GLOBAL • TECH

Leveraging Science and Tech for Impact

Tech4Impact at EPFL is Switzerland’s help on building a bridge between innovation projects and the most pressing environmental and societal challenges of nowadays.

AFRICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Why Bridging The Financial Inclusion Gap Includes Education On Financial Literacy

QuickCheck not only bridges the financial inclusion gap but also educates people about financial instruments and the risks related to loans and overindebtedness as financial literacy isn’t part of the curriculum in many countries.

GLOBAL • AGRICULTURE

Improving Efficiency and Sustainability of Farming Businesses Through Digital Solutions

Gamaya leverages the agronomy and crop knowledge of our partners and uses remote sensing technology to reach scalability.

GLOBAL • WATER & SANITATION

Water Preservation As Means To Living In A More Sustainable Way

An idea born when Ramzi had to prepare his child’s bottle at 3 in the morning that changed it all and set off a passion to improve global water management.

GLOBAL • AGRICULTURE

How Blockchain Can Help To Create Sustainable And Transparent Supply Chains

Pierre-Yves Bridel and Peter Gustavsson went on to create OriginFood in 2018, a startup that develops solutions for tracking, tracing and certifying food products, based on blockchain technology.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • EDUCATION & CONSULTING

How Learning From Every Single Person You Meet Can Change Your Life

We spoke with Hossam Taher, CEO of Orcas, an app that helps learners in K-12 discover the best tutors in their area.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • HEALTHCARE

Parenting Made Easy With Pregnancy and Child Health Management App Nurturey | Tushar Srivastava

LATIN AMERICA •

Saving Air Quality One Drone at a Time With qAIRa | Carlos Saito

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • HEALTHCARE

Change The Way You Manage Your Diabetes With Spike | Ziad

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • INVESTMENT

How to support impact investment in CEE and what chess to do with it | Olena Boytsun

Olena leads Luminate's funding activities in Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine, Georgia, and the Baltics.

OCEANIA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Bringing Online Payments to the Population with 3% Credit Card Penetration | Celeste (Lupe) Solofa

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • HEALTHCARE

From $100 M USD Exit to Street Art Activism | Marc Berrebi

It is difficult to present Marc Berrebi in just a few sentences. An entrepreneur since he can remember, but an artist at heart, this multi-exit founder has, what one could say, lived it all.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • INVESTMENT

How Kenza Traveled the World to Find Her Calling and Started an African VC Fund | Kenza Lahlou

Kenza was born in Morocco, but has quite a rich international experience: from France and Singapore, all the way to the USA. At some point, she found her calling and decided to go back to her home country.

LATIN AMERICA • HEALTHCARE

Transforming the Lives of Millions of People with Disabilities Around the World | Alvaro Rios

After watching the US TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man” at the age of 5 in Colombia, Alvaro Rio, founder of Human Assistive Technologies, knew exactly what he wanted to do with his life.

ASIA • ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES

Disrupting the One Billion Energy Market, One Household at a Time | Sebastian Groh

Sebastian comes from a middle-income family in Germany and originally pursued a career as an investment banker.

AFRICA • EDUCATION & CONSULTING

Advancing Learning for Millions of Kids Through Entertainment | Lucrezia Bisignani

Lucrezia wanted to be an actress and started her entrepreneurial journey when she was 8 years old, selling crafts to give to those most in need.

OCEANIA • FOOD & BEVERAGES

From Bait to Plate: How Traseable Is Increasing Food Security | Kenneth Katafono

Come with us to the middle of the Pacific, where Kenneth is shaping the future of the fishing industry. Did you know that around 70% of the world’s tuna comes from the Pacific?

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • EDUCATION & CONSULTING

From $300 to $60K Monthly Revenue and Serving 400,000 Students Worldwide | Daria Kroshkina

With a passion for learning, growth and continuous development, Dasha turned the knowledge she used herself to secure scholarships.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • INVESTMENT

Winning Marathons and Advising Billionaire Impact Investors | Tenke Zoltani

From a Hungarian refugee family who emigrated to the United States, Tenke Zoltani is running fast as part of the Hungarian national running team.

AFRICA • TECHNOLOGY

No Regrets Policy or How to Find Your New Home and Build Two Startups in the Meantime | Nat Robinson

Leaf Global is one of the ten winners selected for the Entrepreneur Migration Prize by HSD.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE • FOOD & BEVERAGES

What Gets Measured Gets Done: 200 000 Meals Saved and Counting | Anastasia Hofmann

Anastasia went to the hospitality school in Lausanne, where she met her business partner, Noemi, and in 2017, they decided to launch Kitro, a startup that focuses on food waste management.

LATIN AMERICA • FINANCIAL SERVICES

Always Looking for a “Yes” on His Goal Towards Killing Cash | Martin Mexia

Martin has one arch-enemy in life and it’s cash. After studying in Canada and working in India, a consulting project with Accenture led him back to his home country, Mexico.

LATIN AMERICA • OTHER

Digitalizing the Education Sector in LATAM | Federico Hernandez

One out of every two students in Latin America quits school before graduating, and Blended is trying to change these statistics.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA • CONSUMER SERVICES

Launching a Lingerie Platform for Women in the Middle East | Christina Ganim

Christina was born in Jerusalem, moved to North Carolina, USA as a kid because of the tense political situation in Palestine, but came back to her home country as a teenager.