Poverty amelioration and productivity growth go hand in hand and so the Trustees have sought out businesses that use digital technologies that have the potential to significantly improve the productivity and connectivity of human beings.

Apolitical – is a global peer-to-peer platform aimed at governments that consolidates and adds value to the vast acreage of information and research already available the world over on topics of interest to civil servants so as to prevent the reinvention of the proverbial wheel and resulting waste of government resources.

Arbolus – has developed a professional networking platform aimed initially at the consulting industry wishing to access industry experts.

Classlist – is an App developed by a group of former parents of children from a preparatory school in Oxford to assist school parents to communicate more easily with each other.

Cloudline – is a South African creator of autonomous, solar powered, airships for use in distribution of medium sized payloads to remote places in the developing world.

ContentCal – is a software as a service (SaaS) business that shows mainly small and medium sized businesses how to manage their digital marketing activities more productively.

Diffblue – is led by a team based at Oxford University, has developed software that automatically tests the code written by computer programmers as they write it with wide implications across many industries.

Heroes – is agglomerating small and mid-sized Amazon e.commerce consumer brands.

Inductonsense – is a spin-out from the University of Bristol’s Ultrasonic and Non Destructive Testing group which has developed a system of monitoring corrosion or other defects in structures, such as pipes, though use of permanently attached, battery-free, wireless ultrasonic sensors, an approach that reduces inspection time and costs and industrial plant downtime.

Legislate – is a SaaS business that uses artificial intelligence to facilitate small businesses to create legal contracts saving time and lawyers’ fees.

Lifted – has developed a software platform for use by care workers who attend at the homes of the aged and the families of the people they visit.

Moringa Schools – delivers software development courses to students, both from campus and on-line, in Africa.

Navenio – is a spin-out from the Computer Science Department at the University of Oxford which has developed a way of interpreting geo-location features of a mobile phone to track the movements of the phone to an accuracy of one meter which has applications for the retail, transport, health, venue and other industries.

Outfund – is a UK based digital on-line lending platform focussing on the e-commerce industry.

Salience Labs – is a spin-out from the Universities of Oxford and Munster that has developed a novel semiconductor chip.

What3Words – has developed a global address platform by randomly allocating three words to each three meter square grid on the planet which is of interest, amongst others, to the automotive, logistics, infrastructure and mapping industries.