The Intake

Develops large general-purpose AI models.

Collects what a company's own staff say about their work and turns it into a plan for where to adopt AI.

Backed by Creandum · Lakestar

Software that lets businesses selling experiences take their own bookings and payments instead of going through a marketplace.

Backed by Y Combinator

A robotics research lab, funded before it has a product to sell.

Backed by Creandum · USV

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

Backed by JianTou Investment · Hangzhou Capital · Kaitai Capital

Runs AI models inside an organisation's own systems, so it keeps control of how they are deployed and of sensitive data.

Backed by Init 6

Cat food sold direct to owners online, now widening the range.

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

A drug-discovery platform, used both with partners and for medicines the company is developing itself.

Backed by Asabys

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

Backed by Contrarian Ventures · OVNI Capital · Kvanted · WEPA Ventures · Motier Ventures

Copy-trading software that mirrors one trader's crypto orders across the major exchanges, matching every fill.

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

Backed by a16z

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

Backed by 4impact capital

Software for hiring and paying staff in other countries, aimed at companies expanding abroad.

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

Builds the data infrastructure used to train AI systems that act in the physical world; it was spun out of a self-driving car company.

Backed by Vision Knight Capital · Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation · Sirius Capital

Database software built to run both in the cloud and on devices that are offline.

Backed by Superhero Capital

Runs competitive video-game tournaments in India.

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

Flags images and documents that have been generated or altered by AI.

Backed by Unconventional Ventures

AI software for accounting and tax firms, so they can take on more client work without hiring at the same rate.

Rents prams, car seats and children's bikes on subscription, so families swap them as the child grows.

Backed by Hanse Ventures · HGDF · JOSS

Helps hardware and deeptech firms get from a working prototype into precision manufacturing, including its own Bengaluru facility.

Mixed-reality training software for employers, so staff can practise a task in a headset before doing it for real.

Backed by IACD

A wholesale platform that gets stock to small retailers quickly; it used to trade as Bijnis.

Makes desktop 3D printers for consumers.

Backed by Still Water Lake Venture Partners

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

Backed by SDIC Juli · Shenzhen Capital Group · Qinzhi Capital

Checks that a business is genuine and ties it to the phone numbers it calls from, so its calls are not blocked as spam.

Backed by Edison Partners

Excavators that dig and shift earth on building sites on their own, with nobody in the cab, already doing paid work.

A preventive-health service that uses AI to spot problems early and push people towards checks before they fall ill.

Software for managing rental property, built around a different operating model to the usual letting-agency setup.

Backed by PSV Tech

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

Backed by TCL Industries · Shenzhen Capital Group

Turns a chemical-detection technology called DINGO into a portable detector soldiers and responders can carry into hostile areas.

Software that uses AI to take the day-to-day admin of running rented homes off letting agents' hands.

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

Backed by CDH Investments · Oasis Capital · LimX Dynamics · Loongson Venture Capital · CAS Star · Hua Capital · Pudong Venture Capital Group

Machines that move materials around and clean floors in factories, warehouses, airports and hospitals.

Backed by Finvolve

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

Builds training datasets out of patient records from several countries so medical AI tools have something to learn from.

Backed by Peak XV Partners

Building a next generation of general-purpose AI foundation models.

Backed by Legend Capital · CAS Star · SenseTime Guoxiang Capital · WestSummit Capital

A mobile games platform built on maths and logic puzzles that people play competitively against each other.

Backed by General Catalyst

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

Backed by Seraphim Space

Software that automates the research and paperwork wealth managers get through for their clients.

Backed by EQT Ventures · QuantumLight

An AI assistant that handles a household's paperwork — bills, renewals, forms — and looks for cheaper deals.

Backed by Heartcore Capital

A trading app that uses AI to help private investors research shares and place their trades.

Backed by Nexus · Stellaris

Farms insects on the leftovers from food factories and processes them into protein, now at industrial scale.

Backed by Springvest · Maki.vc