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Two Portfolio Companies Named Best Inventions of 2022
Sustainability Category
Perennial’s platform enables companies to tap into the world’s largest carbon sink to offset emissions and farmers to monetize sustainable agricultural practices. For the full write-up, please click here.
Outdoors Category
The LARQ Bottle Filtered helps reduce plastic water bottle consumption and offers advanced water filtration in a portable package perfect for the outdoors. For the full write-up, please click here.
In the News
The International Group of P&I Clubs (“IGP&I”), a group of 13 protection and indemnity insurance companies that provide marine liability cover, has approved Secro’s platform for use by its members. The group members represent approximately 90% of the world’s ocean-going tonnage. The press release can be found here.
Deloitte named Guardhat to its Fast 500, which honors the most innovative, fastest-growing public and private companies from all over North America. Guardhat was ranked 22nd (out of 500). You can read the full list here.
Forbes named the co-founders of Perennial – Jack Roswell, David Schurman, and Oleksiy Zhuk – to its 30 Under 30 Social Impact list. You can read the article here.