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2024 Pitch Showcase

2024 PITCH SHOWCASE

September 23, 2024 | Seattle Central Library

The Pitch Showcase is the culmination of NextCycle programming. After months of business and technical research, mentoring, and planning, teams deliver a summary of their projects using a concise 5-minute business pitch format. An audience of business, recycling, reuse, government, non-profit and investment professionals attend the event, leaning about project descriptions, funding plans, impact projections and investment/support opportunities.

Congratulations go out to this year’s winners:

  • Best Pitch - Launch Group: NaturallyContained

  • People’s Choice - Launch Group: NaturallyContained

  • Best Pitch - Innovation Group: Revino

  • People’s Choice - Innovation Group: Revino

  • Best Pitch - Community Group: Furniture Repair Bank

  • People’s Choice - Community Group: Reclaim Project Recovery

Meet the Teams

  • Businesses and projects that have progressed past the ideation stage, demonstrating product prototype or concept pilot, but still building out the team, operations, or production.

    Atlan's Back to Life: scaling its biochar soil amendment and composting business.

    NaturallyContained: developing a renewably sourced, plastic-free, backyard compostable soil packaging using coconut fiber.

    Revolve Solar: utilizing functional, post-lease and manufacturer rejected solar panels to build off-grid vehicle chargers and carports.

  • Businesses and projects that are developing or utilizing new and innovative technologies or processes.

    Biomass Controls: building biogenic refineries that process waste from compostable diapers, animal manure, and green algae using a patented thermochemical treatment process, creating valuable resources like heat and biochar.

    Corumat: developing the Big Green Loop® eco-system where bio-based packaging (derived from plant and food waste) is produced and recirculated into new packaging using a proprietary process.

    Electra: creating an online platform that will track and coordinate end-of-life collection and logistics to ensure solar panels are efficiently reused or recycled.

    Re-Use Consulting: linking Reuse Innovation Centers across the state that can coordinate supplies and redistribute materials.

    Revino: developing a reusable, returnable wine bottle system for the Washington marketplace.

  • Businesses and projects that have a positive impact on communities such as developing/improving job opportunities, community partnerships, or other impact factors.

    Furniture Repair Bank: collecting worn and damaged furniture from partners and public donations to repair, refurbish, or redesign to like-new condition.

    Making a Difference Foundation: salvaging still-edible food from farmers and donating food to local food banks.

    Reclaim Project Recovery: helping men transition out of homelessness, addiction, and incarceration by providing housing, community, and occupational skills development.

    Remakery: piloting a micro-recycling program to recycle #2 and #5 post-consumer plastics into durable, weather resistant 2x4 beams.

    Tribal Solid Waste Advisory Network: building a pilot program with four rural tribes to set up a hub-and-spoke recycling system.

Sponsors

NextCycle Washington is built on a foundation of collaboration and partnership. We extend our gratitude to the generous sponsors that are supporting this year’s Pitch Showcase. Click on the sponsors’ logos to visit their websites and learn more about their efforts to increase sustainability and build circular economies.

Your organization can also be a part of accelerating reuse, repair, recycling, and composting in Washington - demonstrating a commitment to advancing solutions and building an equitable circular economy. Contact us to discuss how you can be a part of NextCycle Washington.

Sponsorship inquiries: Melissa Radiwon (MRad), mradiwon@recycle.com.