Join daily news updates from CleanTechnica on e-mail. Or follow us on Google News!
The SusHi Tech Problem, produced partly by the Tokyo Metropolitan Authorities, closed up final week, asserting Fermenstation because the winner of the 10M yen prize for many revolutionary startup. Over 500 startups participated, up greater than 170 from final 12 months’s SusHi Tech.
SusHi Tech focuses on options to societal issues, together with local weather change, growing old infrastructure, native vitality options, and preservation of conventional cultures. Enterprise capitalists descended on the expo, as did greater than 40,000 individuals, to see the greater than 400 exhibitors.
Fermenstation’s fermentation know-how produces alcohol by fermenting and distilling unused assets. The residue might be used as purposeful beauty elements, in addition to animal feed for hens and cattle, whereas the manure can be utilized as fertilizers. Working with native communities, the corporate seeks to create a zero-waste round society.
Fermenstation’s CEO, Lina Sakai, mentioned, “The award will be very helpful for our global expansion. SusHi Tech was a great opportunity to meet overseas startups and people from ecosystems in places like France or the US. We had really good conversations with potential customers. I think the change in people’s mindsets is great news for everyone in climate and sustainability-related business.”
Additionally receiving awards have been a number of different sustainable startups. BUYO bioplastics makes use of bio-waste and plant supplies to create plastic options. Entomal Biotech does biowaste therapy and natural by-product upcycling utilizing the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens), to supply environmentally pleasant merchandise.
Have a tip for CleanTechnica? Wish to promote? Wish to counsel a visitor for our CleanTech Speak podcast? Contact us here.
Newest CleanTechnica.TV Movies
CleanTechnica makes use of affiliate hyperlinks. See our coverage here.
