CE Incubator kicks off with 33 sustainability startups
Summary
Divided into four categories, the startups are developing solutions for various industries, including food, textile, sharing economy, and materials. With the support of advisors, experts and a network of impact investors, the entrepreneurs will work on their solutions to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) and validate their business models. The program will run in the cities of Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Ticino and Zurich.The startups in their respective categories are:GreenUp leverages the effect of social media and the entertaining aspect of gaming to promote a circular economy and establish eco-friendly habits in peoples life.Eternitee A platform that values and makes social contributions count by recognising skills and tokening time dedicated to society.Circular Lugano Sagl Maximising the utilisation of common items that end up in cellars so that more people can use the same items without the need of owning a new one.Vints VINTS is a Swiss app for second-hand clothing on which you can buy and sell commission free.Histoire sans Chute A refuge for all the textile material that does not pass quality control.Trashmanship. a sustainable brand of high-quality furniture and home accessories carefully crafted with the reuse of local construction and demolition of waste.Well-Rounded A circular fashion startup that makes clothing essentials for the whole family.TexUp TexUp recycles used textiles in the form of designer acoustic panels to reduce noise in interior spaces.Cirkel Supply Co. Specialising in apparel rental, offering skiers & snowboarders a new, circular way to reduce their impact by renting premium outerwear.UniDress UniDress is an app that allows student communities to sell, repair and rent their wardrobes and buy first-hand clothes from ethical brands.Turtle Turtle is the platform that connects locals with the all available second-hand clothing in one place, enabling them to quickly find what they want in their style, hassle-free.CircleUp Empowers brands for circularity by providing them with a website of all secondhand offers of their brand from the internet to launch their re-commerce program in a second.CircleToys Reducing the environmental impact of toys by giving them a second life.Kuori Developing materials that follow the cradle-to-cradle principle, are bio-based and bio-degradable.rstemoebel Small and somewhat larger furniture with one thing in common: they are built almost exclusively from material scraps that arise during furniture production in carpentry workshops.Ocean Safe OceanSafe is a Swiss capital light advanced materials technology licensing company for circular, biodegradable and toxin-free textiles.StylistEye A digital wardrobe helping people reduce clothes consumption and save time & money and the planet through getting styled by professionals.EasyVrac EasyVrac is an online marketplace for zero-waste products. Our reusable packaging is collected after use, cleaned and reintroduced in the circuit.Ampuja By gathering organic food waste from restaurants, bars and hotels, Ampuja produces and process a spirit using alcoholic fermentation.Biochar A climate technology company with a circular carbon removal solution to decarbonise the atmosphere.miniMenu enables small private households to make stress-free and sustainable meal decisions by equipping them with a digital assistant.UriCycle Transforming the bathroom from a waste emission towards a fertiliser production site using an innovative on-site urine treatment technology.MyCPAC Producing a biodegradable packaging material out of the waste from biological edible mushroom production to substitute Styrofoam (EPS) in a closed cycleEnchar is a B2B marketplace for biochar, maximising its benefits and enabling rapid growth of this carbon-negative industry.Glac\xe9 L\xf6\xf6\xf6v Producing glac\xe9 in Basel from rescued and regional ingredients.