Build with Gemini XPRIZE Finals: Five AI-Native Startups Head to Los Angeles

The Build with Gemini XPRIZE has published its Top 100 list, with five finalist teams pitching live in Los Angeles on Friday to judges including Palmer Luckey, Cathie Wood, Anousheh Ansari and Mark Pincus. Run by Google Gemini and XPRIZE across education, entrepreneurship, small-business services, financial inclusion and professional services, the competition required teams to build real AI businesses in 90 days. Peter Diamandis framed the result: while most people debate whether AI can run a real company, a hundred teams simply did it — judged on real revenue and real users, not polished demos.

Confirmed

• LaunchBridge (Chase Rosen): an AI-powered company formation platform at a flat $350 (including the $100 Virginia filing fee), claiming LLC, EIN, website and payments within 72 hours, with no subscriptions or hidden fees.
• MyFixam (Jane Odum): a "TaskRabbit for Nigeria's artisan economy" — 93% of Nigeria's 230 million workforce is informal, lacking identity verification, payment protection and job access.
• DodoPrep (Naveed Ahmed): a Gemini-powered AI-native tutor that ingests PDFs, lecture recordings, YouTube videos, slides, documents and handwritten notes, adapting to each student's actual sticking points rather than just summarizing.
• TICIAN Cierre: helps Mexican SMEs recover VAT credits, navigating SAT's eight-part submission requirements and CFDI invoice verification with a built-in AI auditor.
• Polyfork (Lucas Martinic): a parametric, AI-native 3D asset library where each model is a remixable mini-program rather than a frozen file, built end-to-end by an AI agent and reportedly already earning weekly revenue.

Why it matters

• The contest turns the debate over whether AI can end-to-end run a company into verifiable evidence, measuring AI-native entrepreneurship by revenue and real users in domains like financial inclusion and small-business services.
• The five finalists target concrete pain points in developing markets (Nigeria, Mexico) and the US, from education and tax compliance to 3D asset creation, showing diverse paths from demo to sustained operation.

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