Startup Of The Week

Startup Of The Week: Wastetide

Wastetide, a French startup, has developed AI software that helps factories to sort waste, cutting costs and emissions.

“Waste management generates more than twice the CO₂ than air transportation,” says CEO Nicolas Brien, who co-founded the company in 2023 with CTO Côme Ozanne. “We want to turn this liability into revenue.”.

“If you go to any factory in the U.S. or the EU about 3% of the cost structure is related to waste management,” says Brien. “Up to 30% of the cost could be avoided. Based on our customer research we believe factories could get back one percent of their bottom line.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.