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rssFive focus areas: Biotech, 3D printing, digitalization, circularity and new markets
02-Mar-2020
Covestro is a start-up investor: With its Covestro Venture Capital (COVeC) approach, the company seeks to combine the needs of start-ups in areas such as financing, expertise and network with its own strategic goals with the goal of ensuring long-term sustainable development. “We are committed to ...
Winners of the first Start-up Challenge continue their own venture
08-Jul-2019
This year’s Start-up Challenge at Covestro is now getting down to the facts: The six best international start-up ideas have now been picked and the teams are preparing for the grand final. The winner of the company’s internal contest will be selected at the K 2019 trade fair for plastics and ...
Comprehensive analysis of Chinese founders’ landscape
21-Dec-2018
The vast Chinese start-up ecosystem is a new field of engagement for the materials manufacturer Covestro. For this reason, the company, together with the market research consultants of ‘KAIROS Future’, facilitated a new, comprehensive study of the broad landscape that has developed over recent ...
Future of chemicals and data solutions in scope
11-Jul-2018
Covestro is tapping further into the fast evolving start-up economy. The materials manufacturer is collaborating with Plug and Play to explore opportunities in materials innovation and digitalization. Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play is among the world’s largest start-up accelerator and ...
Up to one million euros for the establishment of an internal start-up
01-Mar-2018
An outstanding idea: It’s a newly developed technology, coaters should be able to work faster and more efficiently, especially in the automobile industry. The winning team Marc Schreiber, Anna-Leona Breidbach, Axel Schmidt and Holger Mundstock, all employees of Covestro, convinced the Board ...
Covestro funds best employee start-up team
06-Nov-2017
An in-house competition at Covestro to find and fund the best business idea has met with a great response. Employees of the materials manufacturer around the globe have submitted around 600 projects and the top six teams are now preparing for next year’s grand final. The aim of Covestro’s ...
More joint efforts and pioneering spirit required
22-Jun-2017
According to experts, the chemical industry needs to increase the use of sustainable raw materials such as plants and CO2 to conserve limited fossil resources. Participants of a raw material summit held on Tuesday at the Technical University of Berlin and organized in collaboration with DECHEMA ...