The nine companies chosen to participate in the Bord na Móna Accelerate Green Start (Autumn) programme for 2024 are listed below. Accelerate Green Start is designed to support innovative, early-stage companies who are embarking on a journey towards sustainable growth, and impactful change. Find out more at accelerategreen.ie.

Company Name: Ecoroots

Overview: Ecoroots is a biotech packaging materials company producing lightweight bio-foam from Mycelium (mushroom roots) and agricultural by-products. Our mission is focused on making packaging clean, green and mushroom powered.

Company Name: Agri Data Analytics

Overview: Agri Data Analytics are an Offaly based agtech start-up currently developing The Bovine Breathalyser, a device that non-invasively measures enteric methane emissions from ruminant animals. Ag-researchers will use the solution to identify high and low emitting ruminants, test methane reducing supplementation and determine ways of reducing cattle methane and CO2 output through genetical and supplementary means without compromise to Dairy/Beef yield.

Company Name: Volta Robotics

Overview: Volta Robotics automates the processing of end-of-life batteries. Volta’s robotic technology disassembles battery packs, identifies usable parts, and enables accurate decision making for second-life or recycling. This benefits energy storage providers by reducing battery costs, and lithium battery recyclers by increasing the value extracted of processed batteries.

Company Name: Range Therapy

Overview: Range Therapy drive the energy circular economy, by transforming second-life battery packs into vital energy storage units.

Company Name: Reasire

Overview: Reasire empowers businesses invested in and driving the energy transition with sector expertise and advanced data-driven software. This will optimise and accelerate project development and help our customers make informed investment decisions to benefit from the electrification of our future.

Company Name: WindCapture Technologies

Overview: WindCapture develops novel wind turbine blades which filter carbon from the air. By utilising the world’s largest air processing machines, we aim to rapidly scale carbon removal.

Company Name: Bionua

Overview: Bionua develops nature-based solutions for large corporates to help them achieve their climate impact, SBTi, and zero-carbon goals. We create local nature restoration sites near the buyer that generate high-integrity, verified, and certified carbon and biodiversity credits compliant with the international ISO suite of standards.

Company Name: Restore Innovation

Overview: Restore Innovation is a first-to-market, innovative business supporting the offshore energy sector in identifying and planning for the ‘right-fit’ Nature-based Solution (NbS) for a project site. We are targeting an industry need for data-driven planning tools assisting with offshore Nature-Inclusive Design planning. The mission of Restore is to help achieve a biodiversity net gain in our marine space.

Company Name: Anaula

Overview: Anaula accelerates net-zero goals by providing industries with a nature-based solution, that utilizes the power of microalgae to lower emissions and create carbon negative products.