4.01 is a company that specializes in eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere by mineralizing it in peridotite, a type of rock that naturally absorbs CO2. We eliminate CO2 by turning it into rock, and removing it from the atmosphere safely, efficiently, and permanently.
With deep expertise in biotech, technology development, process scale-up and sustainability, we are advancing the integration of biotech with material science to create carbon-negative construction materials that enable everyday infrastructure to be built sustainably. Current research is focused on using biotechnology to replace cement in concrete – removing one of the biggest single sources of carbon emissions.
Dance is an e-bike subscription service where users pay a monthly fee that covers their bikes and provides an all-inclusive support package. The subscription includes a bike concierge, maintenance, and theft replacement insurance, via the company’s own hardware and software which allows for fast repairs through its warehouse and logistics setup. Through its subscription service, they want to make the e-bike the primary way people move about cities. The company's electric bike transforms their daily commute from frustration to joy. Save time with no traffic jams, no waiting for departures, no searching for parking, and all without even breaking a sweat. Its frictionless subscription model includes a fully assembled, state of the art e-bike delivered to their door within 24 hours. Dance is based in Berlin, Germany.
The future of the planet relies on the reduction of 50 gigatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – every year. In addition, 2 billion hectares of degraded land need to be restored and biodiversity rebuild. Natural Climate Solutions (NCS), such as the conservation and restoration of forests or oceans, are an answer to this challenge. The latest IPCC report lists NCS among the top five most effective strategies for mitigating carbon emissions by 2030. We’re reinventing the way in which natural climate solution projects get investible with a Platform that connects Carbon Entrepreneurs, Investors and Businesses, and that makes things clearer, easier, and more effective for everyone. goodcarbon offers access to existing and emerging natural climate solutions projects and related carbon streams across soil and forest, as well as high-quality, Blue Carbon-based climate impact projects in partnership with Oceans 2050.
INERATEC provides modular chemical plants for Power-to-X and Gas-to-Liquid applications and supplies sustainable fuels and products. Hydrogen from renewable electricity and greenhouse gases like CO2 are converted into e-kerosene, CO2-neutral gasoline, clean Diesel or synthetic waxes, methanol or SNG. The innovative chemical reactors provide a high load flexibility as well as quick start-up and shut-down times. Therefore, the reactors are perfectly suitable for fluctuating renewable energy applications, e.g. wind or solar. With this reactor concept a cost-efficient, modular numbering-up approach becomes possible. Standardized modules are multiplied to reach higher capacities. INERATEC - Sustainable, CO2-neutral and affordable e-fuels & e-products for everyone.
Product life cycle management involves making design decisions based on multiple criteria including cost, compliance, sustainability, and risk. Unfortunately, the data and expertise required to make these decisions are siloed. This protracts the process of innovation and increases its complexity. Today, the market solves this problem with vertical applications like PDM, ERP, CAD, EHS, SCM, etc. These mostly remain siloed due to the enormous costs of integration and keeping data synchronized. Therefore, analyses typically require exporting data to aggregation tools e.g. BI or excel before being used for analyses in specialist decision support applications. Results are typically delayed, some taking as much as 9 months, and therefore provide little support during the design process. Makersite provides results instantly and simultaneously across key product criteria. Makersite combines external and internal data sources to create a digital twin of a product in design. Artificial intelligence and our graph-based data model allow for ingesting, representing, and connecting heterogeneous data easily. Its native applications use ground-breaking algorithms to support analysis and decision making based on multiple criteria simultaneously including should-costs, regulatory compliance, life cycle impacts (LCA), supply chain risk, etc. Our API-first architecture allows for easy integrations into existing IT infrastructures thereby supporting systems and processes with richer, fresher, and more timely product data. This allows engineers to understand and improve their designs from the perspective of their regulatory compliance, environmental impact, supply risk, and cost of production, simultaneously. Companies can get results up to 40x faster than traditional methods while making their products better.