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Zeom

United Kingdom

Zeom is a wealthtech building a global investing platform aimed at Brazilian retail investors, founded in London by a team of Brazilians (Rafael Pereira, André Bastos, Bruno Maia and Roberto Ono Filho). Its app lets users instantly convert Brazilian reais into a global account via Pix and invest from as little as R$50 in international assets including fixed-income bonds, ETFs, equities and gold. The platform runs on blockchain-based infrastructure with AI tools to support users' financial planning.

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Kivira

United States

Kivira is an AI-powered mental health diagnostic platform built for primary care settings. Its app combines structured DSM-5-aligned assessments, digital phenotyping, and machine-learning analytics to help non-specialist clinicians reach more accurate, reproducible mental-health diagnoses in a short office visit. The company is running clinical pilots with health systems including UChicago Medicine and validating its approach with the Stanford Center for Precision Psychiatry.

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WinMoreBD

United States

WinMoreBD offers an AI-powered platform for government-contracting business development, automating capture strategy, proposals and post-award growth to improve win probability for GovCon firms. US-based.

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dodoAI

Japan

dodoAI is a Tokyo-based enterprise AI company building a "Sovereign Agentic OS" that lets organizations run AI agents under their own governance, with control, verification, and audit across business processes. The platform is LLM- and vendor-agnostic (supporting models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google) and deploys across public cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments, targeting regulated sectors like finance, manufacturing, telecom, energy, and insurance. Founded in 2022, the company operates development teams in Tokyo and Vietnam.

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Manifold AI

China

Manifold AI (流形空间) is a Beijing-based startup building world models as foundation models for physical and embodied AI, applying them to robotics and AI hardware in scenarios such as e-commerce logistics and 3C manufacturing. Its WorldScape real-time world model and WorldScape Policy action model have topped embodied-intelligence benchmarks including WorldScore, WorldArena and RoboTwin, ranking ahead of efforts from Nvidia and others. Founded in May 2025 by ex-SenseTime executive Dr. Wu Wei together with Tsinghua University's FIB Lab, the company has rapidly become one of the most-funded players in China's embodied-AI race.

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Orthogonal

United States

Orthogonal is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator (W26) startup building agentic payment infrastructure for APIs. Its platform gives AI agents a single API key and unified request format to discover, access, and pay per request for dozens of third-party data and service providers, removing the need to manage separate accounts, keys, billing, and auth. It launched targeting search, scraping, dataset, and AI-model APIs, positioning itself as a pay-per-use layer for agent-native workflows.

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Franklin

Denmark

Franklin is a Copenhagen-based fintech that provides a unified financial platform for e-commerce merchants, centered on payment cards built for high-volume advertising spend with uncapped cashback on ad, software and operations costs. Its AI automatically collects and reconciles receipts from platforms like Meta, Google and TikTok to automate bookkeeping, and the company is building toward "agentic finance" where AI agents reconcile, categorize and act on transactions. Founded in Denmark, it serves 250+ companies and is expanding into the Netherlands.

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Virbela

United States

Virbela builds an enterprise metaverse platform: a 3D virtual world for remote work, education and events designed by a team of behavioral psychologists. Founded in 2012, it was owned by eXp World Holdings before being returned to its founders in 2024.

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Lumenai

United Kingdom

Lumenai is an Oxford-incubated behavioral intelligence startup that measures human capabilities such as decision-making and adaptability through its Human Capability Indexing (HCIx) methodology, capturing over 50 data points on individual attitudes, values and workplace behaviors. Its SaaS platform turns subjective people data into objective, benchmarkable insights used for recruitment, retention and team effectiveness, and to help organizations integrate AI agents into their workforce. The company spun out of the Oxford University Innovation Startup Incubator and is founded by Antonia Manoochehri.