Meet the 2026 Semi-Finalists

AI Health Genie is a personal health operating system that uses AI and global medicine insights to translate complex health data into simple, personalized actions.

Color42.ai turns music into compelling videos using Agentic AI to generate cinematic scenes—locations, lighting, and camera effects—that match the song’s mood and content.

Transforming substance use care with tech-enabled, evidence-based harm-reduction solutions—delivering accessible, scalable, and personalized support that meets people where they are.

AI reputation infrastructure that ensures brands are accurately recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity—driving 3x more high-intent pipeline.
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Reclaim Metals Inc. commercializes AI-powered optical sorting technology to turn low-value aluminum scrap into high-value alloys, unlocking a $2.3B arbitrage opportunity.
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SECONDSITE uses AI to monitor construction job sites and flag potential rework and safety issues before they become costly problems.

Modernizing preclinical animal behavior analysis, delivering objective, high-resolution behavioral data that improves drug development decisions and reduces costly clinical failures.

Elementrailer builds intelligent, self-propelled electric utility trailers that eliminate the range, efficiency, and operational penalties of towing.

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Kednus is the AI-native enterprise control platform for digital assets—turning multi-chain transactions into reconciled, audit-ready financial truth in real time.
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Integrates quantitative proteomics reagents, services, and an in silico modeling platform to deliver more predictive, translationally relevant drug development decisions.

An integrated, AI-powered ENT care platform that replaces outdated, subjective exams with data-driven diagnosis, reducing unnecessary specialist visits and long wait times while making accurate ENT care accessible at scale.

SmartVerify is the safety layer enterprises need to leverage agentic AI, creating guardrails for your AI agents defined by policies set on the data.

Addressing the US wildfire crisis by retrofitting heavy equipment with bolt-on technology that enables semi-autonomous remote operation and ultra-high-resolution 3D.

Edge AI software that processes satellite imagery in orbit, delivering disaster intelligence in minutes instead of days, including wildfires, floods, and building damage.

Supporting clinicians and patients dealing with Substance Use Disorders by combining mobile technology predictive analytics and contincency management.

15-minute deployable balloon system extends emergency radio coverage to 50+ miles when wildfires destroy cell towers -- works with existing equipment.
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Reroot is the marketplace that lets independent producers sell direct at scale, making buying directly from the farms, fisheries, foragers, fermenters, brewers, beekeepers, bakers, and makers as easy as buying groceries online.

Subi has created an Ai tool for real estate professionals that automates the drudgery out of their daily tasks and saves money on transaction coordination.