The small business category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors world-changing projects from companies with 99 employees or less. See the finalists and honorable mentions below, and read about the winner, the pension provider offering companies a net zero retirement fund right now.
Finalists
The Bamboo Shirt, ESQ
Blue Grass Chemical Agent–Destruction Pilot Plant, CRG Automation
Coding for kids, ImagiLabs
Digiphy, Digiphy
Ideal Switch, Menlo Micro
Neural Insights Platform, Pison Technology
Pray for Rain, Pray.com
Project: SugarFree, DNA
Student Transportation Platform, Zūm
TechAdvance Program, Carbon Neutral Technology
WhiteFlag App, WhiteFlag
Honorable Mentions
AI to Eliminate Unnecessary Animal Testing, Smarter Sorting
BAR Method, First Line Technology
The BirdSeed Foundation, Flock DC
BMW IconicSounds Electric, Mirrored Media
Bospar Messes With Texas, Bospar
Decentralized Clinical Trials, Curebase
Everactive Batteryless IoT Systems, Everactive
Flexible Capabilities, Casebook
GraphWear, GraphWear
HFCUniverse, HFC
NEAT, Sudoc
New Wave Shrimp, New Wave Foods
North Carolina Drone Delivery, Flytrex
Pipeline, Pipeline
Curious Kingdom, Playper
Project IRIS, SandTech Solutions
Quantum Computing, Quantum Computing
Sesh, Sesh
Simulate for Housing, Balancing Act
Wave-Glide VNA Rail System and Proxi-Flange Contactless Waveguide Flange, Eravant
The Wing Platform, Checkerspot
X4Impact, X4Impact
Recognize your brand’s excellence by applying to this year’s Brands That Matter Awards before the early-rate deadline, May 3.