Global Startup Weekend Sustainable Revolution
54 hours to boost sustainable entrepreneurship around the world
The June 2019 edition is now over.
You want to see what happened? Watch this video :)
The June 2019 edition is now over.
You want to see what happened? Watch this video :)
The Global Startup Weekend Sustainable Revolution is a global initiative led by volunteers in order to put entrepreneurship in sustainability at the forefront of the world stage. Because environmental sustainability is one of the biggest challenges humanity is facing, we help entrepreneurs find the best solutions to overcome it.
This global edition took place on 2 weekends, on June 2019 in more than 50 cities around the world. Then, a final round online was held where each local winner pitched its idea in a one minute video. The best projects elected by the public and our jury got special prizes to help them launch their startups in real life!
23161 votes from the public have been registered for the final step of this Global Competition!
Here are the winning projects of all the local Startup Weekends Sustainable Revolution that occurred during June 2019.
The projects are ordered by number of votes, and the 20 projects with most votes from the public have been preselected to be evaluated by our Global Jury.
01. Argentina
Rosario
Inverse Logistics is an application that connects construction sites, large generators of waste metal, wood and plastic. With the companies that are looking for these products, and that give them usefull fate. Our propose is to guarantee the reinsertion of these materials in the productive process.
1747 votes
02. Puerto Rico
San Juan
A project to cleanup and reduce the plastic on the ocean
1626 votes
03. Mexico
Pachuca
Is the first rental service for reusable ecological diapers for babies and adults in Mexico; through a method of sanitization and sterilization, considering the Official Mexican Standards, thus ensuring the elimination of pathogens, delivered at home. Our plan is to convert organic waste in biogas.
1566 votes
04. Algeria
Ghardaia
Family Parc & Art, is an artistic and ecological parc that is a destination for families, artists and tourists. We valorize the solid wastes by creating physical games and artistic designs to reduce the amount of metallic rubbish to save the planet.
892 votes
05. Brazil
São Carlos
Be.Benefits is a corporate benefit solution that not only fosters access to beauty and personal care products by offering discounts coupons for employees but also encourages and facilitates recycling of the waste produced by this market.
826 votes
06. Brazil
Fortaleza
We're Econtainer, a mobile unit of agricultural production for small and medium producers. You produce what you want, whenever you want!
736 votes
07. Bolivia
Cochabamba
Gray water recycling system through constructed wetlands in hotels, promoting water saving, providing added value to the hotel´s landscape and the opportunity of being recognized as eco-friendly
723 votes
08. Bolivia
Santa Cruz
From the heart of South America, FOURMI is a socially responsible startup that produces healthy and sustainable food. Our enterprise contributes to the local circular economy by feeding Californian red worms with urban organic waste and by turning the meal made from them into nutritional bakery
684 votes
09. Chile
Santiago
Café Guariba wants to expand and democratize agroforestry organic coffee. This delicious coffee is a scientifically proven and profitable solution to protect the environment and empower small-scale farmers. We want to save monkeys by connecting happy farmers with awaken coffee lovers.
673 votes
10. Brazil
Altamira
Xingu Recycling proposes innovation in reducing the impacts of plastic waste on the environment, a points program, where people deliver the packages at collection points, accumulate discounts and these are used in local commerce. Save the planet, the Xingu River, Amazon, Brazil.
670 votes
11. China
Shenzhen
Guilt-Free Eating aims to replace single use food delivery packaging and promote consumer awareness for less wasteful consumption. We create a packaging reuse scheme, engaging every stakeholder in the system. All stakeholders will gain their shared benefits by joining the reuse scheme, such as rewar...
670 votes
12. Argentina
Mendoza
We transform your workout session into renewable energy
664 votes
13. Nigeria
Aba
Leather It is a green innovative company that up-cycles leather scraps into lifestyle products such as earrings and throw pillows. This startup was born out of the need for an efficient method of disposing leather waste in Aba other than the usual burning in open land fills.
654 votes
14. Djibouti
Djibouti
My project is to valorise the marine discharges in Djibouti, notably the unknown algae. It will be more specifically a transformation of the red algae for nutritional purposes in the first place, that explain the name TRANS-ALGUE, then diversify into other areas such as cosmetics thereafter
642 votes
15. France
Lyon
Innovative building moss wrap for sustainable cities
632 votes
16. Spain
Barcelona
We’re an Internet Startup with the goal to reduce global CO2 emissions from shipping generated by online shopping. We aim to achieve that in 3 stages: 1- raising awareness, 2- giving online customers a local and sustainable alternative, 3- building the world’s 1st zero-carbon online marketplace.
615 votes
17. China
Chengdu
Foodito is an app that allows large supermarkets to list overstocked items on sell and informs customers of discounts in real time which helps reduce food waste. We're not just moving overstock items, we are educating supermarkets that will increase accountability and responsible decisions.
606 votes
18. Australia
Toowoomba
Tops Off is a community recycling hub that will collect plastics not currently recycled, such as bottle tops, chip, extrude and recycle them into high quality 3D printing filament. We will build a model that inspires community innovation with plastic waste that we will scale to other communities
596 votes
19. France
Nantes
LAO is a range of refillable shampoos with no compromise between health, beauty and the environment. Developped with hairdressers and consumers to ensure its quality. Distributed via a shampoo fountain in hairdressing salons and bulk stores. We work on every stage to reduce the environmental footprint of a product most people use several times a week
581 votes
20. Mexico
Mexico City
Lía, an e-commerce that works with your local beauty producers to put into an eco-beauty box their personal care products. Once the user has an original container we provide the producer with a bioplastic bag that then will reach the customer, substituting plastic refill packages.
579 votes
21. China
Hong Kong
A system that creates clean energy, enhances human health and promotes sustainability. Human Kinetic energy is converted into electricity, rewarding people for their efforts. Thereafter, they can purchase sustainable goods at discounted prices. Thus, creating a sustainable circular lifestyle.
578 votes
22. Mexico
Uruapan
Ya'ax coin is a cryptocurrency rewarded to those doing reciclyng activities, such as gathering PET bottles on our Smart boxes, the box is gonna connect to the smartphone of the user and add the cryptocurrency to their wallets, this is just one reciclying activity concept of many with ambition to imp
550 votes
23. Mexico
San Luis Potosi
We are treenet and we plant trees in three clicks. 1. Choose the place 2. Pick the trees 3. Save the world. We organize reforestation campaigns that seek the survival of the trees to reach adulthood.
524 votes
24. France
Paris
Measure & Reduce your digital pollution, starting with emails CO2 impact. Do you know that emails emit 410t C02/year? GreeNet application gives you full control of your CO2 impact, and reduce it in real time.
522 votes
25. Switzerland
Geneva
Sustainable Me is an eCommerce website dedicated to the best selection of environmentally sustainable FMCG products. It works on subscription basis with customized, automatic and regular carbon neutral deliveries at home. Our community makes as unique. Our clients are our members and with our united...
503 votes
26. Peru
Lima
There are +200 millions of stray dogs around the world. Animal Shelters are not sustainable because they work over donations. PooPooLight consists of a Business Model of Circular Economy and Scalable Growth in 5 stages, that will make self-sustainable of Shelters, creating products from dog feces.
466 votes
27. Chile
Puerto Montt
Facilito wants to connect the businesses who want to get ride of their resourses, with someone who can use it giving them value through a transportist,facilitating managenent to the seller,to recyclers or collectors and concentrating the transportation demand to trucks drivers, all with a few clics.
375 votes
28. Cameroon
Ebolowa
ECOLOGICAL PAPER is a project to manufacture from banana tree trunks instead of a traditional tree, paper that will serve as cardboard, shopping bags, various packaging and even writing paper to fight against pollution by waste plastics and deforestation.
360 votes
29. Spain
Madrid
Damajuana is a Startup made up for 4 women, who want to bring the village closer to the city. Monthly, we offer a subscription of surprise boxes with local products, reusable packaging, eco friendly shipping service.
338 votes
30. Brazil
Belo Horizonte
Circular is a solution that contributes with the reduction of the Greenhouse Effect. Our platform is composed by certified carbon reduction projects and is integrated with transportation apps, allowing users to compensate their carbon footprint right after a trip.
333 votes
31. China
Guangzhou
Eco Bag is an O2O system. Consumers scan the QR code to rent or return bags, donate clothing, or purchase bags made and designed by disabled workers. The online platform also hosts an eco-community with events, shops, and e-stores. Users list events based on location unifying the Eco-Bag community.
313 votes
32. Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Creating a loyalty platform to encourage public to reduce disposable waste
305 votes
33. Comores
Moroni
We sell Natural Pesticides that are intended for Grande-Comore market garde
257 votes
34. Colombia
Medellin
An app that teaches you how to develop software through games and challenges
236 votes
35. Brazil
São Paulo
Our proposal is promote waste recycling; add value and save costs to waste generators; and improve conditions to recyclers.
165 votes
36. Peru
Lima
We are a startup for grey water treatments, using biochemical products, with zero impact on the environment and leveraging an energy-free process. Our purpose is to provide water and a better quality of life to all people that lack access to water or sanitation services.
156 votes
37. Brazil
Manaus
The Sem Saco have focus on sustainability and its main goal is to reduce the usage of plastic bags in retail market. Companies will purchase your Eco Bags , which have QR Code to register its clients. With our app, your clients will have the possibility of accumulate points to exchange for cash back.
139 votes
38. Chad
N'Djamena
The degradation of our ecosystems by waste, which is released into the environment, is the reason for the birth of Tech NADAFA. Our solutions is to offer smart bins called smart cans for systematic collection in real time, for recycling. 100.000€ is enough for an investment of a durable solution.
126 votes
39. Uganda
Kampala
Afri-returns is an app that helps to link drivers with under utilized trucks and empty trucks to customers with goods. Which will help reduce fuel wastage, pollution and congestion thus improving efficiency.
125 votes
40. USA
Sacramento
WeVo is a civic engagement platform designed to help land development and building project stakeholders incorporate community feedback into their projects, reduce paper consumption, conserve resources by managing project risk, analyze public sentiment and predict community response
99 votes
41. Sweden
Stockholm
Terra is an app that seamlessly connects with all of your bank accounts and calculates your carbon footprint based on your expenditures. Then we help you invest in green funds with high impact sustainable companies to compensate for your footprint.
74 votes
42. China
Macao
We are here to help Macau’s community reduce carbon footprint and food waste by learning about and growing affordable organic produce. The objective is to provide modular hydroponics systems that fit everyone’s budget and space requirements, along with the development of an app that will connect eve...
60 votes
43. Madagascar
Nosy Be
Our startup Enbioca wants to produce organic fertilizer from cocoa pods. Cocoa pods represent 60% of the waste in our cities of Nosy Be and Ambanja, which is one of the main producer of cocoa in Madagascar. Some local businesses working in agriculture had already shown interest in our product.
53 votes
44. Bolivia
Oruro
"New Life" is an undertaking that makes an eco-friendly bag from the old clothes of our cabinets, to reduce the second biggest pollution problem in the world "Discarded clothes". The New Life bag among its characters with a QR code to reward people who join the cause of saving the planet using a Bio...
45 votes
45. Indonesia
Surabaya
We turn plastic waste into highly valuable goods and furnitures
39 votes
46. Germany
Berlin
Active Giving is an ecosystem for engaged runners, non-profits and corporations to join forces in order to create positive awareness and meaningful impact around social and environmental causes.
30 votes
47. India
Bangalore
In India, Online food delivery contributes to almost 2M orders per day and they generate a huge number of plastic waste that is used in packaging. What we intend to do is, replace existing packing system with reusable containers thereby reducing the plastic waste. Tie up with food delivery companies...
8 votes
Argentina
Rosario
Inverse Logistics is an application that connects construction sites, large generators of waste metal, wood and plastic. With the companies that are looking for these products, and that give them usefull fate. Our propose is to guarantee the reinsertion of these materials in the productive process.
Brazil
São Carlos
Be.Benefits is a corporate benefit solution that not only fosters access to beauty and personal care products by offering discounts coupons for employees but also encourages and facilitates recycling of the waste produced by this market.
China
Shenzhen
Guilt-Free Eating aims to replace single use food delivery packaging and promote consumer awareness for less wasteful consumption. We create a packaging reuse scheme, engaging every stakeholder in the system. All stakeholders will gain their shared benefits by joining the reuse scheme, such as rewar...
China
Chengdu
Foodito is an app that allows large supermarkets to list overstocked items on sell and informs customers of discounts in real time which helps reduce food waste. We're not just moving overstock items, we are educating supermarkets that will increase accountability and responsible decisions.
Mexico
Mexico City
Lía, an e-commerce that works with your local beauty producers to put into an eco-beauty box their personal care products. Once the user has an original container we provide the producer with a bioplastic bag that then will reach the customer, substituting plastic refill packages.
After all the 50 local editions of this GSWSR, a global competition online took place for the 1st winning team of each local edition, with great global prizes to win!
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