During the stage:

🎙️ the first edition of BioInvestIT was presented;

♻️ best practice case studies, sustainable models, initiatives, and financial tools related to the circular bioeconomy were analyzed;

💪 six startups presented themselves to a panel of experts.

🏆 Buoono: develops solutions to recycle food industry waste and transform it, through circular regenerative cultivation systems, into new high-nutritional value raw materials dedicated to the food industry.

Climate Standard: develops a platform for the self-certification of carbon footprint and carbon neutrality for companies and their products.

Elevate: aims to improve the recycling of the most challenging plastic materials (particularly PET) with sustainable and non-toxic catalysts that can degrade polymers and quickly return them to their original monomers.

Kinsect: develops innovative technologies to automate and optimize insect farming for deriving animal proteins, primarily targeting the feed market, with a reduced environmental impact.

SIEve: develops a regenerable and modular all-in-one filter for treating wastewater and obtaining advanced materials from “red mud,” a byproduct of aluminum processing.

Smush Materials: produces 100% green solutions for protective packaging and thermal-acoustic insulation from fermented organic by-products using fungal mycelium, aiming to replace single-use plastics like polystyrene.