WNT Ventures - Investor Profile and Portfolio

Recovering critical metals from e-waste for a circular economy. This company pioneers innovative waste-to-value solutions, extracting valuable metals from complex waste streams like printed circuit boards and lithium-ion batteries. Their city-scale facilities process electronic waste locally, ensuring faster processing, secure data destruction, and quicker returns for recyclers. They produce circular metals essential for future industries, utilizing hydrometallurgy processes with lower carbon emissions than traditional smelting. Their technology enables a closed-loop supply chain, returning recovered metals to domestic manufacturing. The company offers safe and secure disposal of IP and data-sensitive assets, compliant with institutional data destruction standards. They are focused on diverting e-waste from landfills, reducing the need for mining, and creating a circular supply of critical metals. This is a technology company with a strong social impact.

Provider of AI-based operation management software solutions for retail businesses. The company offers a tailored AI platform that understands and targets the products and retail accounts to optimize product range and current performance. It offers to build and optimize assortments, space planning, trade promotions, pricing, and more. The AI platform uses multiple data points POS, financial planning, market data, loyalty programs, and more to simulate primary and downstream possibilities by adding, removing, or maintaining SKUs, changing prices, trade discounts, and more.

Opum Technologies is developing a robotic rehabilitation platform. It is based on physical and occupational therapy. It will have a software algorithm to control its operation from sensor based diagnostics through to therapy that adapts with recovery. The device is undergoing validation and usability and is expected to be released in early 2018.

Developer of scatter-free absorption technology for quantifying biomolecules in nanoparticle formulations. This technology enables quantification of RNA and other encapsulated biomolecules without lysis or fluorescent assays. The technology facilitates UV quantification methods by measuring the absorption spectrum without scatter. It is designed for samples that scatter light, providing quantitative analysis in the UV or visible region.