VizAi Tech, a Kalispell company building an AI assistant for mechanics and service technicians, won the first Startup World Cup regional ever held in Montana.
The contest took place Oct. 21 at the University of Montana in Missoula, during CoBuild Montana’s first summit. Frontier Angels, the Missoula-based investor network, reported that Pegasus Tech Ventures organized the global competition and that the Montana regional drew applications from 31 startups in seven states and four countries. Ten teams made the finals. VizAi Tech took first and advanced to the Startup World Cup Grand Finale in San Francisco, scheduled for Nov. 4–6.
In a post the next day, the company said it is working on hands-free diagnostics, repair logs and “real-time expert sync,” delivered through smart glasses and voice-driven software. It is starting with service shops in automotive, aviation and marine work and said it is still developing the product and talking with dealership and repair-shop owners ahead of live glasses pilots.
“For a small team building something new, moments like this matter,” the company wrote. It called the Missoula result “an encouraging milestone, not the finish line.”
The CoBuild Summit ran Oct. 20–22 and brought founders, investors, educators and cooperative leaders to the Missoula campus, Frontier Angels said. The Startup World Cup regional was one of the public-facing pieces of that first gathering.
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