Patricia Gros Micol
Nationality: French
Founder and CEO of Handishare, a company which employs disabled people to provide back-office and administrative services to businesses.
At the age of 17, Patricia Gros Micol was in a train crash that left her with chronic head and back pains. Later she experienced partial facial paralysis, then survived a small heart attack.
So she decided to set up a company giving employment opportunities to disabled people. An ‘adapted’ company: the official term for a company with over 80% disabled employees.
https://youtu.be/UkrAHqdxXhA

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Handishare, France. Business services performed by disabled people.

Yvonne Brady
Nationality: Irish
Founder and CEO of EVB Sport, an active ware company that provides women with the support they need using patent pending technology that optimizes function of deep core muscles.
"I create sportswear to empower women and get them back into exercise safely and with confidence"
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Enass Abo-Hamed
Nationality: Palestinian
Co-founder of H2GO Power, a company that offers a safe method for hydrogen production and storage to provide clean mobile energy.
"We want to improve the storage capacity of the battery multiple times to make it last a lot longer. According to our calculations, it could last between 5 to 10 times longer"
https://youtu.be/8YwkDNhfdmE

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Offers a safe method for hydrogen production and storage to provide clean mobile energy.

Carmen Hijosa
Nationality: Spanish
Co-founder and CEO of Ananas Anam, a company that develops a sustainable textile made of pineapple leaves' fibers as an alternative to leather.
After 15 years of working in the design and manufacturing of leather goods, Carmen was sent to the Philippines to help develop the leather industry. Her intense research on pineapple fibers led to the development of a new material, Pinatex, and the creation of this company.
" We can have an impact on the agricultural sector, the most impoverished part of any country. I believe this can make a great change in many countries."
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Develops a sustainable textile made of pineapple leaves’ fibres as an alternative to leather.

Lise Pape
Nationality: British
CEO and co-founder of Walk With Path, assistive technology for people with mobility problems.
Driven by a desire to help her father, and with access to researchers at Imperial College London, she started studying the issues of day-to-day life for people with Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis.
The result was two products, Path Feel and Path Finder, which focus on improving people's balance and mobility.
https://youtu.be/uxFoG8CMVXE

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Walk With Path creates assistive technology for people with mobility problems.

Ciara Donlon
Nationality: French
In 2010, she set up a lingerie retail business in Dublin. Many women undergoing treatment for breast cancer came into her shop looking for a comfortable and feminine bra to wear post surgery. Ciara was stunned when she couldn't find anything in the market.
It was Ciara's desire to do something to help these women through their recovery that was the catalyst for the creation for the creation of THEYA Healthcare and after conducting a feasibility it became clear that there was a big gap in the market.
https://youtu.be/gIZs0xHCKNw

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THEYA Healthcare designs, manufactures and sells a range of post-surgery lingerie for women.

Marina Ross
Nationality: Russian
Founder of Nanobarrier- Retail Brand HYDROP, a super hydrophobic nano-coating that protects clothing and footwear from wear to tear. Russia's unforgiving winters were the inspiration behind her business.
"We girls have a lot of beautiful things that we can bring to the world, and through entrepreneurship we can do that."
https://youtu.be/bhsKMcaLQX0

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Nanobarrier produces a superhydrophobic, nano-coating that protects clothing and footwear from wear and tear.

Kristina Tsvetanova
Nationality: Austrian
CEO and co-founder of BLITAB technology, a tactile tablet for the blind and visually impaired.
Kristina witnessed first-hand the challenges her visually impaired friend encountered when registering for university classes. It became apparent that the university lacked the infrastructure and support for the blind or visually impaired.
"I couldn't accept that a blind person should have to find a simple task complicated."
https://youtu.be/g3UA-Q3O7MM

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Blitab Technology produces Blitab, a tactile tablet for blind and visually impaired people.

Julia Romer
Nationality: German
Co-founder and CEO of Coolar.
Coolar is developing refrigerators powered by heat instead of electricity.
"The first time I heard about the concept of cooling with heat, I was fascinated."
Seeing the bigger picture, she knew that this had the potential to make a real difference in everyday life.
"I grew up in a family of engineers, so becoming an engineer one day always felt natural to me, independently of my gender."
https://youtu.be/EKRYALIcUrQ

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Coolar develops a solar-powered, off-the-grid refrigerator for the reliable storage of vaccines.

Sylke Hoehnel
Nationality: Swish
Co-founder and CEO of SUN bioscience, a medical hardware device that cultivates organoids, mini-organs derived from stem cells, to provide personalized drug efficacy tests.
"Don't let gender, race or age define you. Let character define you."
https://youtu.be/ywYElh8yHRw

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Meet our finalists for 2019 Cartier Awards!