Francesco Mezzina

Xaba is building the future of intelligent and sustainable automation.

Multiverse Computing is an AI model provider leader in AI model compression. Its compressed AI models use techniques derived from quantum computing, enabling the smooth implementation of large AI language models and other systems with more than half the cost and energy consumption without sacrificing performance. With a global presence, its headquarters are located in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, with offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Multinational companies such as Iberdrola, Moodys Analytics, the Bank of Canada, and Telefonica have used Multiverse Computings products. In 2025, they were named one of the “100 Most Promising Companies in AI” by CB Insights, and Digital Europe awarded them the “Future Unicorn 2024 Award.”

Voidless mission is to solve the problem of over-packaging in the logistics industry by developing, manufacturing and installing next-generation on-demand packaging machinery. We are committed to creating sustainable solutions that improve efficiency, reduce waste and enable a better customer experience.

Tau is a technology company at the core of the electrification of transport and the decarbonization of energy. Our climate technologies reconcile the necessity of sustainable manufacturing with the power, reliability and performance that e-mobility requires to enable smaller, greener and more powerful motors. Tau’s protective coatings produce winding wire with superior dielectric, mechanical and chemical properties, while optimizing production processes of copper and steel wire for environmental friendliness with smart quality controls, predictive analytics and peace-of-mind operating simplicity.

CAEmate is the innovative company developing WeStatiX SHM, the revolutionary platform for simulation-based Digital Twins applied to Structural Health Monitoring. We are specialized in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Software Development, and High Perfomance Computing. Now part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub.

The evolution of manufacturing starts from solving the most demanding industrial needs: building large, complex, critical parts with more efficiency and sustainability. Caracol was born from the idea of pushing the limits of manufacturing, beyond what was possible. We brought that idea to life, combining robotics and additive manufacturing into a turnkey solution, which evolves the possibilities of production in terms of scale, shape, and materials. We developed integrated robotic platforms Heron and Vipra – which combine software, hardware, and automation – to manufacture parts with additive processes such as pellet extrusion for composites and thermoplastics, and direct energy deposition for metal alloys. Combining robotized additive processes with advanced software of path, parameters, and process planning, allows us to solve critical needs in highly advanced industrial sectors. From aerospace, to marine, to creative industries; from jigs, molds, to structural finished parts, and circular economy projects. We solve real needs, on real applications. Today, Caracol has a global presence and direct offices in 3 countries; with the largest industrial LFAM production center in Europe and its HQ (Milan, Italy), a production facility in Austin (TX) - USA, and a commercial office in Dubai - UAE.

Phononic Vibes Srl is a deep-tech company focusing on design and production of innovative solutions about acoustic and vibro-acoustic metamaterial technologies for noise and vibration attenuation and for improving sound quality. As a spin-off of Politecnico of Milano and with an energetic team of 20+ people, it is recognized among the most promising and innovative companies in the sectors by Forbes, with a strong growth in the acoustic and vibration sectors. #Diagnostics, #MetaMaterials, #CustomizedAcousticSolutions, #MassProducts.

HT Materials Science (HTMS) is the global leader in smart heat transfer fluids for commercial and industrial heating and cooling systems. We help any business with a high heating or cooling demand to make significant energy and carbon savings – from commercial offices and data centres through to manufacturers, pharmaceutical & healthcare facilities and more. Our patented Maxwell™ product is a drop-in nanofluid additive that’s proven to enhance the heat transfer of a base fluid by more than 15%. It delivers immediate results (with no costly downtime needed), making HVAC systems instantly more efficient and sustainable. Maxwell™ can reduce a company’s energy costs by 12-15% or more and can also increase a system’s capacity. This means businesses can get more out of their existing equipment for longer, as their heating or cooling demands increase. Our technology is already being successfully used by a host of major companies across the US, EMEA and Asia, bringing them enhanced efficiencies, cost savings and lower carbon footprints as a result. At HTMS we proudly work with some of the best science and engineering minds in the world, with offices in Dublin, Lecce (Italy) and New York. R&D is at the heart of everything we do, and we’re constantly developing future technologies to help businesses reduce energy consumption and their environmental impact.

Zerynth supports manufacturing companies in streamlining production by increasing the value of interconnected industrial assets. Through the Zerynth Industrial IoT & AI Platform, it connects any industrial machinery in less than 3 hours, using a plug-and-play and non-invasive approach, enabling a complete 4.0 transformation with simplicity, speed and security. Founded in 2015, Zerynth counts a team of over 40 experienced IoT professionals, strategic partnerships with system integrators and technology providers such as SAP, as well as over 150 customers across diverse industries: discrete manufacturing, food & beverage, logistics, utilities, and machinery manufacturing. Headquartered in Pisa, Italy, Zerynth is actively pursuing an ambitious international expansion project.

Xaba is building the future of intelligent and sustainable automation.

GR3N SA is a Swiss company founded in 2011 that developed an innovative process, based on the application of microwave technology to an alkaline hydrolysis, which provides an economically viable recycling process of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), allowing the industrial implementation. This new process can potentially change how PET is recycled worldwide, with huge benefits both for the recycling industry and for all the polyester value chain. In the past, many efforts were made to transfer chemical recycling from research labs to industry but the economic aspects blocked the proposed solutions. Thanks to the DEMETO (Depolymerization by MicrowavE TechnolOgy) technology developed by gr3n this approach becomes real. gr3n has a massive advantage with respect to its competitors because it can supply a chemical recycling solution (i.e., closing the PET lifecycle, offering polymer grade material, treating waste, lowering carbon footprint) providing cost savings for players in the value chain. The input materials for the process can be post-consumer and/or post-industrial polyesters, both from bottles (colored, colorless, transparent, opaque) and textile (100% polyester but also with up to 30% of other materials like PU, cotton, polyether-polyurea, etc.). The reaction output is a mixture of building block derivatives, which are then isolated and purified. Monomers can be endlessly re-polymerized to provide brand-new virgin PET or any other polymer that is using one of the monomers. As mentioned for the depolymerization step, every time we run a polymerization, we obtain a brand new polymer, where the technical features depend on the monomer purity and the polymerization conditions.

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Multiverse Computing is an AI model provider leader in AI model compression. Its compressed AI models use techniques derived from quantum computing, enabling the smooth implementation of large AI language models and other systems with more than half the cost and energy consumption without sacrificing performance. With a global presence, its headquarters are located in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, with offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and the United States. Multinational companies such as Iberdrola, Moodys Analytics, the Bank of Canada, and Telefonica have used Multiverse Computings products. In 2025, they were named one of the “100 Most Promising Companies in AI” by CB Insights, and Digital Europe awarded them the “Future Unicorn 2024 Award.”

Voidless mission is to solve the problem of over-packaging in the logistics industry by developing, manufacturing and installing next-generation on-demand packaging machinery. We are committed to creating sustainable solutions that improve efficiency, reduce waste and enable a better customer experience.