Startup turns CO2 into building materials, reducing emissions equivalent to 28 million cars out of traffic won the first prize of OI Award

This is a national and international scale forum, first organized in Hanoi by Schoolab Global Innovation Organization (France), under the auspices of Hanoi People’s Committee, Ministry of Planning and Invest.

There are 48 startups divided into 6 fields selected for the pitching round and 5 minutes of presentation to the judges to select the best startup in each field, then the head of each field will enter the final round. on August 29. Vietnamese startups will compete fairly with other countries around the world, not domestic and international boards like other competitions.

Final Judges: From left to right: Michael Lints (Partner Golden Gate Ventures), Jean-Claude Charlet (CEO Schoolab), Jonah Levey (CEO Dreamplex), Sébastien Toupy – Head of Startup Relations, The Next Web (Netherlands) , Amarit Charoenphan – Executive Chairman, Hubba & CCO, TechSauce (Thailand), Mike Butcher – TechCrunch journalist, (UK)

Selected startups include:

– Environmental themes: AirGo Design, AYA cup, Carbon Upcycling Technologies, Lightencym Nordic 247, ACCool.

The winner is Carbon Upcycling Technologies , a solution that compresses CO2 into a solid object and makes it into building materials from Canada. Carbon Upcycling technology helps recycle CO2, treats fly dust into materials (packaging, concrete, plastics), increases cement durability by 20 times, reduces emissions equal with 28 million cars out of traffic, anti-erosion coating material production …

Madison Savilow, business development of Carbon Upcycling Technologies

– Mobile and travel topics : Tubudd, An Vui Technology, Banopolis, Chungxe, LuggAgent International, Mitta Tours. The winner is LuggAgent , the suitcase storage platform from Hong Kong.

Eva Chuang – LuggAgent International Business Development (Hong Kong)

– Smart City theme : Aquabit Spirals, Jerbit, Pablo Air, RoadBounce, Zennodys, Acif, Aheo, Smartlog Vietnam.

The winner is Road Bounce . This is a startup that collects and collects data from road status data to help users minimize accident risks and optimize public budgets, coming from India.

Ranjeet Deshmukh – Founder, RoadBounce (India)

– Life sciences topics : Clean Cube Concept, Diabnext, Mosia, Neaty, Vulcan Augmetics, Marine Innovation, Eco4P.

The winner is Marine Innovation (South Korea), the technology that uses algae residue, coffee residue, palm residue to make building materials, cups and paper boxes as substitutes for wood products. In Korea, each year about 500 tons of seaweed are discarded, the source of seaweed in Japan is also plentiful and can cultivate algae. Whereas algae can decompose in 90 days, using algae to produce less cost.

Na Yung Roh – CMO, Marine Innovation (South Korea)

– Future’s Future Jobs : Blockly, Blue Phish, Popiwork Vietnam, Taein, The 6AM Company, Toss Lab, UpUpApp, Get Fixer, Valkyrie Industies, Aversafe, IGMT, Recruitery.co.

The winner is Recruitery.co (Vietnam ) providing headhunting service based on the recommendations of headhunter / HR, this platform is like Uber model that hires employees, based on the introduction and relationship of the community members.

Toan Nguyen – Founder Recruitery.co (Vietnam)

– Consumer Technology Topics : Eatigo International, Flyhigh Co, Horlu, SaveMoney, Style Seller, Turleship, VDEs, Wowtune, BePOS, Buyble. The winner is Eatingo , a startup that offers discounts on restaurants and off-peak restaurants, from Thailand.

Pumin (Louis) Yuvacharuskul – Eatigo international (Thailand) Director

Six winning startups of each topic attended the final round, the final jury selected Carbon Upcycling Technologies to become the winner of the OI Award contest. The winner will leave with a prize of $ 10,000 in cash, a year of free work at Dreamplex Coworking Space, and a range of prizes from partners Techsauce Global, CoXplore Vietnam, Amazon Web Services.

Carbon Upcycling Technologies became the champion of the OX Award