INVESTOR DAY DESIGN ORBIT 2017 1
INTRO Welcome to Design Orbit Investor Day 2017. Design Orbit is an international acceleration program founded by INDEX: Design to Improve LifeÂŽ and run in partnership with The Boston Consulting Group. The program is designed to help selected INDEX: Award 2017 Finalists grow the overall impact of their design solutions.
Our candidates come from across Europe, America, and the Asia Pacific region, and span health, agriculture, education, infrastructure, disaster relief, as well as new materials and textiles. They address a broad range of UN Sustainable Development Goals the guiding principles of the program and INDEX: Design to Improve LifeÂŽ.
This year, INDEX: Award received over 1,400 nominations from 85 countries. Finalists were selected by the international INDEX: Award Jury - comprising 14 influential men and women from the fields of design, innovation, business and social entrepreneurship.
The Design Orbit program has enabled these budding entrepreneurs to enhance their impact and returns, develop a design thinking mindset, and improve their communication and storytelling skills - all techniques proven to create more innovative, impactful and sustainable businesses.
The finalists were then subject to a second, Design Orbit selection panel comprising INDEX: team members, BCG consultants, past Design Orbit candidates, and international investors who identified the most promising candidates for the acceleration program.
The entrepreneurs you will meet today have developed cutting-edge and sustainable solutions to combat a range of current challenges. Investing in these businesses is an opportunity to accelerate us all towards a better future. Thank you for your participation, Liza and the INDEX: Design to Improve LifeÂŽ Investment team
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Worldwide, 14.4% of the GDP per capita is spent on primary education
Every year, 6.6 million children under the age of five die worldwide
SOURCE: UN.ORG
SOURCE: WHO.ORG
BENTO LAB
THE FIRST EVER LAPTOP-SIZED DNA LABORATORY
Technologies are considered a main driver of economic growth in the coming decades. In 2003, the human genome was sequenced, and humanity might soon engineer its own DNA. However, in a post-factual society, aversion to genetics is rising, while trust and hands-on participation in bio-science is decreasing. This is a challenge that needs to be addressed if we are to realize the potential benefits of biotech, and steer its progress towards global development and equality. Bento Lab is an all-in-one DNA laboratory that combines the essential tools for DNA analysis at a fraction of their usual cost. It includes a laboratory centrifuge designed to extract DNA at high forces, a thermo-cycler for polymerase chain reaction, and a gel electrophoresis chamber, power supply and trans-illuminator for imaging. It currently costs less than a tenth of a comparable professional set up, and was designed to be easy to use; which is particularly empowering for beginners, who can practice the practical skills of biosciences work at their own speed.
When technologies become democratized, innovation accelerates. Bento enables nonexperts to have a hands-on relationship with genetics, and the design impacts everybody from school educators, to agriculturists, to citizen scientists. Bento Lab aims to nurture curiosity in genetics, catalyze inclusive and accessible research, and thus help lay groundwork for using genetics as a tool for tackling world crises. Bento Lab is currently in production and is being shipped to 30+ countries.
Philipp Boeing phil@bento.bio (+44)7492265728 bento.bio Bethan Wolfenden bethan@bento.bio (+44)7576554123
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Cardiovascular diseases is the leading cause of death in the world
800 women die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth every day
SOURCE: WHO.ORG
SOURCE: WHO.ORG
BLOODLINK
ENSURING BLOOD AVAILABILITY IN TIMES OF NEED
Providing safe and adequate blood should be an integral part of every country’s national health care policy and infrastructure. Yet almost 80% of the global population is inadequately covered for their blood needs. And at the same time, an estimated 10% of collected blood is wasted due to the limited shelf life of 35 days. In India, for example, blood banks are compelled to ask patients to get replacement donors and often these donors are arranged through the black market. Between 2014 and 2016 alone, this led to more than 2,000 people contracting HIV due to contaminated blood transfusion.
Blood sufficiency is not solely about increasing safe donations but is also about using donated blood in the most effective way. BloodLink aims to eliminate the black, or red, market for blood and ensure blood availability in times of need. Their people-centric web service, with an exponential technology backbone, aims to make blood collection for blood banks as seamless and efficient as possible. It is a solution that can be customized for various markets in developing countries, keeping in mind social idiosyncrasies that come with a sensitive topic like blood.
The BloodLink service connects blood banks on an online platform and allows them to exchange blood components based on their needs while balancing the supply of blood locally. This reduces wastage, ensures maximal usage of donated blood before it expires and saves lives by making the valuable resource more accessible to patients. Moreover, BloodLink aims to bring transparency to the blood transfusion system, which will also systemically reduce the need for unsafe blood donations.
Amit Lohiya amit@bloodlink.life (+45)53333347 bloodlink.life
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According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die every day due to poverty
From 2008 - 2030, world energy consumption is expected to increase by 55%
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FIELD READY
GETTING PEOPLE WHAT THEY NEED, WHERE THEY NEED IT VIA HYPER-LOCAL MANUFACTURING
There are numerous areas prone to humanitarian problems causing the number of forcibly displaced people to skyrocket. In 2016 alone, there were 31.1 million new internal displacements by conflict, violence, and disasters. That is one person forced to flee every second. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) Aid workers who provide relief use old methods such as antiquated supply chains and have yet to take full advantage of innovations available. Field Ready is a non-profit service design model focused on disrupting traditional supply chains used in areas of crisis. It comprises a team of humanitarian makers, a process to evaluate people and solutions to deploy to post-disaster areas, a growing collection of digital manufacturing tools to accelerate action, and a kit of methods and tools that empower underserved communities.
Field Ready’s focus is to shift from aid to trade where new forms of hyperlocal manufacturing, like 3D printing, radical up-cycling approaches, and desktop injection molding tools are deployed in the field. The service also uses human-centered design methods to engage, listen, and co-create novel solutions where and when they are needed. Locals are trained to manufacture their own solutions and are empowered to become agents of their own success. Field Ready creates search and rescue tools, replacement parts, medical disposables, and much more.
Dara Dotz dara@fieldready.org (+1)4159006891 fieldready.org
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$0,25 a day can provide enough nutrients and vitamins to keep a child healthy
AI robots are projected to power 85% of all customer service interactions by 2020
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HYPERELASTIC BONE A SYNTHETIC REPAIR OF BROKEN BONES
Dimension Inx has developed innovative biomaterials and biofabrication processes that will improve patient outcomes, enable new groundbreaking treatments and improve biomanufacturing productivity. Of our two patent-pending material platforms, Hyperelastic Bone (HB) is the most exciting part of particle loaded ink platform and likely to be closest to clinical deployment. HB is being recognized as a potential breakthrough solution in the orthopedic, pediatric, and craniofacial bone graft markets ($2.4B). While HB will be our focus, significant medical markets are served by our other material products and will be entered over time. For years, Northwestern University’s Tissue Engineering Additive Manufacturing (TEAM) lab has been developing a wide range of innovative biomaterials platforms and biofabrication processes. Dr. Ramille Shah and Dr. Adam Jakus have led these efforts and are well-recognized in the field.
With the filing and granting of patents and broad commercial interest in these material platforms, Dr. Shah and Dr. Jakus have spun out Dimension Inx LLC (August, 2017) as an entity to commercially leverage this IP and to accelerate deployment of the ground breaking medical treatments. The explosion in biofabrication will be enabled by new materials and this materials market is multi-facetted and growing rapidly. These new materials, including HB, are penetrating existing bio-medical markets such as the Bone Graft & Substitutes (BGS) market and creating brand new markets. The BGS market ($2.4B) is a primary materials market feeding all orthopedic and craniofacial applications. These markets are continuing to grow due to expanding demographics and improved healthcare access.
Adam Jakus adamjakus@dimensioninx.com (+1)7705303617 John Hartner johnhartner@dimensioninx.com shahlab.northwestern.edu
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80% of the world's population lives on less than $10 per day
Agriculture is responsible for 70% of the world's water usage
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IGNITIA
SMS-BASED WEATHER FORECASTS FOR TROPICAL FARMERS
For small-scale farmers in tropical regions, the weather plays a huge role and farmers have to make quick, critical decisions based on whatever weather information is available. The inaccuracy of this information remains the largest source of yield loss for the farmers, ranging from anywhere between 20% and 80%. By comparison, losses due to pests, disease and weeds only affect around 15%.
Last year in Ghana, 80,000 farmers subscribed to the 97% automated Ignitia system. The system is easily scalable across countries and can lead to long-term benefits like financial security, poverty reduction, and increased spending on education and health. With nearly three billion people living in the tropics, accurate weather forecasting and swift information delivery can have a great impact.
Ignitia is a weather model specifically calibrated for the tropics, resulting in forecasts that are twice as accurate as global models (~84%). Ignitia distributes these forecasts to farmers by partnering with telecommunications companies to send GPSspecific daily forecasts, as well as monthly and seasonal predictions. The message is sent in a simple text-lite format, and can be received on any mobile phone - no smartphone required. Farmers do not have to pay a large sum upfront, instead, they subscribe via their telecommunications company and pay in micro-installments from their existing mobile credit. It costs $0.03 per message, which costs just 1%-2% of a farmer’s total costs for an ROI.
Liisa Smits liisa.smits@ignitia.se (+46)708882666 ignitia.se
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In the past 50 years, humans have consumed more resources than in all previous history
There will be more plastic than fish in the sea by 2050 if we do not change current production and consumption patterns
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LIGHT ACTIVE TEXTILE A NANO-ENHANCED TEXTILE THAT CAN BE CLEANED WITH SUNLIGHT
The sun is an infinite source of energy that we have at our disposal, and nanotechnologies offer new promise in efficiently harvesting this naturally abundant energy source. Light Active Textile is a uniquely engineered fabric that can be cleaned using only sunlight. The powerful technology uses silver and copper nanostructures woven throughout the textile, which when exposed to sunlight, heat up to break down organic matter and kill bacteria. This self-cleaning technology has a number of real-world applications. As an anti-stain fabric that never has to be traditionally washed or dry-cleaned, it is a climate-friendly way of fulfilling the day-to-day needs of our society. Its implementation will significantly drive down water consumption – an acute global problem, particularly in severely droughtprone areas.
The textile also has the potential to reduce the difficulties of treating wounds. Bandages enhanced with these nanostructures would not only rapidly kill harmful bacteria, but would also expedite the healing of chronic wounds. It could offer better wound healing capacity than the most advanced commercial bandages and would enhance the ability to treat chronic diseases. Light Active Textile represents a powerful example of how technology and design can be closely integrated to create value and longlasting impact.
Vipul Bansal vipul.bansal@rmit.edu.au (+61)430351326 rmit.edu.au
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Life expectancy in Africa is 50.6 years. In the US and Western Europe, it is 76 years
70% of all AIDS/HIV deaths in 2012 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa
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UBUNTU
A LOW-COST DIGNIFYING EPIDEMIC BED
During the height of the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014, treatment beds prevented an estimated 57,000 infections and about 40,000 deaths. But due to a lack of capacity, patients with other diseases couldn’t get the treatment they needed, since all beds in all hospitals were already crowded with Ebola patients. This situation caused an additional 10,623 deaths – not directly by the Ebola Virus – but by the healthcare system, which was overwhelmed by the outbreak. Ubuntu is a quickly assembled containment bed made from with locally sourced bamboo, zip ties, and disposable sheets of Tyvek® functioning both as a mattress and as a barrier between beds. Using already manufactured materials that are lightweight and space efficient, health workers can bypass conventional local logistics, making Ubuntu a quicker, more cost-efficient, and above all more dignifying solution.
The impact of Ubuntu varies depending on the scale of the outbreak. The bed concept is aimed at helping health workers contain patients in rural areas hit by disease, ensuring that it can be controlled with the least mortality possible. It also helps health workers save time with cleaning and transporting the patients so that more time can be spent on caregiving with reduced risk of secondary contamination. Ubuntu is about a rapid capacity response and, in the future, iterations will be made to broaden its areas of use, such as disaster relief, refugee camps and much more.
Ilteris Ilbasan ilterisilbasan@gmail.com (+90)5557225544 ilterisilbasan.com
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In 2015, almost 11 million refugees under the age of 18 were forced from their homes
In 2016, at least 3,740 refugees lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean sea
SOURCE: UNHCR.ORG
SOURCE: UNHCR.ORG
WHAT3WORDS
ADDRESSING THE WORLD WITH A GLOBAL GRID
Have you ever stumbled upon a hidden waterfall when hiking and then failed to find it again no matter how hard you looked? Had your car break down in the middle of nowhere, and couldn’t describe your location to the recovery service? Having no accurate way of telling others exactly where we are is frustrating, but it can also be dangerous. How do you give the location of a fire in an unaddressed informal settlement to emergency services? And what about the billions of people worldwide who have no address for receiving mail? what3words is a global addressing system that has divided the world into 3m x 3m squares, each with a unique three-word address. It is an incredibly simple and accurate way to talk about location, and it means that everyone, everywhere now has an address. People can use the free app or online map to enter or search for a three-word address anywhere in the world, in more than 14 languages, even offline without a data connection. Three-word addresses are easy to share and remember, more accurate than street addresses, and much simpler to use than GPS coordinates.
The system is used by more than 450 businesses, governments and NGOs around the world by industries including postal services, logistics, humanitarian, emergency services, travel, events, mobility and automotive. what3words is providing millions of people with a reliable address for the very first time, boosting economies by opening up new markets of delivery and e-commerce customers, and saving lives by giving emergency services a way to reach people faster. They are making the world a less frustrating, more efficient and safer place, three words at a time.
Camilla Taylor camilla@what3words.com what3words.com
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50% of the world’s population live in large cities
Pollution is one of the biggest global killers affecting over 100 million people
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WOOBI PLAY
AN EDUCATIONAL POLLUTION MASK FOR KIDS
More than 300 million children in the world live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution – six or more times higher than international guidelines. In China, many children grow up with asthma and other respiratory illnesses as a result of the severe air pollution problem. According to UNICEF, if Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Xi’an effectively controlled particle levels and met the World Health Organization's (WHO) air quality guidelines, the number of premature deaths could be decreased by at least 81%. Woobi Play is a modular pollution mask that fits into a kid’s universe while still being able to perform at a professional level. It is designed to meet children at eye level, involving them with building the mask and making it more appealing for them to wear. Protection against air pollution requires education, and Woobi Play is designed as a solution to inspire behavioral change.
The aim of Woobi Play is to reach as many children as possible, with a target of 1 million users within three years. The design was implemented in January 2017, with China as the first go-to-market country. So far, 12,000 masks have been distributed. Through Wechat social media initiatives, 3,000 registered users have been accumulated by having parents scan a QR code and follow the design company to gain more knowledge about the effects of air pollution and to learn what they can do to protect their children. These initiatives also serve as a platform for gathering feedback and improving the design.
Bibi Ho bibi@airmotionlabs.cn (+86)13501252125 airmotionlabs.com
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