The finalists have been announced for the ‘Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge’ – a global competition for advancing digital tools to support SMEs measure and manage their nature-related impacts and dependencies.
The competition is organised by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Conservation X Labs and the UN Development Programme. Winners will be awarded a share of $100,000 and be given the opportunity to collaborate with these organisations when rolling out their nature intelligence solutions.
TNFD CEO Tony Goldner stated: “Nature intelligence is the new frontier of business intelligence and good business strategy. We are thrilled to have had over 380 applications to the Grand Challenge and look forward to seeing the solutions that our finalists can come up with to meet the needs of the world’s 300 million SMEs.”
The 12 finalists are: Darwin Data (France); Dunya Analytics (USA); IDEEA Group (Australia); Innovanalisis (Colombia); Fair Trade USA (USA); GeoXpr (France); Kuyua (Germany); LandPrint (USA); Marvin (Brazil); Mozaic Earth (UK); Prismo (Germany); Space Eagle Enterprises (South Africa).
Maxim Vergeichik, head of nature investments at the UN Development Programme, commented: “We look forward to testing these shortlisted solutions in collaboration with real enterprises to assess their applicability and scalability.”