We curate for you weekly innovative startups with clean, decentralised and digital technologies.
Heirloom’s mission is to remove 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide by 2035, using natural processes to engineer the world's most cost-effective Direct Air Capture solution.
Naturally occurring minerals - alongside forests, soils, and the ocean - are one of our planet's most vital carbon sinks. Over geological timescales, carbon dioxide in the air and water chemically bind to these minerals and permanently turn to stone.
Read MoreIncorporated in 2021, Aiflux has global ambitions to become an integral part of the digital transformation for the safe and productive management of heavy assets and resources deployed in harsh environments – namely for the Energy sector.
AiFlux’s mission is to unlock the true potential of its customer’s assets and resources by improving their utilization in the short and long term across their entire lifecycle. AiFlux's intuitive platforms empower asset owners and value chain participants to make materially better design, inspection, fabrication, and operations & maintenance (O&M) plans and take more proactive and effective intervention decisions.
Read MoreJustCarbon is a blockchain-powered marketplace that simplifies offsetting carbon emissions and supports high-quality carbon removal projects to combat climate change. It simplifies and makes the carbon market more transparent, simpler and accessible to both buyers and sellers alike. Businesses and individuals alike can mitigate their unavoidable carbon emissions with the purchase of JCR tokens, derived from high-quality, nature-based projects and verified to the highest international standards.
Read MoreSolar Foods produces “Solein”, a unique single-cell protein born from an equally extraordinary bioprocess of electricity and air. Its fully natural fermentation process is similar to the production of yeast, resulting in the purest and most sustainable protein in the world. Solein unlocks a world of new food diversity that is genuinely sustainable. It not only creates an infinite food supply for the world but also allows consumers to choose foods with a genuinely sustainable protein source.
Read MoreNetZero® is a climate venture specialising in long-term carbon removal from the atmosphere. Their technology turns agricultural residues into biochar, a very stable form of carbon. The process is as follows: plants capture carbon during photosynthesis; NetZero technology extracts and stabilises this carbon through a pyrolysis process; the resulting biochar is buried in the soil, safely storing the carbon out of the atmosphere for hundreds of years.
Read MoreCarbo Culture is a climate tech company with a breakthrough, scalable carbon removal solution. Carbo Culture converts CO₂ from plants into stable carbon and locks it away for 1,000 years. Carbo Culture solves the existing issues in scaling biochar production, such as energy usage, expensive storage, and location limitations. Through extensive R&D, the company is developing a massively scalable and globally deployable generation of biochar reactors. Its patented production process uses high amounts of pressure and heat to convert plant waste into biochar, an ultra-stable carbon material. This biochar is then deposited securely into the ground where it won’t decompose for over 1,000 years.
Read MoreUnconventional times require unconventional solutions! Charm uses plants to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere. Charm converts biomass into a stable, carbon-rich liquid and then pumps it deep underground. This removes CO₂ permanently from the atmosphere, out of reach of wildfires, soil erosion and political folly.
Cellulosic biomass already captures 100+ Gt CO₂/year. They collect it and put it through a process called fast pyrolysis. Charm's fast pyrolyzers break down biomass into bio-oil, a liquid rich in carbon but low in energy content. Charm prepares the bio-oil and injects it into EPA-regulated injection wells, where the bio-oil sinks and solidifies in place for permanent storage.
Bloom Energy’s mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world!
Bloom Energy's unique Energy Server is a distributed generation platform that provides always-on power. The Bloom Energy Server can be personalized to deliver a combination of reliability & resiliency, sustainability, and cost predictability.
Based on proprietary solid oxide fuel cell technology, Bloom Energy Servers convert fuel into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion at high efficiency.
Read MoreOur first startup of the week feature this year is the winner of the Zayed Sustainability Price in the energy category - SOLshare. Sebastian Groh and his team have revolutionised decentralised solar power generation in Bangladesh with the application of peer to peer trading. This company strives to facilitate a successful convergence of the energy & transport sector in Bangladesh by 2021 based on distributed solar PV and storage.
They aim to achieve this by marrying 6 million solar-home systems to 1.75M electric rickshaws existing today in an optimized charging and electricity infrastructure; power 100,000 safe electric vehicles by smart solar PV and ensure a strong financial track record by doubling the monthly income for these electric rickshaw drivers.
Read MoreOne Concern helps build resilient systems. The startup has built a Digital Twin of the world that reveals hidden risks across the built and natural environments posed by natural disasters, extreme weather, and climate change. This Digital Twin enables customers to uncover direct structural risks to their buildings, as well as risks posed to the external networks they depend on.
Read MoreWatershed’s software platform is helping companies cut carbon. Watershed shows you where every kilogram of carbon comes from. Companies can analyze Scope 3 emissions with granular data on specific suppliers. The software also lets companies benchmark against industry standards and identify high-emitting vendors and categories.
Read MorePersefoni’s SaaS Platform enables enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. It helps you get clarity on emissions analytics, align with teams and stakeholders, and stay connected on decarbonization goals.
Read MoreEcosia is a social business founded in 2009 after a trip around the world to solve the problem of deforestation. Ecoasia is a browser extension that commits to using profits they make from your searches to plant trees where they are needed most. The browser extension is free and trees are planted with every search.
Read MoreCanadian based Nanotek Materials is an innovation company specializing in the commercialization and proliferation of sustainable and efficient technologies in the field of material sciences. Their flagship technology Nanocement is a revolutionary process for sustainable, low cost and, high-quality cement production.
Read MoreSolidia is a cement and concrete technology company, offering patented green solutions that make it easy and profitable to use CO2 to create superior, sustainable building materials. The technology has the potential to eliminate a minimum of 1.5 gigatonnes of CO2 each year. Solidia provides two core technologies: 1) A sustainable cement manufacturing technology, which can be produced in traditional cement kilns using less energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions during manufacture by 30-40% 2) A sustainable concrete curing technology, curing concrete with CO2 instead of water, permanently and safely consuming 240 kg of CO2, and potentially saving 3 trillion liters of fresh water every year.
Read MoreCarbiCrete offers precast concrete manufacturers the process, materials and support to produce high-quality precast concrete in their existing plant at a lower-cost, and in a way that reduces their carbon footprint. This technology enables the production of cement-free, carbon-negative concrete using industrial by-products and captured CO2.
Read MoreConcrete is also a major contributor to climate change. It is responsible for almost 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions and future demand for concrete – fueled by urban infrastructure growth in India and Africa – will continue to drive emissions higher. Motivated to break this linkage, CarbonBuilt is commercializing the Reversa™ technology, which cost-effectively uses CO₂ emissions ranging from industrial sources to emerging direct air capture solutions, to produce concrete, reducing emissions by at least 60%, and potentially more than 100%, when compared to traditional concrete. With widespread adoption driven by the profitability improvements it brings to concrete producers, Reversa can enable gigaton-scale CO₂ reductions and removals, storing this carbon in concrete for good.
Read MoreSteelTrace provides complete transparency, efficiency and full traceability throughout the whole supply chain of steel including The SteelTrace platform fully protects all users from counterfeit testing, certification and products, etc. A supply chain that uses SteelTrace has compliance by design instead of by control. Each module can be utilised independently by the relevant
SteelTrace user but provides value for every user in the supply chain through transparency, efficiency and traceability. When used together, SteelTrace seamlessly integrates the process of quality management throughout the full supply chain making many administration burdens redundant whilst increasing efficiency and removing the possibility of counterfeiting any part of the supply chain.
Read MoreNanoStal main goal is to develop and implement modern technologies of steel nanostructuring in the industry.NanoStal focuses on the development and promotion of innovative heat treatments necessary in the modern metallurgical industry. NanoStal Sp. z o. o. provides modern technological solutions in the field of innovative heat treatment of steel. Such technologies lead to the production of a special type of nanocrystalline structure, which is a nanobainite structure, which allows for achieving an optimal compromise between high strength and plasticity of the material. A material with such unique properties can successfully replace traditionally processed steel, used in industrial applications.
Sunfire’s innovative and proven solutions are addressing a key challenge of today’s energy system: providing renewable hydrogen and e-Fuels as substitutes for fossil energy sources. Their electrolyzers – based on alkaline and solid oxide (SOEC) technologies – enable the transformation of carbon-intensive industries that are currently dependent on oil, gas, or coal. With a well-established partner network, Sunfire fulfils large hydrogen and e-Fuel projects to deliver on their promise: Bringing renewables everywhere!
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