Unreasonable Impact World Forum 2023

A collaboration between Barclays and Unreasonable Group

“Innovation at scale: Empowering the world's problem solvers”

The Unreasonable Impact World Forum is a gathering of growth-stage ventures that are tackling social and environmental challenges.

Each year, the World Forum connects mentors and investors with scale-ups who are solving the world's most pressing challenges profitably. Convened by Unreasonable Group and Barclays, the event brings together impact-focused growth-stage ventures with a diverse community of champions who will accelerate their growth through funding, ideation, and collaboration.

2023's theme is: “Innovation at scale: Empowering the world's problem solvers”.

Unreasonable and Barclays will bring together visionary scale-ups, forward-looking investors, and thought leaders to enable solutions to the world's challenges around energy, education, healthcare and more.

This is where action speaks louder than words. While others meet on the global stage to talk about problems, the World Forum is where solutions are on show.

Meet our World Forum Cohort

The World Forum is an unparalleled opportunity to hear from these leaders at the forefront of solving pressing issues, from climate change to access to education. This year, ventures include:

Avant Meats

Producing safe, high-quality and sustainable fish products with patent-pending cell cultivation and tissue engineering technology

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Carrie Chan

CEO

Banka BioLoo

Providing water, sanitation and hygiene facilities at homes, schools, worksites and public places

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Namita Banka

Founder & Managing Director

Brill Power

Improving the lifetime and reliability of lithium-ion batteries

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Christoph Birkl

Co-Founder & CEO

C16 Biosciences

Using innovative processes found in nature to brew sustainable alternatives to palm oil

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Shara Ticku

Founder & CEO

CLUBZERØ

Delivering an award winning returnable packaging system for food & beverage brands to achieve a zero waste future

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Safia Qureshi

Founder & CEO

Cultivo

Unlocking investment in natural capital at scale

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Manuel Piñuela

Co-founder & CEO

Elonroad

Building the future of 24/7 smart charging infrastructure

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Karin Ebbinghaus

CEO

gush

Transforming living environments with sustainable paint and advanced materials with anti-thermal and disinfection technologies.

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Lester Leong

Co-Founder & CEO

Haofood

Developing the world’s first vegan chicken using peanut protein as a primary ingredient

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Astrid Prajogo

Founder & CEO

Jumbotail

Organising the food and grocery ecosystem in India using technology, data science, and design

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S.Karthik Venkateswaran

Cofounder & CEO

ListenField

Gathering, processing and analyzing multilayer data to provide comprehensive and sustainable precision farming solutions to farmers and agribusinesses

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Rassarin Chinnachodteeranun

CEO

Lucro

Recycling the hardest to recycle plastics to enable the circular economy

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Ujwal Desai

Managing Director

Made of Air

Transforming low value wood waste into high value, carbon negative thermoplastics

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Allison Dring

CEO

Navajo Power

Building an equitable energy future for tribal communities

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Brett Isaac

Cofounder & Executive Chairman

NFW

Transforming the soft-goods material industry from petroleum addiction and linear life-cycles to plant-based, inherent circularity

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Luke Haverhals

Founder & CEO

NÜWIEL

Delivering award-winning, reliable, CO2-free last mile delivery

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Natalia Tomiyama

Co-Founder & CEO

Planet Protector

Transforming 100% natural waste wool into sustainable insulation for packaging and construction

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Joanne Howarth

CEO

Shiok Meats

Transforming the food industry in Asia with cell-based meat and seafood

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Sandhya Sriram

Group CEO & Co-founder

s.lab

Offering end-to-end cold chain logistics services that are reliable, sustainable, and efficient.

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Suah Lee

CEO

Sylvatex

Developing climate friendly solutions for sustainable EV batteries and low carbon fuels

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Virginia Irwin Klausmeier

President & CEO

Terviva Inc.

Growing the world’s most scalable, cost-effective and environmentally friendly source of oil and protein

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Naveen Sikka

Founder & CEO

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is behind this?

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This World Forum is an extension of Unreasonable Impact, an innovative global partnership between Barclays and Unreasonable Group, supporting growth-stage entrepreneurs whose businesses are focused on solving some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. Since 2016, Unreasonable Impact has supported over 295 companies who have raised over US$11bn in financing and employ more than 24,100 people around the world.

What is the process and criteria you used to select the participating entrepreneurs?

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We handpick and privately invite the world's most impactful growth-stage ventures to join Unreasonable Impact. We back these CEOs for life — they also become part of the Unreasonable Fellowship. Today, over 295 ventures have joined an Unreasonable Impact program. These ventures are directly impacting the lives of over 370m+ people across more than 53 countries, and collectively, they have raised more than $11bn+ in financing... and we're just getting started.

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