Ten years after an initial research paper, the Trace Crystal team is able to produce a solution for making products forgery-proof. Hakam Agha and his team are among the ten startups selected for the Startup World Cup. Photo: Trace Crystal Youtube

Ten years after an initial research paper, the Trace Crystal team is able to produce a solution for making products forgery-proof. Hakam Agha and his team are among the ten startups selected for the Startup World Cup. Photo: Trace Crystal Youtube

On Monday 6 May, EY unveiled the ten startups vying for the Luxembourg ticket to the Startup World Cup in San Francisco. The Luxembourg round will take place on 6 June from 5pm.

With one month to go before the regional round of the Startup World Cup, EY and venture capital firm Pegasus Tech Ventures have unveiled the shortlist of ten startups that will have to convince the jury to take them to San Francisco in the autumn.

- : transforming housing in a sustainable way by integrating materials research, design and technology. Specialising in the 3D printing of self-drying clay bricks, it reduces waste and improves energy efficiency.

- : a Saas sustainability platform guiding organisations in uncovering and tracking their greenhouse gas emissions.

- : the Emma platform helps businesses streamline and simplify the way they interact with a variety of cloud platforms and infrastructures.

- MDsim: a software as medical device (SAMD), designed to help spinal surgeons and medical device manufacturers.

- : provides direct access for retail investors to buy sustainable investments securely, quickly and affordably.


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- : a corporate accommodation platform that connects relocation management companies and multinationals with housing providers around the world.

: develops and produces materials and software to endow physical objects with unique, un-clonable and un-transferable artificial fingerprints, called Caesar tags, which enable reliable and trustworthy authentication of items through a simple optical readout.

- : helps increase website engagement and lead conversion by offering an engaging way to navigate the website with a personalised video funnel.

- : a platform that makes compliance and sustainability effortless.

- : a space biotech company that uses the microgravity environment of space to develop and manufacture superior biotech products.

The ten startups will pitch to a panel of judges including Antoine Welter (co-founder and CEO of Circu Li-ion, which won the previous edition of the Startup World Cup and made it into the top 10 global finalists); Alain Rodermann (founding partner of Expon Capital), (CEO of The Dots) and Amélie Madinier (CEO of Le Village by CA).

This article was first published in on Paperjam. It has been translated and edited for Delano