The nine companies selected to participate in the Bord na Móna Accelerate Green Grow programme for 2025 are listed below. Accelerate Green Grow is an Executive Accelerator designed to scale sustainability driven businesses.
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Company Name: Chefra
HQ: Wicklow
Overview: Your kitchen co-pilot. Chefra.ai personalises recipes, reduces food waste & helps you cook smarter—at home or at scale.
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Company Name: Novelplast
HQ: Meath
Overview: Novelplast is an innovative PET plastic recycling company which started operations in 2017 from its base in Co Meath. It has since grown to become the largest plastic recycling company in Ireland, employing over 60 people. We are expanding operations globally for greater impact. Passionate about the state of the environment and improving the sustainability of the plastics industry through our work, our vision is to make everyday life better by transforming the world’s products through sustainable innovation.
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Company Name: Circular Food Co
HQ: Offaly
Overview: Circular Food Co is an innovative foodtech company transforming byproducts like spent grains into high-fibre, sustainable ingredients for bakery, snacking, and more. Founded to combat waste, we’re leading the way in upcycling with solutions that enhance taste, nutrition, and sustainability, helping businesses lower carbon footprints and meet CSRD goals. We are repurposing side streams into functional ingredients for the bakery and processed meat sector. We also have both ingredients and consumer products on sale with large retailers.
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Company Name: BioSense
HQ: Dublin
Overview: BioSense is committed to restoring nature. We help clients to unlock the ecological potential of their land through a unique blend of ecological expertise, data science, and advanced statistical modelling. Our robust biodiversity metrics guide practical intervention strategies, and drive meaningful action to protect, restore, and enhance natural ecosystems. Our data informs practical intervention strategies for the long-term. BioSense empowers clients to understand the ecological potential of their land and provides repeatable biodiversity metrics over the lifetime of land use projects.
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Company Name: Easydry
HQ: Louth
Overview: Easydry has pioneered the world’s first disposable and biodegradable towel, offering sustainable alternatives to cotton towels. Easydry, a B Corp Certified company, offers compostable textile solutions that have saved billions of litres of water, cut CO2 emissions, and reduced energy consumption in sectors like hair, beauty, and hospitality. Our flagship biodegradable towels are sold in 25 countries worldwide.
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Company Name: JTM Energy
HQ: Wicklow
Overview: Drawing on up to 30 years of experience in working with batteries, JTM Energy design and build battery energy storage systems for both on-grid and off-grid applications such as construction sites or off-grid homes. In the case of construction, users can expect to reduce generator running hours by as much as 80%. Single and three phase models are available to enable dramatic energy efficiency gains.
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Company Name: Watt Footprint
HQ: Offaly
Overview: Watt Footprint is leading a revolution in the energy sector with its advanced proprietary software and state of-the-art technology platform. Incorporating AI and machine learning with the advanced integration of meter data, coupled with the automation of bill reading and interpretation. These innovations, along with the expertise of energy specialists, empower businesses to efficiently manage and reduce their energy consumption, regaining control over their energy costs.
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Company Name: Pulse Market
HQ: Dublin
Overview: Pulse’s sustainability platform allows companies and consulting partners to manage, analyse, report their sustainability data in a robust, secure Azure-based cloud platform, and affords the Da Governance and Data Lineage functionality that provides “best practice” in anticipation of audit/verification. Pulse Market allows businesses to manage their ESG journey and prepares them to respond to client queries and/or regulations and frameworks, such as CSRD, SECR, CSDDD, B Corp, EcoVadis, Origin Green.
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Company Name: Plaswire
HQ: Lurgan
Overview: Repurposing waste plastics into sustainable materials, reducing environmental impact and promoting a circular economy, Plaswire processes plastics by extrusion and granulation. With embedded innovation we create solutions to complex polymer materials such as EoL wind blades, aviation wastes and mixed residual packaging. The materials are diverted from incineration and the finished outputs replace high carbon virgin plastics, precast concrete and scarce wood. Carbon savings up to 6 tonnes for each tonne of our RX Polymer.
