Dutch maritime start-up accelerator PortXL presented its 2024 cohort at the RDM on 11 September. Ten start-ups and scale-ups presented themselves and were connected to partners, mentors and members of the Rotterdam and Dutch innovation ecosystem, that will assist them in the coming months.
RDM is the Rotterdam space for innovative companies, technology education, high-quality test facilities and field labs.
The 2024 cohort consists of ten carefully selected start-ups and scale-ups from seven countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Israel, UK, USA) all with innovative solutions for many problems and inefficiencies in the marine, offshore and inland navigation industries.
Mitja Caboni, acceleration manager at PortXL introduced the new cohort and Linda Treuman, community manager, assigned mentors to them at the Matchmaking Monday mentor lunch session. Several PortXL alumni shared their experiences with the new cohort. Later in the day, representatives of PortXL’s partners and other stakeholders also joined in to “meet and greet” and learn about the new technologies.
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Start-ups and scale-ups to tackle challenges
For the partners and PortXL’s team this was the conclusion of months of gathering industry questions and problems, and finding and evaluating start-ups and scale-ups to match these challenges. In the coming months, the innovators will go through the programme with the goal of collaborating with industry players, pilot projects, investments and more.
Christel Pullens, director at PortXL, says: ‘We are proud and excited to welcome these ten innovators to the PortXL programme and ecosystem and look forward to guiding them to both a higher level of maturity and to collaborations and customers.’
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Partners
Since 2015, PortXL has facilitated the growth of more than 120 start-up and scale-up companies. Working in close cooperation with its industry partners – lead partners Port of Rotterdam and Van Oord, City of Rotterdam, Damen Shipyards, GTT and MINDbase – PortXL’s range of focus concentrates on the sustainable maritime, energy, logistics, and even defence sectors.
The ten start-ups/scale-ups of 2024 are:
- Akros Energy, working on a multifunctional hydrogen storage system.
- Carbon Blue, technology that removes excess CO2 from any type of water, freeing it to naturally absorb more greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere.
- CL Circular, CLCircular is a real-time monitoring service to know where perishable products are and what there status is during transport or storage, and thus prevent problems and losses.
- Seadar, SEADAR is the first underwater radar system capable of detecting, geolocating, mapping, and tracking all forms of metallic materials in the ocean.
- Fjuel, provides a shore power and energy infrastructure optimisation platform that transforms manual, error-prone operations into an automated, accurate, and seamless experience.
- EME, EME’s digital matching platform finds new high-value reuse options for materials or (waste) products.
- HalioGen Power, offers a membraneless flow battery that uses abundant raw materials for long-term energy storage.
- Omniwind, develops effective compact wind turbines with a patented duct design for the built environment.
- SEAO2, uses renewable electricity and seawater to extract CO2 from the surface of seawater and consequently from the atmosphere.
- Nauti, NAUTI is designed to revolutionise the way in which pollution in aquatic ecosystems is detected and adressed by integrating cutting-edge technology with Nature-Based Solutions (NBS).
Picture: PortXL 2024 cohort.
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