Our 2023 Global Winner

The UK has one of the worst rates for social mobility in Europe. Zero Gravity is changing that through the power of tech.

The Zero Gravity platform finds talented people in low-opportunity areas and brings opportunity to them – unlocking their potential all the way from school into top universities and careers.

The Zero Gravity community secures top results, doubling a student’s chances of winning a top uni offer and top career role.

The build strong values within each of their members. They become highly skilled candidates who scale our mission. By powering individual outcomes, we unlock the true potential of the nation – solving one of the UK’s biggest challenges.

Talent is spread evenly, opportunity is not. Zero Gravity is changing that.

Our 2023 Regional Winners 

Our Regional Winners were shortlisted and selected by our 40+ judges from 10 regions across Europe, Isle of Ireland, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and new for 2023 Asia . These Regional Winners went head to head at our 2023 Global Final where we then crowned an overall Global Winner.

DACH and Nordics

East Asia

Australia and New Zealand

Celtic Region

Central and Eastern Europe

France and Benelux

England

Southern Europe

London

South and South-East Asia

Our 2023 Innovation Winners

EdTech

The Zero Gravity platform finds talented people in low-opportunity areas and brings opportunity to them – unlocking their potential all the way from school into top universities and careers.

The Zero Gravity community secures top results, doubling a student’s chances of winning a top uni offer and top career role.

The build strong values within each of their members. They become highly skilled candidates who scale our mission. By powering individual outcomes, we unlock the true potential of the nation – solving one of the UK’s biggest challenges.

Talent is spread evenly, opportunity is not. Zero Gravity is changing that.

Water Challenge & AI For Good

xFarm Technologies is a Tech Company focused on the digitizations of the agri-food sector, providing innovative tools that can support farmers and stakeholders in the management of their businesses. It offers apps for farm management, connected sensors, support in Digital Transformation projects, algorithms applied to agriculture and training activities for the whole sector. xFarm Technologies supports the work of 250,000 farms belonging to more than 50 supply chains on 3,0 million hectares in more than 100 countries worldwide.

General Tech For Good 

As fast-growing environmental restoration company, AirSeed has developed specialised tree-planting drones equipped with AI and machine learning capabilities and proprietary seed pod biotechnology to rapidly replant large areas of land to accelerate global-scale reforestation.

AirSeed drones can each plant up to 40,000 seed pods a day, access remote, hazardous and inaccessible areas and GPS tag every seed pod planted. AirSeed’s solution is approximately 25x faster and 80% more cost effective than manual planting methods.

Diversity and Inclusion

Accessercise is the world’s first complete fitness app specifically designed for the disabled community. It allows disabled users to exercise independently through 3 main features:

Unique exercise library – Users create their own workouts by using our impairment specific video exercise library. All videos are performed by a exercise demonstrator who has the user’s impairment

Social Hub – Where users get to share, like, comment on their other people health & fitness journeys to build a sense of community

Gym rating scale – User’s can rate the accessibility of gyms and sporting facilities in their local areas.
At the moment, the app has 6 disabilities but is expanding its offering rapidly.

MedTech

Echopoint Medical is a fast-paced medical device start-up in London UK, a spin-out of the University College London. We develop, manufacture and commercialise cutting-edge cardiovascular devices with a bold vision to provide unprecedented sensing and imaging capabilities in minimally invasive procedures. Using breakthrough optical sensors and advanced algorithms, Echopoint Medical will significantly improve how patients with cardiovascular disease are treated, reducing cost and complications, and improving outcomes. The development team is composed of a small but diverse group of engineers, clinicians and management who strive to make a positive clinical impact.

Mental Health and Wellbeing Challenge

BIOStress has spent the last 2 years working with leading universities to develop a stress metric that uniquely and holistically combines multiple data sources – biometric and psychometric – into one novel platform, app and algorithm. There are multiple potential applications in wearable devices, healthcare, research, insurance and workplace wellbeing – where we have already commercialised our first product and are conducting paid-for trials. Our algorithm delivers the who, what, where, when and how of stress, identifying its root causes and empowering solutions that promote greater resilience, improved mental and physical health, enhanced happiness and wellbeing, higher productivity and better global economic outcomes.”

Hackathon Winner for Mental Health and Wellbeing

Auric Essentials is an Australian-based wellness technology company that pioneers the future of mental health and well-being. Auric uniquely merges IoT advancements, mobile computing, and the millennia-old science of essential oils to offer customized wellness experiences. Targeting busy professionals who are tech-savvy yet stressed. Our AI-powered diffusers and mobile app integration ensure that each user receives a personalized aromatherapy experience designed to alleviate stress, improve focus, boost energy, and enhance sleep quality.

HealthTech

CardMedic is a unique, cost-effective and multi-award-winning app that improves communication between caregivers and patients across any barrier, including foreign language, deafness, blindness, cognitive impairment, poor literacy levels, or PPE. 
 
CardMedic provides pre-scripted multi-lingual clinical dialog, on-demand as digital flashcards. CardMedic streamlines patient care and improves staff efficiency by reducing time spent looking for interpreters, releasing staff time for other activities. By making healthcare information more accessible and understandable, patients are better informed and empowered to engage in shared decision-making. This helps reduce the risk of misdiagnosis, mistreatment, prolonged length of stay, mismanagement and potential litigation, and improves medication compliance, reduces incidence of mental health issues, and lowers morbidity and mortality. 

FinTech For Good

Good With is a money app built by psychologists bringing good vibes to the world. Their team also consists of data scientists, developers, and humans who know first hand the stresses and anxieties money can bring. Adulting is hard. Money is complicated. Money advice is generic. 

They take a scientific and psychology-based approach to money, and their app has been proven to alleviate financial stresses. They create life-changing money habits that support people’s mental health and learn the stuff about money that people actually want to know. 

Climate Tech

Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative long term storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.

Koolboks also has installed in it , a PAYGO device. 

It can function as a refrigerator or as a freezer depending on the preference of the user.

Koolboks offers 24-hour refrigeration thanks the free energy of the sun. Koolboks  storsenergy in the form of ice guaranteeing 4-7 days of cooling without sunlight.

Our 2023 Innovation Finalists