Hot Startups: 12 European Startups win Impact Shakers Award 2021

The inaugural Impact Shakers Awards has announced twelve European startups as its winners! The twelve winning startups are based in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, Portugal, and Bulgaria. For Impact Shakers, the goal of the awards is to help create a fertile environment in which impact-driven European startups can grow into strong and scalable businesses.

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The winners have developed key competencies in their business domain by leveraging advanced AI and emerging technologies like blockchain, fintech, and customer behavior intelligence to shake the ‘startup’ ecosystem in Europe.

Each of the European startups focuses on environment, inclusion, and society. The winners are:

Charm Impact

Region: Borehamwood, United Kingdom

Category: Energy

Business: Charm Impact provides an investing platform that crowdsources loans for clean energy startups in developing countries.

LAM’ON

Sofia, Bulgaria

Category: Food

Business: LAM’ON produces and sells 100% biodegradable and suitable for compost laminating film called LAM’ON and packaging foil – PACK’ON.

ResHub

Region: Dublin, Ireland

Category: Health

Business: ResHub is a resident engagement platform built for relationship-centered care. It provides a truly connected experience between residents, staff and families to enhance resident wellness by enabling highly personalized care delivery.

BitaGreen

Region: Leuven, Belgium

Category: Water

Business: BitaGreen offers nature-based solutions for urban water management and quality of life.

TaskHer 

Region: London, United Kingdom

Category: Gender Equality

Business: TaskHer champions women in skilled manual trades.

Ecolytiq 

Region: Berlin, Germany

Category: Fintech Education

Business: Ecolytiq enables banks, fintech companies and financial service providers to show their customers the individual impact their purchasing behavior has on the environment in real-time.

Lightning Social Ventures 

Region: London, United Kingdom

Category: Income & Work

Business: Lightning Social Ventures helps people in financial hardship to receive super fast support and recover from shocks.

TIIQU

Region: London, United Kingdom

Category: Social Equity

Business: TIIQU is a trust mechanism continuously fed by blockchain-based certificates. They build trusted ecosystems for a modern, inclusive and fair society.

nestful

Region: London, United Kingdom

Category: Housing

Business: nestful offers customized solutions on affordable accommodation to co-live with seniors aged 50+ with rooms to spare.

Amurabi

Region: Paris, France

Category: Peace & Justice

Business: Amurabi bridges the gap between the law and its users: empowering all users to actually understand and exercise their rights.

Maanch

Region: London, United Kingdom

Category: Networks

Business: Maanch develops technology to measure, monitor, and report on the impact of investments, organizations, and philanthropy, through the lens of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Newsroom

Region: Lisbon, Portugal

Category: AI-based Content Discovery and Fake News Identifier

Business: The Newsroom is fighting misinformation and promoting plurality by adding context to the news that readers consume online. It uses advanced AI-powered systems to identify articles and claims that are most likely to contain elements of misinformation.

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What is Impact Shakers Award?

The Impact Shakers Awards help to create a growth environment in which impact-driven startups can grow into strong and scalable businesses which in turn, make the economy more inclusive, environmentally friendly and social.

Impact Shakers-CEO Yonca Braeckman: “We are inspired by the doughnut economics model, which maps human prosperity according to a social foundation and an ecological ceiling. From this vantage point, we assess the economic profit as well as societal and environmental impact.”

Next Impact Shakers Awards in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA)

The awards are a part of the broader Impact Shakers ecosystem. The organization is currently developing its impact investment projects and will launch an accelerator later this year. The next region the Impact Shakers Awards will launch will be in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) after the Summer.

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