Startups

Entrepreneurs Fuel the Evolution

The evolution of human senses will be fueled by entrepreneurs, which is why we highlight the top startups working to bring the Internet of Senses to your home, vehicle, boardroom, and laboratory. Whether you are a startup founder looking to raise a new seed round or showcase your latest product, a savvy tech VC looking for your next investment, or an early adopter or influencer looking to stay informed on the latest tech trends, our list of featured startups is the perfect place to connect with the Internet of Senses ecosystem and forge new relationships.

Featured Startups

Company	Website	Location	Related Sense	Company Information
AIKYNETIX	aikynetix.com/	Houston, Texas	Sight	We are developing real-time biomechanics’ app for runners and coaches. We aim to measure and optimize running performance on treadmills.
Aromajoin	aromajoin.com/	Fushimi, Kyoto, Japan	Smell	Aromajoin develops scent devices that combine hardware, software, and chemical technology. Its services include the “Aroma Shooter”, the aroma display based on space-time aroma control technique and “Aroma Stage”, an internet-based platform where users can log in. In addition, it also develops various contents like aroma integrated applications oraroma integrated games.
Chatable	chatableapps.com/	London, England, United Kingdom	Hearing	Chatable develops and licenses AI technologies for real-time speech enhancement used on smart hearing devices.
Dailo	dailo.co	New York, NY, USA	Hearing	Dailo is a learning tool for creating interactive speech simulations with an AI companion.
Diver-X	diver-x.jp/	Tokyo, Japan	Touch	Diver-X is a provider of revolutionary virtual reality experience through its products. Their new product, ContactGlove, is a revolutionary VR controller in the form of a glove, equipped with haptic feedback and high-precision hand tracking. With button input just like conventional VR controllers, ContactGlove allows you to experience a truly immersive VR world. Plus, it's compatible with all SteamVR content!
Genuine Taste	genuinetaste.co	Toronto, Canada	Taste	Genuine taste is a cell agriculture company focused on creating fat without harming animals. We add taste, aroma, and texture to alternative meat products, giving them the 'meatiness' that makes them delicious and savory.
Eyemote Vision	http://eyemote.vision/	Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States	Sight	Eyemote Vision elevates telehealth. Many remote exams overlook the front of the eye; we're changing that. Our 'smart clinics' ensure thorough exams without needing an on-site doctor. Our DSL-1 tool emphasizes front-eye care. Combined with routine glasses assessments and back-eye imagery, we strive for the most comprehensive remote eye exam.
Almer Technologies	https://almer-technologies.com/	Bern, Switzerland	Sight	Almer Technologies is a startup developing compact and lightweight augmented reality (AR) glasses to deliver effortless communication for frontline workers
Aryballe	https://aryballe.com/	Grenoble, France	Smell	Aryballe combines biochemical sensors, advanced optics, and machine learning in a single objective solution to collect, display and analyze odor data so companies can make better decisions.
Brandenburg Labs GmbH	https://brandenburg-labs.com	Ilmenau, Germany	Hearing	At Brandenburg Labs, we strive to create cutting-edge audio technology that is inspired by how we listen to the world. We make immersive audio for headphones as intuitive as real life, enabling everyone to dive deep into any soundscape. Our company relies on a substantial network and extensive knowledge in the fields of basic and applied research, also based on the expertise of our founder, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karlheinz Brandenburg, best known as co-inventor of mp3.
Artiris Parfum	https://compoz-parfum.com/en	Paris, France	Smell	A real-time high-quality scent mixer and player. A small box with a fan attached to it can hold up to five single-ingredient oils. The scent output and intensity can be controlled through an app and experienced in real-time. One the desired scent is created; a timer can be set to continuously diffuse this specific creation. The oils are natural and single-origin, i.e. Rose oil from Bulgaria.
Delphi Technology Corp	https://delphitechcorp.com/	Winnipeg, Canada	Sight	Unleashing your enterprise potential with conversational and action-based Smart Avatar training solutions in an immersive environment with your own content and process.
Embr Labs	https://embrlabs.com/	Boston, Massachusetts	Touch	Embr Labs is a Boston-based technology startup with patented wearable technology that goes beyond sensing. Our wearable thermal technology provides heating and cooling at the touch of a button and is already helping tens of thousands of people live better lives through personal temperature control.
Eyedaptic	https://eyedaptic.com/	Laguna Beach, California	Sight	Eyedaptic offers a comfortable wearable device that uses proprietary vision enhancing software that effectively simulates a person’s natural vision. Designed in conjunction with leading ophthalmology retinal specialists, low vision optometrists and occupational therapists, AdaptiVu is completely non-invasive and worn like glasses.
Imanyco	https://imanyco.com/	West Palm Beach, Florida	Hearing	Creating devices (comunify), advocating, and improving communication accessibility for the hearing-loss community.
Instreamatic.ai	https://instreamatic.com/	San Francisco, California	Hearing	A Voice AI infrastructure for Media designed to power interactive, dialog-based advertisements on mobile platforms. The company offers an all-in-one solution with fast and easy integration, providing audio publishers and advertisers with the tools to manage, measure and monetize ad inventory with highly engaging dialog ads.
IRomaScents	https://iromascents.com/	Herzliya, Israel	Smell	iRomaScents is an innovated, unique device, which adds different scents to movies, commercial ads, and shopping.
Kassa Trade, Inc.	https://kassatrade.com/	Washington DC, USA	Touch	Kassa Trade is a 21st century apparel manufacturing company. They create products that consumers can physically touch and digitally experience. They manufacture quality garments with sustainability and fair trade practices in mind. In addition, Kassa Trade offers affordable augmented reality (AR), digital garment manufacturing, 3D model designing,and artificial intelligence (AI) powered digital human services. They hold offices in the United States, Peru and Bahrain.
Maze-AR	https://maze-ar.com/	San Jose, CA	Sight	Our purpose is to provide e-commerce businesses a practical and beautiful solution that harnesses the true potential of AR technology. Our virtual try-on solution allows users to interact with products in real-time, gaining valuable information on fit, style, and look. This allows brands to drive higher customer engagement, increasing sales while decreasing the frequency of returns.
Memory Gardens	https://memorygardens.xyz/	Mckinney, Texas	Sight	At Memory Gardens, we understand the importance of commemorating and preserving the memories of the people we love. We offer a unique soDo you ever wonder what will happen to your precious memoriesafter you are gone? How will future generations be able to access and experience them? Memory Gardens is here to change that. We are the ultimate digital storage solution for preserving life's most precious moments, including photos, videos, and important files, ensuring they remain accessible for generations.
Neurable	https://neurable.com/headphones	Boston, Massachusetts	Hearing	Neurable develops software to understand human intent by using advanced machine learning techniques to classify the electrical signals produced by your brain. Neurable's software turns these biometric signals into actionable insights for measuring emotion and providing control of connected devices.
Neural Lab, Inc.	https://neural-lab.com	El Dorado Hills, California	Touch(less)	Our A.rTouch™ software solution turns existing computer devices such as laptops, tablets, kiosks and ATMs into instant touchless interactive systems. Use A.rTouch™ to minimize interaction with shared surfaces, to avoid touching in highly sanitized environments, or simply to avoid smearing screens with soiled hands.
Noala	https://noala.co/	London, England	Hearing	Noala is a listen to community so that together its creating the simplest and most effective platform for speech and language therapists.
Noopl	https://noopl.com/	Sacramento, CA, USA	Hearing	Noopl is an iPhone® accessory that helps you hear clearly in noisy places so you can connect better with those around you.
Novel Effect	https://noveleffect.com/	Seattle, Washington	Hearing	Leader in voice-driven media and entertainment. Through the use of voice, Novel Effect’s products blend physical and digital worlds to create immersive and interactive experiences across books, video and games.
Noveto	https://noveto.com	Petah-Tikva, Israel	Hearing	A developer of human-machine vocal interfaces to allow users to hear sounds without the need for headphones or speakers.
OVR Technology	https://ovrtechnology.com	Burlington, Vermont	Smell	A Groundbreaking Olfactory Virtual Reality Platform, the Architecture of Scent (AOS) makes it possible to build the sense of smell, or olfaction, into virtual reality.
OWO	https://owogame.com/	Málaga, Spain	Touch	At OWO, we have patented a wireless haptic gaming vest that allows players to feel over 30 different sensations while playing video games.
Sayso	https://sayso.ai/	San Francisco, CA	Hearing	Sayso is a communication accessibility platform that improves speech intelligibility for humans and machines alike.
Sentien Audio	https://sentienhq.com/	Prague, Czech Republic	Hearing	Sentien Audio is an all-day wearable open-ear headset. Control your device through tap, gesture, and voice controls—all on Sentien Audio. The perfect meld of offline and online realities.
Soundself	https://soundself.com/	Austin, Texas, USA	Hearing	SoundSelf uses a biometric feedback loop between the voice and breath and AI voice analysis to produce transpersonal states of consciousness after 15 minutes of immersion. It is used clinically as an adjunct to psychedelic therapy, where it is improving outcomes by training embodied awareness, flow, and surrender.
Speechx	https://speechx.tech/	Singapore, Singapore	Hearing	speechx provides desktop and mobile apps that analyse a user's voice, during online meetings or rehearsal sessions, and provides AI-generated recommendations that improve critical speaking parameters like clarity, brevity, inclusivity and confidence.
Strap Technologies	https://strap.tech/	Austin, Texas, USA	Sight	STRAP Technologies has designed the world’s first replacement of the white cane for the visually impaired. STRAP is a wearable device that stands to revolutionize how the visually impaired explore the world. With our patented technology of sensors and haptic feedback, STRAP notifies the user of possible collisions. With complete coverage including head, mid, and low-level obstacles as well as bumps, holes, and stairs.
Supertone	https://supertone.ai/	Yeoksamdong, South Korea	Hearing	Supertone is an artificial intelligence audio company that provides world-renowned voice synthesis real-time voice enhancement technology.
Survivr	https://survivr.com/	Dallas, Texas	Sight	Survivr is a VR training platform that helps first responders improve their decision-making and response times. Trainees are immersed in a variety of high-pressure situations such as traffic stops, domestic violence, and active shootings.
Touch Sensity	https://touchsensity.com/en/home	Mérignac, France	Touch	A true innovation in the field of intelligent materials, the Sensity Tech technology developed by Touch Sensity makes objects and materials sensitive to physical interactions.
Vocalytics	https://vocalytics.ai/	Costa Mesa, California	Hearing	Vocalytics is an AI software that listens to ambient noise, analyzes events & trends, and sends real-time alerts when you need them most.
Wield	https://wield.bio/index.html	San Francisco, California	Multi Senses	Our intraoral User Interface technology is something new. Worn in the mouth, our wearables give the user a hands-free, gestural, private, and inconspicuous way to interact... screens optional.
AudioFocus	https://www.audiofocus.io/	Oakland, California	Hearing	AudioFocus uses deep learning to recognize the voices of your friends and family anywhere, so they’re always audible. We do this using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques that allow each user to have a custom model, designed specifically for their loved ones.
Augmental	https://www.augmental.tech	San Francisco, California, United States	Touch, Taste	Augmental is a pioneering team developing smart mouth-wear technology to increase human potential. Our first product, the MouthPad, marries the functionality of a computer mouse with the form of a dental retainer. Today, the MouthPad is empowering individuals with disabilities, enhancing their connectivity, and enriching their quality of life.
AYES	https://www.ayes.ai/	Antwerpen, Belgium	Sight	AYES delivers an AI-driven mobile application assisting blind and visually impaired people to navigate the streets
Controlla	https://www.controlla.xyz	San Francisco, California	Hearing	Controlla is the first-mover and global leader in mobile-first augmented reality music creation tools. We empower artists, producers, and musicians with the expressiveness of high-end MIDI controllers by creating accessible software for the devices you already own. This is your unfair advantage.
Dent Reality	https://www.dentreality.com/	London, England	Sight	Augmented Reality will take technology beyond the screen, and enable a much richer real-world experience. Across every aspect of our daily lives, this new technology will make it possible to pull up overlays of information on anything we’re curious about, and will be useful in all sorts of ways. Our AR platform brings this into physical locations, enabling every business to serve their customers on a one-to-one basis, with guidance and information to supercharge their experience.
.Lumen	https://www.dotlumen.com/	Romania	Sight	.lumen builds glasses that help the blind live a better life.
Eargym	https://www.eargym.world/	London, England	Hearing	eargym is the digital hearing fitness platform offering fun and immersive hearing training games designed to improve your hearing skills.
Edify	https://www.edify.ac/	Glasgow, Scotland	Sight	They are creating the most immersive, accessible and expansive augmented learning platform available anywhere. A place where students and educators can connect and collaborate across mobile, browser and virtual reality. Go beyond the lecture theatre to explore virtual worlds, conduct challenging or costly experiments and bend the rules of realityfrom anywhere, on any device.
Parrots	https://www.flyparrots.com/	Seattle, Washington	Sound	Parrots Inc. is an assistive robotics and medical devices company that creates smart, inclusive companions for people with mobility and communication challenges. The socially assistive robots empower the users and their caregivers to more robustly experience their worlds by assisting with seeing, speaking, and interacting with surroundings.
Field of Vision	https://www.fov.ie	Dublin, Ireland	Sight	Field of Vision is a haptic tablet to assist people with visual impairments in an immersive sports experience.
holoride	https://www.holoride.com/	Munich, Germany	Sight	Holoride is a company turning vehicles into moving theme parks by synching XR with vehicle movement and navigation data.
Joyverse	https://www.joyverse.club/	Santa Clara, California	Sight	Joyverse aims to be the largest marketplace of metaverse-ready immersive 3D experiences (hotels, shopping, yoga studio, restaurants & cafes, social engagements, live events, etc.). A no-code platform that will make it easy for creators to build immersive 3D experiences for brands and the metaverse. Think Shopify for the Metaverse.
Laronix	https://www.laronix.com/	White Plains, NY, United States of America	Hearing	Laronix is pleased to introduce Bionic Voice, the world’s first smart wearable electronic voice prosthesis for laryngectomy people (larynx amputees or laryngectomees). Bionic Voice substitutes and regenerates the missing "voice source” for laryngectomees.
AlphaBeats	https://www.listenalphabeats.com/	Eindhoven, Netherlands	Brain	AlphaBeats is an application that uses an ingenious algorithm to help the user relax with music. The AlphaBeats app turns your smartphone or wearable into a biosensor that registers your HRV or even brainwaves. Then our algorithm uses this biofeedback to tweak the quality of whatever music you like listening to. This stimulates your brain to slide into the relaxing alpha-mode faster.
Mojo Vision	https://www.mojo.vision/	Saratoga, California	Sight	Mojo Vision is developing Mojo Lens, the world's first augmented reality smart contact lens with a built-in display that delivers "Invisible Computing."
Moodify	https://www.moodify.today	Tel Aviv, Israel	Smell	Moodify develops unique active scents that enables you to improve your performance, enhance your well being and increase your safety.
Neurobotx	https://www.neurobotx.ai/	London, England	Brain	At neurobotX, we are a team of top level researchers building brain inspired neural networks for smart navigation for drones and cars. If you want to test how they compare to the current state of the art, please get in touch.
Luther.ai	https://www.personal.ai/	San Diego, California	Multi Senses	Luther.ai is a startup building your own artificial intelligence to augment your human memory so you never forget. Speak, write or upload insights, information and experiences into your personal AI so you can recall your memories exactly when you need them.
RightHear	https://www.right-hear.com/	Ra'anana, Israel	Hearing	RightHear is an innovative indoor orientation & mobility solution for people who are blind or visually Impaired. The app issues voice prompts and instructions such as “the door is in front of you, it is an automatic sliding door,” to guide people with visual impairments around a venue that is pre-installed with RightHear sensors. It also describes the surroundings to orient the user, and can even call for assistance if necessary.
Smell Revived	https://www.smellrevived.com/	New York City, New York	Smell	Smell Revived is a revolution in smell training. This is the first time that virtual reality technology has been used in smell training. Our pod redefines the smell training to be portable, private and convenient. Smell therapy will become personal, fun and engaging. Get access to virtual scent experience from anywhere!
Sound Scouts	https://www.soundscouts.com/au/	Sydney, Australia	Hearing	Aimed at school aged children, Sound Scouts is a hearing screening app played on a mobile tablet with a set of headphones. It can pick up undiagnosed hearing issues that may affect a child’s social or academic development. If a child struggles to hear, they will also struggle to learn.
Stratuscent	https://www.stratuscent.com/	Montreal, Canada	Smell	Stratuscent is an artificial intelligence (AI) and sensor company that is bringing the sense of smell to devices everywhere.
SwoonMe:Voice First	https://www.swoonmedating.com/	San Francisco, CA, USA	Sound	An Audio-first Avatar dating app meant to engage your dopamine generating senses.
Veritone	https://www.veritone.com/	Los Angeles, CA, USA	Multi-senses	Veritone is an artificial intelligence company that has developed aiWARE, an AWS-certified platform offering orchestrated, cognitive computing to transform and analyze structured and unstructured data for clients in a variety of markets, including media and entertainment, legal, compliance, and government. The open platform integrates an ecosystemof cognitive engines, which can be orchestrated together, and a suite of proprietary applications, to reveal unprecedented, multivariate insights from linear files such as radio and TV broadcasts, surveillance footage and public and private content globally.
Vocal Image	https://www.vocalimage.app/	Tallinn, Estonia	Hearing	Vocal Image is a speech training and voice therapy app for speakers and singers
VRCORE Education	https://www.vrcore-ed.com/	Calgary, Canada	Sight	VRCORE Education is the ultimate field trip: using virtual reality, we transform your gymnasium into a multi-learner portal to any space, size, or time in history. Your students explore these immersive worlds together with our teacher, in a guided, interactive, curriculum-building experience.
Lupa	https://www.wearelupa.com/	London, England	Hearing	Lupa is the digital running platform with adaptive coaching that guides users through personalised and immersive audio experiences. We guide users through their run with adaptive feedback so they know what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.
Wisear	https://www.wisear.io/	Paris, Frances	Hearing	Wisear enables people to finally get seamless, voiceless & touchless control of their devices, by licensing our neuronal biosensing solution to device makers.
Munevo	munevo.com	Munich, Germany	Sight, Touch	The special control munevo DRIVE is a head control for electric wheelchairs. It is based on smartglasses and helps people with disabilities to achieve independent mobility and more self-determination.
NeoSensory	neosensory.com	San Mateo, California, United States	Hearing, Touch	Neosensory focus on sending a variety of data streams to the brain via the sense of touch. With so much unused real estate on the body, the skin presents huge potential for the delivery of new information. They are currently building the world’s first hearing assistive technology that enables people to listen with their skin.
OW Smell Digital	owidgets.co.uk	Gerton, United Kingdom	Smell	OW designs digital smell technology through novel software and hardware solutions that allows to identify smells and perceptual effects.
Pairwise Plants	pairwise.com	Durham, North Carolina	Taste	Pairwise is a purpose-driven food+tech company dedicated to building a healthier world through better fruits and vegetables. Founded in 2017 by Drs. David Liu, Feng Zhang, J. Keith Joung, Tom Adams, and Haven Baker, Pairwise holds licenses from Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital to base editing and high-fidelity enzymes, and has anexpanding internal portfolio of tools and traits. The Pairwise team is growing new types of fruits and vegetables, including leafy greens, berries, and stonefruit, with the first products expected within a few years. The Pairwise team is comprised of leaders in agriculture, CPG food, and research and development.
Play.ht	Play.ht	San Francisco, California, United States	Hearing	Play.ht provides AI voice generators and realistic text-to-speech generation solutions. The company enables people to create realistic voice-over audio using just text. Use cases include voice-over audio for product demos, videos, podcasts, audio articles, etc.
PRYNTD.xyz	PRYNTD.xyz	London, England	Sight, Hearing, Touch	Augmented and Virtual reality on-demand and live-streaming platform with Haptic support for music, events and entertainment
Quintar	quintar.ai/	Santa Clara, California	Sight	Quintar is the first AR-centered fan technology platform company enabling content owners, creators, and rights holders to build captivating live action AR experiences
ReBokeh	rebokeh.com/	Baltimore, Maryland, USA	Sight	ReBokeh is developing an app-based, assistive technology system for people with moderate vision impairments that allows them to personalize how they see the world to their specific needs in any situation.
Savormetrics	savormetrics.com/	Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	Taste	Savormetrics makes smart sensor-driven foodlife extenders optimizes the environment in which food is stored by using sensors to monitor air quality and artificial intelligence to remove harmful contaminants from the air. Their technology is non-chemical based.
SmartNanotubes Technologies	smart-nanotubes.com/	Freital, Sachsen, Germany	Smell	SmartNanotubes Technologies is a start-up company's odor sensor works on the basis of nanotechnology.
Soapbox Labs	soapboxlabs.com/	Dublin, Ireland	Hearing	SoapBox Labs privacy-first speech recognition software delivers voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects.
Sonarworks	sonarworks.com	Latvia	Hearing	Sonarworks is a music tech company that focuses on software that is best for headphones. They perfect the sound coming out of your headphones with an application that allows you to hear as quality as your ears can by perfecting the tone.
SoundAI	soundai.tilda.ws/	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hearing	is an artificial intelligence service that is used to create and generate audio files for music artists, labels, sound producers.
Strap Technologies	strap.tech/	Austin, Texas, USA	Touch, Sight	At Strap Tech, we believe in the fusion of data-driven insights and user-centric design. Ara is a smart device developed for the blind and visually impaired to move faster and safer in their everyday life
The Wave Talk	thewavetalk.com	Daejeon, South Korea	Taste	Developing a biosensor that can detect and monitor impurities within a second
Touchlab	touchlab.io	Edinburgh, Scotland	Touch	Developed electronic skin technology to give robots the power of human touch
Synth	usesynth.com	San Francisco, California	Multi-senses	Synth is an app that captures information such as text, audio and video, and makes it easy to search and retrieve the information.
Volatile	volatile.ai	London, England, United Kingdom	Smell, Taste	Volatile AI works with all of the major existing chemical sensing technologies aimed at gas detection and screening. By combining these existing sensors with AI algorithms, company's solution can speed up the detection and profiling of ingredients and substances in manufacturing processes by up to 20x.
Audioshake	www.audioshake.ai/	San Francisco, California	Hearing	Audioshake's on-demand platform and API allow musicians, audio engineers, producers, publishers, labels, and others to open up their audio content to new uses in karaoke, sync licensing, re-mixes, spatial audio, VR/AR, gaming, dubbing, social apps, and more.
AuraSense	www.aurasense.tech/	Chicago, Illinois	Touch	Enabling home-based neuro health management for patients and doctors of neuromusculoskeletal conditions with their portable, digital remote patient telemedicine platform.
Bebop Sensors	www.bebopsensors.com	Berkeley, California, United States	Touch	BeBop uses smart fabrics to create elegant sensor solutions for OEMs. Where things or people interact, BeBop sensors comprehend force, location, size, weight, shape, motion and presence across any size, resolution, and geometry. BeBop technology is robust and proven with over a million sensors in daily use. BeBop Sensors make things knowable forproduct designers and visionaries. BeBop uses a proprietary Monolithic Fabric Sensor Technology that integrates all of the sensors, traces, and electronics into a single piece of fabric. This approach affords greater sensitivity, resolution, range of deployment and fantastic robustness with diminutive size. Different than other wearables that measure physiology (EKG, EMG), BeBop measures physicality. BeBop technology senses and displays 3D maps of pressure, bend, location, rotation, angle, and torsion.
biped.ai	www.biped.ai/	Lausanne, Switzerland	Hearing, Touch, Sight	biped is the smartest mobility device for blind and visually impaired people, bringing autonomous driving features to humans.
Cloyd IXR	www.cloydixr.com	Vilnius, Lithuania	Sight	AR/VR and mobile platform for training and collaborative work Development of easy-to-use and scalable products. AR/VR pioneers, trusted by many reputable partners. Fully optimized and professional in-house development cycle.
Dimension X	www.dimx.dev/	Salt Lake City, Utah	Sight	Dimension X is building a platform that empowers all creators and storytellers to build immersive experiences.
Emerge	www.emerge.io	Los Angeles, California, United States	Touch	Emerge is creating a new product category called the "Connected Human", by first enabling the sense of touch and emotion in the Metaverse. Emerge Wave-1 is a consumer device that emits sound waves (ultrasound forcefields) that you can physically feel with bare hands- imagine a "virtual high five".
Feelbelt	www.feelbelt.de	Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany	Touch	Feelbelt innovates the experience of multimedia content through haptic feedback. In the perception of content and sound, the fourth dimension - the sense of touch - has long been neglected. With the feelbelt, all audible content now becomes palpable for the first time. The in-house and locally developed technology of the feelbelt transmits allaudible frequencies from 1-20,000hz in form of mechanical impulses directly onto the body. Gamers, VR, music and movie lovers are entering a new era of immersion, simply through enabling the feeling of sound.
Fluid Reality, Inc.	www.fluidreality.com/	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA	Touch	Experience high definition shape changing haptic feedback for the first time. Fluid Reality makes compact actuator components for consumer and enterprise electronic devices.
Foldaway	www.foldaway-haptics.ch/	Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland	Touch	FOLDAWAY, aims to develop ultra-portable and low cost origami haptic interfaces. Such devices allow the user to experience an advanced level of interaction that is based on the sense of touch. The first prototype has three degrees of freedom and can interact with human fingers by tracking their motion and providing force, stiffness and textureperception. Through its unique origami manufacturing, it is the first haptic interface that folds-away when not in use. Its palm size, and thin design, makes it the ideal user interface for any portable device.
Zoog	www.getzoog.com/	Tel Aviv, Israel	Sight	Zoog is great for grandparents, traveling parents, military families, educators, and children. Bring out your inner storyteller and inspire your loved ones with exciting, educational, and entertaining content and activities that the whole family will enjoy. With Zoog, you can easily create a fun and unique interactive video with the push of a button. We automatically apply filters, effects, and music that match the story, so all that is left for you to do is read!
Haply	www.haply.co	Montréal, Quebec, Canada	Touch	Haply is a robotics company that provides haptic devices, prototyping, firmware, and virtual learning assistance.
Soundwave Hearing	www.hearsoundwave.com/	Oak Brook, Illinois, USA	Hearing	Soundwave Hearing is a health technology company that develops hearing devices and a software platform to provide hearing aids. It utilizes machine learning to intelligently select which hearing frequency and intensity regions should be tested to determine hearing threshold.
Helios Life Enterprises	www.helioslife.enterprises	New York, NY, USA	Hearing	Comprehensive Voice Analysis for Systematic Investment Portfolios Utilizing best-in-class neuroscience, voice extraction technologies and affective synthetics.
Imvizar	www.imvizar.com	Dublin, Ireland	Sight	Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
Inahlio, Inc.	www.inhalio.com	San Francisco, CA	Smell	An Intelligent Connected Platform for Scent that is a cloud based system that monitors and tracks scent diffusions on scent devices with smart cartridges in Auto, Home and Retail.
MATSUKO	www.matsuko.com	Kosice, Slovakia	Sight	MATSUKO is a B2B software company that revolutionizes the way organizations and people communicate remotely today. It brings people closer and improves collaboration. It creates the holographic communication that fills in the missing element in video conferences, the essence of communication, their presence. It delivers the most realistic experience of being physically anywhere while zeroing down the environmental impact by just using a single camera and a pair of mixed reality glasses.
Mictic	www.mictic.com/	Zurich, Switzerland	Hearing	Audio AR that allows anyone to make music out of thin without the need of headsets, and while using your true environment.
MRStage	www.mrstage.com	Shanghai, China	Sight	Developer of extended reality technology intended to improve immersive video experiences. The company's system allow users to produce videos that integrate virtual and real contexts, enabling users to have better immersive and interactive entertainment experiences.
MUI-Robotics	www.mui-robotics.asia	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Smell	At MUI-Robotics, we are dedicated to transforming the world of sensory analysis through our cutting-edge eNose technology. Our revolutionary solution harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and advanced sensor arrays to deliver unparalleled accuracy, speed, and cost-efficiency in odor and gas detection. With our smell digitizationtechnology, we enable businesses across various industries to enhance product quality, ensure regulatory compliance, improve safety measures, and drive operational excellence.
Neo Auvra	www.neoauvra.com	Istanbul, Turkey	Touch, Sight	An advanced VR, AR, XR and biometrics platform enabling precise actionable guidance for optimized brain function and overall health.
Neuromersiv	www.neuromersiv.com/	Sydney, Australia	Sight, Brain	Neuromersiv is a Sydney-based digital health company with the aim of treating chronic neurological conditions using immersive virtual reality (VR). Neuromersiv's first product, Ulysses™ is a clinically designed, Australian TGA and UK MHRA-approved VR-based upper-limb therapy system that empowers stroke, spinal cord, and acquired brain injurysurvivors by helping them regain lost independence and quality of life. Ulysses enhances rehabilitation through clinically validated, task-specific training in immersive VR to maximise engagement, compliance, and functional recovery.
Noze	www.noze.ca/	Montreal, Canada	Smell	Our platform is an end-to-end solution that combines a neural network-based AI engine with a cutting-edge digital olfaction sensor based on exclusive NASA patents. The sensor decodes the environment as a whole, isolating signal from background scent noise and creating a unique ‘scentprint’ for each individual chemical (VOC), chemical mixture, or smell. The AI engine decodes data from the sensor to identify exactly what is in the air, in what quantity, and how it’s evolving. This continuous real-time analysis enables scent recognition in under a second with incredible accuracy. And each time the AI engine learns a new smell, every sensor in the world learns it too.
oomii	www.oomii.com	Austin, Texas, United States	Sight	Oomii has solved major optical problems of augmented reality (AR) & mixed reality (MR); paving the way for the next generation of displays
Palmplug	www.palmplug.com	Seattle, WA, USA	Touch	Device that allows the visually impaired to feel the world around them through haptics
Pixieray	www.pixieray.com	Espoo, Finland	Sight	Developer of optical eyeglasses, intended to provide better vision. The company specializes in lenses that provide a wide and dynamic clear field of view for near and intermediate distance, addressing the limitations of today's progressive lenses, thus providing its customers with a farsighted eyeglass prescription to read and work with optimal vision, removing multifocal and the need to switch eyeglasses.
Preter Audio	www.preteraudio.com	Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia	Sound	Preter Audio is an immersive dynamic audio post production solution for stereo speakers.
Psyonic	www.psyonic.io	Champaign, Illinois, United States	Touch	Psyonic makes advanced bionic limbs that are accessible to all people with amputations.
rematch	www.rematchapp.com	Newport Beach, California	Hearing	rematch is a mobile app for meeting new people nearby via spontaneous audio conversations.
Resemble AI	www.resemble.ai	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	Hearing	Resemble AI creates Custom Voices using proprietary Deep Learning models that can produce realistic Speech Synthesis.
Rewind.AI	www.rewind.ai	New York, New York, United States	Hearing	Rewind is a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard.
Scentian Bio	www.scentianbio.com/	Aukland, New Zealand	Smell	Creating novel sensing devices that harness the powerful smell receptors from insects, to deliver a sensor technology that will put nature’s language at your fingertips.
ScentRealm	www.scentrealm.com/	Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China	Smell	ScentRealm focuses on digital scent technology R&D and application. ScentRealm is aiming to create a perfect smell experience.
Shion	www.shion.at	Vienna, Austria	Hearing	Established in 2020, Austrian engineering company Shion produces exquisite interior product with deep tech AI algorithm which is integrated into wood composites that optimises the sound in ANY space.
SoundAI	www.soundai.com	Beijing, China	Hearing	SoundAI is an innovation company that specializes in acoustics frontier technology and artificial intelligence interaction.
Thor Innovation	www.thorinnovation.com	Suzhou, Jiangsu, China	Touch	Thor Innovation is a high-tech enterprise mainly engaged in haptics, an electronic simulation of tactile sense.
TransferVR	www.transfrvr.com	New York, NY, USA	Sight	TRANSFR VR’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job.
vrCAVE	www.vrcave.ca/	Edmonton, Canada	Sight	VrCAVE is a virtual reality company that brings users the highest quality shared entertainment experiences. It has a unique, proprietary library of networked social VR games designed to be played collaboratively with groups of friends as opposed to the non-social, solo experiences offered by the home market.
VRGluv	www.vrgluv.com/	Atlanta, Georgia, United States	Touch	The first affordable force feedback gloves that allow you to see, use, and feel your hands.
Wear.works	www.wear.works	New York City, New York	Touch	WearWorks is a haptics design company. We design products and experiences that deliver information through touch. Our first product is a wearable haptic navigation device for the blind and visually impaired called WAYBAND™. It guides users to an end-destination using only vibration. Offloading this from the eyes and ears, the WAYBAND™ deliversinformation without a display in a more intuitive way.
Wearable Devices	www.wearabledevices.co.il	Yoqne`am `illit, HaZafon, Israel	Touch	Wearable Devices Ltd. (NASDAQ: WLDS) is a growth company developing a non-invasive neural input interface technology in the form of a wrist wearable band for controlling digital devices using subtle finger movements. Our company’s vision is to create a world in which the user’s hand becomes a universal input device for touchlessly interacting withtechnology, and we believe that our technology is setting the standard input interface for the Metaverse. Since our technology was introduced to the market, we have been working with both Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer customers as part of our push-pull strategy. Combining our own proprietary sensors and Artificial Intelligence, or AI, algorithms into a stylish wristband, our Mudra platform enables users to control digital devices through subtle finger movements and hand gestures, without physical touch or contact.
XPANCEO	www.xpanceo.com/	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Sight	XPANCEO is a deep tech company developing the next generation of computing via an invisible and weightless smart contact lens that is as natural to the wearer as their own vision. Our lens reinvents the whole concept of human-technology interaction and redefines the way we experience both real and digital worlds including social media, contentconsumption, and gaming. Merging all your gadgets into one, the lens transforms the everyday into an infinite eXtended Reality experience, replete with advanced real-time health monitoring and comprehensive practical recommendations, superpowers like night vision and zoom, and cutting-edge privacy and security measures.
Yoodli	www.yoodli.ai	Seattle, Washington	Hearing	Yoodli is an AI-enabled platform that provides feedback on its user's communication skills. It helps users practice and improve their communication skills without the pressure of an audience.
ZAUBAR	www.zaubar.com/	Berlin, Germany	Sight	A platform for Creators & Enterprises to make money with immersive urban experiences - powered by the world's best location-based AR tech.
Motion Lib	motionlib.com	Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan	Touch	Motion Lib is a developer of haptics technology intended to increase collaboration between humans and robots.
Eleven Labs	elevenlabs.io	New York, New York, USA	Hearing	ElevenLabs is a research company developing AI voice synthesis software for creators and publishers.
Mixhalo	https://www.mixhalo.com/	San Francisco, California, United States	Hearing	Mixhalo is a real-time audio platform that delivers an immersive experience for live events including concerts, conferences, festivals, sporting events, and anywhere people gather to hear content. Founded by Incubus Guitarist and songwriter Mike Einziger and internationally-acclaimed violinist, Ann Marie Simpson-Einziger, Mixhalo enables live eventorganizers to give audiences exactly what they came for, with real-time audio delivered directly to attendees’ own phones (via a free app) and headphones.
GameScent	https://gamescent.com/	N/A	Smell	Experience gaming like never before with, the first AI-powered scent release system that releases scents with your gameplay.
Traverse	https://traverse3d.com/	San Francisco, California, USA	Sight	Traverse, a spatial intelligence company, serves enterprise and government clients who need to understand and simulate the physical world. Traverse simplifies the creation and analysis of 3D assets and environments utilizing the latest developments in artificial intelligence and computer vision technology.
Playbook XR	http://playbookxr.com/	Los Angeles, California, USA	Sight	Playbook is a rapid prototyping tool for spatial design. Going from idea to reality in 3D is an incredibly tedious, fragmented process. It’s prohibitively expensive and resource-heavy to create and share an interactive prototype. Our no-code, AI-native platform makes spatial content creation intuitive and accessible.
Flora Innovations	https://flora.tech/	San Jose, California, USA	Hearing, Touch	Flora™ is the creator of breakthrough piezo composite materials for audio and haptic applications. Its product Dragonfly™ is the world's first full range piezo speaker.
Afference	https://www.afference.io/	Boulder, Colorado, USA	Touch	Afference is a pioneering technology company at the forefront of the Spatial Computing era and is dedicated to redefining human experiences through artificial sensation. With a relentless commitment to innovation, Afference leverages cutting-edge neuroscience to create a new era of sensory perception.
Visualsyn	http://www.visualsyn.com/	Soeul, South Korea	Sight	Visualsyn pioneers AI-driven metaverse content creation. Our expertise spans AI-powered 3D scanning, conversion, and editing. Glinda AIMI, our comprehensive platform redefines metaverse content production for a seamless and user-centric experience.
MYTHOLOGI	https://mythologi.es/	Montreal, Canada	Sight	MYTHOLOGI is an interaction design and research studio; we innovate and develop spatial computing solutions that drive human engagement of the future today. In ELYSIUM, we‘ve built a cloud platform for persistent augmented reality worlds. We empower creative innovation for the next evolution of connectivity, play, and social interactivity.
Cephable	https://cephable.com/	Boston, Massachusetts	Hearing, Sight	Cephable is a platform that empowers people of all abilities to control technology in new ways with tools like adaptive voice controls, head and face controls, AI automation, and more. Businesses integrate Cephable into their platforms and teams to reach and support more individuals with disabilities while creating new experiences.
Lotus	http://www.lotuslabs.org/	San Jose, California, USA	Touch	The Lotus Ring is a wearable ring that controls objects at home by pointing. No rewiring, no apps, no internet. At Lotus we build technology that is usable by everybody, by optimizing for disability first.
G'Audio Lab	https://www.gaudiolab.com/	Los Angeles, California, United States	Hearing	G'Audio Lab is a VR audio company providing the most immersive and interactive post-production and rendering solutions.
Voiceitt	www.voiceitt.com	Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel	Hearing	Voiceitt is an automatic speech recognition technology platform.
Audioscenic	audioscenic.com/	Southampton, United Kingdom	Hearing	The new dimension in sound. Projecting immersive, steerable 3D audio using small arrays of speakers and advanced head tracking technologies.
Ocutrx	www.ocutrxtech.com	London, England, United Kingdom	Hearing	ocutrxtech is a manufacturer of medical equipment that combines artificial intelligence , extended reality , and augmented reality.
Looking Glass Factory	lookingglassfactory.com/	Brooklyn, New York, USA	Sight	Looking Glass Factory is building the holographic future, starting with the Looking Glass, the world's best selling holographic display.
NuEyes	www.nueyes.com	Newport Beach, California, United States	Sight	NuEyes is a technology company focused on providing Light Weight, comfortable and innovate smart glasses solutions to the market. Unlike most of our competitors we are not providing just part of the equation but the entire solution.
Circular	www.circular.xyz/	Paris, France	Touch	French startup Circular claims to have created the world’s thinnest and lightest smart ring — as well as the first-ever to use haptic navigation. The wearable, named the Circular Ring Slim, became available on pre-order today. Weighing just 2 grams and measuring a mere 2.2 mm in thickness, the device packs big features into a tiny frame.
xMEMS	xmems.com	Santa Clara, California, USA	Hearing	xMEMS designs solutions and applications by integrating smart methodologies for a range of consumer electronics devices.
Orasis Pharmaceuticals	www.orasis-pharma.com	Tel Aviv, Israel	Sight	Orasis Pharmaceuticals develops a corrective eye drop to treat presbyopia as an alternative to reading glasses.
Altered Carbon Ltd	www.altered-carbon.com/	Bristol, England	Smell	Humankind has enabled computers to hear, see and touch. Altered Carbon is a graphene gas sensor company, ready to be the first to bring the sense of smell to the connected world. AC is Harnessing the properties of graphene to create a truly passive, solid-state sensor, better suited to IoT and Industry 4.0 these sensors have the potential todisrupt the traditional performance against cost trade-off currently offered by the gas sensor market. The company combines AI with sensor arrays allowing "design to fit" for specific purposes, suitable for solving expensive industry problems, such as edible food waste in the UK, a loss of around £12.5 Billion a year.
Xperience Plus	xperience.plus	London, England	All Senses	X+ is the first extended-reality framework allowing companies to create 5 senses experiences (smell, touch, taste, audio, video) in multiple applications from real-time to pre-recorded streaming (streaming video-on-demand), from VR to XR contents.
GO Smell VR	gosmell.com	New York City, New York	Smell	Our patented technology allows users to experience scents and vibrations during virtual reality gameplay or other virtual experiences. This enhances the overall immersive experience and makes it feel more realistic. GO Smell project offers a range of scent cartridges and other accessories for our technology. We work with Oculus Quest 2, Quest 3 andPico 4. GO Smell masks are primarily designed for gaming but can also be used in other applications such as relaxation, education, training, and therapy.
Wield	wield.bio	San Francisco, California, USA	Touch	Wield creates a platform for prosthetic systems in order to provide a new type of wearable that allows people to control it with computers.
NeuroX	https://www.linkedin.com/company/neurox-innovations-inc/	Fort Collins, Colorado, United States	Touch	NeuroX Innovations is a developer of a wearable device that enhances users’ ability to feel their prosthetic limbs. This sensory technology enables communication between the customer's body, brain, and prosthetic limbs. This communication between the body, brain, and prosthetic limb is expected to significantly reduce symptoms of PLS andsubsequently increase customers' confidence, and decrease their rate of depression, opioid dependence, and suicidal tendencies.
Kinemo	kinemo.io/	Atlanta, Georgia	Touch	Kinemo is working on the next frontier of body motion tracking and wearables to provide advanced human-computer interaction using the full potential of the body to control devices.
Somalytics	somalytics.com	Seattle, Washington	Touch, Sight	Somalytics commercializes miniature sensors for eye tracking, human-machine interface, wearables, and industrial safety. It’s the world’s first paper-composite capacitive sensor. It’s paper-thin, consumes little power, and can potentially be disposable
Xander	xander.tech	Boston, Massachusetts	Sight, Hearing	Xander is a Boston-based startup using AR to improve interpersonal communication and mitigate the debilitating effects of hearing loss. Our first product is XanderGlasses—smart glasses that provide captions for conversations in real-time. When ambient noise or hearing loss prevents a person from hearing and understanding speech, the glasses displaycaptions to the wearer in real-time, enabling the wearer to look at the people speaking and participate fully in the conversation. Xander is positioned to help the 1.5 billion people with hearing loss who seek alternatives to hearing aids and other assistive devices. After wearing XanderGlasses, people reported feeling more confident and relaxed during conversations and described a decrease in cognitive load and improved mental state.
Artemis	www.allaboutartemis.com	Debrecen, Hungary	Touch	ARTEMIS currently being developped by Alpha Femtech, a smart wearable clothing and App to relieve period pain for women.
Doublepoint	www.doublepoint.com/	Helsinki, Finland	Touch	Doublepoint is a touch interface company. We enable intuitive, robust, and versatile touch-based interactions.
AthleteIQ	www.athlete-iq.net/	San Francisco, California, USA	Touch	AthleteIQ is an AI fitness wearable startup with the goal of enhancing human performance in order to build better athletes. We are developing a reusable patch for strength-training that measures muscle strain and recovery and allows users to optimize their workout and avoid injuries.
Ashirase	www.ashirase.com/	Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan	Sight, Touch	Ashirase is a developer of a walking navigation system for the visually challenged. The company assists visually impaired people in walking independently. This also allows the user to have more attention to spare for audible warnings in their environment. It includes voice input and guidance via a smartphone app. A vibration interface is attachedto their shoes.
Verve Motion	vervemotion.com	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Touch	Verve Motion develops exo-suits to aid workers in physically demanding tasks. The company focuses on lightweight wearables to power the human workplace.
Nudle	https://www.nudle.app/	Johannesburg, South Africa	Sight, Touch	Nudle is tirelessly pursuing the goal of making augmented reality and virtual reality education a part of your everyday life. Our Mission To build the world's most collaborative and immersive XR (extended reality) courses and XR MOOC Nudle XR creates an immersive digital environment to draw the user into a computer-generated world withengaging visual and auditory stimulation, lifelike AI, realistic physics, advanced lighting, haptics. Together with leading research institutes, we are developing XR training solutions in the education sector which is enabling students to be submerged in a digital environment for a more visual and absorbing lesson at lower costs.
Yuhmmy	https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yuhmmy-app/id1617076403	Los Angeles, California	Taste	Yuhmmy is a taste-technology brand redefining and crafting a new set of human taste-experiences with a network powered by people. Instead of a separate website or app for food, wine, beer, cookies, candy or cannabis, Yuhmmy has built an ecosystem of tastefulness across a suite of multiple taste categories to pioneer a true: Social-Taste Graph,Taste-Genome, Taste Grid and Tasteconomy. Yuhmmy App is a better place for people to talk-taste over the internet through audiovisual conversations.
WEART	weart.it	Milano, Italy	Touch	Weart haptic technology is a strong example of the introduction of science fiction concepts into real-world projects and design, to produce a potential real-world benefit. Weart develops a technology for touch digitalization allowing users to augment VR/AR or multimedia contents, to enable realistic VR training sessions (medical andindustrial) or to enhance instore shopping and e-commerce experiences through tactile sensations. This technology can be used to record and reproduce tactile sensations: forces, vibrations and temperature changes. On one side, it records user’s tactile sensations while interacting with objects surrounding him. On the other side, it reproduces these sensations on the user's skin.
RiVR	http://www.rivr.uk/	Southam, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom	Sight	Our aim is to create 'RiVR™' a suite of expandable photo realistic and interactive virtual reality experiences. To make assessing and training for all businesses 100 times more real but at a fraction of the cost of traditional training techniques. We have formed a specialist team of video game developers and cinematographers to createphoto realistic experiences to enhance the way humans learn and remember situations. Muscle memory for real world physical tasks, and the ability to learn skills that would normally have to be taught in dangerous situations. In collaboration with our partner Leicestershire Fire & Rescue we will create the next step in training utilising virtual reality.
Audfly Technology	http://www.audflyspeaker.com/	Suzhou, Jiangsu, China	Hearing	Audfly Technology provides acoustics innovation and sound environmental protection.
INMO Glass	www.inmoglass.com	Shenzhen, China	Sight	INMO Glass are Foldable, monocular Augmented Reality (AR) glasses.
XRAI Glass	xrai.glass	Wilmington, Deleware	Sight	XRAI Glass offers an app that turns speech into real-time subtitles for AR glasses, enhancing accessibility.

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