One of the incubated companies, Agualytics, has been recognized as the best startup in the sustainability category, and another, Green Navigation, has been an example at the table “Technology at the service of knowledge”
The delegate of the Cádiz Free Zone, Fran González, who has attended the event organized by the Barcelona Free Zone for another year, has praised the forum as “a way to project the potential of Cádiz in international markets, in addition to evidencing the magnificent ecosystem created with Incubazul”
Incubazul has 80% co-financing from the European FEDER Funds within the 2014-2020 Operational Program, A way of making Europe, through the INCYDE Foundation
The Cádiz Free Trade Zone has once again had a notable presence at the Barcelona New Economy Week event, BNEW Barcelona, which in 2023 has reached its fourth edition. And it has done so with the assistance of the delegate of the Cádiz Consortium Fran González and two of the Incubazul startups: Green Navigation, invited to speak as a speaker, and Agualytics, which has received an award for the best startup in the sustainability category .
The State delegate in the Cádiz Free Trade Zone, accompanied by the director of Business Promotion and Foreign Trade, Rocío García-Delgado, has held different institutional meetings and business contacts throughout the event, in addition to attending round tables and the event. awards ceremony, and provide support to emerging companies incubated in the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz.
Fran González has been very satisfied with the contacts made at this international event, which “provides us with an ideal forum to sell the benefits of the province to potential investors and promote our new, more sustainable industrial model. “This is precisely a forum in which the role of the new economy as a vector of reindustrialization is highlighted,” he said.
The delegate has also highlighted the evolution that Incubazul and the startups that participate in the acceleration program are having. “To the award given today to Agualytics and the presence of Green Navigation, of which we are tremendously proud because of what it means for the initiatives to go abroad, we must add the important fact that a third of the 69 startups that we have hosted are already billing. It is evident that the Incubazul ecosystem and the project itself are working.”
Participation of Incubazul startups
And these two Incubazul startups have had an important participation in the event. On the one hand, Agualytics has been recognized among all the startups participating in the BNEW Startup Innovation Hub in the sustainability category. The award was presented by the State delegate to the Barcelona Free Trade Zone Consortium and president of the BNEW, Pere Navarro. This award adds to the third place recently achieved by Agualytics in the LIFE ECODIGESTION 2.0 Startup Awards 2023, an initiative promoted by the European Commission.
Agualytics, an accelerated company in Incubazul since February 2023, is a startup dedicated to software development, easily scalable, just like the business model based on recurring payments through subscription. With accessible, flexible and versatile solutions, you can achieve savings of 30% in water and energy consumption and reductions in leaks and breakdowns of up to 70%. Agualytics obtains data and converts it into information to facilitate efficient and sustainable use of water and energy, promoting responsible, profitable and environmentally friendly production.
On the other hand, Green Navigation, which uses artificial intelligence to optimize marine routes using real-time information, has taken part as a guest in the round table “Smart Knowledge: technology at the service of knowledge.” Daniel Precioso, director of data science (lead data scientist) at this emerging company.
At the table, the representative of Green Navigation presented his vision on technology at the service of knowledge and provided his opinion on the main changes that companies must make in order to implement technology and generate a competitive advantage. In this sense, he showed his conviction of the active role of companies when it comes to developing methods of attracting, retaining, training and developing talent, and, finally, he advanced the company's approach with respect to the future that can be built with AI based on certain values.
Green Navigation started as a project in Cádiz two years ago and has been one of the first startups linked to Incubazul since its inception. In these two years they have been the winners of the international Ocean Hackathon event, they have been chosen by The Arch as the second best solution for the ecological transition in Europe and they have presented their solution before the European Parliament, in a public intervention by Daniel Precioso.
Incubazul, the high-tech incubator linked to the Blue Economy that aims to bring to light ideas that work in this area, combining the use of marine resources and innovation with sustainability and the environment, is proving to be a project with great potential, a benchmark for the Blue Economy and whose startups are beginning to show optimal results. There are already 69 startups that are part of its acceleration program.
Incubazul has the support of the European Union that co-finances it, through the Incyde Foundation, of the Chambers of Commerce of Spain, 80% by the FEDER within the Plurirregional Operational Program 2014-2020 within axis 3: Improving the competitiveness of small and medium-sized companies and the 3rd investment priority Promotion of entrepreneurship, in particular, facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas, and promoting the creation of new companies, also through incubators.
