24th November, The Hague. After a successful previous edition, the Accelerate the Future Challenge was launched once again to facilitate startup collaborations with Hyundai Motor Company and KIA Corporation (HMC & KIA), one of the largest automotive companies in the world. Set up by Unknown Group – a Dutch VC and Open Innovation firm – this year’s focus areas were Smart Factory, Robotics, Advance Automotive Technology, and Smart Mobility with the vision to build a brighter future for all.
As an initiative meant to support HMC & KIA reach their innovation goals through startup collaborations, the aim is to build a human-centric mobility ecosystem. The most promising startups will explore a paid proof-of-concept or pilot program with HMC & KIA and one of their business units. This year’s challenge winners are:
Developed a unique pretreatment process that allows improved bonding between fibre-reinforced composites decreasing processing time, manual work, and weight.
Commercialising airless tires based on NASA technology, reducing tire weight, maintenance and waste while improving driving range.
“It has been another exciting year with the Accelerate the Future Challenge. This year, Hyundai and Kia business units were able to engage with innovative startups within the Smart Factory, Robotics, Advanced R&D Solution, and Smart Mobility Solution domains. We are proud to announce the finalists of this year and all the teams are looking forward to collaborating even more actively by working on the PoC projects.” Hyundai Motor Group Senior Open Innovation Manager – Kwangmo Moon
Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen, Unknown Group COO said “We are excited to see the Accelerate the Future Challenge coming to life once again to facilitate meaningful startup-corporate collaborations. With this challenge, we align with Hyundai Motor Company and KIA Corporation on a common goal: to fix the future of mobility by fueling founders to bring their innovative solutions to scale.”
About the Accelerate the Future Challenge, Hyundai Motor Company and KIA Corporation
The Accelerate the Future Challenge is an open innovation program for startups and scale-ups worldwide. With this initiative, HMC & KIA are establishing meaningful collaborations with like-minded founders working on practical solutions within the Smart Factory, Robotics, Advanced Automotive Technology, and Smart Mobility domains. By committing to a paid proof of concept or pilot program with the most promising ventures, HMC & KIA are looking for equal partners to accelerate a brighter future for all.
About Unknown Group
Unknown is an early-stage venture capital and business development firm, supporting founders and industry leaders to successfully bring innovations to the market: a “Venture Engine®”. With a fresh approach to delivering venture success, lining up the industry, and creating a pool of solutions ready to be adopted by the market.
Unknown founders Edward de Jager and Hendrik Halbe invest in Kumasi Drinks through Impact Tech Ventures. Based in Amsterdam, Kumasi Drinks has created a range of 100% natural soft drinks from cocoa juice, a waste stream from the cocoa production process.
Unknown fuels Kumasi Drink’s seed round, having met them last year at the Get in the Ring Impact Competition finals at ImpactFest in The Hague.
By selling their excess cocoa juice to Kumasi Drinks, farmers in Ghana and the Ivory Coast earn up to 30% extra additional income per kg sold.
With Unknown coming on board, Kumasi’s plans for 2022 involve scaling to new markets and expanding their product line.
Key to our vision for the future of food is fueling founders that are working on bold and unconventional solutions that challenge the status quo, optimally use excess streams from production and empower producers. We’re proud to share that Unknown has completed an investment in Netherlands-based Kumasi Drinks, a company that ticks all these boxes.
Lars Gierveld, Co-founder of Kumasi Drinks said: “Investing in an early stage startup in a market dominated by major players is a bold move. Unknown believes in our ability to change the status quo of the cocoa industry. We’re thrilled to have a professional investor with a global reach and emphasis on impact measurement like Unknown join the Kumasi movement!”
We’re fueling Kumasi because they think outside the bean, in a cocoa industry that for too long has gotten away with exploiting farmers and dictating the market. With the excess cocoa juice, Kumasi Drinks creates a range of 100% natural, healthy and tasty drinks out of what was previously considered waste from the cocoa production process. The cocoa industry is solely interested in the seeds of the cocoa plant (cocoa beans), which are used to make chocolate. As it turns out, the juicy fruit pulp surrounding the cocoa bean is healthy and extraordinarily tasty. It doesn’t taste like cocoa or chocolate but like a kind of mix of lychee, mango and white peach.
With their fresh, novel approach in a cocoa market dominated by major players, Kumasi buys its juice with its technical partner in Ghana directly from farmers. This way, the cocoa farmers receive immediate additional income – up to 30% extra per kg – from selling the pulp and juice byproducts from their cocoa production process they would have typically thrown away.
Unknown Group Chairman, Edward de Jager said: “We’re proud to welcome Kumasi Drinks to the Unknown portfolio. In a short amount of time, Lars, Linda and Rogier have gotten a lot of traction with Kumasi Drinks with a bold idea – that they can empower cacao farmers by creating incredible products from excess streams – and their focus and emphasis on measuring their impact”.
The Kumasi Story
Founded in 2021 by Lars Gierveld, Linda Klunder and Rogier Power, the seed for Kumasi Drinks was sown in 2018 when Gierveld, a TV presenter, traveled to the Ashanti region of Ghana to make a documentary about the cocoa industry (watch the English version here!). Here, he was encountered by a grim reality: most farmers are totally dependent on the sale of cocoa and they live below the poverty line. The industry is dominated by a few large players, who dictate the terms of the market. Middlemen at various levels of the supply chain ensure that the farmers get only a fraction of their profits. With the goal of flipping this status quo, Kumasi Drinks was born. They started collecting cocoa fruit juice with a group of farmers near Kumasi (which incidentally, is the capital of the Ashanti region in Ghana).
First hitting the shelves in January 2021, Kumasi Drinks – in less than two years – are available in over 1000 locations in The Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. In their main base, The Netherlands, Kumasi have struck deals with the largest chain of supermarkets – Albert Heijn – and department stores – Hema to have their range of drinks on their shelves. “Retailers today are trying to make their catalog more in line with the values and mindset of their customers. Since we launched, we’ve been contacted regularly by retailers that want to put a drink that is good for you and good for the planet on their shelves”, adds Co-Founder, Rogier Power.
What’s Next
With this investment, Kumasi’s plan is to expand its audience by growing internationally and developing more products that are true to the Kumasi ethos (“We are exploding with ideas on how we can help more farmers and expand our product line”, quips Powers).
Kumasi will also set up a specialty drinks bar at Unknown Group’s new innovation hub ‘Titaan’ at the Binckhorst in The Hague. Opening in early 2023, Titaan will be a state-of-the-art 13,000 m² innovation hub to house startups and scale-ups that are creating a better world. A continuation of Unknown Group’s continual commitment to establish The Hague as Europe’s leading impact city, following the previous successes of Unknown’s global startup competition, Get in the Ring’s events in The Hague, as well as previous and upcoming editions of ImpactFest, Europe’s largest impact meetup.
Kumasi Drinks’ addition to the Unknown portfolio, follows Unknown’s 2021 investments in De Krekerij and Hargol FoodTech, both ventures in alternative proteins space and a 2016 investment in circular surplus food cargo auction platform, Saltrex.
This investment was done through Impact Tech Ventures, an investment fund that has received the Seed Capital facility of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, de Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (“RvO”). RvO is a government agency that operates under the supervision of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Unknown is thrilled to welcome Kumasi to the portfolio and is eager to work with their team to bring their incredible product and exponential impact to more markets worldwide.
Information, interview requests and rights-free images:
Kumasi Drinks | Lars Gierveld | lars@kumasi-drinks.nl
Unknown Group | Rayhaan Imam | rayhaan@unknowngroup.com
For the seventh year running, the New Energy Challenge has been offering European and Israeli founders opportunities to collaborate with Shell, ranging from proof of concepts (PoCs) and pilot projects to research & development (R&D) partnerships and more, based on their specific scaling needs.
The New Energy Challenge is a competition for startups, jointly organized by Shell, Unknown Group, Rockstart, and YES!Delft. The competition is designed for founders in Europe and Israel who are contributing to a digital and carbon-neutral future. Since 2016, more than 600 startups and scale-ups have applied for this challenge.
Over the past few months, we scouted all over Europe and Israel to find the most promising solutions that are ready to make a difference in the energy domain with their solutions. After shortlisting 20 participants, now we are happy to announce the top 10 finalists of the New Energy Challenge 2022:
Founded in 2016, BBT designs, manufactures, and develops advanced electric generation, energy recovery and data capture systems based on technologies developed by the founders. BBT intends to revolutionise the availability and performance of green electricity for everyone.
Qaptis, a spin-off from the EPFL in Switzerland, offers a Plug-and-Play solution to capture 90% of carbon emissions from the exhausts of heavy-duty vehicles. The Qaptis CO2 capture kit is simple, low-cost and can be installed on existing vehicles, offering operators the opportunity to start decarbonising now with a de-risked approach.
RepAir develops an affordable, sustainable, and scalable DAC system that consumes only one-third of the energy required by alternative DAC technologies. RepAir’s solution is based on an electrochemical device that utilises electrical current to separate CO₂ molecules from the air.
Carbominer is developing a new CO2 direct air capture technology to capture CO2 from open air and offer it to greenhouse operators as a cheap and climate-friendly alternative to the CO2 they currently buy.
energy4future is producing biochar on an industrial scale and using it as soil fertiliser for agriculture applications. In all applications, the CO2 captured by the photosynthesis of the used plants will be stored in the soil or the buildings for hundreds of years.
NovoCarbo operates various pyrolysis sites in Germany, where it transforms biomass/residuals into biochar. It then sells the biochar as fertiliser or additive for material use, as well as the green energy produced during the process and the carbon credits created through the application of the biochar.
PYREG GmbH is a world-leading German manufacturer of machines for carbonising organic waste (biomass, sewage sludge) into EBC-certified biochar while generating renewable energy. By the end of 2022, all PYREG’s 50+ plants commissioned worldwide will remove a total of 30,000 tons of CO2 per year.
CarbonSpace is developing a satellite-powered platform offering an accurate and cost-effective tool for remote tracking of emissions and sequestrations in the land sector. It aims to bring a new level of transparency and unleash the potential of nature-based carbon removal projects.
Airovation has developed a technology to convert CO2 emissions into valuable minerals. Those minerals in turn enable a circular economy, as they can be used as raw materials in the food and feed, agriculture, and glass industries, among others.
From nature-based solutions (NBS) to carbon capture technologies, to digitalising the grid, finding clever ways to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is essential to limiting global warming by 2100, as decreed by the Paris Agreement. Capturing society’s carbon output is more than going carbon-neutral – it’s also about going “carbon-useful”. Recycling the carbon we produce into useful materials such as cement to build houses or plant-based burgers, these kinds of solutions can fulfill many of our everyday necessities.
Now the finals phase begins. In the upcoming period, the top 10 finalists will prepare their pitch decks to convince the jury members that their solution has the potential to accelerate a digital and carbon-neutral future.
“After winning the NEC, Shell became both an investor and a client.” said Asperitas, one of the former winners of the New Energy Challenge. “This relationship is still strong, and that started with winning the challenge.”
To stay up to date with the latest developments of the New Energy Challenge, keep an eye on: https://newenergychallenge.nl/.
After the successful edition last year, the Accelerate the Future Challenge is launching once again to facilitate startup-corporate collaborations within the Smart Factory, Robotics, Advanced Automotive Technology, and Smart Mobility domains. With the launch of this second edition, Hyundai Motor Company and KIA Corporation (HMC & KIA) envision a brighter future for all.
As strategic investments and startup collaborations are central to realizing HMC & KIA’s innovation goals, selected startups will engage in paid proof of concept with relevant business units. Dr. Yunseong Hwang, VP of Open Innovation Investment Group at Hyundai Motor Company said: “With Hyundai and Kia’s mission to drive global disruptive innovation, we’re very excited to announce the launch of our Accelerate the Future Challenge Vol.2 this year. Through this program, we will expand our global open innovation initiatives and explore further opportunities to collaborate with innovative startups”.
To facilitate this initiative, Unknown Group is bringing the second edition of the Accelerate the Future Challenge to the market. Unlocking the talent of the world for the challenges that need to be tackled is central to Unknown Group. Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen, COO at Unknown Group said: “We are happy to continue supporting HMC & KIA to successfully meet their innovation goals by partnering with like-minded founders. At Unknown, we believe that founders turn the world’s challenges into opportunities. Strong collaborations between startups and industry leaders are key to accelerating a brighter future for all.”
ABOUT THE ACCELERATE THE FUTURE CHALLENGE, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, AND KIA CORPORATION
The Accelerate the Future Challenge is an open innovation program for startups and scale-ups worldwide. With this initiative, HMC & KIA are supporting like-minded founders working on practical solutions within the Smart Factory, Robotics, Advanced Automotive Technology, and Smart Mobility domains. By committing to a paid proof of concept with the most promising ventures, HMC & KIA are searching for equal partners to accelerate a brighter future for all.
CONTACT PERSON UNKNOWN GROUP
Andrei Epingescu, Marketeer andrei@unknowngroup.com
CONTACT PERSON HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY AND KIA CORPORATION
박채린 Corinne Park, 제로원팀 ZER01NE Team, corinne.park@hyundai.com
The Netherlands, April 5. The New Energy Challenge is back for the seventh year running, offering European and Israeli founders opportunities to collaborate with Shell, ranging from proof of concepts (PoCs) and pilot projects to research & development (R&D) partnerships and more, based on their specific scaling needs.
The New Energy Challenge is a competition for startups and scale-ups, jointly organized by Shell, Unknown Group, Rockstart, and YES!Delft. The competition is designed for founders in Europe and Israel who are contributing to a digital and carbon-neutral future. Since 2016, more than 600 startups and scale-ups have applied for this challenge.
From nature-based solutions (NBS) to carbon capture technologies, to digitalising the grid, finding clever ways to reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is essential to limiting global warming by 2100, as decreed by the Paris Agreement. Capturing society’s carbon output is more than going carbon-neutral – it’s also about going “carbon-useful”. Recycling the carbon we produce into useful materials such as cement to build houses or plant-based burgers, these kinds of solutions can fulfill many of our everyday necessities.
“We are extremely excited about this year’s New Energy Challenge”, said Hendrik Halbe, CEO of Unknown Group. “We believe that founders turn the world’s greatest challenges into opportunities. With Unknown, our mission is to fuel founders and industry leaders to successfully bring innovations to the market. We hope this year will be a fantastic experience for all of those taking part in this competition!”
“After winning the NEC, Shell became both an investor and a client.” said Asperitas, one of the former winners of the New Energy Challenge. “This relationship is still strong, and that started with winning the challenge.”
Demand is expected to be high so founders wishing to explore collaboration opportunities with Shell and their Businesses should visit https://newenergychallenge.nl/to apply before May 1st, 2022. .
The Municipality of The Hague has decided to sell “Titaan”, a new innovation hub that is currently being built in the Binckhaven, to Unknown Group. Next autumn, the first tenants will move into the new multi-company building of approximately 13,000 m2 in Saturnusstraat.
In 2018, the city council decided to transform the building in the Binckhorst. It became clear from discussions with various market parties that selling would lead to a more successful innovation concept than exploitation by the municipality. That is why the municipality decided last year to sell Titaan. By drawing up specific criteria, the municipality has succeeded in guaranteeing its objectives, such as making agreements about affordable rents. About 60 spaces will be made available in the multi-tenant building for innovative and creative companies, with a terrace at the front.
An independent assessment committee unanimously selected Unknown Group’s plan as the winner of the tender. The plan focuses on startups and scale-ups that work on sustainable innovations in the field of water, food, energy and climate. Unknown Group was founded by entrepreneurs from The Hague and has been focusing on the international world of innovative startup companies for some time now. Alderman of The Hague, Saskia Bruines said: “The plan of Unknown Group is a quality boost for the Binckhaven, an environment characterized by innovative companies that work towards a better world. Unknown Group is a valuable asset to entrepreneurship, talent and employment in The Hague.”
The Hague as the place for innovative sustainable companies
In the coming years, the Binckhorst will be transformed into a mixed residential, working and living environment. De Titaan is located next to the Caballero Fabriek. The area is characterized as a creative breeding ground for innovative companies. Alderman Saskia Bruines said: “I am pleased that we have succeeded in realizing a location of this size. The pressure for sufficient space to do business is great in The Hague. For many companies it is difficult to find a place in The Hague. With the Titaan, a lot of new space will become available.”
Martin Luxemburg, Director of Campus & Education at Unknown Group, is proud of the result of the tender: “Titaan will become the hotspot for impact scale-ups in Europe, strengthening The Hague’s ambition as the #1 impact city. We look forward to a broad collaboration and therefore invite everyone to help build innovations for a better world.”
LG Chem’s first-ever global monumental event centered on startup collaborations, the LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge will give startups and scale-ups globally working on sustainable solutions, the opportunity to commercialize their technology with South Korea’s largest chemical manufacturers’ solid proof of concept process.
The Hague, March 15. Collaborating with bold and innovative startup solutions is a key component of LG Chem’s vision to build a sustainable economy as a global industry-leading diversified chemical company. To facilitate this, they are partnering with Unknown Group, a Hague-based Venture Capital, Business Development, and Open Innovation firm on the creation of the first-ever LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge.
Calling on startups worldwide working on innovative solutions in Circular Plastics, Carbon Utilization, Renewable Hydrogen, and Sustainable Batteries.
The LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge is an opportunity for startups worldwide with a passion for innovation and the well-being of our planet, that are working on sustainable solutions in LG Chem’s challenge domains of Circular Plastics, Carbon Utilization, Renewable Hydrogen, and Sustainable Batteries. Successful PoCs have the potential for deeper collaboration with LG Chem’s designated departments in South Korea, the EU, and USA. Beyond this, winning solutions have the opportunity to earn:
Various types of funding opportunities following the LG Chem‘s recently announced plan to invest 9 billion USD in new growth areas including sustainability, battery materials, and drugs by 2025
Admission and access to LG Chem’s global business network
Collaboration opportunities with a variety of experts towards commercialization
Seungsuk Yoo, LG Chem’s Head of Open Innovation department said: “I expect this program is not only an extraordinary chance for bold entrepreneurs around the world, but also for us since we can showcase the vision and commitment about sustainability and various innovation approaches”.
Jurgen Nieuwenhuijsen, COO at Unknown Group said: “We identify with LG Chem’s mission of connecting science to life for a better future and are eager to identify, bring forward and ignite collaborations between them and unconventional solutions and driven founders from all corners of the world”.
By identifying and collaborating with the most game-changing players with disruptive technologies from around the world, LG Chem expands its impact, whilst finding new directions, industries, business models, and ideas.
Applications for the LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge are open till 1 May 2022. To send in your application, visit: https://www.lgc-innovationchallenge.com
About LG Chem and the LG Chem Global Innovation Challenge
LG Chem is a leading global chemical company with a diversified business portfolio in the key areas of petrochemicals, advanced materials, and life sciences. The company manufactures a wide range of products from high-value-added petrochemicals to renewable plastics and also specializes in cutting-edge electronic and battery materials, as well as drugs and vaccines to deliver differentiated solutions for its customers.
LG Chem is committed to reaching carbon-neutral growth by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050 by managing the impacts of climate change and making positive contributions to society through renewable energy and responsible supply chains. Headquartered in Seoul, Korea, LG Chem has multiple operation sites worldwide and has generated KRW 42.7 trillion (USD 37.3 billion) in sales in 2021. For more information, please visit www.lgchem.com
About Unknown Group
Unknown is an early-stage venture capital and business development firm, supporting founders and industry leaders to successfully bring innovations to the market: a “Venture Engine®”. With a fresh approach delivering venture success, lining up the industry and creating a pool of solutions ready to be adopted by the market.
THE INVESTMENT ALLOWS GASHOUDERS TO FURTHER SCALE UP THEIR PROPOSITION TO REALIZE LOCAL SUPPLY CHAINS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FOR SUSTAINABLE FUELS, TOGETHER WITH EXISTING BIOGAS PRODUCERS AND CONSTRUCTION SITES
For every sustainable energy source, Gashouders finds the right destination. Founded in 2019 by Jelmer Kalff, Pieter Mans and Jan Willem Eising, Gashouders is the world’s first venture that has the capability to store cleaned, high pressure-biogas. Their innovative solution directly competes on price with fossil fuels, while being 100% sustainable. They are the first Dutch biogas provider and offer construction sites the most sustainable fuel currently available, as well as creating a financially viable market for biogas producers.
Over 800 million liters of diesel is used at construction sites in The Netherlands every year. Gashouders ambition is that by 2025, they will replace 3 million liters of diesel per year used at these sites, with clean biogas. Gashouders’ 100% circular solution enables a sustainable fuel chain that connects both needs: from the source at the sewage treatment plant to use on the construction site.
The energy transition is a key domain where Unknown sees great potential to leverage the Venture Engine methodology to create rapid, tangible impact and bottom-line results. In the energy domain, we create a portfolio of companies committed to providing affordable, efficient and sustainable energy worldwide. Together with industry leaders, we select the best ventures from around the world; we invest and actively support them to bring their solutions into the market with our vast global network of leading corporates.
The investment in Gashouders is the third Unknown Group has made in the energy domain. In May 2021, was the investment in Europe’s largest sustainable crowdfunding platform for energy projects, Oneplanetcrowd. In September 2021, Unknown announced its shareholding in Plastic Back, who have developed a technology to break plastic down to crude oil and other valuable chemicals.
Gashouder Co-founder, Jan Willem Eising said: “We partnered up with Unknown Group for their experience in building successful ventures, their commercial outreach and their in-depth financial expertise. We believe that with this collaboration we can really make a huge impact for a sustainable future in The Netherlands and beyond!”.
Unknown Group CEO, Hendrik Halbe said: “Accelerating the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy by investing in and scaling up bold solutions like Gashouders is key to our vision for the future. We’re very excited to work with Jelmer, Pieter and Jan Willem and have big ambitions about the impact their technology will have on the energy transition, especially in making the construction industry switch from diesel to 100% sustainable biogas”.
Gashouder Co-founder, Jelmer Kalff said: “We partnered with Oost NL for their great environmental focus and wide network, logically and particularly in the East of the Netherlands. Oost NL is widely known for their investments in sustainable energy projects and financing in circular economy solutions.”
Jeroen Gierveld, investment manager Oost NL states: “Gashouders is an investment with high potential. The funding came from the ION+ fund, a fund specifically focusing on early phase companies with great sustainable solutions. As the biogas is used on construction sites it will significantly reduce the carbon footprint. We are convinced that the team can realize the great ambitions by leveraging the technology.”
Unknown’s founders have invested in Gashouders alongside Oost NL (through the ION+ fund) through Impact Tech Ventures, an investment fund that has received the Seed Capital facility of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, de Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (“RvO”). RvO is a government agency which operates under the supervision of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.
Dive Deeper
Gashouders’ venture page on our website:
https://unknowngroup.com/ventures/gashouders/
Gashouders announced as Top 100 most Innovative by Dutch Chamber of Commerce:
Out of over 270 candidates from all over the world, 5 future shaping technologies are selected as finalists for the “Accelerate the Future” Challenge – set up by Unknown Group. The finalists will explore the possibility of engaging in a potential proof of concept or pilot project with Hyundai Motor Company & Kia Corporation (HMC & KIA).
HMC & KIA has set itself to build the future of mobility. To achieve this ambitious goal, HMC & KIA believe that innovation happens through active collaborations with like-minded ventures from all over the world.
As startup collaborations are central to HMC & KIA to reach their innovation goals, Unknown Group scouted for over 2000 technologies worldwide to find the best fitted solutions. Out of over 270 candidates in the Smart Cities, Smart Factory, Logistics and Mobility innovation areas, the finalists are:
Accerion from The Netherlands build positioning systems for mobile robots in intralogistics.
Augmentus from Singapore leverage sensor-agnostic 3D mesh data to generate an accurate digital twin of the robot cell.
Hacarus from Japan provide big insights from small data, and has supplied solutions in 100+ AI projects.
Trinckle from Germany develop software for the age of additive manufacturing/ 3D printing.
ZeroKey from Canada develop a hyper-accurate 3D localization sensor technology.
In the upcoming period, the finalists will explore the possibility of engaging in a potential proof of concept or pilot project with HMC & KIA.
To read more about this initiative, visit: acceleratethefuturechallenge.com
Introducing VENGEAN – the latest venture to become part of Unknown Group. Founded by our CMO, Andy Mosmans, Bram Holzapfel and Cees-Jan de Melker, VENGEAN is a creative branding engine, working with companies ranging from Fortune 500’s to startups and scale-ups to name their game and claim their fame.
What makes VENGEAN different from other branding agencies? Andy Mosmans, their Co-Founder, says; “We have broad experience having worked at the world’s leading ad agencies, collaborating with both B2B and B2C organizations. Currently, as VENGEAN, we’re working with international ventures like The Kingfish Company, Ecorus, E-magy, Beequip, Patagonia King Salmon and sustainable consumer brands like Little Cow & Cookies ice cream and The Farm Kitchen. We want to be there for ventures and also for corporates that could use some startup spirit. We call that “Energising Enterprise”.
As a vital component of the Unknown Venture Engine, VENGEAN further strengthens our proposition to ventures and founders worldwide – leveraging their expertise to discover, define, develop and deliver brand concepts to maximise impact.
Working with brands that are “beautiful, growing and generating impact at scale”, VENGEAN is the brains behind Unknown’s bold new brand identity, which we debuted in February 2021. More recently, they masterminded the rebrand of another venture in the group, The Global School for Entrepreneurship.
Hendrik Halbe, CEO and Partner at Unknown Group; “Branding is an important factor for startups to differentiate themselves from their competition while leaving a lasting impression on their customers. With VENGEAN, we will empower hundreds of impactful ventures with effective branding and communication”.
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