The challenge welcomed a cohort of exciting startups from across a range of diverse sectors – including healthtech, food and beverage, financial inclusion, edtech and climate change – tackling issues that have a positive influence on humankind and/or the environment.

These startups worked through three phases over the course of the challenge and recently came together at Toynbee Hall in London to present to a collective of investors and others in the impact space.

Startups Magazine was pleased to join the startups for the Demo Day as they pitched for investments, partnerships and strategic relationships.

Here were some of our favourites:

Circular 11

Founder and CEO Benjamin Gibbons was the first up to pitch his company – Circular 11.

They turn low-grade plastic waste into building materials and timber-substitute products in order to create end-markets for the film-based and mixed plastic streams that make up over 50% of global plastic waste.

Planet Nourish

Planet Nourish delivers personalised ethnicity and disease-specific solutions so that no matter who you are, what you earn or where you live, you have access to the best, most innovative care available globally today.

Angela Malik-Agarwal, Founder and CEO, was top 100 Asian UK Tech Star 2022. Her mission is to build a digital healthcare company rooted in food, culture and community, using AI powered solutions to link, for the first time, heritage, and health.

SuperFi

The SuperFi app is tackling the UK’s cost of living crisis by combining personalised debt support with the most effective debt reduction tools and services.

Co-Founder and CEO, Tom Barltrop, has 14+ years of multi-disciplinary experience leading and scaling successful early-stage startups across a diverse range of industries (eCommerce, IoT, big data and healthtech) in Europe, the Americas & Asia.

Telmi

Telmi is a podcast creation app for kids. They make podcasting educational, fun, and safe for kids to develop their interests, oral skills, and confidence.

Véronique Trang is the Founder & CEO and she is already endorsed by advisors and mentors in senior positions in the education, media, entertainment industries.

Mind Data

Mind Data aims to improve the mental health of one million people worldwide by improving the effectiveness of therapy, whilst simplifying the way a therapist runs their business.

Founder Sean Ruane has made it his mission to pay it forward after he suffered from suicidal depression and went through therapy. With Mind Data, Sean wants to bring his life experiences together by addressing some of the challenges he experienced with the traditional therapy process and offering a disruptive solution to the mental health space.

It was inspiring to see such a collection of fantastic startups in one space, and we wish all of them the best of luck on their journey!