Partners
Partners play a hands-on role in our prizes—co-designing competitions, supporting operations, and helping scale solutions with their expertise, resources, and global reach.
As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, Cambridge Consultants spearheads transformative projects to solve the toughest scientific and engineering challenges. Ambitious clients collaborate with us to create new-to-the-world technologies, services and products that have never been seen before. Our unique combination of technical, commercial and market expertise yields market-leading solutions that are hard to copy. This creates valuable intellectual property that generates protectable long-term value.
Canadian Natural Resources Limited (Canadian Natural) is a senior independent oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. With operations located in Western Canada, the U.K. portion of the North Sea and Offshore Africa, the Company has a strong, diversified asset base comprised of a balanced portfolio of heavy, light and synthetic crude oil and natural gas.
From the printing press to penicillin, entrepreneurs have solved the world’s toughest problems. Today, carbon management companies are scaling a diversity of pathways that drive economic growth.
The Carbon Business Council is a global coalition of innovators shaping the market conditions and ecosystem for carbon management to thrive.
Carbon Direct Inc. is a leading carbon management firm that mobilizes scientific expertise, proprietary data, and commercial experience to scale end-to-end services across the carbon ecosystem. We're led by the world's foremost science and we're motivated by purpose: to help organizations make their climate commitments a reality. We believe in going beyond net-zero to full carbon accountability and we're here to chart the path.
The Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative drives the creation of a thriving innovation ecosystem for the commercialization of carbontech solutions that capture, convert, and sequester carbon dioxide (CO₂) into valuable end products or services—with the support of corporate partners, government leaders, and experts who help foster a robust network for our startups. In its first four years, the C2V Initiative has supported 35 groundbreaking startups that have raised over $580M in follow-on funding, leading to numerous successful partnerships and 600+ new business relationships, technology advancement, and industry growth.
Carbon180 is a climate-focused nonprofit on a mission to fundamentally rethink carbon. The organization champions carbon removal technologies and practices through policies rooted in science and justice
Carbonfuture, a leading provider of high-integrity, durable carbon removal, announced a partnership with XPRIZE, the world leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity's grand challenges, to support the integrity of the growing carbon dioxide removal industry through rigorous monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV).
CARICOOS is the Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System. This effort, funded by the NOAA IOOS office http://ioos.noaa.gov/, is one of eleven coastal observing systems and regional associations, which, along with federal agencies, constitute the national coastal component of the US Integrated Ocean Observing System. Learn more at http://www.caricoos.org/.
Cecy Health Consult Ltd, a healthcare organization, is committed to transforming Africa's healthcare landscape. Their mission is to provide cities and communities across Africa with smart access to quality healthcare through continuous innovation. With a focus on leveraging technology and other innovative solutions, their goal is to overhaul and enhance healthcare in Africa. Their operations encompass public/community health service, clinical operations and management, medical equipment supply, representation for international health brands, and personal development training.
Cecy Health Consult is known for its high-quality, affordable healthcare that aligns with international standards, achieved by utilizing advanced technology and innovative solutions. They offer a wide range of services including access to the latest drugs, state-of-the-art treatment technology, digital support for clinical and patient administration, remote clinic services, and comprehensive emergency ambulance services. Their commitment to excellence and quality improvement is reflected in their reputation for high performance and ongoing enhancements to the services provided to their clients.
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide technology leader that has been making the Internet work since 1984. Our people, products, and partners help society securely connect and seize tomorrow's digital opportunity today. Discover more at thenetwork.cisco.com and follow us on Twitter at @Cisco.
As the most populous city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is home to nearly four million residents and 97,000 businesses across 469 square miles. The City of Los Angeles is a Mayor-Council-Commission form of government, with the Mayor, City Controller, and City Attorney elected by residents every four years. Fifteen City Council members representing fifteen districts are elected by the citizens for four-year terms, for a maximum of three terms. With members of Boards and Commissions typically appointed by the Mayor, and subject to the approval of the Los Angeles City Council. With approximately 44 departments and bureaus, the City of Los Angeles is your go-to source for all of your needs from local community events and programs to help starting your own business and everything in between.
The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Adult Education (OAE), formerly known as the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy has worked to equip all adults in Philadelphia with the education they need for work, family, and civic engagement since 1983. OAE was charged to work on behalf of over 80 literacy and workforce development programs to help the estimated 550,000 adults in the city functioning below basic adult education levels to qualify for family-sustaining jobs and post-secondary training and education. Learn more.
The Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) at the University of California, San Diego, is part of a national Clinical and Translational Science Award consortium, led by the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Science. Established in 2010, CTRI provides infrastructure and support for basic, translational and clinical research throughout the San Diego region to bring discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside, and facilitates training and education of the next generation of researchers. CTRI carries out its activities in collaboration with institutional and corporate partners and currently has more than 1,000 members.
CMC Research Institutes (CMC) is a not-for-profit organization working to eliminate industrial greenhouse gas emissions by accelerating technology development. To achieve this goal, CMC designs, creates and operates research institutes that function as innovation clusters to catalyze and deliver multi-sectoral emission reduction technologies.
Cocoon Bioscience is a recombinant protein production company located in Spain. Cocoon has patented, GMO-free technology that is capable of manufacturing recombinant proteins at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional methods such as microbial fermentation. Our platform takes viruses encoded with a target protein or enzyme and, in an automated approach, inoculates cocooned insects who then produce the target protein/enzyme with high productivities. Leveraging this technology, we have developed a production process for three of the most sought-after growth factors, FGF-1, EGF and PDGF. With these products we help cultivated meat and cellular agriculture companies significantly decrease raw material costs, making their business more profitable and enabling scale-up.
Collider Health, led by Tina Woods with over 25 years of experience in health and science, serves as an innovation engine in the health sector. It connects individuals and organizations, fostering fresh thinking and collaborative networks among corporates, startups, the third sector, and investors for sustainable impact. The company is at the forefront of addressing major trends driven by technology, aging demographics, and evolving market demands. It emphasizes the critical need for agility and evolving business models in healthcare, advocating for a blend of wellcare and sickcare innovations. Collider Health stands as a catalyst in a rapidly changing health landscape, where technology, citizen engagement, and emerging markets are reshaping health and wealth concepts.
Compusense is a world leader in Consumer and Sensory science, providing user-friendly software that promotes best practices to the consumer and sensory community, and actionable outcomes for our clients. Compusense software is used for product development, quality control and consumer research.
ConocoPhillips is the world’s largest independent exploration and production company based on proved reserves and production of liquids and natural gas. We explore for, produce, transport and market crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas and bitumen on a worldwide basis, with operations and activities around the globe. In Canada, we can trace our history back over 100 years. With our Canadian headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, we are one of the top producers of natural gas in the country and the second largest steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) producer in the oil sands. We also have exploration assets in Canada’s Arctic and offshore East Coast. For more, visit conocophillips.ca.
Continua Health Alliance, an international not-for-profit industry group, is the leading organization convening global technology industry standards to develop end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity for personal connected health. Continua is dedicated to the development of Design Guidelines and test tools to expedite the deployment of personal connected health devices and systems that will dramatically improve health management, clinical outcomes and quality of life. The Alliance’s activities include a certification and brand support program, events and collaborations to support technology and clinical innovation, and outreach to employers, payers, governments and care providers.
