Gianluca Cescon

First Access, Inc. provides mobile application that offers risk scoring services. It builds customized, dynamic credit scoring and loan decisioning models for financial institutions to use in real-time from any mobile device to underwrite loans at the point of sale. The company was founded by Nicole van Der Tuin, Rohit Acharya and Duncan Goldie-Scot in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Weil, Gotshal & Manges provides its clients with legal services. The firm offers services to areas including consumer, financial, government and non-profit, health care, industrial, and technology. The company was founded by Claude Serra in 1931 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sahyadri Agencies Ltd. manufactures and distributes industrial machinery and equipment. The company was incorporated on July 9, 2003 and is headquartered in Thrissur, India.

SolarNow BV provides solar energy and financing solutions. Through its subsidiary, it offers solar solutions to household, small business, farming, and corporate markets. The company was founded by Willem Nolens in 2010 and is headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Persistent Energy Capital LLC (Persistent Energy Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Christopher Aidun and Dirk Muench. The firm is headquartered in New York.

BOS Balance of Storage Systems AG engages in the manufacture of energy storage systems. It provides products and services with a focus on lithium and lead acid (Li-Pb) hybrid storage technologies for photovoltaic systems and intelligent load control. The company was founded by Peter Adelmann, Benjamin Seckinger and Thomas Kuendiger in July 2014 and is headquartered in Neu-Ulm, Germany.

The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund operates as a multi-donor funded financing vehicle that awards repayable grants to private sector companies to support innovative business ideas. Its offers private sector entrepreneurs in Africa to innovate and find profitable ways of improving access to markets and the way markets function for the poor, particularly in rural areas. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.