Cleantech Scandinavia’s Nordic Cleantech Open announced this week the Top 3 winners of Nordic Cleantech Open 2016/17 at the award dinner of Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo. And the winner is, for the first time, from Norway.

The winner of Nordic Cleantech Open 2017 is EnergyNest. EnergyNest has developed a new Thermal Energy Storage solution with game-changing economics for the renewable energy industry as well as for energy-intense industrial applications.

Second prize winner is SoilScout, with a ground-breaking technology providing critical insight into data from deep below the surface, wirelessly, near real-time, and maintenance free for up to 20 years, with the potential to reduce irrigation water and energy use by up to 50%.

Third prize is awarded to ifoodbag. ifoodbag offers an innovative, disruptive and recyclable packaging solution made from a paper composite material that locks in cold and protect refrigerated and frozen food.

Congratulations to EnergyNest, SoilScout and ifoodbag for impressing the investor and industry jury!

Read the full press release here.

Today we are proud to announce the Top 10 companies in this years Nordic Cleantech Open, it has as always been a very close race! We look forward to welcome all of the companies to the finals at the Cleantech Capital Day 3-4 of April in Oslo, make sure to secure your spot to meet them all (www.ccd.cleantechscandinavia.com). 

Soil Scout
www.soilscout.com

Strongcrete
www.rollit.se

Swedish Algae Factory
www.swedishalgaefactory.com

DLaboratory
www.dlaboratory.com

EnergyNest
www.energy-nest.com

Flow-Loop
www.flow-loop.dk

Greater Than
www.greaterthan.eu

ifoodbag
www.ifoodbag.com

Infuser
www.infuser.eu

Modvion
www.modvion.com

Press Release can be found here!

We’re proud to release this years Top 25 report with description on all of the Top 25 companies, articles with two of last years Top 3 companies, statistics from the competitions start and more. Read it here!  

After our annual massive sweep of the Nordic innovation environment to find the most exciting and progressive start-ups around, we ended up with an impressive bunch of close to 100 companies. This year we also saw the highest percentage of first-time applicants since we started the competition and now, after our highly renowned jury have made their choices, we are excited to share this year’s Top 25 list.

Press here to be directed to the entire list! 

As always, the selection of the Top 25 signals the next step of the journey that is the Nordic Cleantech Open. Part of the experience and the next step, is participation at the Nordic Camp, a further chance to meet the jury members and pitch for a chance to move on to the Top 10, in February.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our applicants for entering the competition, the level of quality of the applications this year have been extremely good and the jury had their work cut out for them.

We would also like to say congratulations to the Top 25 and we will see you at Trolleholm!

There has been a lot of new events added to the Nordic Cleantech Open calendar.

We will have a special Nordic Cleantech Open info meeting in Linköping 7/10. David Frykerås that was in the top 10 last year with his company Againity will chair his experiences and it is also an opportunity to meet with representatives from Linköping Universitet Innovation and Cleantech Östergötland.

Meet us at Green Connect in Gothenburg 11/10 or in Uppsala 19/10. Besides discussing your Nordic Cleantech Open application these are great events if you want to meet angel investors.

If your company is targeting the real estate sector there will be excellent opportunities to pitch your case in front of a grand jury of real estate company representatives and representatives from Malmö Kommun 8/11.

Everything is not fully in place yet but the things that are is more than enough to motivate any cleantech entrepenur that he/she should spend a few minutes writing a great application to the sixth round of Nordic Cleantech Open. You can win:
– Participation in The Nordic Camp, an all-inclusive weekend together with investors at a castle in
the south of Sweden
– A Pitch at the Nordic Cleantech Open Finals, which brings 250 investors, industry and cleantech companies together
– Pitch opportunities at the Nordic Cleantech Showcases, in Toronto, Boston, New York Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Shanghai and Hong Kong for the most suitable early entrants.
– A one year membership in the Cleantech Scandinavia Accelerator Program for the winning company (value of 5000€)
– Networking opportunities with our members of international investors and industry
– A description of your company in the widely distributed Top 25 report
– Pitch training
– 
A Quality stamp for your company
– A service package from Chubb Insurance will be provided to 3 companies.

And even if you do not win you will get:
– Written feedback from the jury to improve your case.
– A chance to improve your design with Autodesk. All applying companies will be eligible for up to 120,000 € in free Digital Prototyping software through the Autodesk Cleantech Partner Program so that you can get their products to market faster.

And there will be more… Apply now to make sure you do not miss anything.

Cleantech Scandinavia Nordic Cleantech Open today announces the winners of Nordic Cleantech Open 2015/16 at the award dinner of Cleantech Capital Day in Malmö. Denmark wins the Nordic Cleantech Open for the second consecutive year, the second price goes to a Swedish company while Denmark also wins third prize.

First prize winner is Fresh.Land. The company digitize the food supply chain with an innovative B2B platform. With Fresh.Land, farmers and retailers can interact, all get better prices and the cost for searching and transaction is lowered. Only the middlemen lose out.
Second prize winner is TRINE. The combination of crowd investing with commodity solar PV components creates an innovative business model with massive potential. The company aims at providing the 1.3 billion people living in energy poverty with access to solar energy.

Third prize winner is SBT Aquatech. The company produce a real-time bacteria sensor that significantly improves quality control of drinking water. The sensor can detect bacteria and non-organic particles in real-time.

Read more in the press release.

Swedish press release here.

It is with great satisfaction we now release this year’s edition of the Top 25 Report!

The report gives you a full coverage of the essence that is the Nordic Cleantech Open in addition to providing you with all the essential information on the chosen Top 25 companies.

By reading the report you also get the latest on relevant statistics in regards to for instance participation and we always make sure to present you with a section covering how previous batches have performed since taking part in the competition. You will be able to learn more about this year’s different windows and also get a closer look on the current jury members.

As we are now only one week away from our flagship event of the year, Cleantech Capital Day in Malmö on the 18^th and 19^th of May, the report will serve as a great indication on what’s to come during the Nordic Cleantech Open Final.

So make sure to read the report and we look forward to seeing you in Malmö!

We are very happy to announce the top 10 list with the best startups in the cleantech sector in the Nordics. These companies have been carefully chosen as the ones with best potential for success by the very competent Nordic Cleantech Open Jury. Previous years top 25 companies have shown great track record and have included several of today brightest upcoming cleantech stars. This years top 10 will for sure be at least as successful as the predecessors. Read more in the press release in English or Swedish. Seldom has there been so much potential in such a short list!

And the top 10 companies are:

Againity
Sweden
www.againity.com
Againity has developed a cost-effective heat-to-electricity solution for renewable, yet weather independent, electricity production. The heat source can be anything from a garbage or wood chip boiler or incinerated landfill gas, to hot water from solar panels or industrial waste heat. The system is based on a refined technology based on the Organic Rankine Cycle and thanks to innovative components and materials, the system has a long lifetime, low operating costs and a quick payback time.

Ascatron
Sweden
www.ascatron.com
Ascatron develop next generation SiC based power semiconductors that radically reduce losses in electrical transformers. These can be up to 20% using conventional silicon devices. To make the most efficient and reliable SiC power devices is Ascatron using a unique material technology based on 3D epitaxy enabling us to increase the doping level to reduce the resistance in the device 3DSiC®.

Desert Control
Norway
www.desertcontrol.com
Desert Control converts deserts into fertile land in a process that only takes 7 hours. They mix clay and water in a patented mixing process and apply it to the land using traditional irrigation methods. Once an area has been treated, percolation is almost stopped and evaporation is greatly reduced, so only ½ to 1/3 of the irrigation water is needed, compared to untreated areas.

Fresh.Land
Denmark
www.fresh.land
Fresh.Land digitize the food supply chain. The B2B platform connects farmers and retailers, cutting out the middlemen and reducing CO2 emissions and chemical use. The solution uses technology to make the food supply chain efficient and transparent. With Fresh.Land, farmers, retailers, and logistical partners can interact in one platform. They all get better prices and drastically reduce the searching and transaction costs. Only the middlemen lose out.

LunaLEC
Sweden
www.lunalec.com
LunaLEC develops thin and flexible light sources that will require less energy in manufacturing and will be made without metals and thus can be recycled like plastic when disposed. The intended use is not yet general lighting, but rather functional lighting. Typical applications are medtech patches, where light patches are used for treatment of a number of symptoms.

Ngenic
Sweden
www.ngenic.se
The Ngenic system adapt to the thermodynamic individual household and increase the efficiency of the heating system. At the same time as it achieves a better, more even, indoor climate the system enables a collaborative demand response and easier inclusion of renewable energy sources into the grid. The hardware are compatible with most existing heating systems.

SBT Aqua
Denmark
sbtaqua.com
SBT Aqua is developing a real-time bacteria sensor that significantly improves quality control of drinking water. The sensor can detect bacteria and non-organic particles in real-time and increases the sampling frequency from weeks to minutes ensuring that contamination events are discovered by the utility and not by ill and dissatisfied citizens.

Toroidion
Finland
https://toroidion.com/
Toroidion has developed an innovative electric powertrain with a new type of electric motor. The new lightweight direct drive electric motors are significantly safer and more service friendly than current alternatives. The technology is also extremely energy efficient and robust and allows for easy battery upgrades.

Trifilon
Sweden
www.trifilon.com
Trifilon develops and produces the lightest, most rugged biocomposites for high performance applications. Our optimized biocomposites are purpose engineered for conventional injection moulding and compression moulding equipment.  Cut weight, improve sound absorption and minimize your product’s environmental impact without changing equipment or tooling.

TRINE
Sweden
www.jointrine.com
TRINE aims at providing the 1.3 billion people living in energy poverty with access to solar energy. This will be done using local solar entrepreneurs and financed using their crowdinvesting platform. Combining crowdinvesting with commodity solar PV components and novel financing structures creates an innovative business model with massive potential.