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digihub’s €25,000 Push Toward a Paying Customer
Düsseldorf’s publicly backed startup matchmaker is sharpening its focus on GreenTech. Its offer combines eight months of support, zero equity taken and access to the companies founders need to win over.
Agoranov gives science a room to become a business
Before Doctolib and Dataiku became familiar names, they passed through a Paris incubator with laboratories, patient advisers and no appetite for their equity. Agoranov’s next test is making more room for the companies that outgrow it.
etalytics
etalytics is a Darmstadt-based deep-tech company that builds AI software to make industrial energy systems more efficient and resilient. Its flagship platform, etaONE, pairs machine learning with physics-based model predictive control and digital twins to monitor, forecast, and autonomously optimize energy-intensive systems - especially HVAC and cooling - in data centers, automotive plants, and pharmaceutical and chemical production. Customers including Volkswagen, Equinix, Merck, and Digital Realty have reported cooling and ventilation energy reductions of up to 50%. Spun out of TU Darmstadt in 2020, the company raised a €16 million Series A backed by Microsoft's M12 fund and Alstin Capital.
Vericool Inc.
Vericool is a Livermore, California packaging manufacturer that makes plant-based, curbside-recyclable and compostable thermal shippers designed to replace Styrofoam (EPS foam) in cold-chain shipping. Founded in 2015 by Darrell Jobe, the company builds insulated coolers and liners from recycled paper fiber and other renewable materials, sells to food-service, grocery, meal-delivery and pharmaceutical customers, and is known for a second-chance hiring model that employs formerly incarcerated people.
Remora
Remora is a Detroit-area climate-tech company that bolts carbon capture onto the things already burning fuel - semi-trucks and freight locomotives - instead of building giant plants to pull CO2 back out of the sky. Its zero-backpressure device threads exhaust through proprietary adsorbents, captures up to 90% of the CO2, reduces soot and NOx to Tier 4 levels, then liquefies the gas to be sold into a supply-constrained industrial CO2 market. Operators share the revenue, so cutting emissions becomes a line item that pays rather than one that costs.