Unreasonable Impact World Forum 2025

A collaboration between Barclays and Unreasonable Group

The Unreasonable Impact World Forum is an annual gathering of growth-stage ventures tackling social and environmental challenges. This year, you can join from anywhere as we convene virtually to connect visionary entrepreneurs with mentors and investors who are driving meaningful change.

Each year, the World Forum connects mentors and investors with scale-ups who are solving the world's most pressing challenges profitably. Convened by Unreasonable Group and Barclays, the event brings together impact-focused growth-stage ventures with a diverse community of champions who will accelerate their growth through ideation and collaboration.

Unreasonable and Barclays will bring together visionary scale-ups, forward-looking investors, and thought leaders to enable solutions to the world's challenges around energy, education, healthcare and more.

This is where action speaks louder than words. While others meet on the global stage to talk about problems, the World Forum is where solutions are on show.

We look forward to welcoming you online to this impactful event.

Meet our World Forum Cohort

Aquacycl

Providing operational savings and achieving sustainability metrics for industrial wastewater management

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Orianna Bretschger

Founder & CEO

Better Packaging Co.

Designing revolutionary sustainable packaging solutions for the circular economy

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Rebecca Percasky

CEO

Cabinet Health

Eliminating plastic waste in healthcare.

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Achal Patel

Co-Founder & CEO

Desolenator

Providing an off-grid, affordable, solar-powered water purification solution to customers at the base of the pyramid.

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alexei Levene

Co founder & Chief Growth Officer

William Janssen

COO

Adri Pols

CEO

ENERGYNEST

turns renewable electricity into affordable, clean heat for industry.

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Alex Robertson

CEO

GRST

Building the greenest lithium-ion battery.

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Frank Harley

Chief Strategy Officer

Hydroleap

Replacing expensive chemical water treatment with cost-effective and environmentally-friendly electrical treatment

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Moh Sherafatmand

Founder & CEO

Iceotope

Delivering innovative liquid cooling technology for data center and edge computing, saving the IT industry energy, space, and money.

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Jonathan Ballon

CEO

ISCA Technologies

Using naturally-occurring semiochemicals to manipulate insect behavior for crop protection, preventing resistance and pollution

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Agenor Mafra-Neto

Founder & CEO

JALA

Transforming the shrimp industry using a data-driven farming and an analytics platform

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Liris Maduningtyas

Co-Founder & CEO

Kuli Kuli

Turning global superfoods into lasting impact for your body and our planet

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Lisa Curtis

Founder & CEO

Magnuss

Driving innovation to reduce fuel consumption and emissions across today’s global shipping fleet

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James Rhodes

CEO & Co-Founder

Retykle

Building a resale platform propelling circularity for kids products and beyond.

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Sarah Garner

Founder & CEO

Shellworks

Packaging that never becomes waste

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Insiya Jafferjee

Co-Founder & 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

What The Future

Disrupting conventional manufacturing with novel 3D printing and thermoforming technology

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Carrie Howe

Managing Director

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is behind this?

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This World Forum is an extension of Unreasonable Impact, an innovative global partnership between Barclays and Unreasonable Group, supporting growth-stage entrepreneurs whose businesses are focused on solving some of the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges. Since 2016, Unreasonable Impact has supported over 375+ companies who have raised over $16 billion+ in financing and employ more than 33,000+ people around the world.

What is the process and criteria you used to select the participating entrepreneurs?

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We handpick and privately invite the world's most impactful growth-stage ventures to join Unreasonable Impact. We back these CEOs for life — they also become part of the Unreasonable Fellowship. Today, over 375+ ventures have joined an Unreasonable Impact program. These ventures are directly impacting the lives of over 538 million+ people across more than 47 countries, and collectively, they have raised more than $16 billion+ in financing... and we're just getting started.

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