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

TX

Size, weight, and power constraints for antennas and EMI shielding across military, aerospace, automotive, and medical device applications.

San Francisco, California

The problem is clearly defined as the high failure rates in soft tissue surgeries, particularly in hernia repairs, due to inadequate suture and mesh integration, leading to costly and painful...

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.

Gaming lacks a unified platform where creators, brands, and fans can engage around everything related to gaming; existing platforms lack customization and an easy-to-use way to consume relevant...

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

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

Administrative burden for mental health practitioners due to fragmented software for scheduling, billing, payroll, and compliance.

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

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

Many SME owners cannot sell or realize full enterprise value because value is tied to the owner, systems are undocumented, and intangible assets are not monetized.

London

Fragmented, inefficient ready-meal / meal prep market with many small operators lacking tech and operational scale.

Texas

Airlines frequently mishandle or damage passengers’ wheelchairs and scooters, causing severe harm to mobility, travel experience, and significant costs for airlines (repairs, fines, training, and...

Consumers, including veterans and individuals with chronic illnesses, seek effective, organic, and sustainable wellness products and support but face limited trustworthy, eco-friendly options and...

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.

Coaching is expensive, inconsistent, and unscalable; apps lack true personalization leading to rapid drop-off.

Static, passive digital content and fragmented, outdated tools (e.g., Adobe) or walled-garden platforms (e.g., Amazon) reduce engagement and limit creator control and monetization.

Pasadena, CA

Traditional salon suite model leads to high churn: saturated, undifferentiated offerings, lack of business support/technology for stylists, poor community experience, limited natural light and...

Virginia

Car enthusiasts lack a dedicated, modern platform to connect locally, form clubs, communicate, and discover or organize meets/events.

Texas

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

India

Traditional hedge funds that perform are often inaccessible to smaller investors, slow to adapt, and lack transparency. Retail traders and small-scale investors often fail due to lack of expertise,...

New York

Data migration and system integration projects frequently fail to meet expectations, with high rates of delays and budget overruns. Root causes are typically non-technical: poor data quality, unclear...

Atlanta, GA

Millions of paid-for event seats go unused every year, costing fans (lost ticket value), venues (lost in-venue spending), and artists/teams (lower payouts and poor optics). Existing resale platforms...

Kentucky

Large number of lost or stolen handguns annually (500k–700k). Everyday carry increases risk of loss/theft ~300x. Lost/stolen guns are often used in crime.

Strength training is effective but hard to sustain; high drop-off in apps and lack of affordable personalized coaching.

Austin, TX

Family and professional caregivers lack real-time situational awareness and tools to keep elderly or cognitively impaired loved ones safe, especially those at risk of wandering or falls. Traditional...

Dirty, potentially unhealthy ice is used in premium beverages, which can dilute drinks quickly and ruin flavor. There is a lack of clean, hands-free, slow-melting, reusable ice options.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many modern parents live apart from their childhood villages and lack shared parenting wisdom, leading to loneliness, isolation, and information deserts.

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.

Dalton, TX

Public safety personnel (law enforcement, military, private security, industrial workers) face rising violence and on-the-job injuries. Existing body armor is largely non-instrumented and lacks...

Drug development faces high failure rates, complex FDA/EMA regulatory requirements, patient recruitment and retention challenges in clinical trials, safety monitoring and compliance burdens, and...

Bridgwater, Somerset

Inefficient temporary workforce placement between agencies and businesses leading to unutilized opportunities, lost contracts and reduced productivity.

Employees are increasingly disengaged, stressed, and lack access to essential resources for health and wellness; HR teams are overwhelmed and traditional one-size-fits-all programs fail to deliver...

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

Most AI assistants forget user context and limit usable memory, requiring users to re-explain themselves repeatedly.

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...

AI and advanced computing require more powerful and energy-efficient semiconductors, but current industry is limited by the size of interconnect wires (20 micron), limiting performance and efficiency.

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.

Helsinki

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

High prevalence of erectile dysfunction; need effective, accessible non-prescription treatment options.

Enterprise multi-entity tax transparency and consolidation across jurisdictions

New York, NY

The proliferation of personal electronic devices and the limitations of grid-dependent charging and unreliable portable power solutions create persistent challenges for individuals and outdoor...

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

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.

Pay inequity (actual and perceived) drives turnover and disengagement; companies need tools to build trust and equitable pay at scale.

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.

North Carolina

TV fans lack a shared, social experience for watching and discussing shows in real time.

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.

California

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

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...

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.

Small savers face slow, passive returns at banks and complex, self-directed trading apps. Underserved users lack access to actively managed investment growth for small contributions.

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.

Repetitive CRM tasks and delayed follow-ups cost time and reduce close rates by up to 80%.

Organizations struggle to build high-trust, high-performance relationships; traditional one-off or theoretical communication trainings fail to create lasting behavior change and practiced skills.

College Station, TX

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

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.

Washington