> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://upnext.world/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Web Summit Lisbon 2026: Carevision Wins PITCH With a 30-Second Heart Scan - URL: https://upnext.world/web-summit-lisbon-2026-pitch-carevision-wins-2/ - Published: 2026-11-12T17:42:10.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-12T23:59:49.000Z - Description: Carevision, a startup that screens for heart and metabolic conditions with a phone camera, won PITCH at Web Summit Lisbon. Moola and Zoyk joined it in a final where every founder arrived with users, contracts or partners already in place. - Author: Edwin J. Frondozo - Tags: UpNext World Tour, Web Summit, world-tour Web Summit returned to Lisbon from November 9 to 12, 2026, with 70,003 attendees from 164 countries and a record 1,943 investors. Extreme weather warnings suspended Wednesday's programme, so the PITCH semi-finals and the final both ran on Thursday, which became the busiest closing day in the event's history. PITCH, presented by KPMG, started with 105 shortlisted startups and ended with three founders on Centre Stage alongside host Casey Lau. Two of the finalists build financial infrastructure and one screens for heart disease, and all three are already live with customers or partners. The healthtech company won. Web Summit called it the most international edition yet. More than 10,000 startups attended and 3,052 companies exhibited from 110 countries, with record participation from Portugal, at 350 startups, and Ireland, at 115\. AI and machine learning led the industries on the exhibition floor, followed by SaaS, healthtech, fintech and education. The 960 speakers included the event's largest Chinese delegation to date, with leaders from Tencent, Xiaomi, Unitree and Pony.ai. The investor turnout included Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Index Ventures, Atomico and the Qatar Investment Authority, and PitchBook data shows the investors in attendance took part in deals worth about 60 percent of global venture capital deal value in 2026. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/bd/f7bd9425-660a-4347-a458-f5a607a098d3/content/images/2026/11/websummit-lisbon-2026-1.jpg) The finalists pitched to a panel of investors and operators. Sarah Kunst, founder and managing director of Cleo Capital, asked about customer acquisition and intellectual property. Rocio Wu, a partner at F-Prime Capital who invested in Chipper Cash in 2019, pushed on competition and regulation. George Hayes, who leads KPMG Private and is the firm's global senior lead tax partner, focused on partnerships and entering new markets. The panel also included Rainer Märkle, general partner at HV Capital, and Igor Ryabenkiy, founder and managing partner of AltaIR Capital. 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As she told Web Summit, the company turns "any camera into a health screening tool." The system reads camera-based biomarkers, sorts users by risk across 14 cardiometabolic conditions and sends the results to healthcare providers. Abulaban said the model was trained on 12 million ECG records from 19 countries and reaches 97 percent accuracy. Carevision launched in February and has closed five commercial contracts, secured an agreement with the Saudi Ministry of Health and received Saudi FDA certification. It reports a qualified pipeline of $6 million and is launching a national screening program in Kenya, with Tanzania and Zanzibar to follow. When the judges pressed her on regulation across so many markets, Abulaban explained that the product is positioned as a wellness screening tool that sends at-risk users to a physician, while clinical validation runs with research centers in Saudi Arabia. The company is raising $2 million, with half already committed. --- ## The Finalists [**Moola**](https://moola-money.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Fintech\]** reached the PITCH final with an AI-powered personal financial planning platform. Founder and CEO Linda Du and Head of Product Filippo Corbelli met at McKinsey, where the two worked with large banks. Corbelli previously launched a digital bank that reached 1 million customers by its second year, and Du was named to the Innovate Finance Women in Fintech Power List 2025\. Moola starts from one number: 91 percent of UK adults manage their money without financial advice. It gives users a tax-aware picture of their whole financial position and lets them model big decisions, such as buying a house or having children, before they commit. Its numbers come from a deterministic, rules-based financial engine, and the AI only interprets the results. The platform has more than 1,700 UK and EU banking connections and its own tax engines for several countries. A plan costs £99.99 a year, against £1,000 or more for a full plan from an adviser. The company launched in the UK first, has more than 1,400 registered users with 10 percent active each month, and was named Best Fintech Solution UK 2026\. It is raising a £1 million pre-seed round to fund its go-to-market. Du told the judges Moola serves people with a net worth between £100,000 and £1 million, and that it added 16,000 TikTok followers in one month after pausing paid marketing. The next step is selling through employee benefits and white-label deals with banks and payroll apps, alongside a network of independent advisors who pay Moola a 10 percent referral fee on clients who move to full advice. FCA authorisation to offer investment products comes after that. [**Zoyk**](https://zoyk.io/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Fintech\]** reached the final with payments infrastructure for small businesses in Southern Africa. Founder and CEO Clive Nabale opened his pitch in Portuguese, then described a region where cash and mobile money dominate and a shop owner often has no record of the day's takings. Zoyk gives merchants one API and one wallet for mobile money, card, bank transfer and cash, with reconciliation in real time. Its soft POS app turns any Android device into a point of sale terminal. The company processed $23.8 million between January and October 2026, which is 2.4 times its total for all of 2025, across 40 merchants in Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It has been licensed by the Bank of Zambia since 2024 and was authorized in the DRC in 2026\. Zoyk has a partnership with Visa covering the 16 markets of the Southern African Development Community, which Nabale said is a first for a fintech in the region, and Visa Direct is scheduled to go live in December 2026\. It also works with Zambia's Ministry of Finance to offer government payments to the public. The plan is to reach all 16 markets by 2028 or 2029, starting with licensing in each one. Zoyk earns a 0.4 percent take rate after costs and is raising $900,000 for growth. When Rocio Wu asked about rivals such as Yellow Card and Chipper Cash, Nabale said Zoyk already works with Yellow Card and runs the agents and offices on the ground that larger players prefer to leave to a partner. --- ## Standouts Beyond the final, these founders from the Web Summit Lisbon startup program shared their progress with UpNext. [**BBright**](https://bbright.lt/?ref=upnext.world) **\[EdTech\]**. BBright reached the PITCH semi-final with adaptive maths assessment and learning tools for schools. Founder and CEO Mantas Vičius reports that 45,000 students across 260 schools have learned with its tools, and that its programme for fifth graders runs city-wide in Kaunas in partnership with the municipality. The Lithuanian company was named a Global Champion at the World Summit Awards 2026\. It is looking for ministries and municipalities to bring the approach to school systems in other countries. [**Tortin**](https://gettortin.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[EdTech / AI\]**. Tortin lets a professor run a whole course through AI that is grounded in their own slides, readings, rubrics and past exams. Founder Shahzad Ahmed reports $50,000 in revenue, five paid pilots and more than 2,000 students, with five professors at HEC Lausanne using the product. The company is incubated by Qatar Science and Technology Park and is raising a $1 million seed round to hire enterprise sellers across Europe and the Gulf. [**BM Diagnostics**](https://bmdiagnostics.it/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Healthtech\]**. The Italian medtech company is developing finger-prick cardiac biomarker tests that people can use themselves, with results in minutes. Founder and CEO Matteo Boldreghini reports early revenue, five pharmacies on board and six letters of intent signed with municipalities for community cardiac prevention. The team has tested more than 300 samples, holds an Italian patent and has EU clinical validation in progress with scientific partners INRCA and the University of Urbino. [**Ynone**](https://www.ynoneapp.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Healthtech / AI\]**. Ynone is an AI companion for lymphoedema therapy that connects patients and clinicians between visits. Founder and CEO Mara Sorrentino has a first paying B2B client and two more in negotiation, with clinical partners Charité, Uniklinik Bonn and Földiklinik. The beta is ready for the 50-plus patients on its waitlist, and the company has secured €65,000 in grants. [**teachtorch**](https://teachtorch.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[EdTech / AI\]**. teachtorch builds AI learning infrastructure that turns an organization's documents into a knowledge base where every answer traces back to a source. CEO Yu Hu, who previously led the education business unit at Arduino, reports two paying clients and three signed letters of intent. The company was shortlisted in two categories at the Learning Technologies Awards. [**Vellam**](https://vellam.app/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI / Creative Tech\]**. Vellam helps writers polish manuscripts in their own style and helps publishers assess each submission in minutes. Founder Aleksander Kaminski reports more than 1,000 authors and over 30,000 in annual recurring revenue. The product is built for European languages. [**StirUp**](https://stirup.io/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. StirUp uses AI dispatch and data analysis to make third-party delivery sustainable for independent restaurants. CEO Max Kim reports more than 15 clients in Canada delivering over 5,000 orders a month. [**Scooli**](https://scooli.app/?ref=upnext.world) **\[EdTech / AI\]**. Scooli saves teachers time on lesson preparation by tracking what each class has covered and where students stand. Since launching in April 2026 it has passed 600 users and 3,000 lessons planned, with 12 paying users. [**Mod-y**](https://mod-y.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. Mod-y lets fashion sellers create product photos and descriptions from a single image and publish listings across several sales channels. It has integrations with Shopify, WooCommerce and eBay, 400 early users and five pilot projects. [**PostProval**](https://postproval.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Enterprise Software\]**. PostProval is a bootstrapped social media tool built around scheduling and client approvals. Founder Britt De Roy reports 284 users and more than 21,000 posts published. [**Morpheus**](https://www.usemorpheus.ai/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. Morpheus builds the context layer that AI agents read from. Founder and CEO Thomas Panton reports eight pilots and a pipeline of more than 85 private market funds built in six months. [**AntAtlas**](https://antatlas.ai/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. AntAtlas keeps a live map of a software system so AI coding agents spend less time re-exploring code. It has tested with three design partners, is a member of NVIDIA Inception and is raising $500,000. [**Mybiznest**](https://mybiznest.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. Mybiznest, built by Gama Point, guides small teams through contracts, invoices and business plans in one app. Founder and CEO Galina Tasic reports $40,000 raised through the StarTech accelerator and €20,000 in annual licences bought by corporate partners. [**WaSun Eyewear**](https://wasuneyewear.co.uk/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Hardware\]**. WaSun is developing prescription lenses that switch from clear to dark at the press of a button. Founder and CEO Samiul Hussain has collected more than 120 letters of intent from prospective customers. [**NamaBaby**](https://namababy.pt/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Healthtech\]**. NamaBaby is a screen-free ankle band that monitors a baby's sleep and wellbeing. Founder Regina Pinto has signed letters of intent from childcare centres in Portugal, and the company was selected as an Impact Startup at Web Summit Lisbon. [**Zura Health**](https://zurahealthos.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Healthtech\]**. Zura Health is developing an earring that reads temperature and pulse, paired with an AI coach that adapts training to the menstrual cycle. It has run a 30-woman pilot study at the Technical University of Munich. [**MasterAI**](https://masterai.expert/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI / Industrial\]**. MasterAI helps factories tell faulty sensor readings apart from real process problems. Its next step is two shadow pilots on live factory data. [**AutiHD**](https://www.autihd.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Enterprise Software\]**. AutiHD helps employers identify workplace barriers and support employee mental wellbeing. It is backed by a Luxembourg ministry, with first customers due to go live in January 2027. [**Cipher One Capital**](https://swissislamicfinance.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Fintech\]**. Cipher One Capital offers Shariah-compliant pension and wealth management products in Switzerland and is preparing a crypto index. [**watchmy.cloud**](https://watchmy.cloud/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Enterprise Software\]**. A smoke detector for AWS bills that has fired 574 cost alerts for customers. [**Corbenic AI**](https://corbenic.ai/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. Long-term memory for AI, with more than 6,000 downloads and six arXiv papers. [**MovieMe**](https://justmovieme.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Consumer Tech\]**. A pay-per-minute streaming platform where creators earn 70 percent of every minute watched. [**StoryFoundry AI**](https://storyfoundryai.co.uk/?ref=upnext.world) **\[AI\]**. AI-written fundraising communications for non-profits and public sector organizations, with a pilot program in preparation. [**Misslaboratory**](https://misslaboratory.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Healthtech\]**. A portable reader that measures hormones from a finger-prick blood sample in minutes. [**Track & Thrive**](https://www.trackandthrive.ai/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Healthtech\]**. A health coaching platform where a client's wellness data lives in one place, now live in beta. [**SYMPRY**](https://www.sympry.com/?ref=upnext.world) **\[Consumer Tech\]**. An AI assistant that helps shoppers compare products and prices against what they already own, at prototype stage. ****Running a pitch competition, accelerator or demo day?** UpNext produces editorial showcases for innovation centres, accelerators and trade agencies, putting your cohort in front of a network of 150,000+ founders, investors and innovation leaders, with a direct introduction channel to every company. Talk to us about your next cohort. ## Why It Matters for the UpNext Network The three finalists came from the United States, the UK and Zambia, and each asked for $2 million or less. All of them arrived with something already working, whether that was signed government agreements, registered users or a card network partnership across 16 countries. The judges spent their questions on distribution, regulation and who pays, and the winner was the founder with contracts closed and a ministry already on board. The wider cohort tells the same story at an earlier stage, with first paying customers in classrooms, clinics and restaurants. Founders who want to meet the people backing this kind of company can [join the UpNext network](https://upnext.world/).