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🎉Proud to be featured in the new Accelerator Guide! 🙏 A big thank you to Foundersphere.io for recognizing our work. This edition highlights the role of industry-specific accelerators, as well as the increasing focus on environmental technologies and sustainable business ideas. 💪 We are more motivated than ever to support startups on their path to success and are excited to share our experiences and insights with the community. #RESPOND #Accelerator #Startups #Future #Tech #Founders #Sustainability #Scale #Impact

✨Just wrapped up an incredible 4-day retreat at BOLD Campus in Taunus with our current cohort of start-ups, alumni, coaches, and business leaders. Over 40 participants came together to dive deep into Responsible Leadership, collaboration, and vulnerability. Through inspiring sessions, by our external partners Ilana Wetzler, Tomás de Lara (Cities CAN B) and Julio Salazar (Fuckup Nights), leadership tools, teamwork, meaningful conversations, and also being silent, we learned and grew together. Surrounded by like-minded individuals and experts, we also explored the changes needed within ourselves and our ecosystems for a more just and livable future. 🌱 The experience was topped off with unforgettable moments, dancing and a lot of joy and laughter. 🎉 Here's to deep learning and new connections! With Cohort #5: Soji Sanyaolu, Thomas Nann, Ines Serra Baucells, Carla Escobedo Jalife, Dominik Novakovic, Maike Lambarth, Emily McIsaac, Mari Granström, Julian Ellis-Brown, Neloufar (Nelly) Taheri, Finlay Duncan, Julia Bialetska, Eugene Tomilin, Benjamin Droguet, Simon Kew and Leena Al Olaimy Including our experts: Doreen R., Ritu David, Nicolas Brien, Anne Krug Caterina Lurani, Patrícia Silva, Sammy Fry, Lars Hoffmann, Tatyane Ramos de Oliveira, Dr. Manuel Schneider and Lisa Schmitt And the team: Leah Becker, Verena Finkenzeller,Bennet Barth, Anna Fuchs, Emanuel Farag and Marie-Luise Nau 📸 Marc Beckmann #ResponsibleLeadership #StartUps #Tech #Innovation #Collaboration #Future #Challenge #HowWillYouRESPOND

🎉 Congratulations to our friends at Norrsken, for launching their new podcast series - How We Fix This - hosted and narrated by Alexander Skarsgård! As we're all about finding solutions, we're excited to hear about the ones the podcast will feature. 🔍 💡 The series spotlights pioneering startups and their innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We're truly excited that one of our own RESPOND Cohort #1 startups, Plan A, is featured in season 1 - alongside Brimstone (USA), Planet A Foods (Germany), Volta Greentech (Sweden), Neoplants (France), SunFi (Nigeria), Commons (USA) and Nilus (Argentina). 👉 Listen to the series here: https://spoti.fi/4eJIVFi #HowWillYouRESPOND #Innovation #Startup #Challenges #Solutions #Future #Tech #Podcast

🌍 Cohort #2 alumni traceless materials & Mondi Group partner up to revolutionize the packaging industry! Together, they are replacing traditional plastic coatings with our recyclable, plastic-free, traceless material. 🌿 This collaboration is a game-changer for sustainability in paper coatings to bring innovative, natural solutions to their customers. Congratulations, Anne Lamp, Johanna Baare and the traceless team! 👇 Read more below #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #Innovation #Partnership #GreenerFuture #tracelessMaterials #MondiGroup

🎉 We’re happy to announce that RESPOND Cohort #4 alumni Jean Michel Scheuren and the Novobiom team have secured €2 million in seed funding to harness the power of fungi for a circular economy! 🌱 A massive shoutout to the amazing team for their dedication and hard work. With this funding, Novobiom aims to enhance our soil remediation and textile recycling efforts, and unlock the potential of biotechnology for a cleaner, regenerative future. 👏 Here's to a pivotal moment for Novobiom and the journey ahead! #Accelerator #StartUp #SeedFunding #CircularEconomy #Biotechnology #SoilRemediation #Novobiom #Innovation #Sustainability #CleanFuture

Carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) is crucial for tackling challenging emissions, yet its full potential remains untapped. 📈 The report “From Awareness to Action: The Six Building Blocks for Purchasing Carbon Removal,” walks you through creating a CDR strategy for your organization, from engaging stakeholders and securing C-level buy-in to meeting your net-zero goals. 🤝 A collaboration with the BMW Foundation, remove and SusLab, this report offers insights from the latest research and draws on insider interviews to give practical guidance on CDR. A must-read for anyone planning to set up a CDR initiative. 👉 Bit.ly/PurchasingCDR #ClimateAction #ResponsibleLeadership #ClimateLeadership #CarbonDioxideRemoval #NetZero #CorporateResponsibility #EnvironmentalStewardship #Sustainability

👏 Super proud of Cohort #4 Start-up ecoLocked and founders, Stefanie Gerhart, Dr. Mario Schmitt and Micheil Gordon who have secured a financing round of 4M Euro, led by Matterwave Ventures and Climentum Capital. This funding will accelerate their mission to turn buildings into carbon sinks and scale innovative biochar-based solutions. 💪 🌱 Let’s continue to move towards a net-zero future! #cohort4 #RESPOND #Accelerator #Innovation #Tech #CarbonRemoval #BioChar #ScaleUp

We’re on at Katapult Future Fest! 🎉 Some of our RESPOND Accelerator Alumni will be showcasing their projects and share their stories of passionate dedication to tackle some of the world's most pressing challenges through cutting-edge technology. 👋 Find us here: 👉 Today, Dr. Ulrike Pfreundt (rrreefs, #Cohort3, not pictured) and Snehal Verma (NatureDots, #Cohort4) will present at the Impact Scaleup Pitching on how they revolutionize sustainability. 👉 Tomorrow, Philippe Birker (Climate Farmers, #Cohort3) as well as Alex Prate (Hypha DAO, #Cohort3) will showcase their projects and stories, and share their learnings on creating opportunities for funding and discovery. �� Discover how these startups are revolutionizing their respective industries. 🤝 Engage with founders who are building the next generation of tech-driven solutions. 💡 Learn about emerging markets, innovative technologies, and impactful applications. We’re happy to be part of this inspiring event where impact investors, tech entrepreneurs, and change-makers come together in Oslo to provide a glimpse into the future of impact investment, tech for good, and purpose-driven change. Check out the full g#KFF24 lineup 👉 https://lnkd.in/dVBdfHJA #ImpactInvestment #KFF24 #Future #Tech #Founders #Entrepreneurs #Future #Innovation #Change DISCLAIMER: We had to repost, since we accidentally used a wrong picture for Dr. Ulrike Pfreundt of rrreefs - we apologize!

Ready, steady, GO 🚀 We’re kicking off our Accelerator program with Cohort#5 in Amsterdam today, with immersive sessions on the general program, Responsible Leadership and Resilience at the Mediamatic. Tomorrow and Friday the RESPOND founders will be part of the B For Good Leaders Summit to wrap up the kick-off experience. 💪 Can’t believe this is already the fifth time we’re working together with innovative startups, who are transforming their industries. Our goal is to systematically advance how they lead, grow and scale sustainable businesses. 🌱 Looking forward to the journey ahead in the next months 💚! #RESPOND #Accelerator #Cohort #5 #KickOff #StartUp #BforGoodLeadersSummit #Innovation #Transformation #Economies #ResponsibleLeadership #Resilience #Scale #SocialChange Soji Sanyaolu, Thomas Nann, Fraser Hughson, Ines Serra Baucells, Carla Escobedo Jalife, Dominik Novakovic, Maike Lambarth, 🌱 Irina Miller, Emily McIsaac, Mari Granström, Julian Ellis-Brown, Neloufar (Nelly) Taheri, Finlay Duncan, Julia Bialetska, Benjamin Droguet, Simon Kew and Leena Al Olaimy _AirSmat Inc _Allegro Energy _BIOSORRA _Cyclize _Daisy Lab _Origin by Ocean _Ponda Bio _S.Lab _Sparxell _Symbaiosys 📸Marc Beckmann

Can investing in nature be profitable? 💰 Symbaiosys’s investment database provides access to global nature-based solutions projects, with the aim of bridging the nature finance gap. They tackle the root problem of nature being undervalued rather than underfunded. By providing algorithmic valuation to quantify the financial gains from investing in nature, Symbaiosys aims to complement standards that have focused on nature-related financial losses and risks in traditional investments. In doing so, their ambition is to mobilize nature finance and enable the integration of nature’s true value into decision-making – beyond just carbon and commodities. Find out more about their disruptive approach: https://symbaiosys.ai/ BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt UnternehmerTUM Leena Al Olaimy #Sybaiosis #RESPOND #Accelerator #Cohort5 #Innovation #Tech #Impact #Sustainability #Startups #Founders #Entrepreneurs #Leaders #ResponsibleLeadership #Scalable #Financing #Investment #Derisking #Carbon