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autarki(z)e GmbH

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The climate crisis is leading to a fundamental transformation of almost all sectors of the economy with the goals of decarbonization and better resilience to the consequences of the climate change. In addition, the current energy crisis leads to a desire for extensive independence from energy supplies from unreliable suppliers at incalculable prices. autarki(z)e stands for energy and fertilizer self-sufficiency through pyrolysis of residual biomasses. Their patented technology generates green hydrogen, methane, heat and electricity as well as organic plant fertilizers while at the same time permanently removing CO2 from the atmosphere.


Headquarters: Pfronten (Germany)

Founded: 2022

Website: autarkize.com

Wild Plastic GmbH

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Plastic is a universal material for closed loop economies. Light, durable – and recyclable. Yet almost 80% of plastic waste has landed in nature, harming our ecosystems. WILDPLASTIC recovers this plastic, builds a global infrastructure and makes new products from it.
Every product made contributes to a regenerated, cleaner world.
Less wild waste, less carbon emissions and better salaries for waste workers.


Headquarters: Hamburg

Founded: 2019

Website: www.wildplastic.com

Circ LLC

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Circ is on a mission to power the clean closet with patented technology that recycles global fashion waste back into textiles, over and over again. We are protecting our planet by reducing the need and demand for petroleum, trees, and other materials harvested from nature to manufacture clothes.  Circ is building a truly circular eco-economy for the fashion industry.


Headquarters: Danville, Virginia, USA

Founded: 2011

Website: www.circ.earth

VIEBEG Technologies Inc.

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Every five minutes there is a person dying in developing countries – especially in Africa – because of diseases that could have been treated if the right medical products would have been available.

VIEBEG de-risks and optimizes the medical supply chain by taking control of every aspect of the medical supply and demand network, ensuring that hospitals always have the right quantities of medical products available to treat their patients.


Headquarters: Kigali (Rwanda) / Lotus (USA)

Founded: 2018

Website: www.viebeg.com

Uncap GmbH

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98% of early-stage entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to funding. This significantly limits their chances to realize their growth and innovation potential, create jobs and contribute to self-driven bottom-up economic development. With its funding and growth platform, Uncap aims to provide access to early-stage funding for every good founder in Africa, regardless of origin, educational background or gender. Through an automated, data-driven and scalable investment process, Uncap is able to invest in thousands of companies in sub-Saharan Africa. The due diligence process focuses primarily on measuring the entrepreneurial potential of the founders using an algorithm, which aims to de-bias the selection and lower the costs of the process significantly. Uncap then invests through an innovative revenue-sharing approach using highly standardized contracts, adapted to the local context. Investees receive further support through a personalized dashboard with access to real-time analytics of their accounting data, curated resources and trainings by local partners and follow-on funding.


Headquarters: Munich (Germany)

Founded: 2019

Website: www.unconventional.capital

Colorifix

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Colorifix is a UK based biotechnology company that has pioneered the first entirely biological process to produce, deposit and fix pigments onto textiles. Using a synthetic biology approach, it offers a radically different solution to incumbent dyeing technologies that entirely cut out the use of harsh chemicals and leads to huge reductions in water consumption.

We seek to copy Nature’s own blueprints and via DNA sequencing, we work out how Nature encodes the instructions to make a pigment in living organisms. We then translate that message into our engineered microorganisms and grow colour, using fermentation techniques similar to producing beer. In doing so, we dramatically reduce the use of chemicals, water and energy. Colorifix is therefore working towards building a waste-free world and reducing Fashion’s footprint.

We believe that for an impact solution to be truly scalable, it has to be environmentally, financially and socially sustainable. Our model is therefore designed to cause the minimum amount of social disruption possible whilst reducing the environmental footprint of the textile industry.


Headquarters: Norwich

Founded in: 2016

Website: colorifix.com

Green City Solutions GmbH

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More than half of humanity is currently living in cities – with numbers growing. If cities were the living space of the future – wouldn’t it be nice to integrate nature? 

Air is our most important resource within the cities; however it is often so polluted, that breathing will actually harm our health. Green City Solutions is working on a future, in which fresh air in urban areas is available to everyone. For that reason, they have developed the world’s first bio-tech filter for quantifiably better air quality: The CityTree.


Headquarters: Bestensee (Berlin)

Founded: 2014

Website: greencitysolutions.de

VivoSensMedical GmbH

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The vision of VivoSensMedical is to improve diagnostics in women’s health and to set new standards for gynecology, reproductive and sexual medicine. Based on 40 years of medical research, the Leipzig-based company has developed a platform technology for individual diagnostics based on the biomarker body core temperature and has launched its first product OvulaRing in the field of women’s health. OvulaRing is a patented and certified medical product for precise cycle diagnostics at the interface between patient and doctor. It can be used independently by the woman to optimize conception in the event of an unfulfilled desire to have children or to support natural contraception. The doctor can use OvulaRing for individual cycle diagnostics enabling her/him to initiate personalized and therefore more successful therapies.


Headquarters: Leipzig

Founded: 2011

Website: www.vivosensmedical.com

AMERIA AG

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AMERIA is the world’s leading provider of touchfree customer interfaces that are fun for customers and deliver valuable data for businesses.

The Heidelberg-based company’s cloud-based, touchfree technology wows customers at the touchpoint with entertaining content and is unique in combination with seamless end-2-end integration into AMERIA’s software ecosystem – the Connected Experience®. The ecosystem enables the collection and analysis of customer data and the creation and distribution of content.

In addition to a complete end-to-end solution with a life-size screen as a touchpoint – the Virtual Promoter – AMERIA can retrofit existing (touch) screens with gesture control and the Connected Experience®. Also further touchpoints (Beacons, AR, VR) can be operated centrally with AMERIA’s software.


Founded: 2001

Headquarters: Heidelberg

Website: ameria.de

your.company UG

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your.company is a living network organization that creates a company sharing network, thus providing a corporate infrastructure to develop and market products. So instead of building a company yourself or being employed by one, anyone can simply use your.company. 

How? By combining cutting-edge technology such as blockchain and machine learning with cloud software solutions and insights from self-organized teams. Teams that work together on equal footing to create successful products, having the freedom to choose when, where, how much, with whom, and what they work on. 

We firmly believe that the future belongs to networks and networking of networks!


Headquarters: Tübingen

Founded: 2019

Website: www.your.company