28 November 2018 – LONDON – After a rigorous selection process involving hundreds of world-class companies from across the UK and Europe, these growth-stage ventures in the 2018 Unreasonable Impact UK and Europe programme:

• Abundance Investment: Developing a leading direct investment platform that makes it possible for everyone to invest in things they care about and earn an attractive return.

• Cleverciti Systems: Developing comprehensive, high-tech solutions for on-street and open air parking detection, monitoring, and guidance to reduce search traffic and CO2 emissions.

• Econic Technologies: Creating new value from waste CO2 for the plastics industry, building a future where greenhouse gas can be transformed for commercial and environmental gain.

• Entocycle: Fundamentally changing the way we feed the planet through sustainable insect farming.

• Globechain: Creating the world’s largest reuse marketplace that connects corporates to charities and people to redistribute unwanted items.

• HISBE: Creating a different and more sustainable kind of supermarket by putting customers, suppliers and employees first.

• Iceotope: Delivering innovative liquid cooling technology for data center and edge computing, saving the IT industry energy, space, and money.

• Lumos Global: Enabling a market of 1.3 billion people to replace hazardous and expensive kerosene generators and lanterns with modern, clean, affordable solar electricity.

• OLIO: Tackling the problem of food waste by connecting users with unwanted food to neighbours nearby who want it, with over 600,000 users to date.

• SaltX Technology: Working to become the "Intel inside" of energy storage, using salt to enable the transformation toward 100% renewable energy.

• The Waste Transformers: Revolutionising the way our planet deals with organic waste through on-site decentralised energy and nutrient hubs for hotels, harbours, shopping malls, and more.