Watergen
Watergen began with a singular vision: to provide clean, safe water to those who need it most. Founded to address water scarcity head-on, the company pioneered Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG), creating a transformative solution that generates water directly from the air. The patented GENius system is adaptable to any environment, delivering water where traditional pipelines […]
ICON
ICON is pioneering 3D-printed housing, having successfully delivered the world’s first permitted 3D-printed home in partnership with housing nonprofit New Story during SXSW 2018 in Austin, Texas—a goal announced before the team knew how to achieve it. Fast forward to today, ICON has 3D-printed nearly 200 homes and structures across the U.S. and Mexico, and […]
Institutional Shareholder Services
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) empowers investors and companies to build for long-term and sustainable growth by providing high-quality data, analytics, and insight. Founded in 1985 and majority owned by Deutsche Börse Group along with ISS management, ISS is a leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions, market intelligence, fund services, and events and […]
Impact Partners
Impact Partners is dedicated to funding independent documentary storytelling that entertains audiences, engages with pressing social issues, and propels the art of cinema forward. When Impact Partners funds a project, the organization also becomes advisors to filmmakers and advocates for the film, providing creative mentorship to help make films the strongest they can be and […]
Meta VR for Good
VR for Good harnesses the unique capabilities of VR to create human-centric stories that promote empathy and empowerment. The initiative focuses on narratives that examine the treatment of people belonging to any race, religion, gender, and sexual identity, aiming to use these stories to promote connection, empathy, and equality for all. Why it matters: VR […]
Reality Defender
Reality Defender’s mission is to become the de facto AI detection standard for large organizations, existing to protect high-trust systems from the rising threat of AI-generated media by equipping governments, enterprises, and critical infrastructure with real-time detection tools that identify deepfakes and synthetic content before they cause harm. The platform stops deepfakes before they become […]
Runway
Runway believes that world models are at the frontier of progress in artificial intelligence, recognizing that language models alone won’t solve the world’s hardest problems—robotics, disease, scientific discovery—and that real progress requires models that experience the world and learn from their mistakes the same way humans do. This kind of trial and error can be […]
Snopes
Snopes is the oldest and largest fact-checking site, widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and readers as an invaluable research companion. When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis, always linking to and documenting sources so readers are […]
Recompose
Recompose revolutionizes death care through human composting—the natural transformation of human bodies into nutrient-rich soil that can nourish new life and restore damaged ecosystems. The process involves placing bodies in specially designed stainless steel vessels surrounded by carefully calibrated mixtures of wood chips, alfalfa, and straw, where naturally occurring microbes break down the body over […]