This programme will connect LIF entrepreneurs, ready to scale up, to the UK’s technology ecosystem by providing personalised support throughout the year and delivering a showcasing event alongside London Tech Week 2023 which they will attend.
The entrepreneurs who will showcase their innovations have been selected as the top companies and projects from over 1,400 LIF Alumni. These innovations are contributing to the SDGs, positively affecting socio-economic growth and welfare both locally and globally.
Meet the LIF Technology Development 2023 Innovators
Elaine Wan Ling Chan (Malaysia) - DiagnoSlide. DiagnoSlide is a cancer prognostics platform, built out of partnerships with clinicians and healthcare providers to assist in better diagnosis, provide earlier detection, better management of diseases and eventually save lives. [AI, personalised medicine]
Elizabeth Cortes (Mexico) – Creidbia - Sustainable food produced by a new production system with portable continuous solar dryer for use mainly in the farmers' fields, avoiding food waste in the fields, deforestation and related resources. [Foodtech, sustainability] Website, LinkedIn
Rolando Cruzado (Peru) - Zentinel. A semi-autonomous humanoid bipedal sentinel robot for protecting the amazon rainforest of South America against illegal deforestation. [Robotics, surveillance] Website, LinkedIn
Ramón Alejandro De Hoyos Cantú (Mexico) – ALIS. ALIS develops processes and products based on microalgae biotechnology, focused on water treatment, the recovery of ecosystems and the generation of natural ingredients for the cosmetic and food industry. [Wastewater treatment, Biotech, Food and beverage, pigments] Website, LinkedIn
Leonardo Foti (Brazil) - Biosensor for the early detection of breast cancer. a biosensor for the earlier detection of breast cancer from a blood sample, with a low cost and a rapid time to result. [Biotech] LinkedIn
Jorge L Garcia (Colombia) - Kuepa Edutech. Kuepa is an Edtech Organization that designs and implements fast, flexible and affordable educational programs that improve quickly the employability of young adults in Latin America. [EdTech] Website, LinkedIn
Rajnish Jain (India) - Avani Bio Energy. Avani Bio Energy harnesses the destructive energy in pine needles - which otherwise cause forest fires in pine dominated geographies and destroy biodiversity - for productive work, thereby giving economic value to this biomass incentivising people to collect it before burning, saving biodiversity and carbon emissions, generating usable electrical and cooking energy and jobs in rural areas. [Biotech, energy, waste management, sustainability] Website, LinkedIn
Nitesh Kuamr Jangir (India) - InnAccel Technologies Pvt. Ltd. InnAccel is an India-based, health tech company solving unmet clinical needs to prevent preventable deaths. Our solutions Saans (new-born non-invasive ventilator), VAPCare (intelligent suction system for patients who are on ventilator, CE and USFDA) and Fetal Lite (wearable device for remote pregnancy monitoring, CE) have helped caregivers save more than 40,000 lives in 5 countries. Our solutions are running in remote tribal areas and in the top hospitals in the world demonstrating the use of technology to reduce health equality. [HealthTech, Medical devices] Website, LinkedIn
Anncarol Karanja (Kenya) - Ecohub Solutions Ltd Ecohub Solutions makes and sells microbial products that bring efficiency in value addition of waste into biofertilizers and biofuels while eliminating disposal of wastewater into rivers and streams and reducing the cost of waste management to reverse environmental degradation. [Biotech, AgTech, sustainability] Website, LinkedIn
Linah Maphanga (South Africa) - GrooveTech. GrooveTech manufactures low cost, high performance polymer modified bitumen from plastic and rubber waste to enable road agencies and municipalities to prevent potholes formation , increase the road design life in a cost effective manner while cleaning the environment and improving the sustainability of each road network maintained. [Road infrastructure] LinkedIn
Enrique Alejandro Moreno Muñetones (Colombia) - Fiquetex S.A.S. Fiquetex is a disruptive non-woven textile technology. We use fique fibre and natural rubber latex. Our materials are 100% plastic and animal free that are sustainable, renewable and above all compostable. [Sustainable manufacturing, fashion & retail] Website, LinkedIn
Rosdiadee Nordin (Malaysia) - Mobile Engineering for Pervasive & Autonomous Technology & Innovation – MERPATI. MIDAH is an autonomous aerial drone that revolutionizes the supply chain logistics industry by safely delivering critical medical supplies to healthcare facilities over long distances. [Drone transportation, emergency intervention] LinkedIn
Atchara Poomee (Thailand) -PAC Corporation Co.,Ltd. PAC is a cleantech company in energy efficiency, heating, and cooling solutions. We help our customers save energy, lower operation costs, and make our world more sustainable. [Energy, water management] Website, LinkedIn
Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Malaysia) – OzBioNY. High quality natural cellulose fibre and its derivatives using OzBioNY 2.0, a cheaper and simplified innovative green processing technology, for improving the biomass circular economy. [Biotech, chemical processing] Website, LinkedIn
Mai Saleh (Egypt) - Matchmaker. Matchmaker is a digital website for recruitment and selection. It helps companies in candidate sourcing and allows applicants to find a new post. [HR, Recruitment] Website, LinkedIn
Ferry Sugandhi (Indonesia) - Diemasin Micro Gold. Diemasin allows ownership of gold as an asset to be more accessible through digital verification of sales of small quantities of pure grade gold down to 0.0001 grams. [FinTech] Website, LinkedIn
Maria Isabel Vargas Carmona (Colombia) - GRINSUP S.A.S. Grinsup is a food-tech start-up that creates whole food powders from Colombian superfoods, offering a solution to the high costs and lack of nutritional value in traditional methods of food production; the company aims to supply food, health, and pharmaceutical companies with innovative and natural ingredients that meet the growing demand for healthy, clean-label foods. [Food-tech] Website, LinkedIn
Jose Vilcahuaman (Peru) - Neutraly. Neutraly is a tech company that empowers organizations from both the public and the private sector to advance the Net Zero transition. Through analytics, innovative training, and advanced consulting services we bring about the force to make the transition a reality. [EdTech, Social impact, Engineering skills development] Website, LinkedIn