Dorae, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, enables companies to capture key data and automate supply, production and distribution information, standardize and automate document generation, gain visibility into supply chains, and open new commercial relationships. Its target customers include primary producers, manufacturers and retailers, traders, transporters, and logistics providers. “We…

Saskia Bruysten co-founded Yunus Social Business (YSB) together with Nobel Peace Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus. YSB Funds invests in social businesses in developing countries with affordable financing and growth support. Its portfolio of social businesses provides employment, education, healthcare, safe water, and clean energy to over 17.8 million people worldwide…

Cardano Development is not a typical debt or equity investor. Operating from the principle that finance is an essential agreement for inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economic growth, the Amsterdam-based company has created innovative financial business concepts in emerging markets, directly mobilizing more than $2.5 billion of financing and contributing to…

Apple announced this week that it is penetrating deeper into the finance sector by offering loans directly to consumers for its new Buy Now, Pay Later product, taking on a role played in its other lending services by banking partners. And, it separately made clear that its foray into the…

EnginZyme, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, is scaling up a patented cell-free biomanufacturing platform aimed at the sustainable production of chemicals. It is targeting markets such as food, cosmetics, and fragrances. Customers include Tetra Pak and a Fortune 250 vegetable oil manufacturer. “We want to green chemical manufacturing,” says…

Jack Hidary leads SandboxAQ, an enterprise SaaS company he spun out from Google parent Alphabet that delivers solutions that leverage quantum technologies and AI and run on today’s classical computing platforms. Sandbox’s team and inspiration began at Alphabet from 2016 through 2022. Sandbox AQ is developing commercial products for telcom…

The livestock sector is responsible for an estimated 14.5% of greenhouse gas emissions and uses up 30% of Earth’s and 8% of global freshwater. Those numbers need to be drastically reduced if the world is to become carbon neutral. It’s a tough ask given that meat consumption is expected to…

The CEO of German asset manager DWS Group resigned this week after police raided its offices and those of its majority owner Deutsche Bank as part of a probe into allegations of greenwashing. The raid was prompted by accusations by a former DWS executive-who said the company had made misleading…

Who: Shez Partovi is the Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer of Royal Philips. He is an experienced clinical professor, neuroradiologist, computer scientist and entrepreneur with a track record of leading large health systems, cloud transformation and artificial intelligence and machine learning in the healthcare, life sciences and genomics industries Topic…