Find sustainable alternatives you can trust
Neil Carelse
“eco-friendly”
“organic”
“bio”
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Sustainable products are hard to find, compare and trust.
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sustainable claims in the EU are vague, misleading or unfounded.
Now banned in the EU since 27 September 2026.
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Sustaining isn’t enough.
We need to regenerate.
Degrading
Resource exploitation
Sustaining
Doing less harm
Regenerating
Healing soil, storing carbon, giving back
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Imagine one plant…
Source: European Commission
Grows in 5 months
Protects soil
Biodiversity
Stores carbon
Ideal rotation crop
Minimal pesticides
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…that becomes many products.
Food
Construction
Beauty
Bioplastics
Textiles
Packaging
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It’s…
Industrial Hemp.
Verified hemp alternatives.
Search.
Compare.
Switch.
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Scan.
Scan in the shop — or search at home
Six factors, trade-offs included
A verified supplier, local where possible
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1 · Search or scan
2 · Compare
3 · Switch
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Gründungsgarage switched & saved…
38 kg
less CO₂e
Graz → Vienna
16,500 L
less water
200
showers
€20
per T-shirt
€10 less than premium
organic cotton
Cotton
Hemp
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shape
ecological footprint
Smaller
VS
Price
Water
CO₂
End-of-life
Pesticides
Land
The more people search, the more there is to find.
Consumer need
hempfinder
Demand signal
Value chain
More hemp products
Match
No match → Open Need
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Industrial hemp is a fast-growing global market.
€6.6B
2025
actual
€7.7B
2026
estimate
€24.3B
2033
forecast
17.9%
expected growth per year, 2026–2033
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Free for buyers.
Industry pays for connections and insight.
TRANSACTIONS
Transact
A commission when we create a sale or sourcing deal.
5–10% per sale
VISIBILITY
Connect
Suppliers get found, verified and sent leads.
€49–299 / month
INTELLIGENCE
Signal
Demand data for brands, processors and farmers.
from €500 / month
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Foundation first.
The team grows on top.
AI Agent
Research & Insights
Neil
Strategy & Growth
Sophia
Chief Cheerleader
Julia
Product & Design
Savina
Sustainability & Impact
Advisory Board
Guidance & Expertise
Early — but real.
1st place · APPsolutely
3rd place · KAIT
First real switch
Gründungsgarage · Green Startup Summer
App & website in beta
3 confirmed suppliers
1,880
organisations mapped
288
in Austria
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suppliers
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interviews
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Three ways to help — pick your level.
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10
interviews
A 30-minute chat on how you choose.
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early adopters
Test the app, record your switches.
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suppliers
List products, answer Open Needs.
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Let’s connect.
We started with one plant that gives back. Now let’s make it easy to find, trust and choose.
EMAIL
hello@hempfinder.at
WEBSITE
www.hempfinder.at
Backup
Details for questions
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A 10-person beta will test the full buyer-to-supplier journey.
01 · Open
02 · Scan
03 · Compare
04 · Buy
05 · Record
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Hemp: multiple solutions in one crop.
HEMP
FLAX
KENAF
MISCANTHUS
Food
Textiles
Building materials
Carbon storage
Crop rotation
Strong
Partial
Limited
We size the market by who can pay us.
HEMP MARKET
€7 billion
REACHABLE
1,880 mapped
YEAR 1
≈ €52K
Context
European hemp market, low single-digit billions. Not our revenue.
Reach
1,880 organisations mapped, at least 1,055 in Europe, plus processors, manufacturers and agencies.
Year 1
About €52K from paying accounts.
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Year 1, built bottom-up.
30 paid suppliers
×
€600 a year
=
€18K
Connect subscriptions
60 product reviews
×
€150 each
=
€9K
Verification
€100K transactions
×
5% blended
=
€5K
Transact
2 projects
×
€10K each
=
€20K
Scoped projects
Year 1
≈ €52K
30 paid suppliers = about 10% of Austria’s 288 mapped organisations · Illustrative, not a forecast
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Our plan reaches about €730K in Year 3.
Year 1
€52K
upside €125K
Year 2
€260K
upside €600K
Year 3
€730K
upside €2.025m
Conservative plan
Strategy base case — upside if the gates are passed
Recurring share
35% → 68%
Illustrative assumptions, not a forecast
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