AkzoNobel Announces Recipients of Paint the Future Awards
AMSTERDAM — Three days of face-to-face collaboration with AkzoNobel experts have opened doors for international startups to "paint the future" with their innovations. Concluding the industry-first challenge, five startups were rewarded with Paint the Future Awards from AkzoNobel. These include: SAS Nanotechnologies (United States) - joint development agreement; QLayers (the Netherlands) - business agreement; Interface Polymers (U.K.) - business agreement; Apellix (United States) - joint development agreement; Alucha Recycling Technologies (the Netherlands) - sourcing agreement.
In addition, challenge partner KPMG awarded Octo (the Netherlands) with the KPMG Scale-up Track Award to help them grow their business.