Meet the
2026 Startups
2026 Top Six Finalists
Lucas Buckland
CEO & Co-Founder
BOVI's HERO (Human Enabled Remote Operation) systems combine bolt-on remote operation and AI safety systems to create a powerful AI Flywheel for wildfire vegetation management, fireline construction, and search & rescue.
Mert Efe
CEO & Founder
Reclaim Metals commercializes AI-powered optical sorting to transform domestic aluminum scrap into high-value manufacturing feedstock, capturing a $2.3B arbitrage opportunity while strengthening American supply chain resilience.
Apurva Luty
CEO & Founder
Optimly verifies and serves structured brand data to AI, so ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity get your brand right and are more likely to recommend you to your customers.
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Jane Zhang, MBA, PhD
CEO & Founder
Remmie Health transforms ENT care by enabling convenient, accurate remote diagnosis and monitoring through its digital otoscope and telehealth platform, improving access, outcomes, and cost efficiency for families everywhere.
Chandi Bandaranayaka
CEO
Precision Quantomics delivers insights to tackle the ~90% drug development failure rate using an integrated in silico and advanced lab tools platform.
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Michelle Schubert
CEO & Co-Founder
Subi is a transaction genie for real estate professionals— using modern Ai tooling to proactively handle documents, tasks, and communications, saving agents hundreds of hours and brokerages thousands of dollars.
2026 Semi-Finalists
The following companies were selected as Semi-Finalists. Some of them will be presenting at the 2026 Flywheel Investment Conference. Don't miss your chance to meet these founders!
AI Health Genie
Arlington, WA
Founder:
Pamela Nygaard
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.
Elementrailer
Bothell, WA
Founder:
Frank Lin, Julisa Cruz, and Ian Adelman
Elementrailer builds intelligent, self-propelled electric utility trailers that eliminate the range, efficiency, and operational penalties of towing.
Kednus
Bothell, WA
Founder:
Clememt Utuk
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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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Reroot
Seattle, WA
Founder:
Genevieve Priebe
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.
BioSyft
Seattle, WA
Founder:
Anthony English
Modernizing preclinical animal behavior analysis, delivering objective, high-resolution behavioral data that improves drug development decisions and reduces costly clinical failures.
Godel Space
Sammamish, WA
Founder:
Vikash Kodati
Edge AI software that processes satellite imagery in orbit, delivering disaster intelligence in minutes instead of days, including wildfires, floods, and building damage.
Managed Health Connections
Spokane, WA
Founder:
Kim Johnson and Carol Johnson
Supporting clinicians and patients dealing with Substance Use Disorders by combining mobile technology predictive analytics and contincency management.
SECONDSITE
Seattle, WA
Founder:
Jack Hatcher
SECONDSITE uses AI to monitor construction job sites and flag potential rework and safety issues before they become costly problems.
Color42.ai
Redmond, WA
Founder:
Prince Bajracharya and Silviu Andrei
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.
HaRT3S
Spokane, WA
Founder:
Seema Clifasefi, Susan Collins, and Michele Andrasik
Transforming substance use care with tech-enabled, evidence-based harm-reduction solutions—delivering accessible, scalable, and personalized support that meets people where they are.
Ranger Comms
Ellensburg, WA
Founder:
Dan Schau
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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SmartVerify
Bellevue, WA
Founder:
Kajal Deepak
SmartVerify is the safety layer enterprises need to leverage agentic AI, creating guardrails for your AI agents defined by policies set on the data.