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A day for start-ups to get val­ued inform­a­tion for their business

29.03.2016
This year, the ​“Bio-based Start-up Day” will take place in Cologne (DE) at 7 April 2016. Fin­ance experts will provide insights into their work with start-ups of the bio-based and bio­tech­no­logy industry and elab­or­ate on their motiv­a­tion to work with start-ups. Dr. Carl Hen­ning Resch­ke from KPMG (DE), one of the lead­ing pro­viders of audit, tax and advis­ory ser­vices, is famil­i­ar with the chal­lenges that start-ups are facing and will present mar­ket entry strategies. Anindya Mukher­jee from i2i (DE/USA), spe­cial­ised on advising young com­pan­ies from the indus­tri­al bio­tech­no­logy, plastic and chem­ic­al indus­tries, will give valu­able tips on how to suc­cess­fully launch a com­pany. nova-Insti­tute (DE) will report on the state of European mar­kets and present a smart invest­ment cal­cu­la­tion meth­od for the ini­tial phase of a pro­ject. Jim Philp of the OECD (FR) in Par­is will inform about pub­lic invest­ments and Benno Weißn­er from the cor­por­ate net­work Zen­it (DE) about pos­sib­il­it­ies for grants in Europe. Frank Göbel from B.R.A.I.N. Cap­it­al GmbH (DE), one of the lead­ing European bio­tech­no­logy com­pan­ies, will report on their way from start-up to recent stock mar­ket launch. The pan­el dis­cus­sion with all afore­men­tioned speak­ers will close the day. The breaks will pro­mote effect­ive net­work­ing between start-ups and industry and fin­ance experts. The ​“Bio-based Start- up Day” provides great net­work­ing oppor­tun­it­ies all day long. Registered par­ti­cipants can reserve a free exhib­i­tion booth to present their products dir­ectly at the event. The offer for a free booth is lim­ited up to 15 booths. After­wards a booth costs 200 EUR plus 19%.

Bio-based Start-up day: Start-ups

  • Dr. Wil­fried Schwab, 4GENE (DE) www​.4gene​.de: 4GENE devel­ops and pro­duces nat­ur­al, bio­tech­no­lo­gic­ally engin­eered, activ­able fla­vour and fra­grance pre­curs­ors. Products are mar­keted as FLA­VOR-ON-DEMAND to fla­vour and fra­grance cus­tom­ers worldwide.
  • Mal­gorzata Then, BIO­TR­EM (PL) http://​bio​tr​em​.pl/en: BIO­TR­EM uses an organ­ic by-product of milling (wheat husks) to pro­duce table­ware that is fully nat­ur­al and fully com­postable. The pro­duc­tion pro­cess is very clean. Only husks, steam, pres­sure and heat are needed.
  • André Pick, CAS­CAT GmbH (DE) www​.cas​cat​.de/en: The expert­ise of CAS­CAT is to com­bine the best of two worlds — syn­thet­ic bio­tech­no­logy and clas­sic­al chem­ic­al cata­lys­is — to real­ize nov­el pro­cess routes. Using this approach, we real­ize syn­thet­ic cas­cades towards chem­ic­al build­ing blocks, fine chem­ic­als as well as phar­ma­ceut­ic­al molecules.
  • Dr. Mar­tin Kre­hen­brink, Cysal GmbH (DE) www​.cysal​.de: Cysal is using micro­bi­al meta­bol­ic diversity for the devel­op­ment of nov­el fer­ment­a­tion tech­no­lo­gies and products. The cur­rent focus is the bio­tech­no­lo­gic­al pro­duc­tion of dipeptides at an indus­tri­al scale and the devel­op­ment of nov­el applic­a­tions based on these dipeptides.
  • Dr. Dor­is Hafen­bradl, Elec­tro­chaea GmbH (DE) www​.elec​tro​chaea​.com: Elec­tro­chaea is devel­op­ing a dis­rupt­ive grid-scale energy stor­age tech­no­logy. Our power-to-gas (P2G) pro­cess con­verts CO2 and low-cost or stran­ded elec­tri­city into pipeline-grade meth­ane for dir­ect injec­tion into the exist­ing nat­ur­al gas grid.
  • Gra­tian Per­mi­en, GLY­CON­IC (DE) www​.gly​con​ic​.com: GLY­CON­IC is a developer of gly­co­activ­ated poly­phen­ols. With its state-of-the-art tech­no­logy GLY­CON­IC is the pre­ferred part­ner in cos­met­ic, phar­ma­ceut­ic­al and food industry when it comes to adapt­ing the effect­ive­ness, sta­bil­ity, sol­u­bil­ity and bioavail­ab­il­ity of poly­phen­ol derivates.
  • Dr. Lisa Dys­on, Kiverdi, Inc. (US) www​.kiverdi​.com: Kiverdi makes high-value oils and chem­ic­als for a vari­ety of product applic­a­tions such as deter­gents, bio­ma­ter­i­als and fuel addit­ives. Kiverdi’s chem­ic­als are sus­tain­ably pro­duced from waste car­bon and decoupled from the price fluc­tu­ations, sup­ply chain dis­rup­tions, and geo­pol­it­ics asso­ci­ated with commodities.
  • Fed­erico Maria Grati, Myco­plast S.n.c. (IT) www​.myco​plast​.com: MOGU is a start-up ini­ti­at­ive cre­ated in Janu­ary 2015 by Myco­plast, aim­ing to research, devel­op and com­mer­cial­ise a wide vari­ety of bio-mater­i­als pro­duced from myceli­um and agro-indus­tri­al residues as substrates.
  • Daniel Pohludka, Nafig­ate Cor­por­a­tion, A.S. (CZ) www​.nafig​ate​.info/en: Hydal bio­tech­no­logy — as the first tech­no­logy in the world — util­izes 100% waste (used cook­ing oil) for the pro­duc­tion of a bio-based poly­mer, poly­hy­droxyalkanoate (PHA), on the indus­tri­al scale. First pilot line and plant is being built in Suzhou in China.
  • Andres Pajuste, Nord­Bio­Chem OÜ (EE) http://​nord​bio​chem​.eu: Nord­Bio­Chem has developed a whole tech­no­lo­gic­al plat­form start­ing with the lact­ic acid fer­ment­a­tion tech­no­logy suit­able for large-scale pro­duc­tion and has com­bined it with new solu­tions in cata­lyt­ic­al mech­an­isms and chem­ic­al deriv­at­isa­tion technologies.
  • Max Beau­mont, Skytree (NL) www​.skytree​.eu: Based on space tech­no­logy, Skytree has developed a pat­en­ted pro­cess which re-cap­tures CO2 dir­ectly from the ambi­ent air. This allows provid­ing or sub­tract­ing car­bon-neut­ral CO2 on-site, any­time, any­where. This CO2 can in turn be used for such applic­a­tions as grow­ing plants, vent­il­a­tion and water treatment.
You can find all inform­a­tion on the pro­gramme, exhib­it­ors and par­ti­cipants and the online regis­tra­tion on the web­site: www​.bio​-based​.eu/​s​t​artup. Source: nova-Ins­ti­ut GmbH
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