March Week 2, 2023: In this monthly series, we highlight 5 climate tech startups to watch by featuring the incredible startups, companies, or projects that are leading the fight against the climate crisis.
Each month, we add these startups to our running list, which we have categorized based on fuel emission sector data from the most detailed, recent data SBC could identify from the World Resource Institute in 2016.
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With care,
Guillaume and the SBC TEAM,
Energy use in Industry and Buildings
1. Heatrix
Founded:
2021 – Bremen, Germany
Founders:
Wei Wu and Niklas Friese
Elevator Pitch:
Heatrix decarbonizes high-temperature industrial heat
Problem they solve:
The Heatrix system combines an electric heater, utilizing off-grid solar or wind electricity, with a thermal energy storage to provide continuous high-temperature process heat. With an outlet temperature of up to 1500 °C, Heatrix has the potential to decarbonize the majority of high emission industries.
Impact:
Our mission is to competitively replace fossil fuels in energy-intensive industries by converting renewable electricity into storable, high-temperature process heat.
Stage:
Pre-seed
Interested in Heatrix?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch, see here.
Founded:
2019 – Espoo, Finland
Founders:
Fernando De los Rios, Henry Unterreiner and Ashish Mohite
Elevator Pitch:
We provide optimized and low-carbon concrete products for infrastructure projects and industrial grade applications.
Problem they solve:
Hyperion provides design, engineering and manufacture of optimized and sustainable concrete structures, helping our clients to save time, money and embodied carbon.
Impact:
Our mission is to bring efficiency and sustainability to the way concrete structures are being made. With technology, you save time, money and carbon emissions.
Stage:
Seed
Interested in Hyperion Robotics?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
Industry
3. Synonym
Founded:
2021 – New York, NY, USA
Founders:
Edward Shenderovich and Joshua Lachter
Elevator Pitch:
Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure.
Problem they solve:
We provide synthetic biology (synbio) producers – from startups to the Fortune 500 – with flexible production capacity while giving infrastructure investors access to a new, carbon-negative biomanufacturing asset class that we are calling “fermentation farms”.
Impact:
Our global economy is undergoing a major shift across industries and our global infrastructure footprint needs to undergo a radical transformation to support a more sustainable future. Biomanufacturing offers a platform for creation and will address several global challenges.
Stage:
Seed
Interested in Synonym?
To learn more about this company, see here.
Founded:
2022 – Singapore
Founder:
Rishita Changede
Elevator Pitch:
TeOra is rapidly designing smart microbes to solve the largest problem of this decade
Problem they solve:
Using nothing but easily available natural resources, we leverage Nature’s biofactories. No more synthetic or unsustainable methods & processes.
TeOra takes on this global challenge and aims to lead the design & delivery of precision fermentation-based ingredients & proprietary biofactories.
When there is a blueprint available in Nature, TeOra aims to biomanufacture with it.
Impact:
Since we miniaturise our processes onto our proprietory microfluidics platform, we are more efficient than other incumbent technologies. Up to 100x times more. – Our miniaturised process replaces large equipment and cuts reagent costs by 90%. Each reaction is carried out as a tiny droplet which means 1,000,000x less plastic, sample and reagent wastage. Parallel processing reduces the time to identify successful biofactories by 10x, from months to a week.
Stage:
Seed
Interested in TeOra?
If you are interested in learning more, see here.
GHG Capture, Use, and Storage
5. Biorecro
Founded:
2007 – Stockholm, Sweden
Founder:
Henrik Karlsson
Elevator Pitch:
We permanently remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Problem they solve:
Utilizing Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) technologies, we are able to capture carbon emissions from biomass, rather than from fossil fuels as is done with CCS.
Impact:
By naturally drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere via biomass production and then permanently storing it thousands of meters below the Earth’s surface, BECCS is able to go beyond net zero, producing net negative emissions.
Stage:
Seed
Want to learn more about Biorecro?
To learn more about their technology or get in touch see here.
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How do these startups fit in with all the others we have looked at?
Check out our running list of the 350+ climate tech startups to watch we have featured.
