During the last For two days, 20 startups pitched their companies as part of londonbusinessblog.com’s Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022. These 20 companies were selected as the best of the brand new Startup Battlefield 200 and competed for a chance to take home the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. to take.
londonbusinessblog.com editors and expert judges have divided them among the following five finalists who will present to an all-new panel of judges on the final day of Disrupt, October 20, 2022:
Advanced Ions
Advanced Ionics aims to lower the price of green hydrogen by reducing the amount of electricity needed for electrolysis by as much as 50%. That is an admirable goal, because despite all the talk of hydrogen as a “fuel of the futureThe industry is still filthy for the most part, creating climate chaos through production methods that cause pollution. Most of the hydrogen gas that humans produce is “gray“; a classification that means the producers rely on methane (or worse, the burning of coal) to isolate the element for use in fertilizer and as a fuel. But as awareness of climate change and interest in hydrogen cargo grows, so does the demand for a more environmentally friendly alternative. Unlike the gray stuff, “green” hydrogen uses renewable energy and electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. It is a superior production method in terms of the climate, but it is also expensive because it requires a ton of clean energy.
AppMap
Boston based AppMap wants to prevent bad code from ever going into production. The open source dynamic runtime code analysis tool, which the startup claims is the first of its kind, is built on the simple idea that developers should be able to see the behavior of software as they write it so they can avoid problems when the software is released. is carried out . Unlike static analysis tools that don’t show runtime information, AppMap — which is built from scratch over a three-year period — runs within the code editor to show developers which components are communicating with which components, with what throughput and latency , what network speed and if there are errors in between, allowing developers to gain actionable insights and implement improvements faster than before.
Intropical materials
Plastics are great for so many things, but they last an awfully long time. Intropical springs to the rescue with a range of enzymes that can be added to plastics at the beginning of their life cycle, before they are even made into products. The additives the company makes have been proof-of-concept tested and it aims to change the way plastics are made and discarded. Intropic’s additives make many of the most commonly used plastics biodegradable in normal commercial composting. The enzymes are added to the granules or powders used in normal plastic production. This gives plastics new, biodegradable possibilities without changing the manufacturing processes used to make plastic products. At the end of the life cycle, when it is time to dispose of the material, the products can be composted into their constituent parts.
Minerva lithium
Minerva lithium has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel, extracting critical materials from brine in just three days. Minerva says it can extract one ton of lithium with just 30,000 gallons of water, and it can do it in three days. Evaporative brine processing has to evaporate 500,000 gallons of water to get the same amount of lithium. Just one gram of this absorbent material has a surface area equivalent to that of a football field, which should give you an idea of how little you need to extract a large amount of minerals.
Swap Robotics
Swap Robotics makes electric lawn mowing and snow removal robots and explains on stage how it makes sustainable outdoor equipment. In the coming years, 95% of the startup’s focus will be on facilitating robots that mow grass and vegetation on more than 1000 hectares of solar parks. The company’s secondary focus is sidewalk snowploughing. The team decided that their mission would be to create a solution that can mow the grass sustainably in a controlled environment. Swap Robotics was aware that solar-powered vegetation mowing comes with its challenges, as it requires a unique type of mowing deck that can get under solar panels, and realized that a robotic solution could address the problem.
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