Selected corporate leaders and startups will start their common learning journey this week in Helsinki.

"We’re proud that EEX Community is growing and getting more international. In the 12th cohort we have over 50 large corporations’ leaders and entrepreneurs from around the whole Europe and the world – like Germany, Finland, Czech Republic, USA, Austria, China, Spain and Italy.” –Tapio Peltonen, Founder, EEX

EEX's recipe for sustainable business growth:

In the EEX Journey, bravest corporate leaders step out of their corporate offices and comfort zone, becoming Advisors to ambitious startup entrepreneurs. In a year-long program they learn together about bold experimenting, agile growth, and entrepreneurial leadership.

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Sustainability startups of the 12th EEX Journey

S1SEVEN 🇦🇹

S1SEVEN is the leading Digital Material Passport as-a-service provider for the steel, metals, and chemical sector.

S1SEVEN’s innovative solution revolutionizes how industries integrate materials into digital workflows. Digital Material Passports serve as reliable, batch-based and evidence of a product's origin, quality and environmental impact. The solution simply snaps into the existing, regulated process of today's still paper or PDF based quality certificates and unlocks actionable data, verification and integration capabilities.

“Our big dream is a future where material chains are traceable, circular and fair – to empower companies with data to know, evidence and improve the impact of their value chains. We hope that the Advisory Board will help us to get the best out of our team, work hard, have fun, and make history!” – Stefan Grüll, CEO & Co-Founder

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‍BIOWEG 🇩🇪

BIOWEG uses waste & side streams, fermentation, and green chemistry to make bio-based chemicals that replace petroleum-based ones. Their ingredients are fully biodegradable, perform better than synthetic polymers, and are eco-friendly solutions that comply with regulations.

“Our mission is to replace microplastics in our day to day life! We face many challenges as entrepreneurs and we want to work with experienced Advisors who can advise us and help us think creatively.” – Prateek Mahalwar, CEO & Co-Founder

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Woamy 🇫🇮

Woamy offers a solution to replace harmful plastic foams and mineral wools with a bio-based compostable and recyclable alternative. Woamy’s patented technology originates from a university research project called FoamWood. The core of the technology is a novel bio-based foam and its manufacturing method. The manufacturing method produces anisotropic strength properties that enable versatile applications such as cushioning, shock absorption, insulation to mention a few.

“Our big dream is to replace the biggest source of the plastic waste entering the natural environment – plastics foams that are widely used in packaging, cushioning, insulation and fillers – using our bio-based versatile foam material.”

“We expect to get support with our commercialization strategy, market traction efforts and overall company growth. We hope that after the Journey our business administration skills improve significantly and we learn the best practices to be implemented in Woamy's day-to-day operations.” – Susanna Partanen, CEO

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‍The Oater 🇩🇪

Oat drink in a carton was yesterday. The Oater® machine produces the oat drink of the future. We are rethinking oat drink - with full barista quality and freshness – no packaging waste, no added sugar and no tradeoffs.

“We are a team of dreamers and oat drink enthusiasts from Cologne, who firmly believe that there is still room for improvement in oat drink. Our big dream is 10,000 machines by 2030, delivering fresh experiences, globally, saving 500 million packages” – Sarah Nesti, CEO & Co-Founder

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‍MetrikFlow 🇩🇪🇮🇹

MetrikFlow empowers organisations to take ownership of their environmental footprint. Their all-in-one ESG platform is targeted for industrial companies and decarbonising their supply chains.

“We are a group of impact-driven people, committed to make the planet a better place. We’re looking forward to working with the Advisory Board to accelerate our international expansion and learn with well experienced corporate employees.” – Alessandro Nora, CEO & Co-Founder

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BeChained 🇪🇸

BeChained automates energy efficiency in manufacturing in a way never seen before.

They are the missing piece to unlocking a $700bn market, preventing 65 million tCO2 in the process by 2040. Their SaaS solution reduces energy costs & carbon offset spend, by making production processes 19% more energy efficient with a ridiculous dedication and light investment.

“At BeChained, we avoid 65 millions tCO2 from wasted energy in industrial manufacturing. We automatize and make production processes more energy efficient by 20-25%, drastically reducing manufacturing costs and lowering the carbon footprint of our clients.” -Stefano Melchior, CEO & Co-Founder

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Tether 🇪🇸

Tether is building AI that learns the behaviour of millions of private Electric Vehicles to coordinate their charging patterns, turning these cars into the world's largest – and cleanest – distributed battery that helps to reinforce the power grid.

“We are tackling the lack of deployed energy storage needed for the green transition by using the aggregate power capacity of millions of electric vehicles that are charging, thereby substituting the need for peak fossil fuel power plants, allowing for more renewable energy, and creating a more resilient and equitable power grid.

“I’m looking forward to gaining new insight into navigating the long enterprise sales cycle, understanding of corporate structures and stakeholders, and advice into scaling and managing teams.” – Luis Medina Rivas, CEO & Founder

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‍Aurora Propulsion Technologies 🇫🇮

Aurora’s mission is to ensure sustainable use of space, whilst prolonging the useful lifespan of satellites.

Their technologies enable effective and prompt implementation of satellite position and orientation to ensure successful execution and growth for the owners’ business as well as the safe and reliable deorbiting of satellites at the end of their useful life. The long-term mission goal is deep space exploration with microsatellite-sized probes using a revolutionary means of propulsion, an electric sail.

“We mitigate the space debris problem. We enable continuous access to space for human kind. In the long run we will enable access to other planets.” – Roope Takala, Chairman & President

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"Our emphasis this year will be on impact; how to make most out of the learnings to accelerate startup growth and transformation capabilities of big companies" -Huimin Toh, Program Director.

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Do you want to join a great community of path-breaking doers? 🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️
Application for startups and corporate leaders for the 13th EEX Journey starting in January 2025 is open!

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