TechX Startup News

Actuation Lab, Bristol, UK, Cohort 3

Delivering valves that don’t leak gas to atmosphere for natural gas, chemicals and hydrogen.

• Delivered valves in size 3/8” to 2”, beginning 6 months of hydrogen demonstration on hydrogen flow loop
• Secured field trial with multinational industrial gas supplier to prevent hydrogen gas leakage
• Received backing from multinational aircraft manufacturer to develop cryogenic hydrogen valves

Lead Contact: Simon Bates, CEO, simon@actuationlab.com

Airspection, Glasgow UK, Cohort 6

Specialising in providing reliable and safe drone services for offshore infrastructure.

• Letter of support to conduct offshore customer trials next year
• Onshore inspection demonstrated with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

Lead Contact: Matthew McLean, Managing Director
matthew.mclean@airspection.co.uk

Frontier Robotics, Edinburgh, UK, Cohort 6

Software and retrofittable hardware for subsea robots to enable autonomous inspections.

• Full integration of new hardware system in less than 2 hours with an external robot
• Grown from 1 FTE to 5 in the last year and 2 interns. Looking to hire a UI/UX engineer
• Mapped an underwater test facility of 3×4 metres with less than 1cm error

Lead Contact: Jonatan Scharff Willners, CEO
jonatan@frontierrobotics.ai

H2CHP, London, UK, Cohort 6

Fuel flexible, distributed power generation with high efficiency and power density.

• Team has expanded to eight in the past quarter from three
• Making excellent progress on a full scale commercial demonstrator due for launch  H1 2025
• Customer interest is strong with several new opportunities for trailing the generator in multi-fuel applications

Lead Contact: Stephen Hampson, Managing Director
stephen@h2chp.co.uk

Hydromea, Renens, Switzerland, Cohort 2

Scalable remote inspection and monitoring of submerged assets. 

• Raised £1.4M in equity funding since TechX 

• Commercial TRL9 sales and field trials are ongoing 

• Looking for operators interested in upping their game in subsea infrastructure condition monitoring 

Lead Contact: Igor Martin, CEO 
igor.martin@hydromea.com 

HyFlux, Swansea, UK, Cohort 5

Designing super conduction motors powered by liquid hydrogen. 

• Chosen as a Top Innovator by UpLink – World Economic Forum for the Sustainable Aviation Challenge 

• World Economic Forum has chosen our CEO, Paul, to speak at their upcoming event on “Where Are We With Hydrogen Deployment?” 

Lead Contact: Paul Perera, CEO 
paul.perera@hyflux.aero 

HyWaves, Cranfield, UK, Cohort 6

Developing power electronics to
increase total production of green hydrogen for solar assets.

• Completed a pre-seed round
• On track to complete the first solar to hydrogen plant by the end of the year

Lead Contact: Niall Haughian, CFO
niall@hywaves.com

Intebloc, Aberdeen, UK, Cohort 1

Connecting people and technology
with solutions for the crane and lifting industry.

• Carried out their first market research trip to Houston, USA and the region has indicated a strong desire for their current and emerging technology
• 3 new contracts awarded for the RigWare system (digitises lifting equipment management)
• 90% of the UKCS now use the system with systems deployed in Canada, Malaysia, Guyana, Namibia and the Gulf of Mexico

Lead Contact: Ross McLeod, CEO rmcleod@intebloc.com

JET Connectivity, Saltash, UK, Cohort 4

Providing 5G and data collection at sea as well as in remote and rural areas.

• Closed £1M InnovateUK loan
• About to announce several key partnerships and field trials
• Their second large buoy is going to sea (33 tonnes and 22 metres tall)
• Looking for pilot partners for ocean data projects

Lead Contact: James Thomas, CEO
james@jet-eng.com

MESPAC, Turin, Italy, Cohort 5

Space-based metocean and environmental intelligence platform powered by AI

• Released Alpha version of the MESPAC platform for private testing
• Planned demo project with an offshore wind developer pilot partner in 2025
• Looking for partners for other in-field demonstration

Lead Contact: Andrea Gulisano, CEO
a.gulisano@mespac-space.com

Myriad Wind Energy, Stirling, UK, Cohort 6

Developing modular wind energy for a more affordable and sustainable future.

• On-going field trials of a 2kW Myriad Turbine are progressing well, with larger scale field trials planned for 2025
• Looking for potential partners (such as small wind turbine OEMs), as well as small and large scale wind energy developers

Lead Contact: Adam Harris, CEO
adam.harris@myriadwind.com

Napkin Innovation, Glasgow, UK, Cohort 4

Cutting the time, cost and CO2 emissions linked to installing jacket foundations. 

• Completed GreenOffshore Technology programme including pitching at the invitation only event in Hamburg, June 24 

• Scaled component testing continuing at Strathclyde University 

• Looking for 3 industry partners to join a joint industry project to progress the technology from TRL 5 to TRL 8 

Lead Contact: Jacqueline Morrison, Founder / CEO  jacqueline@napkininnovation.co.uk  

 

Parallel Carbon, Manchester, UK, Cohort 5

Affordable Direct Air Carbon Capture and zero carbon hydrogen technologies. 

• Partnership with Black and Veatch 
• Finishing a hiring round, expanding team from 5 employees to 9 

Lead contact: Aranzazu Carmona Orbezo, CTO aranza@parallelcarbon.com 

Sentinel Subsea, Aberdeen, UK, Cohort 2

Providing advanced passive integrity monitoring solutions for subsea infrastructure and equipment. 

• 2024 – Winners of the 37th Offshore Achievement Awards 2024 for post-commercial deployment technology 

• Successful installation of passive technology for two major Australian projects in collaboration with Baker Hughes  

Lead Contact: Elliot Kinch, Business Development Director ek@sentinel-subsea.com 

Test1, Brescia, Italy, Cohort 1

Disruptive and game changing solution for oil spill response management. 

• Successful €2M Series A in 2023 

• Became a member of UK & Ireland Spill Association  

Lead Contact: Alessandro Taini, CEO
Alessandro.taini@test1srl.com  

WasteWater Fuels, Coventry, UK, Cohort 5

Wastewater treatment and hydrogen gas production. 

• Team has completed Agile PM training  

• Team has completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training 

• Team has grown to 17 full time staff with one KTP staff member 

Lead Contact: Dan Carlotta-Jones, Chief Engineer d.carlotta-jones@wastewaterfuels.com  

WindSwept and Interesting, Shetland, UK, Cohort 5

Kite turbine development for Airborne Wind Energy Systems. 

• Trialling new components and parts for automated deployments 

• Preparing for partnerships with Airborne Wind Energy researchers 

• Enhancing in house production capability 

Lead Contact: Rod Read, Director rod@windswept.energy