ForbesUnder30 Social Impact: These Trailblazers Are Making A More Sustainable And Equitable World
Meet the Forbes Under 30 Social Impact honorees tackling the world’s most intractable problems like climate change, mental health and racial inequality.thought she and her peers were all living every overachiever’s dream. But when a friend attempted suicide, she realized it was more like a gilded fantasy.
Backed by $16 million from VC shops Lightspeed and Forerunner, actress Gwyneth Paltrow and soccer star Megan Rapinoe, Real provides guides and workshops on common problems like dealing with seasonal depression. Unlike competitors such as Talkspace that are geared toward people in crisis, Real wants to be a preventive measure that eases users into long-term “mental wellness.”
But this year’s highest funded social impact startup is founded by Australia-born Samuel Bertram, who has raised $60 million for his vertical farming company OnePointOne from the likes of Blackhorn Ventures, tennis champ Novak Djokovic, and Youtube cofounder Steve Chen. Using robots and AI, OnePointOne grows plants indoors away from nature's unpredictability. Its plants grow without soil or sunlight, replaced with high-precision irrigation and illumination systems.
“We have the opportunity to bring a nature-based, permanent, and scalable solution to the livestock industry that creates radical reductions in the industry’s greenhouse gas burden,” explains 26-year-old Akbay. “Our product is transformative as farmers shift to more sustainable practices and we work together as a society to reduce all major sources of emissions.”
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