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Web Summit is one of the world’s largest events on innovation that connects players from a myriad of industries. It is held in Lissbon in late fall and has been named “The best technology conference on the planted” by Forbes.

Here we present curated startups and ideas that we found during the Web Summit. The selection criteria was not only innovation, but also how a positive impact on sustainability and diversity could be made.

Sustainability

Available provision

In Africa, group buying is making fresh produce more affordable. Meanwhile, a new startup in Germany is aiming to provide warm meals to those in financial need, while simultaneously reducing food waste in canteens. Students or those on a tight budget register on the app. After vetting, they can request food each day from a nearby canteen for a...
Life Science

Pow(d)erful protection

A frame for endotracheal tubes helps protect patients. Equally important: quickly staunching blood when wounds bleed profusely. Now, a Taiwanese startup is showing how this can be done with biocompatible agents like amino acids. The latter build proteins in the body and assist with the production of enzymes. Using a newly-developed biotechnological method, the team combined amino acid molecules...
Technology

Genuine change

Thanks to nanotechnology the human eye can perceive its surroundings in the highest possible resolution. Now a Spanish startup is looking to nanotechnology to help prevent documents and products from being falsified. The key here: photo-sensitive microparticles. Integrated into ink, they are used to print security features in QR- and barcodes. As in current methods for bank notes, the...
Digital Transformation

Scheduled dispensation

Dialysis could soon be significantly less trying. Hospital patients who take regular medication rely heavily on the nursing staff. To unburden both, an Italian startup has created an automatic pill dispenser placed directly by patients’ bedside. The wireless device is controlled through a cloud-based online portal into which electronic medication plans are imported or patient requirements manually entered. There’s...
Diversity & Ethics

Integrated outlook

A new agency represents models and performers with both visible and invisible disabilities. And now a British startup is supporting people with special cognitive capabilities through a new online platform developed to help those with autism, ADHD or dyslexia find the right job. Because neurodivergent employees can provide a unique outlook with their approach to problem-solving and innovation. Businesses...
Sustainability

Objective offer

A robot could make old clothes fashionable again. With unused and depreciated work materials or equipment, however, things are a little harder. Still, functional objects are worth something. Which is why a French startup is providing companies with platforms for reuse. Listed on an internal online portal, employees can loan these objects or exchange them for something else. Points...
Technology

Testing the water

A sensor system makes brackish water fit for consumption at all times. In Holland, a startup has developed a smart device to monitor water stored in reservoirs. Sensors measure water quality and consumption while an algorithm analyses the data. If the quality is compromised, unusual amounts of water are taken or the fill level is low, tank owners are...
Art & Leisure

Incentivised generation

A new film knows when food goes off. Now, a startup from Hungary has come up with a solution for companies and their biological waste. Instead of winding up on the rubbish tip and creating greenhouse gases, the waste can be composted on site. It's done by a device resembling a mini kettle barbecue. Employees are incentivised to use the...

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