Pre-Seed Startups

The problem is clearly defined as the threat posed by hostile UAVs and drones to military and critical infrastructure, with a lack of effective autonomous counter-drone systems in the market.

Patients seeking affordable healthcare abroad face a fragmented ecosystem with hidden fees, long research timelines, travel/visa friction, and no trusted end-to-end solution.

Sports bettors rely on gut and public-driven lines; lack access to sophisticated analytics.

Athletes and enthusiasts want versatile sneakers for gym and 5–10K running that withstand demanding routines without premium prices or sacrificing grip, ventilation, and comfort.

Founders spend 10+ hours/week on fundraising admin (forms, emails), miss deadlines, and duplicate information across applications.

Beauty guidance is broken for beginners: they waste money on products that don't fit tone, type, or budget and feel overwhelmed by choices.

Policyholders making insurance claims lack a direct way to earn rewards on claim-related purchases and insurers/brokers have limited tools to drive value and recover costs from claim spend.

Real estate agencies in Africa lack localized, cloud-based property management software suited to their market context.

Traditional insurance claim payouts are slow, leaving policyholders without immediate funds for urgent repairs, housing, contractor payments, and essentials.

Las Vegas, NV

Manual, untracked referral payments creating wasted spend and lack of ROI for foot-traffic businesses.

Headwear is static, driving overproduction and limiting personal expression for Gen Z and Millennials.

Businesses struggle to deliver AI projects end-to-end (scoping, sourcing and vetting experts, ensuring security/compliance, and managing delivery).

Slow and uncontrolled insurance claims payouts (days to weeks) exacerbate financial instability for policyholders, while insurers lack real-time control and visibility into emergency disbursements.

Manufacturers spend millions printing manuals that are quickly discarded; poor or missing documentation causes support tickets and returns. Customers expect instant digital product support.

California

Scattered notes across travel, health and productivity lack continuity and lifetime value.

Low-quality Filipino horror games in market; players seeking the next viral multiplayer horror experience after Phasmophobia.

Scattered travel and lifetime notes are hard to organize into actionable health and life insights; travelers need integrated translation, journaling, and health tracking.

Miami, FL

Local Main Street HVAC businesses are at risk from retiring owners and Private Equity takeovers; employees and community value are threatened.

Africa's agricultural trade is fragmented, opaque, and inefficient: fragmented supply chains, high remittance fees (7–12%), payment delays, and sourcing challenges.

Travelers struggle to find trustworthy, experience-based insights and seamless booking for leisure and travel experiences.

College fantasy sports are underserved; mainstream fantasy platforms deprioritize college sports, leaving 50M+ fans without a native product.

Existing senior care platforms restrict live-in caregiver searches locally, limiting available candidates and driving up costs; in-home/live-in care is unaffordable for many families.

Maryland

San Francisco, California

India

Texas

Patients face confusion, distrust, and fragmented discovery when searching for aesthetic providers; providers face wasted ad spend and outdated CRMs.

Czechia (Czech Republic)

Hiring processes are inefficient: ATS/AI filtering yields irrelevant matches, long time-to-hire, and poor-fit hires; candidates face opaque application experiences.

Small businesses and freelancers lack time and resources to create consistent, high-quality content across platforms.

Tens of thousands of small, profitable online businesses (SaaS, AI, service tools) are too small for traditional VC or M&A. Founders burn out or stall growth but have no easy exit option....

High barriers and costs to set up and operate online casinos: marketing, licensing (up to $30k per jurisdiction), and expensive software. Players must beat the house; many games are perceived as...

Tampa, Florida

Customers struggle to find and book reliable, high-quality car washes instantly and to compare providers, pricing, and quality.

Online property and vehicle listings often contain misleading or edited photos and unverified details; customers must take time off work to view in person and risk scams or misrepresented listings.

Houston, TX

Ceiling fan blades accumulate dust, allergens, pet dander and are hazardous to clean (risk of falling).

Rural artisans face market barriers, low wages due to middlemen, and traditional leather is environmentally harmful. No large-scale plant-based luxury leather brand in India.

Boston, MA

The problem is clearly defined as the inefficiency and revenue loss faced by small to medium B2B distributors due to fragmented systems, leading to significant time spent on reconciling inventory and...

Los Angeles, CA

Traditional long-form media does not fit mobile-first viewing behaviors; audiences prefer vertical, short-form serialized content and frictionless micropayments.

Georgia

Static NPCs and predictable storylines harm immersion. Current gaming AI relies on pre-programmed dialogue trees that limit branching, lack emotional continuity, and feel robotic.

New York City, NY

Multi-family building owners face high water costs, poor communal laundry experience, and many buildings lack infrastructure for in-unit washers/dryers.

Texas

Inefficient, opaque local services booking with vague quotes, limited payment options and complex booking flows.

Carrboro, NC

Large volumes of flared and vented methane and an energy-intensive, costly methanol production industry; plus increasing maritime regulatory pressure and need for lower-carbon marine fuels.

Florida

Maryland

High fees and slow transaction speeds for international payments; limited access to multi-currency wallets and real-time settlement.

Houston, TX

Sensors today are limited by low surface-area materials, leading to lower sensitivity and potential failures in critical systems (e.g., Deepwater Horizon, Boeing 737 MAX). There is growing demand for...

Minnesota

Unchecked entry of unlicensed providers in booking platforms leading to bad client experiences and lack of incentive to be licensed.

San Francisco, California

Houston, TX

Financial research is a bottleneck: analysts spend ~40% of the day searching for information; 40% of large deals slip ≥ 3 months; delayed deals risk millions in fees.

Construction scanning produces large point-clouds (100GB typical) that require time-consuming manual conversion into usable 3D CAD models. Current solutions are semi-automated or produce coarse...

Dover, DE

Fleets face significant costs, downtime, and fatalities due to accidents driven by driver fatigue, stress and undetected vehicle issues. Traditional fleet systems lack integrated driver health and...

Startup ecosystems and accelerators lack resources, bandwidth, and efficient support for founders.

Dix Hills, NY

Influencer marketing is too expensive with uncertain ROI, too complicated due to lengthy negotiations, and not scalable when managing many influencers.

Pune, Maharashtra

Players lack true ownership and provenance of in-game items; monetization primarily benefits developers; fraud in item trading; payment processing issues for in-game credits.

Legal research and document analysis are time-consuming and difficult for law students and professionals.

Uniondale, Western Cape

Traditional spraying fails on steep slopes: tractors cannot access terrain, labour is scarce and exposed to chemicals, water and agrochemicals are wasted, and soil compaction damages orchards.

Toronto, Ontario

Traditional software development is slow, expensive, and error-prone; legacy methodologies from the 1970s impede shareholder value.

Home gaming lacks the high-end equipment, physical space, and social interaction of location-based entertainment; there's no seamless path between home play and arcade/VR venue experiences.

Urbana, IL

Crypto holders lack seamless banking options to convert and use crypto as everyday fiat across global currencies.

Recyclers lack the knowledge and automation to capture value from the $250B resale market; rising labor costs are making manual sorting unsustainable.

Healthcare organizations struggle with privacy, security, and data standardization; legacy data management solutions are fragmented, costly, labor-intensive, and not end-user friendly.

Parents overpay on baby essentials because brands sell single-use products, forcing multiple separate purchases and added cost/clutter.

Existing platforms (Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, Quora/Reddit) don’t provide actionable, structured, step-by-step guidance. Users searching for how-tos (e.g., getting a job in the USA, learning...

Enterprise cybersecurity is largely reactive; existing defenses and pen-testing approaches do not proactively predict and patch emerging threats. Cybercrime damages projected to be extremely large...

San Antonio, TX

Children are emotionally overwhelmed and current screens/media overstimulate instead of nurturing emotional growth; confidence, resilience, and empathy are rarely taught on screen.

Traditional one-sided trading requires more capital and only profits on directional moves; two-sided markets allow profiting on rises and falls but introduce leverage risk. Need a systematic approach...

Helsinki

The traditional art industry is exclusive, inaccessible to younger collectors and emerging artists, and relies on outdated sales and communication methods.

Modern audiences recognize Filipino horror, but existing products are poorly made. No new multiplayer horror game has replaced Phasmophobia in 5 years.

Limited access for African artisans and designers to global marketplaces and cross-border logistics.

There is a gap for a modern spiritual successor to a beloved 2001 god-simulator; fans and younger players lack a genre-defining title with emergent virtual-pet AI.

Biotech innovation concentrated in elite hubs; underserved regions lack infrastructure and funding.

Golf clubs lack a unified digital backbone — fragmented systems and poor member engagement.

Lack of interoperability between blockchains, slow/expensive consensus mechanisms, limited real-world integration and utility.

Hereford, Texas

Limited local options for modern, compassionate, and personalized funeral services in Hereford; existing competitor’s monopoly has led to rising prices and less accessible services for many families.

No existing action cameras can be used accessory-free for comfortable, safe first-person capture in contact sports.

Singapore

Current AI suffers from context loss and stateless interactions; intellumia aims to solve by building a personal AI twin with persistent graph memory.

New York

Fundraising and investor relations workflows for alternative asset managers are manual, fragmented, and inefficient.

Across industries, communication gaps in meetings, sales conversations, and compliance reviews lead to wasted time, misalignment, and higher training costs. Current approaches to training and...

SMBs face disconnected data workflows, high manual ETL and lack accessible, explainable AI analytics.

Parents buy and discard children’s footwear roughly every six months due to rapid foot growth, contributing to an estimated 4.4 billion pairs of footwear waste per year.

Columbia, MO

Hobby farmers and backyard gardeners often neglect watering plants or monitoring animal infrastructure (e.g., electric fences, chicken coops) leading to stress and loss of animals/plants.

Toronto, Ontario

High transaction fees (up to ~4%) and slow settlement times (days) that hurt SMB cash flow and profits.

Washington

Scheduling and booking software is often clunky and desktop-focused; not optimized for guides and field-based operators.

New Mexico

Lack of genuine human accountability and motivation for self-improvement; existing apps feel hollow or too costly.

Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Slow, error-prone retail checkout processes leading to long queues, abandoned carts, higher labor costs and limited inventory visibility.

Average men get few or no likes and matches; women are overwhelmed by too many likes; people are judged on 1–2 images.

Austin, TX

Productions bleed budget and time on crowds and set continuity: casting bottlenecks, wardrobe shortages, weather, reshoots, and manual continuity fixes drive significant delays and cost overruns.

Existing Filipino horror games in market have low production quality; players are seeking the next major multiplayer horror title since Phasmophobia.

Frisco, Texas

Homeowners lack transparent, fair pricing for home repairs and are frequently overcharged.

California

Enterprise data and privacy vulnerable to hacks, AI-driven attacks, and emerging quantum threats; current encryption and vendor compromise leave data exposed.

TX

Staffing shortages and turnover, administrative overload, billing backlogs causing lost revenue; gaps in value-based care compliance (e.g., AWVs & quality reporting).

Tampa, FL

Car owners lack a fast, trusted way to find and book car washes/detailing with consistent quality; providers lack modern tools for booking, payments, marketing, and retention, and face no-shows and...

Manual, decentralized multi-entity tax compliance causing errors, penalties, lack of visibility

Knowledge workers are drowning in data but starving for insight; existing AI tools increase speed but not insight.

Marketers use 15-25 different tools daily causing fragmentation, wasted time (3-4 hours/day), loss of consistency and reduced strategic focus.

Individuals, couples, cofounders, and teams lack tools to proactively detect and navigate psychological and relational patterns, timing windows, and compatibility dynamics. Existing journaling and...

Port Harcourt, Rivers

Homeowners and renters lack an affordable, simple way to plan and execute interior decorating projects — they overspend, waste time, and lack execution roadmaps.

Foreign HNWIs, family offices, and diaspora investors face barriers (regulatory complexity, trust gaps, lack of transparent SPV structures) to access high-return Indian real estate projects.

College Station, TX

Drivers face exploitative commission structures; riders have no price-setting power.

Accra

Fragmented property management systems, lack of integration, tenant screening challenges, inefficient maintenance tracking.

PA

Fragmentation in freight logistics: no single secure, transparent platform connecting shippers, brokers, and drivers causing staffing bloat and empty miles.

New York

Most language learning tools teach vocabulary without cultural context, leading to misunderstandings, poor localization, and lost trust for tourists, diaspora communities, and global organizations.