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DemoSquare is an EPFL spinoff that develops state-of-the-art artificial-intelligence algorithms to help companies anticipate political and regulatory changes through a cutting-edge user interface. It counts multinational companies and major public institutions among its first customers in Switzerland. Headquartered in Lausanne, the company was co-founded in 2023 by Dr. Victor Kristof (CEO) and Dr. Jérémie Rappaz (CTO). In 2024, DemoSquare raised a CHF 1.2 million pre-seed round with VC investors QBIT Capital and HTGF to expand its activities to European markets.

enercast is a leading technology provider for weather-based artificial intelligence and the digital transformation of renewable energy.

Its self-learning SaaS products deliver accurate power generation forecasts for wind and solar plants, thus enabling the integration of renewable energy into power grids and energy markets worldwide. The enercast platform supplies the digital actors of the emerging decentralized energy system with the intelligence they need to manage limited resources with foresight.

Founded 2011 in Kassel, Germany, enercast delivers 100 million forecast data points per day to 20 countries around the globe, covering 180 GW of installed capacity.

Eyeware is a Swiss computer vision startup developing 3D eye tracking software for consumer cameras with depth sensing. Eyeware launched in September 2016, as a spin-off from the Idiap Research Institute, with the mission to bring 3D eye tracking to consumer devices. In collaboration with industrial partners, Eyeware is bringing to market attention sensing applications in multiple industries, including robotics, automotive, healthcare, consumer devices, and retail.

Geospin develops a B2B software-as-a-service solution for the analysis of geodata using machine learning methods. The solution makes it possible to link up internal company data with external geodata to produce real time predictions of when and where clients' products or services are in demand. The software unites the internal data of clients with more than 700 external pieces of information on the surrounding area, including weather, traffic, demographics, social media and points of interest such as restaurants and public institutions. Geospin's clients include HTGF fund investors Thüga and Bosch as well as Siemens, Volkswagen, Deutsche Bahn and Union Investment. The idea was developed by founders Dr. Sebastian Wagner, Dr. Johannes Bendler, Dr. Christoph Gebele, Niklas Goby and Dr. Tobias Brandt at the Information Systems Research department at the University of Freiburg. Geospin is backed by High-Tech Gründerfonds as well as Thüga AG.

The Cologne-based company JUPUS is one of the leading providers of AI software for the legal sector in Germany and enables lawyers to fully automate the client intake process from initial contact to the complete file. Law firms are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information and documents and enables automated communication with clients. The JUPUS team consists of 15 employees and since May 2023, hundreds of law firms throughout Germany have already been processing more than 200 inquiries per day via JUPUS. The company was founded in 2022 and is managed by the two founders René Fergen and Jannis Gebauer.

Natif.ai is a deep-tech start-up in the field of intelligent document process automation (IDP). Thanks to high-performance AI models and a self-developed Deep-OCR, a wide variety of documents can be analyzed extremely quick, accurate and relevant data is extracted. Natif.ai provides a fast and efficient way to productively bring artificial intelligence into the economy. It was founded by a German-French team and is an official spin-off of the German Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

NYRIS provides a state-of-the-art image and object recognition engine using latest Artificial Intelligence frameworks. The unique concept delivers very accurate results for 1D (codes), 2D (print2web) and 3D (real world products) typically below one second. The solution is available „as-a-service“ for both retail and industry customers.

oculai is a ConTech start-up that uses cameras and artificial intelligence to automatically monitor construction processes and progress. Founders Constantin Kauffmann (CEO), Tim Sippl (CTO) and Yannik Mack (CFO/ COO) met while studying at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The idea to found a start-up came from research into using cameras to monitor manual industrial processes. The start-up was formed as part of several founder programmes, such as the Digital Tech Academy, UnternehmerTUM and the Zollhof incubator, and subsequently received funding via the EXIST founder grant. oculai was then officially established in July 2021. Today, the company is based in Munich and employs around 20 members of staff. oculai’s product is an AI-based software solution that uses camera data to detect and automatically document outdoor construction processes. A web app provides users with access to a range of functions including automated target/actual schedules, the automatic drafting of daily construction reports, process KPIs and routes taken by workers. In doing so, it helps enhance transparency and productivity as part of construction projects while also making planning easier. Based on automated documentation and collected data, there is a potential cost savings of 7% for the total shell construction volume, as well as a time savings of 15% for site management teams.

Samp was founded in 2020 and has based its development on a strong alliance between industrial experience – the CEO and COO together combine more than 35 years of experience with industrial operators, equipment manufacturers and industrial service companies – and cutting-edge expertise in Deep Learning and 3D, with the team having 3 PhDs and 8 patents in these fields.

SKY ENGINE AI is an advanced Data Science technology and research company incorporated in 2018 and founded as a scientific spin-off in London, UK. The company markets the SKY ENGINE AI platform for Deep Learning in Virtual Reality, which is the next-generation of Active Learning AI system for image and video analysis applications. SKY ENGINE AI Platform allows building optimal, customised AI models from scratch and training them in Virtual Reality. SKY ENGINE AI software creates virtual and generative world, where objects and events can be simulated in a variety of configurations and environmental conditions (sometimes very rare and difficult to spot in a real world). SKY ENGINE AI allows creating digital twin of the sensor, drone, robot or UAV putting it through testing and training in virtual environment prior to real-world deployment.

Berlin-based startup traide was founded in 2021 by Leonie Althaus, Philipp Friebertshäuser and Hendrik Niemann. The team leverages the latest cloud and AI technologies to help companies meet their customs obligations and automate their customs processes. The company's SaaS solution handles product master data as well as purchasing and ordering processes and is suitable for companies of all sizes and industries.

Osnabrück-based start-up VisioLab offers AI-based self-checkout solutions for the food service providers. The company's solutions are designed to simplify the checkout process and improve the customer experience while reducing labour costs. The founders Tim Niekamp (CEO) and Iwo Gernemann (COO) are supported by an 18-member international team.