Quartz Innovators 2023

Aadith Moorthy

Boomitra’s Aadith Moorthy has a business answer to climate change: a soil carbon marketplace

Ali Niknam

While neobanks have cropped up all over the world, most major European players haven’t yet landed a license in the US

Arthur Sadoun

Publicis Groupe CEO Arthur Sadoun is crushing cancer stigma in the workplace

Awais Ahmed

Pixxel’s Awais Ahmed will put a constellation of six satellites in space in early 2024

Beau Wangtrakuldee

How AmorSui’s Beau Wangtrakuldee is making PPE body-inclusive and reusable

Cécile Brosset

How Sonio’s Cécile Brosset is using a dataset of 200,000 images to make for safer births

Clément Delangue

Delangue believes it is risky to have the power of AI concentrated in the hands of a few

Craig Wichner

Demand for organic food is growing exponentially in North America—and Farmland LP’s Craig Wichner is meeting it with an investment fund for farmers

Cristina Junqueira

Nubank’s Cristina Junqueira explains how new digital products are bringing banking to Mexico

Erin Bedford

Aspect Biosystems’s Erin Bedford is figuring out a way to treat Type 1 diabetes—with 3D printing

Faith Adesemowo

The platform that uses a dedicated algorithm to analyze social accounts to generate unique social reputation scores for loans

Inga Petersen

Renewable energy needs batteries—but manufacturing them produces a new set of environmental risks. Inga Petersen has one idea to mitigate them.

Isaac Castro Garcia

Emerge offers tactile capabilities—and now it’s making sensory tech for Sony and Disney

Leila Strickland

Breast milk has long been considered the highest standard for infant nutrition. Can we engineer a version that replaces baby formula?

Luis Sentis

UT Austin’s Luis Sentis is leading a landmark study of how robots make us feel—and setting the standards for how autonomous machines will share our spaces.

Poh Yun Ru

Poh Yun Ru’s Rewind uses video-based therapy to help people suffering from memory loss regain their autonomy

Rajeev Badyal

As the head of Project Kuiper, Rajeev Badyal has big plans for building a satellite internet competitor to SpaceX

Sam Elsom

Livestock produce a lot of planet-warming methane. Sea Forest’s Sam Elsom thinks adding adding algae to their diets can change that.

Sly Spencer Lee