Founded in 2017 and based in New York, C16 Biosciences is decarbonizing the consumer products industry with next-generation oils and fats, starting with palm oil. Found in over 50% of supermarket items, palm oil is ubiquitous. However, palm oil’s omnipresence and low cost has led to deforestation of natural rainforest and is responsible for ~6% of global GHG emissions. C16 is first tackling the $61B palm oil industry and then will expand to other oils and fats.

Our mission is not just about planting trees. To feed our population we need arable land. Today, this land is disappearing to the benefit of soil aridification and leads to deforestation. This is why, through agroforestry, we fight against desertification and transform degraded land into arable land.

Founded by a team of seasoned insurers and climate scientists, Descartes Underwriting was born of the conviction that new technologies can deeply transform the insurance industry to better meet the needs of businesses as they adapt to climate volatility. Descartes brings a new generation of parametric protection to build trust in business continuity. Structured as a Managing General Agency and backed by a panel of tier-one (re)insurers, we collaborate with brokers globally to protect their corporate clients and governments against the full spectrum of climate and emerging risks. Descartes’ parametric insurance products address protection gaps for governments and corporations facing climate uncertainty. We are dedicated to providing covers that are fully transparent, customized to the client’s needs and provide swift claims payment. Our innovative edge stems from our ability to integrate new data sources and apply proprietary algorithms to unlock risk insights.

Fleet Space Technologies is an Australia's leading space company. Fleet operates from a state-of-the-art HQ in Adelaide, South Australia, and has recently expanded internationally to the US, which are global centres of excellence in space and advanced aerospace technologies. At Fleet, we are Explorers with a mission to connect the Earth, Moon and Mars and our team has rapidly grown to over 80 employees in the last 6 months. Fleet designs, builds and operates a constellation of micro satellites which delivers universal connectivity across the globe. Following an oversubscribed Series B funding round, Fleet will continue to build a constellation of 288 satellites. Recently, Fleet launched ExoSphere, a solution for the mineral exploration industry providing lightning fast, highly scalable 3D mapping solutions to pinpoint minerals and increase accuracy in drilling targets. Since launching ExoSphere, Fleet has signed contracts with over 20 customers.

Real estate and construction activities contribute to 44% of global CO2 emissions. Yet, the only emission measurement options available today are (a) consultants who provide a one-time static document, or (b) generic platforms that serve multiple sectors. These options are expensive & slow and produce static documents rather than actionable insights. Our founders have both worked on and commissioned such reports. Our mission is to de-carbonise real estate by measuring, managing, reducing, offsetting and reporting carbon emissions. We aim to achieve this by keeping the process simple and accessible to all businesses that can make a difference.

Modality is an insights-as-a-service software to pilot the mobility-mix of any territory. It provides turnkey studies to understand all the transport solutions in a territory, measure intermodality, diagnose access problems, and test the impact of new scenarios. Modality industrializes the production of data analyses required for sustainable mobility plans. It gives access in a few minutes, without configuration, to studies that would otherwise require several weeks of work and costly data processing. Modality transforms decision-making processes for stakeholders in mobility, urban planning smart cities: it replaces one-shot studies entrusted to consultants, with a scalable and iterative software. Doing so, it helps them better meet their environmental challenges.