Cleantech Open Announces Winners of 2015 National Accelerator, Global Ideas Competition, and Global Cleantech Innovation Program - Seite 2

Shortlisted in the National Accelerator program was EverVest of Boston, Mass., which provides financial risk analysis and cash-flow modelling software used by renewable-energy investors. The software helps banks, investors, and developers analyze and structure financings for new assets, while also providing enterprise risk-management features for portfolio managers.

This year's National Sustainability Award went to SmartCharge of Matthews, N.C. for its energy-efficient LED light bulb that supplies four hours of battery backup during a power outage. The National Emerging Technology prize was won by Vartega of Arvada, Colo., a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) recycling process. Vartega is developing alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.

Free The Seed (the 2014 winner of GCIP-Malaysia) won the 2015 Global Alumnus Award. The company has just announced that it has entered into the final stage of major partnership and investment discussions with Samsung for scale-up of Free The Seed's production capacities and global product supplies. Samsung was one of the many major corporations and investors the founders met at the 2014 Cleantech Open Global Forum. Free The Seed's bio-enzymatic technology has the potential to replace the current use of fossil-based polystyrene and other packaging materials. In collaboration with Malaysia's Kedah Small Farmers Organisation, this home-grown technology has helped 1,300 paddy smallholders through direct and indirect benefits in the form of additional income from the purchase of paddy waste material and associated pre-processing activities, while improving the paddy field's sustainability by reducing incidences of open burning.

The Cleantech Open Global Ideas program is a global search for the most promising clean-technology ideas, held annually in conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW). This year's winner is AseptoRay of Israel, which has developed a proprietary technology that deactivates bacteria in all liquids. The technology increases energy efficiency in the most common and energy-consuming step in beverage manufacturing: pasteurization.

"AseptoRay is delighted to have won the Cleantech Open Global Ideas competition. The companies participating all had cutting-edge ideas, and the fact that our technology was chosen by two distinguished panels of professionals and experienced judges is very exciting for us," said Motti Koren, business unit director at Aseptoray. "Above all, the competition confirms the strength of our product offering: an eco-friendly pasteurization technology that can truly revolutionize the food and beverage industries, and offer a solution that dramatically reduces costs and increases food safety."