Catalonia Exponential Leaders

Join the third edition of Catalonia Exponential Leaders

Are you among those who do things differently? Those who dare to transform themselves and anticipate change? We're looking for you! Whether you're a startup or an established business and you need no explanations on what disruptive innovation means, you can now apply for the new Catalonia Exponential Leaders.

As we established in the first two editions, there are businesses in our environment that are an example of adaptation, transformation, and disruption. We're looking for dynamic, high-growth companies that generate new markets and business models.

If you think your business could be a Catalonia Exponential Leader, tell us about your project before March 6! Send your application and join the map of the most disruptive companies in Catalonia.

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Open call until March 6. Introduce your company!

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Why should I apply?
How will we find them?
Requirements and application

Why should I apply?

Telling us about your disruptive project has a great many advantages:

You’ll become part of the Catalonia Exponential Leaders business community and will participate in networking sessions.
You'll be able to participate in a disruption and exponentiality bootcamp as well as in customized workshops with experts in disruptive innovation.
You'll be given exposure during Exponential Day #5 and in other leading events with over one thousand participating companies.
What's more, your company will be starring the Exponential Leaders in Catalonia.
You'll get a blockchain-verified digital certificate that will recognize you as one of the most disruptive companies in Catalonia.
You'll be able to connect with the most innovative ecosystems around the world through ACCIÓ’s Foreign Offices as well as with open innovation challenges at major events.

If you have an enterprising culture, an open mind, and already apply disruptive innovation, send us your application and join the Catalonia Exponential Leaders!

How will we find them?

To join the Catalonia Exponential Leaders, you will first have to fill in this short form. After this, if your project meets the requirements for being disruptive, we’ll send you the application form, where you will have to answer the questions to assess your project: purpose, value proposition, impact, scalability, and degree of disruption, among others.

The 30 companies with the most outstanding projects will be able to participate in the bootcamp and in the customized disruption and exponential workshops (April and May 2023) as well as in the Exponential Leaders in Catalonia report.

Finally, the 10 most disruptive companies will be selected, which will be offered many different advantages and will be given exposure on Exponential Day #5 (July 2023).

If you’re leading a disruptive initiative, register now!

Requirements and application

Two business categories are established for this third edition: startups and established companies.

To be able to participate, your company must meet the following requirements:

Your company must have operating headquarters and being constituted in Catalonia.
The project must have started between 2015 and 2023.
The project must provide scientific and technology-based solutions or new services that challenge the status quo of the industry.
The project must have global impact.
If your proposal is among the 30 finalists, you will have to participate in the initial session of ACCIÓ’s disruption and exponentiality.

Send your application before March 6 (inclusive) and join the map of the most disruptive companies in Catalonia.

Catalonia Exponential Leaders 2022

ABLE Human Motion. Open in a new window.

ABLE Human Motion has created the world’s lightest and most affordable robotic exoskeleton that enables people with physical challenges to get up and walk again.
AllRead Machine Learning. Open in a new window.

AllRead Machine provides a deep-learning technology that allows the identification and automatic tracking of goods in a ubiquitous way through the use of cameras.
BMAT Music Innovation. Open in a new window.

BMAT MUSIC INNOVATION is the music industry’s operating system that connects all the underlying elements (technology, data, and people) needed to create value in music and allows for a fair and efficient distribution of royalties.
Flax&Kale. Open in a new window.

Flax&Kale promotes the "healthy flexitarian" movement. It is a multi-category, omni-channel brand with a full range of tasty and healthy products featuring a high nutritional profile and minimal environmental impact.
Fregata Space. Open in a new window.

Fregata Space is a ground observation platform that detects toxic pollutants in the air and water bodies by applying proprietary machine learning algorithms on satellite images.
Innovamat Education. Open in a new window.

Innovamat Education has developed a curricular proposal to teach mathematics in school in a more competent, experiential, and manipulative way.
Integra Therapeutics. Open in a new window.

Integra Therapeutics creates cutting-edge gene writing tools to make advanced therapies safer and more effective.
Kave Home. Open in a new window.

Kave Home is based on the end-to-end digitization of the entire value chain and the use of new materials and technology for the design and use of furniture.
Steros GPA Innovative. Open in a new window.

GPAINNOVA is a technology platform that transforms ideas into profitable, efficient, and sustainable solutions, responding to current challenges with multidisciplinary technologies. Specializing in surface finishing, it also works for the exploration and conservation of the aquatic environment with the spin-off GPASEABOTS.
Uriach. Open in a new window.

Uriach has carried out a major transformation of its core business, pivoting from a classic model of the pharmaceutical industry to a new range of natural products (Natural Consumer Healthcare) that enhance the preventive and holistic health of people.

Catalonia Exponential Leaders 2021

Advanced Air Mobility. Open in a new window.

Advanced Air Mobility’s exponential project for a new form of urban aerial mobility involving a flying taxi aspires to change patterns of urban and regional development towards a new more society- and nature- friendly model.
Bitmetrics. Open in a new window.

BitMetrics develops robotic and vision technology with a view to democratizing access for all companies to the smart automation of processes that require real-time image analysis.
Heura. Open in a new window.

Heura is a 100% vegetable meat startup that creates new solutions within the current food system and is encouraging a transition towards positively impacting the planet, animals and people.
Honext. Open in a new window.

Honext is based on the circular economy and uses a new enzymatic process to convert paper fibre waste into resin- and toxic additive-free tiles suitable for construction.
HumanITcare. Open in a new window.

HumanITcare’s disruptive platform solution, based on AI for monitoring chronic patients remotely, is having a great impact on society and offering highly flexible service.
Natural Machines Iberia. Open in a new window.

Natural Machines’ solution is a 3D laser food printing kitchen device with which each user can make their own personalized food.
Nostrum Biodiscovery. Open in a new window.

Nostrum Biodiscovery uses world cutting-edge computer technology that combines data, machine learning and molecular modelling to swiftly and precisely generate enzymes for industrial use that are more environmentally friendly.
Peptomyc. Open in a new window.

Peptomyc has revolutionized oncology through an unprecedented therapeutic technique: Myc inhibition with the drug Omomyc, which selectively removes cancer cells and has only mild and completely reversible side effects.
Premium. Open in a new window.

Premium, a byword for innovation and transformation, develops bidirectional power supply systems with a view to leading the new wave of wireless vehicle chargers.
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech. Open in a new window.

Qilimanjaro, with its revolutionary quantum computing project, offers a new computing paradigm that will enable industry to perform hitherto unmanageable operations.
Sateliot. Open in a new window.

Sateliot and its constellation of low-orbit nanosatellites are revolutionizing the communications industry by making mass use of IoT with 5G coverage globally available.
SEAT: CODE. Open in a new window.

SEAT is taking the leap towards disruption through SEAT: CODE, the startup intended to encourage digitalization at SEAT and change it from a successful automobile manufacturer to a mobility services provider.
Venvirotech. Open in a new window.

Venvirotech offers an innovative onsite system for transforming waste to biodegradable bioplastic using bacteria and thus reducing environmental plastic waste.
Vottun. Open in a new window.

Vottun, known as the "Wordpress of blockchain", offers “out-of-the-box” data certification and traceability solutions using blockchain technology with a view to encouraging the digitalization of companies.
X1Wind. Open in a new window.

X1Wind offers a revolutionary floating wind system that can harness huge offshore deep-water wind resources with an exponential impact on the energy sector.
Zyrcular Foods. Open in a new window.

Zyrcular Foods, which was initially a derivative of the Vallcompanys meat company, is the first plant in Catalonia to make 100% alternative protein. Its pillars for growth are research, innovation and sustainability.