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Adaptavate secures £4m in funding package to develop carbon-negative construction products
Adaptavate develops patented Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) processes for making low-carbon and carbon-negative construction products, including its flagship Breathaboard. Wallboard manufacturers license the technology so they can produce carbon-storing wallboard with their existing infrastructure and supply chains.
DEScycle unlocks £5.5m in funding to recover critical and precious metals from electronic waste
DEScycle is building a distributed, modular metals processing platform to recover critical and precious metals from electronic waste. Its proprietary ionometallurgy process enables lower-capital, lower-energy recovery closer to where materials are generated, turning domestic waste streams into sovereign metal supply.
Quantum Dice secures £1.8m grant from the European Innovation Council to commercialise its probabilistic computing platform
Quantum Dice builds probabilistic computing hardware using quantum photonics, enabling more efficient solutions to complex optimisation and probabilistic AI problems with lower energy consumption than traditional computing.
Sparxell awarded £1.6m EIC grant to scale bioinspired colourants from Cambridge lab to industry
Sparxell develops plant-based colourants inspired by natural structures, producing biodegradable pigments that replace fossil-derived dyes across textiles, cosmetics and industrial applications.
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