Nine Brabant AI startups will pitch to a jury on 12 November at the Evoluon in Eindhoven, with background music startup YourNeuroTune bringing more than 450 customers in four countries to the stage.
Credit: this report is based on a story first published by IO+. Read the original at ioplus.nl.
According to IO+, the final of the AI Pitch Competition takes place during AI Summit Brainport at the Evoluon in Eindhoven on 12 November. The competition is organised by Erasmus Enterprise, BOM and IO+, with support from the Province of Noord-Brabant, and IO+ has profiled each of the nine participants in recent weeks.
The field ranges from teams preparing industrial pilots to a music service with hundreds of customers. Ahead of the final, participants practised compressing their pitch into thirty seconds at a workshop held at the Koning Willem II Stadium.
The commercial front-runner
YourNeuroTune makes functional, AI-generated background music for gyms, cafés and shops as an alternative to licensed repertoires. It pairs generative audio with its own musical similarity checks and human quality reviews to flag possible overlap with existing works. According to co-founder Sam Jansen, the company now serves more than 450 customers in four countries. Further growth depends on legal due diligence in each market and on awareness among business owners.
Security, control and synthetic data
Kyvvu, whose co-founder and CTO is Maurits Kaptein, is building an Agent Security Kernel: software that checks an AI agent's proposed actions against fixed rules before they run, taking earlier steps of the task into account, without using a second language model as referee. Offensys, co-founded by Cor Verhoeven, is developing a platform for continuous testing of an organisation's defences against realistic attack scenarios, with an autonomous copilot as its next development step.
One Horizon, from Flow.ai founders Gijs van de Nieuwegiessen and Tijn van Daelen, brings AI assistants, workflows and human oversight together in one independent platform that can also run on a customer's own hardware. Synthgen, whose CTO and co-founder is Martin Tomov, generates labelled synthetic images of rare defects, such as a crack in a weld, to train inspection models, and sees opportunities in European manufacturing and agriculture.
Hardware, workplace and care
The other finalists are Rigidbody, founded by three TU/e engineers, which applies physics-based time-series models to factory data and is exploring the semiconductor supply chain as a first market; UNSEQ, which is developing robots to handle baggage in aircraft holds; Be-Inc, founded by Eline Schoonen, which is bringing a language and culture coach into Microsoft 365; and wildcard entrant Alzheimer.app, Peter Spijkers' initiative to support families and care professionals with dementia questions. "A flight should not come at the expense of someone's back," said UNSEQ co-founder and CEO Robert de Bruijne.
What comes next
BOM venture developer Guido Gageldonk warned the teams that a working pilot does not automatically mean customers will pay. IO+ writes that the next step for the finalists calls for capital, early customers and evidence from practice.
Original source: IO+, "Nine AI startups, one final: from smart promises to real value" Suggested image: official AI Summit Brainport event visual from the organisers' event page; confirm usage rights before import (High Tech Campus Eindhoven event page)
