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From clean tech to sustainable mobility: the best startups of the G20 Innovation League

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Two Indonesian startups and as many from Russia, one from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, China and Canada: the geography of the new companies that have won the recognition offered by the Innovation League, an event organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is quite varied. in the framework of the Italian Presidency of the G20 and carried out in collaboration with the Ice agency, Cdp Venture Capital Sgr – Fondo Nazionale Innovazione and Simest. The review, which ended on Sunday 10 October in Sorrento, involved startups from 22 different countries (including Italy of course), over 100 venture capital and multinational funds and also saw the protagonist of the Pisan Zerynth, awarded in the IoT and Wearables category.

Technologies for the environment speak Russian (and English)

The spirit of the initiative, as the spokespersons confirm, is to give visibility to the new ideas and entrepreneurial projects of startups to build a more sustainable future alongside institutions and large companies. It is no coincidence that five themes are the subject of the competition (two companies awarded for each category) considered to have the greatest impact on the fate of the planet: clean technologies, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, smart cities and healthcare. In the field of cleantech, the English Act Balde and the Russian Biomicrogels Group excelled. The first has patented, and has already put into operation on some wind farms, new generation wind turbines that are 32% lighter and 10% longer than conventional ones, and therefore able to ensure an increase in energy production by 9 % and the reduction of failures and outages. The second deals with hygiene and sterilization and is the first company in the world to have applied the principle of reversible solubility of natural polymers (already used in the medical industry) in water treatment and cleaning hard surfaces.

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Smart mobility and video analytics algorithms

Dott (Dutch) and Virtuo Technologies (French), on the other hand, are the two startups that have earned recognition in the Smart Cities & Mobility category thanks (respectively) to a fleet of 45,000 e-scooters and 11,000 e-bikes and sharing solutions dedicated to travel outside urban centers. The first is able to serve 400,000 users in 30 cities in nine countries, while the second is currently active in 20 cities in four countries. In the field of artificial intelligence, on the other hand, Ruangguru and Ntechlab, coming in order from Indonesia and Russia, have beaten the competition. The winning projects are an app created to offer personalized learning paths to students (over 20 million already registered) and an algorithm for video analytics capable of beating all records in terms of speed and accuracy in recognizing faces, shapes and actions. human beings, as well as in the identification of vehicles.

The IoT (made in Italy) to digitize the industry

Instead, we owe to the Canadian Poka an application (Web and mobile) for the business world that allows workers to acquire, use and share critical information in real time, increasing the productivity of the employees themselves and enabling a standardized multimedia knowledge of procedures, training content and solutions related to each workstation and plant or machine. The second startup awarded in the IoT & Wearables category is the Italian Zerynth, to which we owe a platform designed to accelerate the digital transformation of the industrial sector in which hardware and software tools, electronics and sensors for process monitoring and optimization converge of factory, energy consumption, predictive maintenance and retrofit of machines. Born in 2015 from the idea of ​​four Pisan university students, it has the Vertis Venture 3 Technology Transfer fund as a share capital of 36% and aims at a turnover of ten million euros within the next five years (compared to 700 thousand in 2020) thanks to the scalability of your business model.

The future of healthcare comes from Asia

Finally, two Asian companies, Nalagenetics and Sansure, won the challenge dedicated to the Healthcare theme. The first, from Indonesia, has developed a customized prescription platform to offer accurate tests and tailor-made solutions, according to the different needs of doctors, patients and laboratories. The second, from China, is a biotech company that deals with the research, development, production and sale of reagents and diagnostic tools, to which it adds third-party medical testing services. Among its products is Advance Magnetic Beads Technology, a solution that uses modified paramagnetic nano-spheres to absorb DNA / Rna from a sample analyzed with high purity, making screening processes more effective and faster.

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