Airbnb is a community based on connection and belonging. Airbnb was born in 2007 when two Hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million Hosts who have welcomed over 1.5 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, Hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. travel accommodations, collaborative economy, and hospitality

Sectors: Real Estate

We help UK companies of all sizes win contracts, fulfil orders and get paid. UK Export Finance is the UK’s export credit agency and a government department, working alongside the Department for Business and Trade as an integral part of its strategy and operations. Our mission is to advance prosperity by ensuring no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, doing that sustainably and at no net cost to the taxpayer. We help UK companies of all sizes and in all sectors win, fulfil and get paid for export contracts. Export finance and insurance

Sectors: National and local authorities

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the …

Sectors: Consumer Electronics IT services

The Network is the Computer. Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation. Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software company, engages in the development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and marketing of database, middleware, and application software worldwide. With the acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle also owns Solaris, Java, MySQL and the Sun line of storage, server and network hardware. Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and End User Computing

Sectors: IT services

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. global digital payments/commerce, technology, innovative …

Sectors: Finance

We securely connect everything to make anything possible. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the …

Sectors: IT services

Leading energy services and solutions provider focused on helping you live sustainably, simply and affordably Centrica is a leading energy services and solutions provider founded on a 200-year heritage of serving people. We are the UK’s biggest retailer of zero carbon electricity, serving around 10 million customers across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe through brands such as British Gas, supported by around 9,000 highly trained engineers and technicians. Centrica’s purpose of helping you live sustainably, simply and affordably drives our strategy and our People and Planet Plan. Energy Services & Technology, Energy Retail, Connected Home, Internet of Things, Distributed …

Sectors: Energy

Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals through education and scientific inquiry. The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is an initiative that engages institutions of higher education with the United Nations in actively supporting and contributing to the realisation of UN goals and mandates including the promotion and protection of human rights, access to education, sustainability and conflict resolution. Education, Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals, and Peace and Security

Sectors: International development

Transforming Tomorrow Together UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the public sector organisation that invests £8 billion annually to support the entire research and innovation system. We strive for a society powered and empowered by research and innovation, with economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits for all. We invest in people, places, ideas, innovation and impacts, empowering researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to turn the many challenges we all face into opportunities, driving up prosperity and wellbeing across the UK and globally. The impacts of our work are felt right across society. We enrich lives by increasing our understanding of ourselves …

Sectors: Public business cluster