Blue Earth Summit

BE100 finds, funds and supports businesses that can transform the way the world works. Meet the 2026 cohort: 100 pioneering companies across ten industries, all pitching live at Blue Earth Summit for investment opportunities and the connections to scale.

Meet the 2026 BE100 Businesses →

A power line that carries more electricity because a robot has changed its surface. A building material that stores carbon. A blood test that helps an ambulance crew identify a severe stroke before reaching hospital. A garment given a second life by a machine that prepares it for resale.

The future economy is being built through changes like these: specific, practical advances that could alter how entire industries operate.

Today, we introduce the 2026 BE100: 100 companies that could transform the way the world works.

Their work reaches from the biology of a single plant to the infrastructure of an electricity grid. They are tackling problems that affect what we eat, how we travel, the health of our communities and the resilience of the natural systems on which business depends. Some are developing technologies that still need to prove themselves at scale. Others are already serving customers, operating production facilities and expanding into new markets.

That range matters. Progress needs early breakthroughs, and it needs businesses capable of taking those breakthroughs into everyday use.

Among this year’s cohort, AssetCool applies advanced coatings to power lines using robotics, helping utilities unlock capacity in existing infrastructure. Colorifix uses microorganisms to produce and apply colour to textiles. Farm to Feed connects imperfect and surplus produce with buyers, creating a market for food that might otherwise go to waste. Upfront Diagnostics is bringing rapid blood testing into stroke assessment before patients arrive at hospital.

The work is already reaching beyond the laboratory. Upfront’s UK launch set out a six-month pilot equipping approximately 280 London Ambulance Service vehicles. Coral Vita has grown 52 species of coral across its restoration operations. In its BE100 application, Converge reports more than 50,000 sensors deployed across more than 1,000 construction projects.

These are very different companies. They share an ambition to outcompete through new and better business models.

Finding the Businesses That Can Change an Industry

BE100 is Blue Earth’s global programme to find, fund and support pioneering businesses with the potential to positively transform their industries.

Selection brings recognition, a live platform and access to an ecosystem of investors, founders, corporate partners and sector specialists. It creates opportunities to test a proposition, build commercial relationships and meet people with the capital and experience to support the next stage of growth.

For 2026, the programme takes an industry-led approach. Ten companies have been selected in each of ten categories, allowing specialist knowledge to shape assessment across fields as different as healthcare, energy, materials and education.

For Blue Earth, this is where our mission becomes practical: finding the innovators who can change how an industry works, then convening the people who can accelerate their progress.

From Application to the Summit Stage

Blue Earth, investors and sector experts assess applicants on innovation, commercial viability, defensibility, team capability and positive impact, with live pitch performance completing the six-part assessment.

All 100 companies will pitch live at Blue Earth Summit across ten industry sessions.

At least ten winners will be selected, one from each industry. These companies will win investment from BE100 Fund II.

Final investment decisions follow judging and due diligence. Selection into the BE100 does not guarantee funding.

The BE100 Fund II

The BE100 Fund II connects the programme’s search for pioneering companies with an ambition to invest in their growth. It follows the success of BE100 Fund I, which saw us invest an average of £200k into three winners: Segura, Raft Energy and Low Carbon Materials.

The investment process draws on sector assessment, live pitching and due diligence, with investment terms and completion handled through the fund process. This allows the programme to recognise the promise of a business while testing the conditions needed to back it responsibly.

For the wider cohort, the opportunity extends beyond the fund. Investor introductions, commercial partnerships, visibility and specialist feedback can all contribute to a company’s ability to grow.

The Experience Behind the Decisions

The 40 confirmed judges bring perspectives from venture capital, corporate investment, company building, innovation banking and legal advisory work. Their experience spans early scientific development, commercial expansion and the decisions founders face as they raise capital.

The panel’s breadth reflects the breadth of the BE100. Understanding how a technology works is one part of the task. Recognising how it can become a durable business requires experience of markets, teams, customers and the obstacles between a promising idea and adoption.

Technology, company building and growth

Hamish Garnett, Associate at Manta Ray: patient-capital investment in mission-driven technology founders.

Damian Routley, Chief Operating Officer at Founders Factory: company building and operational support across deep tech, healthcare, fintech and industry.

Charlie Lyon Carroll, Investment Director at IW Capital: experience across public markets, growth equity and venture capital.

Serena Koivurinta, Founder of Menerwa Ventures: founder, product and operator perspectives across venture capital and family offices.

Fred Ursell, Head of Investments at Pembroke VCT: investment origination, diligence and portfolio support for growing early-stage businesses.

Kevin Chong, Co-Founder and General Partner at Outward VC: investment in financial services and related technologies, informed by banking, consulting and founder experience.

John Cordrey, Director of Origination at Foresight Group: identifying growth businesses across private equity and ventures.

Climate, energy and the built world

Carlota Ochoa Neven Du Mont, Partner at Extantia: climate technologies across energy, materials, manufacturing and hard-to-abate industries.

Conan Lauterpacht, Founding Partner at SFV: investment and operational experience across energy, urban and industrial infrastructure.

Jonathan Greene, Partner at New Climate Ventures: early-stage climate investment and company operations.

Beatrix von Schröder, Venture Partner at noa: technologies transforming the built world, including energy and industrial applications.

Sandra Bjorck, Investor at Magnesium Capital: technologies supporting decentralised, decarbonised and digitised energy systems.

Chris Smith, Chief Executive Officer at TSP Ventures: hard science and hardware addressing the resilience of critical resources.

Matt Isaacs, Partner at Counteract: company-building experience applied to the challenge of climate change.

Thiago Los, Associate at Turquoise: financial modelling and project finance across solar, district heating and energy recovery.

Matthew Jellicoe, Investment Director at OnePlanetCapital: commercially compelling, scalable climate solutions.

Kajsa Hammer, Investment Manager at ETF Partners: investing in exciting technology start-ups offering sustainability through innovation.

Nature, oceans and circular systems

Ed Phillips, Managing Director, Global at Future Planet Capital: science-led and impact investment, including the Blue Ocean strategy, biotechnology and carbon removal.

Francesca O’Hanlon, Investment Principal at CCEP Ventures: climate investment, corporate innovation and water resilience.

Siddarth Shrikanth, Investment Director at Just Climate: natural climate solutions and ecological expertise; author of The Case for Nature.

Greg Robson, Founding Partner at Sand River: investment in businesses that value, protect and restore nature.

Nic Gorini, Founder and Managing Partner at Spin Ventures: technologies and business models advancing the circular economy.

Justin Guest, Founding Partner at Archipelago Ventures: environmental finance, renewable markets and circular-economy investment.

Amy Tsang, Head of Europe at The Mills Fabrica: connecting textile, apparel and agrifood innovators with industry and investment.

Food, consumer businesses, health and founder support

Omar Hatteea, Vice President at Pentland Ventures: consumer businesses across food, health, wellness and active lifestyles.

Louis Bedwell: investor and advisor in the growth of the food sector.

Hugo Engel, Consultant at Bramble Partners: food-system investment, strategy and research.

Marie Korde, Co-Founder of Two Magnolias: financial markets and angel investment in human health and global sustainability.

Gabrielle Swycher, Investor at Redrice Ventures: challenger-brand investment, drawing on consumer-brand M&A experience.

Dan Loveless, Investor at Eka Ventures: thematic research and investment across climate, health and society.

Phil Hails-Smith, Managing Partner, Corporate and Commercial at Joelson: legal and commercial experience supporting founders through investment rounds, acquisitions and exits.

Michael Reiner, Real Estate Partner at Joelson: advises developers, investors and high-net-worth individuals on property transactions, finance and development.

Matt Jolley, Director, Climate Tech and Sustainability at HSBC Innovation Banking: supporting climate-tech businesses through fundraising, growth and international expansion.

John Stewart, Director at HSBC Innovation Banking: supporting companies within the consumer sector in the venture and growth space.

Connor Brooks, Senior VP at HSBC Innovation Banking: manages client relationships for Series A to pre-IPO ClimateTech and DeepTech companies.

A Partnership Built Around Progress

The BE100 and the Fund are supported by strategic partners: HSBC Innovation Banking, Joelson, JCDecaux, Cazenove Capital, Peak, Volopa and HAATCH.

Their collective support helps sustain a programme designed to connect pioneering companies with investment and opportunities to grow. Within that partnership, HAATCH’s fund-management role connects the competition with its investment ambition. HSBC Innovation Banking and Joelson also bring direct experience into the confirmed judging panel through Matt Jolley and Phil Hails-Smith.

Alongside JCDecaux, Peak and Volopa, these partners support the platform through which founders, investors and industry can come together. Building a business capable of changing an industry takes more than a strong proposition. BE100 creates a place for the relationships that help founders act on it.

Meet the 2026 BE100

Ten industries. Ten companies in each. Explore the businesses selected for this year’s cohort and the different approaches they are bringing to some of the world’s most consequential challenges.

AI & Technology

Untap Health monitors wastewater to detect infectious-disease signals before symptoms appear. Its automated, on-site system gives healthcare providers and other critical organisations earlier information without requiring individuals to take a test.

Natcap turns environmental data into financially relevant intelligence for businesses and investors. By mapping dependencies, impacts and risks across operations and supply chains, it helps organisations understand how ecosystem decline could affect commercial resilience.

QuestPrehab helps patients prepare physically and mentally for surgery and cancer treatment. Its digital, clinician-supervised approach combines exercise, nutrition and wellbeing support, bringing preparation into the care pathway before a major intervention.

MNDL Bio uses AI and biological modelling to improve the DNA sequences used in protein production. It tackles low yields and costly laboratory trial and error, helping manufacturers produce essential proteins more efficiently without changing the protein itself.

OkHi verifies where people live through their mobile phones. Its digital proof-of-address approach gives financial-services businesses an alternative to utility bills and physical visits, addressing a practical barrier to accessing financial products.

Treeconomy combines satellite data, remote sensing and AI to measure forests and nature-restoration projects. It helps land managers understand biomass and carbon more precisely, replacing fragmented measurements with repeatable information across large areas.

Danu Robotics builds AI-powered robots that recover valuable materials from mixed waste. Its compact systems are designed to fit into existing sorting lines, helping recycling operators automate difficult work and capture information about what passes through their facilities.

Kapsule brings together de-identified patient and market data from African healthcare systems. It helps pharmaceutical companies, researchers and funders make decisions with stronger local evidence where information is often fragmented between institutions.

Gentian uses aerial and satellite imagery to map habitats and monitor biodiversity. Its software helps organisations assess land portfolios and direct ecological fieldwork, making nature-related information more accessible for planning, investment and reporting.

Nōka Bio develops biological AI to identify emerging problems in aquaculture and other production systems. Its ALKEMYST platform combines environmental, growth and health data to flag risks before they become visible losses, beginning with salmon farming.

Blue Economy

Smart Green Shipping combines automated wingsails with voyage-optimisation software to bring wind power back into commercial shipping. Its FastRig and FastRoute technologies address fuel consumption while working with the operational demands of existing cargo vessels.

GT Wings develops AirWing, a compact wind-assisted propulsion system for ships. Its airflow technology is designed to generate useful thrust within a small footprint, widening the range of vessels that can use wind to reduce fuel consumption.

Coral Vita grows corals in land-based farms for reef restoration. By combining controlled cultivation, ecological expertise and commercial restoration services, it aims to give coastal communities and organisations a scalable way to restore the ecosystems they depend on.

Aquanzo grows Artemia using nutrient-rich liquid byproducts from the food industry. Its land-based production system converts an underused resource into marine ingredients for aquaculture feed, reducing dependence on wild-harvested supplies.

Riverkin deploys sensors in rivers and smaller streams to provide live water data. By connecting local readings with operational insights, it helps hydropower operators and other users respond to sediment, changing flows and flood risks.

Lir Labs uses automated microscopy and AI to monitor microorganisms in wastewater treatment. Continuous images reveal changes that periodic sampling can miss, helping operators intervene before biological problems disrupt treatment performance.

Zenco Group turns cultivated seaweed into a pelletised feedstock for anaerobic digestion. Its approach links the absorption of excess marine nutrients with renewable gas production, seeking value from a crop that requires neither farmland nor freshwater irrigation.

Solaq develops systems that extract drinking water from the air using liquid-desiccant technology. Its modular approach is designed for different climates and offers an alternative source of water where conventional infrastructure is constrained.

ATAREC develops Wave Beat, a wave-energy system integrated into port breakwaters and maritime structures. Rather than starting with entirely new offshore infrastructure, it explores how existing coastal assets can also generate renewable electricity.

ARC marine designs marine infrastructure that creates habitat while protecting structures. Its nature-inclusive products bring ecological function into offshore energy, coastal defence and other developments, combining engineering requirements with opportunities for biodiversity recovery.

Built Environment

Paebbl mineralises captured CO₂ into construction materials that can replace part of the cement used in concrete. The process turns carbon storage into a physical product, linking durable removal with demand from the built environment.

everox Technologies upcycles waste concrete into substitutes for cement, aggregates and sand. Its process seeks to recover more value from demolition material, reducing demand for virgin resources while creating inputs for new construction.

Mykor grows insulating building systems from biomass residues using biotechnology. Its approach gives agricultural and industrial byproducts a new role in construction, with materials designed to combine thermal performance and a healthier indoor environment.

QuitCarbon helps households navigate electrification with no-cost guidance and connections to vetted contractors. It brings appliance choices, incentives and installation planning together so homeowners can move from interest to practical upgrades.

Converge connects concrete sensors with software that tracks strength and temperature in real time. Better visibility into curing helps construction teams plan work more efficiently and supports decisions that reduce unnecessary time and material use.

Flow Environmental Systems develops commercial heat pumps using CO₂ as a refrigerant. Its ANSWR platform brings heating, cooling and hot-water functions together, offering an alternative to equipment that relies on fossil fuels and synthetic refrigerants.

Co-reactive converts CO₂ and minerals into supplementary cementitious materials. By permanently binding carbon into products designed for concrete, it combines a route to carbon storage with improvements to construction-material performance.

Material Index helps construction teams identify, document and trade reclaimed and surplus materials. Surveys, digital records and a marketplace make reuse easier to organise, addressing the gap between materials being removed and projects that could use them.

Bton Concrt brings proprietary concrete mixing and processing technology to the UK market. Its approach reduces reliance on carbon-intensive clinker and enables alternative ingredients while preserving the performance demanded by construction projects.

Kestrix combines thermal imaging, drones and AI to map heat loss from buildings. It helps housing providers and other property owners prioritise retrofit work and assess heat-pump and solar readiness using evidence from the buildings themselves.

Carbon & Nature

TrelliSense provides continuous, ground-based methane monitoring. Its optical sensor networks help operators detect, locate and assess leaks across sites, turning an invisible emissions problem into information that field teams can act on.

Mission Zero Technologies uses electrochemical direct air capture to recover CO₂ from the atmosphere. Its modular systems supply carbon for permanent storage or use in products, creating an alternative to sourcing carbon from fossil fuels.

Capture6 integrates water recovery with carbon removal. Its technology uses saline and waste-water streams to produce freshwater while capturing and storing CO₂, addressing two pressures on industrial infrastructure through one connected process.

Vycarb captures and stores carbon as dissolved bicarbonate in water. Its reactor and sensing technologies combine the storage process with direct measurement, seeking to make the quantity of carbon stored visible and independently checkable.

Earthly helps businesses assess and fund nature and carbon projects. Its Keystone framework examines environmental and social evidence, giving buyers a structured way to scrutinise quality before committing to a project.

The Landbanking Group builds nature-data infrastructure for businesses, financial institutions and land stewards. Its Landler platform brings ecological information into decisions about land, risk and investment, helping connect ecosystem health with economic value.

Catalyxx converts bioethanol into alcohols and chemical intermediates that can replace fossil-derived equivalents. Producing molecularly identical alternatives allows customers to change their feedstock without redesigning the products and processes that use it.

Upcycled Plant Power turns brassica stems and stalks into protein and fibre ingredients. It creates a food-manufacturing use for crop material often left in fields, linking resource efficiency with an additional source of value for growers.

Mozaic Earth connects site-level ecological information with portfolio-wide nature-risk intelligence. Its platform helps organisations move beyond occasional surveys towards ongoing monitoring, making changes in the land they manage easier to see and respond to.

Terradot accelerates natural rock weathering to remove atmospheric CO₂. It applies finely ground silicate rock to farmland and develops measurement systems to track the process, bringing geological carbon-removal chemistry into working agricultural landscapes.

Energy

RheEnergise develops pumped energy storage using a fluid denser than water. The approach makes smaller hills viable for storage projects, expanding the places where energy can be stored and released when the grid needs it.

RABOT Energy combines dynamic electricity tariffs with software that coordinates household and business energy use. It helps customers align charging and other demand with market conditions, linking lower costs with a more flexible electricity system.

Rebound Technologies combines industrial cooling with thermal energy storage. By producing and storing cooling for later use, its systems help facilities shift electricity demand and maintain temperatures when energy prices or grid pressures rise.

Odqa develops concentrated solar technology for high-temperature industrial heat. Its air-based receiver and thermal storage are designed to serve processes such as drying and kilns, tackling the demand for heat currently supplied by fossil fuels.

CeraPhi Energy develops closed-loop geothermal systems, including the reuse of former oil and gas wells. Its approach seeks to turn existing subsurface assets into reliable sources of heat for communities and businesses.

Over Easy Solar makes prefabricated vertical solar systems for flat and green roofs. Its lightweight design avoids heavy ballast and roof penetrations, opening up installations where conventional rooftop panels can be difficult to accommodate.

AssetCool combines robotics with coatings that improve the thermal performance of power lines. Applying the technology to existing conductors helps utilities increase capacity and address grid constraints without replacing whole transmission routes.

Jolt develops SPARKFUZE, a process for coating electrodes used in hydrogen production and other electrochemical industries. It tackles manufacturing cost, energy use and durability in components that underpin the transition to greener chemicals and fuels.

Allye builds flexible battery-storage systems using repurposed electric-vehicle batteries. Its units supply high-power charging and support sites with constrained grid connections, helping construction, fleets and other users reduce reliance on diesel generation.

Verv reads electrical signatures to understand the performance of heating, cooling and refrigeration equipment. Its monitoring technology identifies waste and emerging mechanical problems, helping operators improve efficiency and plan maintenance before failures occur.

Fashion & Materials

RE&UP recycles cotton, polyester and blended textile waste into new fibres. Its industrial approach tackles the difficult mixtures found in discarded clothing and supplies materials designed to run through existing textile-manufacturing equipment.

OceanSafe develops polymers that replace conventional textile materials, including polyester. Its materials are designed for recyclability and biodegradation while working with established manufacturing equipment, addressing both production compatibility and persistent microplastic pollution.

VNYX uses robotics and AI to prepare returned and used garments for resale. Grading, cleaning, photographing, sizing and listing are brought into an integrated process, tackling the labour costs that can make reuse uneconomic.

Colorifix engineers microorganisms to produce pigments and transfer colour onto textiles. Its biological approach works with dyeing equipment, offering a different route to colour that reduces reliance on conventional chemical processes.

29acacia turns agricultural banana waste into textile fibres and yarns. It offers fashion manufacturers another source of raw material while creating a productive use for residues that would otherwise be discarded.

Neptune Nanotechnologies extracts chitin nanocrystals from crustacean-shell waste for use in materials. Its additives are designed to improve properties such as strength and toughness, turning an organic waste stream into a manufacturing resource.

Industrial Microbes engineers microorganisms to make chemicals and materials from renewable feedstocks. Its work includes bio-based acrylic acid, targeting products currently tied to petrochemical inputs with alternatives designed for existing supply chains.

Next-Gen Leather grows NGL, a leather-like biomaterial, through biotechnology. Controlling the material’s structure during production offers a route to textures and performance suited to fashion, interiors and other demanding applications without animal hides.

ID Genève builds Swiss watches around circular materials and long-term use. Recycled steel, reconditioned movements and services for repair, upgrades and resale bring a different operating model to a product traditionally associated with permanence.

Spinnova mechanically refines wood pulp and waste into textile fibre without dissolving the raw material. Its process creates another route from cellulose to fabrics, with potential applications across everyday clothing and recycled feedstocks.

Food & Agriculture

Planetary develops fermentation technology and production infrastructure for bio-based ingredients and materials. Its BioBlocks platform addresses the manufacturing bottleneck between a promising biological process and the volumes needed for commercial supply.

Proofminder turns drone and camera imagery into crop information at leaf level. Its AI helps growers spot weeds, assess crop health and make more targeted decisions, reducing dependence on broad averages across large fields.

Elicit Plant uses plant-derived phytosterols to strengthen crops’ responses to water stress. Its formulations work through familiar agricultural application methods, helping growers adapt to drought pressures without building a new production system.

DayaTani combines certified potato-seed production with digital agronomy in Indonesia. By addressing both the quality of planting material and the information available to growers, it tackles linked barriers to smallholder productivity.

Gander makes reduced-to-clear food visible to shoppers in real time. Its retail integrations connect existing markdown activity with customer channels, helping stores sell more of the food already on their shelves before it becomes waste.

Better Nature makes tempeh designed for everyday meals. Fermentation turns soybeans into a protein-rich food with fibre, giving consumers a practical alternative for familiar cooking occasions rather than requiring an entirely new eating habit.

Farm to Feed connects Kenyan growers’ surplus and imperfect produce with reliable buyers. Its sourcing and supply-chain platform helps farmers find value in more of their harvest while giving commercial customers traceable, affordable ingredients.

Moa Technology discovers new ways to control weeds that resist existing herbicides. Its biological research, proprietary data and AI-supported discovery platform address a growing threat to harvests by finding different mechanisms of action.

Gardin measures photosynthesis using optical sensors and AI. By reading how plants respond before stress becomes visibly apparent, it helps growers adjust lighting, irrigation and climate around the needs of the crop.

Shamba Records connects smallholder farmers with agricultural advice, finance and digital market infrastructure. Its combination of farm data and accessible communication channels seeks to make useful information and services available beyond smartphone-only systems.

Transport & Mobility

TUAL develops high-power EV charging with integrated battery storage. Its deployable systems help fleets and other operators charge vehicles at sites where the grid connection cannot deliver the required power on its own.

Finmile applies AI to the execution of logistics and field operations. Its software plans work and responds to exceptions as they happen, helping operators reduce unnecessary journeys and resolve problems that static plans leave to people.

The Ocean Package supplies reusable shipping boxes supported by tracking and return systems. It brings packaging into a managed loop, helping businesses replace single-use cardboard while retaining the practical requirements of established logistics operations.

GoMetro combines fleet data and electric-vehicle intelligence to support transport operators. Its ZAPPP product helps electric-bus fleets understand battery condition and operational needs, turning telematics into information for reliable daily service.

Ontra Mobility combines travel-demand modelling, optimisation and simulation to help agencies plan public transport. Planners can compare routes, service zones and frequencies against budgets and policy goals before committing to changes.

Hergele Mobility makes compact electric vehicles for moving people and loads inside warehouses and other facilities. Its designs serve the space between manual handling and heavy automation, helping operators move goods through existing layouts.

Gridio connects directly to electric vehicles through car manufacturers’ cloud services. It schedules charging around electricity prices, available solar and departure needs, bringing smart charging to drivers without additional hardware.

IONA develops an integrated drone-delivery system for logistics businesses. Aircraft, autonomous operation, fleet integration and compliance tools are designed together, tackling the practical steps between a successful flight and a repeatable delivery service.

Bib Batteries provides remote battery-health reports for electric vehicles. Making battery condition easier to understand helps leasing companies, dealers and buyers assess value, building confidence in a used-EV market where mileage alone tells only part of the story.

LithSafe develops protection against lithium-battery thermal runaway. Its work addresses the hazards of heat, fire and released gases, seeking earlier intervention and safer containment as batteries become more common across transport and infrastructure.

Health & Wellness

Feyenally uses a smartphone camera and AI to measure refractive errors without additional testing hardware. Its approach aims to make basic vision assessment more accessible where reaching an optometrist can be difficult.

SFA Therapeutics develops investigational oral treatments that act through the gut–immune relationship. Its lead programme is being studied in psoriasis, exploring a different approach to immune modulation; its treatments remain in clinical development.

MyCelsius makes a thermoelectric cooling bracelet for moments of sudden heat, including hot flushes. Applying cooling at the wrist offers a portable, everyday approach to personal comfort rather than relying on cooling an entire room.

ATRO Medical develops an artificial meniscus for people with persistent knee pain after meniscus removal. Its clinical-stage Artimis implant seeks to preserve the natural knee and address the gap before a full knee replacement becomes appropriate.

Genomate Health uses computational reasoning to help prioritise targeted cancer treatments from a tumour’s molecular profile. Its reports support oncologists in navigating complex evidence and considering options beyond a single mutation-to-drug match.

Labfly designs, builds and operates drones for medical logistics. Transporting laboratory samples and other time-critical goods between healthcare sites offers a way to reduce dependence on road journeys and improve the consistency of delivery.

Upfront Diagnostics develops rapid blood tests that help identify severe stroke in the pre-hospital setting. Its LVOne test supports ambulance teams in assessing likely large-vessel occlusion, helping patients reach the appropriate treatment pathway sooner.

Self Space makes therapy available through high-street spaces, online appointments and workplace programmes. Its model brings mental-health support closer to everyday life, addressing the practical and cultural barriers that can prevent people seeking help.

iQ Sense develops continuous animal-health monitoring that combines biochemical sensing with behaviour and vital-sign data. Its implant-and-collar approach seeks to reveal changes between veterinary visits, supporting earlier decisions about animal welfare and care.

Kresko RNAtech investigates bioactive RNAs from foods and botanicals for functional ingredients. Its bioinformatics platform and RNA library explore how naturally occurring molecules could support new products across nutrition, wellbeing and personal care.

Media & Education

Novi develops software to support phone-free learning environments. Its approach aims to reduce distraction and administrative demands in schools while helping students build healthier digital habits that extend beyond the classroom.

Earth Cubs uses characters, stories, games and entertainment to help young children understand the world. Its educational resources and forthcoming Milkshake! television series make environmental learning an invitation to explore rather than a lesson built around fear.

Rangeet combines social, emotional and ecological learning through its SEEK curriculum. A digital platform helps educators deliver stories, games and activities and assess learning, connecting wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability in children’s education.

Do Epic Good creates podcast-led, CPD-certified learning for professionals. Its entertainment-based format tackles the low engagement associated with conventional corporate training, making lessons easier to fit into the routines of working life.

Better Business Network combines a business community, learning and practical support for organisations seeking positive impact. Its Better Business Standard adds an accessible route for smaller companies to demonstrate progress alongside the relationships needed to grow.

TWIN represents experts, scientists, activists, educators and creatives. It connects organisations with people who bring specialist knowledge and credibility, building partnerships around the substance of their expertise rather than audience size alone.

Headzone develops a school platform for emotional literacy, digital safety and early support. Creative activities, check-ins and routes for pupils to ask for help bring children’s experiences into view for the adults around them.

Heal Earth designs climate education with neuroinclusion at its core. Accessible curricula, storytelling and different learning formats help children engage with complex environmental ideas through approaches that reflect how they learn.

Re Lab translates science, environmental issues and technology into accessible communications. Its campaigns and storytelling help organisations make complex work understandable, connecting specialist knowledge with the audiences needed to create change.

Rest Easier brings financial understanding and life-planning tools into employee benefits. By providing access through employers, it helps people address tasks such as wills and powers of attorney that are often delayed or difficult to navigate.

Meet the People Building What Comes Next

The 2026 BE100 gives us 100 different answers to a shared question: what could work better, and who is building it?

At Blue Earth Summit, those answers will be put in front of people who can challenge them, invest in them, buy from them and help them scale. All 100 companies will pitch. The conversations around those pitches can become introductions, partnerships and opportunities that continue long after the stage lights go down.

For investors, this is a chance to examine businesses tackling change across ten industries. For corporate leaders, it is an opportunity to find technologies and partners relevant to the challenges inside their own organisations. For founders, it is a place to meet people who understand what the next stage will demand.