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Two industrial pilots, one $350K budget, three funding layers: how the Wind Circular Innovation Challenge structured public, private and startup money to de-risk blade recycling.

Quebec installed 1,985 wind turbines since 1999, and their materials will grow from 2,562 tonnes in 2021 to over 124,000 tonnes a year by 2030. Every key number, with sources.

From 66 international applications to 2 funded industrial pilots: the complete case study of the Wind Circular Innovation Challenge run by Cycle Momentum and RECYC-QUEBEC.

Boréa Aquatech and BeNat become the first companies created through the Lab-à-Startup program, turning Quebec university research into market-ready clean tech.

Agapyo closes the first tranche of its seed round with TandemLaunch, Cycle Momentum, C Capital and Conti Group to scale Jam™, a wood-waste thermoplastic that matches ABS and biodegrades fully.

Zone Agtech receives up to $3.25M from Canada's ACT Accelerator. Its NEXTERRE program, delivered with Cycle Momentum and Écotech Québec, funds real-farm pilots of clean agricultural technologies in Quebec.

As part of the Circular Innovation Challenge – Wind Energy, HPSH is piloting a technology that turns end-of-life turbine blades into fibers and aggregates for concrete, backed by Hydro-Québec, Innergex, Boralex, Kruger and EDF.

FibeCycle will process a complete wind turbine blade end to end in Canada, turning recovered composites into ecoFRP™ thermoplastics for injection molding and 3D printing.

ChillSkyn closes its Seed Acceleration round with Cycle Momentum and New York Angels, funding PolyFrost passive-cooling deployments in Mexico and Brazil. Jennifer McDonald joins the board.

JetScale AI automates cloud optimization, cutting cost, energy and carbon as AI drives data-center demand toward a doubling by 2030. Backed by Cycle Momentum through Origo.

JetScale AI closes an oversubscribed $5.4M seed round with BDC, Diagram, Telegraph Ventures, Fondaction, Spring Impact Capital and Cycle Momentum via Origo.

Irréversible builds fully analog AI inference chips that use up to 1,000× less energy than digital processors, bringing AI to the edge where power is scarce. Cycle Momentum co-invested via Origo.