Deep Tech Startups

UniSieve develops advanced gas separation membrane technology for decarbonizing heavy-emitting industries, with applications including carbon capture, olefin separation, and hydrogen purification. Its membrane solutions target industrial emitters seeking energy-efficient gas separation.

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Unison develops hardware and software tools for creative and productive computing. The company builds technology designed to enrich daily life through creation rather than consumption.

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Unit Zero builds infrastructure and gathers real-world experience data to train machines to act in the physical world, using on-device reinforcement learning to develop their capabilities. The company focuses on robotics and embodied AI for physical tasks.

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UniverCell is an electrode and cell producer developing battery manufacturing technologies and operates a gigafactory in Europe with capacity to scale beyond 1.5 GWh. The company serves renewable energy and battery markets by optimizing production processes and replacing hazardous substances with environmentally friendly alternatives.

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Universal Fuel Technologies (UniFuel) is a chemical technology company whose Flexiforming process, patented across 12 countries, lets fuel and energy producers convert existing refining facilities to produce renewable fuels. It serves refiners and the aviation/energy sector transitioning from fossil to renewable fuels.

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UniSCool is a thermal management technology company spun off from the University of Lleida and Université de Sherbrooke, developed through over €500k in publicly financed research projects. The company serves industrial and commercial sectors requiring advanced thermal solutions.

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UNIVITY provides technology that enables telecom operators to deliver universal, high-performance connectivity, with a focus on space-based operations. It positions itself as a provider of affordable and sustainable connectivity infrastructure.

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Unixell Biotech develops advanced cell therapy platforms including reprogramming, stem cell differentiation, lineage tracing, and gene editing technologies to create neural cell therapeutics for clinical applications. The company's lead program is UX-DA001, a midbrain dopamine precursor cell therapy for Parkinson's disease, which has received clinical trial approval from Chinese and US regulatory authorities.

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Unjo develops customized motor controllers and integrated motor control systems for demanding industrial applications. The company combines hardware, software, and control engineering expertise to optimize motor performance, energy efficiency, and system effectiveness for both external customers and projects within its parent company HYDAC.

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Unleash BTS provides operations support, advanced engineering, and research & development services to the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community, including cyber analysis, counter-unmanned systems, cloud computing, and AI/ML applications for national security missions.

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Unobio is a biotech company running drug discovery programs that begin with patient data and validate candidates against patient biology at each stage, aiming to improve translation rates from preclinical work to clinical trials. Its approach targets the failure of programs that clear in vitro and animal models but fail in later-stage clinical phases.

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Unravel Bio uses computational drug discovery and advanced animal models to accelerate pharmaceutical development with lower cost and risk. The company serves biopharma partners, foundations, and patients seeking treatments for rare and complex diseases.

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Unreasonable Labs builds an AI discovery engine that integrates data across physics, biology, chemistry, materials, and markets to form theory-like abstractions, generate hypotheses, and produce cross-domain insights. It targets academic and government scientists, industrial R&D teams, and corporate strategy groups seeking an AI collaborator for research and discovery.

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Unruly Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in frontier technology, climate, crypto, and biotech. It backs founders working on ideas around depopulation, decentralization, new sovereigns, and peptide therapeutics.

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Unsiloed AI builds document parsing technology that segments pages into typed regions such as tables, figures, signatures, and handwriting, using attention-guided heatmaps to focus on key zones. It preserves document structure by keeping multi-page tables intact, rejoining split rows, and maintaining clause hierarchy.

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Unto Labs builds Thru, a base-layer blockchain that applies high-performance computing principles to distributed systems for scalability and performance. The company targets developers building on its blockchain platform.

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Unveil Instruments develops LightWeigh, a compact interferometric microscope for characterizing nanoparticles (20-300nm) including AAVs, lentiviruses, LNPs, and extracellular vesicles at single-particle level, serving gene therapy and biotech production teams.

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Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) is a research institution under the Czech Academy of Sciences conducting basic research at the intersection of chemistry, biology, and computational sciences, with a systematic infrastructure for translating scientific discoveries into commercial products and technologies.

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The University of Manchester's technology transfer office that commercializes academic research and intellectual property through spinout creation and licensing arrangements. It works with university inventors to identify and develop innovations for societal impact.

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Upnano develops specialized photoresins for two-photon polymerization printing, enabling high-resolution manufacturing of micro- and nanoscale parts with complex geometries. The company serves precision manufacturing and microstructure fabrication markets requiring intricate 3D details and free-floating elements.

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Upscale AI builds networking infrastructure purpose-built for AI workloads, including scale-up rack networking (SkyHammer) and open Ethernet fabrics based on NVIDIA Spectrum-X silicon and a SONiC-based network OS. Its full-stack platform spans silicon, systems, and software to connect accelerators, memory, and storage for large-scale AI training and inference.

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Dynamic Map Platform (DMP) North America is a geospatial measurement and software company that produces high-definition maps and road data for advanced driver assistance, semi-autonomous, and autonomous driving applications. It also supplies high-precision road data for government, transportation, and smart city infrastructure projects across the US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and Western Europe.

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UVify makes the Draco, a modular racing drone with a carbon fiber frame designed for racing, freestyle flying, and aerial cinematography. The drone features swappable components, a solder-free and wire-free build, and interchangeable analog or HD video systems for drone pilots and racers.

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V-Labs provides augmented reality glasses with GNSS/RTK positioning for field work, enabling surveyors, contractors, and utilities to visualize and measure geospatial data with centimeter accuracy. The platform integrates work instructions and remote assistance to optimize field operations for utilities, railways, and construction contractors.

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