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Quartz Innovators 2023

Global leaders who deployed bold technologies and industry-shifting ideas to imagine better ways of doing business in 2023

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Boomitra’s Aadith Moorthy has a business answer to climate change: a soil carbon marketplace

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While neobanks have cropped up all over the world, most major European players haven’t yet landed a license in the US

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Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun is crushing cancer stigma in the workplace

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Pixxel’s Awais Ahmed will put a constellation of six satellites in space in early 2024

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How AmorSui’s Beau Wangtrakuldee is making PPE body-inclusive and reusable

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How Sonio’s Cécile Brosset is using a dataset of 200,000 images to make for safer births

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Delangue believes it is risky to have the power of AI concentrated in the hands of a few

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Demand for organic food is growing exponentially in North America—and Farmland LP’s Craig Wichner is meeting it with an investment fund for farmers

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Nubank’s Cristina Junqueira explains how new digital products are bringing banking to Mexico

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Aspect Biosystems’s Erin Bedford is figuring out a way to treat Type 1 diabetes—with 3D printing

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The platform that uses a dedicated algorithm to analyze social accounts to generate unique social reputation scores for loans

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Renewable energy needs batteries—but manufacturing them produces a new set of environmental risks. Inga Petersen has one idea to mitigate them.

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Emerge offers tactile capabilities—and now it’s making sensory tech for Sony and Disney

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Breast milk has long been considered the highest standard for infant nutrition. Can we engineer a version that replaces baby formula?

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UT Austin’s Luis Sentis is leading a landmark study of how robots make us feel—and setting the standards for how autonomous machines will share our spaces.

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Poh Yun Ru’s Rewind uses video-based therapy to help people suffering from memory loss regain their autonomy

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As the head of Project Kuiper, Rajeev Badyal has big plans for building a satellite internet competitor to SpaceX

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Livestock produce a lot of planet-warming methane. Sea Forest’s Sam Elsom thinks adding adding algae to their diets can change that.

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Emerge offers tactile capabilities—and now it’s making sensory tech for Sony and Disney

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With global eyes on reproductive privacy, Flo Health’s Sue Khan ensuring 50 million users keep control over their menstrual data.

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Tamar Sapir’s smart labels attach to pill bottles to keep us on top of our medications

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