Category Winners
Biotech
AarogyaAI aims to diagnose drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) using Artificial Intelligence, which enables quick and accurate diagnosis of DR-TB in just a few hours. With quick diagnoses, patients can be prescribed drug combinations for instant and effective treatment.
Education
Abwaab is an online learning platform that allows secondary-school students to learn at their own pace, test themselves and get ahead with our expert tutors anytime and anywhere. By offering short, engaging video lessons, visualized learning journeys, continuous assessment and performance analytics, we are changing the way students learn outside the classroom.
Agtech
Ac-planta uses the power of science to unleash the potential of plants and enable them to grow in a variety of environments. They are a Japan-based agricultural biotechnology startup tackling global issues with plant science. In support of the SDGs, they are working to solve global food problems such as starvation and malnutrition caused by damage to plant production from extreme weather events. They envision the world to be a place where people live their fulfilled lives, as they contribute to desert greening, forest restoration, water conservation, and a reduction in overall plant production cost.
Mobility
AELER is transforming logistics by bringing advanced technologies to the container — the building block of our global economy — and the ecosystem that surrounds it. The UNIT ONE container is stronger, insulated, super smart, green and increases payload.
Agtech
AgUnity is solving the issue of trust (or lack thereof) between farmers & farming co-operatives in the developing world via a simple mobile app powered by Axsari: the world’s only smartphone OS that is specifically designed for the 1 billion people that, to date, have been left behind by technological advances and services.
Agtech
Sugar overconsumption underlies the Metabolic Syndrome (obesity, diabetes, cancers and more), a global health challenge affecting the lower socioeconomic classes the most. It is a burden on arable land, water usage, and contamination of air, land and sea. Amai (‘sweet’ in Japanese) produces the first healthy, tasty, and market-fit sweetener via Amai’s Pro-Protein Platform: Pro-Design AI-CPD (Computational Protein Design), Pro-Planet precision fermentation and Pro-Taste food technology. Next, Amai targets meat, milk and plant applications.
Agtech
Boomitra provides a soil carbon marketplace, powered by AI and remote sensing technologies.
Smart Cities
At Empower we’ve extended the idea behind Norway’s plastic exchange scheme to the global scale - by using blockchain.
Enabling
Cooling down the planet one server at a time. Next generation 2 phase cooled servers dedicated to achieving the fastest and greenest compute in the world.
Materials
We create ocean degradable and home compostable packaging materials made from agricultural waste to replace single-use plastic and paper.
Cleantech
The Sustainable Solution for Hard-to-Treat Industrial Wastewater. On Site. Turnkey. No Residues.
Fintech
Mortgage Automation for Zero Condition Loans
Go straight to funding with facilitated and intelligent documentation gathering that ensures underwriters get everything needed for a clean approval.
Biotech
UniFAHS provides customized phage-based products to eliminate serious bacteria-causing foodborne illnesses, especially those in livestock and aquaculture.
Deep Tech
Virtuleap combines neuroscience and virtual reality to help increase attention levels, and address cognitive illnesses, disorders, and learning challenges.
Special Award Winners
AgUnity is solving the issue of trust (or lack thereof) between farmers & farming co-operatives in the developing world via a simple mobile app powered by Axsari: the world’s only smartphone OS that is specifically designed for the 1 billion people that, to date, have been left behind by technological advances and services.
We are shifting the ingredient innovation paradigm by leveraging on nanotechnology. By combining food and biomaterial sciences, we seek to create a healthier lifestyle for consumers, while still having food taste good.
UNICEF EdTech
Eduten is a gamified Math learning platform that brings a scientifically proven improvement to learning results, student motivation and teacher happiness.
Web3
A free crypto fundraising platform for nonprofits that funds a community DAO for social impact.
Female Founder
Cooling down the planet one server at a time. Next generation 2 phase cooled servers dedicated to achieving the fastest and greenest compute in the world.
People's Choice
Savvie is an all-in-one app helping cafe managers boost profitability, optimize operations and reduce waste via data-driven insights. We use data from a cafe’s core operational systems to help them automate daily tasks, and make the right decisions. This results in 20% higher revenues, 78% less manual work, and 75% less waste.
Runners-up
Cleantech
BeFC creates electricity using paper biofuel cells that have enzymes to convert glucose and oxygen into electricity. The technology is a plastic-free and metal-free alternative to conventional miniature batteries, offering a sustainable and eco-friendly energy solution for low-power electronics.
Cleantech
BioElements aims to transform polluting products into environmentally friendly solutions. Specifically, it is developing an ecological alternative to conventional plastic. BioElements' bags, films, packaging and other rigid products have national and foreign certifications that place their effectiveness in the highest international standards.
Education
Kide Science platform offers the most engaging model to break the mold and give teachers the confidence to teach inquiry-based lessons with play and stories to children aged 3-8. Kide Science is based on years of academic research in the University of Helsinki.
Biotech
MicroFuse Technologies is a software company developing new products and services to push the boundaries of technology in healthcare to protect and improve the lives of people around the world especially underserved populations in the developing world by addressing key unmet medical needs related to infectious and non-infectious diseases."
Materials
MicroTau prints microscopic patterns inspired by nature to reduce drag and produce properties including anti-fouling, anti-bacterial and hydrophobic effects.
Fintech
The 1st Islamic FinTech; was founded in 2018 to provide mass transit e-ticketing, branchless banking, microfinance services (loan lead generation through agent network), and financial services. MYTM has recently launched the Payment pull (e-POS), Visa/Mastercard (debit/credit card) acceptance and payment gateway.
Mobility
New Frontier's rocket powered hypersonic aircraft get passengers and urgent cargo anywhere on Earth in 2 hours or less - cleaner than jets.
Agtech
The world's first virtual fence. With Nofence, you get control of your pasture and herd, at anytime from anywhere. Give access to healthy pastures, and save both time and money by not having to build and maintain fences.
Smart Cities
MONITOR FORESTS AND STOP THREATS BEFORE THEY EVEN OCCUR.
Artificial intelligence through satellite data.
We predict fires, monitor pests and diseases, do soil mapping and tree counts. We decrease losses and increase gains with predictive analytics.
Enabling
We are committed to bringing easy, fast, accurate, and secure authentication to every digital identity in daily life, business, and even in the off-the-network environment.
Digital Health
Virusight’s mission is to effectively detect pathogens and resolve the pandemic by enabling access to accurate and ultra-rapid testing for COVID-19 anywhere, anytime. Virusight's solution creates a new approach to the world of remote healthcare and Digital health.