Demo Day

The Greenhouse

Demo Day is Undaunted’s flagship event. Our climate innovation community comes together to celebrate the latest cohort as they graduate from our unique accelerator programme, The Greenhouse, pouring what they’ve learnt over the past 12 months into impressive pitches to investors.

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Agenda

12.45: Doors open
Tea and coffee served

13.15: Opening remarks
Alyssa Gilbert, Director of Undaunted, Director of Innovation at Imperial Grantham Institute, Co-director of Imperial School of Sustainability

13.20: Keynote

13.30: Carbon Solutions and Climate Resilience
Our first set of startups is up! With five minutes to pitch and five minutes for Q&As

14.30: Break
With refreshments

14.50: Keynote
Kim Zou, CEO and Co-founder of Sightline Climate (fka CTVC)

15.05: Sustainable Materials and Circular Economy
Our second set of startups is up! With five minutes to pitch and five minutes for Q&As

16.15: Closing Keynote
Professor Becky Parker, Founder and Director of Project Earth, on empowering young people to build a better world, followed by a short pitch and video from Project Earth student project PureDae by Co-founder and CPO, Manuela Borba.

16.25: Awards
Awards presented to the founders of the day’s winning pitches, as voted for by our Demo Day audience!

16.30: Networking and showcase
Come and meet our startups and engage with our innovation community over drinks and nibbles.

19.00: End

Are you an investor?

Are you an investor or innovation supporter with expertise that could help our founders thrive? If you’d like an introduction to one or more of our Cohort 7 startups, please fill in the form on the right. Introductions will be made in the days following Demo Day.

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Who’s pitching at Demo Day? Watch our teasers!

Meet Cohort 7

Tera Mira (formerly Saol Nua)

Rethinking stretch textiles from nature's perspective: Developing a revolutionary bio-based, biodegradable alternative to synthetic elastane by transforming invasive seaweed into high-performance stretch fibers.

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Sustainable fashion

Sealeo

Sealeo is on a mission to eliminate waste in the pharmaceutical industry by revolutionizing last-mile vaccine delivery. Sealeo offers a novel packaging material designed to keep vaccines cold passively, effectively, and affordably.

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Circular economy

Seasprout

Seasprout is on a mission to make waste a thing of the past. We convert shrimp shell waste into biodegradable products for the horticulture and agriculture industry by replacing HDPE plastic while fostering sustainable fishing communities.

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Food and agriculture

Sequinova

Our sequin materials are biodegradable. Made from cellulose, they are plastic-free, metal-free, mineral-free and non-toxic, meaning that they leave no residue as they return to nature at the end of their product lifecycle. Biodegradable sequin textiles and glitter at scale. Disrupting a $15billion industry. We're putting the shine back into sparkle.

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Sustainable fashion

Ventrix

Scaling direct air carbon capture through existing building infrastructures. Ventrix is a new modular Direct Air Capture (DAC) product to be integrated and scaled to commercial buildings. It offers businesses low operating costs to reduce carbon emissions on-site and progress with their net-zero targets with a financially and environmentally viable solution.

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Carbon removal and management

Biofonic

Biofonic is accelerating net-zero agricultural transitions via novel acoustic technologies and AI. Developed in 2022, our acoustic sensors are designed with farmers and have been tested across the UK. Biofonic is designed to fit any size and type of operation, creating accessible, autonomous pest management solutions while unearthing new intelligence about our least understood and most biodiverse ecosystem - soil.

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Food and agriculture

Capchar

Aiming to verify the removal of over one million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2030 using biochar production and sequestration technology. A local, circular, 'Made in the UK' Carbon Removal turnkey solution with value added benefits to regenerate soil, mitigate greenhouse gas pollution, water retention and heat.

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Carbon removal and management

Deep Blue BioTech

Deep Blue BioTech is a pioneering company utilizing synthetic biology and AI to decarbonize everyday chemicals, offering a crucial solution to combat the climate crisis.

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Advanced materials and processes

Fidata

Fidata is an innovative start-up that deploys AI to accelerate ESG investments for financial institutions. Our solution enables financial institutions to effortlessly perform high-quality ESG assessments on investments (bonds, loans and equities) and achieve accurate financial insights such as ESG risks and carbon-adjusted returns on investments (CROI).

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Digital solutions

HUID

HUID is on a mission to reduce our single waste plastic consumption, by exploring the potential of onion skins. Utilizing the vast amounts of Allium waste we generate globally, HUID aims to create various material applications that are better for the planet.

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Circular economy

In the Air Tech

Recyclable pollution absorbing ceramics. "In the Air" is a circular product-based service that combats passive air pollution by producing recyclable pollution-absorbing ceramics. Sold as three different everyday products, they seamlessly assimilate into various markets.

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Built environment

Mechapres

Mechapres is a high-temperature heat pump coupled with thermal storage. Our solution takes advantage of intermittent low-temperature heat such as solar and waste heat to produce steam for industrial applications. The modular design, high-efficiency compressor, and unique thermal storage make our system easy to integrate into any production process.

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Power and renewables

Medusa Materials

Storing carbon dioxide into minerals.

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Built environment

Cohort 6 of The Greenhouse post on the historic Royal Institution theatre on Demo Day

What is Demo Day?

Demo Day is a fantastic opportunity to take a break from the laptop and spend an afternoon exploring climate innovation. As well as meeting inspiring founders who are designing intelligent solutions to the climate crisis, you’ll hear from leaders in the field of innovation and investment who’ll share insights on timely topics and have plenty of time to tap into Imperial’s thriving ecosystem over drinks and nibbles.

Cohort 7 of our unique accelerator, The Greenhouse, are busy gearing up to pitch to investors and Imperial’s climate innovation community on the historic stage of The Royal Institution – scroll down to find out who’ll you’ll hear from on the day.

The Greenhouse supports early-stage deeptech, fintech, cleantech startups to get investor-ready, boost their commercial success, and tackle climate change. Startups aim to raise minimum £100k by the end of the 12-month programme. Demo Day is where these talented founders pour the expertise and skills honed on the programme into impressive pitches. We hope to see you there!

Previous Demo Day highlights

Supported by

The Greenhouse programme is funded by HSBC UK and the Inflexion Foundation. It is working in partnership with the Mayor of London.

We conduct thorough due diligence to ensure that our supporters and partners are committed to reducing their environmental impact. Whilst we are aware that HSBC currently finances a number of industries that significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, we know they have a strategy in place to help their customers reduce their emissions and to reduce their own – for more information please visit the HSBC Climate Strategy webpage.