Startups
Check out some of the top startups who tried the Tau20 tool during our Impact Readiness Sprints!
reLi Energy helps energy storage operators boost profits and extend battery life by combining advanced analytics with real-time cost-based optimization, enabling smarter, data-driven operational decisions.
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Coffeefrom transforms spent coffee grounds into high-performance thermoplastic biomaterials, closing the loop on industrial waste streams while creating scalable circular economy solutions. As a social innovation startup, we are building a regenerative supply chain that turns a global waste challenge into market-ready sustainable materials for impact-driven industries.
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“We found it brilliant! The Impact Sprints were well-organized and the schedule was ideal: hands-on, efficient, and immediately applicable for communication purposes. While we are currently developing an LCA that is more specific to certain processes, the Tau20 software provides a valuable, holistic, and easy-to-edit impact profile!”
MIMA Technologies develops a breakthrough in breast cancer imaging through its Microwave Breast Imaging (MWBI) system: a safe, non-ionising, and non-compressive modality designed for patient comfort and diagnostic accuracy. Unlike mammography or MRI, MIMA eliminates radiation risks, painful compression and contrast agents, while offering high sensitivity in dense breast tissue and early-stage cancers.
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“The experience with testing the beta version of the TAU20 AI tool was really insightful for our startup. The tool is very intuitive, requiring a short time to get acquainted with the available functionalities and output a meaningful quantified global impact potential for the company’s activity. It provided us with a clear impact classification and a very relevant list of IRIS+ aligned KPI’s to measure our impact as the business evolves and efficiently communicate it to investors”
CoachBridge is a Norwegian health-tech venture that goes beyond a coaching marketplace, using a proprietary matching framework to connect neurodivergent individuals with the right coach at the right time. We partner with universities, employers, and NHS Trusts to fund access and measure impact, making quality support available to those who need it most.
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“We found the TAU20 process genuinely useful for sharpening our impact narrative and sense-checking our metrics against investor expectations. The structured format pushed us to be more precise about our theory of change and our evidence base, which was valuable at this stage. The live pitch environment was challenging in a productive way, and the feedback we received was direct and constructive. We would recommend it to other early-stage impact startups preparing to engage with impact investors!”
EdCortex is a B2B Neuroscience company based in Paris and a member of the UNESCO Global Education Coalition. It addresses the risk of burnout and upskilling disengagement across industries through a cognitive intelligence platform that delivers predictive analytics and hyper-personalized micro-interventions based on the unique cognitive twin of each end-user. By aligning professional growth with individual competencies, it optimizes brain economy and workforce performance while proactively protecting mental well-being.
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“I found it an excellent platform! It transforms qualitative impact goals into quantitative scores, providing the data-driven evidence required to satisfy ESG investors. By automating the mapping of operations to UN SDGs and global frameworks, it eliminates the resource-heavy reporting burden typically faced by teams, creating a distinct competitive advantage, converting social and environmental outcomes into a transparent asset for investor due diligence.”
Kodnyx’s software is an electrical architecture optimisation tool, optimising AC/DC and hybrid setups to unlock 35% energy savings in industrial facilities. The software enables users to map, simulate, and optimise how electricity flows inside facilities, identify where AC/DC conversion losses occur, and create a business design case to eliminate these losses.
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“Tau20 makes comprehensive research about the business’s potential impact for sustainability goals much easier. The tool identifies potential impact metrics to follow during business operations. It is a great advantage for founders to keep track of these metrics and also to report back to stakeholders. Having the list of potential relevant investors in that field is also very helpful”
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“What I like is that the tool makes it easy and quick to map out our impact areas. I think if we didn’t have the tool, we would have spent a lot of time mapping our impact. What I would like to have are examples of how other startups present their impact in their pitch decks and how investors evaluate impact.”