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Investors meet pion­eers of the bioeconomy…

22.02.2016
The Bio-based Start-up Day (www​.bio​-based​.eu/​s​t​artup), tak­ing place on 7 April 2016 at Cologne, Ger­many, will bring start-ups, investors and industry togeth­er by giv­ing the floor to every­one and provid­ing great net­work­ing oppor­tun­it­ies. High-poten­tial start-ups from the field of bio-based mater­i­als, bio­tech­no­logy and car­bon cap­ture & util­iz­a­tion (CCU) are invited to intro­duce them­selves to industry and investors. Start-ups will get insider inform­a­tion from high-level fund­ing experts. Sup­port­ing part­ners of the con­fer­ence are CLIB2021 and the IBB Net­zwerk GmbH. The day will start with three present­a­tions on the top­ics: ​“Build­ing start-ups in the bio-based eco­nomy” and ​“Why invest in bio-based applic­a­tions?” fol­lowed by the present­a­tions of the start-ups. In spe­cial meet­ing ses­sions around the exhib­i­tion the par­ti­cipants will have the oppor­tun­ity to meet the start-ups and investors in per­son. Investors will provide an insight into their incent­ives and exper­i­ences work­ing with start-ups in the bio-based and biotech sec­tor includ­ing the present­a­tion of a suc­cess story. The day will end with a pan­el dis­cus­sion and a com­ing togeth­er. The con­fer­ence provides great net­work­ing oppor­tun­it­ies all day long. Registered par­ti­cipants can reserve a free booth to present their products dir­ectly at the event. This event is aimed primar­ily at:
  • Start-ups from the field of bio-based mater­i­als, bio­tech­no­logy and car­bon cap­ture & util­iz­a­tion (CCU)
  • Fin­an­cial ser­vice providers
  • Start-up con­sult­ants
  • Rep­res­ent­at­ives of the industry

Partners…

…of the event are the Fed­er­a­tion of Rein­forced Plastics (AVK), BCNP Con­sult­ants GmbH, Bio­tech­no­logy Industry Organ­iz­a­tion (BIO), the Cent­ral Agri­cul­tur­al Raw Mater­i­als Mar­ket­ing- and Energy-Net­work (C.A.R.M.E.N. e. V.), CLIB2021, Enter­prise Europe Net­work, European Bioplastics e. V., Facha­gen­tur Nachwach­sende Rohstoffe (FNR), IBB Net­zwerk GmbH, 3N Centre of Experts Lower Sax­ony — Net­work for Renew­able Resources e. V., kun­st­stof­f­land NRW e. V., Poly­Comply Hoechst GmbH, RIN Stoff­ströme, Roundtable on Sus­tain­able Bio­ma­ter­i­als (RSB), Asso­ci­ation of the Ger­man Wood-based Pan­el Indus­tries (VHI e. V.) – more part­ners are wel­come.

The fol­low­ing start-ups have already been chosen to intro­duce them­selves at the Bio-based Start-up Day:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Elec­tro­chaea GmbH (DE) www​.elec​tro​chaea​.com: Elec­tro­chaea is devel­op­ing a dis­rupt­ive grid-scale energy stor­age tech­no­logy. Their 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.
  • GLY­CON­IC (DE) www​.gly​con​ic​.com: GLY­CON­IC is a developer of glyc­osylated 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Source: nova-Insti­tute GmbH
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