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🖨️ Asahi Kasei invests in Israeli startup Castor Technologies

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🔖 Topics: Funding Event

🏢 Organizations: Asahi Kasei, Castor Technologies


Asahi Kasei (TOKYO 3407) has decided to invest in Castor Technologies Ltd. (CASTOR), an Israeli startup specialized in the development of 3D printing software. In addition to utilizing CASTOR’s software and services, the investment will allow Asahi Kasei to pursue synergies between its CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) technical service for plastic products and CASTOR’s software.

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Blockchain circular economy startup Circularise secures €11 million funding

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🔖 Topics: Funding Event, Blockchain

🏢 Organizations: Circularise, Brightlands Venture Partners, Asahi Kasei, Neste


At Circularise, founders Mesbah Sabuh and Nordi de Vos have spent the past six years commercialising a concept that was devised in their days at Delft University of Technology. With their digital product passport, Sabuh and de Vos aim to store all relevant materials data on blockchain, eliminating privacy and confidential risk that arises when sharing the information to third-parties.

In its series A round, Circularise has also won corporate support in the form of oil refiner-turned waste recycling specialist Neste, and also the Japanese conglomerate Asahi Kasei whose main dealings cover chemicals, plastics and materials science.

Read more at Tech EU