Audiolo.com
Semi-Finalist | Austin, Texas
Audiolo saves animation studios millions of dollars per show by automating audio asset management. We offer a first-to-market audio asset management platform for a seamless and accelerated production pipeline from script, to recording studio, to final animation. Audiolo empowers teams to iterate quickly and efficiently, removing tedious data entry on Excel spreadsheets from the audio production pipeline.
CleverFi
Semi – Finalist | Houston, Texas
CleverFi offers a patented Wi-Fi technology, “Wi-Fi Portability,” designed to enhance operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and provide accessible, secure, reliable Wi-Fi solutions for industries such as hospitality, automotive, transportation, co-working spaces, EV chargers, and public events. CleverFi ensures seamless connectivity and easy scalability across various environments while also prioritizing security and regulatory compliance (HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR, EU-NIS2). CleverFi’s technology helps businesses optimize network management, improve customer experiences, and maintain compliance with global data protection standards.
Club Girl Golf
Semi-Finalist | Houston, Texas
Club Girl Golf is a pioneering golf equipment brand dedicated to empowering women by designing high-performance clubs tailored specifically for female golfers. Unlike traditional brands that modify men’s clubs to fit women, Club Girl Golf engineers its products from the ground up to optimize performance, fit, and feel. Founded by Katie Calderon, a golf industry innovator with extensive experience in club design, the company is on a mission to close the gender gap in golf equipment. With a growing product line Club Girl Golf is revolutionizing the market through cutting-edge technology, customer-driven innovation, and a commitment to inclusivity. With the launch of their debut product at the end of 2024 they have already began to gain brand recognition and by 2028 the company aims to be the premier women’s golf equipment brand, with the expansion into international markets and retail partnerships, while fostering a vibrant community of women golfers.
Corrolytics
Semi-Finalist | Houston, Texas
Corrolytics is a pioneering tech company specializing in corrosion detection and monitoring for industrial assets. We utilize advanced, patented electrochemical technology to provide real-time, on-site analysis of microbial corrosion. This innovative approach not only enhances asset integrity and extends lifespan but also boosts operational safety and efficiency, reducing environmental impact. Our solutions are being validated in collaboration with leading chemical companies in the U.S. and Brazil, with plans for a commercial pilot launch. Corrolytics is set to transform corrosion management in industries worldwide, offering significant economic and environmental benefits.
Cosnetix
Alternate | Houston, Texas
Cosnetix is a Texas-based wellness company revolutionizing the $18B personalized skincare industry through DNA-backed product analysis. Our patent-pending algorithm identifies specific ingredient sensitivities with 80% accuracy across 1,500+ samples, eliminating costly trial-and-error for consumers. We provide personalized product compatibility assessments, preventing breakouts and wasted spending while generating revenue through tiered analysis services ($40-260). Our competitive edge comes from our proprietary technology and validated results. We’re now integrating microbiome analysis to create the first dual-biomarker system that not only perfects skincare recommendations but enables early, non-invasive skin cancer detection—transforming our platform from beauty tech into preventative healthcare. This expansion opens additional revenue streams through clinical partnerships and skin microbiome testing, positioning us at the intersection of both beauty and healthcare industries.
Encando.AI
Alternate | Bryan/College Station, Texas
We are building an AI-powered platform that personalizes education at scale. It serves as a 24/7 interactive tutor, adapting to each student’s learning style and pace, while also acting as a virtual assistant for instructors, automating tasks, providing insights, and streamlining feedback.
Endpoint Security, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Bryan/College Station, Texas
Endpoint is preparing to sell a wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) used in cybersecurity for our nation’s critical infrastructure. It is based on a technology licensed from the University of Notre Dame which uses the energy in each signal to secure the communication. Because it does not use data to authenticate edge devices, it works well with otherwise neglected legacy devices in use; each of which represent easy entry into the Operations Technology network to a hacker. Beachhead markets are oil & gas and chemical; additional markets to quickly follow. Follow-on products are in design stages. Assembly is planned in the BCS area. Endpoint has pending proposals for non-dilutive funding to advance the company’s objectives.
Glid
Semi-Finalist | Austin, Texas
Glīd is a full-stack logistics solution, combining physical freight movement, AI-driven logistics orchestration, and infrastructure intelligence into a seamless Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform. By democratizing rail access, reducing emissions, and upskilling the workforce, we optimize freight with low CapEx, scalable road-to-rail vehicles, both driver-operated and autonomous. At its core is EZRA-1SIX, an integrated freight brokerage, fleet, and transportation management system handling billing, payments, automation, and workforce training. It also provides real-time track inspection, infrastructure monitoring, and predictive analytics, ensuring seamless, data-driven operations. We generate revenue through subscriptions, per-ton-mile hauling fees, and data sales, offering a cost-effective, sustainable logistics alternative. With our first two driver-operated vehicles and software launching this year, Glīd is set to redefine intermodal logistics.
Humanate, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Bryan/College Station, Texas
Humanate Digital Inc was created to enhance healthcare productivity and efficiency at a lower cost, while producing better healthcare outcomes. At Humanate Digital, leveraging breakthrough technology developed at Texas A&M University, we’ve pioneered a virtual digital clinical assistant capable of speaking over 100 languages, including ASL Sign Language, that can handle most patient needs.
Imagine Devices, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Austin, Texas
Imagine Devices is developing a unique medical device that integrates feeding, vital signs, and respiratory monitoring for premature infants in NICUs. This innovation addresses significant challenges like skin damage and infection from conventional monitoring methods, and operational inefficiencies high work load in NICU.
IntellActive Power Solutions, Inc.
Alternate | San Antonio, Texas
IntellActive is redefining the future of battery technology with its groundbreaking Battery Management System (BMS). By seamlessly integrating sensing, processing, and power path control at the individual cell level, our innovative technology delivers unparalleled safety, flexibility, and performance. With a universal BMS that interfaces with virtually any battery chemistry—including supercapacitors and large-scale energy storage mediums— IntellActive provides a scalable, future-ready solution for the evolving energy landscape.
MetPeel, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Bryan/College Station, Texas
Metpeel is a transformative company that can revolutionize the foil industry. Its mission is to produce high performance foils domestically, cost effectively and with lower emissions. The technology is significantly superior to currently available state-of-the-art technologies, including rolling- and electrodeposition-based foil production technologies, with significant reduction in energy (5X), emissions (10X) and physical machine footprint (10X), leading to substantial cost savings. Metpeel has the capability to quickly scale and produce commercial grade foils from 2 mm down to 20 microns (0.02 mm) from various metals and metal alloys. Metpeel process can produce foils with various alloy compositions that is not possible with existing technologies, thus, improving foil quality and performance.
Paradigm Robotics
Semi-Finalist | Austin, Texas
Paradigm Robotics develops FireBot, the world’s first high-temperature-resistant, modular unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) for firefighting, emergency response, defense, and industrial safety. FireBot withstands 650°C for 15 minutes and 200°C for 60 minutes, enabling search & rescue, HazMat detection, ISR, and CBRNE response in extreme environments. Its rugged, obstacle-climbing design is fire-proof, bullet-proof (Class IIIA), explosion-proof, and waterproof, ensuring reliable performance in high-risk missions. FireBot provides 20x faster SAR operations, 24x faster HazMat response, and prevents $10M+ in industrial downtime, delivering sub-one-year ROI. With AI-driven autonomy, real-time 3D mapping, and a modular payload system for suppression, equipment transport, and surveillance, FireBot is a scalable, life-saving platform bridging defense and commercial applications across firefighting, industrial, and military operations.
ParaDocs Health
Semi-Finalist | Houston, Texas
ParaDocs Health helps primary care organizations manage chronic diseases more efficiently with an AI-powered platform that automates administrative tasks, identifies care gaps, and optimizes revenue capture while aligning with value-based care initiatives. Our solution is actively used by our development partner, managing 60,000+ patients across five states, and we’re in advanced discussions with two ACOs and one IPA in Texas.
Relegance, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Bryan/College Station, Texas
Relegance Inc. provides real-time drilling fluid intelligence to drilling operations that improves productivity, efficiency, and saves money on cost of consumables and reduces non-productive time. The system is very low cost, small footprint, light weight and does not require rig modifications or extensive installation requirements. The business model is a rental model common in the upstream energy industry. Rental contracts will be executed with operators, fluid companies, managed pressure while drilling contractors, solids control service companies and drilling contractors. The agreements with the largest customers are known as “Master Service Agreements and are in effect for several years. In addition to the system rental business, Relegance offers software solutions that employs proprietary AI insights to further add intelligence to the rig operations.
Ryw, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Houston, Texas
Ryw is transforming the energy industry with “agentic AI,” introducing a multi-agent digital workforce to execute engineering and operational workflows. Our AI agents act as virtual teammates, handling tasks such as well surveillance, anomaly detection, optimization, and real-time decision support.
SageSpectra, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | Houston, Texas
SageSpectra is developing a portable patch that monitors StO2 and temperature to detect surgical site infections and flap failures early, addressing the limitations of current solutions. Our patch allows for quicker transfers from ICU to regular wards and quicker discharges, thus reducing hospital stay costs. It also simplifies nurse workflows, improves accuracy, and enables patient mobility.
SequestBio
Alternate | North Texas, Texas
UBiosis Health
Semi-Finalist | Houston, Texas
UBiosis Health is building UBi, an autonomous AI nurse that proactively manages patient care beyond the office, improving clinical outcomes while generating new revenue for physicians. Unlike AI agents focused on isolated administrative tasks, UBi is vertically integrated across the care journey, engaging patients in natural conversations with an evolving personality, tracking treatment response, reading and ordering labs – escalating care at the earliest signs of disease progression.
Well Water Finders, Inc.
Semi-Finalist | North Texas, Texas
From helping landowners determine water availability to helping counties monitor aquifer levels, Well Water Finders is focused on making groundwater detection easy, accurate, and affordable, helping property owners know water levels BEFORE drilling. Using patented electromagnetic technology to locate, measure depth, and estimate aquifer volume, the company successfully piloted its system and is now manufacturing its first commercial units for global use. Additionally, Well Water Finders offers a comprehensive groundwater database and report service, delivering actionable insights for informed decision-making. Well Water Finders is a portfolio member of Austin Technology Incubator, the deep tech incubator at The University of Texas at Austin.
*Alternates on standby if a semi-finalist drops out for any reason, and are eligible for all sponsored and elevator-pitch competition prizes.
