Startups Powering the Post-AI Economy

By Elke Porter | WBN News Vancouver | May 29, 2025
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With over 1,000 startups featured at Web Summit Vancouver, it's clear where the next wave of jobs, innovation, and global solutions is headed. As AI reshapes traditional industries, startups are filling the gap with bold ideas, cross-disciplinary approaches, and next-gen tech.

Startups at the summit are divided into two tracks:

ALPHA – early-stage innovators
BETA – scaling and growth-stage companies

They span across a minimum of 15 key industries:
🔹 Health & Wellness
🔹 Gaming, VR & AR
🔹 Education
🔹 Agritech & Foodtech
🔹 Mobility, Logistics & Transportation
🔹 AI & Machine Learning
🔹 Advertising & Content Marketing
🔹 Legal & Professional Services
🔹 Fintech
🔹 Sustainability & more
🔹Telecommunications & IT
🔹SaaS
🔹Sports
🔹Hardware, Robotics & IoT
🔹Travel & Hospitality

Here are just three random examples of what kind of startups are being imagined and created from thin air:

🔥 ALPHA: Arnii Fitness Inc.

“Duolingo and Strava for the gym.”
📍 Canada | Category: Sports & Fitness
Meet your AI-powered gym buddy. Arnii lets you compete with friends, track workouts with AI, and turn fitness into a social, gamified experience.

“Fitness is a universal language,” says founder Adam. “Arnii isn’t just an app — it’s your global gym squad.”

🌍 BETA: Bayes Studio Inc.

AI-Driven Wildfire Detection with Drones & Multispectral Sensors
📍 Canada | Category: Hardware, Robotics & IoT
Bayes Studio integrates AI, IoT, and aerial drones to provide real-time wildfire monitoring. Their solutions aid firefighters, municipalities, and insurers by improving disaster response and risk assessment.

“We envision a future where climate disasters are mitigated through smart tech and sustainable planning.”

🎮 ALPHA: Brekade

Gaming for Business Resilience
📍 Canada | Category: Gaming, VR & AR
Brekade turns boring business risk assessments into fun, interactive, gamified experiences. Think games + art + resilience training = unforgettable insights into your company’s blind spots.

“What if your next incident response plan was actually fun to build?”

Final Thoughts

As automation and AI threaten some job categories, startups are the green shoots of new opportunity. Whether it's reshaping health, education, climate resilience, or community engagement, these ventures are where innovation meets impact.

So the next time someone asks, “Where will the jobs of the future come from?” — point them to the Web Summit Vancouver.

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