Deep Tech Startups

Aperture is a vertically integrated technology company that builds low-frequency radar satellite payloads and a soil moisture insights platform. It offers space-based environmental monitoring and daily soil moisture analytics for agriculture, defense, and corporate sustainability clients, supporting irrigation decisions, water stewardship reporting, and landscape restoration.

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Aperture is a national forensic and technical consulting firm that provides expert analysis, accident reconstruction, and litigation dispute support. It serves legal and business clients by investigating incidents and operational events using forensic methodologies and technology.

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Apex (株式会社アペックス) is a prototyping and product development contractor founded in 1975, producing design mockups, working models, 3D modeling, mechanical and optical design, GUI/HMI development, electronic control boards, and machining/molding services. It supports research and product development of mechatronics products for industries including home appliances, office equipment, automotive parts, medical devices, and amusement machines.

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Apex Microtechnology designs and manufactures high voltage, high current analog and mixed-signal components, including power amplifiers, driver ICs, and sensor ICs, along with radiation-tolerant devices for space applications. It serves engineers designing power analog circuits across a range of industries, operating a DLA MIL-PRF-38534 certified, ISO 9001:2015 registered U.S. manufacturing facility.

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Apitronix develops a new processor designed to simplify the building of complex safety-critical embedded systems, aiming to reduce side-effects between processes running on microcontrollers. It works with automotive OEMs, Tier 1 vendors, and UAV companies to lower the cost of real-time compute and speed up bringing safety-critical systems to production.

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Apollo Minerva is a defense technology company that builds battlefield management software, with a flagship platform called PERSES that lets soldiers coordinate targeting, intelligence gathering, and logistics via a tablet interface. It targets allied and partner military forces, aiming to reduce training time and integrate with existing weapons, networks, and doctrine.

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Applied Electrodynamics is building WaveSight, a hardware sensing product designed to see through walls and detect objects otherwise not visible. The company is developing consumer/industrial sensing hardware based on electrodynamics technology.

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Applied Mind Inc. develops wireless sensor technology, including its Hyperion software-defined radio (SDR) sensors and applications, for the security and public safety sector. The company is based in Canada.

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Black Semiconductor develops integrated photonics and electronics chip technology using graphene to enable energy-efficient, high-speed data communication for AI, robotics, autonomous driving, and high-performance computing applications.

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Applied Technical Services (ATS) provides testing and analysis, inspection, calibration, engineering, forensics, and training services to help clients meet quality, safety, and reliability standards across their products and systems. The company serves industrial and commercial clients and operates as part of SGS, a testing, inspection, and certification firm.

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Approximate Labs is a research lab studying the efficiency gap between human and machine reasoning, building benchmarks, tools, and architectures to address it. Its work includes a pencil puzzle benchmark, the TabLib open-source tabular dataset for training large data models, and AI data assistants such as Sketch, Julyp, and TableGen.

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Apriori Bio applies AI/ML combined with biological insights to predict how viruses evolve and to design vaccines, assessing their expected performance before clinical trials. The company operates in the vaccinology and biotech space.

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Aprisium develops on-site contaminant detection and monitoring systems using proprietary electrochemistry and AI analytics, testing for pollutants such as PFAS in liquids, solids, and semi-solids. It serves municipal, industrial, commercial, and agricultural customers, and also offers testing for data center immersion cooling coolants.

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Aqdot is a supramolecular chemistry (chem-tech) company that develops proprietary AqFresh air quality and odour/VOC-elimination technology based on encapsulation. It supplies these solutions to multinational customers across hygiene, automotive, and home and personal care markets to formulate sustainable consumer products.

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AquaFusion develops acoustic fish-finding technology and sensors for aquaculture, including systems that count fish in farming pens (MagicCounter), measure fish size and school density (AquaMagic), high-resolution monitoring buoys (MagicBuoy), and analysis software (MagicView). Its products serve fish farmers and researchers, with an aquaculture business base in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan.

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Arfuture designs and develops augmented/virtual reality experiences for clients.

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ARAV is a University of Tokyo spin-out that develops robotics-based hardware and software for remote operation and autonomous driving of construction equipment. It provides digital transformation solutions to address labor and operational challenges on construction sites in Japan.

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Araya (株式会社アラヤ) develops AI algorithms and products across deep learning, edge AI, and autonomous AI, and conducts research combining neuroscience and information theory, including work on consciousness in the brain and brain-machine interfaces. The Japanese company applies AI and brain science to industrial use cases.

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Arbell Energy develops quantum-dot NanoCrystal thin-film solar technology, printing solar inks into lightweight, flexible, and transparent panels for applications such as utility-scale PV farms, building-integrated facades, agriculture, and retrofits of existing panels. Operating on a B2B model, the company targets the solar energy and cleantech market and is based in Ra'anana, Israel.

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Arbometrics offers non-invasive ground-penetrating radar tomography to detect hidden internal defects and decay in living tree trunks and felled timber, producing 2D/3D imaging and risk-ranking maps of problem trees. Its clients include municipal parks and green spaces as well as wood-processing and construction firms, primarily in Russia.

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Arbor Insight applies precision robotics and drone technology to tree and agricultural monitoring and management. The company serves agriculture, orchards, and forestry sectors.

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The ARC Prize Foundation is a non-profit organization creating human-calibrated benchmarks to measure progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It focuses on identifying capability gaps between human and artificial intelligence on tasks that are simple for humans but difficult for current AI systems.

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Archaius develops anti-jamming hardware-software systems (its Grale and Vaelin products) that protect GPS navigation and command-and-control links for autonomous platforms and critical systems operating in contested, jamming-heavy environments. It serves defense operators and critical infrastructure users, using passive analog beamforming and signal-processing technology to keep wireless signals operational under electronic attack.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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Archean develops in vitro platforms using human neurons for continuous drug testing, aiming to improve translatability in neurological drug research. It offers closed-loop testing across drug candidates for the treatment of neurological conditions.

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