Fast Company's World Changing Ideas 2026 On the Rise awards highlight early-stage businesses making a real impact. Among the winners are Terradot, which uses enhanced rock weathering to remove nearly 300,000 tons of CO2 from Brazilian farmland, and Precision Neuroscience, which received FDA clearance for a brain-computer interface implant to restore communication for patients with severe disabilities. The article also lists honorable mentions including DG Matrix's multi-port solid-state transformer, which could improve grid efficiency for renewables, and Dynex's Apollo chip. These awards focus on solutions that are specific, thoughtful, and already showing results, from carbon removal to accessibility technology.
