Deep Tech Startups

Axent Biosciences develops stem cell therapies to treat diseases like Parkinson's, using a proprietary cell cultivation platform to enable scalable and cost-effective manufacturing. The company was spun out of UC Berkeley research and aims to make stem cell therapies broadly accessible.

1 investor

Axial Orthopaedics is a medtech company in orthopedic healthcare, with leadership experienced in strategic exits.

1 investor

Axioforce manufactures portable 6-axis force plates that measure full 3D forces and moments at 1000 Hz for athletic performance testing and biomechanical analysis. The systems are designed for use in sports training, clinical settings, and research environments where lab-grade precision is needed in a lightweight, field-deployable package.

1 investor

Axiometrix Solutions is a unified portfolio of precision measurement and analysis solutions that enable engineers to capture physical signals with sensors, convert them into data, and analyze the output through integrated software. The company serves industries requiring high-fidelity signal measurement and analysis across audio, acoustics, and test & measurement domains.

1 investor

Axis provides risk-managed yield generation on USD, Bitcoin, and gold holdings, using delta-neutral arbitrage strategies to deliver returns without market volatility exposure. It serves investors of all sizes in the digital asset and crypto markets.

1 investor

Axis Cades is a publicly traded company in India that provides engineering and technology solutions. The company is listed on Indian stock exchanges and publishes regular financial and governance disclosures.

1 investor

Axoiya Bio develops phosphotyrosine enrichment reagents using proprietary superbinder technology to detect rare, low-abundance phosphorylation events for deeper phosphoproteome coverage. Its products serve researchers conducting phosphoproteomics studies in the life sciences.

1 investor

Axonal Networks develops photonics-based networking technology aimed at scaling connectivity and performance in data centers and AI clusters. Its approach targets low-latency communication and greater scalability of ethernet switch fabrics.

1 investor

Axon Labs builds brain-inspired AI that runs on small, efficient world models at the edge to make sub-second predictions, with its first application in high-frequency trading and capital markets. The company aims to extend its real-time predictive intelligence to wearables, edge devices, robotics, and autonomous systems.

1 investor

Axxam develops AXXSense, a cell-based platform for assessing taste and olfactory properties of pharmaceutical compounds during drug development. The platform uses human bitter taste receptors and trigeminal assays to predict bitterness and off-tastes early in the pipeline, helping pharmaceutical companies optimize formulations and reduce late-stage reformulation risks.

1 investor

Axy is a research knowledge tool that compiles a concept-level map of a scientific field from published papers, with each connection referencing its source and changes reviewed before inclusion. It targets researchers and labs, letting them query the field in plain language to surface conceptual bridges and gaps and to preserve institutional knowledge during team handovers.

1 investor

Azitek provides real-time tracking and monitoring for material handling equipment such as forklifts and tugger trains in warehouses and manufacturing facilities. The system uses gateway-based vehicle tracking, beacon-based zone detection, and automated analytics to optimize fleet utilization and worker safety.

1 investor

Azkarra Therapeutics develops small molecule drugs targeting DNA damage repair and immune response pathways for cancer and inflammatory diseases. The company focuses on novel PARP inhibitors, PARG inhibitors, and OGG1 inhibitors as next-generation precision therapeutics.

1 investor

Babayte develops onboard AI for civilian UAVs that keeps drones operating in degraded conditions with failing sensors, using multi-sensor fusion and sub-53ms reaction times. It offers SDK integration aimed at drone manufacturers, fleet operators, and integrators.

1 investor

BACCH Labs develops 3D spatial audio software and filters that render existing stereo or surround content into spatial audio on standard stereo devices, headphones, and multi-speaker arrays. It licenses its IP portfolio, originating from Princeton University's 3D3A Laboratory, to B2B customers via SDKs and sells consumer software plug-ins for applications in VR/AR, automotive, gaming, cinema, and pro/consumer audio.

1 investor

Bailout Systems designs and produces hands-free descent technology intended to lower people safely in high-stakes professional environments. Its lightweight, portable devices accommodate varying speeds, line diameters, and weights for users across multiple industries.

1 investor

Bakelite manufactures specialty chemicals and phenolic-based materials, including urea resins, aromatic polyols, formaldehyde, molding compounds, catalysts, and asphalt additives for industrial customers. It supplies these materials to manufacturers across applications requiring heat resistance, insulation, and fire/smoke/toxicity performance.

1 investor

Ballydel Technologies develops novel materials and manufacturing processes for use in pharmaceutical, defense, energy, and consumer goods applications.

1 investor

Balthazar provides an R&D knowledge base and data platform for hardware and device development labs, replacing spreadsheets with a searchable database that links prototypes to their designs, recipes, experiments, parameters, and test results. It offers shared workspaces, version-controlled protocols, and ML-driven insights to help engineering teams standardize processes and optimize designs across experiments.

1 investor

Baltic Sandbox Ventures is an early-stage investor and program operator running a 7-week equity-free incubation, a 6-month acceleration (Business Development Lab), and seed investments for deep-tech founders. It backs R&D-driven teams with scientific backgrounds building in domains such as AI/ML, life sciences (BioTech, MedTech), and hardware (robotics, IoT, space).

1 investor

Banbury Road is an AI research company developing locally-trained models designed to outperform large closed-source models on frontier tasks, pursuing a scaling approach based on many coordinated smaller models rather than a single large one.

1 investor

Bandicoot offers a scanning and digitization service that converts physical fabrics into high-quality PBR texture maps and digital materials for fashion and furnishing textiles. The service handles material capture, processing, tiling, stitching, and 3D rendering, enabling designers, manufacturers, and creative agencies to integrate digital fabric samples into their workflows without building in-house digitization expertise.

1 investor

Banyu Carbon develops a photochemical carbon capture process that uses sunlight to release CO2 from seawater, which naturally absorbs atmospheric carbon, for storage in geologic formations or industrial use. It aims to lower the cost of carbon removal and sell verified carbon credits to companies and governments with climate goals.

1 investor

Baobab AiBio develops therapeutics through a drug discovery pipeline (including candidates GF-103 and GF-203) using cryo-electron microscopy, protein engineering, and quantum computing. It also offers services such as structure determination, electron tomography, protein engineering, and HPC-based modeling.

1 investor