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“Our food travels approximately 1500km through 28 pairs of hands before it reaches our plate, wasting enormous amounts of energy. One third of this food is spoiled in the process before it even reaches our plate,” says Martin Weber, CFO of Infarm, a Berlin-based company founded in 2013.

“If the primary asset of your company is oil, gas or minerals, you will probably spend a lot of time and resources on protecting it, right? Studying the geology, politics, the technology, and taking steps to make it more secure. But what happens if your primary asset is data? I started asking around and it didn’t take long to see that there’s really no standard approach to protecting “data as an asset”. That was our niche,” explains Ryan Dodd, founder of ...

Spire is a data and analytics company that collects data from space to solve problems on earth. Through one of the largest satellite constellations in the world, Spire identifies, tracks, and predicts the movement of the world's resources and weather systems so that businesses and governments can make smarter decisions. This data is useful in a diverse array of areas ranging from weather predictions to the maritime and aviation industries, government and the military, all the way to supply ...

Corneliu Enache, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and co-founder of Barleta, is a firm believer in opportunity. “There is always room for new businesses. Even if the market seems saturated, there are always niches where businesses can successfully develop.”

She loves the handcraft manufacturing aspect of shoemaking - “I love getting all the raw materials, not knowing initially how they are going to play out, and then realising that I have made a beautiful shoe out of them. It requires a lot of imagination to put together two different elements and create something pretty”, she says.