Deep Tech Startups

Focus XR provides tutor-led immersive courses using VR and mixed reality technology for students, colleges, and workforce training across multiple industries including construction, automotive, and health. The platform offers certified courses, virtual simulations, and customizable training content at reduced cost compared to traditional VR development.

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Groupe Fondasol provides engineering and technical expertise services to local governments, public administrations, and industrial operators across infrastructure, energy, and civil engineering projects. The company serves clients managing construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation of roads, utilities, renewable energy facilities, and port infrastructure in France.

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Foothill Ventures is an early-stage technology venture fund that invests in frontier tech, infrastructure, and AI applications. It backs founding teams with technical differentiation, often in cross-disciplinary areas.

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Forceteck develops AI-powered biomechanics analysis software that uses computer vision and machine learning to assess athlete performance for elite sports teams and coaches. The platform translates complex motion capture and wearable sensor data into actionable coaching insights rooted in computational biomechanics research.

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Foresight is a platform that integrates water utility network data to enable AI-driven asset management, including leak prediction and infrastructure monitoring. The company serves water utilities seeking to improve operational efficiency and decision-making through machine learning tools.

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Forge Robotics develops fully modular autonomous factories composed of self-contained, self-operating production modules (welding, scanning, engraving) that can be reconfigured in software and relocated physically for manufacturers. The company serves metal goods manufacturers including automotive suppliers, contract fabricators, and industrial equipment OEMs requiring precision welding, engraving, and scanning.

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Forge Therapeutics operates a drug discovery platform focused on developing medicines that target human metalloenzymes. The company works on a pipeline of therapeutic programs based on this metalloenzyme-targeting approach.

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Formal Technology is building a new computing stack aimed at elastic, isolated, and globally available serverless execution, using formal verification and compilers. The company is developing infrastructure for cloud/serverless computing.

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Formel.ai combines generative AI with formal methods (mathematical verification) to build large language models that provide logical consistency guarantees, enforceable constraints, and full traceability for enterprise use cases including document auditing and compliance verification.

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Foro Energy develops and deploys high-power laser systems for drilling, decommissioning, and other well intervention applications in the oil, natural gas, geothermal, and mining industries. The company serves energy operators seeking to maximize operational performance and efficiency across the lifecycle of their assets.

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Forsway develops satellite and network equipment including modulators, IP encapsulators, and routers that extend network capacity and reach, primarily for hybrid internet-over-satellite services.

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Fortastra builds low-cost, maneuverable spacecraft designed to defend infrastructure in orbit, combining commercial components with custom engineering. Its systems use open-architecture software to autonomously sense, maneuver, coordinate, and respond to orbital threats when human operators cannot stay in the loop.

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Forward Deployed Venture Capital (FDVC) is a venture capital firm led by General Partner Mark Scianna that invests in mission-critical sectors including defense, energy, industrials, and artificial intelligence. Founded by a former Palantir forward deployed engineer, the firm launched its Fund I in 2022 with a focus on early-stage technology companies.

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FotoNation is a fabless silicon company developing TriSilica, an edge AI chip platform that fuses vision, audio, thermal, mmWave, and inertial sensing with a compute-near-memory architecture to process only relevant data at low power. It targets embodied/physical AI, wearables, surveillance, mobility, defense, and agentic edge systems, and licenses its TriSense IP to partners.

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Foundry BioSciences develops protein language models powered by AI for protein engineering to address aging and longevity. The company serves users, partners, and patients globally through novel protein sequences.

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Fourien designs and manufactures microfluidic and BioMEMS-based analytical instruments and sensors for measuring physical, thermal, and chemical properties of very small volumes of reagents. Its products serve researchers and industries such as pharmaceutical, petrochemical, polymer, and drug R&D, supporting applications like blood coagulation, DNA melting, antimicrobial testing, and nanoscale material characterization.

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Fourier Instruments builds reconfigurable FPGA SoC hardware platforms that enable real-time signal processing and instrumentation with sub-microsecond latency, allowing researchers and instrument developers to focus on their applications rather than low-level hardware engineering.

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Fourth Power develops thermal energy storage technology that converts electricity into heat for storage and back to electricity on demand, using high-temperature molten tin and thermophotovoltaic conversion. The company targets utility-scale and industrial applications for grid energy storage and decarbonization.

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Fovus offers a serverless high-performance computing (HPC) platform that auto-benchmarks workloads, determines optimal cloud HPC strategies, and auto-scales resources across cloud zones to reduce runtime and cost. It uses AI-driven optimization and spot instances to manage cloud HPC logistics for teams running compute-intensive innovation workloads.

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FoxyAI applies computer vision and machine learning to real estate imagery to produce property intelligence and actionable data for property professionals. Its models are aimed at helping real estate professionals lower costs and improve margins.

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FPR Energy develops particle-based concentrated solar thermal (CST) technology to deliver zero-emissions heat and power for industrial processes, particularly those requiring high-temperature heat above 500°C. The system uses ceramic particles to capture and store solar energy for on-demand operation up to 24/7.

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FPSystem develops biometric identification technology using near-infrared (NIR) technology for secure and discreet identification purposes.

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Fracktal Works designs and manufactures 3D printers and digital fabrication tools for individuals and organizations to build hardware products affordably. The company enables access to high-quality manufacturing technology and solutions in the digital manufacturing sector.

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Franchetti is an engineering services firm specializing in structural assessment, safety evaluation, and monitoring of existing infrastructure including bridges, viaducts, and historical monuments. The company serves public clients, construction firms, and project developers with technical expertise in concrete, steel, and masonry structures across Italy and Brazil.

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