Startup Booster
Join the 3rd edition of Startup Booster
A unique competition tailored to find and assess sources of innovation in the Composite field
Startup Booster is the leading startup competition in the world of Composites. It enables companies to find and assess innovations with a potential impact on their industry, as a complement to the project they may are already involved in order to choose those with a potential impact for the industry, as a complement to the projects in which they are already involved.
Launched in 2017, Startup Booster has already fostered the emergence of 150+ innovative projects from 25+ countries, 20 finalists and 6 winners.
The Call for Entries is now closed. The 10 finalists will be announced late January 2019.
Startup Booster 2019 Finalists
AEON-T (Spain) : Enabling mass production of composite parts
AirGo (Singapore): world’s first full composite economy class passenger seat developer
Arevo (USA): Technology enabling direct digital additive manufacturing of ultra-strong, lightweight composite parts for end use applications in high volume
Biprocel (Spain) : A new generation of regenerated, high-end & plant-based materials
cellEQ (Germany): Developing, producing and distributing individual analysis equipment for the process-near shrinkage analysis of multi-component resin systems
Lavoisier Composites (France): Carbonium®, a new generation of material entirely sourced from the aerospace transformation sector
Lingrove (USA) : Materials and design startup focused on plant based fibers and resins
Mantis Composites (USA): Bringing the advantages of carbon fiber composites to intricate parts which are currently only possible to make out of machined metals.
UBQ Materials (Israel): Reducing your Carbon Footprint, empowering your pledge to the Environment and Future Generations
Woodoo (France): Augmented Wood
The Competitors
The competition is open to entrepreneurs with innovative projects, SMEs and academic spinoffs, in 2 categories:
Process:
- Design
- Manufacturing
- Industry 4.0, Smart industry
Products:
- New composite materials, including hybrid materials and IoT
- New application markets for composites
A win-win Program
For Startups:
- A business acceleration with the chance to reach key decision makers and to find industry partners and customers
- A boost to the brand awareness of the 43,000+ industry players present at the show
- A boost to the brand awareness of the 100,000+ members of the JEC Group community
For Corporations / Industry:
- Find and assess innovative, specialized composite startups that can have an impact on their business (process- or product-wise)
- Take inspiration from a new generation of entrepreneurs
- Position your brand with a successful program
- Grow your network with universities, R&T and R&D centers, clusters, associations, industries and media
Winning Package
3 Winners will be announced at the show after the pitch session and will get the following additional advantages:
- 3,500€ financial prize
- A fully equiped booth at the JEC World 2020 (Value: 10,000€)
- An advertising page in the JEC World PREVIEW magazine, sent to over 80K contacts (Value: 2,800€)
- 4 full invitation packages for JEC World 2020, including the 3-day conference courses (Value: 1,600€)
- A free Altair HyperWorks license for a period of 6 months (each license is a 10,000€ value)
High-Level Jury
Jelle BLOEMHOF
Airbus
Head of Manufacturing Technologies of Composite
Karl-Heinz FULLER
Daimler AG
Manager Hybrid Materials, Concepts & AMG
Jeffrey WOLLSCHLAGER
Altair Engineering
Senior Director – Composites Technology
Renaud POULARD
Omnes Capital
Partner
Raphael SURUN
Beneteau Group
Head of Composites Department
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