MeOut Summit 2026: Meet the Pitch Marathon contestants

Startups from across Europe are set to take part in an exclusive Pitch Marathon at the MeOut Summit 2026, held at Budapest’s Akvárium on 25–26 November 2026.

The event will feature a Pitch Marathon wherein selected startups will present on the Summit’s second stage, showcasing their ventures and receiving direct feedback from a panel of venture capital and ecosystem representatives.

Unlike a traditional pitch competition, the Pitch Marathon has no rankings, prizes or winner. Instead, it offers founders a platform to introduce their companies to an international audience while gaining candid, investor-led feedback on their business, positioning and pitch.

Participating startups

Ambr Institute is a Norway-based startup founded in 2022 which converts fragmented patient and laboratory data into disease-risk scores and simulated treatment outcomes within seconds, building on research and clinical data from more than 600,000 patients.

Founded in Finland in 2026, Arki Life is a digital housing-management platform connecting property managers, housing boards, residents and service providers.

AssureDrop, a UK-based startup founded in 2024, is making patient-derived organoid testing scalable. Its proprietary platform enables researchers and drug developers to generate up to 10× more drug-response data from scarce patient samples, helping them test more treatment options and identify the most promising candidates faster. By miniaturising each experiment, it can also reduce the cost per data point by up to 3×, while helping reduce experimental waste and reliance on animal models.

Germany-based Aurolicht systems, founded in 2026, combines facility-scale AI data-centre infrastructure with a recurring grid-to-chip software and control layer. Its business model mixes licensed and reference hardware designs, engineering integration and subsystem partnerships with longer-term software subscriptions, licensing royalties and services tied to ongoing infrastructure operations.

Founded in Hungary in 2026, azta.ai is an AI-powered legal and tax research platform for tax advisers, accountants and lawyers. It indexes more than 22 million primary-source documents across 24 European jurisdictions, answers professional questions in natural language and provides article-level citations linking directly to underlying legislation.

bm25 labs is a Czech startup founded in 2026 developing Industrial Troubleshooter, an on-premise AI agent for diagnosing production-line equipment faults in real time. It reasons over manufacturers’ PLC code, schematics and live process data, with planned edge deployment so proprietary control logic can remain securely on-site.

Slovakia-based Coverally, founded in 2023, replaces traditional rental security deposits with a digital, card-based alternative. Its platform provides deposit pre-authorisation using Coverally-backed funds and manages verification, payments, rental requests and incidents, allowing customers to rent high-value assets without tying up their own cash in deposits.

Founded in Poland in 2025, Droppey Mind is building an enterprise control plane for governed autonomous physical work. Its platform sits above validated autonomous systems, translating operational intent into permitted, capability-matched execution and verified outcomes, with an initial focus on warehouse and retail environments requiring controlled automation.

FraudSpect is a Hungary-based startup founded in 2026 building a fraud-intelligence platform for screening companies, websites and crypto wallets. Its database combines regulatory registers, sanctions lists and investigated scam cases to identify licensing, sanctions or fraud risks, with subscriptions, data feeds and APIs available for institutional users.

Founded in Hungary in 2024, GenuForm AI is a MedTech startup developing an AI-based solution to optimise knee-cartilage transplantation. The company aims to support more effective treatment planning and clinical decision-making around cartilage repair and also plans to provide cartilage tissue for use in transplantation procedures.

Austria-based infrared.city, founded in 2023, provides an AI climate-intelligence layer for cities and buildings. Its models simulate wind, heat, solar exposure and light within seconds, helping architects, engineers and infrastructure operators assess environmental performance. The technology is sold through professional subscriptions and enterprise licences.

IrisInfosec is a Czechia-based startup founded in 2026 developing an automated privacy and consent-management platform. Its technology is designed to help organisations manage compliance requirements across major European regulatory frameworks.

Founded in Austria in 2024, Main Sequence is building a control layer between AI code generation and enterprise execution. Its platform creates governed, standardised development environments for AI coding assistants and can deploy APIs, pipelines and applications automatically, with role-based access, audit trails and metered compute built in.

Belgium-based MEP Analytics, founded in 2025, describes its product as “the digital twin of EU politics.” The company is developing a technology platform focused on modelling, structuring and analysing European political activity, with the aim of making complex EU institutional dynamics easier for users to monitor and understand.

moonlight is a Slovakian startup founded in 2026 developing an AI health layer that turns a 30–60 second smartphone face scan into measures such as heart rate, heart-rate variability, breathing and personalised recovery insights. Its model combines a freemium consumer subscription with SDK licensing for digital-health and enterprise partners.

Founded in the United States in 2021, NaviSavi is a travel-content platform with 250,000+ rights-cleared videos from over 6,000 creators across 190+ countries. Its technology organises and tags this library so travel brands, platforms and AI systems can discover relevant content for marketing, commerce, media and bookings.

France-based Proskope, founded in 2022, is developing TumorScreen, an immune-cell biosensor for cancer detection. The point-of-care blood test is designed to detect functional changes in circulating immune cells and return results in under an hour, using a pay-per-use model for laboratories, hospitals and clinics.

R-Space is an Austrian space-technology company founded in 2021 developing Argus, a satellite platform for real-time Earth observation and surveillance. The system combines data acquisition, analysis and rapid decision-making technologies to provide timely situational awareness for users that need faster access to actionable information from orbit.

Founded in Austria in 2021, sendance is building a scalable sensor and data platform that helps manufacturers turn assistive devices into connected, data-generating products. Its technology supports the development and operation of smart devices while enabling manufacturers to create new services and business models based on data and AI.

Hungary-based Sorank, founded in 2025, is a subscription SaaS AI SEO platform that helps businesses rank higher on Google and get cited in AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

Umax Health is a UK startup founded in 2023 combining a wearable device with an AI platform to enrich mental healthcare with physiological and contextual data. It synchronises cardiovascular, electrodermal, temperature and motion signals with patient-reported and therapy information, giving clinicians a longitudinal view to support more personalised care.

Founded in 2024 and based across Finland and Spain, WorkGuardAi is an AI-powered SaaS platform for construction-site monitoring. It uses LiDAR data and machine learning to measure progress from site imagery and compare it automatically with DWG engineering plans, relying on third-party cameras, drones and sensors rather than proprietary hardware.

Explore the programme in full

With two stages, 50+ speakers, the Global Startup Awards Grand Finale, startup pitches and a growing calendar of side events, the MeOut Summit 2026 is bringing together multiple parts of the European startup ecosystem under one roof.

The full programme is live and will continue to evolve as more speakers, sessions and activities are announced.

Explore the MeOut Summit agenda in full and book your tickets here to enjoy two days in Budapest.