Meet our eight new Global Visionaries!

• Koa was co-founded by Anian Schrieber, to transform West Africa's cocoa industry, which currently contributes 81% of the world’s cocoa, yet most of the smallholder farmers who harvest the cocoa live in poverty. Koa is a Ghanaian-Swiss business that enables smallholder farmers to sell, not just cocoa beans, but the fruit's pulp too. The result? Better incomes for the farmers, a stronger economy for Ghana and 40% less food waste going to landfill.
• Samantha Anderson, Co-Founder and CEO of DePoly, started a chemical recycling company tackling problems head on – with its unique recycling technology that converts plastics and textiles back into their raw components. Why? Around nine million tons of waste plastic covers the planet. Polyester-based plastics and textiles take up to 500 years to degrade in landfills. And only easily recycled plastic like bottles and clean packaging gets reused – accounting for less than 10% of all plastic waste
  
• Did you know that currently, many drugs work by blocking substances in the body. But what if it was possible to, not just block those substances, but remove them entirely? Since Lukas Langenegger founded hemotune in 2017, they’ve developed a groundbreaking precision blood-purification platform called "HemoSystem". Their innovation aims to reduce sepsis-related mortality, hospital stays and costs and make an impact in reducing the 11 million deaths caused by sepsis every year.
• It’s become a well-known fact that to limit the worst outcomes of climate change, the world needs to constrain the global temperature increase to well below 2°C. Daphne Technology is helping the planet stay on track. The Switzerland-based company's award-winning solutions remove carbon and toxic emissions from exhaust gas, break down pollutants and convert them into harmless byproducts. Dr. Mario Michan founded the company back in 2018 so that he could make a meaningful difference in the fight against climate change.
• Rachel Delacour is standing alongside her fellow ‘climate’ Global Visionaries, sharing that the world has a choice – reduce carbon emissions or face environmental catastrophe. Businesses know what they need to do, but it's a big and complex task. Rachel is a serial entrepreneur who leads Sweep (a France-based startup company) to make it easy, giving businesses the digital tools they need to understand carbon data, and track and act on their emissions.
  
• Anastasia Volkova, CEO of Regrow, is an entrepreneur and agricultural innovator. She co-founded the company to achieve her goal of making science-based agronomy and sustainable crop management industry standards. How do they do it? By using the company's digital solutions to enable farmers to grow more quality produce and manage their land and crops in ways that reduce climate change. The solutions provides farmers with agricultural planning, monitoring, reporting and verification tools to help them work sustainably and profitably.
  
• What if someone knew how to decode the chemistry of life to make people and the planet healthier? Enter Viswa Collru, CEO and Founder of Enveda Biosciences who are mapping nature's chemistry and enabling the healthcare industry to rapidly discover, develop and deliver new drugs. The company's platform is fast becoming a global search engine for new medicines and is delivering hope and impact on the health and well-being of children and adults worldwide.
  
• Feeling thirsty after that read? Well let us wrap up by introducing you to Meena Sankaran, Founder and CEO of KETOS, a water quality monitoring pioneer. The company is transforming how agricultural, industrial and municipal organizations measure, manage, forecast and ensure the quality of the water they use so that they can help preserve this precious resource for today and future generations.
  

But don’t take our word for how inspiring they are; go and check out their profiles and their visions!