A venture-building and commercialisation platform connecting universities, industry and capital.

Turning research into ventures and validated products.

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Why AIEX

AI is changing how technology ventures are built

01 — Core industry workflows

New product and venture opportunities are emerging across R&D, production, operations and services.

02 — Small teams can scale

Models, compute and digital channels are accelerating product development and global reach.

03 — An end-to-end path

Research, product development, customer validation and capital planning must advance together from day one.

Move outstanding research into the real world faster — and build companies that create lasting value for industry.
The AIEX Model

Built by universities and DABANC

UNIVERSITY INNOVATION

Research talent · Labs
IP · Academic brand

AI Startup Exchange
Turning research into ventures and validated products

COMMERCIAL SCALE / CAPITAL GROWTH

Customer pilots · Paid orders
Equity financing · M&A / IPO

VALUE REINVESTMENT → Joint research · Live briefs · Talent development · Equity value · New ventures — feeds the next cycle
Featured Portfolio

Frontier-technology ventures in the incubator

AITOPO
ROBOTICS

AITOPO

A continuously updated world model that understands the environment, simulates outcomes and learns from real execution.

WICCAR
MOBILITY

Wiccar

A Saudi electric commercial-vehicle brand with local assembly, brand operations and long-term fleet support.

GRIT BIO
BIOTECH

GRIT Bio

Next-generation cell therapy for solid tumours, building on TIL therapy and advancing in-vivo CAR-T.

NAORIS
CYBERSECURITY

Naoris

A digital trust layer that continuously verifies every device, identity and transaction for the quantum era.

AI PAY
AI + PAYMENTS

AI Pay with Crypto

Controlled, auditable payment infrastructure built for autonomous AI agents.

LIQUICOOL
AI INFRASTRUCTURE

LiquiCool

Integrated liquid cooling from chip cold plates to rack monitoring for high-power AI compute.

AI HOSPITAL
MEDICAL AI

Tsinghua AI Agent Hospital

Training evolvable medical agents through simulated care journeys with virtual patients.

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Founders

You have the technology, research or prototype — and the ambition to build a company.

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Universities & researchers

You have research, IP, talent and lab facilities — and want to see it reach real industry impact.

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Industry partners

You have a real-world problem, data, customers or a deployment scenario.

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Investors

You want visibility into frontier technology ventures before they reach the broader market.

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