Fresh Water Nature: the Spanish clean-tech startup proposing a more efficient usage of natural resources
Fresh Water Nature is one of the supported startups in the first S3E Charge Accelerator Programme.
Fresh Water Nature aims to provide the change on ultra-pure water production for Green Hydrogen generation with its technology Cool Steam. Cool Steam units profit from waste heat from electrolyzers (30%) to vacuum distill high quality water to be fed as raw material for electrolysis.
Using Cool Steam to desalinate seawater for Green Hydrogen allows saving 50% electricity compared with Reverse Osmosis based plants, enhancing electrolyzers efficiency by dissipating its waste heat and producing from it 5x extra water as by-product with 10x higher quality. This extra water may be valued for other industrial uses. Cool Steam is a patented disruptive solution that promotes circular economy, sustainability and cost-effectiveness in the ultra-pure water supply process, improving the value chain of GH production.
Learn more about Fresh Water Nature by watching the pitch done by their R&D Manager, Naeria Navarro, during the Charge Open Day on 6th July 2023.
https://youtu.be/frHCqWESVu0
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Distinkt: smart security inks using nanotechnology
Distinkt is one of the supported startups in the first S3E Charge Accelerator Programme.
Distinkt has created a revolutionary smart, dynamic ink based on nanotechnology to prevent counterfeiting. The inks change their color or fluorescence when irradiated with Near Infrared light (NIR). The ink can be programmed to interact with the light source in a unique and personalised way. They're made of tiny particles (of a tuneable size from 200 nm to 10 µm) with different components (confidential recipe, patent protected) that react to the NIR light in a cascade effect generating a color or an emission change. Moreover, the inks can be easily customised and different parameters can be adapted.
With Distinkt inks, companies can create unique identifiers for banknotes, ID documents, Tax Stamps and luxury goods. Their QR Codes, Bar Codes or Sequence Numbers cannot be detected or read by third parties. Distinkt can pair its physical uniqueness with a blockchain supported software which is specifically designed to detect and read our inks. By working in both the physical and virtual world, they provide customers with best in class end-to-end authentication solutions.
Learn more about Distinkt by watching the pitch done by their Founder and CEO, Luca Venza, during the Charge Open Day on 6th July 2023.
https://youtu.be/erItiR0f-BE
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Digital Bites: the startup that conducts product and consumer research with Virtual Reality
Digital Bites is one of the supported startups in the first S3E Charge Accelerator Programme.
Digital Bites is a B2B platform that allows the developers of physical products to test their concepts on their target audience before having to build them. This is possible with the use of our Virtual Reality based consumer experiments that can test, capture, and analise the conscious and unconscious behaviour of a product’s real target audience in a fast and accurate way.
Consumer insights experts, marketing departments or NPD teams can validate new product concepts easily and rapidly, measure the attraction of designs or predict the performance of their product against its competition.
Through the Digital Bites platform, any physical product, building facility or experience can be tested or validated for different aspects (e.g. attraction, usability, feedback, etc) very easily. The major competitive advantage over their competitors is that product and consumer experiments conducted with the Digital Bites platform require no trade-offs; they are fast to conduct, extremely accurate in their results and require less resources to design and execute. This is achieved by:
1) Enabling the testing of product prototypes that have not yet been developed physically,
2) Gathering more data from a 90% smaller than normal consumer sample, and using AI models to create “virtual consumers”,
3) Having a controlled “closed-system” experiment in which zero-party data are collected extremely accurately.
Learn more about Digital Bites by watching the pitch done by their Co-founder and CTO, Loukas Kakalis, during the Charge Open Day on 6th July 2023.
https://youtu.be/H-IQqk3Oe4w
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Bluana Foods: the Romanian startup that has developed a chef-made plant-based sashimi
Bluana Foods is one of the supported startups in the first S3E Charge Accelerator Programme.
Bluana is a pioneering startup that is revolutionising the plant-based food industry by offering a sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional fish-based seafood products. Their unique and proprietary technology allows them to develop a new type of fish substitute that addresses several pressing challenges in the seafood industry.
Firstly, Bluana tackles the significant environmental impact of the fishing industry, including overfishing and the destruction of ecosystems. By utilising their innovative approach, they can reduce the reliance on wild-caught fish and help preserve marine biodiversity.
Secondly, it address the negative consequences of intensive fish farming, such as the overuse of antibiotics, antibiotics resistance, and the use of processed feedstock. Bluana's plant-based seafood substitute offers a healthier and more sustainable alternative, free from these concerns.
Moreover, its solution significantly reduces GHG emissions associated with global seafood transportation and cold chain management. By enabling local production with minimal setup costs, Bluana products contribute to a more efficient and eco-friendly supply chain.
In addition to these environmental benefits, Bluana offers an exceptional customer experience. Their plant-based seafood substitute, initially focusing on salmon, provides a shelf-stable product that can be stored at room temperature. This eliminates the need for extensive cold chain logistics and reduces food waste due to the short shelf life of fresh seafood.
Bluana's commitment to quality extends to taste and nutritional value. Their product has been rigorously tested through blind tastings, confirming its superior taste compared to other plant-based seafood substitutes and achieving the same or even better taste compared to fish meat.
From a business perspective, Bluana offers a substantial advantage to value chain stakeholders. With higher margins compared to both traditional seafood and existing seafood substitutes, Bluana presents an attractive opportunity for retailers, distributors, and foodservice providers.
Overall, Bluana is poised to disrupt the seafood market by providing a sustainable, high-quality, and delicious plant-based alternative that addresses environmental and social concerns, meets customer expectations, and offers attractive business opportunities.
Learn more about Bluana Foods by watching the pitch done by their CEO, Florin Irimescu, during the Charge Open Day on 6th July 2023.
https://youtu.be/zLNENEv2l-k
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ARCAN: the Italian startup that helps you decide when and how much to invest in software quality thanks to AI
Arcan is one of the supported startups in the first S3E Charge Accelerator Programme.
Estimating software development costs is difficult because there are so many factors to consider. One crucial factor that is always overlooked is technical debt, which indicates the quick and dirty solutions put together by (usually) software developers when they are in a hurry. Technical debt impacts software quality, such as reliability, security, and also sustainability, since poor quality software wastes more energy than good quality one. All around the world, technical debt costs 500 billion dollars.
Software companies still struggle to tackle the problem because they cannot project the benefit they can get in "repaying" the debt (fixing the software). Thus, they tend to avoid acting until it's too late and experience project delays, enormous maintenance costs, and frustration. Arcan wants to give companies the necessary forecasting data to push investment in improving their software sustainability and let them save thousands of dollars in software development. Specifically, Arcan is a SaaS B2B platform that can be deployed on-premise and in the cloud.
Arcan scans the source code of a software application, automatically detects technical debt and finally projects the costs of future maintenance. Software houses can use Arcan continuously to save development time and money; non-software companies can use Arcan to assess the sustainability and maintenance costs of software assets, for instance during M&A processes.
Learn more about Arcan by watching the Pitch done by their Founder and CEO, Ilaria Pigazzini, during the Charge Open Day on 6th July 2023.
https://youtu.be/tGtYbm7dCuA
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