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Published: November 12, 2025 at 3:06 pm
Niamh Donnelly takes to the stage to represent Ireland’s Akara Robotics.
The Trinity College spinout builds smart robots to help hospitals clean and manage spaces more efficiently.
Akara also develops software that tracks cleaning schedules and room usage, helping hospitals run more smoothly.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 3:02 pm
CEO of Traceless, Jakob Roskamp, is pitching to the audience now.
The Germany-founded firm is developing a bio-based alternative to conventional plastic that is made from agricultural waste.
’BE PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT PART OF THE POLLUTION’ – is a standout.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:58 pm
The UK is being represented by Rachel Curtis’ inicio.ai and she clearly has a few fans in the crowd!
The company’s AI-powered platform – Budgie – helps users complete income and expenditure assessments.
It has 25 signed clients already and has doubled revenues.
A GP Bullhoud innovation award, investment from Morgan Stanley and the UK’s largest award for a pitching competition at £1.35 million are among the company’s accolades.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:54 pm
Alfredo Saenger is pitching his UAE-founded firm Electrogenos.
It develops and manufactures next-generation alkaline electrolysers for green hydrogen production.
It’s team is composed of scientists, engineers and manufacturing experts.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:50 pm
Balca Yilmaz, who co-founded Werover, is next to present to the audience and the judges.
The company produces and develops AI, IoT and robotic solutions for early damage detection, health monitoring, risk planning and digitalisation of renewable energy assets.
It has customers across Europe and has a subscription-based model.
It’s raised over $2 million in under two years.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:44 pm
Sweden’s Rebaba creates circular battery energy storage systems by repurposing used electric vehicle (EV) batteries.
Paula Runsten co-founded the firm in 2023 and is pitching on stage.
The company has helped its clients cut energy costs by 40%.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:42 pm
South African alternative investment platform Altify is up next.
Sean Sanders created the company in late 2023 and is on stage now.
The company is building an ‘investing and saving super app’ making it easier to manage wealth.
It has raised $6.5 million, generated $1.4 million in revenue and has over 80,000 users.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Nanopalm, a DeepTech from Saudi Arabia, is up next.
Founder and CEO Ali AlHasan is explaining how the company develops and manufactures nanoparticles for gene therapy.
It’s focused on treating genetic diseases like sickle cell disease.
The company has already raised $2.1 million.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:33 pm
This offering from the Philippines is a business intelligence platform using AI to help to improve employee experience and predict employee turnover.
In 2024, it saved its 17 clients over $70 million.
Bo Discarga is representing the company on the stage now.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:29 pm
Selection Lab is the company representing The Netherlands.
Co-founder Lotte Welten is on stage pitching the company which provides an AI-powered assessment platform.
This helps businesses to better evaluate job applications.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:26 pm
Lots of EnviroTechs in the running here – Cristobal Fonseca is now pitching Mexican-based microendo.
It’s already grown to nearly $2 million in revenue in three years and operates in Colombia, Mexico and the US.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:23 pm
Rhinoflux founder and CEO Alex Mazawa brings his EnviroTech to the stage.
The firm’s proprietary liquid-based process uses a hydrochemical looping method to capture and store CO2 from sources like biomass, creating a carbon-negative energy source.
These plants, like the ‘Rhino House’, are designed for decentralised, efficient power generation and can be installed in various spaces.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:19 pm
Sayak Ghosh is now on stage pitching his AI SportTech Step Out.
The Indian-based company already has an array of huge clients in the sporting world and operates in 22 countries.
Its been growing 5x year-on-year and 80% of its business is international.
Jaap Stam and Paulo Futre are advisors for the company which is enhancing analysis with the use of AI.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:15 pm
Jorge Monteiro is pitching his startup Ethiack in his home country.
The cybersecurity firm uses a platform combining AI agents and human ethical hackers to provide continuous security testing for businesses.
It performs autonomous ethical hacking to identify and manage vulnerabilities, acting as a proactive defense against cyberattacks.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:09 pm
Finnish startup Flow Computing is developing a parallel processing unit (PPU) architecture designed to boost CPU performance for tasks such as AI, data centers, and autonomous vehicles.
The company says its technology can make processors up to 100 times faster without major software changes, helping existing and new applications run more efficiently.
Timo Valtonen, co-founder and CEO, is live on Stage 6 now.
He says the industry will be an estimated €150 billion by 2035.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Kristi Lember, global business developer, is pitching for ÄIO.
The company uses precision fermentation to create sustainable oils and fats from agricultural and wood industry byproducts like sawdust.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:03 pm
Colombia’s Valentina Agudelo Vargas is pitching for the company that she co-founded with two friends.
Together, they have developed a portable breast cancer detection service – Julieta.
The company model means that it can charge as low as $5 for a screening.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Luis Fernando Magalhães is next to take the stage. He’s the co-founder of Brazil-based CleanTech O2eco.
It’s looking to disrupt the $600 billion global water and wastewater treatment market.
“We can help countries and companies to keep their water promises,” he says.
The company is developing natural bio-stimulation technology to help clean and restore rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 1:54 pm
The company is Europe’s largest battery optimiser.
Published: November 12, 2025 at 1:50 pm
I’m here covering the KPMG Global Tech Innovator Final on Stage 6.
It’s the most full I’ve seen any stage so far this week!
20 national winners from around the world are competing for the chance to be crowned global champion.
Last year Japanese finalist Rudder Wu, CTO of Thermalytica, claimed the top prize.
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