NeurIPS 2025 Mexico City: Startup Pitch Competition

Join us for the inaugural NeurIPS 2025 Startup Pitch Competition, a highlight of our new Mexico City program. This session will showcase a select group of emerging ventures applying novel machine learning models and data-centric approaches to address critical global challenges. Founders will present their core technical innovations and application domains, spanning pediatric neuro-rehabilitation, decentralized data architectures for AI, on-premise industrial intelligence, ML-driven climate monitoring, quantum-based sensing for AI perception, and agentic models for enterprise finance. This session provides a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between foundational research and real-world deployment, highlighting novel applications of machine learning in diverse and high-impact sectors.

Featured Startups: PhantasiAI: Redefining pediatric rehabilitation with an AI stack that powers non-invasive neurostimulation to restore gait in paralyzed children.

PublicAI: Building a decentralized "Human Layer of AI," enabling millions of global contributors to own and monetize real-world data for training next-generation models.

Pluma: Deploying local, on-premise AI agents for industrial SMEs, ensuring data privacy while automating complex engineering tasks on existing factory hardware.

SEKHEM-ETHOS: Using machine learning and satellite imagery for real-time environmental monitoring, bushfire detection, and transparent carbon credit verification in Africa and the Global South.

OAQ: Developing quantum sensors to capture novel magnetic anomaly data, providing a new perception layer to unlock the next era of AI in autonomy, defense, and AGI.

DAKO Labs: Building the first Agentic Enterprise Finance advisor for CFO teams, creating a research-driven path toward autonomous and trustworthy finance operations.