About Us

Vision

Our vision is to help ensure that waste is perceived and used as a resource. Ultimately, waste is a hodgepodge of a wide variety of raw materials. We believe that transparency about the contents of the waste helps to optimize the use of the waste. In the long term, we see ourselves as a company that is able to analyze and quantify the most diverse waste streams. And in addition, with a huge knowledge database, it can help ensure that waste is brought to the most suitable processors on the one hand and that more knowledge about the recycling of materials is applied on the other in product development. We want to help eliminate "waste" through advanced technology.

Mission

Our mission is to develop a solution that can analyze high volume unstructured waste streams. With this, we want to enable better use of waste, which today is classified as rather bad in the Waste Framework Directive like waste-to-energy. In this difficult environment, we want to train our models to be able to analyze any type of waste. We also want to contribute to increasing the circular economy in waste incineration by generating more electricity from waste and reducing the use of additional fossil fuels. Starting from Waste-to-Energy, we will use the trained models to also provide waste quality analysis in other areas such as recycling and sorting.

The team

The team - WeastAnt

That's us!

We got to know each other during our doctoral studies and joint EU and BMBF funded projects. WasteAnt's journey began with the Jacobs Startup Competition 2019. With the inclusion of Maximilian Storp as a business co-founder beginning of 2022, we are now a complete team: International backgrounds, interdisciplinary training, extensive professional experience and the same common vision!

Together with our employees we are a 19-strong team, aiming make waste a more valuable resource.

The co-founders

Dr. Christian Müller - WasteAnt

Dr. Christian Müller

CTO

12 years in Robotics with focus on Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Product Vision and
Quality Control

Maximilian Storp - WasteAnt

Maximilian Storp

CEO

6 years in Strategy, Operations and Restructuring consulting with Deloitte

Business Development, Finance, Marketing

Dr. Szymon Krupinski - WasteAnt

Dr. Szymon Krupinski

COO

15 years in innovation in Oil and Gas industry – software and system engineering

Engineering and On-sight Operations

Arturo Gomez Chavez - WasteAnt

Arturo Gomez Chavez

CIO

8 years in Robotics R&D with
focus on Cognitive Systems and AI frameworks

Software Development and Research

WasteAnt Story

2018

Origin of the idea

 - Wasteant

Jacobs Startup Competition with PacketAnt (Top 10 from 160)

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2019

Start of the pilot project with swb

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2020

EXIST Funding Program Approval

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2021

Installation of the first prototype at swb

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Foundation of the company as WasteAnt GmbH

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2022

2nd pilot customer NEEW Ventures

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Project extension with swb

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High-Tech Incubator Oldenburg

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Pre-seed investment

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2nd place at Deutscher KI-Startup Preis

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2023

Start of the 3rd pilot project with hkw Blumenthal GmbH

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1st place Bremer Gründungspreis

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1st place KfW Business Award Bremen

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German Accelerator Kickstart program

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2024

1st place Jury Award in ODDO BHF Young Entrepreneurs Awards

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1st place Digital Summit Euregio Award

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2nd Financing Round

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1st Place AI & Data Summit

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1st Place Valorsul Open Innovation Challenge

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