Startup Competition Final

NOVEMBER 5, 2026 / MIND THE BRIDGE, SAN FRANCISCO

DISCOVER THE WINNERS

Some numbers about WMF & its competition

Finalist

+75.000

Attendees

Challenges of the Future

+2.2Mln€

Total prize value

1.500B

Investment Portfolio

304B

AUM

17.000

Funding Rounds

1.000

VC & Open Innovation Stakeholders

+3.000

Startups & Investors

+90

Countries

+5.300

Applications

The AI 4 Future Startup Competition Final, organized by WMF – We Make Future, took place on November 5, 2026, at Mind the Bridge in San Francisco, as part of the second edition of AI For Future.

Nine AI startups took the stage to pitch their innovative solutions to an audience of international investors, VCs, corporate leaders, and AI professionals, showcasing technologies and business models addressing global challenges.

The three winners - TerraSpark (1st place), Salute360 (2nd place), and MON5 (3rd place) - earned a dedicated exhibition desk at three international events: WMF – We Make Future 2027 (June 10–12, Bologna, Italy), AI Festival 2027 (February 11–12, Milan, Italy), and Saudi Makes Future 2027 (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), along with dedicated meeting opportunities with venture capital funds from the WMF network.

All nine finalists will also have the opportunity to pitch at WMF 2027, with additional Startup District opportunities available to the other finalists.

The winners will also join the WMF Builders Community, gaining access to an international ecosystem offering pitching opportunities, B2B meetings, networking, visibility, and connections with investors and corporate leaders across global markets.

Discover the winners!

THE WINNERS

earned a dedicated desk in the exhibition area at three international events: WMF – We Make Future 2027 (June 10–12, Bologna), AI Festival 2027 (Milan), and Saudi Makes Future 2027 (Riyadh), along with opportunities for dedicated meetings with venture capital funds from the WMF network.

Terraspark

LUXEMBOURG

TerraSpark - Power the Earth one orbit at a time. Building Commercial Space-based solar power to strengthen energy resilience.

Salute360

ITALY

Salute360 is an integrated digital health platform unifying the entire care journey. It connects patients, healthcare providers, pharmacies, and services in one system, enabling access to trusted care, telemedicine, medication delivery, and personalized health content. The platform improves continuity, efficiency, and patient engagement while supporting providers with digital tools and analytics

Mon5

USA

MON5 is an OT cybersecurity platform that gives industrial companies full visibility into their operational technology environments. It automatically discovers all connected assets, detects anomalies and vulnerabilities in real time, and supports compliance with IEC 62443 and NIS2. It deploys on-premise, hybrid, or cloud with no disruption to operations.

Startup Finalists 2026

Daidalos

Italy

SupraOS is an AI-native operating layer that runs high-stakes enterprise workflows across existing tools, applies policy before execution, and generates verifiable receipts for every action. It helps organizations reduce coordination waste, automate safely, and prove outcomes for audit, compliance, and operational control.

Mulan AI

USA

Mulan is an AI-powered content production platform that enables marketing teams to generate and edit image and video campaigns through structured workflows. By transforming generative AI into repeatable production pipelines, Mulan dramatically reduces content costs, accelerates campaign creation, and empowers teams to scale high-quality marketing content across global digital channels.

Prodigy Products

Italy

Prodigy is an AI-First Enterprise Transformation Platform that enables companies to become AI-native organizations in less than 90 days.

Handy Signs

Italy

Handy Signs is the only AI-powered digital assistant for Italian Sign Language (LIS) capable of real-time translation from LIS to Italian and vice versa, designed to improve the accessibility of services for Deaf citizens and enhance their inclusion in society and the workplace.

Salute360

Italy

MON5

Italy

TerraSpark

Luxembourg

TerraSpark - Power the Earth one orbit at a time. Building Commercial Space-based solar power to strengthen energy resilience.

NuHpro

Italy

Nuhpro develops and markets innovative food nutraceutical solutions with application to food as medicine, covering 3 verticalities: Functional Food, Women's Health and longevity fields.

Vertalis AI

Italy

Factories run on data scattered across ERPs, MES, spreadsheets, paper and people’s heads. Vertalis is the digital backbone that structures what’s still uncorrelated and connects everything into one live data layer where AI and technology can be implemented seamslessy. Live in one day and automatically. Plant data that finally works, from day one.

The Jury

The WMF International Startup Competition
is now open

This year, once again, WMF – We Make Future is organizing the Startup Competition: the largest international competition for startups.

Now in its 14th edition, the initiative receives thousands of applications from all over the world every year and brings together investors, VCs, incubators, and international Business Angels in Bologna, Italy. The final round of the competition, featuring six internationallly selected startups will take place on the Mainstage during WMF 2027, scheduled for June 10, 11, 12, at BolognaFiere, Italy, and will be streamed worldwide. In 2026, WMF brought together over 3.000 international stakeholders in startups and open innovation.

The call for applications is open, and submissions are accepted until April 9th.

Apply now