Asia Pacific & Middle East Program
Scaling impact across Asia Pacific & Middle East
Launched in 2017, we are now in our 10th year of supporting growth-stage ventures operating at the nexus of advanced technology, profit and impact.
Meet our Asia Pacific & Middle East Cohorts
Each year we identify and privately invite a select portfolio of growth-stage ventures to join the Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific & Middle East program.
Enwise
Fueling a zero-carbon industry with onsite green power plants
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Stéphane Vernède
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
EQuota Energy
Unlocking carbon savings and safety in global industrial infrastructure
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Charlotte Wang
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Grow Indigo
Delivering proprietary biological inputs and carbon marketplaces to transform smallholder agriculture
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Usha Zehr
Executive Director
i2Cool
Cooling a warming planet through innovative electricity-free radiative technology.
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Martin Zhu
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kyoto Fusioneering
Building the critical infrastructure for commercial fusion
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Kiyoshi Seko
President & COO
Meat The Next
Transforming desert landscapes into sustainable, functional plant-based nutrition.
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Edmund Chan
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
N&E Innovations
Transforming food waste into the world's first edible, cost-effective, and circular antimicrobial product
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Didi Gan
Founder and Managing Director
NousQ
Democratizing access to ear tube surgery with handheld robotics
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Lynne Lim
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Pure Harvest Smart Farms
Scaling an institutional-grade CEA platform across global desert regions to redefine food systems.
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Robert Kupstas
Co-Founder and Technologist
Rize
Decarbonizing rice cultivation while improving farmer livelihoods
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Dhruv Sawhney
Founder, Chief Executive Officer
Staple
Restoring vibrancy to rural communities by transforming underutilized real estate into walkable, culturally rich destinations
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Yuta Oka
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Terraxy
Transforming desert soils into fertile landscapes
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Adair Gallo
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
UPowr
Streamlining complex solar installations from end to end
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Stu Philpot
CEO & Cofounder
VFlow Tech
Delivering safe and scalable long-duration energy storage
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Avishek Kumar
Co-Founder and Advisor
Algal Bio
Cultivating Algae’s Potential, for a Better Future.
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Amane Kimura
CEO
Aquaconnect
Leveraging tech solutions to bring transparency to the global seafood value chain.
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Rajamanohar Somasundaram
Founder & CEO
Archireef
Restoring Degraded Marine ecosystems
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Vriko Yu
Co-founder & CEO
Armored Fresh
Redefining the zero-dairy and clean-label categories
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Rudy Yoo
Founder & CEO
Dagangan
Maximising the potential of rural communities
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Ryan Manafe
CEO & Founder
EcoBricks
Turning plastic waste into sustainable concrete
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Shervin Sharghy
Founder & CEO
ftcash
Empowering micro-merchants and entrepreneurs with the power of mobile payments.
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Vaibhav Lodha
Co-Founder
Phool
Transforming lives through temple flowers
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Ankit Agarwal
Founder & CEO
Shandi
Creating better, more sustainable food options for everyone
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Reena Sharma
Founder & CEO
Speedoc
Bringing healthcare to wherever you are
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Shravan Verma
Co-founder & CEO
Teora
Replacing chemicals with biotechnological solutions to sustainably prevent the spread of disease
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Rishita Changede
Founder & CEO
Ujala Cygnus
Building trust by saving and caring for lives with dignity, affordability, and quality.
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Shuchin Bajaj
Founder Director
Unravel Carbon
Accelerating the world's progress to a zero carbon economy
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Grace Sai
Cofounder & CEO
WearOptimo
Tracking real-time biomarker data using microwearable sensors to detect health conditions
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Mark Kendall
Founder & CEO
Craif
Realising a society where people can live out their natural lives.
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Ryuichi Onose
Cofounder & CEO
Enpower Greentech
Advancing battery storage to power the future of mobility.
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Sam Dai
Cofounder & CEO
Fermenstation
Driving the world toward a circular economy by fermenting biomass to create novel ingredients.
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Lina Sakai
Founder & CEO
GRST
Building the greenest lithium-ion battery.
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Frank Harley
Chief Strategy Officer
Magorium
Upcycling plastic waste into roads.
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Chu Xian Oh
Founder
NEPRA
Creating scalable solutions for ESG, Circular economy & sustainability.
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Sandeep Patel
Founder
Provectus Algae
Eliminating gigaton-scale greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
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Nusqe Spanton
Founder & CEO
Retykle
Building a resale platform propelling circularity for kids products and beyond.
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Sarah Garner
Founder & CEO
Roceso
Enhancing quality of life through neurorehabilitation, anytime and anywhere.
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Jane Wang
Co-founder & CEO
Sheru
Creating a global network of distributed batteries.
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Ankit Mittal
Cofounder & CEO
Umitron
Using technology to create unique solutions for the aquaculture industry.
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Masa Yamada
Co-founder & President
WASSHA
Providing low-cost, solar-powered lighting systems to underserved communities in Africa.
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Satoshi Akita
Founder & CEO
70/30 Food Tech
Creating plant-based ready meals that enrich human health using fermentation technology
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Eve Samyuktha
Founder & CEO
Ace Green Recycling
Deploying the world's cleanest battery recycling technology
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Siddharth Roy
Co-founder & Business Director
Alchemy Foodtech
Empowering healthier foods without compromising on taste.
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Alan Phua
Co-founder & CEO
BluSmart Mobility
Building India's first all-electric ride-hailing platform
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Carnot Fleet
Providing technology-driven, sustainable, and affordable means for cold-storage transport
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Arvind Chandaka
Co-founder & Co-CEO
Elephantech
Re-inventing the circuit board for a sustainable world
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Shinya Shimizu
Founder & CEO
Essmart
Enabling rural shops to grow their business through sustainable livelihood solutions
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Prashanth Venkataramana
Cofounder & CEO
Goanna Ag
Delivering the next generation of smart farming practices
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Happy Moonday
Helping women live healthier lives
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Dojin Kim
CEO
Invisible Company
Replacing conventional plastic packaging
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Devana Ng
Co-founder & CEO
Semaai
Building a comprehensive, end-to-end agri-tech solution to help farmers and rural agricultural shop owners
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Yoga Anindito
Co-founder & CEO
Strawcture Eco
Producing carbon-negative building materials from local agricultural waste
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Shriti Pandey
Founder & CEO
Zypp Electric
Accelerating sustainable, last-mile mobility solutions with India's first smart e-bike rental app
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Akash Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO
Better Packaging Co.
Designing revolutionary sustainable packaging solutions for the circular economy
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Rebecca Percasky
CEO
gush
Transforming living environments with sustainable paint and advanced materials with anti-thermal and disinfection technologies.
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Lester Leong
Co-Founder & CEO
Haofood
Developing the world’s first vegan chicken using peanut protein as a primary ingredient
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Astrid Prajogo
Founder & CEO
Haqdarshak
Transforming how citizens access their entitlements at last-mile India.
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Aniket Doegar
Founder & CEO
Hydroleap
Replacing expensive chemical water treatment with cost-effective and environmentally-friendly electrical treatment
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Moh Sherafatmand
Founder & CEO
Massive Mobility
Building a high-quality EV charging infrastructure in India, promoting a seamless user experience and optimized charging
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Shailesh Vickram Singh
CEO
Mycotech Labs
Producing plant-based leather alternatives using mycelium and agro-waste for the fashion industry
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Adi Reza Nugroho
Co-Founder & CEO
Orxa Energies
Developing performance electric vehicles and associated e-transportation technologies.
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Ranjita Ravi
Co-Founder & CEO
PackAge+
Developing sustainable packaging materials that enable second-life applications for plastic and glass waste.
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Sagri
Using big data, AI/ML, and polygon maps to help farmers, microfinance institutions, and governments unlock meaningful agricultural insights.
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Shu Masuda
COO
s.lab
Offering end-to-end cold chain logistics services that are reliable, sustainable, and efficient.
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Suah Lee
CEO
SunGreenH2
Unlocking the production of green hydrogen at scale with proprietary electrodes, making the water electrolysis process more efficient and less expensive
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Tulika Raj
Co-Founder & CEO
Sustainable & Secure Information Disposal (SSID)
Providing sustainable waste management solutions that encourage recycling and reduce waste
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Urbanmetry
Harvesting and analyzing city data in emerging countries to extract insights and inform decision-making in the built environment.
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Cha-Ly Koh
CEO & Founder
Banka BioLoo
Providing water, sanitation and hygiene facilities at homes, schools, worksites and public places
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Namita Banka
Founder & Managing Director
Blue Sky Analytics
Building an API-based catalogue of high-resolution, high-frequency, and near-real-time Environmental Indicator Datasets
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Electrify
Empowering the renewable energy transition by connecting energy producers to energy consumers
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Martin Lim
ELECTRIFY PTE. LTD.
Gramophone
Empowering farmers to earn double with full-stack technology solutions
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Tauseef Khan
CEO
Greenway
Designing, manufacturing, and distributing clean cooking stoves
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Ankit Mathur
Co-founder
ID Water
Integrating shrimp farming and mangrove planting for carbon credits
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Alan Yu
Founder & CEO
Nutrition Technologies
Providing alternative solutions to address the world's protein deficit
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Planet Protector
Diverting waste streams and giving them a second life as valuable materials for packaging, construction and built environment
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Joanne Howarth
CEO
Siklus
Delivering refills for household products without plastic packaging, straight to consumers
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Urban Spring
Using data and smart water stations to redefine the water refill experience
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Ronald Li
CEO
WOTA
Decentralizing water infrastructure using water re-circulation
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Ryo Yamada
Co-founder & VP, Incubation
Zikooin
Rescuing ugly produce to create novel plant-based meats
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Seyeon Park
Global Sales Director
Absolute
Creating carbon negative, 100% traceable, nature and biotech products for Agriculture, Ingredients, Materials and Healthcare
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Agam Khare
Founder & CEO
Aqua Development
Mimicking the nature of aqua ecosystems to create high-quality and sustainable organic shrimps
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Doohyun Lee
CEO
ATEC
Enabling clean cooking through smart biogas and smart electric cookstoves
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Ben Jeffreys
CEO & Co-Founder
ATKO
Enabling the circular economy by endlessly recycling leather waste
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Connie Hong
CFO
Avant Meats
Producing safe, high-quality and sustainable fish products with patent-pending cell cultivation and tissue engineering technology
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Carrie Chan
CEO
Goterra
Autonomous waste management infrastructure that empowers circular economy
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Olympia Yarger
Founder & CEO
IntegriCulture
Pioneering a scalable general-purpose cell culture system with applications ranging from reagents and cosmetics to cell-based meat
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Yuki Hanyu
Founder/CEO
Intello Labs
Digitising food quality to build a world with no food loss or waste
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Himani Shah
Cofounder & CFO
JALA
Transforming the shrimp industry using a data-driven farming and an analytics platform
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Liris Maduningtyas
Co-Founder & CEO
ListenField
Gathering, processing and analyzing multilayer data to provide comprehensive and sustainable precision farming solutions to farmers and agribusinesses
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Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun
CEO
Lucro
Recycling the hardest to recycle plastics to enable the circular economy
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Ujwal Desai
Managing Director
Power Ledger
Building the operating system for the new energy marketplace
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Jemma Green
Chairman & Cofounder
Smart Joules
Eliminating energy waste through innovations in continuous energy optimization
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Arjun Gupta
Smart Joules Pvt. Ltd.
Three Wheels United
Facilitating the electrification of India’s 175M Light Vehicles
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Cedrick Tandong
CEO & Cofounder
Canopy Power
Deploying reliable, renewable electricity supply for remote businesses and communities across Asia Pacific
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Sujay Malve
CEO
DeHaat
Building AI-enabled technologies to revolutionise supply chain and production efficiency in the farm sector
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Shashank Kumar
Co-founder & CEO
Frontier Markets
Alleviating poverty by investing in rural households, and especially women
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Ajaita Shah
Founder & CEO
gFlow+
Providing electric, solid-state water meters and smart metering solutions for a more water-efficient future
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Ming Gong
CEO
Jumbotail
Organising the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design
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S.Karthik Venkateswaran
Cofounder & CEO
MAEKO
Turning organic waste into fertilizer in just 24 hours with cutting-edge compost machines
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Chelsea Chee
Founder & CEO
Mobi-Air
Delivering breakthrough low-energy, low-cost, competitive air filtration technology
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Martin Scaife
Chairman & CTO
MOVUS
Delivering an all-in-one equipment monitoring solution for smarter and more efficient machinery
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Shiok Meats
Transforming the food industry in Asia with cell-based meat and seafood
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TRENDE
Providing Japan affordable, renewable, and local energy through rooftop solar
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Jeff Char
Founder & Chairman
Tridi Oasis Group
Recycling locally-sourced plastic waste into high quality raw materials
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Dian Kurniawati
Founder & Director
TurtleTree
Recreating the full composition, functionality and taste of milk using the latest cutting edge innovation in biotech
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Fengru Lin
Founder & CEO
Claro Energy
Revolutionising the social and economic fabric of rural India through solar pumping technology.
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Soumitra Mishra
Co-Founder & CEO
CROWDE
Empowering farmers to become Agropreneurs with a cashless agricultural capital platform.
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Yohanes Sugihtononugroho
CEO and Co-Founder
Ecoware
Creating 100 percent biodegradable, eco-friendly, and compostable-certified food packaging.
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Rhea Mazumdar Singhal
Founder & CEO
EM3 AgriServices
Helping small-scale farmers keep up with globalization through farm mechanization and technology services.
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Evercomm Singapore
Helping enterprises transition towards zero-emission operation through Energy AI.
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Chiu-Hao (Ted) Chen
Co-founder, CEO & Chief Product Architect
ideaForge
Manufacturing best-in-class UAVs for defense, security, and industrial applications.
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Ankit Mehta
Co-founder & CEO
IGL Coatings
Formulating and manufacturing eco-friendly and sustainable high-performance coatings for industrial and consumer applications.
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Keong Chun Chieh
Founder & Managing Partner
Jasberry
Bringing farmers out of poverty by sharing the most innovative delicious and healthy organic products with the world.
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Peetachai "Neil" Dejkraisak
CEO/Co-Founder
LEAF
Bringing safe and hygienic fresh fruits and vegetables to the marketplace by empowering all shareholders in the agricultural value chain.
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Vijay Palat Palat
CEO
Marvelous Foods
Expanding consumer interest in plant-based food options with China’s first dairy-free coconut yogurt.
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Christiana Zhu
Co-Founder & CEO
OriCiro
Creating a better bioeconomy with innovative genome technologies.
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Seiji Hirasaki
Co-founder
Plastic Bank
Cleaning the oceans and empowering impoverished communities by pioneering a sustainable, circular economy for plastic waste.
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David Katz
Pirate Captain (Founder & CEO)
S4S Technologies
Creating a sustainable supply of processed food products using solar powered dehydrators
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Vaibhav Tidke
Cofounder and CEO
String Bio
Leveraging biotechnology to convert methane to everyday products, including feed and food
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Vinod Kumar
Cofounder & Managing Director
Advenio
Democratizing healthcare with an AI-powered software that rapidly, affordably, and reliably diagnoses critical health conditions from medical images.
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Mausumi Acharyya
Founder, CEO
Ampd Energy
Creating an emission-free future for construction. Ampd’s lithium-ion energy storage system electrifies construction sites enabling clean, quiet and data-rich energy delivery
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Brandon Ng
CEO & Co-founder
Ampere Vehicles
Developing affordable, clean, and efficient electric vehicles to provide freedom of mobility, convenience, and empowerment to India’s aspiring middle class.
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Arcstone
Driving digitalization and integration for global manufacturing operations from the shop floor right to the hands of consumer; Arcstone aims to enable a more responsive, responsible, and sustainable manufacturing ecosystem for us all through data.
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Willson Deng
Founder & CEO
Ecozen Solutions
Changing the way India handles its perishables by building the country’s first-ever solar cold storage chain and providing intelligent solar pumping technology.
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Devendra Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO
FatHopes Energy
Converting waste oil into renewable biofuels that feed into the existing petroleum infrastructure, leading to a low-carbon future.
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Vinesh Sinha
Founder / CEO
Fourth Partner Energy
Leading the development of India's distributed solar solutions, completing over 1,500 grid-connected and off-grid installations across 22 states.
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Saifuddin Dhorajiwala
Co-founder and Executive Director
gridComm
Transforming streetlights into resource-efficient platforms with proprietary IoT sensors, saving cities millions of dollars in electricity and maintenance.
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Kwong Hwa Jen
Chairman, Managing Director
Headspring
Fostering electrical democratization worldwide through its next-generation power semiconductors, with designs one-tenth the size of current devices.
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Osamu Hoshino
Founder & CEO
Heaven Springs Dynasty Harvest Group
Utilizing solar power and renewable energy to harvest safe drinking water from plain air in an efficient, low-carbon, eco-friendly way.
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Maxi Baldur
Founder
Husk Power Systems
Powering unserved and underserved communities in the Global South, through a platform of AI-enabled distributed energy resources (DERs)
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Manoj Sinha
Co-Founder and CEO
Leaf Resources
Utilizing a technology with the potential to replace virtually all petroleum-derived materials to transform plant biomass into sustainable products.
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RAD Green Solutions
Treating infectious biomedical waste safely with its revolutionary, environmentally friendly, non-incineration technology.
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Ivan Lim
CEO
Agri Info Design
Helping farmers to better navigate their crops through the world’s leading GPS tractor operation assistance app.
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Yasuyuki Hamada
Founder & CEO
Alesca Life
Creating solutions that enable anyone anywhere to grow the safest, healthiest, and freshest produce.
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Stuart Oda
Founder + CEO
Axelspace
Ultra-affordable, privately funded satellites designed to monitor the entire surface of the world — once per day.
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Yuya Nakamura
President and CEO
Bakeys Foods
Creating edible cutlery to help prevent 5 million tons of plastic from entering landfills.
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Banyan Nation
India's leading plastics recycling company — 58,000 TPA, 70+ brands, path to IPO
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Mani Vajipeyajula
Cofounder and CEO
ECOSOFTT
Reducing water waste by up to 50 percent and recycling up to 80 percent of wastewater for non-potable purposes.
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Stanley Samuel
CEO
Jeplan
Fostering a circular economy by collecting used clothing and household items to recycle and re-sell.
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Masaki Takao
Co-Founder & CEO
Khethworks
Providing 30 million small-scale farmers in India with solar-powered irrigation systems to affordably cultivate crops year-round and increase profitability.
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Laurus Bio (formerly Richcore India)
Eliminating contamination risks and creating safer medicines with animal origin free (AOF) proteins.
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Lithium Urban Technologies
Operating India's first completely electric vehicle fleet, reducing carbon dioxide emissions in some of the world's most polluted cities.
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Sanjay Krishnan
Founder
One Earth Designs
Powerful, versatile, easy-to-use, and fuel-free solar cooking stoves.
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Sundar
Building the world’s largest discovery and sourcing platform in the apparel supply chain for products to be made by a highly-skilled and fairly-paid workforce.
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Sun King
Providing solar-powered lighting and energy systems to over 7 million families who formerly had no access to electricity.
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T. Patrick Walsh
Co-Founder & CEO
Vitargent
Award-winning biotechnology company enabling manufacturers to more ethically ensure their products are safe from harmful chemicals.
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Jimmy Tao
CEO
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