Every entrepreneur wants to change the world. Why Silicon Valley is a hub for innovative startups is due in part because the Valley’s DNA is coded to inspire people to solve real problems though solutions never heard of before…

So, with “Company X Wants to Change the World” being the opening slide on so (sooooo) many pitch decks, who’s actually accomplishing it?

The World Economic Forum this week announced its picks for companies around the globe who are – in fact – changing our world.

I’m also happy to note that we know and support some of them!

World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers 2010:
amiando – online event registration and management
Amobee Inc. – mobile ad platform
CollabNet – platform for distributed/collaborative platform development
Dilithium Networks mobile content delivery platform
Innovid – interactive in-video advertising
Obopay – mobile payments
http://Playfish.com – social games (acquired by Electronic Arts)
RingCentral – business phone service in the cloud
StreamBase –
Twitter (was this because Oprah got on Twitter in 2009?)
Ushahidi – crowdsourcing information/ updates from within communities during crisis

Congrats to all of you!