Every year, the Forum selects 100 early-stage companies to join its Technology Pioneers Community. This year’s cohort, spanning 23 countries, arrives at a defining moment: deep tech investment is surging, AI accounts for more than 60% of all global venture capital, and the lines between software, hardware, energy and biology are increasingly blurred.
The chosen companies are tackling problems from nuclear fusion and lunar resource extraction to neurosurgical robotics and post-quantum cryptography. Together, they reflect five structural shifts in how frontier technology is being built and funded.
