Pina Earth – Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners. Pina Earth is building a suite of digital tools for data collection, monitoring, and certification of forest carbon projects. EU forests are at high risk due to climate change. With Pina Earth, forest owners can start high-quality carbon projects on their properties and use the new income stream to prepare their forests for a changing climate. The founders met at the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM) and joined their expertise in sustainability science, software engineering, and machine learning to make EU forests future-proof.
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The Exploration Company
The mission of the French-German company is to democratize space exploration for space and non-space industries. To realize this mission, The Exploration Company develops, manufactures, and operates Nyx, a modular and reusable orbital vehicle which can be refueled in orbit. Nyx serves the low Earth orbit (LEO) and lunar destinations and starts with carrying cargo, with the growth potential to fly humans afterwards. The Exploration Company was founded in 2021 by experienced engineers and has raised one of the largest Seed Series in Europe backed by tier-one investors (Promus, Cherry, Vsquared Ventures).