Global
Gemini
Startup Forum
Google for Startups, in partnership with Google DeepMind and Google Cloud, presents the Gemini Startup Forum, a unique two-day in-person event where the leaders of today's most innovative Seed to Series A startups will have the opportunity to engage in forward-thinking dialogue with AI experts from Google.
Global
Gemini
Startup Forum
About the initiative
About the initiative
The Gemini Startup Forum is designed as an intimate, two-day in-person gathering that fosters deep connections and unique insight sharing between founders and top AI experts from Google.
The initiative aims to facilitate deep, substantive conversations on the practical application and strategic integration of AI. This is not a typical conference; it is a collaborative exploration into how AI will redefine your industry, transform your company, and unlock unprecedented growth.
Why you should apply
Why you should apply
Gemini Startup Forum is an application based event for Seed to Series A startup founders who are committed to integrating AI as a core pillar of their growth strategy. Attendees are selected to ensure a high-caliber, collaborative environment.
- Engage with the teams shaping the present and future of AI at Google.
- Learn how to go further and scale your product with AI.
- Debate and co-create with fellow founders.
- Influence Gemini's evolution by providing direct feedback to the teams building it.
Key Dates
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July 22, 2026
Applications Open
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September 12, 2026
Application Deadline
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August - September
Selection Process
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November 2026
Gemini Startup Forum
Selected cohort
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Aesopic reimagines SaaS and AI security using AI agents to build the security immune system.
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AethexAI provides localized enterprise voice AI for inbound and outbound customer interactions across financial services, telecoms, insurance, and other high-volume industries in emerging markets. AethexAI owns the full stack, from speech models and telephony infrastructure to orchestration and deployment.
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Aniva Health is building the diagnostics layer for Europe. Pharmacies, clinics and health apps can order a blood panel, book the draw and get clean structured results back through one API, without integrating with a dozen labs themselves.
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Anoki is a multimodal AI company building the intelligence layer for Connected TV advertising. Its AI makes video ads more relevant and personalized through scene-level contextual intelligence and AI-powered creatives.
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Arctis AI builds agentic AI for preconstruction: autonomous AI agents read tender packages and contractor bids, and turn them into a structured, comparable, auditable evaluation. Arctis AI replaces the three to five days procurement teams spend levelling bids in Excel with an analysis that also surfaces the hidden scope gaps and risks a price comparison never shows.
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Assuric is an AI powered compliance platform specialised for healthtech.
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Autolane is the orchestration layer for autonomous last-mile delivery, letting retailers, property owners, and delivery apps dispatch AVs and delivery robots as easily as they dispatch human drivers. Autolane is live in production with Simon Property Group and running daily autonomous deliveries in Austin.
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autoMEE is an AI-native accounting platform that gives accounting firms an AI workforce for bookkeeping. It turns documents, transactions and company policies into accurate, auditable accounting decisions while integrating with existing accounting software.
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Axioma AI is an infrastructure startup that acts as a translation layer for the "AI web," enabling content publishers to identify, engage, and monetize traffic generated by AI agents.
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Axiomatic AI empowers engineers and scientists with verifiable AI, built on the rules of physics and the discipline of engineering.
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Base for Music is the data-driven marketing partner for producers, labels and music companies. Their marketing OS connects ad spend to audience, CRM and streaming data to drive growth with clear attribution.
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bem is the enterprise OS for managing your most critical unstructured data.
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Bidstitch App is a vintage clothing social network, appraisal app, and a marketplace.
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Bloom Security helps enterprises secure AI-native endpoints by giving security teams visibility and control over software, AI tools, agents, and configurations running across employee devices.
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Brief is the executive intelligence platform. It tracks the decisions a leader makes and the commitments their team makes back, and makes sure each one carries through.
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Canotera is an award-winning settlement forecasting and litigation outcome prediction platform built for insurers and legal teams who value foresight, precision, and control.
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CARAIO Technologies is building a hardware-agnostic, AI-assisted, human-supervised cytogenomics platform that streamlines chromosome analysis for oncology and neonatal care.
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Cautio is India's first full stack AI-powered fleet safety & mobility intelligence platform for commercial mobility.
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Clinware’s AI software automates post-acute care referral and admission processes, reimbursement, and patient care insights for end-to-end healthcare operations; eliminates manual documentation bottlenecks; and empowers care teams to make faster, data-driven clinical and financial decisions.
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Clipto AI is a multimodal AI platform that transforms videos, audio, images, meetings, and documents into searchable, actionable knowledge.
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CodeWall is building the future of cyber security and on a mission to create the world’s best AI super hackers.
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Core AI is a credit fintech that enables any company to offer credit to its customers. By delivering an end-to-end solution, from risk modeling using private data to credit facilities and collections, Core AI makes offering credit as simple as connecting to an API.
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Creed is an AI Companion for young Christians.
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Darkhunt provides AI Intelligence and Security for autonomous AI agents, continuously discovering how they behave, identifying exploitable attack paths, and turning those findings into real-time protection.
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Dash Security is the control plane to secure and govern AI agents, interactions and workflows on workstations and in the cloud.
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Deep Breathe improves the speed, accuracy, and accessibility of lung and trauma diagnostics by delivering AI-powered ultrasound interpretation tools that support real time diagnostics in any environment.
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Deepslate is a model lab developing speech to speech models and currently holds the title for the fastest response s2s model in the world.
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Destro AI helps warehouses run autonomous operations by controlling AMRs, humanoid, humans, and workflows through an AI Brain.
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Dharma-AI is an applied AI Lab that specializes in SLMs (Small Language Models) for enterprises, delivering state-of-the-art benchmarks for its clients to guarantee their AI Sovereignty.
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Dialogue AI is an AI native customer research platform that makes it possible to source participants, run live, adaptive interviews at scale, and synthesize insights in real time. Dialogue AI condenses the entire research process from weeks to hours.
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Echon Hongkong builds AI models and products for real-time video that responds instantly and evolves with every interaction.
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EnforceShield is an AI-native intellectual property rights enforcement system that autonomously handles the end-to-end online infringement takedown process for enterprise IP holders.
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Evergrowth provides an agentic workspace and agent orchestration for GTM teams.
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Exante Labs is an AI teammate for B2B finance teams that automates contract-to-cash, starting with collections. Its agents handle the manual work between sending an invoice and getting paid, including follow-ups, customer inquiries, disputes, document requests, and cash application.
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Exthymic is developing a next-generation device enabling hospital-based production of curative cell therapies like CAR-T, solving critical access and affordability barriers for patients.
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Faber AI builds autonomous manufacturing agents that automate mechanical engineering workflows, from design to fabrication.
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Floodlight converts satellite and remote-sensing data into audit-grade GHG measurement, physical climate risk analytics, and carbon sequestration verification for banks, municipalities, and industrial clients.
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Galtea is an enterprise-grade evaluation platform for LLMs and AI agents, giving teams custom test data and business-aligned metrics to ship reliable, production-ready AI. Galtea helps companies in regulated industries move faster while proving their AI is safe and trustworthy.
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Globhe is the global reality data platform tasking drones, robots and 360 cameras for digital twins and AI analysis of assets and environments.
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gNucleus AI provides end-to-end engineering AI solutions specifically designed for the enterprise.
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Grepr helps companies build self-healing operations that run efficiently at scale. Grepr optimizes telemetry data and extracts signals in real-time, feeding autonomous agents to keep systems healthy and avoid incidents.
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Hamming AI is the trust layer for voice AI agents.
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Hapiy.ai is turning enterprise companies ticketless by preventing support tickets before they occur. It learns how each customer uses their product, watching under the hood to catch problems before becoming tickets or resolve them instantly.
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Haut.AI is skin intelligence infrastructure — clinical-grade measurement and prediction of human skin and hair from a single phone photo. Haut.AI serves 110+ paying clients across consumer brands and pharma.
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Hera Video is an AI motion designer for growth team.
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HODOR is the identity and access control plane for agentic AI. Deployed as an intelligent gateway between AI agents and enterprise apps, it assigns every agent a unique identity tied to a verified human.
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Humbleai enables neurodivergent people to manage their thoughts and tasks.
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IntBot Inc. is a Silicon Valley startup building that social intelligence layer for Embodied AI.
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INVERTIX AI provides agentic architecture to make energy operations faster.
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KLIPY is an AI-native expression platform powering GIFs, stickers, clips, memes, emojis, and interactive AI experiences across thousands of apps.
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Kouper Health is an AI-native patient access and care coordination platform that helps healthcare organizations automate high-volume patient workflows.
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Latitude is enabling the future of AI Native games, with Voyage a platform where anyone can discover create and play worlds where characters feel alive and the world responds to everything you do.
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Lemon is the voice-to-AI that turns your thoughts into clear, clean, and structured outputs in all your favorite apps.
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Lightbase is the live map of your IT architecture to accelerate complex software projects and make faster decisions.
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Lightbringer is an AI-native patent service, bringing SaaS style operations to the legal services.
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Lightpanda is an open-source headless browser built from scratch and designed for AI and automation.
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Littlebird is an AI super-app for your entire life that serves as an extension of your mind.
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Mando is the system of record for enterprise systems of record. The platform enables admins to capture, retrieve, and replay any configuration change made to their mission-critical systems such as Workday, SAP, ServiceNow, and Salesforce.
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Manual is a physical AI lab building the intelligence layer for industrial robotic labor.
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Maven Bio is a pipeline and market intelligence layer built to make life science agents accurate and reliable.
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Memories.ai builds the visual memory layer for physical intelligence: an AI-native video data lake plus our own Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM), which turns unbounded raw video into structured, searchable, trainable memory.
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MinutaIA is Brazil’s leading legal AI platform, transforming legal drafting and case analysis.
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Multiply provides AI Agents to help wealth and advice firms to supercharge their teams and provide advice at scale.
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Mycroft is an end-to-end platform for FedRAMP, CMMC, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and more to navigate the complexities of highly regulated environments from the DIB to Fortune 500s.
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NeoSapien is building Neo 1, India's first AI-native wearable, a pendant that automatically captures meetings, extracts to-dos, delivers personalized briefings, and acts as an always-on AI assistant with infinite memory.
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Newo is the ready-to-deploy Voice Al built for human-quality conversations and real business outcomes.
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Nomadic AI helps robotics and autonomous-vehicle teams turn operational video and sensor data into useful training, evaluation, and post-training data.
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Nunchux AI builds the fastest and best infrastructure for multimodal generative AI, including image, video, and world models.
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Ocean Friends is building the AI-powered operating system for pediatric therapy, with continuity of care at its core.
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Ocean Security is an agentic email security platform. Its AI investigates every email the way a senior analyst would, understanding intent and validating context, to stop AI-powered targeted attacks that look normal and surface-level detection misses.
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Octavia Technologies is an AI-native Minerals Exploration company.
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Onepin is an AI voice production agent for work where audio can't be wrong. Every word sounds human, every word is right.
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Onfire AI is a B2B go-to-market data platform: it unifies CRM, intent signals, community chatter, hiring, GitHub activity, and public filings into one queryable data lake, resolving every signal to a verified company or person.
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Opener provides an agentic AI workforce to drive wholesale growth.
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Orion by Gravity is a collaborative analytics platform reading the semantic logic in a company's data warehouse and BI stack (Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, Looker), ensuring teams align on metrics.
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PellesAI is building the AI infrastructure for trade contractors, allowing them to turn their knowledge, data and workflows into their own AI-powered operating system. From estimating through project execution and closeout PellesAI helps contractors increase margins, save time and build better.
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Pi Security makes everything built with AI secure, from idea to production.
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Rabbit is the cost and performance intelligence layer for BigQuery. It autonomously optimizes enterprise capacity, infrastructure, and queries, while giving engineers and AI agents slot-level cost and performance context so they build efficient workloads from the start.
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Raccoon AI builds enterprise-grade AI employees that automate complex customer-facing and internal workflows.
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Raidium is a report drafting platform for radiologists, leveraging Jolia, Raidium's proprietary and SOTA foundation model for report generation.
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Rapidfolio automates complex manual processes across compliance, operations and fraud, with human-level accuracy and full auditability.
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Redpine is the knowledge layer for AI. Premium data is still the biggest bottleneck between AI and real impact in areas like health, law, and manufacturing. Redpine’s API helps AI builders and agents access this data and gives fair compensation back to content owners.
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ReN3 is an Agentic AI Work Productivity Platform purpose-built for super secure enterprises that demand accuracy, security, and control.
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Renaissance Geek builds the tools for the last mile of creative work: the ones that help you steer AI toward work worth shipping.
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Resemble AI creates the foundation models to detect deepfakes & AI generated content.
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Rise Data Labs provides high quality training data for frontier AI labs.
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Rival is building the AI supply chain for enterprise.
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Sagepilot provides AI employees to win, serve and grow your customers.
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Scienta Lab builds EVA, a world model of the immune system that predicts human immune response to new therapies.
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SenseMesh is an AI-powered operating system for the real world that transforms multi-camera feeds into a real-time, searchable Reality Graph.
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SimicX builds the research intelligence layer for enterprise R&D. Its AI reads the literature, tests which claims actually hold on data, and hands researchers what survives — live today with quant funds.
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Sinai.ai is an AI books platform that legally licenses publisher catalogs and transforms them into interactive, multi-lingual experiences - allowing readers to read, listen, and talk directly to books.
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Sondera is the semantic integrity platform for enterprise AI agents. Sondera turns business intent into verified code that checks every action before it runs, proving agents stay within the rules while letting them do more.
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Spiich Labs gives sales and CS teams their relationships back by handling the admin - prospecting, meeting prep, CRM updates, and follow-ups
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Swept provides AI governance and access control for high risk, legacy industries (insurance, banking, health, manufacturing).
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Swif.ai is a Unified Endpoint Management platform supporting Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Chromebooks, and Google Workspace. It is designed to help companies achieve rapid compliance with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA, with EU data residency options available.
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Taurus builds consumer brands autonomously.
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TidalWave Tech helps lenders close more loans faster by automating document review, data entry, and loan processing with proprietary AI agents working 24/7.
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Trajektory is the AI sponsorship intelligence platform that major sports teams, leagues, and brands use to measure the true ROI of their partnership investments.
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Valar Labs is the inference platform agentic and high-volume AI workloads.
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Verisoul helps other businesses prevent fraud and fake accounts.
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Vernus AI focuses on developing AI + Quantum + Simulation platform to facilitate pharmaceutical manufacturing process.
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VoiceFrom builds real-time speech intelligence that adapts what is said to whoever is listening: across languages, across proficiency levels, and on air-gapped networks where audio cannot go to the cloud.
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Vöiston is a healthcare technology company that transforms fragmented, unstructured clinical information into structured, governed data and AI-supported workflows for healthcare and life-sciences organizations.
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WealthMore is the AI native wealth tech transforming the wealth management industry with a "super" advisor. The future is a "super" advisor: AI wealth coach paired with a human advisor to help you build more wealth.
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Wren AI is an open-source, enterprise-grade generative business intelligence platform that helps organizations securely turn complex data into trusted insights using natural language.
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Xterra AI provides AI for mineral exploration.
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ZenStatement is the AI CFO Office for consumer goods & retail.
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Zero Billion is a consumer research lab building the human layer of the model economy.
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Zynap is a preemptive cybersecurity automation platform for MSSPs and enterprise security teams, unifying threat intelligence, workflows, and remediation into one AI- and agent-powered layer that acts on threats before they materialize — without ripping and replacing existing tools.
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