Five startups. Five-minute pitches. Five minutes of live questions.
At Investment Boat 2026, Startup Disrupt and How to Web brought founders directly in front of investors and ecosystem leaders through the How to Web Pitch Session.
The jury consisted of:
Adéla Boráňová — Programme Manager, ESA BIC Czech Republic
David Polach — GP, J&T Ventures
Eva Faltusová — Investor, Rockaway Ventures
Five startups took the stage.
VigInfo
VigInfo is building regulatory evidence infrastructure for medical-device companies.
Its platform uses AI to process scientific literature, identify relevant safety signals and dramatically reduce the expert time required for regulatory review — while keeping humans in the final decision-making loop.
Ellen AI
Ellen AI is developing an AI procurement assistant for project-based manufacturing companies.
The platform connects fragmented procurement workflows by processing bills of materials, communicating with suppliers, normalizing offers, supporting purchasing decisions and tracking deliveries.
Cyber Tested
Cyber Tested is building cybersecurity and compliance services combining automation with ethical hackers and cybersecurity experts.
The company aims to provide businesses with faster penetration testing, continuous monitoring and more usable cybersecurity outputs than traditional static reports.
Necosin Systems
Necosin Systems presented a modular power platform based on sodium-ion battery technology.
The company is developing European-designed power technologies intended to reduce reliance on lithium while providing programmable monitoring and industrial-grade capabilities.
Siesta AI
Siesta AI tackled one of the increasingly important challenges in enterprise AI:
context.
As powerful language models become widely available, the competitive challenge is shifting from access to intelligence toward giving AI systems the right proprietary information.
Siesta AI is building what the company describes as adaptable context infrastructure.
The technology ingests company data, processes and structures documents, extracts relationships and business entities, and then makes that context available to AI agents and enterprise workflows.
The company is particularly targeting organizations such as holdings, private-equity portfolios and businesses with multiple subsidiaries — environments where large quantities of fragmented data need to remain usable and secure.
Its platform can also be privately deployed, addressing a major concern among European enterprise customers: keeping sensitive company data inside their own security perimeter.
And the winner is… Siesta AI
Following the jury’s deliberation, Siesta AI was selected as the winner of the Investment Boat 2026 How to Web Pitch Session.
The team will now continue its journey at the How to Web Conference in Bucharest, October 6–8, 2026.
The result also reflects the broader partnership between Startup Disrupt and How to Web: connecting startups, investors and ecosystems across Central and Eastern Europe instead of building isolated local communities.
Congratulations to Siesta AI — and to all five teams willing to stand on stage, defend their ideas and answer difficult questions in front of an investor jury.
Building companies requires exactly that willingness to be challenged.
