20. Salem Ghanam

Age: 28
Occupation: Cofounder & CEO of AgriCan
Nationality: Egyptian
Residence: Egypt
Category: Social Impact

Ghanam cofounded AgriCan in Egypt in 2020, creating agricultural drones for disease detection. In 2023, he pivoted to ground robotics, specializing in pesticide-spraying robots. It offers spraying services, customized robots for crop transportation inside greenhouses, and produces fixed devices for agricultural data collection. The company has a contract to deliver 23 robots in 2025 and will open its first agrobotics factory in Egypt in the same year. AgriCan is currently working with five farms and has scanned over 5,350 acres. AgriCan has been selected by the UN to represent Egypt at COP29 in Azerbaijan as part of Egyptian agricultural startups. Ghanam has applied for a patent.