PulpaTronics

PulpaTronics won the Pre-Commercialised Climate category at our 2024 Sustainability Awards, and Barna Soma Biro, the company’s co-founder and CTO, tells us more about the solution in this interview

What a pleasure to moderate the start-up pitch session today at the Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam. Respect for these brave entrepreneurs driving the much needed change in the packaging value circle; 💥Barna Soma Biro of PulpaTronics 💥Vaibhav Goel of Cirkla Inc. 💥Aaron Guan of Neptune Nanotechnologies Inc. 💥Andrew Bliss of ecoshell 💥Hugo Adams of Kelpi 💥Tangui Van der Elst of Keiryo Packaging Technologies 💥Sandra Wiegman of Kalpana Systems 💥Tristan Bagnall of It's Fresh! 💥Davide Mazzanti of sykell 💥Denis Ryabtsun and Robin Verbruggen of Lasso Loop Recycling 💥Joost Bakx of Footprint When you are a corporate looking for an open innovation and venture capital partner or a start-up looking for funding, please reach out. Happy to discuss how Emerald Technology Ventures can support. Bold Ideas. Bright Future

Better late than never… finally taking the time to reflect on all that happened during #NYclimate week 2024. It was exhilarating running across Manhattan between events organised by The Hubs Live, Nest Climate Campus, Imperial College, and Stella McCartney (and more!) to hear leaders share industry insights and latest trends on their climate initiatives. 🌳 ⭐ Key highlights:  • Met the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and discussed how winning the Mayor's Entrepreneur Competition has accelerated our progress. • Celebrated Notpla's 25m close at Nasdaq. What a cool moment– biggest congrats to Pierre-Yves and Rodrigo! • Joined Imperial’s startup showcase event and dined with President Hugh Brady of Imperial College London and senior leaders over dinner with discussions around Imperial’s vision and how to attract US talent across the pond. • Attended Stella McCartney's events around Circularity and Conscious Design and mingled with Mango Materials, Keel Labs, PURE.TECH, BioFluff (SAVIAN), Protein Evolution and NFW at the Sustainable Future of Fashion Breakfast. • Met like-minded founders at the Nature Inspired Climate Startups event hosted by the The Biomimicry Institute. • Gained insights from an esteemed panel discussion on Accelerating Reuse Practices in Critical Mineral Supply Chains. 💡 Main takeaways: • More needs to be done between public and private partnerships to reach net zero goals. • Setting international ISO net zero standards can help simplify processes, set benchmarks and drive urgency across the globe. • Access to data can help drive net zero change, but we need simpler processes and comparable data to get there. 🚀 Now, time to take these learnings and turn them into actionable items for PulpaTronics’ roadmap! 🗣 Shoutout to these fellow founders who made this trip extra memorable: Megan from Team Repair, Antoinette and Emma from Cyanoskin, Cai Linton from Multus, Amir from Shellworks and Natalie Chung, CESGA from V'air Sustainability Education. Biggest thanks to Victoria Nicholl and the Imperial Enterprise Lab for always creating opportunities for Imperial startups to shine. #ClimateWeekNYC #HubsLive #sustainableinnovation #pulpatronics