Netherlands-based, Solarix designs, develops, supplies & assembles solar panels for "energy-generating façades". The colored solar panels (designed to coordinate aesthetically with building materials such as concrete, wood & aluminum) are produced in Europe. “Solar panels make the biggest energy contribution to a house, but for high-rise buildings, the roof area is often too small to install enough (solar panels). Façade panels are the answer”. Solarix panels reduce CO2 emission by 25% & could even allow for energy-neutral buildings. Founded in 2016 by Marloes van Heteren (CEO) & artist Reinier Bosch, Solarix won the Solar Design Award at the Dutch Design Week that same year, by 2017 had a working demo with an inverter & 9...

Germany-based, Brigther AI offers advanced redaction software for images & video data (so they can be safely used across borders or even in public without raising privacy concerns). The startups does this with “Precision Blur” to detect & blurs objects (e.g. face, license plate, characters), as well as “Deep Natural Anonymization” to detect faces & generate a synthetic replacement (that reflects the original attributes) – via cloud & rest API (prices start from €80p.m. for 500 images or 120min video). Brighter AI is already used to generate anonymized footage in e.g. a) automotive & mapping (e.g. autonomous driving data, vehicle & road data, dashcam footage) (clients incl. Valeo: “for improvement of lane & sign detection...