Anualmente, o SXSW reconhece inovações e tecnologias revolucionárias. O SXSW Innovation Awards de 2025 escolheu 55 startups finalistas inovadoras que serão premiadas em 11 categorias. O evento visa mostrar ideias insoiradoras e as startups finalistas demonstram isso em categorias que vão de Inteligência Artificial a Empoderamento Comunitário.
Os finalistas estarão disponíveis para interação na Innovation Awards Finalist Showcase em 8 de março, e os vencedores serão revelados na 26ª edição anual do SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony, em 10 de março.
Inteligência Artificial
- Wandercraft’s Self-Balancing Exoskeleton (New York, NY)
- Breakout Learning: AI-Powered Small-Group Discussions (Dallas, TX)
- AI Unlocking Food Allergy Freedom (Long Beach, CA)
- Newton: AI for the Physical World (Palo Alto, CA)
- CMR-M1: The First AI-Powered Movie Camera (Madrid, Spain and Los Angeles, CA)
Experiência de Áudio
- **alphabeats – Master your Mind. Master your Performance ** (Laguna Beach, CA)
- “I SEE MUSIC!” by Synegram.com (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
- Multichannel Sound Over Headphones (Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany)
- Neural DSP: Nano Cortex (Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland)
- Holography Records: “Polytempo Music” Interactive 3D Album (Alameda, CA)
Empoderamento Comunitário
- Innovating to Make Abortion Affordable (New York, NY)
- SolarSPELL digital libraries (Tempe, AZ)
- Share@MealConnect (Chicago, IL)
- TIAA – Paper Right (New York, NY)
- Ruth: Your Digital Guardian (Hillsborough, NJ)
Conexão e Comunicação
- Switch-Lit (Utrecht, Netherlands and Portland, OR)
- HeyGen’s Interactive Avatars (Los Angeles, CA)
- Crowd Compass: Stay Connected, Stay Safe (Spokane, WA)
- GRIEF SUCKS by Experience Camps (Westport, CT)
- 855-HOW-TO-QUIT-(OPIOIDS) (Chicago, IL)
Saúde e Biotecnologia
- TRAUMAGEL by Cresilon (Brooklyn, NY)
- Virtual Incision – Pioneering miniRAS (Lincoln, NE)
- PherDal Fertility Kit (Dixon, IL)
- BetterWay: Blood Testing Reimagined (Austin, TX)
- Signia Active Pro IX Hearing Aids (Iselin, NJ)
Design de Interface
- XR-Objects Augmented Object Intelligence (Seattle, WA)
- GOES: Outdoor Health and Safety Guide (Redwood City, CA)
- Bedtime AI Storymaker (Madrid, Spain and Los Angeles, CA)
- Engineering the world’s first Smart Lipstick (São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil)
- Posha: Your family’s private robot chef (San Mateo, CA)
Design de Produto
- The Daylight Computer (San Francisco, CA)
- Sentante – Teleoperated Surgical Robot for Endovascular Interventions (San Francisco, CA)
- Quantinuum’s H Series Quantum Computer (Broomfield, CO)
- Pioneering Drone Swarms in Agriculture (Richmond, TX)
- Scantinel Single-Chip FMCW LiDAR Module (Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Inovação Estudantil
- Theater of Future Puppetry (Hsinchu, Taiwan)
- GismoPower’s Mobile Solar Carport “MEGA” (Sarasota, FL)
- Flow (Shenzhen, China and Pittsburgh, PA)
- Smell like Home (Irvine, CA)
- SMART Wearable Thermoregulatory Device (Cambridge, MA and Calistoga, CA)
Soluções de Sustentabilidade
- Uluu (Perth, Western Australia, Australia)
- Liquidplant™ by von Holzhausen (West Hollywood, CA)
- Low-Light Indoor Bifacial Solar Cell (Scott Valley, CA)
- Dimensional Energy: Creating fuels and products from CO₂ (Ithaca, NY)
- Voodin Biodegradable Wind Turbine Blades (Lichtenfels, Hesse, Germany)
Experiência Urbana
- Sustainable 3D-Printed homes by Azure (Los Angeles, CA)
- BOLT: democratizing access to e-biking (Brooklyn, NY)
- Overheard on a Train (Austin, TX)
- Pathfinder: GPS-Free Geolocation (Cambridge, MA)
- From Smart Campus to Real Smart Cities (Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil)
WTF (What the Future)
- Space Trash Signs (Chicago, IL)
- SWEAR Security (Boise, ID)
- SOLAMENT™︎ (Tokyo, Japan)
- Dynex: Quantum Computing for Anyone, Anywhere (Vaduz, Liechtenstein)
- The Halo – Lucid Dreaming Wearable Device by Prophetic (San Francisco, CA)
