The Future Unicorn Award aims at celebrating SMEs from across Europe that have the potential to become the future European Tech giants. It puts under the spotlight SMEs which have demonstrated to be successful in digitising their business processes and in offering innovative digital products and services.
Enabling industries to track materials used in manufacturing and recycling chains for responsible sourcing and sustainability.
The principle that drives Circulor is “if you don’t know about what is truly happening in your supply chain then you can’t make changes that are going to be impactful”.
Leveraging a combination of technologies, including blockchain, business logic and machine learning, our solution assigns a digital identity to commodities and tracks the supply chain data and embedded carbon at each stage of production, recycling, and end-of-life, as well as capturing the carbon footprint across the whole supply chain.
We are leaders in ESG traceability and GHG emissions tracking, offering the most complete and mature solution in the market. Currently we are the only proven technology solution available to track high risk and high human impact minerals and materials.
Management system with A.I. and machine-learning technologies for donating, recycling, and reselling Food Surplus.
Fazla Gıda provides holistic technology solutions to recover the best value out of food surplus. Placing technology at the heart of a crucial issue as food waste, Fazla Gıda delivers holistic solutions to any type of surplus food, that is eligible for human consumption, animal feeding, or recycling.
Despite the existence of various companies in the global market, there is no other company that provides holistic solutions in line with the Food Recovery Hierarchy. Our solutions cover all types of surplus food, manages surplus food with A.I. and machine-learning technologies, and, on top of that, our analytics section helps reduce at the source which also prevents the use of natural resources for foods never consumed with big data analysis.
A fast-moving digital disruptor that automatically connects businesses and workers on its proprietary digital platform, like Netflix but for jobs.
It’s Netflix for jobs. As a talent (B2C) you decide when you want to work, for whom, for how much. As customers you’ll find a seamless, fast access to workers incl. quality assurance. Our matching algo ensure the best experience for both sides of the marketplace.
We are a tech enabled on-demand staffing agency, with most of the involved processes being fully automated. When we stared Zenjob six years ago, the industry was 96% paper driven.
A fast-moving digital disruptor that automatically connects businesses and workers on its proprietary digital platform, like Netflix but for jobs.
It’s Netflix for jobs. As a talent (B2C) you decide when you want to work, for whom, for how much. As customers you’ll find a seamless, fast access to workers incl. quality assurance. Our matching algo ensure the best experience for both sides of the marketplace.
We are a tech enabled on-demand staffing agency, with most of the involved processes being fully automated. When we stared Zenjob six years ago, the industry was 96% paper driven.
Watch the video below which explains the award, how finalists are identified and how the winner is selected…
An expert jury will decide the three finalists from the list of nominees, along with the winner of the Future Unicorn Award for 2023. Make sure to watch at Masters of Digital on 8 March to find out who the winner is!
Ms Mine leads Strategy & Technology for Nokia’s global sales and marketing organization. Ms Mine and her extended team of Customer CTOs and strategists ensure a strong voice of customer in Nokia’s technology strategy and vision to support the broader goal of helping Nokia’s customers realize their ambitions, while supporting Nokia’s go to market teams with thought leadership, new market incubation, and customer success strategies.
In addition, Ms Mine serves on the Executive Board of DIGITALEUROPE as President.
Ms Mine has a broad experience globally and operationally over the past 20 years with Alcatel/Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. She has run sales and operations in 21 countries across Europe and Asia; run strategy, marketing and comms functions globally and in the US; run the global Consulting business; and helped define the company’s cloud strategy including founding new products.
Before joining Alcatel, Ms Mine was a much cited and published analyst and consultant working across the IT and telecom industries. She has worked in the communications and IT field for more than 30 years.
Hilary Mine
VP Strategy & Technology,
Nokia CX
Kadi Silde is the Chief ofStaff/Head of the transition teamfor DIANA(Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic)at NATO since July 2022.She previously served as Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence in 2019-2022. In this position, she was responsible for policy planning, intelligence coordination and operations planning; EU and NATO matters and other bilateral and multilateral international cooperation. Kadi Silde joined the Ministry of Defence in 2008, holding various positions including the director of policy planning. She joined Estonia’s EU Council Presidency team in 2017, coordinating defence efforts and working on defence initiatives such as the European Defence Fund. She was subsequently seconded to the European Commission to implement it.She holds a BA in political science from Tartu University, an MA in International Relations fromTallinn University, and anMSc in Digital Transformation from Tallinn Technical University.
Kadi Silde
Chief of Staff, Head of the Transition Team, DIANA,
NATO
Eric de Montgolfier is Chief Executive Officer of Invest Europe, the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors and their investors.
Eric joined Invest Europe after a career spanning three decades in leading private equity firms. He was previously CEO of Gimv France, a division of the Brussels-listed mid-market investment firm, where he oversaw strategy and investments in the French market. Prior to that, he was co-founder and co-managing partner of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Partners. He started his private equity career in 1990 at Astorg – where he subsequently became a co-founding partner of Astorg Partners.
He holds a Master in Management from ESCP Business School in Paris.
Eric de Montgolfier
Chief Executive Officer, Invest Europe
After more than 15 years as an international marketing director in the European e-commerce sector and in digital consulting, Ms. Bauer-Vaugan founded her own European marketing & communications agency Wyngs.co in 2012 and has since then supported over 70 young tech companies in their endeavour of exploring the European markets, especially the DACH region, France and the Netherlands.
Andrea is the President of the French-German Digital Club and the Cluny Forum (French-German innovation forum for young executives) and co-founded in 2020 the European Champions Alliance, where she holds the position of Secretary-general and General Manager.
She also holds a master’s degree in International Management from the University LMU-Munich.
Andrea Bauer Vaugan
Founder,
Wyngs
Stéphane Ouaki, the Head of Departmentof the European Innovation Council (EIC) in the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency. In his role, he ensures effective and efficient implementation of the EIC from the emergence of new technologies having thepotential to generate game changing innovation up to the scaling up of deep-tech enterprises (mainly startups and SMEs). He also chairs the Investment Committee of the EIC Fund. Beyond the EIC, Stéphane oversees the implementation of the Research, Innovation and Digitisation Window under the InvestEU Programme. Previously, he was the head of unit for Financial Instruments in DG Research and Innovation at the European Commission. Before joining DG R&I, he was the head of unit for the Connecting Europe Facility and investmentstrategies in DG MOVE. Beforehand, he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Vladimír Špidla, responsible for employment, social affairs, and equal opportunities (2004-2010). Previously, he was part of the Commission’s team negotiating with the Czech Republic its terms of accession to the EU (2001-03), and then moved on to be part of the team coordinating the enlargement strategy (2003-04).
Stéphane Ouaki
Head of Department, European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
A company that ensures that lighting units can be controlled remotely without the need for infrastructural change. The solution makes cities autonomous while reducing expenses, returning on investments and efficiency. Smart units turn into Autonomous Lighting groups with neural network communication. Their proprietary algorithms allow for affordable efficiency gains on a scale that could not be obtained before.
AREYLight is an Artificial Intelligence company for redefine Energy-Tech and conserve electricity usage by ensuring that lighting units can be controlled remotely and efficiently through the use of artificial intelligence. An innovative high-tech company specializing in wireless lighting controls and connected lighting management software for Advanced Smart City Applications.
Their solution aims to make our cities autonomous by consolidating smart lighting technologies with other smart city applications to reduce expenses and maximize return on investment. Smart Units created by AREYLight turn into Autonomous Lighting groups with neural network communication which assists in gaining efficiency values that surpass any available in the market and improve the lives of citizens globally and contribute to the creation of sustainable and connected cities.
They do this through developing state-of-the-art outdoor lighting control systems. Their patented sensor-based presence detection technology enables dynamic on-demand lighting, and their management software provides full remote management of the entire lighting infrastructure in real-time
A cloud-based energy optimization solution that helps real-estate professionals substantially reduce CO2 emissions and realize energy savings.
Delta Q is a cloud-based energy optimization solution that helps real-estate professionals substantially reduce CO2 emissions and realize energy savings.
A Norwegian green-tech company established in 2018. They develop, design and manufacture their products in Scandinavia and currently export to countries all over Europe. Their ambitions further lie in becoming one of the largest companies in green technology in Europe within 2026, and one of the largest in the world within 2031.
Easee was established in January 2018 by three Norwegian entrepreneurs with the idea of creating the world’s smartest electric vehicle charger. Today, the company continues to develop innovative solutions for charging and power management technology – and is one of the world’s largest developers of smart EV-chargers.
The company has gone from 3 to over 500 employees in just 4 years, and has sales offices in Norway, the UK, the Benelux, France and Germany. Easee develops, designs, and manufactures its products in Scandinavia, and currently exports to over 20 countries in Europe.
Easee’s ambitious aims include becoming one of the largest companies in green technology in Europe within 2026, and one of the largest in the world by 2031. This growth is based on the powerful vision of shaping the future of electricity and business culture.
A company born from a university project in Zaragoza in 2006. Their smart solutions are focused on three verticals: Sustainability, to help companies become more sustainable, Smart Cities & Infrastructure, to develop more livable cities for their citizens, and Agri-food, to take advantage of the full potential of our natural resources, which are increasingly scarce and threatened.
LIBELIUM is a company born from a university project in Zaragoza in 2006. Its smart solutions are focused on three verticals: Sustainability, to help companies become more sustainable, Smart Cities & Infrastructure, to develop more livable cities for their citizens, and Agri-food, to take advantage of the full potential of our natural resources, which are increasingly scarce and threatened.
With constantly improving technology, Libelium develops its services around the world, focusing on Central and North America, as well as Europe.
The key to Libelium’s growth is the interoperability of its IoT platform. This fact has allowed Libelium to involve many companies in a large ecosystem of partners and distributors.
In addition, there is a community of +10,000 developers from the world’s largest companies that have developed IoT projects in +120 countries with Libelium technology.
Now, after its first business acquisition, it has a team of more than 80 highly qualified people.
A leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG reporting software provider. The Greentech has developed the Plan A Sustainability Platform, a secure, data-driven, and scientifically sound SaaS solution for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions calculation, science-based net-zero target setting and carbon reduction planning, as well as compliant and audit-proof reporting. Thus, the platform empowers businesses to self-manage their entire net-zero journey in a central end-to-end platform hub.
Plan A is a leading corporate carbon accounting, decarbonisation, and ESG reporting software provider. The Greentech has developed the Plan A Sustainability Platform, a secure, data-driven, and scientifically sound SaaS solution for Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions calculation, science-based net-zero target setting and carbon reduction planning, as well as compliant and audit-proof reporting. Thus, the platform empowers businesses to self-manage their entire net-zero journey in a central end-to-end platform hub. Plan A counts N26, BNP Paribas, ApaxPartners, Albion Capital, Sorare, BMW, Trivago, Société Générale, Payhawk, and the European Union among its customers.
Founded in 2017, the company has already received several awards, amongst others Generali’s SME EnterPRIZE Award 2021 and the prestigious The Europas Award 2021. As part of its Sustainability Initiative, Plan A recently disclosed its carbon footprint for the base year 2020 (85.74 tCO2e) and announced its decarbonisation target to decarbonise at least 80% of its avoidable emissions by 2025. Plan A is B Corp-certified and thus demonstrably adheres to strict social and environmental standards. In fact, with the top score achieved, Plan A is among the top 5 percent of all certified companies worldwide in the impact area “Governance”. For more information, visit plana.earth
The global, community-based platform built to promote ecological activities and provide a financial reward for people who clean up the planet.
Planet Heroes platform uses technology to drive support and care for the environment. It is a user-friendly online tool for eco-activists around the world. The main goal is to fight waste pollution and raise eco-awareness among societies and businesses. Through inclusivity, accessibility, and educational campaigns, the platform has a positive social and environmental impact. It uses AI algorithms to tag, verify and collect data about types of waste found in nature by Heroes. As a fintech solution, it provides peer-to-peer donations for clean-up authors and thorough reports with measurable effects of their work.
A pioneering Digital Revenue Recovery platform. Over 1,000 companies rely on Red Points to fight fakes, piracy impersonations and credential reselling allowing them to maintain control, improve their brand value, and increase revenue.
Red Points is a pioneering Digital Revenue Recovery platform. Over 1,000 companies rely on Red Points to fight fakes, piracy impersonations and credential reselling allowing them to maintain control, improve their brand value, and increase revenue. Some of their clients include Puma, FILA, Hyperice, TradingView, and Electrolux.
With offices in New York, Barcelona, Beijing and Salt Lake City, Red Points has disrupted the industry with a scalable, cost-effective solution. They serve leading global brands across a variety of sectors, from fashion, sports, finance, gaming, and many more.
The key to their success is their investment in technology and product to make their solution incredibly intuitive, effective and easy to use.
Watch their video here.
A precision forestry solution that is digitally transforming the sector by increasing transparency, traceability and efficiency, supporting sustainable forest management and achievement of the climate goals.
Timbeter is a precision forestry technology, which enables quick and accurate timber measurement and data management using artificial intelligence.
Widely used methodologies for timber measurement, forest inventory and CO2 sequestration calculations are based on manually measured figures and indirect assessments.
Timbeter’s goal is to foster digital transformation in forestry by automating processes and providing precise data. Digitalized accurate information enables transparency and traceability of the whole supply chain, fair trade transactions and fight against illegal logging. Solution also helps to improve the working conditions and safety of the employees, maximization of the value of each log and optimization of logistics and sales.
Timbeter has the biggest roundwood database in the world and the solution is accessible and affordable to everyone in the forest sector – from the small private forest owner to the manufacturer. Timbeter is working with the leading forestry corporations and state forests worldwide. To support strengthening of the sustainable forestry practices and fight against illegal logging, Timbeter has become a part of governmental projects in Costa Rica, Kenya and Georgia.
Company is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and has regional representation in Brazil and Kenya.
A technology company known for their local commerce platform, that makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly.
Wolt is a technology company known for their local commerce platform, that makes it easy for customers to order whatever they need on one app, for merchants to make additional sales, and for couriers to make meaningful earnings flexibly.
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