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Solid World

Finance

Social impact & Sustainability

Carbon & eco credits

Data availability & readiness

Regenerative finance

Polygon

Global

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Solid World democratizes access to carbon project financing, providing developers of restoration projects with funding and assessing delivery risks with its integrated risk evaluation tool, CRISP. It also addresses buyer and distributor challenges, helping manage their inventory, navigate market volatility, reduce risk, and provide transparent pricing and terms.

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Acentrik

Mercedes-Benz launched Acentrik, a tool for data-sharing based on Gaia-X principles and the Gaia-X Trust Framework - a European initiative and standards for the data economy. Acentrik has secured a number of partnerships, including with Automaton (an AI platform for the agriculture industry) and Syntegra (an ML platform that generates synthetic healthcare data), among others.

Andes

Andes offers carbon removal credits of businesses and organizations while also developing microorganism technology for to permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Andes has already removed 50k tonnes of carbon dioxide in their first pilot program.

Arkeen Network

Arkeen creates a marketplace between those who supply data around electricity generation and consumption with those who use the data for building applications and services.

Chainalysis

Chainalysis provides intelligence and risk management tools for blockchains and blockchain-based applications.

ClimateX

ClimateX developed Spectra, a climate risk intelligence platform that allows organizations to access and integrate climate-related data into their business strategy and meet regulatory disclosures.

Constellation

Constellation is a privately backed, founder-led blockchain ecosystem focused on big data. The US Air Force (UASF) began contracting Constellation through a DOD partnership (”Phase I + II”) in 2019 to modernize the cybersecurity of its backend systems. More specifically, the USAF wants to effectively and efficiently transfer confidential data across their Defense Transportation System commercial airlift partners without sacrificing cost or speed. The USAF and Constellation are now in Phase III of their research and development.

Coorest

Coorest allows farmers and tree planting projects to generate tokens that represent absorbed CO2 linked to real-world trees. These tokens can only be minted through satellite verified on-chain data.

Cultivo

Cultivo sources land for regenerative projects. It was also chosen by the World Bank’s International Financial Corporation (IFC) to help lead its Carbon Opportunities Fund.

DIMO

DIMO allows drivers to gain better insight into their vehicles and get compensated for sharing their car data.

Empowa

Empowa, a Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) portfolio company, is a property development and NFT digital collectibles platform that aims to enable “affordable home loans for the financially excluded.” Empowa and MCV partnered to launch an affordable housing pilot project that uses retail NFT sales to create liquidity for the provision of affordable housing units.

EthicHub

EthicHub connects buyers and investors with smallholder farmers to provide loans or offer investments to increase productivity of farming operations. To date, EthicHub has intermediated $3M+ in micro loans to 600+ families in 5 countries.

EY OpsChain

EY OpsChain seeks to provide data among the networks in the supply chain to improve tracking and visibility. In one of its applications, EY OpsChain is used for Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals by enhancing emission transparency across the entire value chain.

Forest Carbon

Forest Carbon restores degraded wetland forests. Forest Carbon and Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) partnered on a data transparency pilot aimed at integrating reliable forest restoration data into the voluntary carbon market.

GainForest

GainForest fights deforestation by connecting donors with transparent environmental rehabilitation efforts through indigenous communities that receive financial compensation for choosing to preserve their land. For example, individuals can buy reputable offsets that contribute to conservation efforts. GainForest then monitors these preserved areas by using a combination of on-the-ground input, drone photos, and satellite imagery, and uses self-executing smart contracts to distribute rewards to communities over time. GainForest has two on-going pilots: a partnership with Paraguay's Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES) to address deforestation and the other with Oceanus Conservation in the Philippines to preserve mangrove ecosystems.

GoodDollar

In order to establish a Universal Basic Income (UBI) system supported by social investment, GoodDollar had to tackle two primary goals: ensuring the effective distribution of funds to those in need and guaranteeing a continuous source of funding by distributing only the interest accrued from trust funds that were staked.

JIA

Jia connects capital to small businesses in informal economies through decentralized loans.

KlimaDAO

KlimaDAO created a carbon marketplace with the aim of becoming a major offsets purchaser, making carbon offset credits expensive, and incentivizing more energy-efficient practices.

Lasso Labs

Lasso Labs launched a discovery platform that allows NFT holders a real-time view of any access, offers, rights, or other opportunities tied to their digital assets.

LiquidStar

LiquidStar describes itself as the “Uber of electricity;” it rents a container-based solar powered battery charging station and portable batteries to users, organizations, or companies to use for mining or staking. The rewards generated are used for (i) bringing affordable and sustainable electricity to rural communities and (ii) generating universal basic income (”UBI”). First deployments took place in the US and Jamaica, where LiquidStar supplied electricity to 1500 students at a school. Additional pilots are coming to Sumba, Indonesia and Djibouti.

MadHive

Madhive provides blockchain-based advertising and data solution for digital marketers.

Kotani Pay x Moola Market

Cinch Markets (an agriculture company that leases farmland from smallholder farmers to create larger commercial farms) partnered with Mercy Corps Ventures (”MCV”) to use Moola Markets and Kotani Pay for an employer-based lending platform that enables farmers to access credit quickly and affordably. The first pilot launched in Nanyuki, Kenya. Kotani Pay is a platform that allows blockchain fintech companies to integrate with local payment channels in Africa. Moola Markets is a blockchain platform that allows individuals to delegate credit (collateral) to others in their community, who can use it to take on an under-collateralized loans.

Moss

Moss tokenizes ARR carbon credits for liquidity, traceability, security and avoiding double spending. In the past, Moss has also launched Amazon Forest NFTs for users to purchase rights related to property and protection of forested land.

Nori

Nori is building a carbon removal marketplace by supporting regenerative agricultural practices. It has already verified the removal of 125k+ tonnes of CO2 through 18+ carbon removal projects and delivered $2 million to farmers.

Open Forest Protocol

Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is an open platform allowing forest projects to measure, report and verify their forestation data. Through OFP, individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs and governments create transparent, immutable, proof-of-impact data that is comprehensively verified by a network of independent experts.

Plastiks

A transparent plastic recovery platform utilizing NFTs, that allows companies to directly support recovery projects to remove plastic waste from the environment in regions that lack infrastructure.

Proof of Zero

Proof of Zero allows organizations to measure and mitigate their carbon footprint, while creating blockchain-based disclosures of their scope 3 emissions.

Rebalance Earth

Rebalance Earth is a carbon marketplace that aims to improve biodiversity and generate income for local communities globally.

REBO Bottle

REBO bottle measures your water intake, generates credits on blockchain for each measured use, and funds plastic collection from the ocean.

Regen Network

Regen Network is a platform for origination, investment, certification and issuance of high-integrity carbon and biodiversity credits from ecological regeneration projects. Microsoft purchased credits from Regen - called CarbonPlus Grassland credits - to help meet its climate goals and reward Australian land stewards for sequestering carbon on their land.

ReSeed

ReSeed is a marketplace for smallholder farmers that aims to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by supporting regenerative farming practices.

ReSource Finance

ReSource’s Mutual Credit network allows individuals, businesses, and communities to extend credit to each other backed by goods and services.

Rice Exchange

Teijin (a Japanese chemical, pharmaceutical and information technology company) partnered with Fujitsu (a Japanese information and communications technology equipment and services corporation) partnered to launch a network - Fujitsu DLT - for tracking and tracing the environmental impact of recycled materials for industrial manufacturers. One project that uses this platform is Rice Exchange that is used for the trade and commercialization of rice.

SIMBA Chain

For supply chain management, SIMBA has already secured contracts with a number of entities including the US Department of Defense - Air Force (USAF) and Navy - Boeing, Department of Energy, among others.

Thallo

Thallo is a voluntary carbon marketplace seeking to bring more transparency for carbon credits to build trust and incentivize more usage.

Treeconomy

Treeconomy is a carbon offset marketplace that also tries to incentivize regenerative agriculture practices.

Treejer

Treejer is a protocol that connects investors with rural planters. In addition, Treejer and Kotani Pay - both portfolio companies of the UNICEF Innovation Fund - partnered to provide planters in Africa with an offramp for easier access to fiat from digital assets.

Triangle

The Triangle AssetOS platform links data directly with assets for sustainability tracking, reporting, benchmarking, and analysis.

VIA

VIA’s platform enables verification, integration, and analysis of private, decentralized data and can be used in energy traceability for clean energy and carbon intensity claims. In addition, VIA also has contracts with the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community, including with the Air Force, Navy, and Space Force.

WalliD

WalliD provides an onboarding and data verification solution by aggregating verifiable data sources and infrastructures. The aggregator brings together OAuth providers, Blockchains, Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs), DIDs, and Zero-Knowledge protocols. This allows WalliD to offer a toolkit with different suites of products that cater to the needs of WebApp, dApp developers, and users.

Xcapit

A UNICEF Innovation Fund portfolio company, Xcapit, is a self-custodial wallet that provides access to key financial services in informal economies. For example, access to credit. In Argentina, where the initial pilot took place, 91% of applicants are rejected in traditional credit requests. Xcapit is addressing this challenge with its credit processing and lending infrastructure.

Zero Waste Foundation (ZWF)

ZWF built an incentive system - through its “Proof-of-Environmental-Work” protocol - to track waste and support recycling.