From 465 applicants from 53 countries and five continents, the jury has now selected the TOP15 startups that will continue in the Latitude59 Pitch Competition 2026.
This year’s competition is the most geographically diverse in Latitude59’s history. The New Nordic region is strongly represented, making up 44% of all applicants, while 70 startups from Africa and 24 startups from Ukraine also applied.
The selected TOP15 teams will receive professional training and mentoring before competing for a prize fund of more than €400,000, backed by EstBAN, LatBAN, FiBAN and FIRSTPICK VC. The winners will be announced on 22 May on the Latitude59 main stage at Kultuurikatel.
Before we get to the TOP15, we want to take a moment for the other half of the story. Meet the startups that made it into the TOP30:
Innoair (Estonia) – IoT devices that monitor hotel room air quality and regulate airflow, saving up to 35% of heating and cooling energy. Already proven at TRL 9 in live hotels.
AtlasWiki (Estonia) – a new kind of enterprise wiki where internal knowledge is structured, governed, and verified across silos. Built by former senior engineers from Pactum AI and Pipedrive.
Snoika (Estonia) – software that helps companies become visible where people and AI look for answers, replacing a fragmented stack of branding, content, and channel tools with one system.
Polyatomic (Estonia) – connecting project management, team knowledge, and AI coding with persistent context that never forgets. A solo founder building in Rust, self-funded from salary, with 14 years of engineering behind him.
B.O.R.I.S. (Estonia) – an AI DevOps teammate that knows how your infrastructure works, answers questions, helps fix problems, and never forgets when someone leaves. Built by a team of ex-AWS consultants who lived the problem firsthand.
AVEO TECH (Estonia) – AI agents for freight forwarders that live in the inbox, handle shipping requests, and deliver accurate quotes in seconds instead of hours.
Sort A Brick (Lithuania) – AI-powered automated LEGO sorting and refurbishment at industrial scale. Three years of full-time building, 12 people, and a mission to make toy brick reuse mainstream.
Ennerio (Lithuania) – a cloud-native platform that integrates diverse building automation systems into one digital ecosystem, with real-time AI analytics and over 80 buildings already in everyday operation.
RYTM (Estonia) – automating stock analysis for retail investors with native-language reports, real-time notifications, and an AI that answers specific questions using text and charts together.
NeuroTech AI (Estonia) – using table tennis and movement analysis to detect early cognitive decline, years before symptoms appear. A neurologist with 20+ years of Parkinson’s research on the team.
Supercomms (Estonia) – an AI Chief of Staff that helps leaders manage high-stakes communication across email, chat, and messaging in one place. 80+ user interviews completed before writing a single line of product code.
Monetily (Latvia) – helping regulated industries earn revenue from lost and blocked traffic by instantly redirecting rejected visitors to approved partner platforms. Bootstrapped, live, and already generating commissions.
NoCFO (Finland) – a mobile-first AI CFO for small business owners. Over €20k MRR, expanding into Germany, and built by a founder who spent 12 years doing accounting before deciding to fix it.
Phishbite (Estonia) – AI-personalised phishing simulations and security awareness training. 100+ customers, built by a team from SK ID Solutions, Estonia’s main trust services provider.
Pixit (Estonia) – veterinary health data infrastructure, turning scattered PDFs and clinical records into one structured, connected medical history for every pet.
And now, the TOP15 startups of Latitude59 Pitch Competition 2026 are:
Callsy AI (Lithuania) – AI workforce agents that automate revenue, activation, and support for digital businesses. Already operating at TRL 9, backed by Firstpick VC, and handling cart recovery and lead conversion for ecommerce and SaaS businesses across multiple continents.
Blue Auditor (Austria) – the operating system for climate-aligned real estate. 60+ institutional clients, 20+ years of combined founder experience, and a mission to close the data gap that leaves 99% of EU buildings unverified for climate risk.
FleetFox (Estonia) – a one-stop partner for B2B fleet operations, reducing fleet costs by 35–60% across 6 European countries. A team with 15,000+ hours per founder in the mobility space and real traction to show for it.
Getpin (Estonia) – helping multi-location businesses stay visible and accurate across maps, AI assistants, and social channels. 27-person team, clients in banking, telco, retail, and logistics. Quietly becoming the control panel for how businesses appear online.
Ciklo (Lithuania) – the missing data layer connecting everyday chemical exposure to clinical outcomes. Selected from 4,800+ applications as a Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneer. One of the most urgent health platforms in this cohort.
FPV Battleground (Ukraine) – a tactical decision-making simulator for military FPV drone pilots. 8,200+ paid users across 80 countries. Zero marketing spend. Pure word of mouth. Building from Kyiv while the problem they’re solving plays out in real time.
Bruukki (Finland) – AI-powered learning material creation for teachers, built by a team with a previous EdTech exit. Incorporated in February 2026. Shipped a working product to pilot users in four weeks. The execution speed alone is worth watching.
Optonics (Estonia) – building proof infrastructure for the physical AI age. Their system gives every 3D printer a production record and a memory, paired with an affordable SLS printer at a third of competitor pricing. Hardware teams take note.
MindChip (Estonia) – a self-adaptive AI captain for maritime vessels. Five PhD-level engineers, €1.5M in R&D grants secured, and two major clients already signed. Maritime autonomy is not a future concept for these founders — it’s already real.
Thistle (Estonia) – scalable, mass-manufacturable counter-FPV drone defense for frontline and critical infrastructure protection. Effector-agnostic, EW-resilient, and designed for the threat that existing systems haven’t solved. The stakes don’t get higher than this.
DogBase (Estonia) – AI-powered platform for working-dog teams: police K9, SAR, military, and service programs. The founder is an active SAR K9 handler and former Special Forces veteran who bootstrapped DogBase through serious personal health challenges. Founder-market fit at its most literal.
Alpha3D (Estonia) – a production engine for 3D content. Unlike tools that generate visual prototypes, Alpha3D outputs assets with clean topology and structured geometry that plug directly into real pipelines. Gaming, ecommerce, simulation – the use cases are enormous.
Granarium (Finland) – redesigning supercapacitors from renewable materials to stabilize electricity grids. Spinning out of VTT, Finland’s national technical research centre. Won the Slush sustainable materials competition. A deep-tech bet with serious institutional credibility behind it.
Milmech Systems (Estonia) – modular unmanned ground vehicles for combat engineering, mine operations, logistics, and force protection. The team invested €150,000 of their own capital and built a working TRL 7 prototype. One platform, many dangerous jobs done safer.
Backoffice LT (Lithuania) – automated workforce management built specifically for restaurants. The founder worked at Vinted, Revolut, and Busuu — and also ran a family restaurant. He knows exactly what the chaos feels like. Now he’s built the fix.
Congratulations to all that made it this far!
The next step for the selected teams is to sharpen their pitches, meet investors and prove why they should be the ones to take home the investment. The final stage will bring the strongest startups to the Latitude59 main stage, where the next standout success stories may begin.
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