Competition
The Pitch 2026 Finalists
Meet the top 60 startups set to compete at The Pitch 2026.
The Pitch 2026 finalists
Dublin regional final
Judges' winner
RocketBox
RocketBox is an AI-powered Order Management System for busy delivery restaurants, helping them get every order out hot, fresh and on time.
People's choice winner
RecaptureOne
RecaptureOne is an innovative memorial technology startup dedicated to transforming the way we honour and remember loved ones. With a simple scan, their QR-enabled memory plaques let friends and family relive cherished moments and hear the voices of their loved ones.
Beyond Surviving
Beyond Surviving is a social enterprise bridging the gap in continuity of care and support for survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence beyond frontline-crisis sector services.
KinetikIQ
KinetikIQ is an AI Infrastructure for human movement – scaling efficacy and accessible for physiotherapy and strength training through software for real-time exercise feedback and analysis
BackAware
The BackAware Belt is a wearable technology that gives you instant feedback on your back position, so you can lift, exercise or sit knowing you’re doing it safely and correctly.
Payemoji
Payemoji is an AI powered conversational commerce and payments company helping businesses provide secure card-not-present payments and refunds. The platform helps eliminate chargebacks and grow sales by turning ‘payments into conversations’ through everyday messaging apps like WhatsApp.
Hytropics
Hytropics are sparkling electrolyte drinks with B vitamins and ginseng for balanced energy and better focus. Made in Ireland, they’re a clean, functional solution for people on the go.
Examinaite
Examinaite is an AI-powered adaptive learning platform tailored to each student’s ability and needs. Aimed at secondary students and teachers, Examinaite meets students at their level and provides curriculum-aligned content in a way that suits them.
TY Future
TY Future is an online platform that helps organisations identify, engage and develop high-potential candidates for graduate, internship and apprenticeship roles.
Building Bones
Building Bones is a digital health platform that empowers people to improve their bone health and reduce their fall and fracture risk.
Glasgow regional final
Voxblock
Voxblock makes a simple audiobook player with physical story blocks for children. Unlike streaming or apps, it works without Wi-Fi, accounts or setup, so kids can listen on their own.
The Growth App
The trip advisor of the CJS, The Growth App is aiming to disrupt the justice system by empowering those looking to re-enter society with tools, resources, guides and incentives to break out of the cycle of reoffending.
Sell Your Bottles Ltd
Sell Your Bottles Ltd provide an easy, secure platform for people to sell their unopened bottles from the comfort of their own home, just as people sell other everyday items on eBay or Vinted.
Vaste Technologies
Vaste is a B2B climate-tech software company transforming the biomass feedstock supply chain.
The Long Run Club
The Long Run Club helps brands advance their sustainability journey by extending their ethical narrative into high-quality sportswear that engages employees, strengthens reputation and delivers on ESG goals.
PURR Cat Grooming Ltd
PURR is Scotland’s first cat-exclusive grooming salon, founded to raise feline welfare standards and transform how cats experience care. Based in Glasgow, PURR combines low-stress, fear-free grooming with education, training, and product innovation.
Golf Sherpa
Golf Sherpa is the world’s first end-to-end golf event management service, removing the stress of 18 hours of overwhelming admin, confusing formats and multiple booking systems required to coordinate it all.
OpenQuote Ltd
OpenQuote Ltd help traders understand customer needs without making a site visit. Through self-surveys, customers can collect and organise the information a trader needs to determine if the job is one they can take on, saving time for both parties.
DeepBrain
DeepBrain is a gentle stimulation system guided by your body’s own signals. Using brain and heart data, their wearable device personalises ultrasound stimulation to help people manage anxiety, depression and cognitive fatigue without drugs or implants.
Herd Dynamics
HERD Dynamics is a new leadership and coaching service to the sister company to Eat Sleep Ride, an equine and nature-based charity in the Scottish Borders. It’s built on the Teaching Horse model of shared leadership, where horses teach presence, trust and communication through experience rather than theory.
Manchester regional final
Pixie
PIXIE is a social and creative digital platform built for members of the LGBTQ+ community, 64% of whom have been harassed on social media.
Folk & Thread Limited
Folk & Thread are a purpose-driven baby sleep product brand, sharing 25 years of experience in their product range, education and giving back initiatives.
Ninja Guardian
Ninja Guardian creates anti-spiking products designed to help people protect their drinks at parties, from drink-checking wristbands to drink covers.
North AI
North AI predicts exactly where audiences will look and how engaged they’ll be by correlating eye movement with brain response patterns from target demographics. It provides direct, objective, and predictive engagement data, without needing physical labs or participants.
APIMS Limited
Award-winning APIMS SaaS makes GDPR compliance simple for SMEs, schools and charities. Their simple platform automates the records and reporting needed to keep compliant, helping their customers stay on top of their legal obligations without breaking the bank.
Heelz and Toez
Heelz and Toez guarantee a perfect fit with their patented children’s sandal. The shoe is fully adjustable and customisable with interchangeable straps made from algae and recycled plastics.
LetPlant Technology
LetPlant is a climate-focused houseplant startup empowering urban dwellers to care for their indoor plants more successfully using AI and IoT technology.
Recondition
Recondition designs stylish, accessible fashion, giving more people access to personal style. Their style-first approach is unique within adaptive (accessibly designed) fashion and, backed by an ethical and community-led approach, are paving the way for change in the fashion industry.
myBikeCloud
Designed to tackle bike theft, MyBikeCloud is an electrically-hoisted, elevated, fully weatherproof multipurpose bicycle storage device that doubles as a tow bar hitch and maintenance stand.
Topic Hero
Aiming to tackle global online intolerance, Topic Hero is social media platform that scans the internet for users interests and poses statements that users can swipe to agree or disagree. The platform then partners the user with someone with an opposing view and gets them to debate, before AI analyses the argument, picks a winner and gives the losers feedback.
Bristol regional final
MyMynd
MyMynd helps organisations get ahead of mental health challenges through a confidential clinically validated behavioural health check-in (MOT for the mind) for employees, personalised tools, data-driven insights and confidential 1:1 support.
Taught by Humans
Taught by Humans helps teams use AI safely and effectively at work. Their platform combines learning, safe tools and company knowledge so teams can learn, use and create AI workflows.
Mia Wealth Ltd
Mia Wealth is the next-generational family investment app making it easy for parents, family and friends to invest into a child’s future through a Junior Stocks & Shares ISA.
Curieus Games (t/a Megawatt)
Megawatt delivers energy and sustainability education to young people through gamification and ethical debates. They support schools in raising energy literacy and are funded by energy companies interested in attracting talent to the energy sector.
Climabox Ltd
Climabox delivers heating, cooling and dehumidifying from one intelligent unit, room-by-room and on demand. Their mission: to make healthy, comfortable, low-carbon homes affordable while providing best SAP and Awaab’s law compliance.
TIKOS
TIKOS® is a research-led start-up focused on trustworthy AI. They’re developing technology to test and monitor AI systems in high-stakes environments, essentially cracking the ‘black-box’ problem.
Butterfly Wellness
Butterfly Wellness is on a mission to transform the way we care for both mind and skin, creating science-backed solutions that empower people to manage conditions like eczema, acne, rosacea and psoriasis.
CoED Biosciences
CoED Biosciences offers hope to patients with advanced, treatment-resistant cancer through their simple and innovative platform that separates, activates, functionalises and expands immune cells from human tissues.
Mucka AI
Mucka is the AI voice assistant for tradespeople, saving ~2 hours per day on admin. As easy as sending a voice note or message, Mucka understands and handles jobs, quotes, invoices and customers for those on the job.
GoSmarter.ai
GoSmarer.ai is an AI Production Assistant for metals manufacturers, helping them to manage their paperwork while making production and compliance effortless.
Birmingham regional final
Fazane Fox Production Agency
Fazane Fox Production Agency brings visionary founders’ products to life through innovative design, development, and production – creating a world where people feel seen, ideas improve lives, and creativity drives positive change.
DriRun
DriRun helps people with bladder leaks live confidently and sustainably. Unlike disposable pads filled with harmful chemicals, DriRun offers a safe, eco-friendly alternative that protects our health and the planet, making sustainable living accessible to everyone.
Symbiotex
Symbiotex produce rigid home compostable bioplastics, making the medical sector more sustainable. Their innovative material is 100% biobased and home compostable, using sustainably cultivated red seaweed as the feedstock.
Finspector
Finspector is a fintech platform that helps startups and investors manage and share financial data for fundraising, due diligence, and reporting. It gives founders clearer visibility and helps investors monitor portfolios faster and more reliably.
Empower Martial Arts Academy Limited
Empower Martial Arts Academy empowers all ages through martial arts and fitness training, focusing on community, family and quality martial arts to improve both physical and mental health, running weekly classes with ages ranging from 4 years old to over 70.
Freeater Ltd
Freeater is a dietary restrictions management app that helps the 60% of people globally with food allergies, intolerances and dietary restrictions. The app provides users with their own personal ally and features to help them when they’re at home, eating out and travelling.
SEERGRILLS
Launched Perfecta® is an AI-Powered Grilling Robot. Cook perfect steak in 90 seconds, chicken in 2 minutes.
Chapter 2 Dating Ltd
Chapter 2 Dating are a female-founded business that turned pain into purpose to create a mission driven business to help people find hope and joy in challenging circumstances. They are a niche dating app platform currently with 3 brands: chapter2dating.app, widowsfire.dating and soberlove.app.
Purendure
Purendure are redefining sports nutrition with its 100% natural real fruit energy gels designed for sporting enthusiasts and athletes.
London regional final
Zance
Zance is an AI-powered community engagement and smart networking platform designed to elevate the experience at any event – from small local meetups and coworking sessions to pitch competitions, startup accelerators.
The Fish Friendly Hydropower Company
The Fish Friendly Hydro Company has a vision: to see floating, fish friendly turbines on rivers and in water channels across the world generating always-on, affordable, clean energy while protecting rivers.
Setmixer
Setmixer is an end-to-end platform that automatically records live performances, mixes them using proprietary AI trained on our own dataset of 16,500+ multitrack live recordings, and delivers studio-quality audio to artists, ready to share with fans, within 12 hours.
Neubond
Neubond are transforming physical rehabilitation with wearable neurotechnology that uses closed-loop stimulation to help stroke survivors restore movement in real time, from the comfort of their home, without screens or clinic visits.
Carbonaires
Carbonaires is a UK-based climate fintech solving the shortage of high-quality carbon removals. They provide finance-backed, insured removals with AI monitoring and science-led due diligence, giving corporates trusted, defensible solutions to meet net zero.
Retapp
Retapp helps households resell, refurbish or recycle their unwanted electronics by connecting them with local recyclers and refurbishers.
Pharmaceutech
Pharmaceutech is a med-tech and data science company using AI, technology and data to transform healthcare end-to-end – from how drugs are discovered and developed, to how patients are monitored and supported in the real world.
Coldwater Salmon Ltd
Coldwater Salmon Ltd is the UK’s first land-based salmon farm, where fish welfare is top priority. No chemicals or antibiotics are used in their farming practices, protecting both the fish and the seas.
NuCasa
NuCasa uses behavioural science and AI to match compatible flatmates, before seamlessly coordinating property searches, viewings and applications.
Intotum
Intotum is an award-winning adaptive fashion brand for the disabled and neurodivergent community. They co-create with their 30k+ community to create IP-backed innovations and sensory-friendly styles.
