Maximilian Erb

We are Vytal – the global operating system for reusables and the software solution powering the circular economy! 🌍 Imagine a world where Food & Beverage packaging waste is a thing of the past. At Vytal, we’re making that vision a reality. Our cutting-edge software goes beyond supporting restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, and canteens – were also revolutionizing events by turning them into sustainable showcases, with logistics and cleaning services fully integrated! Whether its food delivery, takeout, our smart reusable containers and seamless container management software empower our partners to eliminate single-use packaging on a global scale. For users, it’s simple and free: borrow the containers from one of our partners and conveniently return them within 14 days at one of our thousands of locations or through delivery services. Simple, right? With an incredible 99% return rate and an average return time of under 5 days, we’re redefining what efficiency looks like – even surpassing the legendary German deposit system for beer bottles. 🚀 Ready to make a difference? Join the revolution for a sustainable future – join Vytal!

We help industrial SMEs procure green energy.

cylib GmbH is a research-based company for holistic battery recycling enabling the green energy transition by ensuring the supply of sustainable raw materials for the battery industry. cylibs proprietary end-to-end recycling process is characterized by an efficient, resource- and climate-friendly recovery of all raw materials in a battery, including lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and manganese from battery packs, production scraps, or micromobility batteries. Founded in 2022 in Aachen, Germany, the company builds on nearly a decade of research by the founding team. cylib was founded by Dr. Lilian Schwich (Co-CEO), Paul Sabarny (Chief of Special Operations), and Dr. Gideon Schwich (Co-CEO), with the mission to create a true circular economy.

UBIRCH is a digital data proof solution that brings security into data driven processes and establishes trust between multiple stakeholders. It’s one cloud-based Proof Machine that enables everyone involved to verify the authenticity and integrity of data received. Founded and managed by experienced specialists in cryptography, blockchain and data-driven business models, UBIRCH is combining robust cryptography and modern blockchain technology into an innovative, easy to use SaaS product. Together with a consortium of renowned companies, the Cologne-based company has developed and is operating the official infrastructure of the EU Digital COVID Certificate for Germany. Further information is available at www.ubirch.com

Digitization often starts by interfacing to the real world with sensors and smart devices. Providing billions of devices with electrical energy is one of the big challenges of a growing internet of things. The need for frequent replacement of batteries or labour- and cost-intensive wiring is not only a significant cost factor. The constraints in energy supply can also be a show-stopper for implementing new solutions. As a result, a large potential of the internet of things remains untapped. Light is often an abundant source of energy – not only outdoors, but also indoors. Enerthing has developed the next generation photovoltaic film which can outperform batteries. Based on our core technology, we bring asset-tracking, indoor navigation and sensing in buildings to the next level combining high performance, maintenance-free operation and sustainability. With our broad expertise ranging from manufacturing of high performance customizable photovoltaic films, energy efficient hardware and software systems design we develop new IoT solutions which push the boundaries of today’s battery powered and cable tied IoT world.

Founded in 2012, Novihum Technologies developed a revolutionary stable humus concentrate that provides an organic reservoir like those at the heart of the best soils. Our product NOVIHUM® is an innovative manufactured stable humus concentrate that is indistinguishable from the high-grade organic matter reservoir found in very productive natural soils. Over twenty years of R&D show immediate and long-term benefits when it‘s applied to soils low in organic matter, including: • Higher crop yields, quality, and resilience to environmental stress • Enhanced plant root development and water-use-efficiency • Higher cation exchange capacity and soil carbon level in the root zone • Accelerated plant growth and maturation NOVIHUM® is free from bacteria, fungi, salts, odors, and pollutants. It is suitable for use in diverse climates for a wide range of annual and permanent crops. Product Origin Novihum Technologies has developed a chemical process that accelerates nature’s work to produce top-quality humus in hours, using lignite (brown or soft coal) as a raw material. When lignite is formed from decomposing plant material it undergoes chemical and biological processes that are very similar to those by which humus is formed. That makes it a rich source of the molecular building blocks of stable humus. However, over millions of years underground it loses critical elements – most especially nitrogen – and becomes less useful for plants. That is where Novihum Technologies steps in, with a new patented process that restores lignite’s lost chemistry, transforming it into a concentrated carbon-rich granulate that is indistinguishable from the organic matter reservoirs found in nature’s best soils.

evoxx technologies GmbH, a German Industrial Biotechnology Company, is focusing on the development and production of industrial enzymes. As European subsidiary of the global enzyme manufacturer Advanced Enzymes Technologies Ltd. a comprehensive product portfolio of enzymatic solutions for human nutrition, animal nutrition, bio-processing and pharma industries is offered. Product development is based on the proprietary technology platform covering the whole value chain from early enzyme and process development to industrial scale production and product deregulation. evoxx industrial partners and customers benefit from the unique metagenomics libraries, the enzyme development skills and tech-transfer and production capabilities. evoxx is located on the Creative Campus in Monheim am Rhein and on the Biotech Campus Hermannswerder in Potsdam.

💻 Software has become an everyday tool in all aspects of life – business and private. We want to evaluate everything, whether KPI's, financial data, even our daily steps. Only our energy consumption is a black box, but especially there we need to take action. But without knowing our consumption, we cannot change our behavior. ⚡ It is our mission to make the management of the energy consumption so easy that it becomes a habit and a given for everyone – whether company or private household. This way, our data-driven intuitive solutions create real value and help utilities and their customers to effectively reduce their energy consumption and carbon footprint. 🌍 And we go one step further: with our AI-driven software, we not only bring transparency but intelligence into the data, delivering an automated, flexible tool that makes the digitalization of the energy industry a real opportunity for everyone involved. 🎯 As a specialist for energy management and visualization software since 2009 with a team of over 45 colleagues, we have been creating decisive added value for national und international energy suppliers as well as their corporate and private customers on their way to climate neutrality.

Direvo is a biotechnology company with a focus on the biomass conversion industry. Direvo identifies bottlenecks and weaknesses in current industrial processes in this sector and develops and implements biology-based solutions together with large and small industrial partners.

We are Vytal – the global operating system for reusables and the software solution powering the circular economy! 🌍 Imagine a world where Food & Beverage packaging waste is a thing of the past. At Vytal, we’re making that vision a reality. Our cutting-edge software goes beyond supporting restaurants, supermarkets, caterers, and canteens – were also revolutionizing events by turning them into sustainable showcases, with logistics and cleaning services fully integrated! Whether its food delivery, takeout, our smart reusable containers and seamless container management software empower our partners to eliminate single-use packaging on a global scale. For users, it’s simple and free: borrow the containers from one of our partners and conveniently return them within 14 days at one of our thousands of locations or through delivery services. Simple, right? With an incredible 99% return rate and an average return time of under 5 days, we’re redefining what efficiency looks like – even surpassing the legendary German deposit system for beer bottles. 🚀 Ready to make a difference? Join the revolution for a sustainable future – join Vytal!

We help industrial SMEs procure green energy.

cylib GmbH is a research-based company for holistic battery recycling enabling the green energy transition by ensuring the supply of sustainable raw materials for the battery industry. cylibs proprietary end-to-end recycling process is characterized by an efficient, resource- and climate-friendly recovery of all raw materials in a battery, including lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt and manganese from battery packs, production scraps, or micromobility batteries. Founded in 2022 in Aachen, Germany, the company builds on nearly a decade of research by the founding team. cylib was founded by Dr. Lilian Schwich (Co-CEO), Paul Sabarny (Chief of Special Operations), and Dr. Gideon Schwich (Co-CEO), with the mission to create a true circular economy.

The energy transition is more than a linear shift, but a fundamental transformation from hardwired, centralised systems to a digital energy economy that will redefine how we live, work and move. This is about more than sustainability; it’s about building a system that is hyperlocal, automated and resilient to secure Europe’s energy future. To achieve this, we believe the digital energy economy demands entirely new categories of companies. We back the pioneers who turn these beliefs into reality, propelling early growth into European scale.

UBIRCH is a digital data proof solution that brings security into data driven processes and establishes trust between multiple stakeholders. It’s one cloud-based Proof Machine that enables everyone involved to verify the authenticity and integrity of data received. Founded and managed by experienced specialists in cryptography, blockchain and data-driven business models, UBIRCH is combining robust cryptography and modern blockchain technology into an innovative, easy to use SaaS product. Together with a consortium of renowned companies, the Cologne-based company has developed and is operating the official infrastructure of the EU Digital COVID Certificate for Germany. Further information is available at www.ubirch.com