They want to make the world a bit more sustainable with digital solutions: four young companies that are now being funded in the DBU's Green Start-up program.
According to the environmental organization WWF, around 600,000 tons of bread and baked goods end up in the trash in the German bakery trade every year. With digital solutions, Berlin-based start-up Backdigital aims to significantly reduce food waste in the baking and pastry industry.
"For many, a charging option at home is a requirement for switching from a combustion engine car to an electric car," says Jonas Schumacher, founder of the start-up Chargetic. The Karlsruhe-based company wants to accelerate the mobility transition and is developing smart charging stations for electric cars that are attached to the wall of the house.
More and more companies want to create a sustainability report. The Freiburg-based start-up silberzebra has developed the online platform goodbalancer for this purpose. It helps companies to record, improve and report on their actions in all relevant sustainability dimensions around ecology, economy and social issues.
Wood as a building material offers an alternative to environmentally harmful concrete. The Karlsruhe-based start-up ModuGen is developing a digital planning assistant specifically for multi-story residential and office construction made of wood. The innovative feature: the program reads in the 3D architectural drawing, creates an analysis model of the wooden building and calculates the structural analysis.
The DBU is providing technical and financial support for these projects for two years, with around 125,000 euros for each project.
More about the new start-ups in our DBU press release.
Further information on funding and application can be found here: https://www.dbu.de/startup
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