7,000+ Frontier Companies Reveal 25 “Go-To-Go-Together” Technology Pairs

We used Veridion’s proprietary ‘business tags’ (most important attributes of a company) to identify innovation pairings that correlate with rapid venture activity inside Nature’s 2024 mini-hub list. These mini-hubs are characterised by small populations (less than one million) but strong innovation.

Key Takeaways

• We flag three themes (AI + Personalised Healthcare, Blockchain + Smart Cities, and AgriTech + Climate Adaptation) as especially investable because they appear across multiple hubs, not just a single region.
• Europe skews med-tech (UK, Switzerland, Netherlands); the U.S. tilts to AI-infra and blockchain; the Nordics lean toward autonomy and robotics; Germany shows strength in edge-networking hardware.
• Swiss and Dutch hubs host larger R&D teams (80–120 employees), while U.S. sites like Ann Arbor and Ithaca run ultra-lean (20–40 employees) yet still hit the innovation radar.

The radial chart visualises which combos are hottest (large bars) and where they are brewing (country colours), making it easy to spot clusters like UK-centred genome-AI or U.S.-centred blockchain-infrastructure plays.