ISONIK
The Challenge
The Opportunity
The team
The Venture
Business Model
Competition
From interviews with prospective customers, we learnt you can either heat the blade, which is economically unviable in colder climates. Or you can use hydrophobic coatings that need to be reapplied often, and contain toxic chemicals (PFAS). We are 10x more energy efficient than heating, and contain no toxic chemicals.
These solutions are created by Vestas, Siemens Gamesa and 3M. But customers say they are ineffective, and with no other startups doing ultrasonic de-icing, it provides an opportunity.
Traction
In October, ISONIK was accepted onto Imperial’s Cleantech incubator, The Greenhouse. This program provides 1-years worth of business coaching to help take us beyond TRL4, and a 20k grant.
Recently in July, ISONIK beat 67 applicants to won the UK Final of Climate Launchpad, is the world’s largest green business ideas competition.
ISONIK has just entered a partnership with Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, specialists in wind industry R&D, to continue developing our tech.