Agnes Czako (Great Britain)

"Cold, draughty, poorly insulated homes contribute to 36% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions and recent research demonstrated that up to 15% of this energy waste can be caused by continuously open air-bricks.

Pratap Thapa (The Netherlands)

Founded in Delft, aQysta is a startup on a Quest to provide water(aQua) sustainably with their water pumps that are powered by water-flow and do not require any fuel or electricity to operate.

Anton Paardekooper (the Netherlands)

"BBBLS designs and builds climate neutral greenhouses by using smart soap bubble insulation in a double roof construction. BBBLS greenhouses are so efficient that 4.5% of Dutch climate targets in 2030 will be achieved if all Dutch greenhouses are replaced.

Rainer Hoenig (Germany)

"betteries provides mobile and affordable power for demanding markets by upcycling used EV batteries. betteries modular power systems store 3 -12 kWh of energy and deliver 2-5 kW of DC or AC power.

Ina Budde (DE)

circular.fashion is a sustainable design agency creating product and system innovation for a circular economy in fashion. Their mission is to solve the inefficient resource use, by spreading knowledge and providing the infrastructure needed for fashion to circulate.

Orr Yarkoni (Great Britain)

"Colorifix uses synthetic biology to create, deposit and fix biomolecules on surfaces. Currently, Colorifix applies their technology in the textile industry with a new dyeing technique.

Sebastian Porkert (Germany)

"ECOFARIO is a Munich-based greentech startup that has developed a breakthrough microplastics filtration process, which is based on hydrocyclone technology.

Jesper Wirén (Sweden)

"Enjay is a Swedish cleantech company, specialized in energy efficiency. The company´s first solution, Lepido, is the first in the world to offer profitable energy recovery from restaurant ventilation. 

Emma Woxlin (Sweden)

Epishine is a Swedish company, founded in 2016 to commercialise 25 years of research within organic solar cells. 

Silvia ten Houten (the Netherlands)

GoodHout has developed a disruptive new technology & circular solution through a patent pending coconut husk board process, producing a bio-based composite which can replace thermoset plastics and tropical hardwoods, while upcycling existing waste streams.

Hans Marki (Norway)

"In 2050, the world needs to produce food for 10 billion people. This food needs to be healthy and sustainable. Greentech Innovators and its daughter-company AlgaePro was established in 2018 with the goal of producing sustainable food based on circular bioeconomy.

Jack Herring (Great Britain)

"Jiva is a UK-based start-up that has developed a patented, competitively priced and fully recyclable Printed Circuit Board substrate called Soluboard®.

Allison Dring (Germany)

"Made of Air is a carbon-negative, climate-positive materials company. Their mission is to transform waste biomass into high-value, carbon negative, thermoplastic materials for industrial use.

Ebba Fröling (Sweden)

"Mycorena’s vision is to use the power of industrial biotechnology and fungi fermentation to transform the global food system and the protein landscape.

Henk Aarts (Norway)

"N2 Applied has developed a technology that enables local production of fertiliser from liquid organic substrates such as slurry or digestate with air and electricity.

Giovanna Laudisio (Great Britain)

"Naturbeads is scaling up a manufacturing process for the continuous production of cellulose microbeads. Naturbeads cellulose beads are being tested in cosmetic and personal care products, paints and coating, adhesive, packaging and many other applications to replace polluting, fossil-fuel based plastic microbeads.

Torbjörn Lundh (Sweden)

"Optixmarine started their journey in 2015 when they invented a way of enabling ships optimization that never had been seen before. The design work started and after 6 months the team had set the design of the OptixDrive.

Olaf van der Veen (the Netherlands)

"Orbisk developed the world’s first automated food waste monitor. The company provides the solution to one of the world’s biggest problems: the annual waste of 1.3 billion tons of food.

Lori Goff (the Netherlands)

"Circular packaging for a brighter future. A bio-based and compostable solution to plastics that returns to nature at the end of its life-cycle, creating minimal waste and zero microplastics.

Max Dijkstra (the Netherlands)

"Reefsystems provides innovative and eco-inclusive solutions for current problems in maritime construction. We design and produce products to build functional maritime constructions that stimulate the growth of biodiversity.

Dan Watson (Great Britain)

"SNTech develops and scales trusted and valued solutions that enable sustainable practices in the fishing industry. Light, of interest to the fishing gear technology community since the 1970s, can be used as a tool to achieve this.

Jacob Bussmann (Germany)

"SeedForward is a biotechnology scale up focusing on the development of innovative inputs for a regenerative agriculture. The focus of the company’s activities is the improvement of the production basis soil.

Ayca Dundar (Great Britain)

"SoluBlue has developed a sustainable alternative to plastic and bioplastic food packaging which extends shelf-life and reduces food waste. SoluBlue packaging looks and feels like plastic, but is breathable and hydrophilic, absorbing excess moisture from food and preventing mould growth.

Alex Greenhalgh (Great Britain)

"Spintex takes inspiration from the World’s greatest textiles master, the spider, to provide a unique, low-energy route to fibre production for the sustainable fashion markets.

Christina Uth (Germany)

"Sulfotools GmbH is a German chemistry start-up that has developed an eco-friendly and cost-effective technology for the manufacturing of certain biomolecules, the Clean Peptide Technology (CPT).