To all startups competing at Fund the Future 2026 × Conviction. The organising committee is pleased to announce the pitch schedule for 14 August 2026 at SIHUB, 123 Truong Dinh, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. All 31 teams pitch in a single track judged by one panel. Each team gets 10 minutes: a 5-minute presentation followed by 5 minutes of Q&A with the judges. Every slot below now carries the team's full profile — the problem they are solving, their product, and the real-world evidence they have — so judges, guests and fellow teams can read up in advance.
If you spot anything wrong, please tell the organising committee immediately. A misspelt team or founder name, a scheduling clash, or an inability to attend your assigned slot — contact us right away so we can adjust before the morning of 14 August.
Arrive at SIHUB and test your slides at least 30 minutes before your slot.
Your presentation should cover four parts: the team; the product; its features, applications and differentiators; and your roadmap.
Seven teams marked EN take Q&A in English, all between 09:00 and 10:30. From 10:40 onward Q&A is in Vietnamese.
Four teams marked By request have been placed at the time slot they asked for.
The running order may shift on the day; if a team is absent, the following teams move up by 10 minutes. Please arrive early.
The field at a glance — 31 teams by sector
Everything below is self-reported by the startups in their application and has not been independently verified by the organising committee. Grouped by sector so you can see where teams overlap.
AI for business operations7 teams
Flowser.ai · VIEROC AI · Nexa · Easy AI · 9Bricks · Bluecore · VyIQ. The largest cluster of the day, and the one where pitches sound most alike — the real difference is which customers each team has actually served.
Commerce & marketplaces6 teams
Twohearts · Fold Space — Chovia · Talential · AgriTra · Duma · Hausto. All two-sided models: F&B ordering, multi-channel retail, talent, farm produce, community events and home rentals.
AI infrastructure & safety3 teams
IYA Technologies · Blazle · Botanary. The layer that lets AI and agents run safely: a high-performance OS, blocking destructive agent commands, and spending caps inside agent wallets.
EdTech & training4 teams
Tuton · APIE · CoachPro Asia · Listen & Learn by WynAI. Overlapping ground across four audiences: global ESL tutors, Vietnamese teachers, professional coaches, and self-directed English learners.
Marketing, content & data3 teams
Deviantly · Beam · Vinpix / Firemotion. Early video-trend detection, anonymous website visitor identification, and AI-generated explainer video.
Consumer & services3 teams
Simple Academy · Squadyy · BAFA. The three most everyday products of the day: photography, amateur football and home renovation.
Deep tech & manufacturing2 teams
EggVision · Celesnity — Minder. The two hardest-to-copy core technologies: determining chick sex inside the egg, and an AI operations layer for factory floors.
Web3 & fintech2 teams
NexFi · FooDriver. P2P lending against digital-asset collateral, and a delivery ecosystem run on smart contracts.
Thirteen teams already have a live product or measurable customers: Easy AI, BAFA, Twohearts, Celesnity — Minder, APIE, Beam, Talential, Tuton, Deviantly, Duma, Nexa, Flowser.ai and Listen & Learn by WynAI. These are the teams with operating numbers to bring into Q&A.
Self-reported funding stage: 1 team at Series A or beyond, 3 at Seed, 10 at Pre-seed, 17 not yet raised or undisclosed. Customer focus: most of the field sells to businesses — only three teams build for end consumers. Talyxion (14:30) is still having its profile updated by the organising committee.
Morning session — 09:00 – 12:00 · 18 teams
The seven English-language pitches run between 09:00 and 10:30, interleaved with BAFA at 09:30 and the two teams booked at 10:00. Vietnamese Q&A resumes from 10:40.
01
9h00
Tuton EN
Derek Cowan · EdTech
Problem. Independent English tutors lose hours every week to admin — lesson notes, progress reports, homework, lesson prep — and that is exactly what caps how many students they can teach.
Product. An AI-native teaching platform: every lesson in the video classroom is automatically transcribed into lesson reports, progress tracking and personalised homework for each student, while tutors generate complete ready-to-teach lessons with AI, including from current news. Built in Ho Chi Minh City for independent ESL tutors worldwide.
Live in production on web and the iOS App Store, with the full AI pipeline running on real lessons.
Problem. An emerging video trend is hard to spot because it starts as a handful of scattered videos, and existing tools require you to already know what you are looking for. By the time a trend fills the feed, the best moment has passed.
Product. A platform that detects video trends very early, without the user having to set keywords in advance.
Already analysing millions of videos per hour and surfacing hundreds of candidate trends per day.
03
9h20
Talential EN
Lê Hoàng Phúc · Talent marketplace
Problem. Everyone has a CV and almost nobody trusts it. When someone leaves a job their work history disappears with them: no one remembers whether they showed up on time, how they handled pressure, or how they treated customers. Employers hire blind and retrain from scratch; candidates rebuild their reputation from zero at every new job.
Product. Turns real manager feedback into a portable track record, so employers hire on actual work history and young workers build reputation that compounds across jobs.
Piloting with entry-level F&B in Saigon across 20 brands and 3 universities. Named by Vietcetera as one of three Vietnamese startups worth watching in August 2026.
Problem. Homeowners who need painting, renovation or waterproofing have no one standing behind the quality of the work.
Product. BAFA acts as the quality-guaranteeing main contractor for homeowners, backed by a network of partner crews and individual tradespeople — essentially an information-processing and resource-coordination system. The process is still manual today and is being standardised before AI is introduced.
Over a year of operation with a solo founder: VND 4.5m/month of marketing spend producing roughly VND 1bn/month in GMV and VND 80m/month in gross profit. Recently joined by a technical co-founder.
05
9h40
Twohearts Technologies EN
Nguyễn Tiến Thu · F&B commerce
Problem. Food delivery apps take 25–30% commission on every order — including from regulars who already know the restaurant and come to it directly.
Product. AI reads the messages Vietnamese customers are already sending on Zalo, Messenger and Instagram, confirms the order and payment, and pushes the ticket straight to the kitchen and POS — turning chat into automated orders at roughly 5% cost per order.
Live at The Joi Factory: 60% of orders now come direct and average order value is 54% higher. In advanced pilot discussions with KFC Vietnam, in a market of 300,000 F&B outlets.
Problem. AI, cloud and supercomputing infrastructure demand performance well beyond what general-purpose operating systems deliver.
Product. An enterprise-grade operating system providing the high-performance foundation for critical compute infrastructure. The team is seeking investors to complete product readiness over the next six months.
A functional prototype is currently in deployment.
Problem. A factory's operational knowledge is scattered across people's heads, paper and disconnected systems. Decisions on the shop floor depend on individual experience, and the data always lags reality.
Product. A voice and vision agent running on the devices workers, supervisors and managers already use daily, on top of a platform that unifies work, machines, quality, maintenance and inventory into a single operations layer — while continuously building an AI world model of everything physical in the plant.
Running in real production in Vietnamese at a large industrial laundry; expanding into food, water utilities, automotive and mobility. Member of Barclays Eagle Lab, NatWest and NVIDIA Inception in the UK.
08
10h10
Flowser.ai By request
Ky-Nam Nguyen · AI for business operations
Problem. Small businesses want to use AI but end up having to build complex automation themselves, and AI usually stays stuck in a chat tab away from the actual work.
Product. An "AI office" for SMBs: hire an AI worker in seconds, each with memory, tools and browser/account access, working inside Zalo, Slack and Discord to handle customer support, employee onboarding, documentation and GTM or admin workflows — a 24/7 digital employee.
Problem. Coding agents generate prompts, shell commands and code diffs that run directly against real machines and repositories — enough to leak secrets or delete the wrong data.
Product. Intercepts every prompt, shell command and code diff an agent produces; blocks secrets, personal data and destructive operations in nanoseconds, before they reach the model, the shell or the repository.
Product. A hybrid Web2/Web3 delivery ecosystem built on a system of AI-powered smart contracts, operating on Autonomous Economy principles to fundamentally change the unit economics of delivery.
11
10h40
VIEROC AI Series A or beyond
Nguyễn Vũ Bách · AI for business operations
Product. An ecosystem for automating business operations with AI, raising productivity for companies going through digital transformation and supporting the one-person company (OPC) model.
12
10h50
Beam (getbeam.fyi)
Thái Bảo Trần · Sales & marketing AI
Problem. Most website visitors are anonymous — businesses have no idea who just stopped by, so they cannot follow up.
Product. An AI agent that identifies anonymous visitors, enriches their profile (company, title, LinkedIn/X) and drafts follow-up outreach by email and social. The AI core has three layers: a multi-signal identity model combining behavioural fingerprinting with a proprietary identity graph, a segmentation and campaign-planning agent, and a classifier for AI-agent traffic such as GPTBot, Perplexity and ClaudeBot.
Running with paying customers; AI drafts and a human approves before anything is sent.
13
11h00
Botanary (e-darlabs)
Jei Nguyen · AI agent infrastructure
Problem. AI agents have no on-chain spending ceiling, so a single jailbreak or prompt injection can drain a wallet completely.
Product. A smart wallet and financial OS built specifically for AI agents, putting dollar spending caps, recipient allowlists and expiry rules inside the smart wallet itself rather than at the application layer.
Running on testnet across Base, Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. Won the Financial Services Track at Agentic AI Build Week 2026, judged by GoTymeX and AWS.
14
11h10
Fold Space — Chovia Pre-seed
Nguyễn Thành Quân · Multi-channel commerce
Problem. Businesses selling across channels have to stitch data together by hand between marketplaces, warehouses and shipping partners.
Product. A Commerce Operating System that centrally manages products, inventory, orders, fulfilment and multi-channel selling, connecting marketplaces into one workflow to control the whole Product → Inventory → Order → Fulfilment → Revenue journey.
15
11h20
Simple Academy
Tôn Đức Thắng Long · Consumer app
Product. AI analyses the real space you are standing in to suggest the best-fitting scene, keeping subject and surroundings in harmony, then recommends poses, camera angles and eyelines suited to that scene — so the shot is well composed on the first try instead of in post.
The app also acts as a central photo space: shots sync to the cloud, and users can create private groups to share moments instantly with friends and family.
16
11h30
AgriTra Pre-seed
Đặng Thành Duy · Agri marketplace
Product. A B2B technology platform connecting buyers with verified agricultural suppliers, helping OCOP producers and cooperatives find steady demand instead of selling season by season.
17
11h40
Vinpix / Firemotion Pre-seed
Lê Quốc Kiệt · AI content production
Product. Turns an idea into an explainer video in minutes — visuals, motion and narration included. Type a prompt, the AI builds the video, you refine it and export. No filming, no complex timeline editing, no design skills required.
18
11h50
APIE Pre-seed
Bùi Mai Thương · EdTech
Problem. Teachers and trainers spend most of their time preparing materials, personalising lessons, marking work and tracking each learner's progress.
Product. APIE — AI-Powered Interactive Education — lets one teacher raise teaching quality for many learners at once by automating exactly those time-consuming tasks.
Over 10,000 learners and 700 teachers acquired entirely organically, with 30% returning after 7 days; two enterprise projects approved in principle and moving toward contract.
12:00 – 13:30 · Lunch break — open networking; afternoon teams test their slides.
Afternoon session — 13:30 – 15:40 · 13 teams
Pitching ends at 15:40. All 31 teams are asked to stay for the results announcement and closing ceremony.
19
13h30
Nexa By request
Nghiêm Tiến Viễn · App-building platform
Product. The Next Gen Apps — an AI Super App that builds a complete application from a plain-language description. The AI generates the interface, data and functionality, then ships it as a Mini App or publishes to Zalo Mini App, Telegram Mini App, iOS and Android — an idea becomes a working app in minutes with no coding.
Founded by the founder of GoStream, who has built and operated products at scale in Vietnam.
20
13h40
Easy AI Seed
Nguyễn Tiến Dũng · AI for business operations
Problem. Retail and eCommerce businesses want to adopt AI but are wary of depending on a single model provider.
Product. A Revenue AI OS automating customer care, order closing and internal operations for mid-sized and large businesses, running on a proprietary Easy AI Harness so it is not locked to any one LLM.
More than 40 B2B customers including Thế Giới Di Động, Điện Máy Xanh and Viettel; over 1.5 million customer records processed.
21
13h50
Duma
Thư Võ · Community event platform
Problem. Three familiar pains for builder event organisers: five apps for one event, large events where guests do not know who to connect with, and recaps that fail to capture the spirit of the day.
Product. Check-in, pitching, live interpretation, a community-contributed photo album and AI-assisted attendee matchmaking, all behind a single link — from hackathons to community meetups.
Already used at Build Stuffs Cobuilding Session and CrowdPitch Vietnam.
Problem. In the layer breeding industry, male chicks do not lay eggs and must be sorted out. But sex can only be determined after the full 21-day incubation — so the entire cost of incubating male eggs becomes sunk cost.
Product. EggVision uses AI to analyse the embryo's biological signals, specifically haemoglobin signatures, from day 4 of incubation to determine chick sex while still inside the egg — cutting 17 days of wasted incubation.
In-ovo sexing is a genuine global market, particularly in Europe where the culling of male chicks has been restricted by law.
23
14h10
9Bricks
Phạm Bá Đạt · AI for business operations
Product. Works alongside businesses to pinpoint the problem worth solving, build a tailor-made AI system and improve it continuously. With machines taking the repetitive work, teams focus on strategy and measurable value.
24
14h20
NexFi
Nguyễn Trường Sơn · Fintech & digital assets
Product. A P2P lending marketplace secured by cryptocurrency collateral. Borrowers get liquidity without selling their digital assets; lenders limit capital risk while preserving both yield and the liquidity of the loan.
25
14h30
Talyxion
Profile being updated by the organising committee
The team is asked to send their representative's name and product description to contact@theedgealliance.com before their slot so we can complete this entry.
26
14h40
Squadyy Pre-seed
Nguyễn Hữu Dương · Consumer app
Problem. Captains of amateur football teams still do everything by hand over Zalo and Excel: picking sides, collecting dues, running votes, tracking costs and members.
Product. An app that brings all of it into one place. AI is applied only where it genuinely fits — automatically balancing teams and verifying payment screenshots — to cut the time spent managing a squad.
27
14h50
Bluecore
Nguyễn Hữu Đức · AI for retail operations
Product. An AI system that monitors internal operations and raises alerts for retail businesses.
28
15h00
VyIQ Pre-seed
Lưu Bá Anh · AI assistant platform
Product. A modular AI platform combining LLM, RAG and voice interaction to build context-aware assistants over specialised data. It deploys flexibly on cloud, on-premise servers or edge devices, and integrates directly with robots for interactive applications in education, business and industry. A product of Tâm Việt Quang.
29
15h10
CoachPro Asia Pre-seed
Văn Thị Mai Hạnh · Training SaaS
Problem. Professional coaches, mentors and consultants patch together disconnected tools for what is really one continuous process: reaching clients, assessing needs, delivering the programme and tracking outcomes.
Product. An integrated digital platform for coaching and training that combines session management, client management, competency frameworks, an online LMS, e-contracts, payments, reporting and an AI assistant into a single working environment.
Product. An English Learning Workspace for studying and practising English through Quests, video, lessons, AI Voice and a learner community.
Live on the Apple App Store and Microsoft Store, with users in 35 countries.
31
15h30
Hausto
Hoàng Nguyễn · Rental marketplace
Problem. Rental supply is scattered across fragmented channels, and listings only capture size, price and location — never what it actually feels like to live there, which is what renters care about most.
Product. An AI-powered rental hub that matches renters with homes suited to their lifestyle, aesthetic and living preferences. Multimodal AI extracts subjective “vibe” data from property images and descriptions, unifying fragmented market supply into a single renter-first platform for modern urbanites and expats.