Startups shaping
the future

Building autonomous fighter jets and drones for European militaries.

French defence AI company partnering with Dassault on next-gen fighter jets and drones.

Building defence AI systems for the Finnish military in partnership with Nokia.

Modular unmanned ground vehicles for military applications, partnered with Helsing.

German defence sensor technology for radar, optronics, and electronic warfare.

Ukrainian drone manufacturer producing fixed-wing UAVs for reconnaissance.

Building compact fusion power plants backed by Google and Nvidia.

Fusion generators harvesting electricity directly, supplying Microsoft by 2028.

Pursuing hydrogen-boron fusion, merged in a $6B deal.

European fusion startup developing stellarator-based power plants.

Bill Gates-backed fusion company developing stellarator reactors.

Fusion reactors spun out of University of Wisconsin, targeting $40/MWh energy costs.

Fusion power technology startup with a $450 million Series A.

AI video generation and world models for creative professionals and autonomous vehicles.

AI video generation and editing platform creating cinematic content from text.

Building Flux, one of the leading open-source AI image and video models.

AI video and 3D generation turning text prompts into photorealistic content.

AI music generation platform now partnering with Universal, Sony, and Warner.

AI voice generation, celebrity voice licensing, and podcast generation.

AI image generation platform creating photorealistic and artistic visuals from text.

Ethically trained AI video generation built by former DeepMind researchers.

AI video generation platform creating realistic avatar-presented videos from text.

Real-time AI VFX for de-aging actors, used in Tom Hanks' "Here" and Mad Max.

AI VFX tool that automatically composites CG characters into live scenes, acquired by Autodesk.

AI coding assistant that has become the fastest-growing developer tool.

Creator of Devin, the autonomous AI coding agent. Acquired Windsurf.

Eric Schmidt-backed AI coding assistant for enterprise software development.

AI app builder that hit $100M annual revenue just 8 months after launch.

Open-source framework for building AI copilots using the AG-UI protocol.

Building general-purpose humanoid robots for commercial deployment.

Pioneering advanced mobile robots for warehouse and industrial use.

Developing humanoid robots powered by neural networks for everyday tasks.

Builds Digit, a humanoid robot designed for warehouse logistics, tested at Amazon.

General-purpose robots that collaborate with humans, led by ex-Amazon robotics head.

Chinese manufacturer of affordable humanoid and quadruped robots.

German cognitive humanoid robot company with early access to Nvidia's robotics tools.

Builds humanoid robots and rehabilitation robotics for healthcare.

Operating autonomous robotaxi services across major US cities.

Autonomous truck systems running driverless routes between Dallas and Houston.

AI-first autonomous trucking company partnered with Volvo for commercial deployment.

Chinese autonomous vehicle company operating robotaxis in multiple countries.

Chinese autonomous driving technology for mass-production vehicles, testing with Uber in Germany.

Electric autonomous freight trucks already operating for PepsiCo and Carlsberg.

Building electric air taxis for urban passenger flights, launching in Dubai.

Building electric vertical take-off aircraft for military and urban air mobility.

Hybrid-electric aircraft and charging infrastructure for sustainable aviation.

UK-based eVTOL manufacturer pivoting to defence applications.

Aircraft operating system automating the most dangerous aspects of flying, integrated on Black Hawks.

Building wafer-scale AI chips that power OpenAI Codex as part of a $10B deal.

AI accelerator chips designed to challenge Nvidia with ultra-fast inference.

Photonic chips for data centre interconnects that surpass Nvidia's NVLink.

GPU cloud infrastructure purpose-built for AI and machine learning workloads.

Quantum-inspired AI compression making large models run 4-12x faster on smaller hardware.

Using AI to reimagine drug discovery and design new medicines.

Combining AI with biology to industrialise drug discovery.

AI drug development with custom OpenAI models, 3 drugs in pipeline.

AI-first drug discovery using foundation models, launched with $1B.

AI protein design led by the former head of Google's AlphaFold team.

French AI biology startup building foundation models for medical data.

Detecting deepfakes and AI-generated media in real time for NYT and BBC.

Deepfake audio detection trained on 20 million audio files.

Helps organisations detect and counter disinformation attacks.

Anti-disinformation platform used by the UK Foreign Office.

Swiss AI security startup protecting LLMs from prompt injection and data leakage.

Brain-computer interfaces enabling nonverbal patients to control devices with thought.

Brain implants restoring vision - 80% of blind patients saw improvements in trials.

Advanced bionic prosthetic arms using machine learning to interpret neural signals.

Developing AI pilots for autonomous aircraft and drones.

Creating autonomous defence systems, surveillance platforms, and military AR headsets.

Autonomous drone coordination platform enabling multi-manufacturer swarm interoperability.

Building autonomous drone systems for the US military.

Precision cruise missiles and VTOL aircraft, founded by a 21-year-old MIT dropout.

Develops and manufactures hypersonic missiles and autonomous defence systems.

Precision-guided anti-drone weapons that automatically aim and disable threats.

Autonomous drone systems with computer vision for defence and search & rescue.

Ukrainian drone manufacturer producing fixed-wing UAVs for reconnaissance.

Operates the largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites providing daily global data.

Ultra-high-resolution satellite imagery at 10cm per pixel from very low orbit.

Satellite imagery platform connecting users to 50+ geospatial providers.

Satellite imagery and geospatial intelligence platform, pivoted fully to defence.

Satellite-powered AI that discovered a 329M tonne lithium deposit in Canada.

Figma-like collaborative platform for satellite imagery and geospatial analysis.

Satellite threat detection platform founded by a former NASA Mars researcher.

Bill Gates-founded nuclear innovation company with approval to build a new reactor.

Building new nuclear reactors at pre-approved sites for faster deployment.

Portable microreactors co-located with data centres for clean energy.

Alphabet-spun-out drone delivery service expanding to 150+ Walmart stores.

Autonomous drone delivery platform for medical supplies and consumer goods at scale.

Autonomous sidewalk delivery robots operating in urban environments.

Autonomous delivery vehicles designed exclusively for transporting goods on public roads.

Europe's leading AI lab, rivalling OpenAI with open-source and commercial models.

Building Flux, one of the leading open-source AI image and video models.

French AI lab building open-source real-time voice AI models.

Paris-based AI agent startup that raised $220M before releasing a product.

AI coding assistant that has become the fastest-growing developer tool.

AI app builder that hit $100M annual revenue just 8 months after launch.

AI collaboration platform backed by Bezos, Nvidia, and Google at $4.48B valuation - 3 months after founding.

French defence AI company partnering with Dassault on next-gen fighter jets and drones.

Hiring expert annotators to train AI models, paying up to $200/hour.

Open-source framework for orchestrating autonomous AI agent teams.

Chinese AI agent platform for autonomous task completion.

Low-code framework for building and deploying AI agents at scale.

AI meeting assistant for transcription and summaries, valued at $1B.

AI-powered notetaking app enhancing meeting notes with contextual intelligence.

Reimagining office software for the AI era using generative UI.

AI enterprise agents that automate workflows by observing user actions.

First private company to run a quantum computer commercially.

Quantum computing company that achieved 1,225 qubits using neutral atoms.

Post-quantum cryptography and AI security company spun out of Google.

Quantum-inspired AI compression making large models run 4-12x faster on smaller hardware.

AI voice generation, celebrity voice licensing, and podcast generation.

AI music generation platform now partnering with Universal, Sony, and Warner.

Deepfake audio detection trained on 20 million audio files.

Voice coaching app with $12M ARR and 50,000 paying subscribers.

French AI lab building open-source real-time voice AI models.

Enterprise conversational AI platform used by Yahoo, Airbus, and AT&T.