Start-up Portfolio 2022
After long consideration from our expert evaluators, the Built Environment Circular ClimAccelerator has welcomed its first batch of start-ups.
Twenty-five new business solutions focusing on the Built Environment and its related industries now have access to a top-notch acceleration programme. Discover the start-ups that are about to scale their solutions to larger markets and foster the transition to a net-zero economy.
Stage 1
Silicate
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
Silicate is a climate solutions company leveraging the power of geochemistry to permanently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
By speeding up a natural geological process, the weathering of silicate minerals, Silicate is removing excess CO2 from the atmosphere, and storing it over geological timescales.
UP Catalyst
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
UP Catalyst is a start-up developing, testing and perfecting the method to produce high quality sustainable carbon nano-materials and graphite from industrial CO₂ emissions through a process powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line.
EcoMN
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
EcoMN is disrupting manganese production and making it eco-friendly & CO2 free.
4 OMID
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
4OMID creates portable systems to produce circular bio-composite bricks & blocks
helping construction companies to reduce their time, costs, and environmental footprint by building lightweight, efficient, and versatile structures.
The products are conceived to be later reused and repurposed.
Easy Housing
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
Easy Housing provides a circular and biobased building concept that is climate resilient and scalable across markets.
The buildings are zero carbon, can withstand extreme weather events like floods and hurricanes and are designed in timber to reduce up to 250% of CO2 emissions compared to concrete homes.
Terratonics
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
Terratonics is a concrete free foundation system that allows manufacturers to replace concrete in foundations and subfloors with timber and light gauge steel frames and structural insulated panels while providing a modular division that designs, builds and installs eco-friendly buildings.
Aeternum LTD
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
Aeternum develops reusable and re-adaptable buildings as carbon-neutral products for real estate owners and investors. The future-proof circular buildings are based on a standardized, sustainably manufactured kit of components, maintain value over life cycles and ensure end-of-life value recapturing.
Flinker
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
The Flinker App offers the first software ecosystem for real-time planning of sustainable construction projects. The start-up’s mission is to reinvent construction by making it controllable and sustainable enabling optimal collaboration between project stakeholders through smooth data flows.
Parastruct
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
ParaStruct is developing 3D printing technology to make the construction industry more sustainable, circular and CO2 neutral.
ProDecipher
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
ProDecipher is a product sustainability operating system, a range of apps built around your regulatory and ESG reporting needs that bring traceability to your product’s supply chain to help your organization achieve its sustainability goals.
Orosi AI
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
Orosi AI is a software that generates collision-free, completely norm-conform, and material-efficient MEP design suggestions in minutes instead of weeks for every trade.
The planner suggests the most suitable options for the project and is able to quickly adapt the design to new emerging circumstances.
Preflet
ENERGY
Preflet is a SaaS platform that reduces carbon footprint cutting time to action and time to market by 90% featuring Mobile & cloud access 24/7 and eProactive AI Model. The product creates impactful AI solutions for SMEs, NGOs, healthcare, banking, smart factories and smart cities.
LightMirror
ENERGY
LightMirror is an architectural startup which brings sunlight to healthcare buildings and reduces their energy needs. The system redirects daylight towards the openings of a building to increase their solar thermal gain and thus reduce the building’s heating consumption without motorization nor electricity.
Solight LTD
ENERGY
Solight LTD is an innovative, efficient, and affordable static solar lighting system.
The system collects sunlight throughout the day and supplies natural sunlight indoor, saving energy, reducing carbon emissions and air conditioning costs, and creating healthy living spaces.
CoBenefit
ENERGY
CoBenefit is an end-to-end software that supports local initiators launching initiatives with qualified execution partners in a a win-win strategy that aims at merging individual benefits and climate protection. The software also helps authorities identifying climate action schemes and coordinating key actors.
Zenit Solar
ENERGY
Zenit Solar is the digital platform for solar communities.
The Zenit model makes it possible to consume renewable energy generated on the roofs of close neighborhoods, supporting the energy transition with zero impact on the environment: a model that maximizes sustainability while saving on electricity bills.
GS Renewable
ENERGY
GS Renewable builds modular heat pump plant rooms to provide clean heating, cooling and hot water for new and retrofit stakeholders in all sectors.
An established renewable energy company committed to providing renewable energy to businesses while helping them reduce energy costs and their carbon footprint.
EnergyBlind
ENERGY
EnergyBlind is a patented product that enables apartments to produce and store electricity with no space impact.
Through disruptive solar blinds, EnergyBlind can provide builders and citizens a tool for achieving high energy and cost-effective buildings and fostering the transition to the net-zero.
Artificient
MOBILITY & LOGISTICS
Empowered by a cutting-edge proprietary AI computer vision technology, Artificient Mobility Intelligence developed Europe’s first AI smart driving app to accelerate a seamless and sustainable transition towards a safer, cleaner and smarter mobility experience.
ReLi
MOBILITY & LOGISTICS
ReLi batteries focuses on giving a new life to electric vehicle batteries, innovating every step of it while reducing batteries’s waste and empowering consumers to take control of their energy. Their innovative technology makes these batteries smarter in order to increase sustainability and savings.
velow
MOBILITY & LOGISTICS
velow is developing a healthy, green and flexible alternative to cars in cities – and a safe and comfortable alternative to bicycles: a closable e-bike with car comfort. velow can be leased on a monthly basis and shared it within the local community whenever it’s not needed.
Relearn
RECYCLE & REPURPOSE
ReLearn helps people, companies, and institutions to choose a waste-free lifestyle providing data and creating awareness. Through NANDO, a plug&play sensor that can be installed on existing bins, the start-up helps monitoring, reporting and reducing wastes increasing awareness on sustainable practices.
toboro
RECYCLE & REPURPOSE
toboro is a rental marketplace for objects shaping the future of the access economy through renting and sustainable consumption. Where overconsumption and poor waste management generate negative environmental impact, toboro is the solution for a more sustainable, equitable and safe place to live.
ConcAI
CONSTRUCTION & MATERIALS
Using AI models and data, ConcAI reduces next mix development from 2 years and 200k project to 3 months and 20k.
ihopa
RECYCLE & REPURPOSE
ihopa is a start-up revolutionising consumption by giving citizens and consumers a smarter and more sustainable option to overbuying: easy regular access to shared premium products through neighbourhood’s boxes located in residential areas via a monthly subscription.