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- July
2013
Fujio Kojima pitches Pirika from Tokyo
Ecosummit TV: Fujio Kojima pitches Pirika from Japan. During his trip around the world 2 years ago, Fujio discovered that there is too much trash everywhere. Back in Tokyo, he co-founded Pirika which is backed by Open Network Lab, the accelerator of Digital Garage. Pirika is a green smartphone app for iOS and Android that people use to document how they clean up the world. Up to now, more than 500.000 pieces of litter have been removed by users in 65 countries. Pirika makes money with sponsors, corporates running social engagement programmes for their employees and municipalities that want to improve the allocation of their waste management budgets. Pirika expands our perception of cleantech and won ECO13 Award Facebook Gold. Gambatte kudasai.
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- August
2012
Rolf Stein pitches waste to energy startup Advanced Plasma Power
Ecosummit TV: Waste is a resource. Rolf Stein pitches Advanced Plasma Power (APP) at Ecosummit Berlin 2012. The UK-based startup has an efficient gas plasma technology to convert waste to energy. APP was founded in 2005 as a spin-off from the British engineering company Tetronics. The outcomes of APP’s Gasplasma process are syngas (synthetic gas), which is rich in Hydrogen, and Plasmarok, a solid material which can be used for multiple applications, e.g. as building material.
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- August
2012
Marie-Anne Brodschii presents the Veolia Innovation Accelerator
Ecosummit TV: Marie-Anne Brodschii, VP Innovation at Veolia, explains how Veolia drives cleantech innovation and how the cooperation with startups works in practice. The French corporate has got cleantech in its DNA and is pretty big: 230.000 employees generate €29.6B revenues and are active on 5 continents. Veolia’s business is focused on the management of water, waste, energy and energy efficiency. In fact, Veolia is very open towards smart green innovation coming from startups. To foster open innovation, Veolia launched the Veolia Innovation Accelerator (VIA) 2 years ago.
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