FiReStarters I: Companies Changing the World for the Better

Hosted by Lesley Curwen, Host, “Business Daily,” BBC World Service:

Algae technology company started in 2008
Developing platform on which algae grows.
want to be a part of every algae tech company as the industry scales
Supported by Mars Inc., Arizona Science Foundation, Don Budinger
In 25 years, what do we do to feed 9 billion people?
How do you manage the CO2 we emit?
How do you sustain water purity?
Drivers to scale algae technology have been unavailable until recently.
Collects wastestreams, can be used for food, feed, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, etc.
Will be building facilities in Australia, Arizona in the near future
Long-term, will be providing technology

Tsunami of elderly is happening around the world
The elderly want to stay in their home, not move
W. IDEO, designed something to help elderly stay at their homes longer, more safely
Integrate with telephone, tablets, games, maintain health, look at daily meds schedule, keep health data in a passive way
Cloud-based application but also integrated in LG tvs in senior living facilities
Want to create continuity of care to cut growing costs of healthcare, particularly among seniors
At equity investment stage

System to webcast events, training in interactive form
Interactivity continues both live and on-demand
Started about 5 years ago with 787 first flight
Education: Built for both video and aural learners
In 5 years we need to get to 400 million students in higher education. We need to empower our students through online education. If we can bring half of our classes online.

Based out of Seattle;
Cloud services and analytics comp. focused on ocean data
Data is very expensive to collect; can only be done with ships and subs
But drives trillions of dollars of industry in oil and gas, fisheries, shipping, science
Making data more accessible and being able to use it more than once.
Integrating internet world (cloud, big data, accessibility) with open source GIS and geospatial world
There’s more $ involved in helping you find a Starbucks than there is in mapping the ocean floor
Meanwhile, we’re turning to the ocean as we deplete earth resources
Egs: Tsunami risk: no data available to help determine when and where the waves will fall

An economical, practical, clean solution for making the hydrogen economy viable.
Technology is based on causing water to split in a way that doesn’t use any electricity and is safe.
Reacting aluminum w. water. 1 gram of Al + 2 gram H2O= 1 liter of hydrogen (99.993% pure)
Aluminum hydroxide is useful waste product
Bottled hydrogen is $150 million market

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