Meindert Giessen

Airborn is a collective of impact-driven angel investors providing the capital, knowhow & network to accelerate planet-first ventures. We exist to help impact founders reach market traction faster & support them on their journey to solve some of todays biggest societal challenges. We typically invest in pre-seed and seed stage with a ticket size of €100k- €250k and bring on average 100h of support on top. Our focus areas: - Circular Economy - Sustainable Food - Climate Change Solutions

In today’s business reality, speed and agility are the real competitive advantage. As a leading SAP Gold partner with more than 400 consultants, TheValueChain guides you to accelerate and adapt your business to the challenges of tomorrow. We believe that optimising your most vital business processes is the key to acceleration. As a long-term partner, we anticipate on how our clients can best adapt to the challenges in their industry, on how technology can accelerate their business and on how they can increase the value of their SAP investment. TheValueChain. Accelerate. Adapt. Act. TheValueChain is part of the Gumption Group. It has offices in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.

Airborn is a collective of impact-driven angel investors providing the capital, knowhow & network to accelerate planet-first ventures. We exist to help impact founders reach market traction faster & support them on their journey to solve some of todays biggest societal challenges. We typically invest in pre-seed and seed stage with a ticket size of €100k- €250k and bring on average 100h of support on top. Our focus areas: - Circular Economy - Sustainable Food - Climate Change Solutions

Peripass is the yard automation platform. We help production plants and distribution centers add self-service and automation to their yard operations so they can generate savings while improving safety and visibility on their yard. Our platform uniquely combines software and hardware to help clients solve typical problems related to yard operations. These issues include: truck traffic congestion and dangerous maneuvering around their sites, instructing truck drivers in foreign languages, dispatching inefficiencies leading to limited throughput, high carrier demurrage costs, time lost on manual administrative processes or manually operating weighing systems. Major actors from four key sectors - Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, 3PL, and Retail - rely on our solution every day for efficient yard operations. Representative clients include ArcelorMittal, Danone, DHL, and Intermarché, just to name a few. We operate all over Europe & The Americas and we have local offices in the Benelux, DACH, France, and the UK. Our mission is to enable autonomous yards around the world.

"Pilz is a global supplier of products, systems and services for automation technology. As a pioneer of safe automation, Pilz creates safety for human, machine and environment. Founded in 1948, today the family business with its head office in Ostfildern is represented worldwide with 2500 employees in 42 subsidiaries and branches. The technology leader offers complete automation solutions for Safety and Industrial Security on the machine. These include sensor, control and drive technology – as well as systems for industrial communication, diagnostics and visualisation. An international range of services with consulting, engineering and training completes the portfolio. Pilz solutions are used in many industries."