AI Unleashed
12 Startups Competing for
$20,000
AI Unleashed is OneValley's
competition
recognizing
early-stage AI startups, with a non-restricted cash prize
awarded to the winning founder.
AI Unleashed: Industry Disruptors Challenge is a high-stakes startup competition hosted by OneValley, spotlighting the most ambitious startups using artificial intelligence to transform their industries. Rather than rewarding incremental improvement, AI Unleashed looks for founders radically rethinking how their industries work.
The winner receives a cash prize and all 12 finalists receive a founder perks package with exclusive credits and business discounts, plus visibility as a top emerging AI startup in OneValley’s network of founders, accelerators, and investors worldwide.
About AI Unleashed
Prize & Selection Process
Meet the Finalists
Asher Informatics
Health AI. Governed.
Asher Informatics builds the trust layer for healthcare AI, giving hospitals and health systems end-to-end governance and real-time monitoring for the AI tools they deploy across clinical, operational, and administrative work.
The AI Edge: Rather than another clinical model, Asher's AI governs other AI — tracking shifting regulations, mapping compliance posture, and independently monitoring deployed models for performance and patient impact.
Lexi AI
Real-time medical interpretation for the patients who need it most
Lexi delivers HIPAA-compliant, voice-to-voice AI interpretation across the entire patient journey for the 30M+ U.S. patients who don't speak English fluently — with zero wait time and a reported 60% cost reduction versus traditional interpreter services.
The AI Edge: Medically fine-tuned models trained on clinical terminology and underserved languages, including pioneering Haitian Creole support, for accuracy generic translation tools can't match.
SenterME
Structural Health Intelligence for healthcare teams
SenterME gives healthcare leaders real-time visibility into workforce strain before it hardens into turnover or disrupted care, arriving just as new nurse-staffing oversight requirements take effect in January 2026.
The AI Edge: A governed signal-to-strategy engine that classifies teams as Stable, Watch, Strained, or Critical using anonymous human signals and operational data — no PHI, no individual identification, decision support with human review.
Goldilocks Smart Solutions
A safer shower for aging in place
Goldilocks is a voice-activated, sensor-rich smart-shower retrofit that installs in about 20 minutes with no plumbing changes, auto-setting safe water temperature and pressure while streaming usage data to a caregiver app.
The AI Edge: Recognizes abnormal patterns in shower use — a fall, prolonged inactivity, unusual behavior — and alerts caregivers, turning an everyday fixture into a quiet safety net.
Wave
Insurance-grade estimates before the crew leaves the property
Wave is vertical AI for property restoration, built by a licensed contractor for the industry he works in. A field tech simply talks to Wave, which asks smart follow-up questions and generates a complete estimate roughly 75% faster than the legacy workflow.
The AI Edge: Voice-first and domain-trained — it understands restoration terminology, scopes jobs through natural conversation, and formats everything to the standard adjusters expect.
Sonibel Instruments
Deep tech you can hear
Sonibel is a torch-mounted acoustic sensor that catches weld defects in real time, before they ever reach inspection — no cameras, no vision systems, just sound.
The AI Edge: Machine-learning models trained to recognize acoustic signatures of specific defects, turning a subjective, after-the-fact inspection process into instant, objective, in-process quality control.
Masterpiece X
The AI copilot for real 3D production
Masterpiece X's WorldEngen collapses 3D scene creation from weeks into hours for games, film, and interactive media, working directly inside the tools studios already use rather than asking them to abandon their pipelines.
The AI Edge: Agentic "3D agents" generate and assemble production-ready scenes from text and image prompts, orchestrating multiple AI models alongside a studio's own assets and style guides.
Rézme
Turning hidden talent into a hiring advantage
Rézme helps employers with high-turnover roles hire justice-impacted candidates, veterans, and other overlooked workers — streamlining fair-chance hiring compliance while automatically capturing the tax credits and subsidies those hires unlock.
The AI Edge: Structures and pre-adjudicates background-check outcomes against local rules, powers writing support for fair-chance assessments, and matches each hire to the incentives they qualify for.
Limpiar
Cleaning, made measurable
Limpiar is a tech-enabled commercial cleaning and facilities platform connecting property managers with vetted cleaning professionals, built around green cleaning, upcycling, and AI-powered coordination.
The AI Edge: Matches the right service to each job, tracks work as it happens, and measures the environmental and social impact of every booking in one platform.
Scoutz
Get Rated. Get Matched. Get Recruited.
Scoutz is the recruiting platform for basketball, pairing verified human scout reviews with AI matchmaking to connect athletes, parents, coaches, and scouts in one app — live on iOS and Android and embedded in grassroots events through the Puma NXT Pro Circuit.
The AI Edge: "Smart Matches" pair athletes with the right coaches, teams, and programs by skill level, position, and goals — combining the trust of real scouting with the reach of algorithmic matching.
tickre
Real trades from real investors
tickre is building the trust layer for investing social media — connecting directly to a user's brokerage so every trade posts automatically and is verified, instead of relying on unverifiable screenshots.
The AI Edge: "tickerAI" is an in-app assistant that knows the market, the news, and the app itself, letting users ask about any stock and understand what's moving and why — framed explicitly as education, not financial advice.
Tesphase
The outcome of a $10K home battery, without the battery
Tesphase is a software-only way for homeowners to win under solar net-metering rules like NEM 3.0, redirecting surplus solar to EVs, smart devices, and flexible home loads instead of selling it back for pennies — no new hardware required.
The AI Edge: An orchestration engine running every 15 minutes, forecasting solar production and routing surplus energy across every vendor in the home — something single-brand hardware tools can't do.
AI Unleashed: Industry Disruptors Challenge is a startup competition hosted by OneValley that spotlights ambitious startups using artificial intelligence to transform their industries, from healthcare to manufacturing, fintech to logistics, agriculture to media. The winner receives a $20,000 non-restricted cash prize.
Applicants are evaluated against a four-part framework — Product, People, Pull, and Proof — weighted 30%, 25%, 25%, and 20% respectively. An initial review committee scored every application against this rubric, and the highest-scoring companies advanced as finalists. OneValley selected its 12 finalists in January 2026.
An independent panel of investors, corporate innovators, and AI practitioners reviews each finalist's application materials and traction data, then deliberates as a group. The panel applies the same four-part framework (Product, People, Pull, Proof) used in the initial screening to select the program's winner.
The winner receives a $20,000 non-restricted cash prize. All 12 finalists also receive a founder perks package with exclusive credits and discounts, plus visibility as a top emerging AI startup across OneValley's global network of founders, accelerators, and investors.
Where a finalist is pre-revenue or pre-launch, panelists score the Pull and Proof criteria based on the quality of available evidence — such as customer discovery, letters of intent, or pilot programs — rather than defaulting to the lowest possible score.
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