Deep Tech Startups

FREST is a Japanese biotech venture developing RNA editing technology (RNA editing nucleic acids) that edits gene structure at the mRNA level to create nucleic acid drugs for genetic and currently untreatable diseases. The company partners with medical professionals, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies to apply this drug discovery technology.

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FA International provides technology and business development advisory services for industrial and medical device companies, helping them evaluate pre- and post-investment opportunities and technology risks to optimize returns and develop growth strategies.

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FABRIAL is a stealth-mode research lab focused on frontier formal foundations. The company is based in Oxford.

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Fabrik provides a digital twin platform accessible via browser on any device and form factor that aggregates data from CAD models, GIS, time-series sensors, and operational knowledge to help teams visualize and make decisions about critical systems. The platform targets industrial and infrastructure sectors that historically relied on physical simulations and living models to ensure system integrity and safety.

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Faception develops computer vision and machine learning technology that analyzes a person's facial image from video, cameras, or databases to predict personality types and traits via proprietary classifiers. Its facial personality analytics are marketed to security agencies and public safety/smart city applications to identify potential threats such as terrorists or criminals.

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FaceUnity develops digital human solutions and body imaging technology by combining computer graphics and artificial intelligence. The company serves customers across mobile, automotive, finance, e-commerce, and entertainment sectors in over 200 regions globally.

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FailSafe Communications develops T911, a monitoring system that detects failed 911 calls in real time and alerts public officials, carriers, and emergency responders. The solution serves municipalities, telecommunications carriers, and disaster recovery providers to improve emergency response reliability and regulatory compliance.

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Fainite offers a physics-based AI platform that accelerates and automates engineering simulation workflows, allowing engineering teams to run predictions in seconds and set up new simulations from limited Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) datasets. Its AI agents automate complex analysis tasks, provide design recommendations, and integrate into existing CAE infrastructure for engineering teams.

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Fairgate is a Bitcoin infrastructure company that builds technologies for scalable computation and verifiable off-chain execution on Bitcoin, including BitVMX and Bit2, a clearing and coordination layer for autonomous systems. It focuses on cryptography, cybersecurity, and blockchain to improve Bitcoin's interoperability and scalability for trustless applications and the agentic economy.

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FAIRMAT uses proprietary recycling technology, robotics, software, and AI to turn carbon fiber waste into new advanced materials for industries including sports, mobility, energy, and aerospace. The company operates industrial plants and focuses on keeping valuable materials out of landfills through a full-loop materials ecosystem.

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Familiar builds an AI video-translation and dubbing model that combines voice cloning and full-face lip-sync in a single system, preserving tone, expressions, and background audio, with support for real-time streams. It offers an API, an MCP server for agents, and a self-serve dashboard for creators and platforms translating video into multiple languages.

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Fanuclear develops lead-bismuth-cooled fast nuclear reactors with a compact, modular design manufactured in factory settings, offering gas-fueled power in the short term with a transition to nuclear energy. Its reactor clusters are designed to power large numbers of homes with a smaller physical footprint than comparable power sites.

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Farang is an AI research lab developing foundational large language models built on a custom architecture, with a focus on specialized on-device models for consumer and enterprise use. Based in Sweden, it targets both individual and business AI applications with an emphasis on privacy and personalization.

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Farsight Vision develops software for spatial data processing and situational awareness, including 3D modeling, anomaly detection, and real-time object detection capabilities. The platform serves military and defense operations for reconnaissance, targeting, and decision-making in GPS-denied environments.

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FarSounder develops 3D forward-looking navigation sonar that detects in-water obstacles and shallows for safe maritime navigation. Its products serve a range of vessels including yachts, cruise ships, research and survey ships, defense and government vessels, and commercial fishing boats.

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Fastagger builds AI infrastructure that runs machine learning models on-device on low-end (4GB) Android smartphones and edge devices, offering SMS-based field workforce attendance/patrol verification, a document foundation model (Auni) for African financial documents, super-app embedded AI, and computer vision at the edge. It serves banks, microfinance institutions, insurers, fintechs, telcos, and enterprises with field workforces, with a focus on the African market.

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Fastree3D develops 3D vision systems (LiDAR-based smart sensing) for intelligent automation, mobility, and factory safety applications. It offers workshops, feasibility studies, and a hardware development kit to help clients design and test 3D vision-based automation solutions.

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Fauna Systems develops biobots (programmable biological systems) that operate autonomously in complex environments. The company's work, based on xenobot research, creates living assemblies derived from cells capable of movement, self-powering, environmental sensing, and collective behavior for applications in science and medicine.

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Feather is a cloud-based engineering simulation platform that runs finite element analysis — including linear static, thermal, modal, harmonic, and buckling analysis — for single parts and assemblies. It uses GPU-accelerated solvers billed by compute credits and serves individuals such as students and researchers as well as commercial users through professional and business plans.

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FEBUS Optics develops distributed fiber optic sensing systems (DAS, DTS, and DSS) and turnkey monitoring solutions for applications such as pipeline, well, and cable monitoring, seismic and intrusion detection, and structural health monitoring. It builds patented sensing devices and provides on-site services internationally for industries seeking to protect infrastructure and optimize production.

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FDTS (Fed Data) provides IT technical services for U.S. government clients, including the Department of Defense and intelligence community, helping them optimize infrastructure, reduce costs, develop new capabilities, and improve security. The company focuses on IT support for defense and intelligence missions.

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Feelit develops sensing solutions using technology to capture and analyze data. The company serves customers across various industries with applications in data collection and analysis.

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Feltsense is a software company building fleets of AI agents that autonomously ideate, validate demand, and build companies. Its platform detects market signals and ships products against them, with a beta cohort of agent-built companies planned for 2026.

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FemtoFluidics is an early-stage company positioning around drug discovery, with a tagline referencing applying Moore's Law-style scaling to the field. The site is a pre-launch page and provides limited concrete detail about the product.

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