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Web Summit Lisbon 2025: Pioneering Startups Redefine Health, Mobility, Finance, and Sports Tech

Web Summit Lisbon 2025 showcased a dynamic pitch session, celebrating innovation and bold problem-solvers. The event highlighted the potential of diversity in the global economy, featuring impressive early-stage startups poised to make significant changes. These companies presented their solutions, advancing to semi-finals with the aim of transforming various industries and contributing to a more connected future.

nextec healthtech introduced a digital platform addressing preventable deaths in pregnant women and infants, caused by reactive healthcare and insufficient data. Their solution leverages IoT and machine learning to provide “supernetic alerts,” connecting devices and offering personalized health solutions. This platform has already served over 5,000 patients in Colombia, saving lives and reducing hospitalization rates by 10%.

Science Play presented an audio-based learning platform for healthcare professionals, recognizing the shift towards audio and short-form content. Utilizing AI for rapid content creation, they target a market of 80 million medical professionals and 300 million students. With a subscription model, Science Play aims for substantial growth, having already acquired 95,000 paying users from a total of 125,000 patients.

Emma Systems is revolutionizing the archaic aviation industry by unifying siloed stakeholders onto a single, AI-powered platform. Their solution addresses inefficiencies like long taxi times and poor communication, which lead to passenger inconvenience, increased costs, and environmental impact. Focusing on underserved tier 2 and tier 3 airports, Emma Systems has secured six clients in Europe and is raising $4 million for expansion.

Asterizm tackles the lack of interoperability across numerous public and private blockchains, a critical issue in DeFi and tokenized real-world assets. Their enterprise-grade platform offers a smart contract library and a proprietary interoperability protocol, reducing development time and costs significantly. With a unique asset tokenizer, Asterizm aims to make digital assets natively interoperable, bypassing risky bridges and enhancing liquidity.

Carbon Games introduced a “future mobility super app” designed to combat urban traffic congestion and reduce emissions. Their live corporate and event carpooling solutions, alongside cargo pooling and school pooling in prototype, target billion-dollar markets. The company employs a unique B2B focus with a success-based pricing model, charging corporations only when emissions are demonstrably reduced, particularly focusing on Scope 3 emissions.

Arma unveiled Otomis, the world’s first wireless coach-to-player communication system for football. This compact device allows coaches to deliver instantaneous instructions, enhancing team performance by enabling on-the-spot corrections and maximizing practice time. Used by top teams like FC Barcelona and the Spanish National Team, Arma is backed by football legend Xavi Hernández and plans to expand its technology to other sports.