OUR 2019 FINALISTS
Mexico
Unima is a biotechnology company developing fast and low cost diagnostic and a disease surveillance systems. The company’s goal is to solve the problem of lack of access to timely diagnostics for 3 billion people living in the developing world and in low resource settings in developed countries.
Brazil
Portal Telemedicina is a Brazilian healthtech company that aims to mitigate the uneven distribution of specialist doctors and the resulting lack of access to these professionals. The company provides a telediagnostic platform that integrates with medical devices, automatically transferring data across devices as well as RIS and PACs systems, and allows doctors to provide fast, low cost, online diagnostics.
Venezuela
AgroCognitive is an affordable and smart precision farming platform for every farmer size and food industry. Powered by an artificial intelligence visual recognition engine, analytics models, blockchain, and it is capatible with IoT management devices.
Turkey
Biolive produce completely natural bioplastic granules stem from olive seeds in order to overcome the problems and fulfil the deficiencies in bio/plastic market. The solution is cost-efficient, biodegradable and non-carcinogenic by using olive seeds to produce plastic granules. Biolive granules are biodegradable, compostable, recyclable, transparent and 90% more cost effective than existing bioplastics because of utilizing waste of olive oil companies.
Serbia
Ekofungi is a mid-sized organic mushroom producer using an innovative circular mushroom-production model that harnesses local cellulose-based wastes (in a 30 km radius), creating mushroom substrate and cultivation mushrooms using unique energy-efficient innovations. The residues of the substrate is composted after mushroom growth and composted for farmers to fertilise their soil.
Nigeria
Impact Water Nigeria (IW) – formally registered as Global Impact H20 Innovations Ltd. – is a social enterprise dedicated to scaling safe drinking water solutions in Nigeria. IW targets SDG pillar institutions such as schools (esp SDG 6,3 and 4) and, soon, health facilities as well.
Philippines
InvestEd gives education loans to college students declared unloanable by the financial system. Our proprietary credit scoring algorithm does what banks cannot–to predict an unbanked student‚ probability of repayment by measuring graduation, employment and behavioral risks. The success of our algorithm has also enabled the public to invest their money in our student loan program. By 2023, we aim to be the world’s top education bank for the poor.
Indonesia
Sampangan is a waste to carbon tech company which sustainably processes and decomposes any kinds of solid waste (organic, anorganic, electronic, toxic, dry or humid) and converts them into organic outputs such as carbon, steam and others.
Brazil
SoluBio’s mission is to eliminate the usage of chemicals in agriculture through a technology that enables farmers to produce their own biofungicide, biopesticide among other products. This not only provides positive impacts to the environment and soils, but also reduces costs for farmers.
COSTA RICA
Costa Rica Insect Company (CRIC) creates sustainable insect-based solutions, as well as provides high quality and healthy nutrition solutions for malnutrition. In addition CRIC seeks to use of insects to develop biochemical components for unsustainable industries such as plastics, pharmaceuticals, technology or even packaging.