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Printify makes the sale come first
A failed inventory bet became a marketplace for making things only after someone buys them. Printify removes the stockroom from entrepreneurship. The homework stays.
The Jewelry Brand That Built a Factory Without Walls
SOKO began as a marketplace for Kenyan makers. The founders found that beautiful one-offs were hard to sell at scale, so they built repeatable jewelry collections and a mobile system that lets independent workshops act like one factory.
PlasmaLeap Technologies
PlasmaLeap Technologies is a Sydney-based cleantech company building modular, non-thermal plasma reactors that make ammonia, nitric acid, fertiliser and hydrocarbon eFuels from just air, water and renewable electricity. Spun out of the University of Sydney in 2019, its 'lightning-mimicking' process replaces the century-old, fossil-fuelled Haber-Bosch route with room-temperature, on-site chemical production. Its eNFix containerised units let farmers make green nitrogen fertiliser at the farm gate, cutting emissions and supply-chain dependence. The company raised roughly A$30 million in a Series A led by the Gates Foundation, Investible and Yara Growth Ventures to build first-of-a-kind fertiliser hubs in New South Wales and Tasmania.