THURSDAY GATHERING #77 From Molecules to Market: Connecting Scientists & Business Cofounders
@ Venture Café
From Molecules to Market brings scientists, entrepreneurs, and business minds together to explore how scientific ideas can move beyond the lab and into the market. In collaboration with Venture Café, this Thursday Gathering will create space for researchers and potential business cofounders to connect, exchange ideas, and explore how complementary expertise can turn promising science into real-world ventures.
Meet the teams at their demo tables
Clean Ocean Coatings revolutionizes the commercial shipping industry - with its brand new and innovative coating solution. The environmentally friendly coating not just eliminates microplastics but also offers huge saving potentials for owners and shipping companies.
COFion is developing next generation membranes to empower heavy duty transports that run on clean hydrogen fuel.
Peel Back
PeelBack recovers LiCoO₂ cathode material from spent lithium-ion batteries using a water-based flotation process with citrus-derived oils, then restores its lithium so it can go straight back into new batteries. There's no smelting, no strong acids, and no breaking it down into raw metals.
Waste2Watt turns spent coffee into a critical battery material for European manufacturers giving waste a second life as a high-performance component inside rechargeable batteries, fully traceable and EU-compliant by design.
MANA.energy sells patented silicon-anode and sulfur-cathode inks and coated electrodes for battery manufacturers, enabling higher-energy, lower-cost batteries, including flexible formats. Our materials integrate into existing electrode-coating processes.
SCORE
SCORE is developing next-generation sodium-ion cathode materials designed for high energy density, strong low-temperature performance, and scalable European manufacturing. Our goal is to enable a competitive and more resilient European sodium-ion battery supply chain.