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Press · August 27, 2026

Fifteen minutes to pitch. Years of chemistry behind it!

Our CEO, Markus Hochegger-Krawanja, presented PureSurf at VITO4STARTERS, the deep tech accelerator of the Belgian research organisation VITO.

Fifteen minutes to pitch. Years of chemistry behind it!

Our CEO, Markus Hochegger-Krawanja, presented PureSurf at VITO4STARTERS, the deep tech accelerator of the Belgian research organisation VITO.

Surfactants are what give your shampoo its foam and your kitchen spray its cleaning power. The workhorse amine oxide is found in many of them!

PureSurf Nexovant F Pro is built on chemistry from European renewable feedstock and replaces the incumbent 1:1, with no reformulation required!

Supported by

  • Supported by European Innovation Council
  • Supported by European Research Council
  • aws Austria Wirtschaftsservice
  • Research partner University of Graz
  • Research partner University of Groningen
  • Research partner TU Graz
  • Research partner Medical University of Graz
  • Supported by Creative Destruction Lab
  • Supported by chemstars.nrw
  • Supported by IECT Hermann Hauser
  • Supported by Startup-uni.at
  • Supported by BMK, Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action
  • Supported by Science Park Graz
Supported by European Innovation Councilaws Austria Wirtschaftsservice

Spin-off from an EIC Transition (grant agreement #101058142). Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Innovation Council. The PureSurf FlexCo has received aws PreSeed funding from BMIMI.