Seif Awards: Food, Fintech and Toilets

The seif Awards for Social Entrepreneurship rewards projects, applying innovative business ideas to current social and / or environmental problems. Social enterprises from all over the world and in all sectors are invited to apply. A reputable jury, combined of experts from start-up and science backgrounds, appoints the awardees. This year, the awardees receive a prize money of CHF 10’000 each in different categories. 

The winners of the sixth edition are:

Carbon Delta is an environmental fintech startup that produces equity research focusingon identifyingand analyzingthe climate change resilience of publicly traded Companies. At the heart of their evaluation System is a 5-risk factors model that calculates the value at risk (VaR) of thousands of Companies. Additionally to those 5 core risk factors, Carbon Delta’s analysis includes legal, reputational and supply chain risks. By highlighting how climate-related problems shape the profile of Companies Carbon Delta uncovers a systemic risk embedded within the financial System, which has been undervalued until now.

MoSan is an ecological in-house sanitation solution in developing countries and emergency relief situations. MoSan consists of a sanitation Service and a compact mobile urine-diverting dry toilet that is distributed in partnership with aid organizations. Dry toilets reduce the volume and smell of faeces, as well as the risk of disease spreading and the use of water. Moreover, with MoSan the handling of excreta is easier and it allows for its transformation into high value fertilizer or fuel.

Stuward’s goal is to improve the well-being of the millions of unpaid family caregivers around the world that silently suffer from burn-out, stress, depression, and other psychological, physical and financial issues. Stuward is initially focusing on dementia family caregivers due to the increased bürden experienced by caring for a person with dementia. Stuward makes Strategie use of technology by continuously learning from family caregivers to offer them more effective support. It combines the best of evidence-based interventions, engaging human-centred design and machine learning to deliver empowering, inclusive and personalized experiences to family caregivers. Stuward also matches family caregivers to a mentor who was a family caregiver, and who can offer them individual guidance.

Green City Solutions is German-based biotech and Internet of Things start-up that makes smart units, so called City Trees that absorb air pollution in the urban environment. One City Tree has the impact of 275 trees.

Special mention
Choba Choba active in the chocolate industry seeks to improve the lives of cacao farmers. The company involves farmers in the equity, governance and in the decision making process as well as sharing with the benefits the company yields.