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It is estimated that the global economy will need over 300 million new jobs in order to accommodate current unemployment, supplement projected job loss resulting from automated industries, and provide opportunities for the next generation. In 2015, 10.2% of the world’s workers were living with their families on less than $1.90 per person, per day. 946 million people remain with zero access to sanitation facilities and 757 million adults cannot read or write. And now with the global pandemic having a devastating effect on all facets of life, the situation is even more critical. Unreasonable Impact, a multi-year initiative created with Barclays, was launched in 2016 with the principle aim of scaling growth equity companies addressing these very challenges, whilst also creating jobs. The partnership is designed around ensuring that the fastest growing and most impactful companies across different geographies (Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific) are best positioned for scale. The launch of Unreasonable Impact Asia Pacific sees the program support the 14 entrepreneurs that have been identified as critical drivers of change, with the incredibly innovative solutions necessary to meet these challenges at scale, from across the region. Over the course of the next few months, the now fully virtual program will support these entrepreneurs through a series of virtual gatherings and sessions which have been prototyped and perfected to align them with mentors, specialists, advice, resources and capital, as well as with each other. Since the program’s global launch, the Unreasonable Impact community, made up of over 200 ventures, has positively impacted more than 250 million people, reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 48 million tons, and generated more than 39,000 net new jobs in more than 180 countries. The companies have also raised more than USD $5 billion in funding. These 14 companies join this unparalleled global network in its shared effort to drive lasting and scalable change.
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Better Packaging Co. Designing revolutionary sustainable packaging solutions for the circular economy.
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Manufacturing Technology
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Australia, China, New Zealand, UK, US
Better Packaging Co. (BPCo) develops sustainable, customised packaging to support eCommerce and retail. BPCo’s solutions consider the complete lifecycle impact of a product from raw material sourcing, right through to end-of-life disposal. They believe in a circular economy where generating waste is not an option and the earth’s resources are not treated as infinite. BPCo’s core products include padded mailers, courier satchels, garment bags, and thermal labels, and their SKUs span different categories such as compostable, recyclable, reusable, plant-based, and waste-based. BPCo has just launched the first mailer made from 100% Ocean Bound Plastic waste and in the future, they plan to make the whole bag (including seals) to be made from pollution. Better Packaging Co. is a BCorp, a member of The Australasian Bioplastics Association, The Australian Packaging Covenant, The NZ Packaging Forum, and a founding signatory to the Ellen MacArthur New Plastics Pact.
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Rebecca Percasky
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Co-Founder & Director
betterpackaging.com
Rebecca Percasky is the Co-Founder & CEO of Better Packaging Co. She began her career working with multinationals (Vodafone, HP and IBM) to deliver complex tech implementations. As Co-Founder & COO of StarShipIT, she was responsible for partnering with courier companies and expanding its market penetration. Working so closely with the rapidly expanding eCommerce industry, Rebecca became cognisant about the growing repercussions of the amount of packaging waste being generated. When researching alternatives to plastic, Rebecca realised was inspired to do packaging better. That was the genesis of her collaboration with Kate Bezar and Better Packaging Co was born in March 2018. Rebecca’s on a mission to find the world’s most sustainable packaging solutions and remove the waste associated with packaging through innovative materials, systems re-think, communication, Co-Founder & Director education and clever design. Her vision is a world where rubbish bins as we know them don’t exist, where everything including waste has a value.
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gush Transforming living environments with sustainable paint and advanced materials with anti-thermal and disinfection technologies.
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Domestic Implements
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Singapore, US
EN T R E P R E NEU R
Lester Leong
TIT LE
Co-Founder
gowithgush.com
gush is an advanced materials company innovating products to address concerns of sustainability and wellness, both indoors and outdoors. By building in antithermal and disinfection technologies into surfaces, gush products are able to transform the quality of life for their customers. Their flagship product, gush cair is a nontoxic indoor paint that purifies the air of pollutants, rids mold, and eliminates bacteria by breaking down volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at a rate of 99% in 21 hours. Sold throughout Singapore, Southeast Asia, and the US., gush’s air purifying paint catapulted them into launching other nontoxic advanced materials such as anti-thermal Clearcool solar films, exterior paints, adhesives, and sealers. gush’s sustainable products are price competitive with industry players, making them suitable for widespread adoption by developers, facility managers, architects, interior designers, and individual eco-conscious consumers who seek comfortable, safe, and healthy spaces. Through their technology, gush is helping end customers prioritise their living spaces, mental health, and well-being without compromising comfort or environmental integrity.
Lester Leong is the Co-Founder & CEO of gush, where he’s been pivotal in ensuring gush’s sustainable growth and transformation into one of the rising advanced materials companies in the region. WIth previous experience in startups, investment banking and Islamic banking, Lester has led gush to win multiple competitions and secure funding from strategics and institutional investors alike. Lester has always been curious and seeking the hardest path possible. He speaks multiple languages, and is strongly motivated by sustainability and making an impact. In 2020, Lester and his Co-Founder, Peter Lim, were named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia list in Industry, Co-Founder Manufacturing & Energy. A builder
Lester Leong
and entrepreneur at heart, Lester’s work is firmly rooted in the belief that there is “no fate but what we make.”
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Haofood Developing the world’s first vegan chicken using peanut protein as a primary ingredient.
SEC TO R
Food Technology
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China
EN T R E P R E NEU R
Astrid Prajogo
TIT LE
Founder & CEO
haofood.co
Haofood is a pioneer in using peanut protein as the chief ingredient for its innovative plant-based chicken. Based in Shanghai, Haofood was founded in 2020 and currently has a presence in over 2500 outlets throughout China. They create their products using Innotein™, their own end-to-end proprietary innovative technology, to develop a variety of plant-based products from peanuts and other plant protein that has a distinctive texture and strong umami taste profile. While 95% of consumers in China have heard about plant-based meat, 38% of them think that plant-based meat tastes awful and only 30% of them think that it tastes good (IPSOS, 2020, China Plant-Based Meat Insight). Taste is indeed the key factor in consumers’ decisions to repurchase, and Haofood is on a mission to create healthy, sustainable and delicious plant-based meats that consumers love.
Astrid Prajogo is the Founder & CEO of Haofood, a food science and technology company that develops alternative protein. Her desire to found Haofood stemmed upon the mission to sustain happiness from good food forever. Aware of the sustainability and ethical issues surrounding meat, Astrid realised that the world’s current meat consumption trends could not be maintained indefinitely. Astrid seeks to see alternative poultry protein stand toe to toe as a primary protein source in order to preserve the earth and feed generations to come. Astrid has over Founder & CEO 17 years of professional experience in the nutrition, healthcare and gastronomy industry with a key focus in Southeast Asia & China region.
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Haqdarshak Transforming how citizens access their entitlements at last-mile India.
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Information Technology
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India
EN T R E P R E NEU R
Aniket Doegar
TIT LE
Co-Founder & CEO
haqdarshak.com
Haqdarshak is a tech-enabled service connecting millions of eligible workers to government welfare entitlements and benefits in India. Haqdarshak uses its proprietary digital database of government welfare schemes to connect individuals to a customised list of eligible schemes, providing end-to-end support in scheme and document eligibility and registrations. The solution is tech-assisted with their app and the underlying database operates as a key enabler. Additionally, the service relies heavily on haqdarshaks, women entrepreneurs on the ground assisting millions of beneficiaries to apply for these schemes for a fee. Government welfare schemes in India are fragmented and complex, with over 700k welfare programs nationwide unavailable in a centralised, digital repository. Haqdarshak’s value-add lies in democratising this process, making it simple for the customer by providing institutional knowledge and service delivery. To date, Haqdarshak has reached over 2 million families, helped successfully convert 11m applications to benefits, and trained 20,000 haqdarshaks.
Aniket Doegar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Haqdarshak, a social enterprise enabling Indian citizens and MSME to access government welfare and financial services on a single platform. Before founding Haqdarshak, Aniket was a Teach for India Fellow and Acumen Fellow. In 2019, Aniket was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia list for Social Entrepreneurs. He has worked for over 12 years in the development and technology sector and currently serves on the boards of several nonprofits and impact organisations, including Hands for You Foundation and The YP Foundation. He is currently building Haqdarshak as the largest social security services platform in India. In his role as CEO, Aniket’s focus is primarily on fundraising, strategy, Co-Founder & CEO hiring and operations. He also works on the overall partnerships and network development model within Haqdarshak to scale their services across India.
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Hydroleap Replacing expensive chemical water treatment with cost-effective and environmentallyfriendly electrical treatment.
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Waste Treatment Technology
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Singapore
EN T R E P R E NEU R
Mohammad Sherafatmand
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Founder & CEO
hydroleap.com
Hydroleap is a Singapore-grown water treatment startup that seeks to displace chemical pretreatment processes with their proprietary, IoT-enabled electrical treatment technology. Hydroleap’s deep technical expertise allows them to design modular electrical treatment processes and deliver end-to-end wastewater treatment systems, offering solutions that are automated, robust, costeffective, and environmentally friendly. Hydroleap’s solutions can fully cover primary and secondary wastewater treatment and can partially cover tertiary treatment. They have two primary technological offerings, electrocoagulation (EC) and electrooxidation (EO), that allow them to remove almost ten different contaminants and address the needs of a multitude of industries. The company also offers digital solutions around data acquisition, remote monitoring, and automated reporting.
Mohammad Sherafatmand is the Founder & CEO of Hydroleap, a company on a mission to become the leading, next-generation wastewater technology provider and accelerate the adoption of sustainable water across the globe. He built Hydroleap to bring innovation to the most important resource on the planet, and remains heavily involved in many facets of the business, including ideation, customer & product development, and implementation. Mohammad started to develop a passion for the environment–specifically water– when he began travelling in Iran over 15 years ago. There, he saw the huge contrast between regions and their microclimates. Mohammad’s a highly motivated individual with professional expertise in environmental and chemical engineering (wastewater treatment, electrochemistry, membranes and renewable energy). He completed his PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2016 at the National University of Singapore, researching Founder & CEO the development and application of novel electrochemical technologies in water and wastewater treatment.
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Massive Mobility Building a high-quality EV charging infrastructure in India, promoting a seamless user experience and optimized charging.
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Renewable Energy
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India
Massive Mobility is building a reliable charging infrastructure across India for EVs. Their system consists of the physical charging nodes, which can be deployed for both public and private residential applications, and a deep tech platform called the Massive Charging Cloud, which enables realtime discovery and bookings for end-users as well as data monitoring for the company’s customers. The Massive Charging Node is a universal AC charger with a rated power output of 3.3kw, allowing for a full charge in 60 minutes. All chargers have IoT capabilities, allowing them to collect real-time data. The company’s tech platform sets Massive Mobility apart, promoting a frictionless charging experience for users. The platform allows for advance bookings of charging stations, integrated payment systems, and power monitoring to avoid battery damage. Massive Mobility currently has 150 chargers deployed in over 50 locations across Delhi and is contracted to deploy at least another 50,000 over the next two years.
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Shailesh Vickram Singh
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Co-Founder & CEO
massivemobility.in
Shailesh Vickram Singh is the Co-Founder & CEO of Massive Mobility, an Indian-based venture aiming to expedite the transition to EVS and clean mobility in India by making charging stations more accessible and reliable. Shailesh has over 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship and venture investing. Prior to starting Massive Mobility, Shailesh was an Executive Director with SeedFund ($54M), which focused on Mobile, SAAS, Healthcare, Tech and consumption-driven industries. Before SeedFund, Shailesh was Managing Director of a private equity fund ($170M). Shailesh has been a speaker at various industry forums and panels, including Financial Times Investing for Good and the UN Regional Climate Summit. His articles are regularly published in leading newspapers throughout India, including Economic Times and the Times of India, and he is a regular feature on various TV shows Co-Founder & CEO like CNBC Awaaz and News24 to discuss issues related to climate investing, venture capital and entrepreneurship.
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MYCL Producing plant-based leather alternatives using mycelium and agro-waste for the fashion industry.
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Biotechnology
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France, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore
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Adi Reza Nugroho
TIT LE
Co-Founder & CEO
mycl.bio
MYCL (also known as Mycotech) creates sustainable, durable, and affordable bio-materials utilising agro-waste and mycelium for various applications. Their core, patentprotected product is a mycelium-based leather called Mylea. The material is incredibly customizable and strong, allowing it to be used in a range of applications from shoes and jewellery to building materials. The company is primarily focused on commercial fashion applications and just launched a pilot program with six global brands. Additionally, MYCL secured $10M of sales agreements until 2024 with a Japanese distributor to make the material for 200,000 shoes. With increasing customer demand across Asia, Europe, and the Americas, the company is focused on scaling up its production capacity to deliver on contracts and accelerate economies of scale.
Adi Reza Nugroho is the Co-Founder & CEO of MYCL, a biotech startup that produces sustainable material for the global market. He graduated with a degree in Architecture from Bandung Technology Institute (ITB) in Indonesia. He has been passionate about entrepreneurship since his early days. He was previously the Co-Founder & Creative Director of Growbox, a company that provides DIY mushroom growing kits. Growbox eventually pivoted to MYCL in 2015 to provide high-performance and low-impact bio material for fashion and building applications. Under his leadership, MYCL has been recognized both locally and internationally. The team won the 2017 Architecture & Urban Design Biennale in Seoul, 2018 DBS Social Enterprise Awards, and 2019 MIT Solve Circular Economy Challenge. Adi is also Australia Awards Scholars Co-Founder & CEO for its short term program in 2018, focusing on International Business Readiness at the Queensland University of Technology.
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Orxa Energies Developing performance electric vehicles and associated e-transportation technologies.
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Transportation
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India
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Orxa Energies is a vertically integrated developer of performance electric motorbikes and associated technologies. They operate two business segments: a B2C producing performance electric motorbikes, and a B2B producing battery packs for use in the Aerospace, Defense, Agriculture, and other sectors. Orxa develops and produces its Lithium-ion battery packs in both segments, with its B2B segment serving as a robust R&D engine. The significant R&D in batteries translates into product performance in the Mantis, Orxa’s flagship e-bike. Orxa’s high-performance battery packs in the aerospace industry are used for heavy drones in agricultural applications. In the automotive space, Orxa uses this same technology in their Mantis, characterised by lower weight and volume to manage the specific challenges of performance vehicles: longevity, thermal management, and weight. Orxa’s Mantis motorcycles have the largest battery pack in its segment in India with the ability to deliver 200km of riding per charge in cities.
Ranjita Ravi
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Co-Founder & CEO
orxaenergies.com
Ranjita Ravi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Orxa Energies, a Bangalorebased startup seeking to rapidly electrify transportation. At Orxa, she works on business development, investor relations, and other processes, but her main job remains communicating the team’s “high-tech-geeky-stuff ” to people outside of Orxa. Ranjita is an accomplished leader with over 14 years of experience working across several industries internationally. Prior to co-founding Orxa, Ranjita worked in risk and internal auditing at AB Inbev, and as a Biopharma Lead Analyst at Tracxn. In Paris, she led internal audit teams at Sanofi, where she executed multiple assignments across Co-Founder & CEO 20 countries and gained experience in fields such as CSR, marketing, and technology. Ranjita earned an MBA from ESSEC Business School in France.
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PackAge+ Developing sustainable packaging materials that enable secondlife applications for plastic and glass waste.
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Manufacturing Technology
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Taiwan
PackAge+ develops sustainable packaging made from recycled plastic bottles and glass materials for e-commerce and technology customers in Taiwan, allowing businesses to ship their products while reducing CO2 emissions. PackAge+’s solution helps give plastic and glass waste a second life, enabling circular economy applications. Their packaging is waterproof and can be used more than 50 times, reducing at least 1.25kg of CO2 per reuse. PackAge+ utilises a tech-enabled tracking system that assigns each package a unique ID, allowing them to track where their packages are, how many times they have been reused, and where packages are returned. Consumers and brands can also access this information through the company’s digital dashboard. There, they can understand their impact and CO2 savings, find locations to return packaging, and receive rewards.
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Sylvia Chung
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Co-Founder & Business Development Manager
packageplus-tw.com
Sylvia Chung is a co-founding team member & Business Development Manager at PackAge+, a Taiwan-based venture focused on creating sustainable packaging solutions as a means to reduce carbon emissions for e-commerce customers across all industries. At PackAge+, Sylvia leads growth and partnership efforts, and is responsible for building new services in new markets. Sylvia has always been passionate about social impact work and entrepreneurship. Previously, she founded a social enterprise targeting problems of rural education. Before joining PackAge+, Sylvia worked in analytics, brand marketing and customer success-focused roles in both venture capital and mar-tech. Co-Founder & Business Sylvia graduated with a degree from Development Manager National Central University, where she specialised in social enterprise, social ROI, crowdfunding and CSR.
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s.lab Offering endto-end cold chain logistics services that are reliable, sustainable, and efficient.
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Supply Chain Technology
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Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea
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Su Ah Lee
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CEO
slab.us
s.lab offers a suite of fixed temperature cold-chain logistics services for food products and pharmaceuticals, reducing the potential waste of valuable resources and making logistics more sustainable. They have three primary services: a sustainable cold-chain packaging solution (Greenie boxes), an IoT and cloud-based realtime temperature tracking service (Bound X), and endto-end supply chain management services. The Greenie box can pack frozen, refrigerated, and low-temperature products together, allowing products with different temperature ranges to be transported together. The box is made of vacuum insulated panels (VIP), which reduces the need for Styrofoam, guarantees the products stay at the same temperature from departure to arrival, and enables the use of electric vehicles for transportation since the boxes do not require energy to stay refrigerated. When paired with Bound X, their fixed temperature chain technology platform, the platform provides valuable real-time temperature tracking of the products, giving customers the ability to validate the temperature stability of the products even through various environmental changes and accidents.
Su Ah Lee is the Founder & CEO of s.lab, where she is making cold chain logistics environmentally friendly by safely transporting pharmaceutical products and reducing food waste. She graduated from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Japan with a degree in International Management. Following graduation, Su AH built a career in global R&D sourcing at Sae-A Trading, a clothing export company based in South Korea. While at Sae-A Trading, Su Ah gained experience in market research & trading, global sourcing management, and supply chain management. This exposure to logistics management eventually led Su Ah to found s.lab in 2014. Recently, Su Ah has been busy at the forefront CEO of vaccine transport by participating in South Korea’s government project of transporting COVID-19 vaccines via s.lab’s Greenie Medi boxes.
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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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Agricultural Technology
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India, Japan, Thailand
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Shu Masuda
TIT LE
COO
sagri.tokyo
Sagri is a smart agriculture data service and platform company that helps promote sustainable agricultural processes and uplift smallholder farmers across the APAC region. Their deep tech capabilities combine the power of satellite-based big data, AI/ML, and grid-based polygon maps. Their service unlocks opportunities to increase yields, support fertiliser design, and offer remote crop and forest monitoring. Their technology provides insights related to the customer and end-user. It can do everything from allowing farmers to check the chemical composition of soil and change their techniques accordingly, to supporting microfinance operators by calculating the financial potential of agricultural land and helping governments make data-based decisions to determine which projects are most helpful and aligned with farmers’ interests. The platform processes weather, market, soil, farmland, and vegetation data, and interprets it into insights related to credit creation for farmers, agricultural advisory for intelligent farming, soil health checks, and carbon-offset analytics.
Shu Masuda is the COO of Sagri, a Tokyo-based venture helping farmers throughout the APAC region increase their salaries by unlocking new revenue streams and adopting more sustainable and efficient agricultural practices. Prior to this role, Shu was a Senior Financial Analyst in the R&D division of Janssen Pharma, Johnson & Johnson group. For more than 10 years, Shu worked in a wide range of roles–from accountant to internal M&A consultant– at ITOCHU, a Fortune 500 trading giant in Japan. ITOCHU is a holding company of more than 125,000 employees that invests in textiles, machinery, metals & minerals, energy & chemicals, food, real estate, and ICT/financial business. COO While at ITOCHU, Shu supported many industry groups as a “mini CFO” of healthcare, industrial machinery, real estate, and more.
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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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Hydrogen Technology
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Argentina, Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Spain, US
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Tulika Raj
TIT LE
Co-Founder & CEO
sungreenh2.com
SunGreenH2 enables the production of green hydrogen through its hyper-efficient, proprietary electrodes, which make the water electrolysis process more efficient and less costly. SunGreenH2 manufactures the cells, stacks, and systems involved in the electrolysis process, which can be utilised by all different green hydrogen producers, including alkaline, PEM, and AEM innovators. Their core technology involves replacing existing cell components, which typically use expensive titanium materials with gold coatings, with low-cost and abundant stainless steel and their proprietary high-performance coating. This results in 200% more green hydrogen production, 50% decreased CAPEX, 10% lower energy consumption, and 30x reduced rare and expensive materials usage. Their solution is plug-and-play, meaning it can be utilised in any existing manufacturing process as long as they use metals as their core components. With the technology ready to go, the company is currently undergoing rapid commercialisation as they establish a large manufacturing facility in Australia to manufacture their products for customers across the globe.
Tulika Raj is the Co-Founder & CEO of SunGreenH2, where she’s on a mission to enable hard-to-decarbonise industries to utilise green hydrogen and achieve net-zero emissions. She is an experienced commercial leader who has led $2B in transactions, including fundraising and large project investments. Tulika also has handson experience in developing and growing renewable energy companies. She has over 10 years of experience in clean energy investments in solar and wind developers from growth to exit stage at major energy companies and renewable funds, including BP Alternative Energy, Nexif Energy, Denham Capital, Octopus Investments and Keppel Capital. Tulika holds a Bachelor’s Co-Founder & CEO of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from London Business School.
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Sustainable & Secure Information Disposal (SSID) Providing sustainable waste management solutions that encourage recycling and reduce waste.
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Waste Treatment Technology
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Hong Kong
EN T R E P R E NEU R
Harold Yip
TIT LE
Co-Founder & Executive Director
ssid.hk
Sustainable & Secure Information Disposal (SSID) is a waste reduction-focused company that offers a range of solutions to encourage the sustainable management and reuse of waste materials in Hong Kong. There are three primary facets to the business: waste recovery from businesses, consumers, and universities; consulting and education programs for corporates; and developing and selling consumer products that utilise recycled materials. SSID has established over 500 recycling drop-off points for their waste recovery services for consumers and offers waste pick-up services for larger businesses. They position themselves as a one-stop shop for all types of waste, including paper products, aluminium, plastic, and e-waste. They recycle the raw materials through various pulp mills and exporters. SSID has also developed digital solutions that measure waste collection data through a cloud-based recycling data platform to complement its waste recovery services.
Harold Yip is the Co-Founder & Executive Director at Sustainable & Secure Information Disposal (SSID), a waste management company that applies technology and knowledge to build a circular business particularly for papers. SSID has pioneered the Hong Kong waste industry with the use of IoT since 2009. SSID has also set up HK’s first recycling pulp mill, MilMill, for used beverage cartons originally disposed of in landfills. Harold has over 20 years of sales, marketing and general management experience in FMCG and the office supplies industry. He had held senior positions Co-Founder & Executive Director with Lyreco, Dairy Farm and Advance Agro. Harold has earned a BBA and an EMBA degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Urbanmetry Harvesting and analyzing city data in emerging countries to extract insights and inform decision-making in the built environment.
SEC TO R
Big Data
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Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam
EN T R E P R E NEU R
Cha-Ly Koh
TIT LE
Founder & CEO
urbanmetry.com
Urbanmetry is a data company that harvests, cleans, and analyses large amounts of city and property data from emerging nations, utilising its proprietary algorithms to decode cities’ data trends and patterns. This aggregated data does not exist otherwise. Since 2014, Urbanmetry has focused on restructuring and cleaning up data from over 50 different government ministries and departments, as well as layering data from private sources. Urbanmetry can then develop a wide range of products and applications for its customers. This unlocks powerful insights related to urban development, city planning, and mortgage and property assessments that are geared toward sustainable development, enabling institutions in emerging countries to make decisions based on accurate and timely data. Already profitable, Urbanmetry is equipped with an extensive database covering Malaysia, Japan, and Vietnam. With a lean SaaS model, Urbanmetry is well-prepared to scale its operations and service offerings.
Cha-Ly Koh is the Founder & CEO of Urbanmetry Sdn Bhd, a data analytics company that cleans and analyses large amounts of city data through its proprietary algorithms. Trained in city planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cha-Ly hopes to help governments, city planners, corporations and urban dwellers by providing insights into the city with big data. Since its founding, Urbanmetry has provided intelligence to various listed companies, banks and government agencies including the World Bank, RHB Bank, Alliance Bank, Sime Darby Property, S P Setia, Sunway Property, UEM Sunrise, Naza TTDI and so on. Prior to Urbanmetry, Cha-Ly was the CEO & Head of Data Analytics at Property Pricetag. In Founder & CEO 2017, Cha-Ly published The Secret Atlas of Greater Kuala Lumpur, to approach city planning in Kuala Lumpur with a big data lens.
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