Twelve named to top 100 on the Norrsken Impact List 2024 that recognizes '100 ideas with the potential to change 1 billion lives'
The Impact/100 is an annual list of the world’s most promising impact startups, compiled by Norrsken and their nomination partners. It exists to highlight the power of entrepreneurship to drive positive change, and to celebrate the individuals brave enough to try and change the world for the better. In other words: It’s 100 ideas with the potential to change 1 billion lives. This year, Norrsken's team processed over 1200 nominations, and Twelve is proud to have been named to the top 100.
The Impact/100 consists of:
Early-stage impact companies, meaning companies where positive global impact is an intrinsic and non-negotiable part of the business model.
High-risk, high-potential ventures that aim to leverage scalable technology to do business and drive positive impact.
Businesses with a scalable business model and a proven ability to combine growth with positive global impact.
Companies that have delivered at least an MVP product to market and/or raised at least seed/series A-funding and at most series B-funding.
Norrsken is particularly interested in companies that leverage scalable technology to solve global problems
Norrsken is particularly interested in companies that leverage scalable technology to solve global problems. They define impact as driving meaningful and measurable progress towards one or several of the UN global development goals.
Norrsken is an impact ecosystem where entrepreneurs can find everything they need to make saving the world their business. Their work stems from a belief in entrepreneurship and new technology as forces that can positively impact the world. They run award-winning Norrsken House hubs in Stockholm, Sweden, Kigali, Rwanda and Barcelona, Spain. It was founded by Niklas Adalberth, co-founder of payment services unicorn Klarna.