These startups joined us last year at VivaTech 2024. Now, let's see why they're on our list as some of the most exciting startups to watch in 2025.
Creative Industries
From advertising to art to gaming, these startups are using artificial intelligence and technology to change the landscape of creative industries.
AdCreative AI
What They Do: AdCreative.ai is changing the way companies advertise and market. This startup uses machine learning and deep learning to generate creative content like banners, product shoots, text, and even videos to promote brands or products. They also offer insights and analytics on companies and their competitors.
Why They’re Groundbreaking: Not only does AdCreative AI minimalize the time, money, and resources previously needed for ad campaigns, they are also the #1 most used AI tool for advertising.
Oxia Palus
What They Do: Oxia Palus uses spectroscopic imaging, artificial intelligence, and 3D printing to reconstruct and revive historical art pieces. The startup also has a collection of artwork derived by using archived textual records of destroyed artwork as input for a text-to-image generative AI model.
Why They're Groundbreaking: Oxia Palus allows collectors and galleries who suspect their collection might contain a hidden artwork underneath to uncover it without destroying either work, effectively giving life to lost art.
Homa
What They Do: Homa is a startup that functions as a gaming technology lab, giving studios and developers the tools they need to turn ideas into reality. They help with everything: ideas, market analysis, no-code software development, data analytics, and game improvement.
Why They're Groundbreaking: Homa is the most powerful mobile SDK ever made for game developers.
Sustainability & GreenTech
These startups are engineering solutions for everything from carbon emissions to clean water access.
Sweep
What They Do: Sweep provides companies with a tool to track carbon emissions and ESG data across the entire value chain. With this data, companies can meet disclosure requirements, get audit-ready, and set sustainability strategies.
Why They're Groundbreaking: Sweep is an all-in-one place to simplify and streamline data to eliminate errors, duplicates, and inconsistencies. People are demanding that businesses do something about their emissions, and Sweep is the leading sustainability data management platform.
Kumulus
What They Do: Kumulus is revolutionizing water access by engineering a machine that extracts water from the air. This machine allows more people to have direct access to clean water in a sustainable and economical way.
Why They're Groundbreaking: In 2023, Kumulus produced 260,000L of water, removed 8,000kg of CO2, and avoided 5,000kg of plastic.
AIRMO
What They Do: AIRMO uses a combination of satellite, LiDAR, and aerial technology to detect methane emissions. This allows companies to do advanced analytics, reduce their emissions, pinpoint leaks, and collect accurate reports.
Why They're Groundbreaking: AIRMO's imaging technology and proprietary algorithm is highly advanced, providing almost real-time data that pinpoints emissions from individual sites around the world.
BioTech
These startups are using science and technology for everything from health to agriculture.
Owkin
What They Do: Owkin is a biotech startup that uses AI for biomarker discovery, drug development, diagnostics. Through a combination of biology, AI, and data, Owkin is able to identify new treatments, de-risk and accelerate clinical trials, and build diagnostic tools.
Why They're Groundbreaking: Owkin currently has 63 data partners, including top academic centers and medical institutions, to curate, enrich, and generate multimodal patient data.
Bioptimus
What They Do: Bioptimus is another biotech startup launched by the same executives as from Owkin. By using AI and large amounts of proprietary data, they are working on building the first universal foundation model in biology.
Why They're Groundbreaking: Bioptimus hopes to fuel breakthroughs in scientific research, drive biotech innovation, and improve overall healthcare outcomes by providing a ChatGPT for biotech.
InnovaFeed
What They Do: InnovaFeed is a startup specialized in creating insect-based products in order to be used in agriculture, aquaculture, and farming. Their products offer alternatives to the typical ingredients used in fish and animal feed, thus contributing to more sustainable and nutritious agriculture.
Why They're Groundbreaking: InnovaFeed does cutting-edge research and development to optimize the process of the insect life cycle. As a result of this, they have the largest insect production capacity in the world.
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