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HaloBraid

United States

Halo is a Boston-based hair-technology company building HaloBraid, a semi-autonomous braiding device that works alongside salon stylists rather than replacing them. After a stylist starts a braid by hand, the machine completes it, cutting braiding time several-fold and easing the repetitive strain on braiders. Founded by Harvard engineering alumni Yinka Ogunbiyi and David Afolabi, the company developed hundreds of prototypes before its planned salon launch.

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DataMint

Brazil

DataMint is a Rio de Janeiro-based startup that builds auditable AI software for managing physical assets in critical industrial operations such as oil and gas, energy, sanitation, and heavy industry. Its platform unifies data from industrial systems, ERPs, sensors, and operational logs to predict equipment failures, prioritize maintenance, and deliver traceable, real-time decision-support recommendations. Founded in 2021 by PUC-Rio computer-engineering professor Helio Cortes Vieira Lopes, the company evolved from a consultancy into a scalable platform serving regulated, asset-intensive sectors.

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Receipts Depositary Corporation

United States

Receipts Depositary Corporation (RDC) is a capital-markets infrastructure firm that issues depositary receipts (DRs) on digital and alternative assets, letting qualified institutional buyers own assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP through familiar, securities-style instruments cleared via the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. Founded by former Citigroup depositary-receipt executives, RDC applies the century-old DR structure to give institutions bankruptcy-remote, direct ownership claims on underlying assets held at regulated custodians. The company has launched multiple digital-asset DRs and partners with banks, broker-dealers, market makers, custodians and exchanges.

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Citring

Spain

Citring is a Barcelona-based hardware startup that designs, manufactures and sells innovative small kitchen appliances, best known for the Citring One, an automatic countertop citrus juicer that squeezes whole fruit at the push of a button. Founded in 2017 and an alumnus of the Lanzadera accelerator, the company manufactures in Spain and has sold several thousand units across roughly 60 countries through direct online channels and specialty electronics retailers. It positions itself as a category-defining consumer brand in automatic home citrus juicing.

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Tonada

Sweden

Tonada is a Stockholm-based AI music platform that generates original, royalty-free background music tailored to a brand's sonic identity. Its engine integrates with point-of-sale, foot-traffic, weather and time-of-day signals to adapt music in real time across retail, hospitality, and nightlife venues. The company has paying customers in Scandinavia, the DACH region, and Singapore.

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Kopra Bio

United States

Kopra Bio is a UCSF spinout founded in 2024 developing genetically engineered replicating retroviruses that infect tumor cells and reprogram them into local factories for immune-activating cytokines, training the patient's own immune system to attack the cancer. Its lead candidate, KB-516, delivers an IL-15 superagonist payload and targets glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer, via the company's InViTE (In Vivo Tumor Editing) platform. The company is based in San Francisco.

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TrackerSuite.AI

India

TrackerSuite.AI is an Indian software company building an AI-powered business operating system that lets small and medium enterprises digitise and automate everyday workflows across sales, operations, workforce management and inventory on a single platform. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Noida, the company serves more than 1,800 businesses across 25 countries spanning India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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Zeroramp

United Kingdom

Zeroramp is a UK-founded, EU-hosted technology startup building privacy-first AI tools for modern teams. Its flagship product, Zeno, is a fixed-price assistant that lives inside Slack and Microsoft Teams and answers questions across a company's data in Notion, SharePoint, Confluence and CRM systems, running on self-hosted EU models with a GDPR-native design. The fully-remote company positions Zeno as a sovereign, privacy-respecting alternative to token-priced, hyperscaler-dependent AI assistants.

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Corista

United States

Corista, founded in 2005 and based in Concord, Massachusetts, develops DP3, a digital pathology image-management platform used by hospitals, medical centers, and life-sciences labs. The software gives pathologists, data scientists, and researchers a central system for managing whole-slide image data, running analytics and annotations, and collaborating across sites. DP3 is CE-marked for in-vitro diagnostic use in Europe, licensed by Health Canada for clinical diagnoses, and pursuing FDA 510(k) clearance in the United States.