Coimbra selects 12 startups for Web Summit

The city of Coimbra has announced 12 selected startups to represent it at the Web Summit in Lisbon. The delegation features diverse technological solutions ranging from biotechnology to aerospace and disaster prevention.

Key participants include RDefine, a biotechnology startup developing ‘Happillness’, a gummy solution designed to replace violent drug dosing procedures in laboratory rats. Other notable companies include Sim4Safety, which provides intelligent decision-support systems for forest fire prevention and combat, and Sentiel.AI, which utilizes artificial intelligence to predict failures in critical energy, defense, and space systems.

In the aerospace sector, Airsafe.AI will showcase technology allowing drones to fly beyond the line of sight with automatic obstacle detection, while FLYOU aims to monitor pilot performance to anticipate fatigue. Additionally, Fibersight proposes a method to transform optical fibers into continuous sensors.