Biomimetx holds the patent for the process of creating a unique compound that will allow the development of marine antifouling paint that is non-toxic, 100% biodegradable, cost effective and fully efficient against all elements of biofouling. In 2017 we have supported Biomimetx in obtaining a Phase 1 and a Phase 2 SME Instrument grant of 1,45M€ that is being used to launch a new disruptive commercial paint in the world market.

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Industrial Biotechnology

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Urban mobility & car sharing

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Omniflow developed a groundbreaking omnidirectional wind turbine, the most added-value hybrid wind and solar energy solution currently on the market, with embedded solar photovoltaic cells in the powerful and compact turbines, optimizing electricity generation throughout the day and in different meteorological conditions.

Several features have been developped since the collaboration with Snap! started leading to a state-of-the-art autonomous plaform, with several applications and intelligence, that expand from video and meteorological surveillance capabilities to becoming a wi-fi hotspot or an electric charging station.

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Renewable energy, smart cities, ICT

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Nuada has the mission to empower the everyday tasks for people who lost hand strength, suffer from acute hand pain or have a hand-intensive work. Their smart glove is a revolutionary hand-function-enhancement system, safe, light and small that was designed to be affordable and non-intrusive.

The Nuada glove uses thin, breathable, flexible and smart textiles that users can customize to their needs. It’s a unique enhancement technology that aims to be an everyday essential wearable either for 

An innovative seamless daily care that allows active people to regain autonomy and reconnect with the world around them.

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Robots & Heatlthcare

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Eixo Digital has developed a data platform that provides access to Copernicus-based data to downstream processors, such as Maritime operators (land and sea) or App developers, in an API-format. This enables developers to easily access the complex data files that Copernicus produces, without the need of using specialized Big Data algorithms and develop new processing languages.

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Space

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InnoWave Technologies has developed the InnSpect IoT, a Quality of Experience solution that provides automated testing with a graphical user interface (used for final quality testing at the factory for the produced equipment), that replicates user interactions on Set-Top Boxes, mobile devices, and IoT devices.

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Internet of Things | UX

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Sensefinity wants to become the Enabler of the IoT (Internet of Things) for the Masses by offering a off-the-shelf sensor-platform integrated into a Cloud and SaaS (Software as a Service) to provide specialised applications for business; by providing pre-integrated devices with SaaS software prepared for each of them, i.e. Consumer, Retail, Building, Medical, Energy, Transport and Industry, the IoT can become commonplace, a commodity, and, thus be accessible to any company in any sector of activity.

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IoT | Digitalization

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Watt-IS is a company focused on promoting energy efficiency in households and SMEs through the development of an intelligent and self-learning data analytics engine that interprets smart metering data and automatically generates benchmarking analysis, disaggregation of consumption sources and tailor-made energy efficiency measures for each end-use consumption profile. As a result, benefits are generated to different partners throughout the value chain, namely: energy utility companies, Energy Service Companies (ESCOs), households and SMEs.

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Energy efficiency | Data Analytics

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Logistema, a company with more than 23 years of experience providing Logistic Professional Services in Europe, Latin America and Africa, developed LOOP, a platform that integrates Logistic Service Providers (LSP) and Suppliers in a new, disruptive way, and that can also involve urban mobility regulators (such as municipalities or regional authorities). LOOP promotes the federation of LSPs and the sharing of existing and new infrastructure for urban logistics, virtually increasing the capacity of the system due to resource synergy.

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Logistics in Smart Cities

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Ground Drone Ltd. is a seed-funded robotics startup. Their brand MOV.AI is a software and hardware framework for making mobile machines intelligent. It is composed of navigation based artificial intelligence, modular sensor hardware, intuitive user interface, and robust robot control methodology that together make robot autonomy. They are currently working on pilot projects aimed at automating the Industrial and Photography markets with a long-term focus to expand into other markets and apply their framework to a full range of mobile machines.

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Robotics & Machine Intelligence

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NeuroPsyAI is a Portuguese innovative spin-off start-up from the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering (IBEB) and the Institute of Molecular Medicine (iMM Lisboa), of the University of Lisbon. With a combined expertise of over 25 years in neurosciences, neuroimaging, and machine-learning, the founders created NeuroPsyCAD, using cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence in order to make an impact in the Global challenge of accurate and on time diagnosis of neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. 

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Neurosciences, Neuroimaging & machine-learning

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Biomode develops and commercializes rapid diagnostic kits for the detection of foodborne and clinical pathogens – PROBE4® test kits. Their solution responds to the need for faster, more accurate and economic testing for both food industry and healthcare. The company was founded in 2014 as a result of the research work developed at the University of Minho and the University of Porto.

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Biotechnology

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Sea4Us is a biotech start-up created in 2013 to discover new leads for unmet clinical needs.Their research in the Portuguese south-western sea coast originated innovative breakthroughs that led to the development of a unique analgesic of marine origin with expected high efficacy and reduced toxicity/side-effects – Sea4Pain. Sea4Pain is a novel analgesic that acts with a new mode of action that will give rise to a new class of pharmaceutical drugs, which will have fewer side effects than opioids and won’t cause addiction. 

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Biotechnology

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FSaude, founded in 1960 in Coimbra, Portugal, starting as a local pharmacy that has grown and innovated during the years to provide cutting-edge support to the community. They created DrBox as a tool for doctors, pharmacists, and patients (that can be also used for Nursing Homes, Health Research and by National Health Services) in Europe, allowing the registration of all the health data of a patient, associating all the therapies, medicines and diagnoses to the patient, while following all the regulatory requirements for patient personal data protection.

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Patient Data Technology

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PAVNEXT, Lda is a Portuguese spinoff company inspired by the founder's Ph.D. research in Sustainable Transportation Systems of the MIT-Portugal Program. They present the first solution that will reduce vehicles' speed without any driver action and, at the same time, without affecting or interfering with ride quality. As Pavnext is implemented in the road pavement, it has a privileged position to monitor traffic and speed, and since it generated and delivers electrical energy it can also monitor these. Combining all the information, it makes use of it to optimize energy consumptions in real time in a unique way.

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Sustainable Transportations | Smart Cities | Energy Efficiency

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Signinum, founded in 2001, is an SME dedicated to preserving and restoring cultural heritage. With a core team of 30 professionals, their field interventions and work in the conservation lab gave birth to XPECAM a new tool for the cultural heritage conservation professionals that adds value to their work by cutting costs, increasing the quality of the restorations and improving documentation of the work. By producing a product that can help conservators in their work, and that can become a common tool, like a laptop or a digital camera, they managed to obliterate the need to subcontract external lab tests (such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Materials Surface Mapping (MSM)).

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Art Conservation & Restoration | Spectral Exams

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Bluemater’s main activities lay in wastewater, gas and drinking water treatment. They develop and commercialize leading-edge systems, provide technical assistance to their customers and assure the maintenance of the installed equipment. They developed several biological treatment solutions for wastewater products that use state of the art technology, applied in the most advanced systems to remove suspended solids. In 2008 they introduced the Algamater Wastewater Treatment Plant: a highly robust, flexible, cost-effective, and eco-friendly wastewater treatment system. Since then they have been working also in Potable Water, Gas & Odour Treatment.

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Wastewater & Potable Water Treatment | Gas & Odour Treatment | Bioremediation

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AgroInsider provides large-scale Precision Agriculture services available for all farmers, agronomists and companies with accessible pricing ranges differentiated by scale and specific needs of each farming operation. AgroInsider PA services provide greater sustainability, higher productivity and lower costs for farms. They have developed proprietary AgroRadar algorithms that process Copernicus EO Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data (Sentinel 1A and 1B), therefore obtaining more precise and detailed information than any other PA company in the world, in an affordable, automated way.

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Agriculture

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MEDimprove is an online platform that supports adult individuals and the general population in the process of managing minor health problems. Using a proprietary algorithm and according to the patient’s profile, MEDimprove provides personalized self-care and self-medication recommendations. Users add information about their symptoms, health history, current medication and characteristics, such as sex, weight, whether they are smokers, or need to drive, etc. In the end, they will be advised on the best course of treatment, receiving information about their symptoms, measures to adopt and one or more lists of OTC medicines and/or other health products, all personalized for the users’ input data. MEDimprove provides patients with an easy access to trustworthy online health and medicines information and to personalized advice to treat minor health problems.

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Medical Healthcare

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NANO4 platform is a colorimetric molecular diagnostic based on gold nanoparticles that provide fast specific identification of presence of a particular DNA or RNA biomarker with the potential to radically transform the way we perform molecular diagnostics. Due to its simplicity, NANO4 solution shall have a tremendous impact on decentralised molecular diagnostics - from lab to point of need

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Nanotechnology based molecular diagnostics

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DART Diagnostics was created to improve diagnostics, bringing the benefits of recent nanomedicine discoveries to industrial pathogen detection. DART is a new technology that allows immunoassays with higher sensitivity. It can be applied to pathogens and toxins detection, in the food and clinical sectors.

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Diagnostics

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Materialize.X has created a patented adhesive product that fits industrial requirements for particleboards, OSB and MDF production, making it easier to integrate into the existing manufacturing landscape.  They have developed a biologically based adhesive that works within an industrial environment and is produced from an alternative feedstock, compliant with current regulations. On top of that, they offer software support for optimization of production.

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Engineered Wood Industry

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Prodsmart is a SaaS MES solution for real time process tracking for production lines and job shops – across the supply chain. Prodsmart is a complete system for analysis, management and optimization for manufacturing SMEs working in real time. It is a cloud based MES that uses mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) to collect data directly from the production site. This process eliminates paper records and allows for real-time analysis, helping to reduce waste, increase productivity and allows for critical management of shipping and deadlines. It is a world-class solution that integrates Industry 4.0 tendencies with cloud architecture, big data analysis, worker mobility, M2M, etc.

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Manufacturing SMEs

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C2C-NewCap is a company founded in 2014 that develops electric energy storage solutions and is currently manufacturing full scale supercapacitor prototypes based on metal oxides. C2C-NewCap seeks to provide next-generation devices for storing electrical energy and aims to deliver high efficiency energy solutions.

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Electrical Energy

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Smart Separations is a limited company that has patented an innovative microfilter technology to produce highly resistant ceramic filters with pores of uniform size in the range of <1 to 50μm, revolutionising the field of MF with a cost-effective product. SSL has developed a better, cheaper, more efficient/robust filter to separate micron-sized particles: a proprietary filtration technology based on a novel adaptation of long-established ceramic filters tailored to suit a wide range of different applications. SSL enables the production of unique filters with tailored “conical” cut-through pores, ideal for when pore sizes are usually unavailable/unknown.

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Microfiltration of particles

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With a significant impact on both public health and economy, food recalls are a major concern for the food industry due to a continuously ascending number of identified contaminated food products incidents. Mater Dynamics has leveraged state-of-the-art nanotechnology and developed QStamp®, a flexible, low-cost and wireless sensor that can measure temperature, humidity, pressure and light.

Applicable to any material regardless of its shape or surface, QStamp runs without battery and can measure temperature, humidity and pressure data. The information collected is then sent through wireless protocols such as RFID to the database to be later on aggregated into actionable data within the users preferred system (ranging from Excel to complex supply chain management ERP’s) via API’s.

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Nanotechnology, nano-materials, nano engineering;

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The “Spawnfoam” idea emerged in 2013 with a clear goal: to change the paradigm of production and consumption of petroleum-derived composites and materials, such as plastics, presenting a competitive alternative of organic and biodegradable origin.

From idea to practice, today Spawnfoam is a recognized biotechnology company with major awards and prizes. It differs in the market by the technological innovation in the development of biomaterials that contribute decisively to increase the planet’s sustainability, to improve the efficiency in the use of the resources and, consequently, to the transition to a circular economy.

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Biomaterials, circular economy, biodegradable

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Security data breaches are continuously increasing while companies worldwide are spending billions to prevent them and control the damage done. Current security testing is limited as it is reactive, relying on snapshots of previous incidents and manual ad-hoc testing.

intigriti is a crowdsourced platform where security researchers (ethical hackers) and companies in need of advanced security precautions meet. With many high-value clients in Central Europe, intigriti offers a managed service and validates all vulnerability reports before they are sent to companies for further action.

Thus, the intigriti white hats help European companies stay one step ahead of malicious outsiders preventing identify theft and safeguarding data. 

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security testing, data protection, ethical hacking

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