On January 23rd, 2023, our virtual Trend Tour series continued into the new year with Tech. CIRCULAZE start-ups Loopcycle, Circular IQ, and devicenow joined us, and Daniel Dippold, Founder and MD at EWOR, delivered an exciting keynote. Check out the recap now
From the CIRCULAZE short- and long-list, inspiring start-ups dealing with the topic of circular Tech joined us on Monday January 23rd to highlight their Circular Economy solutions.
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The Startups:
Founder/s:
Lugano Kapembwa, Chandan Rajah, and Mark Chadwick
Located In:
London, England
Loopcycle’s traceability technology tracks where each product is in the supply chain, allowing businesses to find and recover their valuable resources at any time to get the best usage out of it.
What They Do: Knowing where physical assets are and how they are being used at every stage of their lifecycle decreases a business need to rebuy, saving money but also the planet’s valuable resources. Yes, keeping track of every product would be a daunting task for most to take on – if you thought it was hard to remember your keys, wallet, and phone, try remembering the location of hundreds of thousands of appliances! Loopcycle’s traceability technology tracks where each product is in the supply chain, allowing businesses to find and recover their valuable resources at any time to get the best usage out of it. And, when the equipment is no longer needed, Loopcycle have another trick up their sleeve, helping to find it a new home and enabling second hand exchanges. The end of take-make-waste culture is in sight.
Founder/s:
Roy Vercoulen and Niels van der Linden
Located In:
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Circular IQ’s CTI Tool combines and simplifies your company data to complete the picture of your business’ circular performance, demystifying the process and signposting the way to a circular future.
What They Do: So, your company wants to improve its impact on the planet and take the next step on their circular transition journey, but where do you even start? Energy, transportation, materials; it can be tricky to know which to change to have biggest positive impact on the planet. What’s more, you want options which are cost-effective and easy to implement. Self-confessed circularity geeks Circular IQ have identified the biggest hurdle to making these choices: incomplete and incomparable data on circularity. This is where their flagship product CTI Tool comes in handy. The software combines and simplifies the data to complete the picture of your business’ circular performance, demystifying the process and signposting the way to a circular future.
Founder/s:
Sven Matthiesen
Located In:
Weingarten, Germany
devicenow ensures sustainable use of company IT-devices globally and offers a true device subscription: From sourcing to recycling.
What They Do: devicenow ensures sustainable use of company IT-devices globally and offers a true device subscription: From sourcing to recycling – with a global Device as a Service solution, which is based on the concept of the Circular Economy. It increases the useful life of the devices on the one hand and reduces the number of devices on the other.
