Ieva Sibilla Strupule (Norway)

Material Mapper is an award-winning (The Global Hack 2020, Oslo Innovation week 2020, SIFTED Sustain100 2021), breakthrough artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered search and forecasting tool that will enable the re-use of secondary building materials, improving the efficiency of the value chain for the demolition and construction sector.

Solveiga Pakštaitė (Great Britain)

Mimica is an award-winning, design-led UK company with a mission to radically reduce unnecessary food waste caused by overcautious expiry dates. Our first product, Mimica Touch, is a patented label or cap integrated into food or beverage packaging that turns bumpy when food or drinks spoil, based on actual temperature conditions.

Vahid Sohrabpour (Sweden)

Helping the world waste less Extension of shelf-life of fresh fruits and vegetables reduces carbon emissions and pollutions, increases the energy saving, reduces inventory and ensures more food reaching people. To extend the shelf life, plastic packaging is used that will be eliminated with Saveggy’s bio-based edible vegan coating.

Jakob Nordfeldt (Sweden)

Skrym provides a data-driven solution to eliminate unnecessary air in e-commerce packaging. By calculating optimal package sizes based on actual order history as well as automating the package choice process in real-time, Skrym helps online retailers pack smaller, faster and more sustainably - without needing to invest in hardware.

Eva Steen (Norway)

UpPacked is a Norwegian startup providing solutions to refill packaging. Its mission is to cut plastic waste and pollution by making the reuse of packaging easy and highly scalable. Refills are currently unavailable for most products, so to change it, UpPacked created automated refill stations for various liquid cosmetics and detergents.

Matthijs Westerwoudt (The Netherlands)

We create a Wilder Land with (untamed) herbal tea that restores Dutch Biodiversity. The more herbs we sow at farmers, the more bees, birds and butterflies return to the Netherlands. In the meantime, you can enjoy the tastiest tea. 

Ryan Robinson (Great Britain)

AEROPOWDER has been inspired by the circular economy to create pluumo - the world’s first sustainable thermal packaging material made from surplus feathers. pluumo replaces expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging that is normally used to insulate chilled food deliveries. Powered by feathers, pluumo outperforms EPS while making deliveries more sustainable. 

Qazi Sohail Ahmad (Norway)

Around 54% of cars sold in Norway were Electric in 2020, this trend of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in our society is rapidly increasing globally. However, the charging options are not increasing at the same pace. According to IEA, 87% of global EV charge points are installed in private locations and are not accessible to the public.

James Longcroft (Great Britain)

CHOOSE is a plastic-free packaging development company, that are striving to replace all single-use plastic bottles. They have developed a 100% plastic free paper bottle that can provide a viable eco-alternative to plastic bottles. Their sustainable paper bottles have the ability to hold a wide variety of liquid products from alcohol/soft drinks, household/domestic cleaning products to cosmetics and beauty.

Tamara Orjola (The Netherlands)

Forest Wool develops and markets innovative textile fiber products made of pine needle slash – waste of timber industry. By utilizing locally available resources to their best potential, their goal is to diversify the mono-culture-driven industry and to develop natural textile fibers that are good for our bodies and the environment

Torsten Sabel (Germany)

Grove Energy is developing a green hydrogen-powered charging solution for electric vehicle owners who cannot charge in locations where grid-based chargers are scarce and cannot be added due to grid capacity limitations.

Erik Månsson (Sweden)

Innoscentia develops dynamic shelf life labels for food packaging, that measures and indicates the real-time status of the food products in real-time. By providing a dynamic shelf life measurement, end consumer can make fact-based decisions to avoid food waste and make sure we consume all the food that is produced.

Alina Bassi (Germany)

"Kleiderly has developed a patent-pending solution to transform textile waste into a plastic alternative, solving two of the world's biggest environmental problems at once. Kleiderly is now offering the world’s first eyewear collection made from recycled textiles, available to pre-order, for consumers to see how their unwanted clothes can be recycled."

Jardo Stammeshaus (The Netherlands)

The lithium-ion batteries inside our portable electronics and electric vehicles lose capacity faster than necessary. Regular chargers are not focused on maximizing the lifetime of batteries. 

Liion Power is developing a universal Battery Life Extender that charges Li-ion batteries in a more sustainable way, increasing their longevity and performance.

Elizabeth Gilligan (Great Britain)

Material Evolution is the future of materials... We meet the construction industry’s need to de-carbonize by creating energy savings through our products. We re-imagine waste, using our unique chemistry to turn them into new materials.

Isabella Palmgren (Sweden)

Mimbly is a startup that wants to make the world wash smarter. Mimbly has developed a patented technology that recycles up to 70 percent of the water, saves up to 30% of the energy in washing machines and filters out microplastics.

Kristine Fredriksen (Norway)

The Norwegian startup Ocean Oasis is providing clean, sustainable and affordable fresh water. With population growth and climate change, water scarcity will affect over half the world’s population by 2050. Drawing on Norway’s offshore engineering expertise, Ocean Oasis’ groundbreaking floating offshore desalinator will benefit coastal communities in water scarce regions around the world. 

Hélène Hoogeboom (The Netherlands)

Tennis balls are very pollutive. Renewaball® collects used tennis balls and recycles them into new ones. A significant technical innovation. It’s never been done before. Renewaball has a 29% lower carbon footprint and is made of 100% bio-felt so no micro plastics.

Renewball will deploy its collection and production scheme internationally, thus striving to make a non- pollutive tennis ball the global benchmark.

Monika Hauck (Germany)

Repair Rebels is a Circular Economy startup that makes textile and shoe repairs as fashionable and easy as buying new. Users can book fashion repairs from the comfort of their sofa. Repairing your favourite items not only saves a lot of time and CO2 emissions, it is also cheaper and it creates local jobs.

Vincent Wijdeveld (The Netherlands)

Tarnoc, a high-tech renewable energy company, is creating next-generation heat pump technologies. The Turbine Heat Pump was created to accelerate the electrification of heating systems in the built environment. Using groundbreaking centrifugal compressors and refrigerant free technology, the Turbine Heat Pump offers high capacity and temperature heating in a compact footprint.

Hanson Cheng (Great Britain)

The Tyre Collective is a clean-tech company, building innovative solutions to save our air from tyre wear. Tyre wear is the second-largest microplastic pollutant in our oceans and a stealthy source of air pollution. They are spearheading the capture and monitoring of tyre wear, accelerating the shift towards zero-emission mobility. 

Charlotte Aschim (Norway)

TotalCtrl is an award-winning technology company that in a short time has developed expertise within food waste prevention and inventory management technology. The company specializes in helping institutions prevent food waste, reduce CO2, cut costs and digitize manual routines.

Johanna Baare (Germany)

traceless materials is a female-founded circular bioeconomy start-up with the mission to solve the global plastic pollution. traceless offers a holistically sustainable alternative material to conventional plastics and bioplastics - designed to degrade.

Johanna Nissén Karlsson (Sweden)

Vividye has developed a textile coloring solution that is able to color, decolor, and recolor textiles- targeted to decelerate fast fashion and reduce textile waste by promoting reuse and recycling.

Oliver Baum (Germany)

Warmduscher GmbH is engaged in the research and development of energy-saving products, manufacturing of heat exchangers and sanitary supplies, as well as product development including product sales. With the development of the product "Der Warmduscher", the first retrofit solution of a shower water heat exchanger has been made ready for the market. This saves up to 40% energy when showering.