Open Challenge 2025 – Start-ups invited to pitch

Following our sourcing period which closed on 20 April, the following start-ups have been invited to pitch to our member companies to partner and form consortia. Good luck to the start-ups!

Alithic – producing carbon negative cement replacement, capturing and mineralizing CO2 in one integrated process, while saving money and upcycling waste.

BAIE Minerals – Transforming mine waste into decarbonized cement and concrete for a low-cost supply chain.

Bio Graphene Solutions (BGS) is a Canadian clean-tech & organic admixture provider to the concrete industry that harnesses the power of advanced carbon materials to improve cement design optimization and concrete performance – creating significant cost and embodied carbon reductions in the process.

Carbon Infuse transforms CO2 and industrial waste into supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), decarbonizing heavy industries and the built environment.

Carbon Negative Solutions​ – Powered by AI, Carbon Negative Solutions converts unusable industrial waste into high-quality carbon-negative cement supplements (SCMs), doubling revenue and carbon reduction compared to carbon mineralization industry standards.

CarbonStrong has developed a low-energy mechanical and chemical activation process to convert locally available fly ash into high-reactivity SCMs, enabling 2-3X greater cement replacement and unlocking vast untapped global supply.

Co-reactive turns CO₂ into carbon-negative, high-performance construction materials.

Cocoon Carbon – Upcycling steel waste into low-carbon SCMs

COCOONCO2 Pte. Ltd.​ – A pioneer transforming carbon sequestration, carbon sink and profit sharing to cement / concrete industry. 

iCink is a climate technology company focused on decarbonizing the construction industry through innovative product manufacturing

iConcreteTek develops highly reactive pozzolanic materials from waste concrete.

Material Evolution offers high-performance, ultra-low carbon cement alternative at scale in the UK.

PHNX Materials offers the most scalable solution to decarbonize concrete by unlocking 2Btons of landfilled fly-ash.

RockXtract develops novel, ultra-low carbon cement materials through an innovative geochemical process.

Starstone​ – Biology-based cement. Zero kilns. Zero CO₂.

Tera converts captured CO₂ into a supplementary cementitious additive (SCM) alkaline activator, replacing 5–15% of Portland and geopolymer blends, enabling scalable, cost-effective decarbonization for the global cement industry. Reduce supply chain emissions through SCM integration at batching plants. Provide a financially viable CCS retrofit pathway for existing kilns.

Zyelum SCM Solutions Private Limited​ – Zyelum’s proprietary process converts C&D waste into low‑energy, low‑carbon SCMs through an IoT‑ and blockchain‑enabled digital supply chain.