WELCOME
We’re on a mission to find, evaluate and help accelerate purpose-driven entrepreneurs working with frontier technologies that are fundamentally improving the way we live and the planet we live on (or even beyond it).
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe that the most disruptive companies of our time will utilize breakthrough technologies to solve systemic problems in a profitable and scalable way.
WHAT WE DO
We work with a global network of senior executives, leading scientists, investors, serial entrepreneurs, and seasoned policy experts to source and evaluate disruptive sustainable innovations wherever they may surface in the world.
We’re systematic about going after the industries with the largest planetary footprint while regenerating the ecosystems essential to our life. Our primary areas of focus are:
- Health and Wellbeing: Reimagining a society where everyone can live a long and healthy life.
- Food and Water: Reimagining a society where everyone is provided with clean water and safe nourishing food.
- Energy and The Environment: Reimagining a society where everyone can enjoy clean and sustainable resources and energy.
HOW WE DO IT – AWARDS PROCESS
To get a sense of how our awards process works, please see below:
2022 KATERVA AWARDS - CATEGORY FINALISTS
Some of the world’s leading scientists and experts in sustainability, business, policy and investment have followed a rigorous evaluation and the finalists in each of the three categories are: (Click on each to view details)
Energy & Environment - Likido™ (a division of Dalrada) is developing true energy-efficient solutions for a Net Zero world by 2050. Likido™ Energy’s proprietary technology significantly reduces harmful CO2 emissions.
Patent-pending Likido™ONE is a revolutionary machine that captures and reuses thermal energy at a significant reduction in cost while aiding in the dramatic reduction of global warming potential. LikidoONE solves one of the World’s greatest challenges, the decarbonization of heat.
Likido
Energy & Environment - BeFC produces electricity with papers & enzymes. They produce paper biofuel cells which use enzymes to convert glucose and oxygen into electricity, providing a sustainable and compostable energy solution.
Partnered with their printed electronics, BeFC is pathing the way to low-cost and low-environmental impact electronics.
BeFC
Energy & Environment - NFW (Natural Fiber Welding) is the Circularity of Things(TM) company giving industries categorically new, natural material solutions to create responsibly.
NFW invents and manufactures shockingly sustainable products from nature. Beginning with naturally circular ingredients, NFW is making a material-rich, plastic-free future possible.
Natural Fiber Welding
Food & Water – Aquacycl treats complex industrial wastewaters to support healthy watersheds by improving water discharge quality and guaranteeing permit compliance.
They provide energy-neutral industrial pretreatment as a service, and their waste-to-energy system can mitigate up to 90% of greenhouse gases from wastewater treatment while reducing costs by 20-60%.
AQUACYCL
Food & Water – Air Protein is a modern meat company, crafting the world’s first air meat to feed us sustainably, help renew the planet’s resources, and eliminate the compromise between nutrition, taste, and climate impact.
We have reimagined and redesigned how meat is made and have created the most sustainable meat on the planet.
Air Protein
Food & Water – Formo is a FoodTech company on a mission to bring the next generation of dairy products to consumers. The startup is Europe's first cellular agriculture company developing animal-free dairy products using real, nature-identical milk proteins derived from precision fermentation.
In 2019, Formo was founded by Raffael Wohlgensinger to create a more sustainable and ethical food system — where change is not initiated through consumer sacrifice but rather through delicious and hedonistic products.
Formo Bio GmbH
Health & Wellbeing – Ribbon Biolabs defines new standards for molecular biology by applying innovative methods for DNA synthesis.
Ribbon Biolabs is a startup company based in Vienna, Austria, developing a new technology to synthesize large volumes of large and/or complex DNA molecules.
www.ribbonbiolabs.com
Ribbon Biolabs
Health & Wellbeing – Iterative Scopes develops artificial intelligence (AI)-based detection and diagnostic tools for gastrointestinal physicians to improve patient outcomes.
Iterative Scopes
Health & Wellbeing – BIOS Health. At the intersection of science and technology, BIOS’ mission is to unlock the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease, by using AI-powered neural interface technology that can automatically read and write neural signals.
Beginning with cardiac conditions, BIOS envisions a new field of treatments that use this new data-driven insight from the nervous system to create better, more targeted medicine.
BIOS HEALTH
PRIOR FINALISTS AND WINNERS
From climate change to sustainable energy sources, improved health and wellbeing for everyone, job creation and human productivity, education, food systems, broad financial empowerment, gender equality or space exploration and utilisation, we’re excited about the future.
To get a sense of some of the organizations that have caught our attention over the years (and have in many instances gone on to become billion-dollar enterprises) please see below.
Food and Water
This category includes projects changing what we eat, how we eat, and how we get our food.
Energy and Environment
This category includes solar, wind, and any other innovative ideas to create clean power (either for personal use or at a large scale) or new systems for better electricity capture, storage or distribution. It also covers technologies and programs to protect and regenerate forests, oceans, our atmosphere, and other limited environments as well as initiatives to create sustainable land use processes.
Health and Wellbeing
This category includes products and technologies that improve either personal or global well-being and longevity, from apps to devices, to new medical equipment and treatments.
Human and Economic Development
This category covers initiatives related to maintaining and improving the quality of life for all people regardless of race, color or creed.
Cities and Mobility
A society in which everyone can live and move freely, safely and pollution-free. This category includes buildings, landscapes, materials, and programs that make cities—and living in them—cleaner, more efficient, more beautiful, and more equitable for their citizens. It also covers innovations and efforts leading to safe and accessible, low- or zero-carbon transportation forms and efforts to improve current methods of mass transportation of materials.
GET IN TOUCH WITH US
We're always looking to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and LPs interested in redefining what’s possible. We look forward to hearing from you!
If you are an early-stage company seeking investment or other forms of support, please complete the company overview form here: