These activists, executives, entrepreneurs and academics whose single-minded devotion to making the world a better place should be an inspiration to us all
, soaring prices and economic uncertainty adding to the existential angst we’re all blundering through thanks to the pandemic, the spectre of climate change, income inequality and more? Consider our third annual Changemakers list a bit of much-needed sunlight in an otherwise gloomy season.
Take Calgary-based fintech mIQ, one of five companies in BKR’s growing portfolio. It helps new Canadians build their credit history by reporting payments they make to a lending circle—a group of people who pool funds to access interest-free loans. While lending circles are a common financial tool in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, the concept is new here in Canada.
15Rock uses machine learning and industry-leading financial modelling to spell out the financial consequences of climate risk for investors looking to green their portfolios. Instead of assigning a score to a given portfolio using black-box technology, Bakshi’s firm articulates risk in terms of dollars and cents—and transparently lays out the criteria it uses to do so.
Initially, Nudnik would receive a batch of waste from its partners and—based on colour, fabric type and volume—manually come up with styles, a process that could take weeks. Now, the company’s secret sauce is specialized software, finalized six months ago, that cuts the timeline from raw inventory to production-ready collection from weeks to minutes.
So, when he sold some shares in Lightspeed following the company’s lucrative IPO in 2019, he knew exactly what to do with the proceeds. He founded Age of Union Alliance, a non-profit that supports organizations working to protect the planet’s threatened species and ecosystems. “What else would you want to do with your wealth?” says Dasilva, who left his position as CEO of Lightspeed last year , in part to focus on Age of Union.
“When Dax says he wants to solve a problem, it’s not lip service,” says Chelsea Finnemore, who worked with Dasilva for more than a decade at Lightspeed and is now Age of Union’s executive advisor of strategy and operations. “But no one group or project is going to solve this, so we’re looking at how we can expand the impact beyond leveraging his resources.”
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