About This Event
The Tech for Impact Awards competition helps leverage the potential of Europe-based impact-driven tech entrepreneurs, by offering them a voice, a stage and privileged access to a community of entrepreneurs, experts and companies rooted in Switzerland and beyond.
This event showcases the finalists of the 14th edition of the competition, who get the chance to win an Award and boost their presence in the impact startup ecosystem. The competition is supported by a long-term partnership with our loyal partners UBS and Julis Bär.
Agenda
17:00 – 17:30 Open doors
17:30 – 18:00 Welcome Words & Panel
18:00 – 19:00 Finalists Pitching
19:00 – 19:15 Public Voting & Audience Awards
19:15 – 19:45 Winners announcements & Closing Words
19:45 – 21:30 Networking & Apéro
Pitching startups
Aidonic is a decentralized platform designed to facilitate and enhance the delivery of humanitarian aid. It leveragesblockchain technology to providetransparency, traceability, and efficiency in the aid distribution process, allowingdonorsto track their contributions and ensuring that aid reaches those in needeffectively.
Companion.energy empowers large companies to manage and reduce energy costs with a real-time control platform. Leveraging machine learning, the software analyzes energy contracts and operational data to forecast energy demand, costs, and emissions.
CompPair believes in lifetime extension through repair. HealTech™, a breakthrough material, enables ultra-fast, one-minute repairs for composite structures. The company focuses on high-performance applications in sports, lifestyle, mobility, space, and aeronautics, offering solutions that reduce waste, downtime, and environmental impact.
Irmos Technologies offers software solutions designed to extend the lifespan of buildings by optimizing maintenance andoperational efficiency. Their platform leverages data analyticsand predictive maintenance to help facility managers makeinformed decisions, ultimatelyreducing costs and enhancing sustainability.
Kuori is a material startup that upcycles waste from the food sector to create sustainable, eco-friendly products. Bytransforming food byproducts into high-quality materials, Kuori aims to reduce environmental impact and promotecircular economy practices within the industry.
Sallea specializes in developing cultivated protein products, offering sustainable alternatives to traditional animal-basedproteins. By utilizing advanced biotechnology, the companycreates lab-grown proteins that aim to reduce theenvironmental footprint of food production while delivering high-quality nutrition.
Unbound Potential is transforming energy storage with a novel redox flow battery(RFB) technology that offerssustainable and scalable solutions for integratingrenewables. Their technology not only reduces capital and operationalcosts whileenhancing efficiency, it creates a flexible and environmentally friendly solution to stabilize the grid asrenewable energy adoption grows. www.unbound-potential.com
Up Catalyst offers an innovative solution for reducing CO₂ emissions by transforming industrial waste into valuable carbon materials. The startup converts this greenhouse gas into graphite and carbon nanomaterials, essential raw materials for electric vehicle (EV) batteries and various other applications.
Verretex is focused on creating sustainable, regenerated glass fiber nonwoven textiles from recycled composites. The company restores the quality of damaged glass fibers, allowing them to supply high-quality, upcycled glass fiber products, particularly valuable for sectors like wind energy, automotive, and construction.
Yuon Control focuses on enhancing heating network efficiency with an intelligent, predictive control system designed for district heating. Its software shaves peak loadsand minimizes energy consumption & CO2 emissions by up to 25%. Byoptimizingsystem-wide heating needs, Yuon’s technology cuts operational costs and lowers environmental impact.

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Join us and meet top impact startups that will get the chance to win an Award and boost their presence in the impact startup ecosystem.
