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Project Category: Ventures

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

Africa GreenTec AG

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Africa GreenTec is a social enterprise that develops and produces sustainable energy solutions, which empower communities in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve more self-determination and growth. Its holistic ImpactSite integrates sustainable power production and distribution through intelligent mini-grids with efficient technologies for cooling, water treatment and internet access. At the core of the ImpactSite is the Solartainer®- a mobile and decentralized solar power plant. Africa GreenTec’s systems are either operated through subsidiaries in rural regions of sub-Saharan Africa or sold to third parties.


Headquarters: Hainburg (Frankfurt)

Founded: 2017

Website: www.africagreentec.com

Loompact AG

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LOOMPACT gives social/environmental engagement visibility, financial value as well as trust in the origin of the data.

With the open platform, organizations of every kind can easily record, communicate & offer their positive social/ecological outcomes as blockchain-based impact credits to diverse target audiences.

Buyers of these impact credits, in turn, can track end-to-end, where their purchased impact outcomes came from & verify their credibility.

LOOMPACT puts an end to “greenwashing” – with open trading, full auditability & maximum transparency.”


Headquarters: Berlin

Founded: 2020

Website: loompact.com

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

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

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

Prescinto Technologies Private Ltd.

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Prescinto offers Actionable intelligence for Renewable Energy. Their AI-powered platform enhances the performance of renewable energy or energy storage assets, streamlines operations and maintenance, and maximizes the operator’s returns.


Headquarters: Ahmedabad (India)

Founded: 2019

Website: prescinto.ai

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