The Finovate Sustainability and Inclusion Scholarship Program is a chance to showcase progressive startups which can be embracing sturdy ESG rules as a key a part of their providing. To commemorate Earth Day this weekend – and the significance of the “E” in ESG – we’re highlighting three corporations which have earned scholarships within the Environmental/Sustainability class.
Daizy
Based in 2019, Daizy received the Sustainability class of our Finovate Scholarship program in FinovateFall 2022. The corporate’s know-how leverages AI to assist buyers entry the data-driven tales behind the most important corporations within the U.S. Daizy has mixed its experience in ESG, analytics, knowledge visualization, and pure language processing to supply an app that allows customers to hyperlink their brokerages accounts, construct watchlists, in addition to monitor and seek for new funding concepts utilizing Daizy’s NLP portfolio, inventory, and crypto search performance.
Primarily based within the U.Ok., Daizy has raised $3 million in funding. Deborah Yang is co-founder and CEO. Comply with Daizy on Twitter. Join with Daizy on LinkedIn.
Power Shares
Power Shares received the Environmental class of our Finovate Demo Scholarship program for FinovateFall 2022. The corporate is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer and fairness crowdfunding platform for utility-scale renewable power tasks within the U.S. Power Shares facilitates entry to funding alternatives in renewable power tasks, alternatives that have been beforehand solely obtainable to institutional, company, and choose retail buyers. Through the Power Shares platform, buyers and builders can join and collaborate to assist renewable power initiatives and assist the expansion of the renewable power business.
Power Shares was based in 2020. The corporate is headquartered in Pasadena, California. Comply with Power Shares on Twitter. Join with Power Shares on LinkedIn.
Little Blocks
Hyderabad, India-based Little Blocks received the Environmental class of the Finovate Demo Scholarship program for FinovateEurope 2023. The corporate leverages industrial IoT sensors and blockchain know-how to foster entry to threat capital for bills like equipment purchases. Little Blocks’ know-how tokenizes every machine and possession is distributed among the many token holders, every of whom has a stake within the underlying money flows. This permits producers to pay primarily based on the precise use of the machine slightly than a set month-to-month mortgage reimbursement.
Little Blocks was based in 2022 and is funded by a grant from the Startup India Seed Fund.
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