We thank all the 100+ applicants for this year’s Nordic Cleantech Open cleantech start-up competition for the first application phase. We are delighted to see the new idea flows coming from various cleantech segments and see many opportunities to jump into the exciting action of these companies. 

The Nordic Cleantech Open process will continue next year with jury evaluation, selection of Top25 companies and finally coming down to Top3 and the winner. We’ll keep you updated along the way.

Now, merry Christmas for all!

Best regards,

Cleantech Scandinavia team

Ready to show your cleantech innovation to the world? You can start by showing your work to our expert jury members, who come from various backgrounds – international industrial companies, venture capital firms and cleantech/start-up supporting organizations. This takes a few minutes of your time, but the payback is great! Here’s what you can win:
Participation in  the Nordic Camp, an all-inclusive weekend together with investors, industrials and competition partners at a castle in the south of Sweden
A Pitch at the  Nordic Cleantech Open Finals, which brings together 200 investors, industry and cleantech companies.
Pitch opportunities at the  Nordic Cleantech Showcases,   in   Shanghai, Barcelona, Lyon, Berlin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Boston  for the most suitable early entrants.

– The early-bird applicants are reviewed by Cleantech Scandinavia and one early-bird applicant will get an opportunity to enter one of the suitable networking events for free so that you can get to the action and create business traction!
A one year membership in the  Nordic Cleantech Accelerator Program  for the winning company (value of 5 000€)
Networking opportunities  with our members of international investors and industry
A description of your company and visibility in the widely distributed  Top 25 report
 Pitch training

All applicants get:
 Written feedback  from the expert jury to improve your case. Note! Write your application well and thoroughly this way you get the best feedback.

Apply now  and take your chance to gain visibility, feedback and new connections!

Cleantech Scandinavia’s Nordic Cleantech Open announced this week the Top 3 winners of Nordic Cleantech Open 2016/17 at the award dinner of Cleantech Capital Day in Oslo. And the winner is, for the first time, from Norway.

The winner of Nordic Cleantech Open 2017 is EnergyNest. EnergyNest has developed a new Thermal Energy Storage solution with game-changing economics for the renewable energy industry as well as for energy-intense industrial applications.

Second prize winner is SoilScout, with a ground-breaking technology providing critical insight into data from deep below the surface, wirelessly, near real-time, and maintenance free for up to 20 years, with the potential to reduce irrigation water and energy use by up to 50%.

Third prize is awarded to ifoodbag. ifoodbag offers an innovative, disruptive and recyclable packaging solution made from a paper composite material that locks in cold and protect refrigerated and frozen food.

Congratulations to EnergyNest, SoilScout and ifoodbag for impressing the investor and industry jury!

Read the full press release here.

Today we are proud to announce the Top 10 companies in this years Nordic Cleantech Open, it has as always been a very close race! We look forward to welcome all of the companies to the finals at the Cleantech Capital Day 3-4 of April in Oslo, make sure to secure your spot to meet them all (www.ccd.cleantechscandinavia.com). 

Soil Scout
www.soilscout.com

Strongcrete
www.rollit.se

Swedish Algae Factory
www.swedishalgaefactory.com

DLaboratory
www.dlaboratory.com

EnergyNest
www.energy-nest.com

Flow-Loop
www.flow-loop.dk

Greater Than
www.greaterthan.eu

ifoodbag
www.ifoodbag.com

Infuser
www.infuser.eu

Modvion
www.modvion.com

Press Release can be found here!

We’re proud to release this years Top 25 report with description on all of the Top 25 companies, articles with two of last years Top 3 companies, statistics from the competitions start and more. Read it here!  

After our annual massive sweep of the Nordic innovation environment to find the most exciting and progressive start-ups around, we ended up with an impressive bunch of close to 100 companies. This year we also saw the highest percentage of first-time applicants since we started the competition and now, after our highly renowned jury have made their choices, we are excited to share this year’s Top 25 list.

Press here to be directed to the entire list! 

As always, the selection of the Top 25 signals the next step of the journey that is the Nordic Cleantech Open. Part of the experience and the next step, is participation at the Nordic Camp, a further chance to meet the jury members and pitch for a chance to move on to the Top 10, in February.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our applicants for entering the competition, the level of quality of the applications this year have been extremely good and the jury had their work cut out for them.

We would also like to say congratulations to the Top 25 and we will see you at Trolleholm!

There has been a lot of new events added to the Nordic Cleantech Open calendar.

We will have a special Nordic Cleantech Open info meeting in Linköping 7/10. David Frykerås that was in the top 10 last year with his company Againity will chair his experiences and it is also an opportunity to meet with representatives from Linköping Universitet Innovation and Cleantech Östergötland.

Meet us at Green Connect in Gothenburg 11/10 or in Uppsala 19/10. Besides discussing your Nordic Cleantech Open application these are great events if you want to meet angel investors.

If your company is targeting the real estate sector there will be excellent opportunities to pitch your case in front of a grand jury of real estate company representatives and representatives from Malmö Kommun 8/11.

Everything is not fully in place yet but the things that are is more than enough to motivate any cleantech entrepenur that he/she should spend a few minutes writing a great application to the sixth round of Nordic Cleantech Open. You can win:
– Participation in The Nordic Camp, an all-inclusive weekend together with investors at a castle in
the south of Sweden
– A Pitch at the Nordic Cleantech Open Finals, which brings 250 investors, industry and cleantech companies together
– Pitch opportunities at the Nordic Cleantech Showcases, in Toronto, Boston, New York Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Shanghai and Hong Kong for the most suitable early entrants.
– A one year membership in the Cleantech Scandinavia Accelerator Program for the winning company (value of 5000€)
– Networking opportunities with our members of international investors and industry
– A description of your company in the widely distributed Top 25 report
– Pitch training
– 
A Quality stamp for your company
– A service package from Chubb Insurance will be provided to 3 companies.

And even if you do not win you will get:
– Written feedback from the jury to improve your case.
– A chance to improve your design with Autodesk. All applying companies will be eligible for up to 120,000 € in free Digital Prototyping software through the Autodesk Cleantech Partner Program so that you can get their products to market faster.

And there will be more… Apply now to make sure you do not miss anything.