fibionic GmbH

Meet the Winners of Unicorn Battle Silicon Valley! 🏆 On October 12, we brought together innovative startups, investors, and industry experts at Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale for another exciting edition of Unicorn Battle by Network VC, Startup.Network, and Unicorn Events! From robotics and advanced materials to EdTech and AI, our participating startups showcased impressive technologies, bold ideas, and real market traction. We're excited to announce our winners! 🥇 1st Place — Deus Robotics (Paul Pikulin) Deus Robotics is building an operating system that brings humans and robots together into one coordinated warehouse workforce. Its technology assigns tasks to the most suitable worker, whether that's a person, an autonomous robot, or a humanoid. With 8 live customer sites, projected 2026 revenue of $3M (5x growth), and a $1.4M contract signed with a US customer, Deus Robotics is bringing the future of warehouse automation to life. 🥈 2nd Place — fibionic GmbH (Elias Hirschbichler) fibionic is revolutionizing lightweight manufacturing with its patented fiber placement technology, enabling the production of strong, recyclable composite structures in under one minute. With 11 paying customers and applications spanning drones, robotics, sports equipment, and consumer electronics, fibionic is making advanced lightweight materials faster, more affordable, and scalable for industrial production. 🥈 2nd Place — Coco Coders (Elizabeth Tweedale) Coco Coders is preparing the next generation for a technology-driven future through live online coding and AI education for children aged 6–14. Having already taught more than 20,000 children and reached $1.5M in annual recurring revenue in Q1 2026, the company is expanding its AI literacy programs to help young learners develop essential skills for tomorrow. 🥉 3rd Place — Deepentix (Endri Deliu) Deepentix is making AI more trustworthy for highly regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals and insurance. Its technology helps enterprises trace AI-generated decisions back to verified sources, making AI systems more transparent, explainable, and auditable. The startup is building a pipeline of pilot customers across pharma, insurance, healthcare, and logistics. 👏 A huge thank you to our judges for sharing their expertise, asking insightful questions, and providing valuable feedback to the founders! Alexander Soroka Gary Fowler Aaron Rose Rafael Eljou Angela Jimenez MD MPS Sudhir Kadam Naresh Apte Jasmine Shih Viktoriia Stepanenko Vasyl Dub Taras Romaniuk Alexander Tulko Volodymyr Goshylyk, Ph.D. We're also grateful to all participating startups for their inspiring pitches and to everyone who joined us to support innovation and entrepreneurship. See you at the next Unicorn Battle! 🚀

🏆 fibionic GmbH won the Austrian Demo Night 2026! Huge congratulations to Elias Hirschbichler and Thomas Rettenwander! fibionic brings nature’s design principles into industrial manufacturing by placing continuous high-performance fibers only where structurally needed, enabling highly efficient and lightweight composite structures. The breakthrough lies in combining this bionic load-path design with the world’s fastest fiber placement technology. fibionic’s FFP process enables high-volume production at very low cost. ⭐ VITAMARIE, represented by Mag. Georg Posan, took home the Rising Star Award! VITAMARIE is an AI-powered femtech platform that helps women navigate every phase of their menstrual cycle. Combining data and wearables, it delivers personalized guidance on nutrition, movement, and recovery, going beyond period tracking to predict hormonal shifts and help manage symptoms. Want to know more about Austrian Demo Night? Check out the detailed post in the comments by our Co-Director Michael Dobersberger. Congratulations to both teams!

⏱️ 𝟏𝟖𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝟏𝟒 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬. 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔. 🚀 We joined SF TECH WEEK by a16z for Austrian Demo Night 2026, gathering 140+ founders, investors, mentors, Austrians, and friends of Austria. Huge thanks to SAP, Achim, and Kathleen for being such great hosts! 14 Austrian startups from our startup landing zone program 𝐆𝐨𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 pitched their innovations. fibionic GmbH won the Demo Night via the audience vote, and VITAMARIE the Rising Star Award! Congrats! A special shoutout to Kal and Jeff for preparing and coaching our startups, and a huge thank-you to Veronica for being such a driving force throughout the program! Meet our startups: 🔴 xAgent: AI voice agents for Apple CarPlay that enable sales professionals to manage CRM tasks while driving. 🔴 Deepentix: AI-based context layer that turns enterprise documents into structured, auditable knowledge for AI-driven decision-making. 🔴 fibionic GmbH: Nature-inspired fiber placement technology for lightweight, high-performance composite structures at industrial scale. 🔴 HealthBlokk: An AI-powered platform making dining easier for people with food allergies and intolerances, while enabling restaurants to offer personalized, allergen-aware experiences. 🔴 Klared: Intelligence platform for discovering deep-tech innovation earlier. 🔴 ATLAS Procurement OS: ATLAS is building the digital procurement infrastructure for business aviation, connecting buyers and service providers in one intelligent platform. 🔴 ONONO.AI: Legal AI that reconstructs complex histories from fragmented data, creating navigable timelines and relationship maps for law firms. 🔴 OSOI: Mobile-first work management platform connecting field teams and offices through communication, tasks, documents, and planning. 🔴 Philaris Health: AI-native mental health platform that makes workplace mental health measurable and proactive. 🔴 scopri.ai: AI platform that enables engineers to discover relevant patents in minutes. 🔴 Straion: AI governance layer that enables coding agents to follow a company’s architecture, security standards, and coding rules. 🔴 SuperSupport.ai: AI agents that resolve everyday IT issues directly on employees’ devices, reducing helpdesk workload. 🔴 Transgenion: Medical Ramp;D company using epigenetic data and AI to identify therapeutic targets and biomarkers for chronic inflammatory diseases. 🔴 VITAMARIE: AI-powered femtech platform using data and wearables to help women understand hormonal changes and optimize nutrition, movement, and recovery. Two more startups were part of our program but weren’t able to pitch. Check them out, too! 👇 🔴 DataB GmbH: AI infrastructure that turns digital designs into production-ready machine data for automated manufacturing. 🔴 story.one: Content-to-Print platform that transforms existing content into high-quality, distributable knowledge products.

Unicorn Battle for startups at Plug and Play, and Austria showed up BIG! 🚀 A huge thank you to Alexander Soroka and Viktoriia Stepanenko from Network VC and the entire team for hosting us. I loved your comment that this somehow turned into an unofficial Austrian Demo Night! 😆 And the Austrian startups delivered! 🥉 Endri Deliu from 🇦🇹 Deepentix took third place. 🥈 Elias Hirschbichler from 🇦🇹 fibionic GmbH finished in a joint second place, alongside Coco Coders. 🥇 Congratulations to Deus Robotics for taking home the gold! 👏 A special shout-out to Timo Haslberger from 🇦🇹 SuperSupport.ai and Lukas Holzer from 🇦🇹 Straion. And a very special congratulations to David Dabic from 🇦🇹 DataB GmbH for finally getting on stage and pitching for the first time after missing Austrian Demo Night last week. A special thank-you to Jeff Wallace and Kal Deutsch for making the connection and helping bring this together last minute. 🇦🇹🚀

One week in San Francisco, and things move fast here. 🚀 The past days have been packed with valuable conversations, new connections, and exciting opportunities for fibionic. ▪️Customer meetings with several wearable technology companies ▪️A quick trip to Los Angeles to connect with high-tech startups in the defense sector ▪️First VC introductions and coffee chats across the Bay Area ▪️Participation in our first startup pitch events in San Francisco What stands out most is the spirit of the ecosystem: ambitious people, fast decisions, open discussions, and a strong willingness to collaborate. For us, this is the ideal environment to demonstrate how lightweight composite structures can support emerging Physical AI applications. From wearables and robotics to drones and autonomous systems, hardware performance increasingly depends on intelligent lightweight design. And there is more to come. Today, October 7, 2026, we will be pitching in San Francisco and look forward to sharing our vision for the future of lightweight hardware. 📍 Austrian Demo Night – #SFTechWeek 👉 Find the event link in the comments We’ll be around the Bay Area for another week, so if you're nearby, come by, watch the pitch, or reach out to connect and discuss how lightweight structures can enable the next generation of Physical AI hardware. Thomas Rettenwander | Johannes Mandler | Elias Hirschbichler #fibionic #Composites #Innovation #FFP #lightweight #SanFrancisco #PhysicalAI #DeepTech #Hardware #Robotics #Wearables #VentureCapital