The Scaleups

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At least 50% of all trucks driving on European roads are (partially) empty. This not only results in an enormous amount of wasted raw materials and environmental pollution, but it also holds major economic consequences. Quicargo provides a higher load factor for pallet shipping. The international team of highly motivated professionals at Quicargo is poised to revolutionize the road freight transport industry. With guaranteed efficiency and a reduction in CO2-emissions, traffic congestion and financial losses.

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Commercial vertical farming solution that grows salad mixes, fresh herbs and microgreens. We combine extensive agricultural experience with the latest technology developments to provide on-demand produce of consistently high quality. We deliver next-level sustainable food, promising next-level taste, healthiness and affordability.

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MX3D is the company that revealed the potential of robotic wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) to the industry. We have made 3D metal printing more flexible, faster and cheaper. We envision MX3D Robots building lightweight parts and structures in full autonomy all over the planet, and perhaps even beyond!

It is our mission to set up as many businesses as possible with our Robotic Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) technology, so the benefits of this tech will have the highest possible impact By launching the first dedicated robotic WAAM software in 2019, we enabled companies, engineers and designers to print end-to-end large-scale 3D metal objects in-house.

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Aectual enables designers and companies to realize made-to-measure designs at any scale in any building. Together with designer and architectures from all over the world we produce personal, beautiful and sustainable architectural products with our large scale, 3D printing factory network. All products are made from bio-based and/or recycled materials in a zero waste and carbon neutral production.

Our mission is to accelerate the transition to a 100% circular way of making our interiors, buildings and cities.

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We offer a micro-mobility solution that deploys fleets of shared electric cargo bikes for cities. The pedal assistance makes every trip a breeze. Our shared cargo bike is a sustainable, healthy, practical and above all fun solution for rides with children to clubs and sports fields, outings with the family, SMEs who need to deliver or collect something, and anyone who wants to do a lot of shopping or has something to transport.

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At BrighterBins we produce cost-effective smart sensors and software applications waste pickup. Our smart sensors prevent overflowing bins, keeping cities clean. Our sensors collect data, enabling route optimization for waste pickup trucks. This means less heavy traffic, less CO2 emissions, and greener cities. Our solution saves up to 40% cost of waste collections.

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ecoBirdy is a Belgian design company that creates furniture for kids and grown-ups using repurposed plastic from discarded toys and household materials. The company has been recognised as a Certified B Corporation in 2019, and awarded the Efficient Solution label by the Solar Impulse Foundation in 2020. ecoBirdy’s products have been exhibited in several museums around the world, from the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York to the V&A Childhood Museum in London and the ADAM Brussels Design Museum in Belgium.

In 2018 the brand won the Outstanding Design and Innovation Award at the Good Design Award, Australia, and in 2019 the German Design Award in the Product Design category. Lastly, in 2021, ecoBirdy’ Charlie Chair was selected at the German Sustainability Design Award in the Pioneer category.

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xyzt.ai is a high-tech SaaS company that brings its users actionable business insights through a cloud-based SaaS platform for visualizing and analyzing big location data of any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, person, or asset being tracked. It does so in a unique and effortless way; customer setup takes less than a day, there is no custom development needed, and insights can be obtained in an interactive way, even for billions of location records.

xyzt.ai is supported by Start it @KBC, one of the largest accelerators in Europe, by Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Flanders Investment and Trade.

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Cubitec is an agile software development agency, developing tailor-made software solutions.

We connect digital systems to unlock data. Bringing its full potential together in platforms that augment businesses.

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IVEX eliminates all traffic fatalities, while increasing safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

Our mission is to enable scalable safety validation for Automated Driving (AD) & Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS).

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Through our blockchain-based platform, we can give you direct and unfalsifiable insights into the history of your products.

In this way we create a direct digital connection between you and everyone else involved in the creation of your product. Our vision is an economy where you have all the information you need to create a better world with every purchase you make. We enable you and all quality and sustainability-oriented producers to change our world for the better - to make our world OURZ again.

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At Beagle Systems GmbH, we are making any place on Earth accessible at the press of a button. With our network of long-range BVLOS drones we can offer services with a 50x higher resolution than commercially available satellite data (optical and IR) with less than 24h lead time. Our aim is to keeping risk and OPEX low for our customers, while delivering data (or airlifted goods) to stakeholders in rapid time.

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jetlite is a young company from Hamburg, Germany founded in 2017, which develops personalized lighting solutions tailored to the inner clock to increase humans' health and well-being. jetlite’s lighting solution was initially developed for the aviation industry to reduce jet lag. Nowadays, the solution is used outside the aviation as well e.g. in the cruise industry or the automotive industry.

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Breeze Technologies is a technology leader for air quality sensors, air quality data and air quality analytics software. The company leverages the internet of things and artificial intelligence to help cities and businesses create better clean air action plans and a more liveable environment.

Breeze Technologies was founded in 2015 and has been recognised as one of the most promising European startups by the European Parliament and the European Commission. Breeze's founder has been listed as Forbes 30 Under 30. Breeze operates in 11 countries and partners with leading system integrators such as Microsoft, NTT, SAP and others.

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Under the slogan #IAMPLASTICFREE, we develop and distribute plastic-free packaging, consumer products and disposables for the catering and hospitality industries, as well as for off- and online retail.

For this purpose, we use starch-based materials that are derived from biogenic waste materials and are very close to classic oil-based plastic products. In doing so, we combine the sustainable solution approach with state-of-the-art marketing. Thanks to our #IAMPLASTICFREE hashtag printed on all our products, we offer a unique selling proposition and let the product communicate with the consumer. In this way, we not only reduce plastic consumption, but also create awareness and are heard by the Instagram generation at the same time.

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Box2box offers a 100% digital Micrologistics solution to help individuals and companies with the management of their belongings or merchandise.

We have designed our service with the modern-day user in mind, helping make their day-to-day life easier and providing the security of knowing their treasured items are in the best hands. Our focus is functional and flexible storage, with careful packing and transportation, and a personalised return service, delivering the stored items wherever they are needed.

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Velca is a brand of 100% electric motorcycles and mopeds with an intelligent system designed to improve the sustainability of the planet and mobility in our cities. Our electric motorcycles have removable batteries that you charge like your smartphone. We generate positive impact in cities with 0 emissions and 0 noise in your city.

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We make fashion, but in a different way. We apply technology, innovation and new materials to everyday garments to improve people’s lives while taking care of the planet.

Our technology provides comfort to the users and minimize the care of the garment. No wrinkles, no stains and no bad odors. We manufacture our products locally in Spain and Portugal in a sustainable and circular way.

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Motoreto transforms used car trading in a simpler digitized way. Leading the complete digitization of the used car distribution process on a global scale, adding value and generating business for all players, based on an intelligence data market. Our digital-focused product solves the issues of dealers to scale their business (supply and demand), creating a better, simpler used car trading experience and building a symmetrical tool insights about the market.

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amperand is an infrastructure company designed to accelerate the transition to sustainable mobility. amperand develops and manages the real assets enabling the electrification of transport. We partner with fleet businesses to finance, build, own, and operate the real assets that enable a rapid and profitable deployment of electric vehicles.

amperand provides experienced leadership and deep expertise in every element crucial for successful EV fleet deployment: we are the only partner you need to ensure everything works together seamlessly.

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Pavnext develops solutions to turn cities safer, smarter, and more sustainable. Our first product consists of a technology to implement in road pavements that reduce the vehicle's speed autonomously, promoting road safety in a unique way.

The same technology also produces electricity based on the energy harvested from vehicles, which can be used to power electric devices on-site, power electric mobility, or inject into the grid. Finally, it monitors traffic activity, allowing the optimization of traffic flows and detecting overspeed.

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AddVolt is building a smart and sustainable refrigerated transport worldwide, increasing its efficiency with usage of renewable energy. With our technology, refrigeration trucks can perform their cold operation in electric mode, reducing diesel dependence, the level of noise, and CO2 emissions.

AddVolt creates high and positive impacts on the drivers' quality of life, while it contributes to having eco-friendly vehicles.

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Omniflow award winning Smart IoT Lamppost, powered by wind and solar, transforms a regular streetlight into an integrated sustainable smart infrastructure capable of housing multiple added value services like, 5G small-cell, Surveillance, Computer Vision, Smart car-parking, V2X, EV charging, IoT sensors/gateways and even integrated audio for public communication. By retro-fitting old lights into Omniflow we can save both Private , and Public Sector customers more than 90% energy cost, and using the existing poles and infrastructures.

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A Bioworld – Social Impact, Lda is a Portuguese company that was born with the aim of supporting companies and organizations to value their waste and by-products, making them sustainable and innovative products. In the context of the transition from the linear to the circular economy. We present sustainable and circular solutions for products, from organic and inorganic waste, with an economic, social and environmental impact on the world.

We create circular and sustainable business models for innovative product solutions, creating, capturing and delivering value throughout the product lifecycle.

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We create community gardens in (unused) public or private spaces, promoting eco-transition through impact projects. The concept is quite unique and applies either to companies, schools, condominiums, hotels, etc.: We start by installing the vegetable garden, using an exclusive set of high productivity grow beds we’ve developed, with low water consumption (80% reduction Vs classic garden) setting it all up together with the soil and plants in just one day. But that’s not where it stops! Beyond the garden we provide maintenance and animation, supported by our network of professional Growers (covering 3 countries: Portugal, France and Belgium)

Most importantly our Growers will promote the involvement of your teams (students, residents or guests) around a common green project, creating new bounds amongst the staff and improving greatly wellbeing and transversal collaboration. It gives tangible results in promoting transition and helps fulfilling your Corporate Social Responsibility agenda! Our claim is “ground yourself” and we’re not only talking about self awareness, we mean reconnecting to others and, most importantly, to the planet. Let’s grow community and ecology in your company (school, condo, hotel, etc)?

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With gnista.io, we build a collaborative, intuitive, and powerful tool to let engineers without coding experience interact with their data. In doing so, we empower them to interact with assets and data that is generated by them to find solutions, increase efficiency and reduce emissions.

We work together with energy providers, manufacturers, and energy communities. We would love to go beyond that customer profile and get in touch with municipalities as well!

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NXRT creates immersive simulation products and a development ecosystem for simulation products. Each of our solutions complies with ``XR-First`` guidelines. For best results and user activation, the physical world is blended with the virtual to create a unique experience. Our software framework provides our artists and engineers with the best development environment for Mixed Reality.

At the centre of all our solutions is the human being. Technology alone is no guarantee of success; people need to be able to utilise and understand it.

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Rebel Meat develops delicious and climate-friendly meat products with only 50% meat for a 100% meat experience - perfect for meat lovers who care about the environment and their own health, but dislike meat replacement products. 100% natural, organic ingredients and no additives whatsoever.

The long-term vision is to use cultivated meat and meat from regenerative agriculture in our “blended meat” products and thereby make them affordable for the mass market. Our mission is to build the European market leader for this new FMCG category of “blended meat” products, which we believe will take a meaningful share in the huge (ca. EUR 300bn) European meat market.

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Happy Plates makes meal planning and grocery shopping easier and more convenient than ever before. On our platform happyplates.com users can find easy recipes provided by chefs, nutrition experts, food bloggers or by our Happy Plates community and can order all ingredients at our grocery delivery partners. At the moment we collaborate with BILLA and gurkerl.at. More delivery partners are soon to come. We will enter the German market within 2022.

Our recipe bundle feature gives the great opportunity to order 3 or more matching recipes with one click that make sure that there are no left-overs of most of the fresh ingredients. This is an important feature to reduce food waste!

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Ubiq is shaping the future of urban mobility by enabling mobility services to become profitable and sustainable. Experts in transforming raw urban data into actionable insights, energy efficient actions and valuable services, Ubiq enables better mobility decisions. Based in Vienna, Austria, Ubiq is transforming cities around the world.