
AIVS Demo Day 2026

Open Coffee - AI Edition
Meet leading founders, researchers, and teams building with AI, plus investors from across the country in town for CMU AI Venture Studio Investor Day.

AI//VS Demo Day
Watch student founders pitch the next wave of AI companies coming out of AIVS and stay close to the conversations that follow.
Please direct any questions to Miguel Almeida (malmeida@andrew.cmu.edu).
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Anamorphic Go is an AI-powered app that allows B2B customers to select, scale, and order affordable, customized anamorphic street art prints—delivered in weeks and designed to turn inactive spaces into high-impact, shareable experiences.
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Artifex is an AI-powered digital forensic triage platform that helps organizations quickly determine what happened during a suspected security incident. By correlating endpoint, identity, and cloud artifacts, Artifex delivers clear, defensible compromise assessments in hours instead of weeks.
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Bedrock Semiconductor is developing highly efficient semiconductor devices to save energy for EVs, renewable energy, industrial uses, data centers, and other applications. For data centers, we can reduce the electricity consumption by up to 5% which unlocks billions in revenue for data center operators.
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blink replaces Shopify’s theme layer with a high-performance storefront designed to improve conversion rate, AOV, and site speed.
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Blueprintr is an AI architect for scalable applications. Describe what you're building in plain English and get microservices architecture, compliance validation, and production Terraform—replacing months of architecture work with minutes.
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An agentic operating system: execution infrastructure for evolving and trading reusable capabilities.
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AI-powered CRM for the global hospitality industry providing waitlist and reservation management, two-way SMS, table management, and POS-linked analytics for independent restaurants and bars.
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CareMap is a platform that builds a 360-degree member profile by combining insurance company's internal data with external lifestyle and environmental data. By comparing engaged and non-engaged members, the platform identifies unexpected signals that predict digital engagement and helps personalize outreach strategies
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Developing automated systems using NASA-licensed electrostatic technology to clean solar panels up to 1000x cheaper and 100x more frequently than current cleaning methods, with no water required.
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Concordare is a site first clinical trial software that streamlines clinical trials through digitizing protocols into a machine readable format. Our flagship product is the Concordare Suite which templatizes operational documents into a rehydratable/reusable format.
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Conopi helps construction contractors bid more jobs and win more jobs, in half the time
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Continuum is the post-discharge data infrastructure that gives cardiologists what they need to titrate heart failure medications safely and on schedule
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Companies have spent decades trying to capture what their best workers know. They have built wikis, bought platforms, and mandated documentation. The knowledge still walks out the door. The reason is simple, and nobody has fixed it: there is no incentive for the worker. Cozu changes that. Workers speak about their day, an AI draws out the reasoning behind their decisions, and they earn points redeemable for real company-funded rewards. For the first time, contributing knowledge is worth something to the person doing it.
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Genna is an agentic AI shopping platform for clothes. Build specifically for overwhelmed and hesistant shoppers to help them decide what to buy with more confidence. Digital wardrobe allows for context driven recommendations for styling and purchases.
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Genvo is the collaboration infrastructure for AI-native video teams. When multiple creators work together using tools like Sora or Runway, there is no shared layer for prompt versioning, asset provenance, or handoffs. Genvo fixes that.
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Gratis Intelligence is revolutionizing the $49 billion consumer sampling market by enabling brands to distribute samples without brand ambassadors, using point-of-sale integrations and AI-driven automation to gather real-time consumer and retailer data. Our platform, GratisIQ, tracks consumer and retailer behavior post-sample, allowing brands to optimize marketing campaigns and drive ROI through targeted engagement.
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Heatmap is an AI-powered marketing copilot that generates algorithm-optimized video scripts and cinematic reels. It analyzes your brand identity, niche trends, and content performance to create high-converting video campaigns - eliminating the 80% failure rate caused by weak creative.
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Hermes Vision is automating invasive weed management in pastures, rangelands, and rough terrain using drone-based precision. Our solution will eliminate manual labor and reduce ranchers' costs by 40-50% compared with today’s manual or blunt methods.
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Closed-loop data infrastructure for relationship AI. Hypoll is building a decision layer that teaches AI which actions lead to the best outcomes and which signals predict success.
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Autonomous robots that deliver EV charging directly to parked fleet and commercial vehicles on a subscription basis, eliminating traditional barriers of high infrastructure costs, lengthy installations, and dedicated EV-only parking spaces.
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An end to end AI co-pilot for influencers/creators to validate, design, launch and sell their own consumer brands in under 90 days
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Luzardo transforms a standard smartphone into a precision ranching tool. We replace expensive hardware with an offline app that lets ranchers estimate cattle weight, track growth over time, and enhance decision-making with AI analytics. We have have 8 pilots across 5 countries and 1 commercial partnership
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Mandeville Therapeutics is developing small molecule therapeutics to transform the treatment of chronic kidney disease. Mandeville’s lead program is designed to improve kidney function with a differentiated approach that targets a clinically validated pathway and has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality risk and delay the need for dialysis and kidney transplant.
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Medmiro is an early-stage medical device company focused on reducing complications associated with surgical tubes. Our first product, the G-Guard, is a novel securement device designed to improve the postoperative management of gastrostomy (G) tubes used to deliver nutrition, hydration, and medication.
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1st Human-Powered ADHD Accountability and Companionship Daily Support
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Mimetic is developing biocompatible 3D printing solutions for biomedical and pharmaceutical research. Applying our automated hardware and platform materials can help engineers and researchers prototype, experiment, and reach go/no-go decisions 95% faster.
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Monolayer provides a platform that simplifies how organizations manage access controls across identity, application, and network layer. We replace fragmented policy workflows with a unified system designed for clarity, consistency, and long-term maintainability. AI will be central to this problem, where it will help configure, analyze and monitor the identity and network level accesses in an organization.
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Motoria eliminates the complex process of online shopping for a new or used car. Motoria's chat AI and search can instantly scan, analyze and discuss the whole car market, giving you the confidence to make a purchase in minutes instead of days.
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Muse is an intention-based social platform that helps students and alumni meet for networking, real-world activities, and meaningful relationships.
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MyoVerse is a low cost, non-invasive EMG sensing platform that allows clinicians to gain precision insights about patients with neuromuscular disorders such as Parkinson's Disease.
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Naami is worlds first premium streaming service offering a vast library of “motion comics”, meaning we bring your favorite comics and mangas to life!
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Nail’d is a custom press-on nail platform that uses hand photos to calculate precise, per-finger nail measurements, then matches users to best-fit sizes and curated designs for easier online ordering and better wear.
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Naviyo is an AI-powered travel companion that helps independent travelers turn inspiration into realistic, adaptable itineraries. Our platform combines behavioral insights, real-world constraints, and dynamic planning to create trips that adjust to time, budget, and changing conditions—before and during travel. Naviyo simplifies discovery, planning, and on-trip decisions into one intelligent system.
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NUDG is an accountability system for solo founders and builders. You set a goal, AI breaks it into weekly executable tasks, a partner human or AI agent, verifies the quality of your work, and the system flags when you're about to lose momentum before it happens. It's the execution layer between having an idea and actually shipping it.
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One In The Hand, Inc. (OITH) is a premium, paid-only dating app built to help people get to real dates, not endless swiping. It uses compatibility-driven matching and a structured path from match to in-person date.
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Oviact transforms fragmented symptom tracking into clear, actionable understanding of hormonal progress.
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Equine reproduction veterinarians manage some of the most complex and high-stakes biological workflows in animal health: synchronizing hormone protocols across dozens of mares, timing embryo flushes to the hour, and making real-time decisions on genetics worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. They do all of it from the cab of a truck, on paper binders, with no reliable way to access historical records in the field. When something goes wrong: a missed entry, a lost binder, a disputed outcome, there is no system of record to fall back on. Ovum fixes that.
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Oya Apparel creates medically tested, flame-resistant base layers that manage moisture, cool body temperature, and support skin health. We serve high-performance individuals—from military fighter pilots to elite athletes—with breathable, absorbent, low-toxic apparel engineered to protect health without compromising performance.
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Power 3D is developing microbatteries for wearable, hearable and medical device companies who need smaller custom shaped batteries. The company's 3D printing process manufactures microbattery cathodes that increase energy density 50-100% and can be produced in required shapes and sizes.
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PN is a neurodiagnostics comapny which aids in the diagnoisis and treatment of secondary brain injury follwoing TBI, stroke and other major brain injuries.
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Proofline is an AI-powered unit-level operations platform for multifamily and student housing that helps owners and operators turn apartments faster, reduce vacancy loss, and improve field accountability through verified task tracking and AI-assisted photo validation.
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A self-guided learning platform for anyone that wants to break into quant finance
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Quiet Intelligence is an AI-powered operating system for early-stage investors. It centralizes deal sourcing, screening, and diligence in one intelligent workspace - capturing firm knowledge so it compounds over time and evolves into a co-pilot for smarter investing
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Quorum is an AI-powered platform built specifically for small and mid-sized government contractors to help them find, analyze, and draft proposals for RFPs. Our system identifies opportunities, extracts and structures solicitation requirements using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and generates fully traceable proposal drafts grounded directly in source documents, including a firm’s own data. Our product operates as a compliance-first proposal engine designed to reduce hallucinations, prevent missed requirements, and drastically decrease the time required to prepare a competitive proposal.
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Specialist physical therapy marketplace with 24/7 contextual triage.
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Roommuse is developing a B2B SaaS SDK that enables mid-sized furniture retailers to offer augmented reality (AR) product visualization on their websites. The solution allows end customers to preview furniture pieces in their actual living spaces using their mobile devices, addressing the critical "will this look good in my home?" question that drives purchase decisions.
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SeaLion builds long-life battery solutions for robotics and high-cycle industrial applications. Our technology protects and regenerates critical battery materials, enabling significantly 10X longer operating life, fewer charge interruptions, and lower total cost of ownership for robot fleets.
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ShopthruAI is the AI copilot for AI commerce giving DTC brands SKU-level intelligence into why AI shopping assistants recommend or suppress their products, and the exact fixes to act on it.
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Solus is an AI-powered robotics development environment that understands and centralizes the full stack of robotics: hardware, electrical, and software.
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Solyns AI is an AI-native qualitative customer platform that conducts, analyzes, and synthesizes customer interviews at scale, helping teams uncover deep user insights faster and at lower cost than traditional research methods.
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SpoilSafe is a food freshness intelligence platform that helps warehouses, distributors, and cold chain operators eliminate preventable food waste. By detecting spoilage gases like ethylene and ammonia and combining that signal with machine learning, SpoilSafe delivers batch-level freshness scores, time-to-spoilage predictions, and actionable inventory recommendations that let operators make smarter decisions before losses occur.
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AI-powered marketplace for secondhand fashion with a SaaS listing tool (ThriftScanner) and a dynamic commission structure (Grinder's Ladder) that rewards high-volume sellers instead of penalizing them.
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Tidalmark is a building the first affordable oyster grading and counting machine for small US oyster farms, paired with a farm-direct marketplace that updates automatically every time a bag is packed.
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TradeCanny is an AI-powered behavioral performance coach for retail traders. We analyze trading behavior to identify patterns and deliver structured AI coaching that helps traders improve discipline, decision-making, and long-term consistency.
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Builds simple-to-deploy autonomous mobile robots with a 6-month payback period for small to medium-sized businesses to move material between different workstations.
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Vaera is desigining the world's most advanced at-home microneedling pens, designed to outperform current products that cause excessive skin damage.
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Visionaire Products Inc. a point of care diagnostic that allows clinicians to test for viral uveitis in-clinic so they can determine the most appropriate and effective treatment on the same day they identify it.
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Waypoint is a community-powered travel platform that lets people discover cities through curated routes created by locals and experienced travelers. Instead of planning from scratch or scrolling endlessly through blogs, users explore meaningful, story-driven paths that help them move through a city with intention.
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