Biz Decoder #0004 - 5 new deeptech or impact businesses to discover this week & 1-month into Reactor
5 new exciting businesses and analysing the efforts
Hello everybody !
I hope that you are very excited about discovering 5 new businesses and explore their business model. I am too.
I wanted to take a break after 1 month of efforts with Reactor to look back on the nifty stats
Stats on Substack :
4 articles : 1 general + 3 Biz Decoder (not including this one) since Jan 22nd, 2024.
45% opening rate : proud of that number.
Subscribers : +13. Slow and steady.
430 views.
Stats on Linkedin :
30K views with 5K views for Stratolia, 3K for Sand to Green and 2,6 K for WeDoLow
Reaching 12K views on the past too weeks so more and more impressions. The audience is satisfied to discover your projects so let’s keep rocking. 🤘
And now, here are our startups of the week
Montblanc AI
Creation date : 2022
Founder.s : Markus Guerster, Valvanera Moreno, Luc Atangana
Location : Washington, DC - USA 🇺🇸
Number of Employees : 9
Keywords : AI, IoT, Industry 4.0, AIoT
My ‘why’ is :
Our "why" is to transform manufacturing with AI, making operations more efficient and data-driven. We aim to empower businesses with real-time insights and predictive analytics, reducing waste and enhancing productivity. Our motivation is fueled by the success we've achieved, like in the dairy industry, where our solutions significantly cut waste by analyzing vast amounts of data.
Complete this sentence : I help XXX (my customers) XXXXX (advantage of your solution) with XXX (my solution) :
I help manufacturers optimize operations and increase efficiency with AI.
👦🏽👧 Explain to us your business as we were 10 years old kids :
We're like magic helpers for factories, making sure they can create things perfectly without wasting anything, kind of like having a spell that fixes mistakes before they happen.
Final question: do you have something recent that you would like to highlight ?
I'm just about to publish my book on AI for manufacturing. Should go live on Monday. For people reading the newsletter, I'm happy to send them a free copy!
Thanks Markus !
Want to know more about MontBlanc ? Click here !
Insplorion
Creation date : 2010
Founder.s : Elin and Christoph Langhammer and Bengt Kasemo
Location : Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪
Number of Employees : 15
Keywords : Hydrogen sensors for a sustainable future.
My ‘why’ is :
Fossil free hydrogen as an energy carrier will be key to create a sutainable future. But safety is critical. It is the smallest molecule in existance, and can easily leak out. All along the hydrogen value chain, from production of hydrogen to the use of it - fast and specific sensors are needed to ensure safe and efficient operations. This is our why, and this is what we do.
Complete this sentence : I help XXX (my customers) XXXXX (advantage of your solution) with XXX (my solution) :
We help our customers to the safe and efficient use of hydrogen.
👦🏽👧 Explain to us your business as we were 10 years old kids :
Hydrogen is key to a suatainable future as it can be produced without using fossil fuels (wind, solar, hydroelectric etc). But it can easily leak out create safety issues if not quickly and accurately dedected. We develop sensors that do this, and by that we help create a sustainable future.
Final question: do you have something recent that you would like to highlight ?
Look at our website for most recent deals in the Marine, Power conversion and Aviation.
Thanks Johan !
Want to know more about Insplorion ? Click here !
Next
Creation date : 2023
Founder.s : Nicolas Dessus, Victor Bocquillon
Location : Paris, France 🇫🇷
Number of Employees : 2
Keywords : Education, training, media, Masterclass
My ‘why’ is :
Train and sensitize worker about the climate emergency and help them to build new project or change their enterprises.
Complete this sentence : I help XXX (my customers) XXXXX (advantage of your solution) with XXX (my solution) :
I help workers to understand and change their habits thanks to Masterclass, climate use cases and networking.
👦🏽👧 Explain to us your business as we were 10 years old kids :
Explain how the planet works to workers to build a better business world
Final question: do you have something recent that you would like to highlight ?
Recent launch was a success thanks to press release on Les Echos, Maddyness, Business cool and lot of Comex members post about their implication.
Thanks Nicolas !
Want to know more about XXX ? Click here !
Heimdall Sensors
Creation date : 2022
Founder.s : Joris Dalderup, Gijs Derks, Jeroen Sassen
Location : Eindhoven, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Number of Employees : 5
Keywords : IoT, Hardware, Optimization
My ‘why’ is :
Because we are going to save a lot of manhours, water, and chemicals which could we better used elsewhere!
Complete this sentence : I help XXX (my customers) XXXXX (advantage of your solution) with XXX (my solution) :
Heimdall Sensors Helps to enable the transition to data-driven cleaning, which leads to quality assurance, costs reduction and more sustainability.
👦🏽👧 Explain to us your business as we were 10 years old kids :
Currently most large office buildings are completely cleaned 4 times per year (e.g. 1-jan, 1-apr, 1-jul, 1-oct), while pollution patterns don't follow this exact pattern. Moreover large pollution differences can occur between different sides of a building (e.g. highway-side v.s. nature-side). Heimdall developed the sensor to exactly measure the dirtiness levels of windows to only intervene cleaning WHEN and WHERE it is needed! Leading to a reduction of washing actions by roughly 30% while still maintaining the same quality level.
Final question: do you have something recent that you would like to highlight ?
We just launched our last pilot phase and got attention from multiple local newspaper and on national radio!
Thanks Jeroen !
Want to know more about Heimdall Sensors ? Click here !
Wherewear
Creation date : 2022
Founder.s : Yasmine Brunet & Victoire Tassin
Location : Paris, France 🇫🇷
Number of Employees : 2
Keywords : Circular fashion, clothing rental, peer-to-peer platform
My ‘why’ is :
The figures are frightening: today, 100 billion items of clothing are sold every year worldwide, including 2 to 2.5 billion in France alone. Ever more clothes, ever cheaper! With 68% of the clothes we buy never being worn, and just sitting in our closets, we want to encourage people to open up their wardrobes and share their pieces via a rental platform for quality clothing and accessories.
Complete this sentence : I help XXX (my customers) XXXXX (advantage of your solution) with XXX (my solution) :
As a peer-to-peer rental platform, wherewear offers fashion lovers the opportunity to stop feeling guilty, by promoting more circular consumption and deconstructing the codes of today's market.
👦🏽👧 Explain to us your business as we were 10 years old kids :
wherewear is a website where your mom can rent out the pretty clothes and accessories she has in her closet to other people to earn money and meet new people. If she's ever invited to a wedding next summer, she'll also be able to rent that piece from someone else, rather than buying it and wearing it only once.
Final question: do you have something recent that you would like to highlight ?
Thanks to a grant we were able to rework the user experience of the wherewear platform, and we look forward to unveiling it in March.
Thanks Victoire !
Want to know more about wherewear ? Click here !
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Who did surprise you more with a great business ?
Thanks to Markus, Johan, Nicolas, Jeroen and Victoire for the time and see you next week for 5 new exciting businesses !
Looking forward to 5 more deeptech and/or impact businesses to decode next week
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Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the end of the week. And go knock out next week !
Jerome ❤️
Let’s go sell the wonders you are working on