manages the billing and payments for charging electric vehicle fleets.

Building large quantum computers out of linked modules, from a University of Sussex spinout.

Software that runs engineering physics simulations on quantum computers.

Building integrated circuits out of superconducting transistors, aimed first at controlling and reading the signals inside quantum computers.

Tools that make writing software for quantum computers simpler than it is today.

Photographs other satellites while they are in orbit, so operators and defence agencies can see what is up there.

AI software that tracks satellites and debris to help prevent collisions in orbit.

Spacecraft that service other satellites in orbit, with four missions planned over the next 12 to 18 months.

Lets a spacecraft steer itself close to another object in orbit without a ground crew flying it.

Designs specialised silicon chips to replace general-purpose GPUs for AI inference workloads.

Offers online care to make ADHD diagnosis and treatment faster and cheaper.

Designs AI inference chips for running AI models efficiently.

Builds and launches reusable rockets for commercial spaceflight.

Builds small rockets for suborbital and orbital launches.

Uses muons to look inside rocket engines and turbines, reaching places X-ray inspection cannot.

Software that finds spare capacity hiding in overloaded electricity distribution networks, so more solar and EV charging can connect without new wires.

Solar-thermal panels that generate renewable heat directly at the point of use.

Pulls the data from wind, solar and battery sites into one place, with an AI interface doing work operations teams did by hand.

Uses AI to discover new materials for semiconductor manufacturing.

AI that watches factory equipment to catch breakdowns and wasted material before they happen.

Develops a diamond-coating material that stops AI computer chips from overheating.

Builds compact nuclear fission reactors; its Ward 250 unit reached criticality in Utah under a US Department of Energy pilot program.

Portable nuclear reactors built on barges, to be towed to wherever power is needed.

AI voice agents that automate calls and coordination for supply-chain and logistics teams.

AI-powered customer-service software that runs automated conversations for enterprise contact centres.

AI voice agents that automate calls and coordination for supply-chain and logistics teams.

Software that runs food supply chains for suppliers, wholesalers and manufacturers.

Developing off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapies that train the immune system to attack mutations found in tumours.

Analyses cells for teams developing cell-based immunotherapies. It is a spin-out of imec, VIB and Ghent University.

Software that runs a mortgage lender's application process using teams of AI agents.

Software that lets landlords advertise, let and manage a rental property themselves instead of paying a letting agent.

Runs Spandan, a cardiac diagnostics platform for spotting heart problems.

An online clinic treating obesity with prescription weight-loss drugs alongside diagnostic testing.

Recycles lithium iron phosphate batteries to recover the materials inside them, from a plant in Singapore handling 1,300 tonnes a year.

Recovers valuable metals and chemicals from industrial wastewater instead of letting them go to sewer.

Splits biomass using electricity to make cheaper synthetic fuels, and is building a first industrial pilot plant.

Turns food, farm and forestry waste into jet fuel, moving from the lab to trials at a working biogas plant.

Low-cost smart sensors that detect drones, sold to security and defence customers.

Uses acoustic sensors to detect and track drones for security and defence.