3P Entrant
ACCIS International
Axana Climate Change Insurance Services (ACCIS) International provides emissions insurance and climate asset management consulting to companies affected by the creation of the market in order to reduce their risk yet achieve a successful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Aidworld Humanitarian ICT
Software to make the world wide web accessible to people who only have access to the poorest communications networks, initially focussing on the needs of the humanitarian aid community.
AromaFlora
AromaFlora aims to grow the finest quality Fairtrade fragranced roses in Kenya and deliver them to your door here in Europe. AromaFloras strong focus on corporate social responsibility and our use of renewable energy sources and environmentally friendly techniques will help establish the AromaFlora brand and enable the production of Fairtrade approved roses targeted at the 340 million European rose market. Revenues generated from these roses will fund the in-house development of AromaFloras fragrance technology, leading to the generation of our value added roses. AromaFloras Fast Flower Model will further increase profit margins by excising the middle men.
Biosouth
Poverty in Peru increases because of migration of people from rural places to Lima. Our project proposal includes a sustainable biodiesel production industry to enable people to work in their lands also be used to increase health, education and housing conditions.
Bunot Co.
Coconet is a soil erosion control net made from waste coconut husks. With the Philippines' rich coconut resources, the company aims to become the world's leading producers of coconet with a highly improved production capacity starting with the growing demand of the Chinese market. This enterprise is environmentally friendly and will benefit the coconut farmers in the poor rural areas of the Philippines by generating revenue in the rural economy and providing new livelihood opportunities.
Cam-Cap
Recent work at the University of Coventry has led to the discovery of a new supercapacitive material capable of storing 10 times more electrical energy than competing materials. Consequently, the patent-protected Cam-Cap supercapacitor is able to combine the large energy storage capacity of batteries with the rapid power delivery capabilities of capacitors to meet new customer needs that cannot be satisfied using other existing energy storage materials. The advantages of the Cam-Cap supercapacitors are particularly apparent in the rapidly expanding high performance energy storage markets associated with environmentally friendly alternatives in the transport and power generation industries.
Cleopatra
Development and marketing of anovel design walk-in bath for users with restricted mobility.
Creation of Label Food Standard
To provide consumers with clear and accurate food labels.
DaDa - Asbestos Recovery Project
The Asbestos Recovery Project is a business engaged in the processing of asbestos to neutralise its toxicity and by combing it with fly-ash, a by-product of coal fired power generators, produce semi-finished construction products, in particular core materials for ceramic tiles.
Dehkan Supporters
A farmer's cooperative network for Uzbekistan. Th egoal of the project is to harness the profit potential for the agricultural produce by selling in into the Russian market.
Developing Drug Delivery
Developing Drug Delivery aims to provide low cost, high quality medical devices for manufacture in the developing world.
DiagnovIS
DiagnovIS will provide a novel and improved solution for the identification of infectious diseases which represent to diagnostic priorities gloabbly, and particularly so in the developing world.
Direct Energy
Thermophotovoltaics (TPV) is a new technology that promises an environmental friendly way of transforming heat into electic energy using natural gas or biomass. Special interest has been given lately to the great commercial potentials that low power portable TPV generators appear to have. Nevertheless in Europe a gap exists between this new technology and its commercial development. This business plan aims to fill this gap. We intend to provide energy efficienty in locations for people and organisation which are difficult to access or do not have a steady source of energy through an environmentally friendly technology.
E-Campus.org
To provide high quality business education to universities in the developing world.
EnvAl
EnvAls novel technology is capable of recycling 100% of the waste obtained from post consumer drink cartons (i.e. Tetra Paks). The process recovers clean aluminium that can be sold to the aluminium industry and generates oils and gases suitable for heat or electricity production. EnvAl will contribute to the sustainable development of society by generating profit and by reducing the amount of materials that are currently being landfilled. EnvAl is seeking the partnership of an early stage investor who will provide financial backing to finish building the first demonstration equipment, and then remain with the company to realise its full potential.
EuroBack
The brain drain to the US is a major obstacle to the growth of the European Biotechnology sector. Many governmental and EU agencies have attempted to tackle this dilemma with limited success.EuroBack provides a unique and revolutionary solution to this problem.
By offering an unbiased assessment of the situation within Europe and access to funding, expertise and networking opportunities - together with a personalised and fully integrated service dedicated to easing the transition and contributing to its success - EuroBack will facilitate the economic growth of the biotech biopoles within the European Union.
Fig Tree
Fig Tree has re-evaluated the value of traditional consulting models when applied to understanding markets in some of the poorer regions of the world (bottom of the pyramid). We offer a new approach better suited to help companies meet the needs of this market, through accessing the unique knowledge pool of NGO's and academics.
Floating Clinic
Our mission is to establish a fully-funded Floating Clinic to facilitate the provision of basic healthcare services in remote parts of Timor Leste. The Floating Clinic, a medically equipped and staffed boat, will travel around the mainland of Timor Leste and its offshore islands. The project will be undertaken in collaboration with a local healthcare provider, responsible for the day to day operations. An extensive fundraising campaign will be conducted in Australia, Singapore and the UK to raise funds to support the Floating Clinic. It is intended as a demonstration project, with long term viability assessed after 5 years.
Frontiers
Frontiers closes the skills gap between the graduate and the employer and between school students and universities. There is discrepancy between the skills offered by applicants and those required of them. A lack of transferable skills, such as leadership, team working and communication, leaves people with a fixed skills set, unable to adapt to changing needs and demands. Frontiers has developed a unique, innovative and profitable method to bridge this skills gap. Frontiers presentations and workshops will engage with delegates in a fun and experiential way and are tailored to the individuals needs.
Futu-Education - Light Box
A dual purpose light box to assist the teacher in delivering a flexible education syllabus, and to assist the student in classroom and home study. It is designed for use in poor regions without reliable mains electricity.
GF
GF plans to start a chain of restaurants that produce healthy fast food.
Green Wheels
Green Wheels offers free bicycles to tourists and residents of London.
GreenCharge
A mobile phone charger that operates using a dynamo mechanism when cycling.
Leapfrog Ventures
According to the World Tourism Organisation, 698 million people travelled to a foreign country in 2000, spending more than US$478 billion. Yet out of each US$100 spent on vacation tours by a tourist from a developed country, only US$5 actually stays in a developing country destinations economy. At Leapfrog Ventures we have developed an innovative solution to this problem which widens the divide between rich and poor.
Listo Solutions
Listo Solutions is an e-learning company providing custom content targetting the eduation market in th eAsia Pacific region.
Loaf by Loaf
Loaf by Loaf is a UK based franchise providing home-style baked breads to the UK customer.
Loxion Internet Caf
Initially targeted for the distressed community of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa, the Loxion Internet Caf project is designed to be a viable and sustainable business which provides the locals with the opportunity to enhance their entrepreneurship skills, at the same time fulfilling a bigger agenda for the distressed urban and rural communities by reaping the benefits from the digital market economy and internet technology, thus subsequently reducing the knowledge disparity gap between these communities and the upper middle class and rich.
Medicines For Humanity
One-third of the world's population does not have access to essential medicines. Pharmaceutical companies have reputational and financial incentives to donate medicines. However, the medical donations process is not meeting its potential. The key problem is a lack of accurate and comprehensive information on unmet medical needs and sources of donations. The MedMap database will provide this, thereby facilitating communication between donors, recipients, and donation channels, and raising public awareness of good medical donations. By consolidating information crucial to all stakeholders, Medicines for Humanity will enable the distribution of the right medicines to the right people at the right time.
MoodLab
Depression and anxiety are poorly diagnosed in primary care. There is a clear need for a reliable, convenient diagnostic system for use in this setting. MoodLab combines cutting-edge technology with statistical models in a hand-held device to provide a reliable, office-based, diagnostic system for depression and anxiety for use I nprimary and specialist care.
My Selection
'My Selection' aims to provide simple 'put-it-together' meal sets for people with medically-restricted diets. With a pledge to reduce preparation times to 10 minutes, our product is targeted to young professionals who have little time to cook, yet have high demands for good quality meals.
Practice Makes Perfect
A practitioner based training and support network for emerging social enterprises in the UK.
PurseMaid
Young professional women - always on the go, in control, and the master of her own destiny. These women live out of her purse or handbag. Mobile phone, Blackberry/palm, tissues, keys, train tickets, paper, pen, and snacks. Handbags accumulate rubbish and young professional women need a way to organise that mess.
The PurseMaid offers a unique, no fuss way of keeping one's handbag tidy and professional without increasing environmental waste.
Sayehfa
Each August piles of Mangos rot in the hot, Senegalese sun as women stuggle to sell them from the sides of motoways. Then, pediatic intake of vitamin A nosedives. But Seyehfa's solar drying system can organically preserve the leftover harvest for both domestic consumption and exploding European demand. Recycled from bottles and bags, the system sets a precedent for how truly appropriate, high quality products can be produced in Senegal, for Senegal, without further deforestation. Using for-profit tactics for non-profit reasons, the goal isn't merely to sell mango dryiers - its to produce dried mango sellers.
SimuGen Ltd
SimuGen is a gene profiling company applying techniques from computational biology and wet lab research to provide cheaper ethical healthcare. SimuGen creates value by bringing to market an analytically powerful solution to ascribe the toxicity of compounds, thereby extensively reducing downstream animal testing. This transcribes into vastly reduced costs and timelines in preclinical testing. Protection of our assets will be mediated through our proprietary databank of gene expression profiles and will be reinforced by future patents on our gene combinations and algorithms. As a platform technology our solution is easily transferable to a range of other markets, including personal care.
The Idea Team
The Crossover Project aims to focus public an private R&D spending on marketable technologies. Crossover will investigate, frame and market technology demand and help attract funding from appropriate sources. The Crossover Project will achieve this by breaking barriers of communication and trust between those seeking new technologies and those capable of offering solutions. Crossover will encourage exchange across regions, scientific disciplines and the public / private barrier.
The London Air Pollution Project
Independent research demonstrates that high levels of air pollutants in urban UK are detrimental to people's health, with a government estimate of health costs associated with polluion standing at 1.3 billion per year and rising. There exists an opportunity to develop an inexpensive, single use, disposable, personal health mask for those who need it most - the elderly, commuters, health conscious and cyclists. The LAPP intends to commercialise and market such a product and provide a public health benefit. The organisation is a not-for-profit supported by government (local and regional) and social-orientation institutions.
The Maths Republic
The Maths Republic aims to be a speciality software house. The first step is to create Mathematics Education software that will be attractive to school and pre-university children worldwide. The objective of the software is to be an effective tool in building their understanding of the mathematical sciences. Subsequently, we expect to move to software for Scientific and Technical Computing and products to cater for Popular Science.
The Phoenix Project
Watch land revert over many years to its natural state and a complex eco-system return.
The Wildlife Partnership
The Wildlife Partnership will establish a private not-for-ptofit conservation and sustainable development movement that links a community in the developed world to specific projects in threatened areas, with th eoverall aim of contributing to diversity - through protection of natural habitat and endangered species.
Top of the Class
To improve the market of international student teaching programmes by introducing flexibility and adding a new dimension to it. Top of the Class would serve as a medium that would bring together an innovative way students and school or summer camp governors who are looking to recruit.
Trans-Net
An internet based service that will help people to fulfill their travel needs.
Tyrex
In the UK, 37million tyres need to be disposed each year and cannot be landfilled from 2006. Garages pay 1/tyre to have tyres collected from them and disposed. Tyre collectors stack whole tyres in their trucks. Our mobile processing solution would have 30% lower collection costs than our competitors. We could charge garages less to collect and redistribute materials for recycling. Given an investment of 200,000 we estimate to have a 12% market share with 3.6 million annual profit, after 5 years (21 months for break even).
Valentine Group
The Valentine Group (VG) is a non-profit organisation focused on funding the proliferation of pro-democratic parties in emerging democracies. By targeting fundraising efforts on donors who have emigrated from fledgling democracies, VG leverages relative currency valuations to influence decisions in the developing world. With over ten years of professional and volunteer experience in electoral methodology VG will be led by Abraham Prabhakar, a Masters candidate at the Judge Business School. Sunil Godse joins the team with over 15 years international management consulting experience and an MBA from the prestigious Ivey School of Business.
Windnet
Windnet represents the concept of a network of suppliers, consultants, investor owners and electricity suppliers who, through co-operation within a group, will be able to deliver renewable energy, revenue and jobs in rural communities in the UK and beyond. Windnet Ltd is a seed company which will identify and involve partners in Windnet Group to design, build and operate medium sized wind turbines. Sharing of risks, skills, responsibilities and rewards through the business model is a founding principle of this network which will enable local community ownership and profit from the free energy blowing across the land.
Wonder Landscapes
WonderLandcapes - a landscaping company with biodiversity for public, private gardens and outdoor spaces. It aims to set new standards for sustainable wildlife friendly, beautiful landscapes.
www.gosomewheredifferent
To create a vibrant, socially and environmentally aware online community for adventure travellers, supplanting the traditional guide book as their information source of choice.
You-Can
You-Can is a web-based portal to facilitate an efficient and effective donation process, which maximizes the benefits for both donors and recipients. It is an interface that permits interaction between donors allowing collaboration as a means to achieve a specific goal. These goals are monetary targets which, once achieved, fund specific social schemes run by small, local charities in developing countries. The web service allows for clear and immediate visualisation of progression towards pre-set goals so that users can gain an immediate view as to the effectiveness of their donation. You-Can therefore overcomes these charities' current inability to secure much needed funding from abroad whilst enhancing the 'donation-giving experience'.