IBC Europe 1st Place

Biosyntia Denmark

Biosyntia provides chemical manufacturers with cell factories through licensing agreements, which will allow manufacturers to produce their fine chemical products (market size >USD 900 billion) by fermentation, enabling them to save up to 90% on direct production costs and reduce their environmental impact substantially. Biosyntia can develop cell factories at unprecedented speed and efficiency due to our superior high-throughput screening technology, RIBOSELECT™, which is >10,000 times faster than current state-of-the-art technologies and only requires low-cost lab equipment (< USD 100 for screening 10^10 candidates). Biosyntia was started by 2 Master-, 2 Ph.D.students, and a professor from The Technical University of Denmark, The University of Copenhagen, and Aarhus University. Biosyntia is looking for additional funding to the already secured > USD 300,000 in order to conduct further research and secure IPR.

IBC Europe 2nd Place
Imagga, Bulgaria

Imagga is a hi-tech company specialized in automated large-scale image analysis in the cloud. The customer pain we are addressing is the impossibility to easily tag, organize and find digital content in the constantly growing public and private image collections.
We are building a three-layer platform of core image understanding technologies, B2B web services, and online and mobile B2C tools, build on top of these technologies.
We launched our flag-ship project StockPodium.com in late 2010. It is an image marketplace with advanced search capabilities that currently has more than 130 000 monthly uniques and more than 1 300 paying customers.
In the summer of 2011 we pivoted toward providing our image analysis and visual search technologies on a software-as-a-service basis to image-intensive companies who use them to better and faster organize their images and provide more intuitive user experience to their customers. More than 12 000 000 images have been processed via our platform so far.

IBC Europe 3rd Place
IrSee, Denmark

IRSee is a technology platform enabling new ways of capturing and converting infrared images. IRSee offers a revolutionary technology platform for infrared imaging. When compared to thermal cameras, IRSee based products do not only measure heat emitted by objects, but actually differentiate between chemical energy levels of a substance. It works more as a spectral camera, although with significantly improved signal-to-noise ratio - 1000 mil times, and at a cost 10 times lower when compared to current existing products. The IRSee technology can work as an add-on unit to conventional cameras by converting the infrared light to visible light.
First demonstration project has just been started together with Haldor Topsoe for use of the camera for improved catalyst development process. Among many huge players who have contacted us about this technology, there are US Army and Danish Government which are also looking into the potential of the technology and discuss new pilot applications.

IBC Europe 3rd Place
Black Silicon Solar, Denmark

Black Silicon Solar develops a unique nanostructure that increases a solar panel's ability to absorb light. The solar panels becomes more efficient, but more importantly, they become cheaper to manufacture. Our technology dramatically reduces costs, emissions and use of materials. Black Silicon Solar aims to play a key role in making the cost of solar energy competitive with fossil fuels withing the coming years.

Our technology will allow solar cell manufacturers to double their margins - and the only thing they need to do is change one piece of equipment. This remarkable cost-saving has been confirmed by prototypes built at the Technical University of Denmark.