What's UpNext
What’s UpNext: Signals from the Global Startup Circuit
The F1 Circuit of the Startup Ecosystem. Tracking founders, momentum, and signals as they emerge.
Every Surgery Produces Enough Data to Predict Complications. Why Is Almost None of It Being Used?
Every year, 60 million patients suffer anesthesia complications that current monitoring cannot anticipate. Eva Gubern and Pedro Gambús built Predictheon to change that, starting with 30 years of mathematical modelling and a proprietary patient database nobody else has.
Most Great Athletes Never Get Discovered. SEE Is Changing the Odds
Abdelrahman Ghareeb dislocated his knee in 2014 and spent the next decade asking why nobody saw it coming. The Egyptian founder built SEE, an AI platform that turns any phone camera into an objective movement assessor, to give every athlete the data that only professionals have ever had.
Why 85% of Mental Health Patients Don't Improve, and What Braive Is Doing About It
Hermine Bonde Jahren watched her husband's psychology clinic struggle with an ever-growing waiting list and realized the access crisis was only half the problem. She built Braive to fix what happens after you get through the door, and it now supports 100,000 patients across the Nordics.
Every Consulting Project Starts From Scratch. Intriq Is Changing That.
Jess Liew spent over a decade watching consulting teams rebuild from zero on every new engagement, manually assembling data before the real work could even begin. She built Intriq to break that cycle, so advisors can skip the groundwork and get straight to the insights their clients actually need.
What’s UpNext: Signals from the Global Startup Circuit
The F1 Circuit of the Startup Ecosystem. Tracking founders, momentum, and signals as they emerge.
Why Retail Media Keeps Failing Smaller Retailers and How Cruxo Is Built to Fix It
Brands and retailers across Central and Eastern Europe have been handed retail media solutions that start three stages ahead of where they actually are. Jakub Spryngl and his co-founders left Procter & Gamble to build Cruxo, the platform that meets them where they are.
GITEX Africa: Sovereign Systems Replace Infrastructure Narratives
GITEX Africa 2026 confirmed that African tech has moved past infrastructure storytelling into deployment at scale. Sovereign digital strategies and cross-border fintech are now live products, not roadmaps.
A Wearable That Finally Tracks Female Hormones in Real Time
Estonian founder Kerli Luks spent years as a doctor watching women navigate hormonal health on incomplete data. Her company Muun Health is building the first continuous hormone monitoring device.
What’s UpNext: Signals from the Global Startup Circuit
The F1 Circuit of the Startup Ecosystem. Tracking founders, momentum, and signals as they emerge.
Why Medicines Cost Thirty Times More in Some African Markets and What Kapsule Is Doing About It
Pharmaceutical companies have spent decades circling African markets, unable to act without reliable data. David Chen built Kapsule to fix that, pooling health records from hospitals, pharmacies, and insurers across Africa into a single compliant platform.
The Money Was Always There. Governments Just Couldn’t See It.
Carolina Valadas used mobile money daily in West Africa before she joined Sharp Vision.. Founded by Cyril and Christophe Casanova, the Paris-based RegTech now manages €5 billion in annual flows across six jurisdictions, tripling tax revenues for the governments it serves.
Managers Can’t Lead While They’re Buried in Coordination
After 25 years in mobile and banking technology, Finnish founder Kristian Luoma identified the real obstacle to leadership, the coordination tax consuming 40% to 70% of every manager’s week. In Parallel is built to remove it.