Maja Åstrand holds a BSc in Vehicle Engineering from KTH and is currently pursuing an MSc in Robotics at KTH. Alongside her studies, she has been running SimulAir and working as an Automation Engineer at B&R Industrial Automation, a division of ABB Robotics. The inception of SimulAir followed a bed bug infestation in her student apartment. After meeting her co-founder Simon, they developed their first prototype as part of their bachelor thesis, which was featured in an article by BBC Future.

SimulAir has developed a machine that attracts, captures, and identifies bed bugs. Traditionally, during treatment, a human is required to act as bait to lure bed bugs out from their hiding spots and into contact with pesticides. Their machine, when placed in a room, simulates human presence so no person needs to act as a bait. Once the bed bugs are attracted, they are captured in the trap. Currently, they are primarily working with pest control companies and commercial property owners. They have built and tested five prototypes, which have been verified both in the field with customers and in lab tests with a bed bug researcher.

Max & Allen Mohammadi are visionary social entrepreneurs and co-inventors of PlasticFri. As serial entrepreneurs, they have founded several companies and held key executive roles in tech startups, including a major exit. They have an extensive academic background from Royal Institute of Technology KTH, Uppsala University, KIT and Stanford University.Both Allen & Max were awarded “Prince Daniel Fellowship” and also have been selected by Forbes magazine as the top 30 most influential entrepreneurs and are featured on the prestigious “Forbes 30 under 30 list”

PlasticFri is a GreenTech company from Sweden with a breakthrough technology turning agricultural waste and non-edible plants to eco-friendly products as alternatives for replacing plastics. For its ground-breaking work, PlasticFri has been awarded as the “World’s Most Innovative Sustainability Startup” among 1400 companies worldwide and “Global Tech Innovator 2023” among more than 2000 companies worldwide!

Arelys Sosa is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of DREV, a company dedicated to pioneering contamination control technology for the battery industry and its value chain. With a distinguished career as an accomplished Industrial Engineer, she has managed multi-million-dollar projects on a global scale. Her professional journey spans diverse locations, including Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, the United States, and her current base in Sweden, highlighting her adaptability in various cultural and business contexts. While in the United States, Arelys played a key role as a part of the founding team at Panasonic Energy of North America, located at Tesla’s Gigafactory 1. Submerged in the electric vehicle (EV) revolution and mass-scale battery production, she gained expertise in battery factory construction and operations, collaborating closely with industry pioneers like Tesla Motors and Panasonic. Her leadership reflects a commitment to industry innovation and growth, as she actively applies her expertise to drive progress in the field. 
 
Founded in 2023 and based in Gothenburg, DREV revolutionizes industrial cleanliness with cutting-edge cleaning equipment designed for the world’s most advanced manufacturing facilities. Bridging the gap between modern factory technology and outdated cleaning methods, DREV’s innovative solutions eliminate water and harsh chemicals, transforming waste into valuable resources. Specifically tailored for the battery industry, DREV’s technology enhances material recovery and promotes a closed-loop system, enabling the recycling of critical battery materials such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt. Led by an executive team of industry experts from Panasonic Energy and PowerCell, DREV is driven by a mission to make the next industrial revolution safer, more efficient, and sustainable. Our vision is to transform contamination control into a strategic advantage, empowering manufacturers to unlock value, reduce environmental impact, and support the entire battery value chain.

Marta Sjögren is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Paebbl, the re-stored carbon company. Paebbl was founded on the premise that the captured CO2 can and should be put to good use. Paebbl’s vision is to repurpose captured CO2 into widely used raw materials.  
Marta is also an investor in planet-aligned businesses, and is part of the Board of Stewards of 2050.do, the leading planet-aligned investment firm. Furthermore, Marta is an avid champion of greater diversity in venture capital, serving as a Venture Partner in Climate to Ada Ventures. Prior to co-founding Paebbl, Marta was an early stage investor, with over a decade in venture capital, most recently at Northzone as a Partner, and previously DN Capital where she started her career.

Paebbl turns CO2 into useful raw materials in an energy-efficient and fully transparent way. Paebbl’s mineralisation process is nature-inspired, and technology enabled. The Company was founded in 2021 by serial founders Andreas Saari and Jane Walerud, applied researcher and mineralization veteran Pol Knops, and former venture capitalist Marta Sjögren, with a mission to bring to market a truly scalable carbon removal technology that within the coming decade. The Company turns CO2 into a future-proof industrial raw material that turns the built environment into a permanent carbon store. Paebbl is among the fastest growing mineralisation technologies globally, having scaled 100x in its first 18 months of existence, and currently on track to build the fastest demo scale-up in the industry. The demo plant is based in Rotterdam and expected to be launched in early 2025. Paebbl is a Swedish-headquartered pan-European company, privately financed by planet-aligned investors such as Pale Blue Dot, 2050.do, and the Grantham Foundation.

Sebastian holds a PhD in quantum physics and is the co-founder and CEO of Universal Quantum, a venture capital backed start-up working on constructing commercial quantum computers that have the potential to change the world for the better. He has grown Universal Quantum to a 40+ strong team of exceptional engineers, scientists and operational staff operating in the UK, US and Germany. Universal Quantum has recently received one of the world’s largest government contracts to build a world leading quantum computer for the German government. Sebastian is also an Associate Professor in Quantum Technologies at the University of Sussex in the UK. His technical work around quantum computing for example led to the development of a drastically simplified approach to quantum computing and the development of the world’s first blueprint for constructing a large-scale trapped-ion quantum computer capable of unlocking some of the most exciting applications of this technology.

Vahid Sohrabpour, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Saveggy, a bio-tech company on a journey to revolutionize the food and packaging industry. Saveggy, which stands for Save Veggy, focuses on developing plant-based edible food coatings to extend the shelf-life of fruits and vegetables and replace plastic packaging.

Driven by a deep passion for innovation, business, and sustainability, Vahid has an academic research and industrial background. He pursued Industrial Ph.D. studies in Packaging Logistics at Lund University. He has also gained valuable experience from working at Tetra Pak and Copenhagen Business School.

Vahid founded Saveggy together with Arash Fayyazi in 2020, on a mission to reduce waste and improve our food system. Together they lead a team of talented bio-tech experts in Lund, who harness the power of nature to create innovative solutions for a sustainable future.

Lucy Lyons, commercial Co-founder of Kestrix, is an entrepreneurial leader with international experience founding and scaling sustainability-focused ventures and conducting policy research. After a first experience as a founder as the CEO of reLive, an angel-backed sustainable end-of-life platform, she was the first hire under the CCO at Berlin-based Plan A, Europe’s first B2B carbon accounting SaaS company, where she defined a commercial strategy for SMEs to supercharge deal volume. She has also conducted sustainability and innovation policy research with organisations like the Swedish Energy Agency and the office of US Senator Edward J. Markey. She holds an MSc in Sustainability, Enterprise, and the Environment from the University of Oxford and B.A. in Global Studies with a concentration in Urban Development from New York University.

She is a Sigma Squared Fellow, joining a community of the world’s most ambitious founders under 26.

CEO & co-founder of FLOX Robotics, deeptech climateTech startup developing robotics and artificial intelligence applied on autonomous drones, fixed installations and vehicles to protect natural resources in agriculture, forestry and public spaces, avoid wildlife-strikes at airports, and prevent wildlife collisions in trafficked areas.

FLOX is named to be amongst the global Top 5 Drone StartUps to Watch in 2022 by StartUs Insights and won Sweden’s largest innovation price SKAPA in Stockholm County 2022.  As Flox CEO, Sara was recognized as the Top 10 young innovators in Sweden by ÅFors, was featured on the 103 young entrepreneurs list at Företagarna and also voted amongst 100 CimateTech Startup CEOs by HackSummit.

Eloa Guillotin, 27, has dedicated her life to making aviation electric. After graduating from the world’s best aerospace universities (UC Berkeley, Polytechnique, Supaero & HEC), she launched her third venture, Beyond Aero to build the first hydrogen-electric business aircraft. Starting with a 6-passenger private aircraft, at the crossroads where the need is strong with a CO2 emission of 2T/hour per jet, and the fastest certification timeline.

Beyond went through YCombinator, gathered 10 million euros, built an 85kW prototype, and was selected Top 20 FrenchTech Green. With an engineering team of over 30 people, Eloa has received multiple awards including the French Academy of Technologies and Forbes 30Under30 France. She regrouped the best talents in the world, from top-tier Airbus and Lilium’s Managers. She is a people-driven passionate entrepreneur, bold in her actions, and ready to fight to make the world a better place.