This year’s GNVC finalists are:
Chicago
- KLIQ Ventures // Two out of three patients who see a surgeon for a joint replacement don’t need one — they need a different doctor entirely. Kliq screens and quickly matches patients to the right doctor at the right time, before wasting visits. Joint replacements first, orthopedics next, then all of medicine.
- Morton Labs // Morton Labs is a new venture specializing in computational science for fusion energy research. Its mission is to reduce the time and cost required to design, validate, and optimize fusion systems by building and maintaining the digital infrastructure that connects legacy and next-generation physics codes into usable, well-validated multi-physics workflows.
- TradeCampus // TradeCampus partners with community colleges to create college-owned, skilled trades schools, housed in purpose-built facilities. It delivers an end-to-end platform — from feasibility and site strategy through facility construction and opening, curriculum frameworks, and post-opening support enabling colleges to expand workforce education beyond traditional degree pathways.
Hong Kong
- Aura Interactive // Aura Interactive develops an AI-powered interactive character platform, transforming licensed IP into physical companions that educate children and engage collectors through conversation and personalized interaction.
- Lumana // Lumana is a privacy-first, non-intrusive mmWave + thermal sensing system for the aged-care sector that detects unwitnessed falls, night-time risks, and hygiene-related events without cameras or wearables. It delivers continuous, room-level monitoring to support safer and more dignified aging in senior living communities and home-health environments.
London
- Flex // Flex is an AI-powered running coach that builds training plans around real-life constraints, not the other way around. Unlike rigid apps that assume perfect weeks, Flex starts with actual availability, adapts proactively when life intervenes, and honestly tells you what goals are achievable.
- Phinorm // Phinorm provides on-device drone classification and location software for defense sensors that allow warfighters to detect drones significantly earlier and with greater accuracy. Rather than require more computing power, our technology reduces compute burden on radar systems on the battlefield and in civilian settings.
The GNVC finals pitches and awards announcement is a hybrid event. To attend or view the livestream, you must register.