Deep Tech Startups

Wonderf manufactures induction heating reflow equipment and 3D resin-based touch panels for industrial applications, serving manufacturers and electronics companies in Japan. The company specializes in custom manufacturing solutions and collaborative engineering partnerships with other technology firms.

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Wootz Nano manufactures RFID antenna solutions using carbon nanotubes, offering durable, flexible tags resistant to harsh environments for industrial and logistics applications.

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Workshop Labs is a research lab and public benefit corporation building user-aligned AI models intended to augment individuals rather than automate them. It positions its work as AI that works for the user rather than replacing them.

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Personal website of Bret Victor, who leads Dynamicland, a research effort building a "dynamic medium" and Realtalk, a self-hosted spatial computing system. The site documents his research on programming interfaces, human-computer interaction, and next-generation computing environments.

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X, also known as The Moonshot Factory, is a research and development organization born at Google that develops early-stage technologies aimed at solving large-scale global problems. Its projects have included the self-driving car and other experimental "moonshot" ventures.

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X-Imaging develops laboratory automation systems and collaborative robots for applied chemistry, life sciences, and microbiology research, serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and material science laboratories.

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X-nano develops nanomaterials to support the energy transition, targeting critical steps in electric storage (lithium-ion batteries), clean hydrogen, and next-generation nuclear (fourth-gen fission and fusion) energy sectors. The company is a deeptech spinoff from the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).

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XSpectra is an X-ray inspection system for food and beverage manufacturers that detects foreign material contamination on production lines. The proprietary technology uses internally developed hardware and software to ensure product compliance with quality standards.

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Project Xanadu is a long-running hypertext research project, founded in 1960, developing a system of "parallel pages" with visible connections between electronic documents, along with a matching "transcopyright" licensing model for remixing content with automatic attribution.

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xavveo develops photonic-controlled radar technology for autonomous systems and senior care monitoring, enabling non-invasive environmental detection without cameras or wearables. The company serves autonomous systems manufacturers and elder care providers with AI-powered sensing solutions.

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未知君 (XBiome) develops microbiome-based therapeutics and diagnostics using AI-driven bioengineering, targeting diseases including cancer immunotherapy, inflammatory conditions, and autism through live bacterial therapeutics and fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). The company operates in China with clinical development, manufacturing, and computational biology capabilities across multiple cities.

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X-Centric Sciences develops systems for rapid soil characterization, with a focus on measuring soil carbon and density to support agricultural productivity and climate change mitigation efforts.

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Xcert provides a knowledge graph platform that ingests organizational documents and procedures to augment internal knowledge and support future queries and conversations.

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xCraft designs and manufactures unmanned aerial systems (drones) for enterprise and military markets, with custom-built solutions tailored to specific use cases in defense, energy, security, public safety, agriculture, and infrastructure inspection. The company focuses on optimized aircraft designs rather than standardized quadcopter models.

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XDLinx designs and manufactures small satellite bus platforms running the Antaris SatOS operating system, supporting various Earth observation, synthetic aperture radar, signals intelligence, and IoT payloads. The company serves commercial and government customers operating satellite constellations for Earth observation and data collection missions.

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Xelera designs accelerated software platforms for high-throughput, low-latency computing, serving customers in cloud data centers, network infrastructure, financial services, and telecommunications markets.

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Xenith IG designs, builds, and operates wholly owned metro dark fibre networks across seven Asia-Pacific markets. It provides connectivity infrastructure to hyperscalers, data centre operators, enterprises, SaaS providers, public sector bodies, carriers, and CDNs.

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XenomatiX provides 6D road scanning using lidar to inspect pavement condition, generating 3D surface geometry, crack and pothole detection, and road quality indices (IRI, PCI, rutting) that integrate into GIS systems. It serves road network owners, municipalities, and logistics operators seeking automated, AI-based pavement inspection and road management.

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Xent is an AI research lab developing "cognitive training," a self-improvement loop in which a language model generates its own training tasks, keeps those worth creating, and learns from them via a reinforcement-learning algorithm. Its work spans a paradigm, a task space of self-scored games, and a training method aimed at improving the cognitive abilities of language models toward artificial general intelligence.

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XEra Energy develops separation and purification methods for processing critical minerals and recycling lithium-ion batteries, targeting regions with gaps in scalable, profitable processing capabilities.

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XiniX AI builds Sprout, a soft "vine-growth" robot that navigates and inspects tight, hazardous confined industrial spaces such as petrochemical columns, reactor vessels, pipelines, and nuclear containment structures. It pairs the robot with Forge, an AI platform that processes inspection sensor data to detect anomalies and generate maintenance intelligence for critical-asset operators in industries like oil & gas and nuclear.

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Xinterra operates the Xinterra Design Factory (XDF), a platform combining high-throughput experimentation, a proprietary materials database, and artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery and development of new materials and formulations. It serves industrial customers seeking sustainable materials and applies physics-inspired design and data augmentation to guide experiments.

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XJet develops 3D printing systems for metal and ceramic additive manufacturing, serving industries including aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and jewelry. The company's technology enables high-resolution part production at scale with complex internal structures.

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Xmov (Mofa) builds AI-driven 3D digital humans, using 3D graphics and generative AI for photorealistic avatars that can speak, interact, and complete tasks. It offers products for AI video generation, live-streaming, conversational agents, and an open developer platform, serving enterprises across sectors such as healthcare, education, retail, broadcasting, and government.

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