SXSW Pitch: The 50 Finalists for 2020
The Forrest Four-Cast: February 1, 2020
Scheduled March 14–15 at the Downtown Austin Hilton, SXSW Pitch brings together 50 of the world’s best startups. This page lists all finalists in all ten categories (as well as alternates for each category). This page also consolidates the short interviews that have been conducted with each of these finalists on Medium.
Please return to this page frequently, as it is updated often as more of these interviews are posted.
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice
3Space Makers (Conroe, TX)
Deepblocks (Miami, FL)
Intvo (Ann Arbor, MI)
Sonavi Labs (Baltimore, MD)
Wunder (San Francisco, CA)
Alternates for Artificial Intelligence, Robotics & Voice
PIX Moving (Guiyang, China)
UneeQ (Austin, TX)
Augmented and Virtual Reality
echoAR (New York, NY)
Eyedaptic (Laguna Beach, CA)
Holoride (Munich, Germany)
Looxid Labs (Seoul, Korea)
Praxis Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
Alternates for Augmented and Virtual Reality
Immertec (Tampa, FL)
SURVIVR (Dallas, TX)
VIKA Books (Avon, United Kingdom)
Blockchain
AgUnity (Queensland, Australia)
DrumG (New York, NY)
Quantstamp (San Francisco, CA)
Votem (Cleveland, OH)
Winding Tree (Gibraltar, Spain)
Alternates for Blockchain
BlockMedx (Boston, MA)
Highview (Madison, WI)
The Sandbox (Paris, France)
Consumer Technology & CPG
AVA Technologies (Vancouver, Canada)
EasyKale Labs (Jackson, MS)
PurePlus (Los Angeles, CA)
Renzoe Box (Austin, TX)
Trust & Will (San Diego, CA)
Alternates for Consumer Technology & CPG
Nollapelli (Pittsburgh, PA)
SellHound (Santa Cruz, CA)
Wardrobe (New York, NY)
Enterprise and Smart Data
LexSet (Brooklyn, NY)
Passbase (New York, NY)
StrongSalt (San Jose, CA)
Syndio (Seattle, WA)
Virtualitics (Pasadena, CA)
Alternates for Enterprise and Smart Data
Allthenticate (Santa Barbara, CA)
Marlo (Austin, TX)
ZeBrand (New York, NY)
Entertainment and Content
Citefull (Phoenix, AZ)
FilmChain (London, England)
Quicc (Wichita, KS)
St. Noire by Virsix Games (Austin, TX)
Wriveted (Sydney, Australia)
Alternates for Entertainment and Content
The Last Gameboard (Boulder, CO)
Side Door (Halifax, Canada)
Ryff (Los Angeles, CA)
Health, Wearables & Wellbeing
Milis Bio (Cork, Ireland)
Radiobotics (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Safe Health (Los Angeles, CA)
Sisu Global (Baltimore, MD)
TruPigment (Austin, TX)
Alternates for Health, Wearables & Wellbeing
Lilu (New York, NY)
Reveal Technologies (Houston, TX)
YourChoice Therapeutics (Berkeley, CA)
Innovative World Technologies
Betmarkets (Porto, Portugal)
Lofty AI (San Francisco, CA)
MolyWorks (Los Gatos, CA)
NeelAgil Technologies (Telangana, India)
Plantible Foods (San Diego, CA)
Alternates for Innovative World Technologies
360VR Technology (Newark, DE)
Solstar Space Company (Santa Fe, NM)
Trella Technologies (Bourne, MA)
Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics
Cove.tool (Atlanta, GA)
Flugauto (Austin, TX)
Sapient Industries (Philadelphia, PA)
Trella (Cairo, Egypt)
Waycare (Los Angeles, CA)
Alternates for Smart Cities, Transportation & Logistics
MD Ally (Philadelphia, PA)
NUBIGON (Austin, TX)
SparkCharge (Boston, MA)
Social and Culture
Agrona (Cairo, Egypt)
Applied Bioplastics (Austin, TX)
Arist (Boston, MA)
Collective Liberty (Washington, DC)
Skilllab (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Alternates for Social and Culture
Civic Champs (Bloomington, IN)
FairFrame (New York, NY)
The Tuesday Company (Washington, DC)
Buy your badge to attend all the SXSW Pitch festivities on March 14–15.
Badgeholders can also attend SXSW Release It, which occurs on March 13.
Finally, if you are a startup that wants to get involved in the 2021 edition of this competition, mark your calendar for August 1, 2020 (which is when we will begin to accept entries).
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
