While we did not win the award excited to have been recognised and to be shortlisted alongside some great startups all looking to make a tangible difference. Thanks Nastasya Savina for making this happen. https://lnkd.in/eA8qXDWc
1step2market - Support for #ClimateTech startups || Award Director || Seabed.AI || Forbes Business Council
#Climate #Innovation #LandAndWater #Finalists Innovation Zero #Awards was designed with a sustainable corporate buyer's lens. The competition was fierce, with top-notch entries and slim margins separating winners from finalists. Thus, all finalists earn recognition as genuine winners, carrying the "seal of approval" from corporate procurement and climate experts. Therefore, I want to celebrate finalists across all Awards categories, starting with Land&Water. Note and follow these companies because they are building a NetZero future👏 🌏 💧 Land & Water // Mature solutions 1️⃣ Company: Materra (well done, Edward Brial) Solution: Future-proof Cotton Materra builds solutions to grow and source future-proof cotton — with the data to prove it. 2️⃣ Winner company: CauliBox 🏆 (go, ladies 💪 Josephine Liang and Mingqiao Zhao) Solution: CauliRS Cauli Reuse System (CauliRS) is decarbonising the catering industry by helping customers source and track reusable food and beverage packaging. 3️⃣ Company: Volta Greentech ( 👏 Fredrik Åkerman and Cora Taylor) Solution: Lome feed additive Lome™ is an advanced high-performance feed supplement for livestock. With a small daily dosage per animal, Lome™ can reduce up to 90% of their methane emissions. 4️⃣ Company: Rare Earth Global (kudos, Suneet Shivaprasad) Solution: "Our first product is a patented hemp seed formulation used in fish feed, which reduces carbon emissions and replaces deforestation-linked soy." 5️⃣ Company: Hydrovolta (proud of you, George Brik) Solution: SonixED is an advanced desalination technology combining electrodialysis and ultrasound to efficiently remove dissolved solids from water. 6️⃣ Company: BX (bravo, Ben Bardsley) Solution: The BX platform Enabling sustainable agriculture and decarbonising the food supply chain through AI-driven optimisation of farm data 🌏 💧 Land & Water // Promising solutions 1️⃣ Company: Showerkap ( 🚀 Steve Harding) Solution: ShowerKap is a system smart enough to nudge people to make better decisions while macro-monitoring water use in the bathroom. 2️⃣ Company: DRIFT Energy Ltd (congrats, Ben Medland) Solution: DRIFT Energy - creates green hydrogen at sea and delivers it globally on the world’s first energy-harvesting yacht. 3️⃣ Winner 🏆 : Hydrogen Refinery (amazing, Martin Bolton) Solution: Hydrogen Refinery (H2R) is bringing to market the world-leading and patent protected Plasma Electrolysis System (PES) 4️⃣ Company: SAGES London (that's great, Alice Simpson!) Solution: SAGES create natural, biodegradable, non-polluting and non-toxic dyes derived from food-waste. 5️⃣ Company: CO2CO Ltd (superb, Sarmad Qureshi!) Solution: Using carbonisation we have demonstrated the ability to develop sustainable materials such as biobitumen from microalgae. 6️⃣ Company: Moree (outstanding, Dejan Mitrovic and Clare Brass!) Solution Reusable Smart Packaging System "We help food brands ditch single-use packaging through our smart reusable packaging."