MEET THE STARTUPS
Expo will host a selection top tier startups and founders from the Italian and international ecosystems, with technologies relevant to the mobility and automotive industries. Expect booths with demos and prototypes to see their technologies in action!
STARTUPS IN THE EXPO AREA
3D Spark provides AI-supported software that enables businesses to quickly select the most efficient, cost-effective and sustainable manufacturing options across multiple technologies. Their platform analyzes thousands of production options simultaneously, comparing additive manufacturing with conventional methods to identify optimal solutions.
HQ: Hamburg, Germany
alteva is driving Europe’s energy sovereignty by developing the lightest and most sustainable batteries on the planet. Their next-generation lithium-sulfur batteries are ultralight, high-power, and exclusively use resources available in Europe, while leveraging European expertise and production equipment.
HQ: Cologne, Germany
Artificient streamlines mobility data collection, analysis, and monetization from smartphones and connected vehicles. The platform enables scalable customer profiling, crash detection, and emission tracking to support dynamic pricing, risk-based segmentation, and personalized mobility services across insurance, car sharing, and urban mobility sectors.
HQ: Aachen, Germany
Self-driving systems and robotics fail when they misread human intent especially in edge cases. cogniBIT's neuroscience-powered cognitive AI replicates how people perceive, think, and act, enabling machines to anticipate intent with human-like precision.
HQ: Munich, Germany
Deontic builds AI infrastructure that transforms natural language requirements into validated, compliant autonomous system behavior. By cutting validation time, it substantially saves engineering and certification costs, empowering safe, efficient deployment of self-driving applications, robotics, and physical AI.
HQ: Leuven, Belgium
Discernity AI is a Radar AI perception company creating a privacy‑preserving human condition monitoring solution. With subtle motion detection, lighting independence, resilience to face occlusion, and universality across eye shapes, this technology delivers advantages that surpass traditional camera‑based systems.
HQ: Gothenburg, Sweden
DISTANCE XR transforms transparent surfaces into seamless 3D lightfield displays. Beyond conventional HUDs, it anchors navigation cues, autonomous-driving sensor data, and dynamic, location-aware content naturally within the real world, appearing with true scale, depth, and distance as if genuinely part of the surrounding environment.
HQ: Helsinki, Finland
Gaussion is home to a unique team of automotive battery and magnetics experts who develop magnetic components for batteries of all cell chemistries/formats. The technology offers a low-cost solution for a 6X improvement in charge-speed, and 8x improvement in cycle-life, without implications for safety or durability.
HQ: London, UK
GEMESYS develops a neuromorphic AI chip that learns and infers directly on edge devices. It mimics the human brain to enable real-time adaptation and continuous learning in sensors, robots, vehicles, and other embedded systems, delivering powerful intelligence with ultra-low energy use and minimal data transfer.
HQ: Bochum, Germany
Hanomi automates 2D drawing generation from 3D CAD models, producing dimensioned, toleranced documentation with assembly context. Seamlessly integrates with native CAD/PLM systems. Future AI agents will analyze your company's CAD library to auto-generate new designs, leveraging decades of proven internal engineering knowledge.
HQ: San Francisco, US
Humanoid develops intelligent, life-sized robots engineered for real-world industrial use. Combining advanced AI, precision mechanics, and human-like movement, their creations enhance automation, safety, and efficiency across sectors. With scalable designs like HMND 01, Humanoid pioneers the future of human–machine collaboration.
HQ: London, UK
MAXI enables the transition to electric for taxis and corporate fleets through an all-inclusive monthly subscription model, based on a full-electric fleet & charge-as-a-service approach.
HQ: Milan, Italy
RESONIKS revolutionizes industrial quality control with AI-powered acoustic testing. The patent-pending tech inspects metal parts non-destructively in seconds, detecting flaws with unmatched precision. It’s 60× faster and 71% cheaper than traditional X-ray or CT scans, helping manufacturers ensure zero defects while cutting costs and speeding production.
HQ: The Hague, Netherlands
Sensigo empowers service centers to boost efficiency through AI. The solution streamlines the entire service journey - from workshop preparation and diagnostics to repairs, documentation, warranty claims, and staff training. By embedding AI directly into existing workflows, it help teams work smarter, faster, and more effectively.
HQ: Redwood City, US
Solabs Nanotechnology offers a solar-activated nanocoating that prevents fog, overheating and headlight icing. Seamlessly integrated into car glass production, it enhances safety, comfort, and energy efficiency while reducing reliance on heating and cooling systems.
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Sparxell creates sustainable, plant-based pigments using cellulose to produce vibrant colors inspired by nature. Its innovative structural color technology eliminates the need for synthetic dyes, mica, and titanium dioxide, delivering eco-friendly brilliance.
HQ: Cambridge, UK
TETMET enables the most efficient lattice structures at industrial scale for manufacturers in Automotive, Aviation and Space. It supports these manufacturers from design through scalable production using their Lattice Design Suite CAD & FEA plugins plus the Adaptive Spatial Lattice Manufacturing industrial toolchain.
HQ: Paris, France
trophi.ai brings real-time, immersive AI-powered coaching straight to the driver’s seat, helping racers improve faster, stay engaged longer, and get more from their rigs, their games, and themselves, so they spend more time racing and less time watching videos or digging through telemetry.
HQ: St. John's, Canada
Winduction enables electric buses in public transport to charge wirelessly through their wheels (with up to 320kW) during routine stops – without cables, delays, or visible infrastructure. Charging begins instantly, even during 20-second halts or 5-minute layovers.
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
STARTUPS AMONG PARTICIPANTS
2electron offers a patented software technology to bring back driving emotions, such as gear shifting, on electric vehicles. High-end simulator-grade sounds and vibrations are the icing on the cake.
Acus offers high-quality reusable molds for unique value composites parts to increase sustainability while reducing costs.
èlevit is an exclusive touch technology to enable smart surfaces on any material, developing reliable sensors with a modern design.
EYE2DRIVE has developed a silicon-based solution inspired by the human eye that combines a unique imaging technology and AI.
Fast Charge Engineering focuses on Electrification technologies, in particular EV battery packs and super capacitors, thanks to their direct liquid cooling tech.
Galvani Power offers lithium-iON modular batteries for off-highway and niche applications.
Data centers, energy, aerospace: Highverter is developing today’s demands call for power converters beyond current standards.
HMDRIVE is enabling AR experience through Head Mounted Displays on vehicles, from sport cars for training to off-road vehicles for safety and productivity.
Tailor-made industrial apps sewing together the best UX technology and deep learning: Inventio.ai enables any operator to train ML models and teach by examples to machines new tasks.
NablaFlow provides a state-of-the-art, cloud-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool designed to streamline and democratize fluid simulations.
Novac offers high-density, solid-state and shapeable super capacitors for the automotive industry.
Ohoskin patented a sustainable and vegan leather-like material made with byproducts of oranges and cacti (food and cosmetic industries) triggering a true circular economy.
Open Energy provides sustainable B2B solutions for logistics, MaaS, and corporate fleets, featuring HyperSwap for the lowest Total Cost of Ownership and infrastructure cost, energy storage capability.
Point Zero developed a Zero-Emissions Driving System that combines an electric motor with an innovative magneto-rheologic braking system to fully substitute traditional disk or drum brakes. The system allows the elimination of all particulate emissions with the same braking performance.
Quick Algorithm developed Scops, an IoT enabled SaaS solution, that helps any company and institution to optimize energy and machine performance, enabling predictive maintenance while reducing consumption and costs through data.
RARA applies network theory and material physics in unison to design and predictably to produce manufacturable, high-performance materials on demand, to replace all critical materials with clean and abundant compounds of equal or higher performance.
ReCarbon's mission is to develop a one-stop and sustainable solution for the industrial re-use of carbon fibers and other advanced materials.
Truckscanner is the all-in-one freight SaaS uniting TMS software and open marketplace. One platform connecting senders and carriers, creating opportunities for everyone.
WOM Testing has three core competences and a patented device that solved a 7-decade industry problem, enabling the missing data that unlocks virtual vehicle development and next-gen mobility innovation.