Thousands of dollars are on the line along with exposure to a global audience and technology investors for 30 companies that have made the final cut for the Inventures Startup Pitch Competition.
Inventures 2024 is finally here and a select group of companies have been identified as the finalists for this year’s pitch competition.
There are six competitions, each with a $10,000 prize and five finalists who will pitch live on stage. The six competitions mirror the program tracks of this year’s conference.
One competition track is themed Building Better, which covers clean-tech with an eye toward a more sustainable world.
In this track the five finalists are CO2Brew, Bio-Brick Labs, Particle-N, Golu Hydrogen Technologies, and elerGreen Industry. Below, a glance at the competitors.
Bio-Brick Labs
Bio-Brick Labs was founded to reduce the impact of humanity’s built environment on the natural environment.
The company uses natural binders and recycled materials to revolutionize sustainable construction. For example, Bio-Brick’s flagship Bio-Gel Panels are 100% recycled and can reduce labour costs by up to 90% compared to traditional stone and concrete veneers.
Particle-N
Precious metals are used in many important industrial application including gasoline, green hydrogen, and auto catalytic converters. But the high cost of rare precious metals, such as a platinum and iridium, is putting a bottle neck on the potential of hydrogen, according to Particle-N.
Particle-N founder Al Kasani developed a patent pending technology that can significantly reduce the precious metal usage in those industries—without compromising the performance, according to the inventor-turned-entrepreneur.
elerGreen Industry
Toronto’s elerGreen Industry Corporation is a clean technology startup utilizing a patented electrochemical reactor and process to produce valuable polymers, metals, and chemicals from chemical waste at a low cost and with a small environmental footprint reduction.
The core of elerGreen’s technology lies with a novel modular electrochemical reactor design that the company claims is easy to implement and scale.
CO2Brew
CO2Brew offers an engineered carbon dioxide recovery system specially designed for smaller, craft-sized breweries to reduce their GHG emissions while ensuring a self-sufficient supply of beverage-grade CO2.
The company’s solution allows craft brewers to recover high purity liquid CO₂ from the fermentation process for reuse in the brewery as well as offset the purchase of industrial CO₂ normally derived from hydrocarbons to reduce overall emissions in the brewing industry.
Golu H2 Technologies envisions carbon-negative energy as the key to a sustainable future.
With a vision to create a world where businesses can thrive while reducing their environmental impact, Golu H2 enables low-cost, on-site hydrogen and clean electricity production, minimized storage requirements, and minimized downtime.
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