Carefully selected from a pool of 259 applicants — from global startups to scaleups — the five finalists have been revealed as: Care+Wear, a healthwear company based in New York that provides accessible clothing, recovery bras, patient gowns, and scrubs to people in hospital; IDA Sports: a British company designing footwear and soccer cleats specifically for female athletes; Koalaa, a UK initiative engineering upper limb prosthetics made like clothes; Tactus, a Dutch-American tech brand that makes smart clothing that translates music into vibrations for the deaf community; and Moner Bondhu, a startup founded in Bangladesh that provides mental health and wellbeing services with a focus on garment factory workers, women and youth.​Over year-long process, applications were reviewed…