Founded by Elon Musk in 2023, xAI is an AI research and product company focused on building frontier models to accelerate scientific discovery and advance human understanding. The company develops large-scale AI systems, most visibly the Grok family of models, and brings them to market through tight integration with X. Backed by leading investors and strategic compute partnerships, xAI is scaling research, infrastructure, and enterprise-grade deployments as it competes with the top tier of global foundation-model providers.
Founded in Frankfurt am Main in 2015 by twins Alexander Michel and Benjamin Michel, Finanzguru is an AI-enabled personal finance assistant that consolidates bank accounts and contracts in one app. The product automates contract detection, spend analytics and budgeting insights, and helps users save money by surfacing optimization opportunities and enabling streamlined switching for utilities and insurance; the company has also expanded into brokerage services and product advisory.
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Based in Paris, Timeleft is a social platform that matches groups of six strangers for in-person dinners using a personality test and algorithmic table curation. By handling the restaurant logistics end-to-end and keeping details limited until shortly before the meetup, Timeleft reduces friction and creates a repeatable ritual for building new friendships (with optional post-dinner meetups in many cities.
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Founded in Rome in 2018 by CEO Gianni Cuozzo, Exein is a leading embedded IoT cybersecurity company that protects connected products directly at the firmware level. Exein’s platform delivers AI-powered, on-device runtime security, designed to detect and prevent threats in real time, while remaining easy to integrate for firmware developers and OEMs. Exein is scaling globally across Europe, the US, and Asia and expanding through strategic partnerships and acquisitions.
Founded in Bressanone (Italy), ALLSIDES is a 3D scanning and 3D AI company focused on automating the large-scale production of reality-grade 3D models and enabling new software-driven 3D AI products. The company is accelerating international expansion and the global commercialization of its scanning technology, including next-gen pipelines such as text-to-3D and image-to-3D
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