10 Start-Up Companies to Watch Out for in 2021

Muddy Machines story started in early 2020 when founders Chris and Florian met through ‘Entrepreneur First’, a platform that links founders with co-founders that share their goals. Florian was looking for ways to bring modern technologies to agriculture from his background in his family’s farm in Portugal. After researching problems that farmers face today, it wasn’t long before Muddy Machines was born. The robots that they are developing help growers manage labour-intensive crops whilst protecting their land.

Innovative health company, Spyras, was formed in 2018 when a founding team began creating new ways to monitor breathing using sensors and analytics to provide new insights into respiratory health. Back in March 2020 with the rise in cases of COVID-19, Spyras pre-empted that masks would become mandatory and from this, they invented the Smart Mask.

PlasmaTrack are on the right track when it comes to railway cleaning technology. During the colder months’ railways have the challenge of dealing with wet leaves that make their way onto their route. When this happens, the wheels compress them into a paste making a super-slippery layer, this reduces grip meaning trains need to accelerate and brake gently to avoid slipping. PlasmaTrack’s smart plasma technology can clear the residue on tracks, returning the surface to a dry, clean, and uncontaminated state. What is not cool about a plasma gun!

See more on their website: https://www.plasmatrack.co.uk/

Start-up company, Stix, is an interactive product to help assist children in practising mindfulness. It encourages children with learning difficulties, particularly ADHD, to learn about their symptoms and how to cope with them as well as helping them to identify the positives of their neurodiversity. Research shows that mindfulness reduces symptoms of poor attention and hyperactivity by 30% whilst also helping with anxiety and stress.

In 2016 energy system company, Cheesecake Energy, was founded. Their mission is to produce advanced thermal and compressed air power systems to store energy from intermittent renewables to turn them into reliable power-on-demand. Their story began when they noticed the costs of solar panels were dramatically decreasing but their true potential was not being unlocked. They got to work and between 2017 and 2019 their innovative thermal storage units underwent testing. Working alongside a large industrial corporation, production began last year and will continue into this year with aims to have their pilot systems released in 2022. As for their future plans… watch this space!

Read more on Cheesecake Energy Ltd via their website: https://www.cheesecakeenergy.com/

BIOHM is an award-winning research and development company that is using nature to revolutionise construction and create a healthier and more sustainable environment. Their revolutionary construction system can achieve drastic reductions in a buildings environmental impact, build times and costs. Their unique materials are a plant-based alternative to concrete and their interlocking construction system creates carbon-negative buildings that can be deconstructed at any stage in their life.

Benedex Ltd are at the core of everything motion robotics. In July 2019 Snir Benedek, the founder of Benedex, noticed that every time a new type of robot was being developed, designers either had a whole new motion platform engineered or used a suitable ready-made robotic vehicle that then constrained their product and creativity.