Milestones & announcements
Funded projects, industrial collaborations, awards, and platform milestones from the Planck team.
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Top female leaders in Norway
Founder & CEO Maryam Ghadrdan was named one of Norway's 50 leading tech women 2026 by Abelia and ODA-Nettverk. Outside recognition of the work behind Planck: co-designing advanced materials and the systems they run in as a single problem.
Europe's top deep-tech policymakers heard Planck's case
At Decarbon Days 2026 in Cottbus, the EU's first Net Zero Valley, Planck was one of only five companies chosen to present to the people who shape and fund European deep tech, including EIC President Michiel Scheffer, at an event opened by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Cleantech Scandinavia roundtable on corporate-startup collaboration
At Cleantech Capital Day in Gothenburg, Maryam joined a roundtable on how large industrial players and deep-tech startups actually build together, and why venture-clienting models that suit plug-in technology can leave a gap for fundamental materials and chemistry.
Backed by EIT for commercialization
Selected for Rocket Up, the EU-backed market-expansion programme run by the EIT Community's Supernovas initiative: go-to-market strategy, mentoring, and a Demo Day at Slush in Helsinki, supporting Planck's route into new European markets.
Enova joins the institutions backing Planck
Norway's state enterprise for energy and climate technology joins Akershus County Council, Innovation Norway, the Research Council of Norway, Gassnova, and the EU, each backing a different part of the journey from materials research to industrial deployment.
Planck invited to help shape Norway's national space strategy
The second national strategy Planck has contributed to, after the quantum strategy. Our argument: treat space and energy as a single bet. The same materials that let an astronaut breathe can capture CO₂ and store hydrogen at home.
Planck named a Hello Tomorrow Deep Tech Pioneer
One of 950 startups selected from over 4,800 applications across 108 countries in the world's leading early-stage deep-tech competition: a global, third-party read on the depth of the science behind the platform.
Selected among the Nordics' and Baltics' top 25 cleantech companies
Chosen for the Nordic Cleantech Open Top 25 by Cleantech Scandinavia's international jury, placing Planck among the region's most investable cleantech innovators, in front of an international investor network.
The Planck approach
How we're different, in six ways: domain experts who use AI, full-stack optimization from material to techno-economics, manufacturability as a day-one constraint, physics-informed models, asset-light validation through partner labs, and a pipeline of paying clients.
Strengthening our position at the intersection of science, capital, and scale
Seth W. Snyder, Partner at the Clean Energy Venture Group, joins as advisor for the journey from deep-tech innovation to scalable impact, alongside Prof. Mike Zaworotko, a global leader in crystal engineering and advanced porous materials.
Planck expanded its network in the UAE
Maryam represented Planck at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and the World Future Energy Summit; several strategic investor and partnership conversations are progressing as a direct outcome.
EY Amplifier programme completed
Working with EY's consultants, Planck strengthened its financial model and investment readiness, an important step in preparing for the next stage of growth.
BEACON project kick-off
Launched on December 9, just as the Nobel Prize celebrated MOFs: a Moving Bed Temperature Swing Adsorption process powered by MOFs for scalable CO₂ capture, funded by the Research Council of Norway, with SINTEF Industry, NMBU, and ProfMOF.
CLIMIT-Demo project with Gassnova has started
Bottom-up materials design for next-generation CO₂ capture: the AI-guided discovery platform designs and optimizes adsorbents engineered at the molecular level, tailored to real industrial CO₂ streams, bridging computational discovery and industrial validation.
Invited by Business Finland to the Quantum Leap
Representing the AI-driven materials perspective at the roundtable on quantum computing infrastructures, alongside Finnish and Norwegian leaders across quantum technology, research, HPC, and public policy.
Planck's CEO contributed to an EU AI & cybersecurity report
Maryam contributed to “Cyber Resilience Act vs. EU AI Act: A Mapping Exercise” by AI & Partners, a structured analysis of how the two landmark Acts can align into a coherent framework for secure, trustworthy AI.
Selected for ACCEND: scaling deep-tech solutions across Europe
Into Cohort 1 of the EU-funded ACCEND Accelerator: 28 scale-ups moving from advanced development to real-world deployment, with access to testbeds, public-sector challenge owners, cross-border pilots, and capital-access support.
New ESA project awarded
The European Space Agency awarded Planck a project to advance next-generation oxygen storage for space missions: safer, more efficient technologies for space exploration, with promising applications on Earth as well.
Customer project on CO₂ capture completed
Delivered on time and in scope: AI-driven screening of advanced materials for the customer's flue-gas CO₂ capture process, compared across material families on their KPIs, with follow-on activities now being explored.
Planck pitched at ESA's Online Pitch Day
Following conversations on adsorbed oxygen storage for space, Planck pitched at ESA's Online Pitch Day for the FIRST! Simulation and Intelligence call, opening discussions with space-sector companies, investors, and startups.
2025 Visionary Award at the LLM Hackathon for Materials and Chemistry
Won with partners at the global competition of 1,000+ researchers, for Forja de Materia AI, a RAG-powered tool that turns scientific papers into structured, machine-readable datasets through natural-language queries.
Highlights of Oslo Innovation Week 2025
Invited to the official opening ceremony, presented at the Superconnectors Oslo event by EIT Manufacturing and OIW (with several investor introductions as the outcome), and joined Startuplab's Summit.
MOFs get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2025 prize went to Kitagawa, Robson, and Yaghi for metal-organic frameworks, the material family at the heart of Planck's platform. Our mission is exactly this: bringing Nobel-worthy materials out of the lab and into real-world systems.
We contributed to the national strategy for quantum technology
Consulted as subject-matter experts for Norway's National Quantum Technology Strategy, advocating quantum computing's role in materials design for energy, accessible test infrastructure, and a focus on Norway's existing strengths.
Come meet Maryam
An invitation to the Supernovas Investment Forum on September 17, where Maryam presented Planck's most recent milestones and engaged with world-class investors.
European Space Agency idea in advanced discussions
Advanced discussions with ESA on adsorbed oxygen storage tailored to space: safer, more compact, more efficient systems with the potential to enhance astronaut safety and enable longer, more ambitious missions.
EY programme kicking off
The EY Amplifier, tailored consulting support for startups focused on sustainability, kicked off, helping refine Planck's strategy and market outreach toward its climate-oriented goals.
Interview with Lux Research
Maryam gave an in-depth interview to Lux Research, the innovation-intelligence firm with a network of 300+ clients worldwide, which is writing a piece on Planck Technologies.
We keep developing our tool
A curated database of ~2,000 advanced materials (MOFs, COFs, and more) now drives CO₂ capture work, optimizing purity, recovery, energy, and productivity. Current focus: the impact of water vapour on optimal capture-system design.
Two project applications granted & new collaborators
Horizon Europe and Research Council of Norway applications both succeeded: about €6M to international consortia for bioenergy with CO₂ capture and storage (RCN) and hydrogen storage (Horizon Europe), with Planck commercializing the RCN outcome.
New relations: TUM Venture Labs, NVIDIA, and EY
Planck joined ChemSPACE (the TUM / UnternehmerTUM incubator with access to cutting-edge chemical labs), NVIDIA Inception, and the EY Amplifier: networks, compute, and consulting to fast-track the mission.
Planck has been in the spotlight
Presented at Fast Track Days 2025 in Oslo, connected with the European manufacturing ecosystem at EIT Manufacturing's InnoHive in Brussels, and featured in podcasts by Innovation Norway (Innopod), INAM, and Rooted in Change.
Recognized by EIT Manufacturing and UnternehmerTUM
Invited to the EIT Manufacturing Venture Building Program, organized with UnternehmerTUM, Europe's leading center for innovation and business creation: validation, and new doors for strategic partnerships and scaling across Europe.
Progressing on our technological development
Advanced computational methods speed up materials screening without compromising accuracy, while partners performance-test the most promising identified materials, including promising TRL 5 gas-storage results on one material, now moving forward together.
Planck's CEO semifinalist for HER Awards 2025
Maryam was named semifinalist for female tech founder of the year in Norway by HER, a development arena for growth, networking, and opportunities for women.
Building strong partner relationships
NDAs signed with MOF manufacturer framergy and hydrogen transporter Provaris Energy; a letter of intent from Enagás, the Spanish gas TSO; and TRL 5 development collaborations with NMBU, IFE, and SINTEF.
We got our first customer
Agreement reached with our first customer, a Schlumberger subsidiary, for a pre-feasibility study on CO₂ capture.
Planck's CEO pitched to Norway's Crown Prince
Dr. Maryam Ghadrdan pitched Planck's vision to H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon at an event arranged by Investinor and Innovation Norway, alongside policy-level discussions on building businesses in Norway.
Planck on Energy Valley's #TechThursday
Maryam spoke on the vital role of advanced materials in the future of energy: chemical and electrochemical storage for renewables, and Norway's potential to lead in the evolving energy landscape.
Battery Innovation Days
Planck joined the Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA) at its seventh General Assembly, one of 15 new members selected from 228 candidates through a voting process.
Pitching triumphs
Selected among 18 companies out of 306 for the quarterfinals of Norway's prestigious 100 Pitches 2023 competition, part of Oslo Innovation Week.
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