BeStart alumni
The following cleantech start-ups have taken part in the BeStart accelerator programme in previous years. Take a look at the start-ups of this year’s programme.
Start-ups 2020 – 2021
Popken Mechatronica
Founder: Mathijs Popken
Product: Sensortechnology for horticulture and agriculture.
Website: popkenmechatronica.nl
Start-ups 2019 – 2020
CE-Line
Founder: Wilco Dijkstra
CE-Line automates water- and nutrient management in the greenhouse and vertical farming sector.
Goals for the BeStart programme: I hope to get help with the question: How do I set up a start-up properly and thoroughly? What do I focus on, when? Where do I find the right investors and make the right deals/sales?
Website: www.celine.frl
BeStart vlog (dutch): Think werksessie 1
EV Biotech
Founder: Linda Dijkshoorn
EV Biotech creates bacteria which can produce high-quality fabrics on a large scale.
Goal during the BeStart programme: in the coming year we wish to make our first sale and create great flow within the company.
Website: www.evbio.tech
BeStart vlog: Think werksessie 4
Fryslân Fungies
Founders: Michiel de Groot en Wander Oele
Fryslân Fungies produces a mobile fungi farm which converts coffee grounds on site into oyster mushrooms.
Goal during the BeStart programme: To develop and scale up the Fungi farm.
Websites:
www.facebook.com/fryslanfungies
www.instagram.com/fryslan_fungies
BeStart vlog (dutch): Think bootcamp
Greatwaves
Founder: Wouter Zijlstra
Greatwaves makes WiFi transmitters with integrated sensors to make business premises safer, healthier and more sustainable.
Goal during the BeStart programme: I would like to find a launching customer to further develop the product together. We measure everything to do with indoor air quality, light quality, occupancy and comfort, but which information solves the biggest problem?
Website: www.greatwaves.nl
BeStart vlog (dutch): Think werksessie 2
Greencovery
Founder: Carlos Cabrera
Greencovery converts waste flows into sustainable products.
Goal during the BeStart programme: With the help of the BeStart programme, we hope to gain access to new customers and applications for our technology. In a year we want to start with pilots for one or two of our products.
More info:
Vlog: Think werksessie 3
SG Papertronics
Founder: Maciej Grajewski
SG Papertronics develops on-site tools for chemical analysis, thus it brings the lab to you.
Goal during the BeStart programme: enlarge my network and build worthwhile relationships with potential cooperation partners and clients. Further, I think that BeStart is the right address to learn from experienced people about how to start a business.
Website: sgpapertronics.com
Vlog: BeStart Check worksession 18 november 2019: Agile, scrum and loads of passion
ViviMag
Founder: Wokke Wijdeveld
ViviMag extracts phosphates and iron from sewage sludge whereby paramagnetic vivianite (iron phosphate) is extracted.
Goal during the BeStart programme: in the coming year we want to prove the feasibility of our technology and to find a launching customer. We also hope that BeStart can help us with our business development and we would like to make use of the BeStart network..
Website: www.vivimag.nl
Water knight
Founder: Rahul Dahule
Water knight supplies an advanced oxidation reactor which uses the power of the vortex and controlled cavitation.
Goal during the BeStart programme: to have quick access to the BeStart network to generate extra momentum for our company and to find funding opportunities. Also, I hope to make use of the (international) experience of the coaches and to enter new markets, both here and abroad.
Website: www.waterknight.com
Start-ups 2018 – 2019
Acquaint BV
Founder: Rudy Dijkstra
A smart monitoring system for sewer and water pipes to make maintenance easier.
Thanks to BeStart I went back to basics, got focused and then accelerated!
Website: www.acquaint.eu
Ecofalt
Founder: Charlotte Slotman
The sustainable alternative on asphalt.
BeStart gets me to look at Ecofalt from a different perspective. It forces you to think and helps you make good decisions and expand the network with interesting companies.
Website: www.ecofalt.nl
Interview (dutch): Less use of gas consumption and CO2 emissions due to the construction of Ecofalt in Groningen
Sustainable Eyes
Founder: Reuben Moore
Makes sustainable drinking water from the air.
Website: www.sustainable-eyes.com
EcoZuil
Founder:Hylke van de Kamp
A 3D-printing column that creates awareness about the plastic waste problem.
SusPhos
Founder: Marissa de Boer
Recovering phosphate from phosphate-rich waste streams.
Website: www.susphos.com
LocalWise
Founder: Fedde Jorritsma
A circular and stylish alternative to the Dixie toilets at festivals.
Website: www.localwise.nl
Loofy’s
Founder: Dorien Beijk
Supplies beauty products with a clear contribution to improving society and the environment.
Website: www.loofys.nl
Feedtuber
Living Foods
Founder: Timo ter Voort
Large-scale and functional valorisation of fish residual flows to valuable applications.
Website: www.livingfoods.nl
Startups 2017 – 2018
Hydrowashr
Founder: Jan Melein
Smart integration of hand washing and drying. The Hydrowashr uses no soap, no towels and uses only 10 ml of water for each handwash.
We found our business model through BeStart. Critical, a lot of focus, that was our question.
Website: www.hydrowashr.com
Waterfair
Founder: Dennis van der Herberg
WaterFair has more than 15 years of experience in wastewater and air purification techniques. We look for the most efficient way to treat water and air. The WF2 system is not only economically attractive but also good for the environment.
Website: www.waterfair.nl
KNN Cellulose
Founder: Erik Pijlman
Cellulose is an essential raw material in the circular economy. KNN Cellulose unlocks the potential.
“Helping young entrepreneurs develop faster. With a very wide network, especially in the north.”
Website: www.knncellulose.nl
Foamplant
Founder: Martin Tietema
Foamplant develops and produces biodegradable foam with technical functionality. Thanks to our own production technology and patented foam materials, we supply sustainable alternatives to the furniture, construction and clothing industries. In addition, our foam offers unique solutions in the horticultural industry thanks to its biodegradable properties.
BeStart provides focus and strategy. Essential ingredients for every starting and advanced entrepreneur. Thanks to the BeStart course, Foamplant has been able to work at and shape the development from tech start-up to fully-fledged production company. Recommended.
Website: www.foamplant.nl
Interview (dutch): Foamplant gets investment of 2 million Euros
EColoRO BV
Founder: Eric van Sonsbeek
EColoRO Watertreatment Solutions initiates innovative (waste) water purification solution. The main focus is to reuse the waste water stream to decrease the operational costs and decrease the environmental pollution.
BeStart is a very useful tool to share experiences with other start-ups from the region, but you can also make use of the relationships and the networks of large companies. Finally, the course forces you to think about and evaluate your own business. All in all, a very positive experience that can take every starter a step further in the development of his company.
Website: www.ecoloro.nl
Friesland boeit
Founder: Jeffrey Meijer
Friesland Boeit is an expert in achieving operating results through an escape room. With one mobile escape room, one fixed location and many educational escape rooms developed for interesting clients, it is the founder of the escape room as a training tool.
Website: www.frieslandboeit.nl
Afmitech
Specialist in decentral wastewater treatment.
Website: www.afmitech.nl
Newana
Energy in water.
Website: www.energyinwater.eu/newana-bv/
Metal Membranes
Metalmembranes has developed a revolutionary way of making membranes electrochemically from metal.
Website: www.metalmembranes.com
Startups 2016 – 2017
Tecned
Founder: Hans Buitenhuis
Technology (for) Energy Conversion The Netherlands or TECNED is a technology company specialized in energy conversion.
We facilitate a circle in innovation – the quickest link between lab and market. BeStart is an important step between knowledge and the cash register.
Website: www.tecned.com
Newmarble
Founder: Daan Levy
The BeStart programme has taught us that we have become a real team in the past year. And that we have really learned to focus.
Website: www.newmarble.nl
Sensileau Sensor Platform
Founder: Corina Carpentier
With the Sensileau Sensor Platform we offer a kind of comparison platform, but in the field of sensor products. On the website you can download important knowledge about water quality monitoring and sensors, and share it and compare many different complex products.
From knowledge to business models, that is actually the basis, and the starter can easily join.
Website: www.sensileau.app
Interview (dutch): Without BeStart I would have stayed a traditional consultant
Partners en financiers
Uniek netwerk in de circulaire economie
Binnen BeStart zijn de krachten gebundeld van vier belangrijke aanjagers van innovatie, startups en business development in de circulaire sector van Noord-Nederland. Verder worden we door een aantal partijen in de publieke en private sector gefinancierd.
