Unreasonable Impact World Forum 2021

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Unreasonable Impact is an innovative multi-year global partnership between Barclays and Unreasonable. The unique partnership provides a powerful ecosystem of support for growth-stage ventures at the leading edges of technology and impact while employing thousands worldwide.

Barclays and Unreasonable share a belief that high-growth ventures led by great entrepreneurs are best positioned to tackle the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. Furthermore, Barclays and Unreasonable believe that innovative entrepreneurial solutions are best primed for scale when supported by a major corporation that can accelerate their growth. Thus, each program is designed to support growth-stage ventures solving some of our most pressing societal and environmental challenges by providing community, connection, and capital from a global pool of world-class mentors and industry specialists, including experts from across Barclays.

Unreasonable Impact consists of three annual virtual programs spanning ventures from across the UK & Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific. Now in the fifth year of the partnership, the global network consists of nearly 200 ventures that positively impact the lives of more than 250 million customers in more than 180 countries. Moving forward, the partnership will continue to support these highgrowth entrepreneurs as they boldly create the jobs of tomorrow.

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FUTURE OF ENERGY Y EA R 5

08 Celtic Renewables 10 Dandelion Energy 12 H2GO Power 14 Imprint Energy 16 Power Ledger 18 Smart Joules 20 Solstice 22 StormFisher Biogas 24 Twelve 26 Vivid Edge Y EA R 4

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Canopy Power Connected Energy Eco Wave Power Ecoppia Francis Propel Fuels Skyven Technologies

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FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE LIVING Y EA R 5

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Absolute Foods Aqua Development ATEC Avant Meats CLUBZERØ Dishcraft Robotics

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eggXYt Full Harvest Goodr Co. Goterra Greyparrot Houdini Sportswear Intello Labs ISCA Technologies JALA Kadalys ListenField Lucro Miyamoto International Mushlabs Natural Fiber Welding Oddbox Propelair Swedish Algae Factory TerViva Three Wheels United Urchinomics

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75F 80 Acres Farms Aeroseal allplants Deep Branch Biotechnology DeHaat ECOncrete Farmstand Frontier Markets Igor KITRO LoveTheWild

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MAEKO MycoTechnology Novihum Technologies Project Etopia Shiok Meats Sistema.bio Smarter Sorting Switch Automation The Jackfruit Company TIPA TRENDE Tridi Oasis Group TurtleTree

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ATKO IntegriCulture Provenance Sylvatex Zeigo

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Biohm gFlow+ Jumbotail Mobi-Air Modumetal MOVUS TreeZero Worn Again Technologies

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Celtic Renewables Dandelion Energy H2GO Power Imprint Energy Power Ledger Smart Joules Solstice StormFisher Biogas Twelve Vivid Edge

Canopy Power Connected Energy Eco Wave Power Ecoppia EnergyNest Francis Propel Fuels Skyven Technologies

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Celtic Renewables celtic-renewables.com

Celtic Renewables is commercialising a patented clean technology, which it developed and owns, that converts low value materials into high value solvents, using an innovative adaptation of a proven industrial process – ABE (Acetone, Butanol and Ethanol) Fermentation. The annual global demand for these bio-based solvents, which displace fossil-fuel equivalents, is millions of tonnes, and the uses of these solvents touch almost every aspect of everyday life, in sectors such as personal care, cosmetics, food, and industrial manufacturing. Globally, there are billions of tonnes of low-value biological materials, which are suitable for the Celtic Renewables process, giving the potential to completely displace fossil fuel equivalents in the future - a global imperative. The company’s mission is to be the world leader in ABE fermentation, as a global sustainable industry.

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Headquarters Edinburgh, Scotland

Sector Biotechnology

Countries of Operation United Kingdom

Entrepreneur Mark Simmers CEO

YEAR 5

Mark Simmers Mark is CEO of Celtic Renewables and has 30 years international experience as an entrepreneur and commercialisation specialist. He co-founded Celtic Renewables, leading its growth and securing significant early-stage investment for the development of its first manufacturing plant, as the springboard for the global roll-out of its patented technology. Mark has won numerous investment and business awards on behalf of Celtic Renewables.

He began his career with IMG London, commercialising the company’s global golf assets, prior to which he founded an event promotions company, and was former CEO of SnowsportGB. Mark is a graduate of the Saltire Foundation Entrepreneurial Programme at Babson College and completed his degree in Economics and Accounting from Bristol University. He is married with three children, and is a keen sportsman in his spare time.

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Dandelion Energy dandelionenergy.com

As fossil fuels continue to contaminate the planet, the demand for renewable energy technologies is more critical than ever. Home heating is second only to automobiles when it comes to air pollution and oil-burning furnaces consume more fossil fuels than diesel trucks. Dandelion Energy seeks to bring earthpowered heating to every home, with the goal of a carbon neutral future.

Dandelion Energy replaces homeowners’ existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a geothermal system. According to the US EPA, “geothermal heat pumps are the most energy-efficient, environmentally clean, and costeffective systems for heating and cooling.” Using powerful heat pumps and safe, underground pipes, Dandelion Energy’s geothermal system moves heat between the earth and the home drastically reducing costs for consumers and the environment.

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Headquarters Mount Kisco, NY, USA

Sector Clean Energy Geothermal

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Kathy Hannun Co-Founder & President

Kathy Hannun Kathy Hannun is Co-Founder and President of Dandelion Energy, the largest home geothermal company in the US. Prior to this, Kathy was a Rapid Evaluator at X, Alphabet’s innovation lab, where she founded Dandelion as an X project and then launched into an independent startup in May 2017. Dandelion has since raised $35MM in funding from top VCs, set a new standard for geothermal quality and cost effectiveness, and enabled homeowners to avoid over 100,000 tons and counting, of carbon dioxide emissions. Kathy graduated from Stanford, has been recognized as a TED Fellow, one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, one of MIT Tech Review’s ‘35 Innovators Under 35’ and the US Department of Energy has recognized her contributions with a C3E Award.

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H2GO Power h2gopower.com

H2GO Power is a pioneering clean tech company, enabling clean, reliable and scalable energy storage for a wide range of commercial, industrial and residential applications, including where grid-based energy is hard to achieve, unreliable, or uses considerable quantities of fossil fuel. H2GO Power’s technology enables them to develop and sell hydrogen energy storage systems for UAVs/Drones and “Plug & Play” stationary power units at large scale. Safe, solidstate proprietary technology eliminates the need for pressurizing hydrogen and unlocks significant commercial opportunities. With low pressure storage removing safety concerns of compressed hydrogen use, H2GO Power’s portable applications enable lightweight and clean energy storage. This innovative technology has a lifetime cycle three times longer, and storage capacity two times higher than typical Lithium-ion batteries, resulting in 100+ megatons of CO2 savings yearly.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Energy Storage

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur United Kingdom Enass Abo-Hamed Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Enass Abo-Hamed Enass Abo-Hamed is the Co-Founder and CEO at H2GO Power, an award winning spin-out company from the University of Cambridge, developing energy storage technologies. Enass completed her PhD at Cambridge University, where she also was a postdoctoral fellow and elected Cambridge University Energy Champion. She is currently a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow and a technology expert consultant to European Commission (REA). Enass has 11 years of research and business experience in hydrogen production and storage, catalysis, renewable energy and energy storage. She is passionate about climate entrepreneurship and clean energy technology policy, often giving keynotes and participating in high impact discussions on clean energy, energy security and women entrepreneurship in tech.

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Imprint Energy imprintenergy.com

Imprint Energy has developed a rechargeable zinc battery to power the next generation of electronics, including billions of IoT devices, sensors, and wearables. The company has developed a green, stable, safe, and non-toxic zinc battery chemistry that can be produced with standard commercial print equipment. Imprint’s batteries are thinner than two sheets of paper and have a higher power density than other alternatives. The batteries also provide a new way to manufacture integrated devices that is more environmentally friendly and low-cost. Imprint Energy is providing a safe, disposable, and label-like power source for logistics smart tags, data loggers, and medical patches, and is making inroads to becoming a defacto green battery chemistry alternative as more product designers and customers demand safer and more sustainable electronic products.

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Headquarters Alameda, CA, USA

Sector Energy Storage

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Christine Ho Co-Founder & CEO

Christine Ho Dr. Christine Ho is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imprint Energy. She has a Ph.D in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and was the primary inventor of ZincPoly, the safe, high performance, printed zinc battery that Imprint Energy is commercializing. Christine has been recognized for her leadership and innovation, including the MIT Technology Review’s Innovators under 35, Business Insider’s 21 Emerging Leaders Transforming the Future of Clean Energy, and the 2019 Class of Young Global Leaders. Imprint Energy has received multiple best product and innovation awards, including 50 Smartest Companies and the Global Cleantech 100.

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Power Ledger powerledger.io

The shift towards renewables brings increasing uncertainty to the grid. So, as more solar and wind sources come on the grid, the grid itself needs to be reconfigured from a centralised system to a distributed one. Power Ledger’s [PL] technology - the operating system for new energy markets - enables households, organizations, and the grid itself to track, trace and trade energy, flexibility services, and environmental commodities in real-time. This is helping to create a flexible power system that is both resilient and stable in the coming years. With a team of some of the world’s leading energy and blockchain experts, PL continues to challenge itself to create a world powered by renewable energy.

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Headquarters Perth, Australia

Sector Blockchain

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur Australia, Austria, France, Jemma Green India, Japan, Malaysia, Co-Founder & Thailand, US Executive Chairman

Jemma Green Whilst at JP Morgan, Jemma witnessed the explosion in exotic and hybrid equity derivatives, which were bringing in $700 million profit annually for the bank. This scalability challenge demanded an automated systems response, which Jemma oversaw. Jemma subsequently got involved with setting up the new Global Environmental Risk function for the bank, which launched in 2007. During that time, she also completed two post-grad diplomas in sustainability and returned to Perth in 2013 to complete her PhD in electricity market disruption at Curtin University. This PhD was in effect an embryonic Power Ledger project and she and her co-founders set up the new venture on a commercial footing. Since then, Jemma has overseen the development of numerous software projects that integrate blockchain technology with transactive and market layers. Clients have included Ekwateur in France, M-RETS in the USA, 12MW Thailand TDED.

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Smart Joules smartjoules.in

In a difficult economic environment, businesses must maintain their output and quality at the highest levels, even when there is pressure to keep operating and capital costs as low as possible. A large cost center is utilities like cooling, heating, steam and compressed air, which require frequent repairs and replacements and consume large amounts of energy. Smart Joules enables massive cuts in these energy costs for businesses by improving overall design of their utilities, replacing aging energy-intensive equipment with best-in-class energy efficient equipment, and deploying their DeJoule IOT technology platform to track and control equipment and optimize overall performance in real-time using data. Businesses access these savings and gain recognition for their green initiatives under Smart Joules’ national award winning JoulePAYS (Pay-As-You-Save) CapEx-free business model.

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Headquarters New Delhi, India

Sector Energy Conversion

Countries of Operation India

Entrepreneur Arjun Gupta Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Arjun Gupta Arjun is on a mission to make India the world’s most energy efficient country by 2030, as the Founder and CEO of Smart Joules. Arjun also contributes to nurturing the efficiency industry as a Board member of AEEE and the larger Indian cleantech startup ecosystem as a Founding Director of The Sustainability Mafia. He has won recognition from the Prime Minister’s Office and fellowships from Echoing Green, Packard Foundation and TATA Trusts. Arjun has a Master’s degree from MIT and Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley. He is excited by innovation at the intersection of disciplines, tracking apes in jungles, and living an adventurous life full of experimentation and discovery.

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Solstice solstice.us

Nearly 80% of American households are unable to install rooftop solar. The reasons for their exclusion vary, from the eligibility of the individual rooftop, to homeownership status, to access to financing. Solstice was founded on the belief that every household can be powered by affordable renewable energy, finding community solar to be the answer. They educate and connect communities to local solar gardens, create financial innovations that expand access to all Americans, and provide a seamless digital platform for customer management. Their innovative model allows households to subscribe to a local solar farm without installations or upfront costs and see savings of approximately 10% on their electric bill. With over 2,000 customers, Solstice is bringing more affordable, clean energy for a greener future for all.

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Headquarters Cambridge, MA, USA

Sector Clean Energy Solar

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Sandhya Murali Co-Founder & COO

YEAR 5

Sandhya Murali Sandhya Murali is a Co-Founder of Solstice, an award-winning social enterprise dedicated to expanding access to clean energy to all Americans.

She currently serves as COO and manages all internal operations. Prior to founding Solstice, Sandhya worked at Barclays’ investment banking division in New York and London, advising and executing public equity transactions for Technology, Media and Telecom companies. She was also deeply involved in Barclays’ philanthropy work with Endeavor, Women’s World Banking, and Barclays’ Social Innovation Fund. During graduate school, Sandhya worked at Buen Power Peru, a for-profit social enterprise that distributes solar lamps and water heaters to off-grid communities in Peru. Sandhya holds a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she received the Sustainability Certificate.

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StormFisher Biogas stormfisher.com

StormFisher develops and operates facilities that recycle and repurpose organic waste, energy and water in an environmentally and economically sustainable manner. Using their operational expertise, they focus on wasteto-value and power-to-gas projects. Partnering with a variety of institutions such as municipalities, investors, and technology providers, StormFisher manages and operates projects after development, which provide the incentive to build quality facilities that perform as promised. Currently operating the largest private organic waste-to-energy biogas facility in North America, along with six other facilities, StormFisher seeks to lead society into a low carbon future one facility at a time. As both the developer and the operator, they are committed to bringing commercial and technical rigor to their projects, which aim to deliver long term value to people and planet.

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Headquarters London, Ontario, Canada

Sector Biotechnology & Energy

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation Canada, Mexico, United States

Entrepreneur Brandon Moffatt Founder & VP, Development

Brandon Moffatt Brandon Moffatt is the Founder & VP – Development for StormFisher. He has been in the waste to energy and value added product space for the past 15 years. He owns and operates a large scale anaerobic digestion facility in London, ON and has used his entrepreneurial and results-oriented approach to successfully identify business opportunities and execute these types of critical projects. He has taken an active role in policy and advocacy as the industry has moved forward and used his skills to engage stakeholders, creatively develop projects from the business development, planning, estimating, negotiating, budgeting, and procurement phases to direct client liaison and project oversight. He is a Professional Engineer with a degree from the University of Waterloo and also holds an MBA.

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Twelve twelve.co

We’re Twelve, a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era. Our breakthrough technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products. We call it carbon transformation. Reinventing what it means to be a chemical company, we’re on a mission to create a climate positive world and a fossil free future. Carbon isn’t just the building block of life, it’s the building block of the chemicals, materials and fuels that make up our modern world and power innovation. From the spring in our running shoes to our favorite pair of sunglasses, to building materials, electric car parts and fuels, carbon makes it possible. The problem is we get this carbon today from fossil fuels in the form of petrochemicals, which creates CO2 emissions and accelerates climate change.

Carbon transformation fundamentally changes this paradigm by sourcing carbon from CO2 instead of fossil fuels. By replacing the fossil carbon in critical chemicals with renewable carbon from CO2, we can eliminate emissions from thousands of essential products and set a new standard for how things get made in the climate era.

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Headquarters Berkeley, CA, USA

Sector Clean Energy CO2

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur Germany, Nicholas Flanders United States Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Nicholas Flanders Nicholas Flanders is co-founder and CEO of Twelve, a new kind of chemical company built for the climate era that is making everyday products from air, not oil. He has dedicated his career to uncovering and developing energy innovations that help to better our environment and address the climate crisis. Before launching Twelve he served as COO of Levo, a venture-backed technology startup, and was a business analyst in McKinsey’s Cleantech practice where he co-authored groundbreaking studies of the global energy system. He graduated with distinction from Cornell University with a degree in mathematics. Nicholas was selected as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for 2016 and is a 2016 Echoing Green climate fellow. He holds a M.S. in engineering and MBA from Stanford University.

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Vivid Edge vividedge.ie

Vivid Edge is an energy innovator, empowering large organisations to increase their energy efficiency with zero out of pocket cost. Their pioneering “Energy Efficiency Service” model for large multinationals taps into wasted energy to fund energy upgrades, reducing energy consumption by 71% to date. Vivid Edge addresses sub-optimal performance in energy infrastructure such as heating, cooling, lighting and control systems. Their in-house engineering, risk and finance expertise enables them to execute and accelerate energy efficiency projects for a sustainable difference. By working with their customer’s chosen suppliers, Vivid Edge delivers energy efficiency to large multinationals at scale, conducting impartial reviews of technical solutions, chosen equipment and supplier promises. Vivid Edge’s service model removes the barriers of complexity and economics that often prevent businesses from implementing long-term energy efficiency projects. Backed by institutional energy efficiency funds, Vivid Edge can support and scale projects globally.

With Vivid Edge, more is possible!

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Headquarters Dublin, Ireland

Sector Sustainable Infrastructure

Countries of Operation Ireland

Entrepreneur Tracy O’Rourke Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Tracy O’Rourke Tracy is Founder and CEO of Vivid Edge, helping large multinationals reduce carbon emissions with zero out-of-pocket costs. Following a corporate career in financial services, Tracy wanted to build a commercial business with social impact. She has led a dedicated team from concept to market validation, securing a multimillion-euro revenue stream, a €30m+ project funding facility, and an exciting sales pipeline. Vivid Edge is a multi-awardwinning business with Tracy being named among others, Top 100 Woman in Social Enterprise 2021, and a Fellow of the Cartier International Women’s Initiative, a global award for female impact entrepreneurs. Her ambition is to change the way energy efficiency is delivered globally. She believes climate action targets are achievable with a different way of thinking.

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Canopy Power canopypower.com

Canopy Power designs, builds, and finances optimized renewable energy microgrid solutions for businesses and communities who are dependent on diesel power generation and weak grids. These remote and island-based customers in SE Asia and the Pacific often do not have access to the main electrical grid or are entirely dependent on intermittent energy supplies.

From tourism to mining and fishery industries, Canopy Power provides turnkey solutions along with system design, sourcing, construction, and project financing to make electricity generation cleaner and cheaper for their customers. Canopy Power seeks to empower remote customers in their energy transition and free them from the price and environmental volatility of the fossil fuel industry. Their mission to provide people with access to more reliable and cleaner electricity, improves lives and boosts business profitability, while minimizing environmental harm.

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Headquarters Singapore

Sector Clean Energy

Countries of Operation Singapore and 7 countries

Entrepreneur Sujay Malve CEO

YEAR 4

Sujay Malve Sujay Malve is the Co-Founder and CEO of Canopy Power, a renewable energy microgrid solution, offering power to remote and island-based businesses and communities in SE Asia and the Pacific who have limited or no access to the main grid. Sujay spent 6 years at various wind energy companies in the midwest of the United States, both in supply chain and program management. Post his MBA, Sujay spent 2 years in management consulting (energy practice) in the Middle East before moving to Singapore to work for a top-tier solar panel manufacturer as Head of Business Development. He has substantial expertise in strategy, finance, and operations as well as in leading fast paced, multi-cultural teams.

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Connected Energy c-e-int.com

Connected Energy has developed its E-STOR technology to enable low-cost, second life electric vehicle (EV) batteries to be deployed as commercially viable stationary energy storage systems. Its battery-agnostic control platform can be used to control any EV battery. End users benefit from reduced energy costs, new or increased revenue streams, access to greater electricity capacity and improved resilience of supply. Working with strategic investors Engie, Sumitomo and Macquarie, Connected Energy is also developing new business models for second life battery-based systems, and is building a project pipeline to capitalise on the ramp-up of battery availability.

As a key link in the future electric vehicle value chain, Connected Energy has formed partnerships with EV manufacturers, energy utilities and battery recyclers to capitalise on its market-leading position.

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Headquarters Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Sector Energy Storage

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur Belgium, Germany, Matthew Lumsden Netherlands, UK Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Matthew Lumsden Matthew Lumsden is the Founder and CEO of Connected Energy. He began his journey into the world of renewable energy and cleantech in 2000, leading the growth and ultimate sale of energy consultancy TNEI, to Petrofac in 2010. On exiting TNEI, Matthew spun out Future Transport Systems, an electric vehicle and charging infrastructure-related consultancy. After delivering several EV and EV charging infrastructure projects, Matthew identified the potential to develop stationary energy storage systems utilising second-life EV batteries. Following a series of pilot projects to develop and prove the technology, Matthew founded Connected Energy to commercialise the tech and supporting services. Since founding Connected Energy, Matthew has secured investment from Macquarie, Engie and Sumitomo with the aim of rapidly expanding the business in the UK and internationally.

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Eco Wave Power ecowavepower.com

Eco Wave Power is a leading onshore wave energy technology company that has developed a patented, smart and cost-efficient system for turning ocean and sea waves into green electricity. Eco Wave Power’s mission is to assist in the fight against climate change by enabling commercial power production from sea and ocean waves. The company is pioneering in this sector, operating the only grid-connected wave energy array in the world. It is operational under a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), and has a substantial number of projects in its pipeline. EWP has been the recipient of a number of recognitions and accolades, including the “Climate Action Award”, which it received during COP25. EWP is the first Israeli Company to ever go public on Nasdaq Stockholm.

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Headquarters Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Sector Clean Energy

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur China, Gibraltar, Inna Braverman Israel, Mexico Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Inna Braverman Inna Braverman is the Founder of Eco Wave Power. Under her leadership the company installed its first grid-connected wave energy array, secured a significant projects pipeline of 254MW, and was listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

She was recognized by Wired Magazine as one of the “Females Changing the World”, by Fast Company as one of the world’s “Most Creative People in Business for 2020” and is the winner of the United Nations “Global Climate Action Award”. For Inna, clean electricity is a very personal journey, as she was born two weeks after the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster and suffered respiratory arrest due to the pollution in the region. She got a second chance in life and decided to devote it to the development of a clean and safe method of electricity production.

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Ecoppia ecoppia.com

With over 16GW of signed agreements, Ecoppia (TASE: ECPA) is a pioneer and world leader in robotic solutions for photovoltaic solar. Ecoppia’s cloudbased, water-free, autonomous robotic systems remove dust from solar panels on a daily basis leveraging sophisticated technology and advanced Business Intelligence capabilities. Remotely managed and controlled, the Ecoppia platform allows solar sites to maintain peak performance with minimal costs and human intervention. Ecoppia’s proprietary algorithms and robotic solutions make day-to-day O&M at solar sites safer, more efficient, and more reliable.

Publicly held and backed by prominent international investment funds, Ecoppia works with the largest energy companies across the globe, cleaning millions of solar panels every day. For more information, visit ecoppia.com.

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Headquarters Herzliya, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Sector Resource Efficiency

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Chile, India, Israel, Mexico, US

Entrepreneur Eran Meller Co-Founder & Chairman

Eran Meller Eran Meller is the Co-Founder of Ecoppia, a pioneer in automation and robotics for large-scale solar panel cleaning. Prior to this, Eran was the CFO of Telmap (acquired by Intel), the CFO of X-Tip (acquired by DentSply International), the CFO of Info-X (acquired by 3M) and the CFO & COO of MTI Precision Products (sold in a leveraged buyout). Previously, Eran worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private arm of the World Bank Group, and was responsible for a portfolio of over $100M in Ghana, Nigeria, Malawi and Zambia. Eran holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Masters in Economic Policy Management from the Columbia School of International Affairs, and a B.A in Economics and Management from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

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Francis francissolar.com

Francis Renewable Energy (FRE) is a renewable energy company offering solar, battery and EV infrastructure solutions to state and tribal governments, municipalities, IOUs, electric cooperatives, and residential, commercial and industrial customers. FRE designs, constructs, owns, manages, and operates these systems on behalf of its customers. Their chargers are compatible with nearly every EV available today, including Tesla. FRE is currently developing the first comprehensive, statewide EV network in the country, in Oklahoma. When completed in 2019, every 50 miles of Oklahoma will have a fast-charging station operating under the “Francis EV Network.” FRE is currently developing fast charging EV projects in five states across the United States. In the future, all of the charging stations in the Francis EV Network will be powered by renewable energies. FRE’s core mission is enabling customers to lower their energy bills as well as their carbon footprint.

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Headquarters Tulsa, OK, USA

Sector Clean Energy

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur David Jankowsky Founder & President

YEAR 4

David Jankowsky David Jankowsky is the Founder and President of Francis Renewable Energy, LLC (FRE), a renewable energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

FRE designs, installs, owns, operates and maintains fast charging EV infrastructure, solar and battery storage projects, as well as other renewable technologies. Prior to founding the company, David was Vice President of International Business Development for SunEdison, Inc. from 2010 to 2015.

There, David was responsible for all aspects of corporate development in the Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa regions. Before SunEdison, David was an energy project finance attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP in Washington, DC, where he closed over $5B of international and domestic project finance transactions in the renewable energy, liquefied natural gas, and conventional power markets. David has an undergraduate degree from Middlebury College in Vermont, where he graduated with honors, and a juris doctorate degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he served on the Georgetown Law Review.

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Propel Fuels propelfuels.com

Founded in 2004, Propel Fuels connects consumers to better fuels. With Flex Fuel and advanced diesel locations across California, Propel provides new fuel choices that perform better, deliver higher value, and support healthier communities. The company has pioneered clean fuel retail, leading the industry with unparalleled innovation in retail technology and customer experience. Propel has also developed CleanDrive®, the nation’s first integrated carbon emission reduction tracking platform to quantify impact and accelerate market adoption of low carbon fuels. Propel seeks to inform and empower public policy by quantifying what it learns as a leading downstream provider of the best low carbon options available. Propel is not only a leader in clean fuel; it is also a brand that inspires the loyalty of die-hard fans. In a recent poll with their customers, Propel found that about 65 percent were interested in electric vehicles (EV) today, and 92 percent of these would want to charge at Propel EV stations. The Propel brand is a channel for delivering new technologies and accelerating the transition to an equitable, zero-carbon future.

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Headquarters Sacramento, CA, USA

Sector Transportation

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Koichi Kurisu COO

YEAR 4

Koichi Kurisu Koichi Kurisu believes regulated markets are the greatest force for good ever created by mankind, and that innovation is the most promising means to extend their gains and address deficiencies. Missteps, dead ends, and sidebars aside, Koichi’s career has focused on innovation. He’s worked in film, in tech, and in the last 20 years, at the base of the industrial pyramid in cleantech — from construction, mining and packaging to transportation fuels. Innovation in these traditionally conservative industries has been hard, but with the support of better data, stronger stories, and inspired investors, the best clean technologies are getting funded and scaling to meet enormous demand. Koichi has a wide variety of experience, ranging from branding, contract manufacturing, and corporate finance to green building, intellectual property strategy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and supply chain management.

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Skyven Technologies skyven.co

Industrial process heat is the last bastion of fossil fuels. It accounts for 20 percent of all fuel burned on Earth and is nearly devoid of clean alternatives. Skyven Technologies is overcoming this carbon stronghold by turning industrial plants into their own heat sources. The company’s Thermal REinjection™ solution captures high-value, low-temperature heat rejected from process equipment such as boilers and dryers and reinjects it back into the facility to displace fossil fuels. Rather than charging for the tech, Skyven bills for the clean heat it produces at rates lower than the cost of fuel. Customers save money and reduce emissions with zero capital outlay. Once the plant is as efficient as possible, Skyven goes a step further. Their Intelligent Mirror Array (IMA™) technology captures heat from the sun, raises its effective temperature (up to 400 degrees F), and injects it into the plant to further displace fossil fuels. Recognition for their work includes the 76West $1M Grand Prize as well as awards from the National Science Foundation.

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Headquarters Tulsa, OK, USA

Sector Clean Energy

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Arun Gupta Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Arun Gupta Dr. Arun Gupta is the Founder and CEO of Skyven Technologies, a company decarbonizing the industrial sector with clean, emissions-free solutions for thermal energy. From building prototypes in his garage to winning multimillion-dollar contracts with some of the world’s largest companies, Arun has pioneered both the technology and business of clean thermal energy.

Prior to founding Skyven in 2013, Arun was a lead design engineer for the Texas Instruments Digital Light Products (DLP) group, where his work served as the foundation for one of the most innovative product development programs being pursued by one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies. Arun holds a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Dallas in the field of micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) engineering.

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Future of Sustainable Living Absolute Foods Aqua Development ATEC Avant Meats CLUBZERØ Dishcraft Robotics eggXYt Full Harvest Goodr Co. Goterra Greyparrot Houdini Sportswear Intello Labs ISCA Technologies Y EA R

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JALA Kadalys ListenField Lucro Miyamoto International Mushlabs Natural Fiber Welding Oddbox Propelair Swedish Algae Factory TerViva Three Wheels United Urchinomics

75F 80 Acres Farms Aeroseal allplants Deep Branch Biotechnology DeHaat ECOncrete Farmstand Frontier Markets Igor KITRO LoveTheWild MAEKO 4

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MycoTechnology Novihum Technologies Project Etopia Shiok Meats Sistema.bio Smarter Sorting Switch Automation The Jackfruit Company TIPA TRENDE Tridi Oasis Group TurtleTree

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Absolute Foods absolutefoods.in

Absolute Foods is on a mission to create a healthier, cleaner, and abundant human future. Developed by a team of the world’s leading plant and data scientists, Absolute Foods’ research has allowed optimal harvesting parameters throughout a season, leading to pesticide-free, higher-quality produce year-round. Their digital platform is an AI-driven operating system, enabling farmers to grow crops without using synthetic enzymes and GMOs. Working with over 8,000 farmers across 25,000 acres, Absolute Foods’ platform can identify over 63 crop variants and ideal harvesting environments. Absolute Foods has championed yield, taste, purity, and nutrition, providing farmers with the knowledge-base to drastically lower percentages of the resources used in traditional farms. Expanding throughout India and the MENA region, Absolute Foods is leading the way in sustainable agricultural practices through AI. 44

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Headquarters New Delhi, India

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation India, Kuwait, UAE

Entrepreneur Agam Khare Founder & CEO

ASIA PACIFIC

About YEAR 5

Agam Khare Agam is the Founder and CEO at Absolute Foods, a global plant bioscience and decision farming company. Prior to this, Agam ran India’s leading Industrial Robotics & Factory Automation company, working across various sectors, such as food, beverage, pharma, auto, oil, gas, steel and cement. Between 2010 and 2012, Agam worked very closely with the 11th President of India and worldrenowned scientist, the late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, to build moonshot projects to impact the grandest problems faced by humanity, as a part of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s Vision 2020 project.

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Aqua Development aqua-development.com

Aqua Development Ltd. (AD) is an innovative aquaculture company, producing some of the highest quality, organic shrimps using a “KAMI sys” technology. This technology lies at the intersection of aquatic biology and technology (symbiotic), mimicking the nature of actual aqua ecosystems to create living organisms, while maintaining their welfare and development. Incredibly safe and sustainable, AD currently utilizes its technology to work exclusively with shrimp farmers, building indoor farms for individual consumers as well. Utilizing their methodology and technology, farmers can produce high-quality organic shrimps with traceability from production to customers’ tables.

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Headquarters Seoul, South Korea

Sector Aquaculture & Fisheries

Countries of Operation South Korea

Entrepreneur Doohyun Lee Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Doohyun Lee Doohyun is the Co-Founder & CEO of Aqua Development, focusing on creating a new paradigm in aquaculture through a sustainable and eco-friendly culturing method, offering the best organic shrimp to the global market. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, Doohyun completed a BA and MBA degree from Johns Hopkins University in Mechanical Engineering. Doohyun worked for a power plant design firm and gained extensive knowledge in designing plants. After returning to Korea, Doohyun joined Seyeong NDC, leading a team of 40 and managing a budget of close to $10M+. In 2014, after reading a book called “Don’t go to Harvard University, Go to Beijing University” Doohyun started his journey in China, gaining valuable experience in sales, marketing, and business development from two European consulting companies in Shanghai.

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ATEC atecbio.com

Clean cooking is the world’s biggest solvable problem and ATEC is on a mission to ensure everyone has access to safe and clean cooking. ATEC is the global leader in cost-effective smart cookstove technology for Base of the Pyramid (BoP) households. The company produces, sells and distributes patented biodigester systems for small-scale farmers globally. A joint venture between Engineers Without Borders and Live & Learn, it has installed over 1,000 systems since its launch and is now expanding globally to a market of over 205 million households.

Its two products include PayGo biogas for off-grid households, and PayGo electric induction cookstoves for on-grid households. ATEC first started with a biogas digester designed for the flood plains of Cambodia. In 2014, ATEC’s biodigester unit was named the inaugural winner of the Google Impact Challenge.

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Headquarters Canberra, Australia

Sector Food Technology

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, Ben Jeffreys Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New CEO Guinea, Thailand, Tuvalu, Vietnam

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Ben Jeffreys As ATEC’s CEO and strategic leader, Ben has an unwavering commitment to unlocking the potential in others. Ben brings over 14 years experience in managing teams across social enterprise, international development and corporate sectors.

Before his role at ATEC, Ben worked as National Development Manager at SSE, Product Development Manager at Oxfam, and Retail Sales Executive at Westfield.

In addition to his work at ATEC, Ben currently serves as a board member for Nexus for Development, a Phnom Penh-based organization committed to creating a more equitable and accessible carbon market that has the power to tackle poverty and climate change. Ben is an alumnus of Queensland University of Technology, where he earned a degree with honors in International Commerce & Marketing.

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Avant Meats avantmeats.com

Avant Meats is the first cultivated marine protein company in China. Its patentpending proprietary biotechnology platform produces animal-free fish proteins, in a cost-effective and fully traceable bioprocess directly from fish cells. Their technology enables businesses to produce meat and animal proteins without raising, catching, or slaughtering animals. Applications include but are not limited to food, skincare, and other functional uses. With the $3.9 million seed round funding secured in 2020, Avant aims to be a global leader in producing functional, safe, and sustainable cultivated marine products in a fully contained environment. Their cultivated fish products are more nutritious than conventionally produced fish, GMO-free, and pollutant-free.

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Headquarters Hong Kong

Sector Food Technology & Processing

Countries of Operation Hong Kong, Singapore

Entrepreneur Carrie Chan Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Carrie Chan Carrie is a seasoned business executive with a passion for the environment, particularly the impact of our food supply on the planet. Her expertise is in strategy, general management and implementation. She managed major real estate developments from ground zero to full operation. At Avant, Carrie provides the vision, guides the strategy and supervises the implementation of the business. An inquisitive and creative person at heart, Carrie aims to ensure that her actions make sense for both business and humans. She relishes opportunities to come up with innovative, pragmatic, balanced solutions and turn them into reality. This carries through in her work at Avant, where Carrie can channel her experience as a project leader into her passion for sustainability.

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CLUBZERØ cupclub.com

CLUBZERØ partners with businesses to make food and beverage on-the-go more sustainable, working together towards the ultimate goal of zero waste.

Today, their award-winning pioneering returnable packaging system serves customers across the EU and North America, including Just Eat Takeaway, NextGen Consortium brands (Starbucks, McDonald’s, Yum Brands, Nestle, Wendy’s) food service company Baxter Storey, Cushman & Wakefield and retailer, John Lewis & Partners. With a philosophy of making reusables free and rewarding to use, and safe and convenient to return, they’ve achieved a market leading return-rate of 95% versus the industry standard of 60%. Their aim is to build the next robust sustainable consumption model that sees their efforts roll out beyond food and beverage to other reusable product categories, such as Home and Body, through the scale of operations they have already built.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Product Lifecycle

Countries of Operation Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Safia Qureshi Founder & CEO

UK & EUROPE

About YEAR 5

Safia Qureshi Safia is an award-winning architect, innovation designer and educator. Safia’s work is recognised for its innovative use of design, digital exploration, and spatial interventions that challenge conventional notions of cities and the built environment. Her work encompasses product innovation, brand identity, system and service design, digital products and architecture. She has earned numerous awards, including top prize winner for CupClub from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO and Fast Company’s Best UX Design 2019. Safia has also been a guest contributor and speaker at the World Economic Forum on the subject of reuse and packaging, the Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, Royal College of Art, and London Metropolitan University. She is currently on the network of professional mentors for the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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Dishcraft Robotics dishcraft.com

Dishcraft uses the power of robotics, AI, and process innovation to create a greener and cleaner planet. Similar to a linen service, Dishcraft delivers quality, reusable dishes, containers, glasses and flatware each day with pricing comparable to, or less than, disposable wares and in-house dishwashing. Dirty dishes are picked up from Dishdrop collection bins and delivered to centralized dishwashing facilities powered by their robots, where automation ensures fast, reliable, and ultra-clean sanitized dishes. Dishcraft serves hotels, cafeterias, business, education, healthcare and restaurants. With increasing levels of disposables and mounting landfill volumes, bringing reusability to food services will have incredible environmental impact.

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Headquarters San Carlos, CA, USA

Sector AI, Food Technology

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Linda Pouliot Founder & CEO

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Linda Pouliot Linda Pouliot is the CEO and Founder of Dishcraft, which uses robotics and process innovation to revolutionize commercial dishwashing. A serial entrepreneur, Linda and her team of award-winning technologists are working on finding solutions to reduce waste and improve efficiency. Prior to this, Linda co-founded Neato Robotics with the idea that robots can perform household chores as effectively as humans - the company was acquired in 2017. Linda also served as COO of Adiri, Inc., where she worked on the internationally award-winning Adiri Natural Nurser. She has developed products for retail brands, including Disney, Banana Republic, and QVC and has been the recipient of multiple patents and international awards. She graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a BFA cum laude.

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eggXYt eggxyt.com

eggXYt is a biotech company focused on leveraging cutting edge techniques in molecular biology to forge a more sustainable food system. eggXYt’s flagship product is a chicken sexing solution for the egg industry, which aims to prevent the unnecessary culling of 4 billion male chicks every year, by providing a noninvasive, pre-incubation method for sex detection of chick embryos to be deployed in hatcheries worldwide. This solution has the potential to save 4 billion chicks every year, save the industry billions of dollars, and add 4 billion additional eggs to the global supply. Building off of its established platform for disruption in the livestock space, eggXYt has recently also expanded into the field of animal health with its new product: long-lasting and inheritable Avian Influenza Resistance in poultry.

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Headquarters Jerusalem, Israel

Sector Biotechnology

Countries of Operation Israel

Entrepreneur Yehuda Elram Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Yehuda Elram Yehuda Elram is the Co-Founder and CEO of eggXYt, a biotech company based in Israel. A lawyer by training, Yehuda was a partner at Gideon Koren & Co. law offices for many years, where he worked with entrepreneurs in biotech, hightech, real estate and social enterprises, before retiring from law to start eggXYt, which he co-founded with Prof. Dani Offen. As an entrepreneur, Yehuda is also currently a partner in Aroma Espresso bar (Israel’s fastest growing coffee chain), founded an online business, co-founded a national volunteer organization and co-directed an Interfaith institute. Yehuda graduated from Harvard Kennedy School, with an MPA focusing on leadership and entrepreneurship.

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Full Harvest fullharvest.com

Every year, 1/3 of all edible produce is wasted on farms in the US simply because of cosmetic or surplus reasons, contributing to food waste being the #1 contributor to climate change globally. Full Harvest is solving the massive food waste problem at the farm level with technology and innovation, by providing the industry’s first business-to-business marketplace for imperfect and surplus produce. The Full Harvest marketplace connects food & beverage brands and processors to farms online to buy discounted, excess produce. The company is creating value along the entire supply chain by lowering healthy food production costs, significantly reducing wasted food and resources, while also bringing farmers an additional revenue stream. A win-win-win for farmers, food companies, and the planet.

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Headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA

Sector Food Waste

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Christine Moseley Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Christine Moseley Christine Moseley, is the Founder and CEO of Full Harvest, the first B2B platform for surplus and imperfect produce, connecting large farms directly to food & beverage companies. A passionate entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the logistics and food industries at both Fortune 100 companies (Maersk, P&G) and high-growth food start-ups, Christine is currently solving the massive food waste problem at the farm level. Christine holds an MBA from Wharton Business School and a BA from the University of North CarolinaChapel Hill. She was recently recognized as Inc.’s Top 100 Female Founders and Fortune’s #2 Most Innovative Woman in Food & Drink.

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Goodr Co. goodr.co

Goodr is a sustainable food surplus management platform that leverages block-chain technology to reduce food waste and combat hunger.

Goodr facilitates the pickup and re-distribution of excess food from large enterprises and venues, to communities in need. Its secure ledger delivers real-time social and environmental impact reporting, enabling businesses to measure and manage their surplus food and organic waste, earn tax savings, and drastically reduce their carbon footprint. A triple-win situation, Goodr improves businesses’ bottom line through tax deductions, reduces greenhouse emissions from landfills, and uses edible food waste to reduce hunger. Goodr believes that hunger is not a scarcity issue, rather a logistical one, and seeks to revolutionize the food supply chain ecosystem for the 1 in 7 individuals who are food insecure.

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Headquarters Atlanta, GA, USA

Sector Food Waste

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe Founder & CEO

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Jasmine Crowe Jasmine Crowe is an award-winning social entrepreneur, TED Speaker and leader, working to make the world a better place. Jasmine’s goal is to foster change and create awareness about leading socio-economic issues, including poverty, food waste, and hunger. In 2017, after years of feeding people experiencing homelessness from her own kitchen, she launched Goodr, a sustainable waste management company that leverages technology to combat hunger and reduce food waste. She has been featured on CNBC, in Oprah Magazine, Inc., Forbes, Fast Co., NY Times, and was named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 100 influential female founders. Under her direction, Goodr has redirected nearly five million pounds of surplus food from restaurants, event centers, airports, and businesses to the millions of people who are food insecure.

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Goterra goterra.com.au

Goterra is a cutting edge infrastructure tech company, leading the industry in creating waste management ecosystems, using insects. Goterra imagined a world where automation and biology work in tandem to solve complex challenges like managing waste and creating feed security. They then built robots filled with maggots that process food waste, becoming the first company to deploy and commercialise such a solution, redefining waste management. But why? Existing waste management solutions struggle to adapt in a changing world where sustainability is a key focus, scaling waste disposal has become crucial, and the transportation of waste is more than 50% of the total waste management costs. Their soil produces both high protein stock feed and nutritious soil conditioner, and the modular unit allows the waste to be processed close to where it’s created without haulage and trucking costs.

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Headquarters Canberra, Australia

Sector Waste Treatment

Countries of Operation Australia

Entrepreneur Olympia Yarger Founder & CEO

ASIA PACIFIC

About YEAR 5

Olympia Yarger Olympia is the founder of Goterra, where she leads the vision of redefining waste management with biotechnology and eco-friendly infrastructure design. As a farmer-turned-founder, she is passionate about building products that allow businesses to meet a growing consumer demand for sustainable service provision and agile infrastructure capability. Goterra was founded to solve a protein shortage problem and has since become a cutting edge infrastructure technology company, leading the industry in creating waste management ecosystems, using insects.

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Greyparrot greyparrot.ai

Greyparrot provides waste analytics and new insights previously unavailable to waste managers, producers, and regulators to help increase recycling rates. The company’s end-to-end Waste Recognition Vision System is able to measure large waste flows in real-time. Waste composition information is key to help facilities increase recycling/ recovery rates, enhance product quality, and understand the carbon footprint of the products we consume and the waste we generate. Greyparrot is also collaborating with suppliers of hardware and machinery to embed AI cognitive intelligence into their solutions. Its goal is to increase transparency and automation in waste management to support the transition to a circular economy. Founded in 2019, Greyparrot was awarded “Hottest Climate Tech Startup 2020” by The Europas.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Waste Treatment Technology

Countries of Operation Italy, Japan, South Korea, United Kigdom

Entrepreneur Mikela Druckman Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Mikela Druckman Mikela is the Co-Founder and CEO of Greyparrot, a UK tech startup using AIbased computer vision to monitor and sort waste at scale. As a leader in early and growth-stage tech start-ups, Mikela’s role has been to coordinate and lead commercial, technical and product teams to deliver solutions that add value to customers. Previously, she was Chief Commercial Officer at Blippar, developing cutting edge computer vision and augmented reality products and partnering with global brands to deliver award-winning projects. She is a Global Future Council member at the World Economic Forum, providing thought leadership on emerging technologies including AI for the private and public sector. In 2018, Mikela was listed as “TopWomen50” in tech by WeAreTheCity. Mikela is passionate about gender equality, sustainable economic models, and deep technology.

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Houdini Sportswear houdinisportswear.com/en-us

Houdini is a band of scientists, artists, designers, and adventurers pushing the boundaries of how outdoor clothing is made. Together with their customers, Houdini is recycling, renting, repairing, and reusing their way to a new, sustainable outdoor industry. Since the early 90’s, Houdini started to evolve from a project among climbing partners into a company, with responsible business at its core. With the passion, determination, planning, and execution of mountaineers, Houdini took on the challenge of designing its business to become a force for good, with no compromises. The 25+ years of work since, has gained Houdini a global, leading position not only as the company setting new sustainability standards in its industry, but also as the blueprint for the future of business in terms of purpose, care, execution, and engagement.

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Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden

Sector Product Lifecycle

Countries of Operation Germany, Japan, Sweden, Thailand, United States

Entrepreneur Eva Karlsson CEO

UK & EUROPE

About YEAR 5

Eva Karlsson Eva Karlsson is the CEO of Houdini Sportswear, a progressive and rapidly growing Swedish outdoor brand and a trailblazer in corporate responsibility. Since 2001, Eva, together with a like-minded team, have been redesigning business to become a force for good – providing state-of-the-art circular products, offering product-as-aservice solutions and building a co-creative community for open-source innovation, sharing knowledge, and inspiring reconnection to nature. Rather than focusing on Houdini’s outstanding track record in sustainable development, Eva emphasizes the journey ahead and the untapped opportunities and abundant value in designing attractive and regenerative lifestyle solutions.

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Intello Labs intellolabs.com

Intello Labs (IL) uses artificial intelligence tools -- including computer vision and deep learning -- to build a platform for grading and quality monitoring of agricultural commodities. The image-based solution, delivered through a smartphone app, helps in bringing transparency and standardization to quality assessment, reducing value risk and wastage in the agriculture supply chains. Currently, food businesses (growers, traders, retailers, food service companies, exporters, etc) depend on manual inspections and sorting to ensure they are buying the right quality as per their specifications. A lack of digital quality control impacts the entire workflow of growers, retailers, and trade. IL aims to bring supply chain efficiencies and objective quality assessment of food commodities with their technology, improving their customer satisfaction and cutting down losses, reducing value risk and wastage in the agriculture supply chains.

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Headquarters Gurugram, India

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation India, Singapore, US

Entrepreneur Himani Shah Co-Founder & CFO

YEAR 5

Himani Shah Himani is a serial entrepreneur and strategic planning maven whose project management experience powers investor relations at Intello Labs. Rich experiences managing the framework of conglomerate businesses led Himani to co-found Intello Labs in 2016 to bring transparency to the agriculture supply chain. Focusing on market intelligence, project execution and strategic planning, Himani leads strategy at Intello Labs along with other support functions. An entrepreneur at heart, she delivers results to all stakeholders. Previously, Himani served as the Head of Corporate Planning & Strategy at PeopleStrong HR Services and co-founded Allied Nanotechnologies Universal. She is an alumna of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, where she earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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ISCA Technologies iscatech.com

ISCA is a green agtech company producing the next generation of environmentally sustainable insect controls. ISCA’s innovations harness the power of pheromones and other naturally occurring compounds to control problem insects by manipulating their behavior. Most notably, they can prevent harmful pests from mating to keep their numbers low, repel them away from crops, or attract them to killing agents placed away from the crop itself, reducing insecticide inputs by orders of magnitude.

All affect only the targeted species, leaving honey bees and other non-targeted wildlife unharmed, ISCA products biodegrade in the field without polluting the environment. After years of success with specialty crops, ISCA is now bringing its innovations to corn, soybean, and other major crops. ISCA is based in Riverside, California, and has subsidiaries in the USA, Brazil, Europe, and India.

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Headquarters Riverside, CA, USA

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur 10 countries Agenor Mafra-Neto President & CEO

YEAR 5

Agenor Mafra-Neto Dr. Agenor Mafra-Neto is the founder, president, and CEO of ISCA, which has developed eco-friendly controls for arthropod pests that destroy crops or spread human diseases. After growing up on his parents’ farms in Brazil, he studied biology and became fascinated with the power and potential of pheromones and other semiochemicals to control problem insects. His doctoral work resulted in groundbreaking discoveries about the flight patterns of moths lured by pheromones. He founded ISCA in 1996 to overcome the technical and cost barriers that previously limited the use of pheromones and other semiochemicals to control insects in agriculture. Under his leadership, ISCA has become a world leader in identifying, synthesizing, and effectively deploying these compounds.

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JALA jala.tech

JALA is transforming the shrimp industry by offering a vastly improved management system. JALA was founded by shrimp farmers that believe technology will scale up shrimp production in a sustainable way. Currently, the shrimp industry has several issues, including difficulty in predicting production, addressing poor farming practices, tracing the shrimp post production, and the long supply chain of logistics that ultimately creates a lower end product. Furthermore, there’s not enough data to create risk assessments, and farmers have a hard time getting financing. With datadriven farming in mind, JALA’s goal is to empower farmers to make decisions, based on actual data. JALA offers a one-stop digital solution for farmers, leveraging their farming practices to ensure profitability and sustainability. They combine IoT water monitoring and data-analytics systems to achieve precision farming, which has thus far increased shrimp yield by 26%.

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Headquarters Sleman, Indonesia

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation Indonesia

Entrepreneur Liris Maduningtyas Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Liris Maduningtyas Liris is the CEO and Co-Founder of JALA, an aquaculture tech company that empowers shrimp farmers in sustainable precision farming with IoT and a datadriven approach. After graduating in 2014 with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, Liris worked in oil and gas, joining Schlumberger as a wireline engineer. Jala is now helping more than 9,000 shrimp farmers. Having unpredictable yields is something they are solving with technology, and improving productivity and profitability is a key motivation for how passionate Liris is in this industry.

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Kadalys kadalys.com

Kadalys is the first eco-conscious Caribbean company, specializing in upcycling banana agri-waste into organic and patented actives that promote skin health and renewal. A company with a sense of purpose, Kadalys gives back to the local community and preserves nature. Kadalys was founded to create a caring, ecoconscious luxury beauty company based on the banana tree plant and the founder’s elevated commitment to her French West Indian heritage and the wider community.

Kadalys was an early adopter of the circular economy model, helping preserve the natural environment by upcycling agri-waste and developing new active ingredients that concentrate the banana tree’s precious molecules. Products are available on four continents through online and retail distribution channels.

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Headquarters Martinique

Sector Biotechnology

Countries of Operation 28 countries

Entrepreneur Shirley Billot Founder & CEO

UK & EUROPE

About YEAR 5

Shirley Billot Shirley is the Founder and CEO of Kadalys, an eco-conscious luxury beauty company, based on the banana tree plant. Born in Djibouti, to a Martiniquan mother and French father, Shirley grew up between East Africa and the Caribbean with a deep awareness of environmental and societal issues. Founded in 2012, Kadalys is the reflection of Shirley’s vision to create a company founded on three pillars: circular economy, green chemistry, and inclusive capitalism. This strong commitment led Shirley to be awarded the Knight of the Order of Merit In 2017, the second highest national order in France. She also won the Innovation French Overseas prize in 2018 and represented France at the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Alliance in 2019. She is a graduate of HEC Paris with an Executive Education in Strategic Business Unit Management.

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ListenField listenfield.com

Working primarily with governments and research institutions, ListenField collects and analyzes agricultural data, such as crop performance, climate resilience, and soil change, in order to stimulate more sustainable agricultural policies. Using sensors, satellites, and self-collected data, ListenField’s predictive analytic model enables both farmers and corporate clients to fully understand how these variables interact with one another for a specific crop. They aim to develop the capability to monitor and assess how key variables individually and collectively make plants grow, produce and reproduce – and do so remotely from anywhere in the world. The solutions derived from their models are aimed at achieving their goal of “Precision Agriculture”: to produce an abundance of high-quality crops in a way that saves on scarce resources, thereby minimizing costs, as well as unwanted impacts on the environment.

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YEAR 5

Headquarters Nagoya, Japan

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation India, Japan, Thailand, US, Vietnam

Entrepreneur Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun Co-Founder & CEO

Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun is the Co-Founder & CEO of ListenField, which provides an API platform for connecting field IoT and agronomic models and enables users to see the future of their farms. After earning a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Information Management from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) and a PhD in Computer Software Engineering from Chubu University, Rassarin got her start in sensor technology as a researcher.She and her team used sensor data for developing applications in various domains such as agriculture and disaster warning systems. Rassarin’s research was supported by the Japanese government to reform agricultural systems and inevitably formed the foundation for launching ListenField in 2017.

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Lucro lucro.in

Lucro is a recycling company that harnesses the possibilities of flexible plastic to produce high-quality, innovative, and recycled-content products. The company handles the entire waste value chain, from collection to recycling, as well as the manufacturing of final recycled products. As a leader in recycled plastic products, Lucro reuses plastic waste to remake products and close the loop, making plastic sustainable. Using their trademarked Plast-E-Cycle technology, Lucro converts the dirtiest plastic waste into recycled granules which are ultimately remade into recycled products at a cost advantage compared to virgin plastics. With 8 years of industry experience, Lucro is now one of the largest suppliers of recycled packaging and protective covers to manufacturers globally, aiming to popularize the recycling culture.

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Headquarters Mumbai, India

Sector Product Lifecycle

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation India

Entrepreneur Ujwal Desai Co-Founder & Managing Director

Ujwal Desai Ujwal began his career on a factory floor, improving its working environment by streamlining operations. He continued to work in various industries, from metal to hardware, to now plastics. In 2012, he started Lucro, which supplies plastic parts to the automotive industry alongside two other co-founders. Concerned about the amount of plastic in the environment, they began buy-back and recycling programs, applying the concept of the circular economy and turning plastic waste into valuable products to help counter the problem. Ujwal has a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. Outside of work, he is an avid sports enthusiast and loves spending time in the outdoors, which has further enlightened his passion for working on the plastic waste problem.

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Miyamoto International miyamotointernational.com

After a natural disaster, the environmental and societal damage is often unmitigated, especially for unprepared economies without the resources to safely and economically re-build. Miyamoto International is a global structural engineering and disaster risk reduction firm, providing resiliency expertise that sustains industries and safeguards communities around the world. They specialize in designing HighPerformance Earthquake Engineering solutions that reduce lifecycle costs and produce a positive net impact on a structure’s operation, and in turn, the community it serves. Miyamoto is committed to saving lives and having a lasting impact on local economies by training local engineers and contractors to build their structures, equipping them with the tools for future preparedness. Since the global pandemic, Miyamoto has expanded its expertise into the broader ecosystem of resiliency.

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Headquarters Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sector Sustainable Construction, Resiliency

Countries of Operation 245 countries

Entrepreneur Dr. Kit Miyamoto Global CEO

Dr. Kit Miyamoto Dr. Kit Miyamoto is the CEO of Miyamoto International, a structural engineering and disaster risk reduction firm with a mission to make the world a better, safer place.

Kit is a world-leading expert in disaster resiliency engineering, disaster response and reconstruction. He provides expert engineering and policy consultation in Mexico, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Haiti and is a chairman for the California Seismic Safety Commission. Kit holds graduate degrees from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and California State University. Kit has won the Engineering News Record’s “Global Best Project” award an unprecedented three consecutive times. Major media such as ABC, CNN, LA Times, NY Times and Rolling Stone have profiled him. He is featured in the “Designing for Disaster” exhibit at the National Building Museum.

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Mushlabs mushlabs.com

Mushlabs is a technology-driven company that produces food from edible mushroom mycelia. Their fermentation platform allows them to unlock the potential of an overlooked kingdom of life — fungi — as a sustainable food source.

Mushlabs is dedicated to building solutions that change the way we consume food, by producing food that is good to our senses, our bodies, and our planet.

In a natural ecosystem, nutrients are recycled. The waste products are upcycled by the decomposers in the soils. Fungi’s extensive mycelial network in the soil acts as a giant digestive system in forests, making fungi one of the most efficient decomposers on our planet. Through the power of biotechnology, Mushlabs brings efficient power to industrial levels, disrupting the food industry, while creating meaningful and lasting change to our food system through their fermentation platform. Mushlabs’ mission is to change the way people eat by producing tastier, healthier and more sustainable foods.

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Headquarters Berlin, Germany

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation Germany

Entrepreneur Mazen Rizk Founder & CEO

UK & EUROPE

About YEAR 5

Mazen Rizk Mazen is the Founder and CEO of Mushlabs, a Berlin-based biotech startup producing the next generation of sustainable foods from mushroom roots.

Mazen received a PhD in Microbial Biotechnology in 2014 from Technische Universität Hamburg. His passion for sustainability and impact-driven change has led him from conducting research on renewable energy, to working for a global food tech company, to founding Mushlabs and realizing his mission to rethink how people produce and consume food. In his spare time, Mazen enjoys music, playing the piano, and basketball.

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Natural Fiber Welding naturalfiberwelding.com

Natural Fiber Welding (NFW) seeks to unlock the power of plants and catalyze the new era of uncompromising textiles. Nothing is more abundant on planet Earth than plant matter, which is unrivaled in its ability to meet the needs of the world’s population. By leveraging the strength and abundance of plants, NFW provides the world with a sustainable and circular material supply chain that makes use of this renewable resource. From recycled cotton yarns to fabric made from rubber trees, NFW is transforming the soft-goods industry with their closed loop technology.

Their scalable fabrication platform works to charge humanity’s transition from petroleum-dependency and linear life-cycles to plant-based inherent circularity, creating a more sustainable future.

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Headquarters Peoria, IL, USA

Sector Countries of Operation Sustainable Textiles, United States Responsible Production

Entrepreneur Luke Haverhals Founder & CEO

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About YEAR 5

Luke Haverhals Luke Haverhals is the Founder and CEO of Natural Fiber Welding. An analytical chemist (PhD)/materials scientist and entrepreneur, Luke is focused on finding technological solutions for the circular economy. He is applying his extensive experience with natural materials, nanomaterials, manufacturing technologies and automation to produce circular, high performance materials for a wide variety of applications. Luke has a concurrent academic appointment as a research professor at Bradley University and has deep insights into academic research ecosystems, having also been a research faculty at the US Naval Academy. Luke is an NSF I-Corp graduate and NFW has received multiple sponsored research projects with the US Government.

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Oddbox oddbox.co.uk

Oddbox is the UK’s first fruit and vegetable box that fights food waste. Alongside their 70,000 strong community, Oddbox works closely with farmers directly, rescuing fresh, seasonal, surplus fruits and vegetables at risk of becoming food waste, in addition to saving CO2 and water. The company first launched in 2016, with two founders, Emilie & Deepak, packing produce in a small area in South-West London. Since then, Oddbox has grown across the UK with plans to scale across the continent. With the goal of enabling more people to live sustainably and actively fight food waste, Oddbox seeks to catalyze change by changing the mindsets of the consumers. Oddbox is a Certified B Corporation and will continue to work towards making a difference for the planet with each and every box.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Product Lifecycle

Countries of Operation United Kingdom

YEAR 5

Entrepreneur Emilie Vanpoperinghe Co-Founder & CEO

Emilie Vanpoperinghe Emilie is the Co-Founder & CEO of Oddbox, a sustainable fruit and vegetable box tackling food waste. She has over 15 years of project and team management experience at Fortune 500 companies (3M and BT) across the globe. Prior to this, Emilie was the Director of Finance & Operations for an international NGO set up by the Nike Foundation and worked in developing countries to empower adolescent girls to reach their potential. She also spent close to 10 years in finance in the corporate sector in France, India and the UK. Emilie is originally from northern France and has been in the UK for the past 10 years. Her grandparents were potato farmers and so she knows what it takes to grow fresh produce.

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Propelair propelair.com

Propelair saves the planet, one flush at a time. They are the UK designer and manufacturer of what they believe is the world’s lowest water-flush toilet -new technology, reinventing a sanitation system unchanged in over 200 years.

Engineered specifically for commercial, public and heavy footfall premises, the Propelair system connects conveniently to existing plumbing systems. It is also ideal for off grid premises where waste removal is costly.Replacing up to 9 litres (l) of water with 120l of air to propel just 1.5l of water per flush into existing drains, saving money and water in out-of-home washrooms, Propelair’s unique ‘close to flush’ design provides far greater hygiene too. The closed lid forms a seal to channel the air, reducing airborne germs including COVID-19, by 95%.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Waste Treatment

Countries of Operation South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom

Entrepreneur David Hollander CEO

YEAR 5

David Hollander David is CEO of Propelair, the UK clean tech start-up designer and manufacturer of the world’s lowest water-flush toilet, backed by Investec and Earth Capital. Prior to this, David was the MD of Dyson UK & Ireland, where he led the turnaround of the territory and has also served as the CEO of Aqualisa, the shower company. David loves selling great engineering, and is inspired by technology which saves water, money and improves hygiene. David is also Chair of MYCS, a fast-growing €40m European eCommerce retailer of customised furniture; Chair of Motocaddy Golf, the £30m electric trolley business backed by Ethos Partners; a sometime golfer, a follower of rugby and football, father, husband, son, and until recently, the Chair of the UK’s leading independent boys’ prep school.

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Swedish Algae Factory swedishalgaefactory.com

Swedish Algae Factory extracts a material from an algae group called diatoms, which is naturally designed for efficient light manipulation, blockage of UV light and uptake, and the release and blocking of chemical substances. This uniquely structured mesoporous silica material is branded Algica. Today, Algica is sold as a certified multi-functional organic (COSMOS & ECOCERT) ingredient in the personal care Industry. It is moisturizing, cleansing, rheology modifying, anti-polluting, and SPF boosting and replaces ingredients that are bad for our ecosystems and health. Swedish Algae Factory seeks to disrupt the advanced materials industry and transform the way the industry views organic material.

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Headquarters Gothenburg, Sweden

Sector Environmental Technology

YEAR 5

Countries of Operation Australia, Denmark, Finland, South Korea, Sweden, US

Entrepreneur Sofie Allert Co-Founder & CEO

Sofie Allert Sofie Allert is the Co-Founder and CEO of Swedish Algae Factory. The company was founded based on her and her Co-Founder Angela Wulff ’s passion for making use of algae, a natural resource that can create a lot of sustainable value for society. With a Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology and a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship and Business design from Chalmers University of Technology, the company was founded whilst Sofie was still writing her Master’s Thesis. Sofie is an active spokesperson for the Swedish Algae Factory, giving talks at the UN and OECD events as well as garnering several awards, most recently winning the prestigious green start-up competition, Postcode Lotteries Green Challenge in 2019.

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TerViva terviva.com

Formed in 2010, TerViva is an agriculture and food technology company delivering tasty and nourishing protein and oil food ingredients from the pongamia tree which are responsibly-sourced and more sustainable than oilseed crops commonly used today. TerViva provides patented high-yielding pongamia trees to growers for harvest and wild-harvests fair-trade pongamia beans to create sustainable food ingredients using proprietary bean processing techniques. TerViva has also introduced pongamia as a new commercial crop that converts distressed farmland into sustainable, productive acreage. The company’s work spans plant genetics, grower relations, supply chain establishment, oilseed processing and ingredient partnerships. Food ingredients made from pongamia beans are carbon negative, meaning the trees sequester more carbon than the beans will emit in emissions from field to plate.

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Headquarters Oakland, CA, USA

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation Australia, India, United States

Entrepreneur Naveen Sikka Founder & CEO

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About YEAR 5

Naveen Sikka Naveen Sikka is the founder and CEO of TerViva, a Series-D agriculture technology company that is building the world’s most sustainable supply chain of plant protein and vegetable oil. The first company to develop high-yielding, non-GMO cultivars of pongamia, it creates edible protein and oil from its beans to feed people. Under Naveen’s leadership, TerViva has unlocked pongamia’s potential as a climate-friendly, nutritional powerhouse for feeding the world’s rising population. Naveen completed his MBA from UC Berkeley where he co-chaired the development of the Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative (BERC) in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley Lab to evaluate its existing portfolio of commercial technologies. He is a mentor and member of Environmental Entrepreneurs and the New Innovators Council of the World Resources Institute.

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Three Wheels United threewheelsunited.com

Three Wheels United (TWU) is a tech-enhanced finance company that provides affordable loan and leasing options for light Electric Vehicles (EVs). They make auto-rickshaw EVs an accessible option to India’s 175 million light vehicle drivers, improving driver livelihoods while addressing the global climate crisis. Their data-driven technology, called Prayana, combines tailored loan management and asset management, allowing them to offer competitive loans while removing barriers for uptake, derisking their lending, keeping operations costs and default rates low, and improving driver income. Originally a built-in partnership with Microsoft, their platform analyzes data via machine learning models that predict behavior changes and trigger actions to prevent and dissuade defaulting behavior. Via its mobile app, drivers improve the understanding of their loans and repayments habits, while collection agents can maintain a high quality of larger portfolios efficiently.

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Headquarters Bengaluru, India

Sector Financial Technology and Transportation

Countries of Operation India

Entrepreneur Cedrick Tandong Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Cedrick Tandong Cedrick is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of Bengaluru-based startup, Three Wheels United, which is providing finance and using technology to remove barriers of operating an electric auto-rickshaw. This has a triple bottom line effect: profitable, social and environmental impact on drivers and the world. Cedrick loves turning visionary ideas into reality. Born and raised in Sub-Saharan Africa, he is particularly interested in ideas that will improve livelihoods for people trapped in informal economies. Before starting TWU, Cedrick founded a successful company in Cameroon in the e-commerce space.

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Urchinomics urchinomics.com

Urchinomics is a restorative aquaculture venture aiming to turn an environmental challenge into a commercial, ecological and social opportunity. Overfishing of predatory species, climate change and pollution have allowed sea urchins to explode in population. Uncontrolled quantities of sea urchins overgraze kelp forests and seagrass meadows, turning once pristine and vibrant marine ecosystems into lifeless, barren deserts, or “urchin barrens”. Urchinomics specifically targets these ecologically destructive, empty sea urchins and re-homes them into their ranching systems, where they are converted from an ecological pest to premium sea urchin roe, or “uni”. And by removing them from the barrens, they help kelp forests recover to their original healthy ecosystem.

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Headquarters IJmuiden, Netherlands

Sector Aquaculture and Fisheries

Countries of Operation Canada, Japan, Norway, United States

YEAR 5

Entrepreneur Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda Founder & CEO

UK & EUROPE

About

Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda Brian Tsuyoshi Takeda is a global citizen. Born in Japan, raised in Canada, studied in part in Chile, lives in Norway, and works in the Netherlands—he brings unique insights into cultures, people and opportunities to do good. A consummate entrepreneur, he co-founded Muzi Tea, helping to introduce Matcha green tea to North America. Later as the Marketing Director of Norway Pelagic and Director of Innovation at Kaston, he cultivated numerous innovative ventures, including what would then become Urchinomics. Brian’s guiding passion for innovation manifests in his desire to prove that for-profit ventures can be a powerful driver of positive change. With proper incentives, clear ethical boundaries and the right amount of human ingenuity, he believes restoring coastal ecosystems and creating meaningful jobs can be done responsibly and profitably.

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75F 75f.io

75F is removing the barriers to building automation with a system that improves commercial building comfort, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency with 30-50 percent savings and less than a two-year ROI. Traditional building controls systems are overbuilt and require extensive resources to install, set up, custom program and maintain — creating high costs of acquisition and ownership. Using Internet of Things (IoT) design, 75F harnesses the computing power of the cloud and packs it into a smart commercial building management system with a single-pane-of-glass across HVAC equipment types and brands, plus lighting, with multi-site remote monitoring and management. The company’s vertically integrated suite of wireless sensors, equipment controllers, smarter thermostats and cloud-based software deliver fast functionality and results out-of-the-box. A United Nations Environmental Program partner and USGBC LEED partner, 75F offers triple bottom line results for profit, people and planet. They were named one of the Top 100 Most Disruptive Companies in the World in 2017.

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Headquarters Burnsville, MN, USA

Sector Smart Building

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Australia, Ecuador, India, Nigeria, Singapore, United States

Entrepreneur Deepinder Singh Founder & CEO

Deepinder Singh Deepinder has designed some of the world’s fastest core networks for Tier 1 service providers like AT&T, NTT and Verizon. With almost 25 years of experience in electronics and computing, he’s brought a wealth of embedded products to the market. His key goal in every endeavor is to simplify operational complexity and make products intuitive. Once a member of the Canadian National Shooting Team, he now has a new target in sight for team 75F — a mission to make people more productive and comfortable while saving energy and the environment. Deepinder is married to a cardiologist and has two wonderful daughters, ages 10 and 12, who still think he’s a hero. He lives in the small town of Mankato, Minnesota, with a shooting range in his backyard. He enjoys flying, racing cars and riding bikes — and his scotch.

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80 Acres Farms 80acresfarms.com

80 Acres Farms is revolutionizing the way Americans grow, sell, buy, and eat food.

Based in Ohio, the company converts urban spaces into ultra-efficient farms that maximize energy and space. It is on a mission to provide accessible, nutritious, tasty, and affordable local food to everyone, using fewer resources in the process.

The company has facilities in Ohio, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Alabama, from which it sells leafy greens, tomatoes, micro greens and herbs to national grocers, local retailers, restaurants, and food service providers. It expects to add grapes and strawberries in the near future. The crops it produces are free from pesticides and GMOs, picked and delivered within days. In December 2018, 80 Acres raised $40 million in equity capital to create the first fully automated indoor farm. The facility will optimize every aspect of growing produce indoors, including seeding, growing, and harvesting. It will include handling robotics, artificial intelligence, data analytics, and around-the-clock monitoring sensors and control systems to create food that is truly local and honestly fresh, 365 days a year.

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Headquarters Hamilton, OH, USA

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Mike Zelkind CEO

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About YEAR 4

Mike Zelkind At the age of 12, Mike Zelkind immigrated to the United States, speaking no English with no money to start his new life. Eight years later, he put himself through college working at Honeywell 30 hours a week. Mike began his food career at General Mills, during which he graduated first in his Emory MBA class and earned the prestigious John Robson Scholar leadership award. For over 25 years, Mike has been working with top-tier food companies including Del Monte, Bumble Bee and ConAgra Foods, and began turning around food businesses, first through his work at ATKearney. He has worked with Private Equity to drive over $3 billion of shareholder value. While President and CEO at Sager Creek Vegetable Company, Mike became determined to fix the food supply chain and found a way to reconnect people to their food. In 2015, he co-launched 80 Acres Farms with the goal of feeding our communities local, nutritious food. Mike’s career is a testament to hard work, passion, and the will to succeed.

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Aeroseal aeroseal.com

Aeroseal is one of the fastest-growing clean technology companies with a presence in 27 countries worldwide. Its patented HVAC leak sealing technology injects a fog of aerosolized sealant particles into pressurized spaces to seal air leaks in the distribution and ventilation ductwork of residential and commercial buildings. The technology relies on a computer-controlled process to measure and record results. It is applied where issues involving comfort, indoor air quality, and energy efficiency are a concern. A study by McKinsey Consulting found that duct leakage is the biggest contributor to energy inefficiency in buildings; in residential homes, it accounts for over 500 trillion BTU of wasted energy every year. In 2018, Aeroseal announced its new product, AeroBarrier, which seals new and existing commercial, residential, and multi-family building envelopes to help them meet mandated air tightness standards.

Aeroseal’s technology was developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1994 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy and the EPA. The company dreams of a future where all homes are passive and every building is Net Zero.

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Headquarters Dayton, OH, USA

Sector Clean Technology

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Amit Gupta CEO

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About

Amit Gupta As the CEO for Aeroseal, LLC, Amit Gupta helps make the world a better place by creating innovative technology that improves air quality and energy efficiency in homes and buildings. Prior to Aeroseal, Amit held various positions with Carrier Corporation and with TATA Motors in Portugal and India. He has a broad background and extensive experience in sales, supply chain management, operations, and marketing. Amit also has a progressive background in developing long-term strategies and processes for multi-billion-dollar organizations. As the head of Aeroseal, he has applied his international experience and diverse business skills to successfully launch several breakthrough and award-winning technologies that directly address building performance issues. Through his leadership, Aeroseal is transforming the way residential and commercial buildings are constructed, renovated, and maintained. Amit has a BE in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

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allplants allplants.com

allplants is a VC-backed B-Corp on a mission to inspire the planet to eat more plants.

A plant-based diet has the lowest environmental impact of any, and can reduce our personal food carbon footprint by up to 73%. Founded by food-loving brothers, the company aims to use its innovatively healthy and delicious food to pave the dietary transition for millions, ensuring both people and planet thrive. Products are “quick frozen” to lock in freshness and reduce waste and packaging is 100% recyclable.

From recipe development, to cooking and preparing the meals with a team of over 60 chefs in their commercial kitchen in London, to working with a carbon neutral delivery partner, everything is designed to protect the planet.

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Headquarters London, England, UK

Sector Environmental Health

Countries of Operation United Kingdom

Entrepreneur Jonathan Petrides Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Jonathan Petrides JP is Founder and CEO of plant-powered food company allplants. Since launching in early 2017, the company has garnered awards for pushing culinary boundaries, delivering more than 1 million healthy, delicious, and sustainable meals to doorsteps nationwide and building a community of more than 100,000 fans.

Prior to this, JP launched both Africa’s first mobile bank (M-Shwari), and Kenya’s fastest-growing retail healthcare chain (Penda). In allplants, JP has found a venture to build for decades as opposed to years, and in the early founding team and angels, he has brought together an array of leaders from category-defining food, media and lifestyle brands. The team is now on a mission to change the world for the better through great tasting plant-powered food.

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Deep Branch Biotechnology deepbranchbio.com

Deep Branch is a carbon recycling biotechnology company which uses microbes to convert carbon dioxide from industrial emissions into high-value products. A fast-growing and agile startup with commercial activities both in the UK and the Netherlands, Deep Branch enables local year-round protein production to ensure food security. Deep Branch addresses the animal feed market’s need for sustainable and cost-effective protein ingredients with ProtonTM, a radically more sustainable way to bring precision nutrition to animal diets. Deep Branch’s CO2-to-X platform offers the first scalable route to a truly sustainable protein generation process from a waste product - CO2 directly from industrial emissions.

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Headquarters Nottingham, England, UK

Sector Biotechnology

Countries of Operation Netherlands, United Kingdom

Entrepreneur Pete Rowe Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Pete Rowe Pete Rowe is CEO and Co-Founder of Deep Branch, leading its efforts to provide animal feed producers with locally-sourced, sustainable and low-carbon protein. Pete holds a Ph.D. in molecular microbiology from the University of Nottingham’s Synthetic Biology Research Centre (SBRC). During his time at SBRC, Pete designed and implemented a CRISPR-based genome editing toolkit for use in both industrial biotechnology and in human health applications. He was listed in Forbes “30 Under 30” for Manufacturing and Industry in 2019.

Having held technical and commercial roles within biotechnology companies across Europe, Pete has helped develop a range of future-positive processes, including sustainable aviation fuel production, preventing the needless killing of day-old chickens, and novel cost-effective therapeutics for allergies.

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DeHaat agrevolution.in

DeHaat (Green Agrevolution) is one of the fastest growing Agri Techs offering endto-end services to the farming community in India. Its AI-enabled technologies are revolutionizing supply chain and production efficiency by supporting over 200,000 local farmers with access to over 400 DeHaat centers, 150 input suppliers, and 250 corporate buyers. From connecting small farmers to their various needs – seeds, fertilizers, equipment, crop advisory, and market linkage, including coordinating the sale of their produce to institutional buyers – to receiving personalized farming advisory in their local language, DeHaat offers a bundle of agri-value chain services.

DeHaat places farmers at the center of their business model, irrespective of their crop or land holding status, to produce the highest cost savings, productivity rates, and incomes for farmers across India.

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Headquarters New Delhi, India

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation India

Entrepreneur Shashank Kumar Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Shashank Kumar Shashank Kumar is CEO & Co-Founder of DeHaat. After graduating in 2008 from IIT Delhi, he joined a management consulting firm focusing on the supply chain, retail and FMCG sectors. He has also worked for leading FMCG companies on the challenges related to their secondary distribution network, price elasticity & continuous replenishment system. While he was president of the Farms & Farmers (FnF) Foundation, he realised that the only way to build a scalable working model to improve efficiency and transparency in the Agricultural value chain was through leveraging technology. In 2012, he co-founded a social enterprise, Green Agrevolution and developed DeHaat - a mobile based technology which connects small farmers to 360 degrees of agricultural requirement – seed to market.

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ECOncrete econcretetech.com

ECOncrete® offers a suite of high performance environmentally sensitive concrete solutions that enhance the biological and ecological value of urban, coastal, and marine infrastructure while increasing their strength and durability. Its solutions reduce the ecological carbon footprint of ports, marinas, coastal protection infrastructure, and urban waterfront projects by up to 80%, while adding to their structural integrity. With over half of the world’s population concentrating along coastlines, accelerated coastal development which inflicts severe stress on natural ecosystems is inevitable. ECOncrete will transform the way future coastlines look and function by replacing barren, grey, urban coastlines and waterfronts with highperformance, resilient, and blue-green infrastructure. The company was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Inventions of the Year 2019.

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Headquarters Tel Aviv, Israel

Sector Environmental Technology

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Monaco, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Shimrit Perkol-Finkel Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Scientist

Shimrit Perkol-Finkel* Dr. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel was the Co-Founder and CEO of ECOncrete Tech Ltd, a world leader in bio-enhancing concrete technologies that for the first time provide both superior strength and ecological benefits. She specialized in sustainable management of urban marine habitats and was considered a world expert in ecological engineering.

Shimrit was the recipient of a number of accolades including a We Empower award for advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2018, the EU Women Innovators award, Forward Actor of the Year in the 2019 GreenTech Festival, and was one of Fast Company’s 2019 top 100 Most Creative People in Business. Shimrit held a B.Sc. in Life Sciences, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Zoology (Tel-Aviv University), and a Post-Doc (University of Bologna) as an EU Marie Curie Fellow. *Passed away in 2021

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Farmstand farmstand.co.uk

Farmstand is a plant-powered cloud catering marketplace. They make and deliver bulk meals to offices and homes in the UK. Their flexitarian offering is 80% veggie, 65% vegan, 5% sustainable fish and 15% ethical meat, has over 25,000 meal combinations and is affordably-priced so it can be distributed widely: breakfast starts at £2 and lunch and dinner from £5. The New York Times described Farmstand as “wellness for all.” Their entire team are owners and all are paid at least the London Living Wage. Half of Farmstand’s Board of Directors are also women. The company is positioning itself to disrupt the $200 billion office and home catering market which will be doubling by 2032. Famstand’s mission is to feed the world plants. Their goal is for every person to eat One plant-based Meal a Day (OMD). Their plan is to make and deliver bulk meals to 1 million offices and 1 million homes in 10 cities in 10 years.

Farmstand lives by a zero-waste philosophy which includes only using reusable or compostable packaging and is on track to be carbon-negative by next year. They were named a Top-2 Most Sustainable Food Business in Europe two years in a row by the Food Made Good Awards and were also a finalist for Venture Funded Business of the Year by Startups.co.uk.

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Headquarters London, England, UK

Sector Sustainable Food & Distribution

Countries of Operation United Kingdom

Entrepreneur Steven Novick Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Steven Novick Steven Novick is the Founder & CEO of Farmstand. In 2006, he was diagnosed with cancer and he believes changing to a plant-based diet helped him beat cancer which is why he started Farmstand in 2016. To date, they have sold nearly 1 million meals and partnered with 3 global office caterers serving 5 billion meals per year. Steven is a purpose-driven entrepreneur, is on the European Steering Committee of 1% for the Planet and recently did a TEDx Talk on equality called ‘Equality by Design’. Self-made: Steven grew up in a working-class family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Worked full-time to fund his way through New York University, where he double-majored in Economics & History and graduated with honours in both majors. Disciplined: Steven is 1 of 500 people to climb the 7 Summits including Mount Everest. Experienced: Steven was previously the Head of Business Development for 3 other startups: 1 IPO filed (then was acquired); 1 business was acquired; 1 private equity fund. 2 became billion-dollar businesses and 1 was in tech. Creative: Steven produced three and acted in two award-winning independent films.

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Frontier Markets frontiermkts.com

Frontier Markets is a social tech commerce platform run by rural women entrepreneurs that provides “last mile connectivity” of goods and services directly to rural consumers. Frontier Markets’ mission to creates Saral Jeevan ‘easy life’ for rural households is based on the belief that they are dignified customers deserving local access to high quality products and services with ease and that women are the key influences for driving change in rural villages. By investing in digital inclusion for women, Frontier Markets creates wealth opportunities for women and their customers. The company has built a network of 10,000 women entrepreneurs reaching 700,000 rural customers, selling 1 million products to date. Their vision is to have a platform of 100 million rural customers and a network of 100,00 women with access to a better, more dignified life.

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Headquarters Jaipur, India

Sector Supply Chain Technology

Countries of Operation India

Entrepreneur Ajaita Shah Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Ajaita Shah Ajaita Shah is the Founder and CEO of Frontier Markets. She started her career in microfinance in India with a belief that “investing in women is smart business and key to poverty alleviation at scale.” An advocate for women-led, transformational leadership and rethinking how social innovation can design for scalable impact, she has developed concepts with international institutions including the UN. Ajaita has won numerous awards for her work around healthcare, mobile technology, and social performance management in the sector. Through Frontier Markets, she has been recognised as Forbes 30 Under 30’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC’s Young Business Women of the Year and Women’s Transforming India Award in 2018 amongst others. Ajaita serves on the board of Frontier Innovations Foundation, an advisor to various social enterprises in India focusing on product development for the poor.

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Igor igor-tech.com

Igor, Inc. was founded in 2013 with a vision to develop a smart building platform solution. With a global market increasingly trending toward smart homes and businesses, Igor has quickly made a name for itself as a leading player in the future of the agile, smart building industry. With system installations in more than two dozen countries, and partnerships with industry leaders such as Cisco, Igor is an emerging global player in the IoT Smart Building industry. Igor’s flagship product, Nexos, is a power over ethernet-based IoT smart building platform that incorporates the hardware, software, and cloud analytics components to form the digital building ‘backbone’ that delivers superior smart building network reliability, bandwidth, and security. Combined with an open API and real-time platform engine, Nexos is truly a forward looking IoT smart building technology that seamlessly incorporates full lighting controls with easy integration to virtually any IoT device or smart building application. Today, Nexos reflects the market’s readiness to enter the IoT world.

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Headquarters Des Moines, IA, USA

Sector Smart Building

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, France, India, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, United States

Entrepreneur Dwight Stewart Founder & CTO

Dwight Stewart With 15 years of tech entrepreneurship, Dwight Stewart has a strong reputation as a successful entrepreneur, innovative technologist, and high-growth operator. He has founded two transformative companies: QAS, a building analytics leader, and Igor, a smart building IoT platform that Cisco has labeled a “disruptor.” In 2003 at age 23, Dwight co-founded QAS, which over four years grew to more than 40 employees without any external investment to become a multi-million dollar operation.

Dwight was responsible for product development, project implementation, systems integration, finances, and sales support. Deployments existed in nearly every U.S. state, and Dwight personally led an effort to deploy at nearly all U.S. Capital buildings. He was awarded special recognition by the U.S. Department of Commerce “in appreciation for Outstanding Performance for work on the Architect of the Capitol project.” Dwight led QAS’ acquisition in 2011. In 2013, Dwight founded Igor, Inc. Dwight has grown the company to 10 employees and led multiple investment rounds. Some of Dwight’s other recognitions include: Clean Energy Challenge winner, Clean Tech Open winner, and Midwest Energy 40 Under 40.

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KITRO kitro.ch

KITRO enables the hospitality sector to better understand where operational inefficiencies lie, by using a hardware device and deep learning software to help restaurants reduce their waste. Commercial kitchens place their existing trash bins on top of a KITRO scale, above which an IoT device with a camera is mounted.

KITRO’s device captures the time of disposal, weight of waste, and takes pictures of all the food thrown in the bin. The software analyzes this data and determines where excess food is being wasted. By providing customers with an overview of their food waste and suggestions on best practices, KITRO helps restaurants reduce avoidable food waste by up to 60%, increase their food profit margin by up to 8%, and reduce CO2 emissions, water consumption, and land usage.

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Headquarters Zürich, Switzerland

Sector Food Waste

Countries of Operation Austria, Germany, Switzerland

Entrepreneur Naomi MacKenzie Co-Founder

YEAR 4

Naomi MacKenzie Naomi MacKenzie is the Co-Founder of KITRO, a company tackling food waste in the hospitality industry. While working in the food and beverage industry, both in kitchens and in service, Naomi witnessed the enormous amount of edible food being thrown away every day. This led her to commit herself to reducing avoidable food waste in this sector, launching KITRO, with co-founder Anastasia Hofmann. The idea behind KITRO originated during Naomi’s studies at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne. Since then, the pair have been vigorously working to bring the hospitality industry a solution to tackle this growing issue of food waste. Their goal is to bring back the value of food, so that all food is appreciated and not wasted.

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LoveTheWild lovethewild.com

LoveTheWild is on a mission to change the way Americans view seafood, and it is the first and only brand unapologetically focused on bringing delicious and sustainable aquaculture to consumers. Launched in 2014, LoveTheWild has brought to market multiple award-winning, convenient, and on-trend products paired with a commitment to quality, sustainability, and transparency that has won the hearts and plates of consumers and leading retailers across the country such as Whole Foods, Wegmans, Sprouts, and Mom’s. In the process, LoveTheWild protects the earth by supporting the responsible development of aquaculture, which is the most resourceefficient and least environmentally impactful form of animal protein production in the world. The company also drives change and acceleration for a whole ecosystem of aquaculture producers and supporting technologies.

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About

Headquarters Boulder, CO, USA

Sector Aquaculture

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Jacqueline Claudia Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Jacqueline Claudia Jacqueline Claudia, CEO and Founder of LoveTheWild, is a lifelong fish nerd who thought she was going to be a marine biologist when she grew up. Instead, after graduating from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Darden School of the University of Virginia, she spent 15 years working in corporate strategy and innovation before finding her way back to the fish.

She fell in love with the potential for sustainable aquaculture while working on Velella Project, a mobile fish pen that won Time Magazine’s Invention of the Year in 2012. She founded LoveTheWild to de-demonize great farmed fish and make it easier for people to eat sustainable fish more often. She is passionately building a company that has a real shot at saving the world. Jacqueline serves on the board of directors for the National Fisheries Institute and the Seafood Nutrition Partnership, and her commitment to building a better seafood future has been recognized by the Intrafish 40 under 40.

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MAEKO maeko.com.my

MAEKO is focused on solving one of the planet’s biggest problems - Food Waste.

Every day, huge amounts of food are being wasted in Malaysia, taking up space in landfills and poisoning the Earth. Combining expertise from the fields of biotechnology, mechanical engineering and marketing, MAEKO’s goal is to help achieve ZERO FOOD WASTE. The company has created the most cutting-edge composting technology in the ASEAN region. Its fully contained “All-in-One” commercial on-site composting machines can reduce food waste volume by up to 80% in 24 hours. Their patented technology has been applied in a range of composters for use in any industry that produces food waste. From hotels to supermarkets, factories, hospitals, and schools, MAEKO’s innovative composters help customers drastically shrink their carbon footprint.

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Headquarters Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sector Food Waste

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand

Entrepreneur Chelsea Chee Founder & CEO

Chelsea Chee Chelsea Chee is the founder and CEO of MAEKO, which provides composting technology to homes and businesses across the ASEAN region. As a transformational leader and business visionary, Chelsea launched MAEKO to fulfill her ambition of combining tech with impact. MAEKO’s core value of “less wasteful more useful” has brought Chelsea even closer to building a business with a purpose whilst also providing solutions towards one of the biggest challenges facing the planet - food waste. Chelsea created MAEKO with a singular intent of helping the country – and the world – achieve ZERO FOOD WASTE. Her 25 years of experience in running businesses has reinforced her belief that “it is you in every business and not the business in you”.

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MycoTechnology mycoiq.com

MycoTechnology is a food technology company focused on solving the biggest challenges in the food and beverage industry by using their mushroom fermentation platform. The company has developed a novel organic food processing platform that transforms agricultural material into functional ingredients. Their flagship product, ClearTaste®, has broad spectrum bitter blocking capabilities that allow for a maximum reduction in bitterness perception. With less bitterness, products become more palatable, which is important in sugar reduction and elimination. Their second product, PureTaste®, is a complete, high-quality, plant-based protein that has been transformed through mushroom fermentation. Fermenting pea and rice protein with shiitake mushroom mycelium improves taste, decreases aroma, and increases solubility and functionality. PureTaste is dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, and nutfree and does not contain any of the other top eight allergens recognized by the FDA that represent >90 percent of all food-related allergies. MycoTechnology is dedicated to increasing the availability of healthy, sustainable, and high-quality food options through mushroom fermentation.

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Headquarters Aurora, CO, USA

Sector Food Technology

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Entrepreneur Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Alan Hahn Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, CEO Switzerland, United States

Alan Hahn Alan Hahn is a serial entrepreneur with three successful exits. He has been a key executive in six startups and four public companies. With over 20 years of leadership experience in startup companies, Alan is a respected leader with strong interpersonal skills and a propensity for building a team from the ground up. Alan has guided MycoTechnology since its founding in 2013 by leading successful Angel, Series A, Series B, and Series C fundraising initiatives. Alan’s creativity is the source of new product initiatives and generates significant value through key partnerships. Alan is a true motivator with a knack for overcoming obstacles, streamlining processes, and finding creative ways to grow the company. He is open to new ideas while still maintaining constant focus on the big picture goals of the company. His passion for health and wellness falls in line with MycoTechnology’s goals for increasing the availability of healthy and sustainable food options.

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Novihum Technologies novihum.com

Novihum Technologies has developed a revolutionary soil additive that fortifies soil against harmful effects and facilitates high agricultural yields. The company’s patented technological process modifies soft coal (lignite) to make it identical to stable humus, a key component of fertile soil. Initially developed in Dresden, Germany, the technology has since been refined in partnership with other elite research institutions. Tested in more than 280 single trials by third parties, the product increases yield from soil fertility by 50% or more. With only a single application, farmers can build an entire reservoir of soil humus. The result is healthier soil, higher yields, higher harvest quality, better resource efficiency, and plants with greater resilience to environmental stress.

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Headquarters Dresden, Germany

Sector Agricultural Technology

Countries of Operation Germany, Portugal, Spain, US

Entrepreneur Andre Moreira CEO

YEAR 4

Andre Moreira Andre Moreira is the CEO of Novihum Technologies. After completing his Ph.D. and post-doc, he started his career at BASF in Germany spending over 13 years working in different regions and across multiple functions – both operative (product management, business development) as well as investment and innovation (BASF Venture Capital). As a Physics PhD, he has a keen interest in data and as a father of three he deeply cares about what future generations will inherit from us. While living in Hong Kong in 2014, Andre started looking at data for “mega environmental issues” and discovered that this was not being addressed as urgently as it should and that not much innovation has been made in this field for a long time.

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Project Etopia projectetopia.com

Project Etopia is at the forefront of inventing all-in-one solutions for a more sustainable, efficient, affordable and resilient approach to house building. Inspired by a passion for the planet, it is thinking beyond construction methods looking to actually optimize how energy construction and intelligent technologies (Ecitech) can be integrated to ensure the end product is not only modern today, but for years to come. By combining various energy, construction, and intelligent technologies, Project Etopia builds smart connected eco-cities of the future, that are helping solve the global housing crisis without contributing to climate change.

Project Etopia’s pilot scheme, Etopia Corby, is one of the highest performing (in terms of energy efficiency) and most eco-friendly developments in the UK. 128

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Headquarters London, England, UK

Sector Sustainable Construction

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation China, India, Kuwait, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Joseph Daniels Founder & CEO

Joseph Daniels Joseph Daniels is the founder and CEO of Project Etopia Group. Motivated by a passion to make a difference, his objective is to build the smart connected eco cities of the future that work towards solving the global housing crisis, whilst having a positive impact on climate change. His ambition was fuelled by the lack of security he faced as a young man and continues to drive his motivation to create a better tomorrow. Joe has been recognised for his innovative approach to technology and real estate; most recently he received the accolade of Forbes 30 under 30 in the manufacturing and industry category, as well as an upcoming feature in the United Nations 75th anniversary book for his contribution to climate change.

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Shiok Meats shiokmeats.com

Crustaceans are the most consumed protein source in Asia-Pacific. Shrimp, specifically, is a $40 billion industry plagued by meat fraud, harmful chemicals, slave labor, and overfishing. Shiok Meats is disrupting the shrimp industry with their cell-based clean meat company and the world’s first “clean shrimp”. By harvesting seafood and meats from cells instead of animals, Shiok Shrimp’s clean meat is grown under controlled and clean conditions, eliminating any potential of foodborne diseases, bacterial/antibiotic resistance, or harmful chemicals. Shiok Meats is powering the future of food and clean protein in Asia by bringing clean meat to high-impact markets, disrupting trade and supply chains around the globe, and prioritizing sustainable production.

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Headquarters Singapore

Sector Food Technology Seafood

Countries of Operation Singapore

Entrepreneur Sandhya Sriram Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Sandhya Sriram Dr. Sandhya Sriram is the CEO and co-founder of Shiok Meats Pte. Ltd., Singapore. Sandhya is a stem cell scientist with over 10 years experience working with muscle, adipose, cells and stem cells. After graduating with a PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Sandhya pursued her postdoc at A*STAR in Singapore. Following 4 years of postdoctoral work, she took up business development at a research institute. Alongside, she cofounded 2 companies, Biotech In Asia and SciGlo. Sandhya has been featured on Forbes Women in Tech for her entrepreneurial ventures. Currently, Sandhya and Dr Ka Yi Ling, co-founder and CTO of Shiok Meats, are working on cellbased meat (seafood), based out of Singapore.

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Sistema.bio sistema.bio

Sistema.bio provides access to innovative biodigester technology, training, and financing to address the challenges of poverty, food security, and climate change.

The company was founded in 2010 in Central Mexico after five years of R&D in the technology and business model. Sistema.bio manufactures and distributes highquality, affordable biodigesters that enable farmers around the world to convert waste into energy and fertilizer. By providing flexible interest-free repayment plans and comprehensive monitoring services, Sistema.bio works with farmers to ensure they become more sustainable, independent, and productive. The company operates globally with the potential to bring clean energy and sustainable agricultural practices to over 100 million farms. From operational hubs and field offices in Latin America, East Africa and Asia, Sistema.bio’s team engages directly with farmers and also with local farmer networks to promote in local languages with local leaders under local conditions. The enterprise is currently offering direct sales around local field offices in Mexico, Colombia, Kenya and India and through partnerships in 12 other countries.

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Headquarters Mexico

Sector Clean Energy & Agriculture

Countries of Operation Colombia, India, Kenya, Mexico

Entrepreneur Alex Eaton Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Alex Eaton Alex is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sistema.bio, a social business that works with smallholder farmers around the world to address climate change, food security, and poverty. Alex is an Ashoka Fellow, a Switzer Environmental Leadership Fellow, and an Endeavor Entrepreneur. He is also Co-Founder of GLE, a production and storytelling company. Alex was Director of Sustainability at charity: water, Director at the International Renewable Resources Institute (IRRI) and Co-Founder of the Latin American Biogas Network (RedBioLAC). Previous roles include freelance journalist, photographer, cinematographer, educator and mountain, river and helicopter ski guide. Alex has a MS in Environmental Engineering and a BA in Journalism, and he is currently based in Mexico City. Growing up on a farm in rural New Hampshire in the U.S., Alex is extremely focused on the interaction between agriculture, natural ecosystems and society, and identifies principally as a farmer.

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Smarter Sorting smartersorting.com

Smarter Sorting is a VC funded startup that uses machine learning to build the world’s first smart chemical database.

The company has developed a reuse solution for household hazardous waste (HHW). Smarter Sorting provides a scanning device for workers at HHW sites to quickly identify and sort material for donation, reuse or recycling, rather than incineration. In so doing, the company allows municipalities to take waste of extreme negative value and use its proprietary software to sort that waste into high-value commodities that are sold into established markets. By helping North America’s largest retailers and biggest cities identify items in their regulated waste stream, the technology literally turns waste into product. Smarter Sorting is determined to build world-class tech that transforms the chemical waste management industry, speeding the planet’s advancement towards a zero-waste future. Smarter Sorting works with 17 municipalities and several retailers in the U.S. and Canada.

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Headquarters Austin, TX, USA

Sector Waste Management

Countries of Operation Canada, Taiwan, United States

Entrepreneur Chris Ripley CEO

YEAR 4

Chris Ripley As a Business Development, Sales and Operations leader, Chris drives rapid growth and sustainable results for start-up, late stage, and high growth emerging technology, mobile and consumer product environments. His background includes success in building high-performing teams, developing critical relationships, and fostering collaboration to support business objectives and spur top and bottom line growth. Known for his high energy entrepreneurial leadership style, Chris leverages his cross-industry experience to design and implement strategies and process improvements that fuel innovation, increase productivity, and drive organizational capability. He exploits his talent for pioneering business applications on mobile devices, as well as his skill in rapid application development, to drive growth with emerging technologies and innovative consumer products. Chris has served as the CEO of Smarter Sorting since October 2015.

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Switch Automation switchautomation.com

Technology and big data are transforming the way the world lives, works, and plays. But building management hasn’t changed; it’s still riddled with archaic spreadsheets, inaccessible data, clunky architecture, and silos. According to research, 40 percent of building occupants are dissatisfied with the temperature and air quality in their buildings, and the building sector as a whole is responsible for 40 percent of global energy usage and carbon dioxide emissions. It’s time to improve the way we manage buildings. Switch Automation is leading that charge.

The company’s smart building platform combines deep insight and robust tools that help businesses monitor, benchmark, and optimize building performance.

The Switch Platform can be configured to match the needs of any business in a variety of industries, from commercial real estate to grocery to financial services, beginning with one building or an entire portfolio. The platform can employ fault detection, real-time control, and much more. With Switch Automation, discover how proactive building management can positively impact business.

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Headquarters Denver, CO, USA

Sector Smart Building

Countries of Operation Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, United States

Entrepreneur Deb Noller Co-Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Deb Noller Deb Noller is the dynamic CEO and Co-Founder of Switch Automation, a smart building software company specializing in building performance optimization.

With 20+ years of experience in real estate, technology and sustainability, she is passionate about helping enterprises leverage digital facilities management to execute more efficient business operations. Deb studied environmental management and computer science at James Cook University where she is a recipient of the JCU Chancellor’s Award. She began her career as a software engineer and launched three successful companies prior to founding Switch.

Noller is an active member of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN), was named one of Dell’s Founders 50, and she is recognized as one of the Top 50 Female Entrepreneurs in Australia by Rare Birds.

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The Jackfruit Company thejackfruitcompany.com

The Jackfruit Company (TJC) converts a heavily underutilized miracle crop — jackfruit, the world’s meatiest plant and highest-yielding tree crop — to income for farming families, and delicious, nutritious plant-based foods. Today, TJC is responsible for 70 percent of all jackfruit retail product sales and is the largest single buyer for jackfruit in the world. With its original retail product line launched in 2015, TJC is a top 5 brand in Refrigerated Meat Alternatives, with distribution in thousands of retailers from coast to coast. With its newly launched Smoked Pulled Jackfruit, TJC is the second plant-based entrant into the Fresh Meat category, after Beyond Meat.

TJC partners with over 1,000 farming families in southern India, contributing 10-40 percent of their annual income, and the company has grown over 7x since 2016 — including doubling in food service in 2018. TJC’s aim is to mainstream consumption of jackfruit, a more than $1 billion opportunity, by meeting rising consumer demand for plant-based foods with a true plant, in contrast to heavily processed alternatives.

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Headquarters Boulder, CO, USA

Sector Plant-Based Food

Countries of Operation Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Annie Ryu Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Annie Ryu Annie Ryu is Founder and CEO of The Jackfruit Company (TJC), the world’s largest jackfruit buyer and #1 jackfruit brand. While attending Harvard, Annie discovered the jackfruit plant as part of her work in India implementing a maternal and child healthcare program she developed with her brother. In jackfruit, Annie saw an incredible opportunity to convert an underutilized crop to nutritious, delicious food, and income and opportunity for farming families. Annie worked to build TJC during her junior and senior years at Harvard, simultaneously winning Harvard’s Women in Business Competition, Harvard’s i3 Innovation Challenge, and the Resolution Project’s Social Venture Challenge, and being recognized as a Global Good Fund Fellow, an Honorary Fellow at the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT, and one of Glamour’s Top 10 College Women.

Graduating first in her class in 2013 (Sophia Freund Prize), Annie declined the Fulbright Fellowship and the Rockefeller Fellowship, and subsequently left Harvard Medical School to work full-time building TJC. In recognition of her work, Annie was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and to Top Women in Grocery.

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TIPA tipa-corp.com

TIPA was founded in 2010 to address the global plastic waste challenge using deep technological innovation and multiple patents. TIPA’s unique packaging solutions degrade biologically in up to 180 days in industrial compost – compared to regular common plastic packages that degrade in dozens of years.

Its 100% biodegradable films incorporate high flexibility and durability, high resistance to oxygen and water vapor permeation and transparency. TIPA’s vision is for flexible packaging to have the same end-of-life as organic matter: returning back to nature. Its packaging is just as transparent, durable and impermeable as conventional plastic packaging, and seamlessly works in any packaging manufacturing line. Packaging can be disposed of into the food waste stream, or into home compost bins – making a plastic-free world a reality.

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YEAR 4

Headquarters Hod Hasharon, Israel

Sector Responsible Production

Countries of Operation Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Daphna Nissenbaum Co-Founder & CEO

Daphna Nissenbaum Daphna Nissenbaum is Co-Founder and CEO of TIPA. Prior to this, Daphna served as the CEO of the Caesarea Center for Capital Markets and Risk Management at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya. Previously (19942002) she held various management positions at SPL World group Ltd, a provider of revenue and operations management software, and before that served as a project manager at Whelty Lager Ltd., located in Boston, MA, USA. Daphna holds an MBA specializing in Marketing and Entrepreneurship from IDC Herzliya, with which she graduated with honors, and a BA in Economics and Software Engineering from the Bar Ilan University. She graduated from the elite Israeli Army software engineering program (Mamram) and served in the Israeli Navy software unit as an officer (ranked Captain).

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TRENDE trende.jp

TRENDE is an online renewable energy retailer selling electricity to residential customers in Japan to accelerate the widespread adoption of renewable energy.

Its current products include “Ashita Denki,” an online service offering residential customers simple and affordable energy plans and “Hot Denki,” a service incentivizing customers to become prosumers with an innovative third-party ownership model that enables homeowners to gain the benefits of having a solar system on their roof without the upfront costs of purchasing the system.

TRENDE is also developing a peer-to-peer (P2P) electricity trading system in order to further facilitate the efficient use and adoption of renewable energy. The company’s investors include Tokyo Electric Power, ITOCHU, Idemitsu and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority.

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Headquarters Tokyo, Japan

Sector Clean Energy

YEAR 4

Countries of Operation Japan

Entrepreneur Jeffrey Char Founder & Chairman

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Jeffrey Char Jeffrey Char is the Co-Founder and Chairman of TRENDE Inc., an online renewable energy retailer accelerating the widespread adoption of solar power in Japan. Prior to this, he was Director of Corporate Venture Capital and a member of the Innovation Task Force at Tokyo Electric Power Company. Jeffrey is also a professor teaching entrepreneurship at IE Business School in Spain, Doshisha Business School in Japan, and National University of Management in Cambodia. He founded, built and sold several ventures including Sozon, an online marketing company, Solis, a domain registrar, and Pario Software, a network security company which he sold to Lucent Technologies. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur Jeff was an attorney in Silicon Valley and investment banker in Tokyo. He studied economics in Tokyo and law at UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School.

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Tridi Oasis Group tridi-oasis.com

Tridi Oasis is a growing manufacturer of recycled plastic bottles in Indonesia, with a vision to turn problems into opportunities through recycling city waste. With Indonesia’s growing population, plastic waste - especially plastic bottles - has become a highly prominent and inevitable issue. Tridi Oasis works by collecting PET bottles from domestic waste management with a network of local suppliers that separate the plastic from other materials. The plastic bottles are then processed into plastic flakes, which can be used to manufacture packaging and textiles. The demand from manufacturers for high-quality plastic flakes has risen tremendously, and by 2018, Tridi Oasis had processed over 60 million PET bottles. Their primary customers are based in foreign markets in the FMCG and textile industries, as the demand grows for locally-sourced and recycled plastics for their products.

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Headquarters Jakarta, Indonesia

Sector Circular Economy

Countries of Operation Indonesia

Entrepreneur Dian Kurniawati Founder & CEO

YEAR 4

Dian Kurniawati Dian Kurniawati is the Founder and CEO of Tridi Oasis, a plastic recycler social enterprise working to turn problems into opportunities through recycling city waste. She is responsible for the company’s overall business operations. Dian has a background in engineering and management, with over 8 years experience in business consulting with global companies across various industries. With a passion for social and environmental issues, Dian’s long-term vision for Tridi Oasis is to turn trash into jobs and useful products. She believes the biggest challenge we face as a species today is multidimensional poverty, and to end it, we need to invest in the under-privileged to create as many sustainable jobs as possible.

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TurtleTree turtletree.co

TurtleTree seeks to produce clean milk for people and planet, envisioning a future where all children and families anywhere in the world have access to safe, clean milk and milk products of full-composition, function, and flavor. TurtleTree’s proprietary cell-based processes of creating clean milk completely bypass the environmental degradation and animal welfare issues of industrial dairy, nourishing individuals and societies and reducing environmental, social, and economic stressors. Supported by leading scientific, governmental, and investment partners, TurtleTree will license technical capabilities to the world’s leading packaging facilities to scale rapidly into the US $716B global dairy market. Working alongside every major dairy and infant nutrition company, TurtleTree’s innovative cell-based milk brings a sustainable solution to families and communities around the world.

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Headquarters Singapore

YEAR 4

Sector Food Technology - Dairy

Countries of Operation Singapore, United States

Entrepreneur Max Rye Co-Founder & Chief Strategist

Max Rye Max Rye is Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of TurtleTree, which uses cellbased technology to create human breast milk as well as all mammalian milk.

In this role, Max’s focus is on leading the TurtleTree Team to transform the global dairy industry, which negatively impacts the environment and animals.

He holds a Computer Science degree from University of California and has more than 15 years of experience helping businesses scale with technology.

With over 10 years operating as CEO of a Silicon Valley tech company, Max firmly believes that technology can solve the world’s biggest problems.

Max formulates TurtleTree’s business strategies and shapes the company’s direction to accelerate growth to the next level.

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ATKO atkoleather.com

ATKO is an eco-friendly material company that upcycles leather waste into other sustainable leather materials including natural recycled real leather and the world’s first leather fiber.

ATKO was founded in 2012 and has since launched numerous products including leather, leather suede, leather yarn, and leather textiles while continuing to engage in R&D on environmentally friendly recycled materials. ATKO has partnered with Leather Working Group to collect scraps of pure leather where the scraps are then processed with strict quality standards. ATKO converts the leather scraps into new products using no additional chemicals or water to produce their leather. Currently, ATKO converts 400,000 tons per year of waste leather scrap into usable products.

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Headquarters Seoul, South Korea

Sector Textiles Manufacturing

Countries of Operation South Korea

Entrepreneur Connie Hong CFO

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About YEAR 5

Connie Hong Connie joined ATKO Planning, a materials technology company aiming to produce high value materials that enhance the quality of life, in October 2018 as CFO. Among other responsibilities, Connie develops organizational financial strategies, manages annual financial audit processes, and monitors and reports financial performance.

Before joining the ATKO team, Connie worked as the Director of Overseas Business Development, Global division at Creative Tong, a leading creative contents and exhibition company in South Korea. Connie also has deep experience in the VC industry after having served as Controller & HR Director at KTB Ventures. She graduated from Hongik University with a degree in Business Administration and Management.

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IntegriCulture integriculture.jp

Developments in cellular agriculture is hindered by the high cost of culture media used to grow animal cells. This cost needs to come down for any industry players to use cell culture as an economically viable method of production. IntegriCulture’s unique patented “CulNet System” technology solves this problem by mimicking the natural processes by which cells proliferate in an animal body, and reduces the cost of cell culture. IntegriCulture Inc. offers its general-purpose large-scale cell culture system (CulNet System) for any cell types of any species, for food and non-food applications. The CulNet System cultures cells at 4~5 orders of magnitude less expensive, allowing cell-cultured products at market-competitive prices.

The company collaborates with academic partners in the fields of regenerative medicine, developing a state of art methodology and technology that allows for vascularization and whole tissue culture.

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Headquarters Seoul, South Korea

Sector Biotechnology

Countries of Operation Japan, Singapore

Entrepreneur Yuki Hanyu Founder & CEO

ASIA PACIFIC

About YEAR 5

Yuki Hanyu After graduating from Oxford with a Ph.D in chemistry, Yuki Hanyu founded the “Shojinmeat Project”, the world’s first citizen science community for DIY open-source cell-based meat. In 2017, it spun off a startup, IntegriCulture Inc., and a non-profit, Cellular Agriculture Institute of the Commons in 2019. IntegriCulture Inc. offers its general-purpose large-scale cell culture system (CulNet System) for any cell types of any species, for food and non-food applications. IntegriCulture Inc in partnership with the CulNet System users aims to develop cell-cultured meat, cell-cultured cosmetics, leather, fur, nutraceuticals and transplantable organs.

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Provenance provenance.org

Provenance is in the business of transparency, empowering brands to make the sourcing and impact behind their products transparent. They exist to enable citizens to access and trust in business sustainability efforts beyond today’s marketing hype. With their software, businesses can easily gather and present information and stories about products and their supply chains, including verified data to support them. By connecting this information to products - consumers can discover the origin, journey, and impact of the products they buy. Provenance has built a network of honest businesses and equips them with the tools they need to prove what matters most about their goods: from the source of ingredients, to their impact on the environment and society. Winner of the “Blockchains for Social Good” Horizon 2020 prize from the EU Commission, they champion tech for good.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Blockchain

Countries of Operation Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Entrepreneur Jessi Baker Founder & CEO

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About YEAR 5

Jessi Baker Jessi Baker is MBE, technologist, designer and Founder and CEO of Provenance.org, the leading transparency programme and software platform for supply chain and impact transparency. With a Master’s in Engineering from Cambridge University and Design from the Royal College of Art, Jessi has worked with many brands on digital design strategy, including Adidas, The Four Seasons, The Guggenheim Museum, Will.I.Am, British Airways, and Louis Vuitton. Currently, Jessi works with global FMCG brands, such as Unilever, Pernod Ricard, and Princes Group to make the origin, journey and impact behind their products transparent for shoppers in a meaningful way.

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Sylvatex sylvatex.com

Sylvatex is solving some of the world’s biggest chemical problems. Made of biomaterials, their nanoparticles are engineered systems that manipulate chemicals, fabricate materials and structures, produce energy and enhance the environment by providing cheaper, more sustainable chemical solutions. Their IP-protected platform and growing database addresses multiple billion-dollar markets – from next-generation batteries materials to fragrances to fuels – while significantly reducing the toxic waste and carbon from industrial applications. Sylvatex products, which include fuel additive and alternative fuel products, use low-cost inputs and the simple splash-blending process that creates their microblend fuel, enables production at scale with existing infrastructure and minimal capital investment. Sylvatex’s sustainable chemistry platform seeks to reduce greenhouse gasses (GHG) in the most effective way possible.

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Headquarters Berkeley, CA, USA

Sector Nanotechnology

Countries of Operation United States

Entrepreneur Virginia Klausmeier President & CEO

YEAR 5

Virginia Klausmeier Virginia Klausmeier is the Founder and CEO of Sylvatex, a pioneer in the energy sector, utilizing bio-based, non-toxic nano-chemistry to create stable nanoparticles with multiple billion-dollar market applications. Prior to co-founding Sylvatex, she managed clinical and biomechanical research for a Fortune 500 medical device company. Virginia was recently featured as one of the “Top 10 Women in Biofuels” and was pre-selected

by Forbes for “30 under 30 in Energy”. She is active on the board of multiple nongovernmental organizations, and is working on the growth and commercialization of Sylvatex. She completed the Executive Program at Singularity University and previously earned a B.S. in Chemistry and Economics and an M.S. in Biomechanical Engineering at the University of Oregon.

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Zeigo zeigo.com

Zeigo is a climate-tech platform deploying machine learning to reduce the complexities surrounding renewable energy procurement. Used by corporations, energy suppliers, and renewable energy developers, Zeigo is the one-stop-shop for stakeholders to transition to clean energy through Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and short-term contracts.

Zeigo’s solution creates a simple and efficient process to connect corporate energy buyers with renewable energy developers that is cheaper, more time-effective and transparent than alternative solutions. Zeigo offers a wide range of tools, like market analytics, energy forward curve, or a business case report, to help corporate buyers make informed decisions on a procurement purchase without external consultants or industry knowledge. Its mission is to increase the uptake of renewable energy across the world, not just by the largest corporations, but by everyone who wants in.

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Headquarters London, England

Sector Access to Clean Energy

Countries of Operation 50 countries

Entrepreneur Juan Pablo Cerda Founder & CEO

YEAR 5

Juan Pablo Cerda Juan Pablo Cerda has a strong background and stellar experience in Operations & Trading for physical commodities, having worked for companies like BP, Shell and ED&F MAN. He founded and exited a successful consultancy focused on advising large corporates on their go-to-market strategy for 100% renewable energy. During this time, he noticed a gap in the market to apply smart technology to simplify the process of contracting renewable energy directly from wind and solar farms for the corporate sector. As a result, he founded Zeigo, a tech platform that makes the process of contracting energy directly from wind and solar farms, simple, efficient and cost-effective.

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About

Biohm biohm.co.uk

Biohm believes the most sustainable, resilient, and adaptive examples of design can be found in nature’s organisms and systems. It does this by mimicking biological processes to synthesize man-made products, combining ideologies of the circular economy and humancentered design with future-tech, to revolutionize building technologies, materials and manufacturing methods. Biohm carries out extensive research and life-cycle assessments for renewable energy and self-sufficient adaptive buildings. From offsite construction, carbon-neutral/negative materials, and manufacturing methods to improved insulation and smart building envelopes, it aims to integrate state-of-the-art technologies such as sensors and Big Data into all of its products and services to ensure the industry’s sustainability and improve its long-term resilience.

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Headquarters London, England, UK

YEAR 4

Sector Responsible Production

Countries of Operation United Kingdom

Entrepreneur Ehab Sayed Founder & Director of Innovation

Ehab Sayed Ehab Sayed is the Founder and Director of Innovation at Biohm. He founded Biohm to develop nature-inspired construction systems and materials that champion a transformation towards the integration of biological processes in manufacturing, and create a biomimetic (nature-inspired) circular future that meets our environmental, economic and human needs. Leading a solid team of designers, engineers, architects, biologists and business innovators from around the globe, he is working towards revolutionising the construction industry and embedding social equity in business.

Ehab is a Climate-Kic Certified Professional and with Biohm has amassed a portfolio of awards and recognition from highly regarded international bodies. Member of the ‘Circular Economy Club’, The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) and the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC).

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About

gFlow+ gflowplus.com

gflow+ believes the world needs to stop relying on mechanical meters and move towards an electric solid-state future. A leader of both electromagnetic and ultrasonic flow measurement technology in the Greater China area, the company builds electric solid state meters as well as complete smart metering and water quality solutions. To create an entire sustainable energy ecosystem, gFlow+ also manufactures a unique set of smart metering solutions with remote transmitters and solar panels, enabling the management of water consumption and quality, as well as energy consumption. By combining a constant stream of data with predictive modeling capabilities, operators can quickly assess events as they occur, identify potential problem areas before they reach a critical level, and respond decisively to operational challenges, enabling operators to become a force for system improvements, regulatory compliance, and financial planning.

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Headquarters Hong Kong

Sector Resource Efficiency

Countries of Operation Hong Kong and 11 Countries

Entrepreneur Ming Gong President & CEO

YEAR 4

Ming Gong Ming Gong is the President and CEO of gFlow+, which provides industrial process instrumentation, water metering and water district leakage control solutions for its customers worldwide. Prior to this, Ming served as Vice President of Shanghai Kent Limited, the largest flow meter manufacturer in China. Ming has also held a number of research and development roles and positions for Endress+Hauser Group, a leader in industrial process instruments solutions, ultimately leading the R&D team for Endress+Hauser Conducta in Anaheim, California.

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Jumbotail jumbotail.com

Jumbotail is India’s leading New Retail platform and Online B2B marketplace for food & grocery that connects 30,000+ mom & pop Kirana grocery stores with brands, producers, and farmers. Jumbotail was co-founded by Stanford MBA classmates S.Karthik Venkateswaran and Ashish Jhina. Jumbotail Logistics is an in-house, tech powered full stack supply chain with fulfilment centers, distribution centers, enabling last mile storefront delivery and payments collections from its customers. Jumbotail’s fintech platform facilitates working capital credit by connecting lending partners to its customers and sellers. Jumbotail transforms traditional mom & pop stores into J24 store - a chain of modern convenience grocery stores, owned and operated by mom & pop retailers, powered Jumbotail’s New Retail platform that is fully integrated with its logistics and fintech. Jumbotail has the capability to set up a fully functional J24 grocery store within 24h-48h.

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Headquarters Bengaluru, India

Sector Marketplace & Retail

Countries of Operation India

YEAR 4

Entrepreneur S. Karthik Venkateswaran Co-Founder & CEO

S. Karthik Venkateswaran Karthik Venkateswaran is Co-Founder & CEO of Jumbotail. An alumnus of National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy, Karthik served in the Indian Army for 10 years, with several tenures in hard combat in high altitude areas and counter terrorism.

Prior to co-founding Jumbotail, Karthik worked as Senior Product Manager at Ebay (United States), and as Director-Products at Flipkart (India). A marketplace product leader, Karthik is passionate about building products and technology that will create more economic opportunities for the food and grocery ecosystem in India, and make commerce more accessible and convenient for the next 1 billion Indians, who have diverse needs. He holds an MBA from Stanford University - Graduate School of Business.

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Mobi-Air mobiair.technology

Since the onset of the air-filtration industry and original patent filings in the 1920s, current technologies have seen relatively low levels of innovation with marginal process performance improvements. The Mobi-Air team has challenged the status quo of today’s incumbent-filtration technologies developing new approaches including zero maintenanceand-repair air filtration, low-energy low-turbulence multi-vortex tornado air filtration and closed-loop energy-free HVAC technology. Whilst this technology was developed to lower costs and protect nature, the Mobi-Air team gained true inspiration from nature itself.

The new low-energy low-turbulence multi-vortex tornado technology was inspired by the naturally forming multi-vortex tornadoes which exert very high G-Forces and use minimal amounts of energy to operate. All in, this newly developed closed-loop energy-free HVAC saves up to 85% of HVAC energy consumption and tonnage.

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Headquarters Singapore

Sector Sustainable Infrastructure

Countries of Operation Japan and Singapore

Entrepreneur Martin Scaife Chairman & CTO

YEAR 4

Martin Scaife Martin Scaife has spent over 25 years in the hygiene industry, during which time he designed many of the high-speed production systems that are currently in use at P&G. He holds multiple key patents in the hygiene industry and is focused on technical innovation including front-end of innovation to go-to-market. Martin transitioned from working in corporates to start-up companies in 2014 and has continued to innovate in the hygiene sector, developing multiple award-winning technologies. Recently launched technologies include low energy diaper recycling machine, low energy hybrid air filtration and energy free HVAC.

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Modumetal modumetal.com

Since the Bronze Age, man has been making metal the same way, using highly energyintensive techniques to smelt, forge, roll and cast metal parts. Today, Modumetal is enabling an entirely new age of efficient metals manufacturing, through nanolaminated metals (think plywood, but with very thin layers of metal). The markets that Modumetal can serve exceed several trillions USD in value. Modumetal exhibits properties never seen before in conventional metals in terms of hardness, toughness, strength, corrosion, wear and heat resistance, and more. The patented Modumetal manufacturing process more efficiently and cost competitively enables the production of these high-performance nanolaminated metals. Modumetal is produced by a patented, sustainable manufacturing process that uses electricity as the direct input form of energy and enables the production of the nano-layered materials at an industrial scale. The Modumetal process represents a major shift in the way metals are manufactured, affording inherent efficiencies in end-part manufacturing and reducing demand for metal raw materials.

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YEAR 4

Headquarters Seattle, WA, USA

Sector Manufacturing Technology

Countries of Operation Angola, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Japan, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, United States

Entrepreneur Christina Lomasney Founder, President & CEO

Christina Lomasney Christina Lomasney is the CEO, President and Co-Founder of Modumetal. Together with her team, she is realizing the company’s vision of revolutionizing the way major industries approach the design and production of advanced metal coatings and parts.

Christina has worked in the research, development, and commercialization of advanced materials technologies for more than a decade, starting at The Boeing Company, where she served in engineering roles including in Phantomworks’ advanced metals manufacturing department. Christina later founded Isotron Corporation, an advanced materials company, which today holds a portfolio of advanced materials technologies and commercial products for environmental cleanup and restoration. Christina currently serves on the Board of Directors of ASTM International. Christina holds a BS in Physics from the University of Washington, where she completed undergraduate research in electrochemistry and graduate studies toward a MS in Applied Physics.

She has published and is named inventor on several pending patents in large-scale environmental remediation and nanostructured materials applications.

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MOVUS movus.com.au

To preserve the Earth’s resources, MOVUS believes the efficiency and life of industrial assets need to improve. MOVUS seeks to transform machine technology, which has remained unchanged for decades, with FitMachine, their end to end equipment monitoring solution. FitMachine dramatically improves a machine’s lifecycle and health visibility, while optimising operational costs. MOVUS’ goal is to bring consumer simplicity, combined with artificial intelligence, to enable smarter and more efficient machines.

From reducing downtime and money spent on asset breakdowns to visibility across a company’s entire fleet, FitMachine provides real-time data and performance analytics anywhere, anytime. With over 100 million health checks on machines across the world, MOVUS generates actionable insights for companies’ outdated machines, bringing them into the digital transformation of the future.

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Headquarters Brisbane, Australia

Sector Artificial Intelligence and Life

Countries of Operation Australia and 13 countries

Entrepreneur Brad Parsons Founder & CEO

ASIA PACIFIC

About YEAR 4

Brad Parsons Brad Parsons, a globally focussed entrepreneur with a passion for technology-enabled sustainable progress, is the founder and CEO of MOVUS. Having travelled the world extensively over the past 20 years and lived and worked across a wide range of industries, Brad realised our current way of life is becoming unsustainable. His concern about over-consumption of the world’s natural resources and our “make-use-waste” society led him to believe that technology can enable a more efficient world. Through MOVUS, Brad is using his passion for the planet and is applying systems thinking to promote new, efficient asset usage. By making assets more visible, available and utilised, Brad believes we can reduce our resource footprint.

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TreeZero treezero.com

The manufacture, distribution, and consumption of paper-based products require substantial agricultural inputs, use a wide array of natural resources, generate significant amounts of waste across the supply chain, and can adversely impact biodiversity.

Consequently, consumer goods companies, universities, and governments are now sourcing clean-tech options for their paper supply. TreeZero is the only 100 percent tree-free, carbon neutral paper brand in North America. The company’s paper products are made using sustainable, sugarcane-based natural resources. One pallet (40 boxes) of TreeZero paper saves 24 trees, while one pallet of 30 percent recycled paper saves only seven trees. In addition, TreeZero paper delivers excellent print quality when compared to regular recycled paper. As a mission-driven company, TreeZero strives to help customers minimize the environmental impacts of selling and using paper and actively invests in programs to fight deforestation. The company avoids the use of millions of trees for paper and off-sets the generation of tons of CO2 annually.

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Headquarters Atlanta, GA, USA

Sector Paper Products

Countries of Operation Canada, United States

Entrepreneur Mike Nilan CEO

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About YEAR 4

Mike Nilan Michael Nilan was the Founder of OneCoast Network, the largest wholesale gift and home decor manufacturer’s representative company with over 20 showrooms across the United States. He managed over $500 million in annual revenue as Chairman and CEO from 1997 to 2001. He was also the Founder of MarketSource International, a sourcing company that provided expertise in product development, manufacturing, and sourcing of consumer goods primarily for the gift, housewares, and consumer electronics markets. There, he served as the CEO from 2002 to 2009, with offices in Atlanta and Shanghai. Since 2010, Mike has served as the Director and CEO of TreeZero, the world’s most sustainable paper company. His desire is to create a worldclass company that focuses on products that are good for the environment and future generations, including his children’s.

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Worn Again Technologies wornagain.co.uk

Today’s methods for textile-to-textile recycling are extremely limited and the demand for raw materials to make new textiles is set to increase by 63% in the next 10 years. Clearly, new solutions to meet future resource demands are needed. Worn Again Technologies is pioneering polymer recycling technology by separating, decontaminating and extracting polyester and cellulose (from cotton) from non-reusable textiles to be made back into new products in the existing supply chains. The aim of their technology is to enable these recaptured resources to be kept in constant circulation, driving positive economic, social and environmental benefits, competitively processing blended inputs and producing dual outputs while preserving global resources. The technology is being developed for licensing to plant operators worldwide.

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Headquarters Nottingham, England, UK

Sector Circular Economy

Countries of Operation Canada, United States

Entrepreneur Cyndi Rhoades Founder

UK & EUROPE

About YEAR 4

Cyndi Rhoades Cyndi Rhoades is the Founder of Worn Again Technologies, a transformational polymer recycling technology company. A recognised thought (and ‘do’) leader, Cyndi is an avid advocate for polymer recycling technology as an enabler for a circular textiles industry. She is a regular speaker on circularity and innovation and is an award-winning entrepreneur, having been selected as a Courvoisier Future 500 Ambassador, a Force for Good Pioneer by Tomorrow’s Company, and an Enterprise UK Ambassador. Cyndi is an early pioneer of the sustainable fashion movement and a co-founder of the RE:Fashion Awards, the world’s first Sustainable Fashion Awards in London.

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