Simris Alg "Start-up of the year" 2012

Simris Alg and Fredrika Gullfot received the award “Start-up of the Year” during the fifth edition of the Beautiful Business Awards. Beautiful Business Awards is a national competition that promotes female entrepreneurs as role models. Organisers of the event are PwC, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and the Driftig.nu network.

The jury´s motivation read: “Fredrika is building an innovative company which is becoming a piece of the industrial ecosystem. In a very short time and with great courage and persistence she has managed to set up a business which has strong potential for growth and profitability, both for the company and for the new green technology in Sweden. Simris Alg is a frontrunner for the transition to a sustainable biobased economy.”

The full motivation can be read in Swedish here.