2021 WMF Start Up & Scale Up Challenges: Nitricity Wins Grand Prix Award

Written By Pranavi Kethanaboyina

June 17, 2021 — Following the nomination of 3 Scale Ups and 12 Start Ups on March 24th, the Jury convened again on June 7th and the Awards were announced in Nancy on June 17th for the Start Up Challenge and on June 18th for the Scale Up Challenge.

Prof. Victoire de Margerie, Jury Chairman, Tadeu Carneiro, CEO of Boston Metal and Bernard Pinatel, President Refining and Chemicals of Total gave the « GRAND PRIX » (50,000 € in cash) to Nicolas Pinkowski, CEO of Nitricity (San Francisco, California).

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About Nitricity

Nitricity makes climate-smart nitrogen fertilizer with renewable energy. Founded by a team of graduate students from Stanford University in 2018 – Nicolas Pinkowski serving as CEO, Joshua McEnaney serving as president and CTO, and Jay Schwalbe serving as CSO – the company is scaling its technology to provide regionalized, climate-smart nitrate fertilizer production.

Pranavi Kethanaboyina
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