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.
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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.
Flashpoint POV
Recruiting Runs on Relationships. The Tools Don't
Recruiting has been solving a relationship problem with search tools. After two years inside the system, Alexander Farr built Clera to fix it, reaching passive candidates through WhatsApp, iMessage, and email and already representing 80,000 people in relevant roles.
UpNext Ecosystem
ScaleUp 10: Ones to Watch
OneEleven’s ScaleUp 10: Ones to Watch spotlighted Canadian scaleups building across AI, healthcare, manufacturing, mobility, and enterprise systems at DiscoveryX 2026. The cohort reflected where commercial traction and operational scale are emerging across Canada’s tech ecosystem.
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Half of GI Cancer Patients Run Out of Options
When chemotherapy fails, immunotherapy does not respond, and targeted therapies do not apply, patients are left without a path forward. BiPER Therapeutics is developing an oral drug, selected by blood test, to treat that gap directly.
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.
Flashpoint POV
Aquaplaning Has Existed Since the First Car. This Turin Founder Decided to Eliminate It.
Aquaplaning has caused accidents since the first cars drove on wet roads. Giovanni Blandina founded EasyRain in Turin to become the first company to actively restore grip, not just detect its loss.
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.
Flashpoint POV
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.