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Ecotech Grand Prix 2023: Grand Prize Won by Phytolipid Technologies, Inc.

2023/10/23

The Ecotech Grand Prix 2023 was held at the Center of Garage on Saturday, October 21, 2023, to select the winning teams for the Grand Prize and the Company Prize.

Starting with the 2020 season, the Tech Planter will evolve its concept to "Deep Issue & Deep Tech Explorer," which will use "Deep Tech," a collection of science and technology, to solve unsolved "Deep Issues. Tech Explorer," which is a collection of science and technology to solve "Deep Issues" through "Deep Tech". We aim to encourage a global perspective from the early stage, and to accelerate new developments through collaboration with the 1371 teams (as of September 1, 2023) of Alumni and others in the overseas Tech Planter hosted by RIVERNESS. On the day of the event, the 336 teams selected from among the 336 teams that applied for Tech Planter 2023Ecotech Grand PrixThe 12 finalist teams from the "Japan's First Technology Innovation Forum" passionately presented their thoughts on how to realize solutions to problems by utilizing diverse technologies such as biomass carbon, material recycling, precious metal recovery, satellite data, and others.

The winner of the prestigious Grand Prize was Fight Lipid Technologies, Inc.
Phytolipid Technologies, Inc. gave a presentation titled "Production of Useful Lipids by the Oil and Fat High-Producing Alga Nannochloropsis. The award was given to Phytolipid Technologies, Inc. for the grand prize with all the judges promising to work together to accelerate the challenge of Phytolipid Technologies, Inc. to realize the great vision that was born from the results of the research conducted over many years by the company's representative, Mr. Ohta. With the technology of Phytolipid Technologies, Inc. as a base, we aim to build a sustainable production system of useful substances and pass it on to the next generation.

Grand Prize winner Phytolipid Technologies, Inc. and the entire jury

Team Name	Theme name	winning (a prize)
NextCarbon Corporation	Biomass Coal Replaces Coal for Green Steel	Asahi Yukizai Award
Behomaru Corporation	Biocompatible and biodegradable CO₂Plastic with absorbent material	Sanyo Chemical Award
Archeda Corporation	Natural environment analysis platform using satellite data	Focus Systems Award
Satoyama Engineering Co.	Circulation of local resources through the development and diffusion of wood batteries	Ando Hazama Award, DAIKEN Award
esa Corporation	Resource recycling through material recycling of composite plastics	EBARA Award, NITTETSU ENGINEERING Award
Toyohashi Biomass Solutions Co.	Aiming to be a Leader in Small-Scale Methane Fermentation Systems	Real Tech Fund Award, Kyocera Award
Fight Lipid Technologies, Inc.	Production of Useful Lipids by Nannochloropsis, an Alga Producing High Levels of Oils and Fats	Grand Prize
Gertechno Research Inc.	Unique gel material to recover rare metals and produce ore	Daikin Award
Hemicellulose Co.	Mass production of biodegradable plastics derived from hemicellulose
Micro Control Systems, Inc.	Nitrogen, electricity, and heat trigen system with fuel cell
corosonic	Recovery of dissolved precious metal ions in water by ultrasound and activated carbon
Advanced Energy Storage	Advanced Energy Storage Technologies for Expanding Renewable Energy Deployment

Demo Day Implementation Overview

- Grand Prix name: Ecotech Grand Prix 2023
- Location: Center of Garage (1-16-3 Yokogawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0003, Japan)
- Date: Saturday, October 21, 2023, 13:00-19:00
- Eligibility: Closed, pre-registration required (entry teams, partner companies, Superfactory Group Professional Supporters)
- Related:List of Ecotech Grand Prix