Deep Tech Startups

Helical AI provides a virtual AI lab platform for drug discovery, tuning bio foundation models to a customer's own biology and orchestrating them into ranked, mechanistically grounded target and biomarker candidates. It is built for biopharma R&D teams, offering model-agnostic harnesses, therapeutically relevant benchmarking, and enterprise deployment without data lock-in.

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AI Proteins designs engineered miniproteins for drug discovery and development in the biopharmaceutical industry. The company uses artificial intelligence to create novel protein-based therapeutics with improved efficacy, safety, and manufacturability compared to naturally evolved proteins.

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AiDANT Intelligent Technology develops embedded AI video analytics software and ACAP applications for AXIS cameras, detecting persons, vehicles, and Aruco markers for surveillance and security use cases such as fall detection, loitering protection, and occupancy counting. The company serves customers across industries and continents including care centers, banks, and manufacturing sites, without collecting personally identifiable information.

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Aiir provides an AI platform that analyzes aircraft engine borescope inspection (BSI) footage in real time, automates defect detection, report generation, and AMM/EM look-ups, and enables secure sharing and archiving of inspection data. It serves aviation companies including MROs, engine lessors, airlines, and OEMs, and works with all borescope equipment and commercial engine types.

2 investors

AIKO provides onboard data management and intelligence software for Earth observation satellites and payload teams, enabling autonomous processing and adaptation across the entire payload lifecycle from acquisition to exploitation.

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AiNEKKO builds composable silicon for edge AI inference, working across RISC-V manycore compute, MRAM-based memory (iRAM), and an open software stack. It open-sources its designs under the Eclipse Foundation and uses AI agents to design chips across the software-hardware boundary, enabling custom chips without custom tape-outs.

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AION Labs is a venture studio founded by pharmaceutical companies (AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Merck, Teva) alongside AWS and venture capital partners to build and scale companies applying AI and emerging technologies to drug discovery and development. It provides founders with early pharma validation, R&D expertise, mentorship, and capital to accelerate the creation of solutions that address unmet needs in pharmaceutical innovation.

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Airbase develops intelligence and data products for aerospace, defense, and related sectors, built by technical operators with backgrounds in satellite imaging, orbital missions, and deep tech.

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Aircision develops free-space optical wireless communication systems that provide jam-resistant, license-free, high-capacity links for defense and telecommunications customers where fiber is impractical and RF is vulnerable. A TNO spin-off based in Eindhoven, it builds terrestrial free-space optics with proprietary auto-alignment and link acquisition for rapid deployment in critical and military networks.

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AirDodge develops U-Space (UTM) software services compliant with EU regulation 2021/664, delivering the four core services required for drone operations in U-Space airspace. Its services target drone service providers operating BVLOS and in urban areas or near airports, and are offered through a mobile app called AirDodge Pilot.

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AirJoule develops sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting technology that extracts water from air, positioned to cool next-generation data centers and address water constraints in water-stressed regions. Its technology targets data center operators and campuses seeking permit-independent water sources.

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Airsonett develops Temperature Laminar Airflow (TLA) medical devices for non-pharmacologic treatment of allergic asthma and eczema. The company's flagship Air4 device is a CE-marked class I medical device and FDA-cleared class II device intended for home use to reduce allergens and airborne irritants in patients' breathing zones.

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Airspace provides end-to-end airspace protection solutions for urban environments, critical infrastructure, large-scale events, and high-security zones. It serves enterprises, government agencies, and public safety operations.

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AISPECO manufactures advanced multi-sensor geospatial data collection platforms incorporating LiDAR, hyperspectral, optical, and thermal imaging technologies for airborne, mobile, and stationary applications.

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Aitomatic builds industrial AI that captures an organization's expert knowledge into a domain knowledge graph ("Cognitive Ontology") and deploys agents that reason with that institutional knowledge to handle tasks like case review, anomaly resolution, and regulatory analysis. Its DanaOS platform targets industrial and enterprise operators, with a focus on neurosymbolic and sovereign AI.

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Ajuna Network provides blockchain gaming infrastructure built on Polkadot, operating as a parachain that handles on-chain transactions, transfers, and accounts. It targets game builders and developers working with decentralized, on-chain gaming.

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Akasha Labdhi is developing ANTARIKSHAB, an expandable space habitat aimed at orbital logistics, space habitation, microgravity experiments, and defense applications. The company is working on dual-use orbital infrastructure technologies including inflatable solar arrays for power efficiency in low Earth orbit, with a stated focus on India.

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Akeana designs and licenses RISC-V processor IP cores and system components for applications ranging from microcontrollers to high-performance data center processors. The company serves semiconductor designers and system integrators building embedded, networking, and server products.

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Akribion Therapeutics develops an RNA-guided, nuclease enzyme-based technology for programmable cell depletion using its G-dase E payload. The company initially targets HPV-induced oropharyngeal head and neck cancer (OPSCC) and is exploring further applications in precision oncology.

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Alchemist is an accelerator that supports a global community of founders through investment, mentorship, and operational guidance across multiple regions.

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3Button Group develops and delivers standardized, modular industrial automation solutions using robotics, mechanics, and control systems to automate and improve customers' production processes. The company is based in Sweden and serves industrial manufacturing clients.

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Aldevron provides products and services for biotechnology research and life sciences discovery, operating as a subsidiary of Danaher to enable breakthrough scientific advances.

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AlgoBlu provides programmable network connectivity services offering on-demand bandwidth from 2M up to Nx 10G, with real-time bandwidth adjustment, end-to-end encryption, multi-service physical isolation, and direct physical-layer connections to cloud platforms and SaaS providers. Its offerings target enterprises needing flexible private lines, customizable network topologies, and SLA-tiered services over existing fiber without laying new lines.

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Alia Therapeutics is a biotech company developing therapeutics based on gene-editing technology.

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