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Dryad Networks, a Brandenburg Kapital porfolio company, wins the Innovation Award Berlin Brandenburg 2021
Potsdam, 29 November 2021. The innovations of this year's winner of the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award are diverse and sustainable. Dryad Networks was chosen by the jury as the winner out of a total of 168 entries and was awarded the prize on the evening of November 26th.
Dryad Networks is a provider of Silvanet, an asset management system for the ultra-early detection of forest fires. Accounting for 20 percent of global CO2 emissions, forest fires are a major driver of climate change. Silvanet combines solar-powered gas sensors with artificial intelligence and can detect fires in less than 60 minutes and report them over a wide-area wireless network. Early detection allows firefighters to reach a fire in time to extinguish it before it gets out of control.
Brandenburg Kapital GmbH has been supporting the company as an investor with financing from its Early-stage and Growth Fund since 2020. The fund resources for the Early-stage and Growth Fund, established on behalf of the Brandenburg Ministry of Economic Affairs, are currently provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and by ILB.
In addition, Dryad has received another approximately 1.7 million euros in grants and low-interest loans through the ProFIT Brandenburg and the Gründung innovativ funding programs.
Further information about the Innovation Award can be found here:
Potsdam, 29 November 2021. The innovations of this year's winner of the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award are diverse and sustainable. Dryad Networks was chosen by the jury as the winner out of a total of 168 entries and was awarded the prize on the evening of November 26th.
Dryad Networks is a provider of Silvanet, an asset management system for the ultra-early detection of forest fires. Accounting for 20 percent of global CO2 emissions, forest fires are a major driver of climate change. Silvanet combines solar-powered gas sensors with artificial intelligence and can detect fires in less than 60 minutes and report them over a wide-area wireless network. Early detection allows firefighters to reach a fire in time to extinguish it before it gets out of control.
Brandenburg Kapital GmbH has been supporting the company as an investor with financing from its Early-stage and Growth Fund since 2020. The fund resources for the Early-stage and Growth Fund, established on behalf of the Brandenburg Ministry of Economic Affairs, are currently provided by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and by ILB.
In addition, Dryad has received another approximately 1.7 million euros in grants and low-interest loans through the ProFIT Brandenburg and the Gründung innovativ funding programs.
Further information about the Innovation Award can be found here: https://bit.ly/3l8Ywnm
About the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award
With the Innovation Award, the economic administrations of the two states of Berlin and Brandenburg annually honor innovative and outstanding entrepreneurial work. With the involvement of business enterprises and other institutions as private partners, the award was and is also an award on behalf of the economy for the economy. Since it was first awarded in 1984 (jointly with Brandenburg since 1992), there have been more than 170 award winners and over 4,300 candidates.
About Dryad Networks
Dryad Networks is an environmental IoT startup based in Berlin-Brandenburg. Its mission is to develop a large-scale IoT network that enables public and private forest owners to monitor, to analyze, and to protect the world's largest and most remote forests. The focus has been on the development of Silvanet, an ultra-early detection system for forest fires. For more information, visit www.dryad.net
About the Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award
With the Innovation Award, the economic administrations of the two states of Berlin and Brandenburg annually honor innovative and outstanding entrepreneurial work. With the involvement of business enterprises and other institutions as private partners, the award was and is also an award on behalf of the economy for the economy. Since it was first awarded in 1984 (jointly with Brandenburg since 1992), there have been more than 170 award winners and over 4,300 candidates.
About Dryad Networks
Dryad Networks is an environmental IoT startup based in Berlin-Brandenburg. Its mission is to develop a large-scale IoT network that enables public and private forest owners to monitor, to analyze, and to protect the world's largest and most remote forests. The focus has been on the development of Silvanet, an ultra-early detection system for forest fires. For more information, visit www.dryad.net