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
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?
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?
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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