Sustainable city solutions: Meet the 10 top startups shortlisted for the 2021 Future Hamburg Award (Sponsored)
Summary
Their business ideas range from AI-based software to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions, to new strategies for plastic avoidance, and a sustainable mobility solution that allows any vehicle to run on solar power alone. We are really looking forward to the jury’s decision and will be glad to welcome the three strongest teams to Hamburg.” Overall, startups from as many as 15 countries applied to this year’s edition, including India, the US, the UK and Hong Kong/China. The award jury includes leading players from the fields of mobility, logistics and IT, among them Dr Ralf Belusa (Managing Director of Hapag Lloyd AG); Jörg Debus (CDO and Chief of Staff at Shell Germany); Gunnar Froh (founder and CEO of Wunder Mobility); Clare Jones (CCO of what3words), as well as Erik Wirsing (Vice President of Global Innovation at DB Schenker). Geckomatics (Belgium) – This startup team was founded in 2018 and develops mobile mapping systems based on machine learning that create digital twins of public spaces. These partners create an additional link to Hamburg, enable the implementation of test models in the port and may also provide considerable funding to innovative startups.