Meet the entrepreneurs that are shaping the future
Global Finalists
Meet the entrepreneurs from around the world who are creating solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals!
The global finalists represent the top ventures from Accelerate2030, selected for their: innovative solutions with impact on the SDGs, international scaling potential, highly skilled and motivated team and program fit.
From reef-safe sunscreen made from agricultural waste, to simplified investment solutions for clean energy, these ventures are changing the future of business around the globe!
2023
Project Eagleton
China
A company dedicated to designing and manufacturing high-speed electric vehicules
Coco
Mexico
a solution bringing connectivity to underserved rural communities.
Nhanga Trust
Zimbabwe
A social enterprise furnishing washable pads to rural schoolgirls
ZimbosAbantu
Zimbabwe
A social innovation of locally built mobile clinics.
Enwise
China
A technology upcycling food waste into green energy.
Impact Hub Cotonou
Benin
This new Hub aims to be a platform for training, financing and support for start-ups and SMEs.
2021
Afia Group
Rwanda
Afia Pharma is an e-commerce platform that offers home delivery, discounted prices on medications, and consultations with a digital pharmacist.
AirCare
North Macedonia
AirCare is a mobile app that simply visualizes air quality data to help people see what they breathe.
Ecording
Turkey
Ecording develops sustainable and innovative technologies that tackle the global climate crisis. Ecording uses ecoDrones™ to disperse plant seeds in hard-to-reach areas.
Evreka
Turkey
Evreka aims to reshape the waste management business by delivering end-to-end solutions for waste management across the globe.
Landcent
China
Landcent is on a mission to accelerate the fight against infectious disease by developing and delivering affordable, sustainable solutions that are safe to use at scale.
Mi Terro
China
Mi Terro utilizes big data to create home compostable packaging materials made from plant-based agricultural waste – a sustainable single use plastic alternative.
Mycotech
Indonesia
Mycotech supports the production of sustainable products by providing high performance and responsible biomaterial while empowering local communities.
Pelletics
Costa Rica
Pelletics aims to decarbonize the economy by recycling wood waste & biomasses, transforming them into fossil fuel substitutes & environment friendly products.
Pijak Bumi
Indonesia
Pijakbumi is creates well-designed, low carbon footwear that is fairly priced and made with biodegradable and recyclable materials.
Scrapays
Nigeria
Scrapays helps recycling businesses provide on-demand material recovery services to waste producers, with a reward system.
Sunspectra
Costa Rica
Sunspectra upcycles agricultural waste and transforms it into cosmetic products. Their first product line is reef-safe papaya based sunscreen.
T.joint
Sudan
T.joint provides solutions in the field of microfinance by facilitating access to loans and delivering complementary services such as training.
Unergy
Colombia
Unergy cuts barriers to investment in renewable energy through their collaborative platform to invest in solar energy projects.
Unibio
Argentina
Unibio produces an ingredient that reduces toxicity levels of pesticide formulas. It’s nanocarriers are made of natural compounds.
VIC
Colombia
VIC specializes in decentralized water systems that emulate the natural water cycle.
2019
AgroCognitive
Venezuela
AgroCognitive is an affordable and smart precision farming platform for every farm size and food industry. It is powered by an artificial intelligence (AI), visual recognition engine, analytics models, blockchain, and compatible with IoT management devices.
Bio Live
Turkey
Biolive produces completely natural bioplastic granules that stem from olive seeds in order to overcome the problems and fulfil the deficiencies in bio/plastic market.
CRIC
Costa Rica
Costa Rica Insect Company (CRIC) creates sustainable insect-based solutions, as well as provides high quality and healthy nutrition solutions for malnutrition.
Ekofungi
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, cultivating mushrooms using unique energy-efficient innovations.
Impact Water
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.
Portal Telemedicina
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.
Sampang
Indonesia
Sampangan is a waste to carbon tech company which sustainably processes and decomposes any kinds of solid waste (organic, inorganic, electronic, toxic, dry or humid) and converts them into organic outputs such as carbon, steam and others.
SoluBio
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.
Unima
Indonesia
Unima is a biotechnology company developing fast and low cost diagnostics and 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.
2017
Hablando con Julis
Colombia
Hablando Con Julis is proof that people with speech, writing, and learning disabilities can have the same opportunities as any other.
HearX Group
South Africa
HearScreen is an innovative mobile hearing health application, offering accurate, clinically-validated, low-cost smartphone screening.
HM Energy
Mexico
HM Energy Mexico has innovated a way to convert scrap tires to produce a low carbon emitting diesel and carbon black char by using a novel thermal conversion process in their plants.
Piipee
Brazil
Piipee is a bio and eco-friendly liquid that you use instead of the toilet flush saving 100% of toilet water consumption during urination and cheaper than the water paid using the flush.
Salt
Philippines
SALt has developed an ecologically designed lantern activated by salt water. By adding salt water to the lamp, the metal-air fuel cell generates electricity to light up the lamp without the need of the sun.
Syafunda
South Africa
Syafunda Digital Library is set up in schools, community centres and public libraries providing access to digital educational content through mobile technology.
TREE Aliance
Colombia
TREE Alliance empowers marginalised youth and young-adults to take care of themselves by giving them access to education and jobs through vocational training restaurants.
Whole Surplus
Turkey
Whole Surplus have an online market-place connecting food retailers and food banks. Until now they have helped more than 190 000 people with access to food, with over 90 food banks in their network, saving a total of 5340 tons of CO2.
2016
Dasaran
Armenia
Dasaran builds technology designed to help countries around the world not just meet their educational and technological development goals, but improve student performance, teacher capacity, and educational decision-making.
Diseclar
Colombia
Diseclar transforms recycled plastic and agro-industrial waste into sustainable material to produce architectural finishes and furniture, which can also be used in different applications, ideal for outdoor use.
Ignitia
Ghana
Diseclar transforms recycled plastic and agro-industrial waste into sustainable material to produce architectural finishes and furniture, which can also be used in different applications, ideal for outdoor use.
Protera Farms
Mali
Protera offers the most sustainable and eco-friendly source of protein in the world, by harnessing the 360 degree benefits of breeding fly larva to offer a wide spectrum of nutrition solutions for poultry farming, aquaculture & agricultural land.