Agri Smart Engineering

Advanced Materials & Chemicals

AgriSmart Engineering is a company specializing in controlled environment agriculture (CEA) solutions specifically tailored for cannabis cultivation. The company is driven by its founders, Constant Beckerling, a chemical engineer, and Anlo van Wyk, a mechatronic engineer. Constant's expertise lies in nutrient formulation, waste water treatment, and bio-engineering, while Anlo focuses on embedded systems design, software development, and electronic/mechanical analysis. Together, they are pursuing their respective MSc degrees at the University of the Witwatersrand. AgriSmart's goal is to develop technologies that contribute to a sustainable cannabis industry worldwide, including closed-loop hydroponic systems, cultivation lighting designs, and data management solutions. The company offers services in facility design, production planning, and operational management for cannabis cultivation.

Contact

Constant Beckerling

agrismartengineering@gmail.com

Country:     South Africa
Year:     2022

KYIANA PLAST

Waste Beneficiation

Kyiana Plast is a Ukrainian company that recycles polypropylene (PP5) waste into secondary PP granules. Its process spans pre-sorting, shredding, washing, melting, extrusion, filtering, and granulation, producing pellets used in woven bags, agro-canvas, packaging film, spunbond, pipes, and other technical and household plastics. A competitive strength is accepting polypropylene in a wide variety of forms - up to 20 different types. Operating a B2B model, it serves suppliers and manufacturers including Aleana, Gartec, and Nowy Styl, and has grown output to around 450 tonnes per month. Each tonne of secondary granule replaces virgin polypropylene, and the company equates its recycled output to a broadly comparable tonnage of CO2 emissions avoided versus virgin production. Its planned Phase 2 line deepens environmental impact: more efficient equipment, replacing grid power with solar, wet and dry dust filtration, circular water treatment and reuse, and high-calorie waste management - aligned with five SDGs and ISO 14001 certification. The roadmap covers energy transformation, cleaner air and water, better waste management, and scaling recycling capacity.

Contact

Tomas Alter

kiyanaplast@gmail.com

Country:     Advanced Accelerator Ukraine
Year:     2025

PowerDrive

Transportation

PowerDrive is a veteran-founded e-mobility company offering a complete sustainable urban-mobility ecosystem built around electric scooters for couriers and delivery services. It provides rental, in-house repair, and its own electric scooters and lithium battery packs, delivering faster operations, lower running costs, zero emissions, and longer battery life than imported alternatives. Its differentiators are local design, assembly, and servicing in Ukraine, in-house repair, and proprietary battery technology, ensuring quality, durability, and fast maintenance. As a veteran-owned business, PowerDrive also creates jobs for veterans through a growing network of veteran-run workshops that support their social reintegration. Revenue comes from B2B scooter-rental subscriptions, maintenance and battery-service contracts, and vehicle and battery sales. Each scooter avoids roughly 500 kg of CO2 per year, and more than 85% of battery materials are recyclable. With over 120 active vehicles across Lutsk, Rivne, and Lviv, years of technical experience, and a partnership with Glovo, PowerDrive is expanding to more cities.

Contact

Dariia Shchuruk

dariashchuruk@gmail.com

Country:     Advanced Accelerator Ukraine
Year:     2025

NATIXAR

Energy Efficiency

Natixar is a deep-tech company developing digital solutions for the traceability, decarbonisation and operational intelligence of critical raw materials and industrial supply chains. Its platform combines artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT and satellite Earth observation to create verifiable digital records of a material’s origin, transformation, carbon footprint and chain of custody. Natixar enables companies to trace minerals and industrial products from production to the final product while securely connecting operational, environmental and supply-chain data.

Key applications include batch-level carbon accounting, Digital Product Passports, CBAM compliance, mineral traceability, satellite monitoring of mining operations, and AI-based analysis of operational and environmental risks. Natixar works with industrial and mining partners on pilot projects in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia. Its technology is designed particularly for critical minerals, metals, mining, manufacturing and other complex supply chains where trusted data, regulatory compliance and proof of origin are becoming strategic requirements. Natixar’s ambition is to provide industries with a trusted digital infrastructure connecting physical materials to verifiable data throughout their lifecycle.

Contact

Svetlana CRANGA

s.cranga@natixar.com

Country:     Republic of Moldova
Year:     2024

GemanLee

Waste Beneficiation

GemanLee is a South African cleantech venture specialising in the recovery and refinement of high-value critical metals from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. Operating within the waste beneficiation sector, the company collects spent lithium-ion batteries from registered recyclers across Gauteng Province, processes them through a proprietary mechanical and electrochemical recovery system, and produces battery-grade outputs including cobalt, nickel, manganese, and lithium carbonate, achieving metal purities of up to 99.66%.
The core technology combines an eco-friendly organic acid leaching system with a novel ultrasonic-assisted electrochemical recovery method. Unlike conventional pyrometallurgical approaches which are energy-intensive, CO₂-heavy, and destroy lithium in the process and standard hydrometallurgical methods that rely on hazardous inorganic acids, GemanLee process uses biodegradable reagents, operates at lower temperatures, and produces five distinct, market-ready metal outputs rather than lower-grade mixed black mass. This results in a meaningfully lower carbon footprint and reduces hazardous waste generation.

Contact

Gosego Sedikelo

Keotshepile.gosego@gmail.com

Country:     South Africa
Year:     2025

Smart Collecte

Waste Beneficiation

Smart Collecte is a mobile application that grants users instant loyalty points every time they collect and sort their household waste (plastic, iron, aluminum, etc.). Smart Collecte's application allows users to accumulate and convert these points into money. The waste collected is sold to recycling and processing companies.

Contact

Country:     Morocco
Year:     2023

Kaeane Renewable Energy Developers

Renewable Energy
Waste Beneficiation

Established in 2018, Kaeane Renewable Energy Developers is a renewable energy start-up solution with products and services that are directed towards solving existing sustainable energy problems and waste management. Kaeane Renewable Energy brings enviromentally friendly technologies to cover the energy demand in communities and industrial places. Kaeane Energy develops, produces and markets biogas systems for onsite handling of organic waste. The company builds fixed dome digesters and basuka tanks as well as gas installations into the households, eliminating the need for emptying septic tanks and pit latrins. The company's systems apply an environmentally friendly biological process converting organic waste into biogas and organic fertilizer, upcycling organic waste into energy resources.

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Country:     Lesotho
Year:     2023

BIZ STRATEGY SRL

Green Buildings

We collect dirty air from traffic jams and transform it in a breatheble fresh air with oxygen.

Contact

Vlad Burac

vlad.burac@gmail.com

Country:     Republic of Moldova
Year:     2025

EcoFabrica

Renewable Energy

Eco Fabrica is a company specializing in renewable sources of energy and green technologies. An important activity launched recently is manufacturing of solar air collectors used for heating spaces and drying fruits/vegetables/plants using solar energy.

Contact

Vladimir Ursu

ecofabricasrl@gmail.com

Country:     Republic of Moldova
Year:     2024

Solis Technology (Solis Yazılım ve Mühendislik Teknolojileri A.Ş.)

Solis Technology develops intelligent LED lighting systems that dynamically optimize the light spectrum according to plant species and growth stage. Powered by proprietary plant light recipes and a four-channel independent control architecture, our solution enables up to 40% energy savings while improving yield and crop quality in greenhouse and controlled-environment agriculture.

Contact

Esma Saltık Çiçek

info@solistechnology.net

Country:     Türkiye
Year:     2025