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Giles Palmer and the value of a wrong turn
Before Brandwatch sold for $450 million, Giles Palmer spent years finding a problem people would pay him to solve. His career keeps returning to the same question: what are we missing?
Manfred Borer and the missing links in your chocolate
A Swiss carpenter turned supply-chain entrepreneur, Manfred Borer has spent years making smallholder farms visible. At Koltiva, his approach pairs software with a decidedly physical requirement: someone has to go and look.
Gerald Tan and the business hiding in the paperwork
Gerald Tan grew up around rubber factories and spent years running the family business. At Agridence, he is turning the records behind a commodity trade into a business of their own.
Jitesh Shetty Is Turning Sustainability's Paper Chase Into Software
The Qwiklabs co-founder once mapped influence inside Enron's email archive. Now he is applying the same appetite for structured evidence to corporate climate claims - and asking companies to trade spreadsheet theatre for audit-ready data.
Agridence
Agridence is a Singapore technology company that helps global agri-commodity supply chains prove where their raw materials come from. Born in 2018 as HeveaConnect, a digital B2B marketplace for physical natural rubber, it rebranded in 2022 and expanded into a modular traceability and compliance platform now spanning rubber, palm oil, cocoa, coffee, coconut and more. Its tools trace commodities from the farm plot to the shipment and file the paperwork regulators such as the EU Deforestation Regulation demand, serving tyre makers, food multinationals, traders and industry associations.
Koltiva
Koltiva is a Swiss-Indonesian agritech and climate-tech company that makes agricultural supply chains traceable, inclusive, and climate-smart. Through its KoltiTrace software platform and KoltiSkills field services, it connects smallholder producers to global brands with seed-to-table traceability, farm mapping, deforestation and EUDR compliance, carbon assessments, and digital finance. Founded in 2013 and led by co-founder and CEO Manfred Borer, Koltiva reports work with over 2 million registered producers across dozens of commodities and more than 90 countries.
Credibl
Credibl is a San Francisco-based, AI-powered ESG and sustainability data management platform that helps companies, banks and investors measure, manage, validate and report environmental, social and governance data. Founded by Qwiklabs founder and ex-Googler Jitesh Shetty, it applies large language models and machine learning to consolidate fragmented sustainability data, detect anomalies and produce audit-ready, one-click disclosures across frameworks like CSRD, BRSR, TCFD, SASB, ISSB and CDP.
Vanessa Coleman
Vanessa Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Oceanworks, the largest global marketplace for recycled plastic materials and products. A serial entrepreneur with an MIT engineering and Sloan MBA background, she has turned mismanaged ocean-bound plastic into a traceable, brand-grade supply chain. Before Oceanworks she was founding CEO of power-electronics company FINsix and co-founded the clean-water social enterprise Saha Global. Her work connects hundreds of brands to vetted regional recyclers, backed by the Oceanworks Guaranteed certification and shore-to-shelf traceability.