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Giveth

Giveth is a community focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding opportunities available within the Ethereum ecosystem.

  • blockchain
  • charity
  • crowdfunding
  • daos
  • digital assets
  • digital ledgers
  • governance platforms
  • philanthropy
  • web3

Holochain

Holochain’s mission is to support and embody social coherence through computing frameworks that enable collective intelligence and collaboration among peers. This is achieved through the innovative P2P architecture of Holochain, and the unique open-source model of the Cryptographic Autonomy License, which holds for the rights of end-users in addition to the developer stakeholders. The Holochain Foundation is further nurturing a global community of individuals and projects to create an ecosystem of partners and peers whose work exemplifies the commitments of the Foundation.

  • artificial intelligence
  • cloud
  • daos
  • data
  • digital assets
  • edge domputing
  • governance platforms
  • open source software

Kumu

Kumu is a digital social mapping tool for visualizing and understanding complex relationships by creating visualizations of data sets of people, systems and networks. Kumu allows users to create interactive maps that represent systems, stakeholders, networks, and nodes between relationships. Kumu's intuitive interface and drag-and-drop functionality provides a platform for users and groups to build and customize visually appealing maps that can be used to tackle real world problems. By visualizing data in a clear and concise manner, Kumu helps users identify patterns, connections, and potential areas for development.

  • artificial intelligence
  • data
  • digital platforms
  • social media / community

LiquiDonate

Liquidonate is a digital platform which helps retailers sustainably manage excess inventory and facilitates donations of unsold products to nonprofits, schools, or upcyclers. The platform offers retailers matching algorithms based on inventory and customer return information, a personalized dashboard and API integration into their existing systems, tax reciept automation, negotiated shipping rates, as well as a dedicated customer support agent. By facilitating the donation of excess inventory, Liquidonate’s approach benefits both retailers, who save on disposal costs and reduce environmental harms, and non-profit recipients, who gain access to valuable resources for their programs and beneficiaries.

  • charities
  • circular economy
  • donations
  • inventory management
  • liquidation
  • nonprofits

BackMarket

BackMarket’s digital marketplace for refurbished electronics helps coordinate stakeholders to close the loop on e-waste and open up access to reliable tech for all. The platform connects buyers and sellers of smartphones, laptops, TVs, wearables, gaming, e-mobility, and countless other devices from all the leading manufacturers. Promising “better than new,” it partners with certified refurbishers to repair electronics for resale, at a ~70% lower price than new. The digital platform helps coordinate discovery, customer service, payment, logistics, tracking, a 25+ point quality assurance verification of authenticity, functionality, security, data erasure, battery, testing, cleaning, and more; and manages partners to refurbish products. Refurbished devices reduce an average of ~90% raw material extraction, emissions, water use, and waste relative to new devices.

  • circular economy
  • digital platforms
  • e-waste
  • electronics
  • mobile devices
  • refurbishment

Ecovative

Ecovative is a biomaterials company that develops sustainable alternatives to traditional plastics and other environmentally harmful materials using mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms. Ecovative’s AirMycelium platform grows more than 400 tons of furniture, goods, and packaging annually with clients in CPG, housing, packaging, fashion, food, beauty, sports, and more. The platform uses AI to optimize mushroom mycelium for scale, density, elasticity, and other industrial parameters. Ecovative's products are fully biodegradable and compostable, offering a more sustainable alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

  • biofabrication
  • biomaterials
  • biotech
  • digital platform
  • manufacturing
  • mycelium
  • mycotecture

Matriark

Matriark Foods is a social impact business that upcycles farm surplus and fresh-cut remnants into healthy, low sodium vegetable products for schools, hospitals, food banks and other foodservices. Matriark works with farmers and aggregators to make use of the vegetables that would otherwise go to waste, to instead provide nutritious food for people and reduce the environmental harms of food waste. They are using technology to manage their supply chains, inventory, sustainability tracking, and data analysis to underpin auditability of Upcycle Certified products.

  • certifications
  • circular economy
  • food waste
  • foodtech
  • supply chain traceability

Regen Network

Regen Registry allows scientists, project developers, and land stewards to design and govern scientifically-rigorous methodologies and credit standards for ecological regeneration projects, including carbon and biodiversity.

  • blockchain
  • digital assets
  • digital platforms
  • ecocredits
  • marketplaces
  • regenerative agriculture

Wildchain

Wildchain is a mobile game that merges fun with real-world conservation efforts and climate action. Players act as a virtual conservationist, collecting and caring for digital representations of endangered animals. By playing mini-games and making in-game purchases, players contribute to real-world initiatives that protect these animals' habitats and support conservation efforts. Wildchain allows gamers to build their own wildlife sanctuary and learn about endangered species, all while contributing to preserving biodiversity and habitat restoration. Wildchain utilizes blockchain to create unique digital collectibles representing the adopted animals.

  • animal tech
  • biodiversity
  • blockchain
  • conservation
  • digital assets
  • gaming
  • play-to-impact

Husqvarna

Throughout the years, Husqvarna has developed and manufactured high performing products that are sold in more than 100 countries, mainly through their network of over 25,000 authorised dealers. Husqvarna has become a leader in products that create and maintain green spaces, producing a broad range of power products for professional landscaping and tree care in parks, forests, sports arenas, playgrounds, private gardens and spaces. Husqvarna's new feature for robotic lawn mowers, rewilding mode is the first of its kind in the world, designed specifically to increase pollination.

  • agricultural tech
  • conservation agriculture
  • nature tech
  • regenerative annual cropping

DoNotPay

DoNotPay utilizes artificial intelligence to help consumers fight against large corporations and solve their problems, like beating parking tickets, appealing bank fees, and stopping robocallers. DoNotPay’s goal is to foster equity and equality by making legal information and self-help accessible

  • artificial intelligence
  • cloud
  • data
  • digital assets
  • edge computing

I see change

ISeeChange empowers communities to tackle climate change impacts by integrating public input into infrastructure design and response management. Headquartered on America's Gulf Coast, ISeeChange prioritizes community, connection, integrity, equity, and insight, driving citizen science-based solutions. Residents contribute real-time observations of climate events like flooding and heat waves, which ISeeChange transforms into actionable insights using AI and sensor data. These insights enable cities, engineers, and utilities to prioritize infrastructure investments and design resilient solutions.

  • artificial intelligence
  • citizen science
  • cloud
  • data
  • digital platforms
  • edge computing
  • marketplaces
  • nature tech