54 AI startups have applied to compete. The list is split into two parts by the organising committee's outreach status,
and within each part the teams are still grouped by sector. Each entry covers the problem being solved, the product
and the real-world evidence so far. Updated to 13 Aug 2026 — the official line-up for the pitching round will be announced separately.
54 teams registered
42 contacted
12 not yet contacted
20 confirmed
14 pending
8 not attending this round
A · Contacted — 42 teams
The organising committee has called, messaged on Zalo or met these teams in person. Status labels:
Confirmed already attended or committed to attend ·
Pending contacted but has not confirmed a date ·
Not attending declined for this round.
Problem. In the layer-breed poultry industry, male chicks lay no eggs and therefore have to be sorted out and culled. But sex can only be told after the egg has been incubated and hatched over 21 days — the entire incubation cost of every male egg becomes a sunk cost.
Product. EggVision uses AI to analyse the embryo's biological signals, specifically its haemoglobin signature, as early as day 4 of incubation to determine the chick's sex while it is still inside the egg — cutting 17 days of wasted incubation.
Celesnity — MinderConfirmed· Bill Nguyen · Seed
Problem. A factory's operating knowledge is scattered across people's heads, paper and disconnected systems. Decisions on the shop floor depend on individual experience, while the data always lags behind reality.
Product. A voice and vision agent running on the very devices operators, line leaders and managers already use every day, built on a platform that unifies work, machines, quality, maintenance and inventory into a single operating layer — while continuously building an AI world model of everything physically happening in the plant.
Already running in real production in Vietnamese at a large industrial laundry plant; expanding into food, water utility, automotive and mobility plants. Member of Barclays Eagle Lab, NatWest and NVIDIA Inception in the UK.
IYA TechnologiesConfirmed· Olivier Maquaire · No funding round yet
Problem. AI, cloud and supercomputing infrastructure demand performance far beyond what general-purpose operating systems can deliver.
Product. An enterprise-grade operating system serving as the high-performance foundation for mission-critical compute infrastructure layers. The team is looking for investors to complete the product over the next six months.
CleanIPPending· Bùi Minh Đức · No funding round yet
Problem. Hundreds of thousands of US university patents sit idle and uncommercialised. Universities have no liquidity on dormant intellectual property, while companies that want to buy have to find a needle in a stack of 200,000 unvalued filings.
Product. A marketplace that uses AI to score and value university patents along three axes — probability of being granted, commercialisation potential and fair market value — then lists the best filings anonymously for buyers to review, match and bid on in real time.
The engine has scored roughly 200,000 US university patents.
Problem. People with Parkinson's disease and essential tremor are held back by hand tremor in everyday activities such as eating, writing and gripping objects.
Product. A wearable device using AI to analyse motion data in real time, distinguishing pathological tremor from the user's intentional movement, then driving an active stabilisation mechanism to reduce the tremor.
A functional prototype is complete with initial user validation; real-world trials are being prepared.
ByteHomePending· Lương Văn Khánh · No funding round yet
Product. AI Lifeform Robot — an educational robot able to converse and to recognise the behaviour and emotions of the person in front of it.
AI infrastructure, platforms & safety — 7
The foundation layer that lets agents act safely and lets AI products actually ship: dedicated wallets and identities for agents, spending limits, command controls, publishing runtimes and app-building platforms.
Botanary (e-darlabs)Confirmed· Jei Nguyen · No funding round yet
Problem. AI agents have no on-chain spending ceiling, so a single jailbreak or prompt injection can drain the wallet.
Product. A smart wallet and financial OS built for AI agents, moving dollar-denominated spending caps, recipient allowlists and expiry windows straight into the smart wallet instead of leaving them 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.
MermailConfirmed· Nhữ Đình Toàn · No funding round yet
Problem. For an agent to complete an online process end to end, it has to borrow the user's own inbox, credentials and money.
Product. Gives the agent a real identity: its own mailbox plus a user-controlled wallet, accessed through a single MCP connection. The agent verifies, communicates and pays for itself within pre-set policy limits.
Flowser.aiConfirmed· Ky-Nam Nguyen · No funding round yet
Problem. Small businesses want to use AI but have to build complex automations themselves, and AI usually stops at a chat tab disconnected 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 directly inside Zalo, Slack and Discord to handle customer support, employee onboarding, document drafting and both GTM and admin workflows — like a digital employee available 24/7.
NexaConfirmed· Nghiêm Tiến Viễn · No funding round yet
Product. The Next Gen Apps — an AI Super App that builds a complete application from a plain natural-language description. The AI generates the interface, the data and the functionality, then deploys it as a Mini App or publishes it to Zalo Mini App, Telegram Mini App, iOS and Android — turning an idea into a live app in minutes with no coding.
BlazlePending· Ricky Anh Nguyen · Pre-seed
Problem. Coding agents produce prompts, shell commands and code diffs that run directly on real machines and real repos — enough to leak secret keys or delete data by mistake.
Product. Intercepts every prompt, shell command and code diff an agent generates; blocks secrets, personal data and destructive operations within nanoseconds, before they reach the model, the shell or the repository.
Product. A modular AI platform combining LLMs, RAG and voice interaction to build AI assistants that understand context and draw on domain-specific data. The system deploys flexibly on cloud, on-premise servers or edge devices, and integrates directly with robots for interactive applications in education, enterprise and industry. A product of Tâm Việt Quang.
DropoNot attending· Nguyễn Ngọc Thông · No funding round yet
Problem. AI can already generate websites, landing pages, tools and mini apps, but plenty of manual steps still stand between generating one and putting it into real use.
Product. A publishing and runtime layer for AI — so the AI itself can directly publish, update and operate those products on the internet.
Automating operations, sales, customer service and process compliance for Vietnamese businesses.
VIEROC AIConfirmed· Nguyễn Vũ Bách · Series A or later
Product. An ecosystem that automates business operations with AI, lifting productivity for companies going through digital transformation and supporting the one-person company (OPC) model.
9BricksConfirmed· Phạm Bá Đạt · No funding round yet
Product. Works alongside companies to pin down exactly which problem needs solving, build a tailored AI system and improve it continuously. Once machines take over the repetitive work, the team can focus on strategy and measurable value.
BluecoreConfirmed· Nguyễn Hữu Đức · No funding round yet
Product. An AI system for internal operations monitoring and alerting, built for retail businesses.
Easy AIPending· Nguyễn Tiến Dũng · Seed
Problem. Retail and eCommerce businesses want to adopt AI but are wary of depending on a single model provider.
Product. A Revenue AI OS that automates customer service, order closing and internal operations for mid-size and large businesses, running on the proprietary Easy AI Harness so it is not locked into any one LLM.
Over 40 B2B customers including Thế Giới Di Động, Điện Máy Xanh and Viettel; more than 1.5 million customer records processed.
Fold Space — ChoviaPending· Nguyễn Thành Quân · Pre-seed
Problem. Businesses selling across multiple channels have to reconcile data by hand between marketplaces, warehouses and delivery partners.
Product. A Commerce Operating System that centrally manages products, inventory, orders, fulfilment and multi-channel selling, connecting marketplaces into one shared workflow to control the full Product → Inventory → Order → Fulfilment → Revenue journey.
TenderOSPending· Đặng Công Minh · No funding round yet
Problem. B2B companies burn enormous time reading tender documents, matching requirements against their own products and assembling bid submissions.
Product. A team of AI agents reads the documents, matches requirements to products, assesses fit, drafts the proposal and assigns the work — while every important decision still requires human approval. Starting with medical equipment distributors and businesses with complex B2B sales processes.
SupaNot attending· Đặng Tuấn Vũ · No funding round yet
Problem. Multi-site F&B, retail and hospitality chains still monitor compliance with paper checklists, Excel and Zalo — reports arrive late and are easy to fake.
Product. Digitises checklists, SOP training and compliance monitoring on a real-time dashboard. AI features include an Integrity Score rating the trustworthiness of each submission, plus Spark & Nudge for suggestions and reminders, aimed at catching signs of fraud in compliance reporting.
Over 25 enterprise customers, around 400 locations and 4,000+ active users — entirely bootstrapped.
AIVINNot attending· Phùng Đức Thắng · Pre-seed
Problem. Three bottlenecks companies hit when digitising: team productivity is not optimised, apps and data are fragmented, and data security is at risk.
Product. An autonomous digital workforce platform where humans and AI teams coordinate independently, targeting 70–80% of the workload digitised and a fivefold lift in company productivity.
EdTech — 6
Personalising learning paths and lifting the lesson-planning and grading load off teachers — from preschool to English practice for working professionals.
APIEConfirmed· Bùi Mai Thương · Pre-seed
Problem. Teachers and trainers spend most of their time preparing materials, personalising lessons, grading and tracking each learner's progress.
Product. APIE — short for AI-Powered Interactive Education — lets one instructor 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% of users returning after 7 days; two enterprise projects have been approved in principle and are moving toward signed contracts.
TutonConfirmed· Derek Cowan
Problem. Independent English tutors lose hours every week to admin — lesson notes, progress reports, homework assignment, lesson planning — 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 a report, with progress tracking and personalised homework for each student; tutors can also generate complete lesson plans with AI, even from current news stories. 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.
Product. An AI EdTech ecosystem personalising learning paths for Vietnamese children aged 3–15, spanning 6 products: iruKa Story (a library of 1,000 stories), iruKa Skills (life skills from age 3), iruKa Edu (a personalised preschool learning app), iruKa Maths, iruKa STEAM and iruKa Teacher (an AI lesson-planning platform for preschool teachers). Runs on AWS Bedrock Claude combined with Google Gemini.
iruKa Teacher reached the XPRIZE 2026 finals. NVIDIA Inception member.
Gia sư AINot attending· Nguyễn Ngọc Nga · No funding round yet
Product. Students in grades 1–12 upload a photo of their materials or type in text to get help studying. The difference is that the AI does not hand over the answer — it asks guiding questions so the student works it out, alongside flashcards, mind maps, quizzes and extra practice generated from the student's own materials. Pro accounts add proficiency analytics and auto-generate exercises matched to each student's level.
ARLTSNot attending· Phan Gia Huy · No funding round yet
Product. An English learning platform where learners know exactly who their teacher is — before deciding to hire them.
Marketing · content · sales AI — 4
Growth tooling for marketing and sales teams: identifying prospects, spotting trends, producing video and building personal brands.
DeviantlyConfirmed· Vũ Tuấn Thành · Pre-seed
Problem. Video trends are very hard to spot while still nascent because they start from a handful of scattered videos; existing tools force the user to already know what they are looking for. By the time a trend floods the feed, the best moment has passed.
Product. A platform that detects video trends very early, with no keywords set in advance by the user.
Already analysing millions of videos per hour and surfacing hundreds of emerging trends per day.
Vinpix / FiremotionConfirmed· Lê Quốc Kiệt · Pre-seed
Product. Turns an idea into an explainer video in minutes — visuals, motion and narration included. The user types a prompt, the AI builds the video, they adjust it to taste and export to share. No filming, no complex timeline editing, no design skills needed.
Beam (getbeam.fyi)Pending· Thái Bảo Trần · No funding round yet
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, automatically enriches their profile (company, job title, LinkedIn/X) and drafts follow-up outreach over email and social. The AI core has three layers: a multi-signal identity resolution model combining behavioural fingerprinting with a proprietary identity graph, a segmentation and campaign-planning agent running on Gemini 2.5 with a controlled tool loop, and a classifier for AI-agent traffic such as GPTBot, Perplexity and ClaudeBot.
Live with paying customers; the AI drafts and a human approves before anything is sent.
Bravestep.aiNot attending· Chris Nguyen · No funding round yet
Product. A "growth co-founder" for founders and indie hackers: it scans your own X, Reddit, TikTok and Hacker News accounts to show with hard data where growth is going wrong, mines the strategies working for comparable founders to propose a ranked, evidence-backed playbook, then schedules and writes posts in your own voice.
Marketplaces, commerce & matching platforms — 6
Two-sided supply-and-demand platforms across hiring, agriculture, F&B, real estate, healthcare and community events.
TalentialConfirmed· Lê Hoàng Phúc · No funding round yet
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, whether they were good with customers. Employers hire blind and retrain from scratch, often refilling the same role within 12 months; candidates get ghosted, get misled about the role and the pay, and rebuild their reputation from zero at every new job.
Product. Turns real manager feedback into a portable competency record, so employers can hire on actual work history and young workers can build a reputation that compounds across jobs.
Piloting in the entry-level F&B segment in Saigon with 20 brands and 3 universities connected directly. Named by Vietcetera as one of three Vietnamese startups to watch in August 2026.
Twohearts TechnologiesConfirmed· Nguyễn Tiến Thu · No funding round yet
Problem. Food delivery apps take 25–30% commission on every order, even from regulars who already know the restaurant and came looking for it.
Product. AI reads the very messages Vietnamese customers are already sending on Zalo, Messenger and Instagram, confirms the order and the payment, then pushes the ticket straight to the kitchen and the POS — turning chat into automated orders and bringing cost per order down to around 5%.
Live at The Joi Factory: 60% of orders now come direct, with average order value 54% higher. In advanced pilot discussions with KFC Vietnam, in a market of 300,000 F&B outlets.
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.
DumaPending· Thư Võ · No funding round yet
Problem. Three familiar pains for builder-event organisers: needing 5 apps for 1 event, crowded events where attendees have no idea who to connect with, and recaps that fail to capture the spirit of the event.
Product. Bundles check-in, pitching, live interpretation, a community-contributed photo album and AI-assisted attendee networking behind a single link — for anything from hackathons to community meetups.
Already supported Build Stuffs Cobuilding Session and CrowdPitch Vietnam.
Product. A property management and monetisation solution, from picking the right operating model for each property through to optimising cash flow and increasing asset value.
Problem. Patients, especially older ones, have to sit and hold their place in the waiting room because they have no idea how many people are ahead of them; private clinics run their queues on paper books and Zalo.
Product. Patients take a number remotely by scanning a QR code and speaking, see exactly how many people are ahead and get notified when it is their turn. Clinics reduce waiting-room congestion, take work off the front desk and get a digital queue in place of the paper book.
Asked to join an online session as they are not in Ho Chi Minh City.
Web3 · Fintech — 2
Blockchain combined with AI in lending and delivery logistics.
NexFiConfirmed· Nguyễn Trường Sơn · No funding round yet
Product. A P2P lending marketplace collateralised by cryptocurrency. Borrowers get liquidity without selling their digital assets; lenders sharply limit downside risk while keeping their yield and the liquidity of the loan.
FooDriverPending· Carina Johnson · Seed
Product. A hybrid Web2/Web3 delivery ecosystem built on an AI-operated smart contract system, running on Autonomous Economy principles to fundamentally change the unit economics of the delivery industry.
Consumer apps & other sectors — 3
Consumer applications, amateur sports communities and home services.
SquadyyConfirmed· Nguyễn Hữu Dương · Pre-seed
Problem. Captains of amateur football teams still do everything by hand over Zalo and Excel: picking sides, collecting dues, running votes, managing costs and members.
Product. An app that pulls all of it into one place. AI is applied only where it genuinely fits — automatically balancing team selection and verifying payment screenshots — to cut the time spent managing the squad.
Simple AcademyPending· Tôn Đức Thắng Long · No funding round yet
Product. AI analyses the real space the user is standing in to suggest the best-fitting setting, keeping subject and surroundings in harmony; it also recommends poses, camera angles and eye lines suited to each setting, so the shot is well composed on the first try instead of needing post-processing.
The app also serves as centralised photo storage: photos sync to the cloud once taken, and users can create private groups to share moments instantly with friends or family, along the lines of Locket.
BAFAPending· Trần Thanh Phương Quỳnh · No funding round yet
Problem. Homeowners who need painting, renovation or waterproofing have nobody standing behind the quality of the work.
Product. BAFA acts as the general contractor guaranteeing quality for the homeowner, 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.
More than a year of operation with a solo founder: VND 4.5 million/month in marketing spend producing an average GMV of VND 1 billion/month and VND 80 million/month in gross profit. A technical co-founder has just joined.
B · Not yet contacted — 12 teams
Applications received but the organising committee has not been able to call yet — most were submitted in the final two days, 11–13 Aug 2026. Sector grouping follows part A.
AI infrastructure, platforms & safety — 1
Featherlane AI· Nguyễn Minh Đức
Problem. Once agents enter high-stakes workflows, the hard question is not what the agent can do but when it is allowed to do it.
Product. A governance layer helping teams decide when an agent may act, when it must stop, and when it should escalate to a human.
Wellsyn'cc· Nguyễn Ngọc Nhân · No funding round yet
Problem. Outsourcing usually breaks down where the work is vaguely described and has no clear acceptance criteria, so the money and the result never line up.
Product. AI breaks ambiguous work into tasks with explicit acceptance criteria, then releases payment only when the result is accepted against evidence. Serving small businesses and outsourcing organisations.
The platform is live with real transactions; the decomposition engine is open for trial.
Product. A language-certification exam prep platform for young self-directed learners.
Over 100 paying users and 2,000+ monthly active users; will pitch at the Startup Wheel 2026 grand final, student category, at InnoEx.
CoachPro Asia· Văn Thị Mai Hạnh · Pre-seed
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 brings session management, client management, competency framework building, an online training LMS, e-contracts, payments, data reporting and an AI coaching assistant into one unified workspace for professionals, companies and learners.
Problem. Rental supply is fragmented across platforms, and what actually decides whether a renter likes a place are subjective qualities that conventional filters cannot describe.
Product. Uses multimodal AI to extract "vibe" data from property photos and descriptions, then matches renters to homes that fit their lifestyle, taste and daily habits — consolidating fragmented supply into one renter-first platform, aimed at young urbanites and expats.
Jobbod· Lê Thanh Hiếu · No funding round yet
Problem. Students end up on teams that are a poor fit for the project, while companies burn recruiting budget on self-reported CVs that are inflated — and both sides have to scroll through profiles manually to find out whether they match.
Product. A platform matching people to real projects through an AI-to-AI Agent mechanism (Trinity AI): agents representing each side converse to verify capability, while extracting data from those natural conversations into real-time matching signals.
Web3 · Fintech — 2
IT4TODAY TriCore™· Thái Huy Bình · Pre-seed
Product. One Web3 platform, many DAO applications, one ecosystem connecting value. The TriCore™ Enterprise DAO Digital Asset Platform is designed for enterprises to build, operate and connect multiple DAO applications within a single unified ecosystem.
LendBot AI — The LendFast Technology· Mai Thị Anh Thư · No funding round yet
Problem. Banks are out looking for the right customers while customers struggle to find the right bank and the right loan — the two sides miss each other at the very point of discovery.
Product. An AI financial assistant helping individuals and businesses define their need, analyse the information and then find and choose a suitable loan option across multiple financial institutions, through a single digital journey — building toward an AI-Powered Lending Platform that matches borrowers and lenders more precisely.
LendFast has built 4 digital lending solutions, integrated over 45 loan programmes and established B2B partnerships with banks; LendBot AI is expanding direct bank connections ahead of its official launch.
Consumer apps & other sectors — 4
CARS YOUNG· Trần Thế Hảo · Seed
Product. Builds and supplies integrated UX/UI websites in the "Lean Government" space for businesses and organisations, focused on value streams and operating processes.
ALOHA· Trần Đức Chung · Pre-seed
Product. A social networking app along the lines of Zalo and WhatsApp.
Gbluesea· Vi Kiều Phong · No funding round yet
Product. An eCommerce solution for users who need one.
Khổ Qua Rừng "Đắng mà ghiền" hotpot chain· Nguyễn Xuân Hạnh · No funding round yet
Product. A 9-branch hotpot chain built around eating clean and living well.