Kentaste is a producer of all natural, locally sourced food and beauty products from coconut.
FutureFit AI partners with Fortune 500 companies, governments, and workforce development organizations to provide workers with an AI-powered tool that acts as a "GPS for your Career". The platform uses advanced labor market data and equity-focused machine learning algorithms to identify an individual’s ‘starting point’ in the labor market, recommend best fit career path ‘destinations’, and build a personalized roadmap of learning, resources, and work opportunities to successfully guide them from point A to point B.
Koolboks provides a reliable and alternative storage technique due to the superior insulation and ice battery technology employed in the design.
Coschool engages in finding methodologies to develop socio-emotional skills in young people, teachers, and managers. They are developing tangible experiences that aim to bridge the gap between the physical and the virtual. The company believes that this method will eventually result in changes in education policy, improved leadership across industries, and a fulfilled life.
Ed Partners Africa is a non-banking financial institution that transforms the education sector through working with school owners of affordable schools by providing financial solutions.
Solar energy investment, African business expertise et Africa Solar energy data harvester
VIVA Finance powers a mobile-first lending platform that offers loans underwritten primarily based on employment information, rather than credit history.
Easy Solar is a leading energy distribution company in West Africa, financing high-quality solar products and appliances for those with limited or no access to the conventional grid. Customers can finance their purchase over time by paying in weekly or monthly installments, with the option to pay via cash or mobile money. To date, Easy Solar has reached more than 400,000 beneficiaries, distributed through its extensive network of agents and outlets throughout Sierra Leone and Liberia.
EarnUp is a consumer-first fintech platform that intelligently automates loan payments for the more than 200 million Americans with debt. They help you put a few dollars aside for your loans when you can afford it – then they make your loan payments for you, allocating funds in the way that gets you out of debt faster. They are dedicated to giving control back to everyone who is frustrated managing their finances
Esusu is a financial technology platform that leverages data solutions to help residents and improve property performance. Esusu was created on the premise that no matter where you come from, the color of your skin, and your financial identity should never determine where you end up in life. This allows renters to build and establish their credit scores while helping property owners mitigate against initiating evictions, powered by differentiated data and insights. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.
Kheyti is a provider of business consulting and advisory services with a focus on helping farmers with their technical and financial needs. The company's services offered to farmers are farming alternatives, farming consultation and advisory services, financial support for farmers, and farmer training. These services help farmers start their farming and agricultural enterprises successfully and expand their rural businesses. Kheyti was established in 2015 by Ayush Sharma, Kaushik K, Sathya Raghu Mokkapati, and Saumya in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
MindRight Health's mission is to advance health equity by making mental health care radically accessible and inclusive of communities of color and low-income families. MindRight partners with healthcare payers and providers to offer culturally-responsive mental health coaching over a text message. MindRight's members receive a personal team of coaches who proactively support them 7 days/week, 365 days/year. Through its service, MindRight is creating a continuum of support that does not generally exist for youth. For communities who do not traditionally engage in clinical services due to high stigma and lack of access, MindRight serves as an ongoing source of culturally responsive, nonclinical support. MindRight provides its partners with real-time data on community mental health needs to predict and prevent mental health crises in the communities.
Haqdarshak is a technology-enabled platform working to transform how Indian citizens learn about, apply for, and benefit from, government schemes. The company is composed of a group of passionate social entrepreneurs using technology to impact the next billion. The team comprises of individuals from diverse background who have come together out of common interest and passion. The investor community represents individuals holding prestigious positions in different companies across various sectors.
Over 1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean, affordable electricity. Solaris Offgrid develops, manufactures and installs solar energy systems, utilising smart technology and mobile payments to create a scalable model for providing real energy access in the developing world. Solaris, is a pay-as-you-go solar home system which creates a platform to deliver clean LED lighting, communication, media, enterprise opportunities and access to finance for households and businesses in rural Africa.
Bridge Money is a financial technology company dedicated to helping users make money, every day.
Rural populations forced reliance on biomass and kerosene for their energy needs is causing over 1.6M# deaths per annum. Their lack of access to clean water causes over 5M people to die; 2M of them are children under the age of 5. RVE.SOL's _Changing Rural Life Forever_ initiative is creating alternative, renewable energy choices for the rural poor, allowing them to take advantage of natural resources like sunlight, cattle manure and raw water to manage their own way to a better future. Our _KUDURA_ rural village energy hub is community managed; provides communities with potable water, solar electricity, biogas for cooking and organic fertiliser for agriculture. A holistic approach, the solution seeks to target the four areas of rural life that prevalently cause poverty to propagate: 1. Access to clean water to obviate transmission of water borne disease 2. Access to renewable electricity to obviate the dependance on kerosene for light and improve children's opportunity to study at night 3. Access to Biogas to obviate mass destruction of primary forest in a bid to be able to cook food 4. Access to fertiliser to reinvigorate over-used soils and so increase quality and quantity of crop harvest for subsistence farmers. Ultimately, this approach seeks to create wealth for rural farmers by offering a choie of more cost effective and efficient services utilising naturally available resources.
Boulder is a digital health platform expanding access to effective treatment for opiate use. We aim to move the behavioral health industry forward by offering dramatically better experiences for patients and their care teams.
PowerGen is leading the clean energy transition in Africa as a developer, builder, and operator of solar mini-grids throughout the continent. PowerGen is backed by sector leaders including Shell, Acumen, Omidyar Network, Sumitomo, DOB Equity, ElectriFI, REPP, and the Rockefeller Foundation. PowerGen has pioneered the solar mini-grid sector in Africa and is a founding member of the Africa Mini-grid Developers Associaiton (AMDA).
Promethean Power Systems designs and manufactures rural refrigeration systems for commercial cold-storage applications in off-grid. Dairy processors who have not been able to collect enough quality milk to meet demand, which is growing at 6% annually. Milk producers whose milk gets spoiled because it is not collected in time are also beneficiaries, though they cannot afford the purchase price of the chillers. The system preserves milk at the village level, which reduces spoilage and transportation costs for processors, leading to increased farmer incomes. <BR/> The chillers enable processors to collect milk that has been chilled at the source, which improves the quality of milk and enables them to collect from isolated dairy villages. <BR/> The system is powered by the grid and by a generator when the grid is down, but will in future use a thermal battery backup to store grid energy.
High-impact talent platform solving unemployment for at-risk populations with a truly inclusive matching algorithm in Latin America
60 Decibels makes it easy to listen to the people who matter most. Their Lean DataSM approach turns customer voice into high-value insights that help you grow your business and maximise your impact.
Brighthive is a non-profit organization. The company's objective is to responsibly and meaningfully connect the world's data, enabling informed action through cooperation.
Climb (NMLS# 1240013) is an innovative student payment platform that makes career-focused education more accessible and affordable. Driven by a mission to empower individuals to unlock their potential – no matter their credit profile – Climb identifies programs and schools that offer skill-based training programs, then provides learners with payment options that are structured to meet the unique needs of those seeking career training. Recognizing the dynamic and diverse nature of a rapidly-changing economy, Climb partners with schools that teach everything from cybersecurity to healthcare training, heavy machine operation to data science, and culinary arts to AI & Machine Learning. While status quo education pathways are struggling to meet the real-world needs of students and prospective employers, Climb and its partner schools are committed to an inspiring practicality that helps bridge the gap between people looking for career training and companies looking to build a skilled workforce.
Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denying their ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.
Bitwise Industries moves Fresno’s technology ecosystem forward by focusing on the key areas of education, execution, and place. Education is delivered via Geekwise Academy, an accelerated training program providing real-world technology skills to all ages. Bitwise Industries provides execution by way of its full-service, custom software development firm, Shift3 Technologies. Bitwise Industries also offers paid apprenticeships to students to help them learn tech skills, connect them to meaningful tech opportunities, and build vibrant buildings in underserved cities to house their work.
Acceso is a social business builder that brings entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty.
MyVillage is an early child development start-up building a childcare system that works for parents, care providers, and most importantly their children. It is doing this by establishing a high-quality, nationally standardized family home childcare network. The company providing outstanding education in nurturing homes for children ages 0-5. They reinventing home-based care, bringing families and educators together to provide outstanding education in nurturing homes. MyVillage was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, United States.
Simusolar increases rural prosperity by selling and financing productive equipment to farmers and small businesses. It provides and finances accessible, affordable, and energy-efficient equipment designed for off-grid businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its systems are designed to meet the needs of rural smallholders, from equipment specifications to innovative financing terms.
PEG, founded in 2013 by Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller, is an asset financing company headquartered in Accra, Ghana. The company specializes in selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG's offerings enable customers to access improved lighting, mobile phone charging, and essential appliances such as radios and televisions. By providing financing for these solar home systems, PEG aims to enhance the quality of life for its customers while promoting sustainable energy solutions in underserved regions.
Crehana is an online training platform for creative and digital professionals in Latam and Spain. With more than 500 courses from Design to Coding, they redefining education through affordable and project-based learning. The platform also offers online courses in Design, Illustration, Photography, and Audiovisuals. Their mission is to make everyone's professional dream possible through online education. Crehana was founded on April 7, 2015, and is based in Lima, Peru.
Boulder is a digital health platform expanding access to effective treatment for opiate use. We aim to move the behavioral health industry forward by offering dramatically better experiences for patients and their care teams.
HealthCubed is an electronic health diagnostic company that manufactures and provides health diagnostic products and services. The company offers different versions of HealthCube, which is a health diagnostic pre-screening instrument that can perform several basic to advance diagnostic tests in no time and manage records digitally. This system allows smart diagnostics and artificial intelligence to facilitate the rapid screening of patients. Founded in 2015 by Ramanan Laxminarayan, HealthCubed is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland with an office in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Resolve is a free financial management platform created by a team of passionate financial advisors, debt experts & technologists to provide affordable and unbiased help for people in financial distress.
Ready Responders was founded in 2016 with the mission of giving patients direct access to healthcare professionals in their homes and giving Responders the opportunity to provide care in their communities. Responders travel to patients’ homes to address their physical, mental, and social health needs, utilizing technology to connect with an advanced medical or behavioral health provider, and connecting them with external resources and relationships for ongoing, sustained support. With Ready Responders, patients now have access to quality whole-person care in their homes, 16 hours a day, 365 days a year, and talented individuals are provided the opportunity to work with a rapidly growing, mission-driven company. They are in-network with most major insurance companies in the markets they serve. Ready Responders is backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures, Founders Fund, Rise of the Rest, and City Lights Capital.
Mahmee is an integrated care delivery platform for maternal and infant health. The company's team is building the digital infrastructure needed to connect patients, independent health professionals, and enterprise healthcare organizations together to ensure that moms and babies do not fall through the cracks of the U.S. healthcare system, which has the highest maternity costs and mortality rates of all developed nations. Mahmee increases access to comprehensive care prenatal and postpartum care and reduces severe disparities in mortality and morbidity for Black mothers and infants. The company's power digital maternity initiatives for some of the largest public and private health systems in the country by connecting those enterprises to community-based perinatal health providers who use Mahmee EHR SaaS to manage their practices. Mahmee's marketplace helps new and expecting parents discover those providers and get fast access to care, in-person and virtually.
Everytable sells nutritious food through grab-and-go locations. The company's mission is to transform the food system to make fresh, nutritious food accessible to everyone, everywhere.
KopaGas is a technology company that designs, manufactures, and distributes environment-friendly cooking fuel. It develops software and hardware solutions that enable direct-to-customer business models for the next generation of LPG retail operations. The company aims to accelerate access to clean cooking solutions. In 2014, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez and Andron Mendes founded the company in Dar Es Salaam, Dar es Salaam.
Kaizen Health is a healthcare mobility company that is improving access, quality, satisfaction and efficiency in health care by removing transportation as a barrier. Top healthcare delivery systems, payers, senior living, clinical trials and municipalities are utilizing Kaizen Health’s industry-leading technology and transportation network to address social determinants of health within and outside of health care to better promote health equity.
Easy Solar is a leading energy distribution company in West Africa, financing high-quality solar products and appliances for those with limited or no access to the conventional grid. Customers can finance their purchase over time by paying in weekly or monthly installments, with the option to pay via cash or mobile money. To date, Easy Solar has reached more than 400,000 beneficiaries, distributed through its extensive network of agents and outlets throughout Sierra Leone and Liberia.
HealthCubed is an electronic health diagnostic company that manufactures and provides health diagnostic products and services. The company offers different versions of HealthCube, which is a health diagnostic pre-screening instrument that can perform several basic to advance diagnostic tests in no time and manage records digitally. This system allows smart diagnostics and artificial intelligence to facilitate the rapid screening of patients. Founded in 2015 by Ramanan Laxminarayan, HealthCubed is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland with an office in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Everytable sells nutritious food through grab-and-go locations. The company's mission is to transform the food system to make fresh, nutritious food accessible to everyone, everywhere.
MyVillage is an early child development start-up building a childcare system that works for parents, care providers, and most importantly their children. It is doing this by establishing a high-quality, nationally standardized family home childcare network. The company providing outstanding education in nurturing homes for children ages 0-5. They reinventing home-based care, bringing families and educators together to provide outstanding education in nurturing homes. MyVillage was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, United States.
PEG, founded in 2013 by Hugh Whalan and Nate Heller, is an asset financing company headquartered in Accra, Ghana. The company specializes in selling Pay As You Go solar energy products to off-grid customers in Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal. PEG's offerings enable customers to access improved lighting, mobile phone charging, and essential appliances such as radios and televisions. By providing financing for these solar home systems, PEG aims to enhance the quality of life for its customers while promoting sustainable energy solutions in underserved regions.
17 million young people in the United States are un(der)employed while the demand for technology related jobs exceeds the supply. At Learners Guild, we’re solving this problem by providing a software education fellowship with life-changing curriculum and community support. Our products are built upon the premise that life is a process of continuous learning, building, and perfecting pursuits of livelihood, community and purpose. Learners Guild, a California B-Corp following the principles of holocracy, is a network of guild-style professional schools that transform students into high-skilled workers in one year. We have a unique financing model that aligns student and institutional success, and allows us to profitably recruit & train the most ambitious students, regardless of financial background. Together, we can transform the trillion dollar higher education market and fix the gap for talented software developers in the coming connected device era.
ConsejoSano offers multicultural engagement and navigation solutions for health plans, providers, states to help guide culturally diverse populations through the complexities of the health care system and drive improved performance, outcomes and satisfaction.
Listo Financial is a consumer financial services company that offers Latino consumers in the US insurance products and loans through technology-based retail and mobile experiences. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States.
Azahar Coffee specializes in producing and online retail of roasted coffee sourced from Colombia. The company was established in 2010 and is headquartered in Armenia, Colombia.
Uncommon Cacao is an industry-leading premium cacao supply chain operation. It started its work in 2010, building Maya Mountain Cacao in Belize to create meaningful market access for smallholder cacao farmers. After catalyzing unparalleled impact for farmer families in the country, and receiving enormous demand for their product and process, in 2013 Uncommon Cacao founded Cacao Verapaz in Guatemala. These companies have revolutionized local economies by linking smallholder farmers to the specialty cacao industry, through a focus on consistently delivering quality beans.
Farmers Hope produces organic fertilizer using locally available ingredients which provide crops nutrients & nourishes the soil.
Under the Mango Tree is a hybrid social enterprise that brings a variety of natural, organic, and sustainable honey to support rural livelihoods. UTMT aims to promote community-based beekeeping as a specific solution to declining agricultural productivity and improvement of livelihoods of marginal farmers across India.
Healthify builds the infrastructure to support social determinants of health initiatives at scale. The company builds and manages accountable networks of community-based organizations and provides a technology platform that streamlines the closed-loop referral process, fosters collaboration across the network, and tracks results. Healthify works with community partners, health plans, and providers in all fifty states and is dedicated to community partner sustainability and demonstrating ROI for social service interventions to ensure that families receive the services they need to thrive.
Founded in 1996, Kashf Foundation has worked to pioneer microfinance services that empower and promote the economic self-reliance of poor women and their families in Pakistan. Kashf is now one of the premier microfinance institutions in the country, disbursing $202 million USD in loans to date and providing more than one million people with access to financial capital.
WorkAmerica is on a mission to employ every American with a credential in the Trades. We are a recruiting platform that helps employers in the skilled trades industries connect with the in-demand, trained and credentialed talent they need. As traditional skilled trades careers become more technologically advanced, industry dynamics in recruiting and hiring have changed. Bureau of Labor Statistics show a huge market opportunity in helping employers identify qualified candidates. At the same time, there is a huge social need for effectively connecting students and graduates of credentialed training programs with employers.
Green Energy Biofuels manufactures and distributes an innovative, smoke-free cook stove that utilizes an environmentally-friendly fuel gel.
Jawabu Microhealth provides micro-health insurance services to low income and vulnerable workers.
Vikalp works with limited private educational institutions to enhance learning outcomes through an experiential math curriculum that incorporates learning aids. It creates an online mathematics learning platform to help students learn effectively. The company's platform creates alternative methods and materials using various digital resources, allowing schoolchildren to learn various mathematical concepts and become facilitators of learning.
EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with the necessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
Product design and manufacturing start-up developing innovative solutions for the mass market. India's largest maker of clean cookstoves and maker of the Greenway Free TV - home satellite TV system.
Sanergy makes hygienic sanitation affordable and accessible in urban slums for everyone starting with Nairobi, Kenya. It promotes the fundamental human right to sanitation in the slums of Kenya by increasing access to and usage of hygienic sanitation facilities. Sanergy creates an efficient, equitable, and sustainable sanitation cycle by building a dense network of small-scale sanitation centers across the slums, a low-cost containerized waste collection infrastructure, and converting this waste at their central processing facility into useful byproducts, such as organic fertilizer and renewable energy.
Nasra Public School aims to establish schools for children of low or middle class families.
Nasra Public School aims to establish schools for children of low or middle class families.
Cacao Hunters products include arhuacos, bars, colombia, dark, heirloom, hunter mini, kits, cupcakes, milk, semidark, sierra nevada, snacks, and tumaco, which provide chocolate and cocoa products. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.
Aarusha provides safe, well-priced, high value rental housing solutions to low income migrants in urban India.
First Access is a financial technology company that offers a smart data platform for emerging market financial institutions. Micro and SME lenders have a clear path to a digital future. With an intuitive user experience for digitizing paper-based operations, institutions can collect rich data, monitor trends, and then automate processes while gaining more trust in the data. First Access has leveraged its credit scoring experience to allow incremental change without disrupting day-to-day operations. Financial institutions can grow more sophisticated with data, incorporating machine learning insights as it goes. The company's mission is to turn data into financial opportunity by helping lenders around the world digitize and automate access to credit with powerful, user-friendly technology. First Access was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York.
Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denying their ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.
Our Family Clinic is an operator of a chain of healthcare hospitals intended to revolutionize the healthcare delivery system by uniting the fragmented delivery model into organized healthcare delivery. They offer women's and children's care, home healthcare, specialist doctor consultations, senior citizen care, and pharmacy services.
Devergy is a social energy utility, providing a reliable, affordable electricity service to low-income people in developing countries.
Paga is a mobile payment company. We are building an ecosystem to enable people to digitally send and receive money, and creating simple financial access for everyone. Our mission is to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. Our first market is Nigeria where Paga is the leading mobile payment company.
The two year old firm was started by Symbiosis Institute of Management alumnus Patidar and has grown its network to work with 23,000 farmers from more than 300 villages across five districts in Madhya Pradesh. It also operates 272 primary milk collection centres, where milk is tested and evaluated, and smallholder farmers receive an instant receipt for the quality and quantity of milk delivered.
BioLite is a dynamic, rapidly growing, and profitable social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets consumer energy products for off-grid communities around the world. Over the last three years, our team has tripled, and sales have doubled each year. Their business serves two distinct markets: 1) developing world families living in energy poverty, and 2) outdoor enthusiasts seeking fuel-independent cooking and power. They address these markets simultaneously through parallel innovation: by incubating core technologies that can serve users in both markets, they are able to re-invest near-term revenue to solve long-term, high-impact problems. Developing World: Half the planet still cooks on indoor open wood fires and the toxic smoke they emit kills nearly 4 million people every year, twice as many as malaria. BioLite has developed an advanced, affordable, clean- burning stove that combines unprecedented emissions reductions with economically valuable electricity generation. The HomeStove™ is capable of reducing indoor smoke by more than 90% while cutting fuel use in half. By providing their largely off-grid customers with the ability to charge cell phones and LED lights, our stoves create economic incentive for purchase and continued use, ensuring sustainable delivery of their health and environmental benefits.
BURN specializes in designing, manufacturing, and distributing fuel-efficient cooking products aimed at improving the lives of people in the developing world. Operating a modern manufacturing facility located outside of Nairobi, BURN produces one stove per minute, making it the largest facility of its kind in Africa. The organization focuses on creating customized biomass stove solutions that address the specific cooking needs of various communities. By collaborating with implementing organizations, BURN develops sustainable stove dissemination systems that not only enhance cooking efficiency but also contribute positively to environmental and health issues, such as deforestation and women's health.
SEED Schools is an operator of a network of private schools designed to create a comprehensive model with a strong emphasis on sustainably raising educational standards. To improve learning outcomes and help students achieve and measure greater educational inclusion, instructional skills, and improved attainment rates, the company's schools put a focus on integrating technology into the core curriculum and supporting teachers with their professional development. This helps students overcome the social and economic challenges faced by community-based low-cost private schools.
Seed is simply a better way to bank. As a mobile first banking service designed with the small business in mind, Seed empowers small businesses with modern, easy-to-use digital tools and customer-support resources for starting, running, and growing a business. With Seed, business banking has never been easier.
Ignis Careers Pvt. Ltd. provides English language training courses. It offers English for business communication to enhance the English skills of the trainees to handle inter-cultural communication. The company offers courses that teach English skills through a series of real corporate work situations, as well as teaches language for professional interactions, such as handling a foreign client, making a presentation, handling telephone and e-mail, conducting meetings and negotiations. In addition, it offers professional communication program; and career orientation program that focuses on career options, communication skills, study and research skills, self-awareness, industry perspective, team work, group discussions, and life skills. Further, the company provides placement training program that focuses on self-awareness, industry perspective, curriculum vitae (CVs) and covering letters, team work, group discussions, interviews, aptitude tests, and life skills; and English language training program that focuses on pronunciation and accent, as well as developing and improving confidence and learning capacity. Ignis Careers Pvt. Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Hyderabad, India with additional branches in Khammam, Karimnagar, Vijayawada, and Kurnool, India.
Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India. SEWA was founded in 1972 by the noted Gandhian and civil rights leader Dr Ela Bhatt. SEWA's main office is located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and it works in several states of India. SEWA had a membership of 966,139 in the year 2008. SEWA members are women who earn a living through their own labour or small business. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organized sector. They are the unprotected labour force of India. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganized sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganized sector. However their work is not counted and hence remains invisible. SEWA is strongly supported by the World Bank which holds it out as a model to be replicated elsewhere
SolarNow provides solar energy and financing solutions in East Africa through its subsidiary. It offers solar home systems, electrical appliances, and power solutions that are designed to fit the needs of rural and urban households, entrepreneurs, and institutions. SolarNow offers household, small business, farming, and corporate solutions. Willem Nolens founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and branch locations in Uganda and Kenya.
Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcing goods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support. Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way. Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.
Esoko is an information and communication service for agricultural markets in Africa. We provide advice directly to farmers (market prices, weather forecasts, and growing tips) to help them increase yields and profits. We also provide solutions to businesses to help them connect with farmers (marketing products, monitoring activities, and sourcing goods). Esoko uniquely provides an entire ecosystem to make this work; including the content, software and field support. Esoko equips businesses, NGOs, Mobile Operators and Governments with a unique series of specialized apps to help manage information to and from the field. Farmers sell better and grow more. Businesses source differently, and market more effectively. Mobile operators increase market share through bundled services for rural communities, and governments track realtime market trends. No platform connects so many in such a powerful way. Esoko makes communication easier. You can send personalized messages to thousands. You can ask questions and get answers from the field. It?s the first time anyone can affordably and effectively reach people in remote rural communities. Organizations can reduce their operational costs, improve their monitoring of market trends, track field activities -- all for a fraction of the cost of traditional field operations. Esoko can transform African markets into more efficient value opportunities for both the business and the individual, simply by promoting market transparency through mobile devices.
EthioChicken is a poultry producing companies in East Africa in which the operative companies are AGP Poultry PLC (AGP), Mekelle Farms Ltd (MKF) and Andasa Poultry PLC.
D.light is a solar home lighting and power product developer. The company's solar goods, which include lights, radios, televisions, fans, and other home appliances, are rechargeable solar kits, allowing rural and semi-urban people to access solar-powered lighting and appliances. Their products are designed to improve health, increase productivity, and enhance the quality of life for users.
SiembraViva developsed small producers for regenerative organic agriculture and connects them directly with conscious consumers. SiembraViva specializes in the fields of grocery online, organic vegetables, and organic certified.
LabourNet is a social enterprise that creates sustainable benefits for workers in the informal sector by offering them a platform to access vocational education and training services which will in turn build capacities of workers. It attempts to provide financial inclusion, social protection and welfare services to unorganized workers, LabourNet focuses on improving workers lives through the following strategies: •Improving productivity through a process of continuous assessment and skill training •Facilitating work linkages •Enabling workers to build an identity through certification •Facilitating access to some social protection as a first step to social security •Linking workers to state sponsored social protection schemes (i.e. construction workers welfare board, unorganized sector workers welfare board etc.) •Facilitating financial inclusion by opening bank accounts and encouraging workers to participate in bank linked savings programs on a case to case basis
Asian Health Meter is a healthcare center that offers diagnostic tests and services. They conduct tests in biochemistry, hematology, microbiology, immunoassay, serology, clinical pathology, and histopathology.
SRE Solutions provides access to affordable, high quality solar products through its unique retail distribution network.
Global Easy Water Products (GEWP) distributes low-cost irrigation technology that raises the income of smallholder famers by an average of 400 USD a year, increases crop yields by 30 to 70 percent, and delivers water savings of 30 to 50 percent. And now, through an innovative technology transfer, GEWP’s products are also being used by small-scale farmers in Pakistan.
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme is a non-profit organization. They provide development programs such as community infrastructure, resource development, agriculture development, and market development.
Sanergy makes hygienic sanitation affordable and accessible in urban slums for everyone starting with Nairobi, Kenya. It promotes the fundamental human right to sanitation in the slums of Kenya by increasing access to and usage of hygienic sanitation facilities. Sanergy creates an efficient, equitable, and sustainable sanitation cycle by building a dense network of small-scale sanitation centers across the slums, a low-cost containerized waste collection infrastructure, and converting this waste at their central processing facility into useful byproducts, such as organic fertilizer and renewable energy.
Husk Power Systems ("Husk") owns, builds and operates solar-hybrid microgrids that serve off-grid and weak-grid communities in rural Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. It provides its business and residential customers with 100% renewable electricity and access to energy efficient appliances. In the process, it is contributing to climate resilience while also avoiding a significant amount of emissions from diesel generation. Husk has more than 200 minigrids in operation, the largest fleet in the world. The company is a catalyst for economic growth and social well-being, helping rural communities increase incomes and create employment by starting or expanding microenterprises and running electricity-operated machines that increase productivity. It also provides reliable power to local clinics and schools and education, improving healthcare and educational outcomes. Husk Power Systems was founded by co-founded by CEO Manoj Sinha in 2008 and is based in the United States, with operations in India and Nigeria.
Avani Bio Energy is a social enterprise working to tackle the issues of forest fires, biodiversity loss, and distressed migration from the mountains. They build a sustainable energy generation and delivery business based on pine needles as a means of developing employment, biodiversity regeneration, and clean energy production.
Avani Bio Energy is a social enterprise working to tackle the issues of forest fires, biodiversity loss, and distressed migration from the mountains. They build a sustainable energy generation and delivery business based on pine needles as a means of developing employment, biodiversity regeneration, and clean energy production.
EduBridge is an organization started by a group of alumni and professors from IIM Bangalore & Lucknow in 2009. EduBridge works towards transforming the lives of the unemployed youth in the country across urban, semi-urban and rural areas. EduBridge provides them with a commercially relevant training at their doorstep and arm them with the necessary skill sets and mindset to succeed in their professional careers and thus help transform their lives.
Paga is a mobile payment company focused on creating a digital ecosystem that facilitates the sending and receiving of money. It aims to provide simple financial access to a broad user base, with a mission to enable one billion people to effectively manage their finances. Operating primarily in Nigeria, Paga has established itself as the leading mobile payment provider in the region. Its application allows users to transfer money to anyone with a mobile phone, as well as purchase and send airtime credits, make bill payments, and conduct retail transactions. By addressing the challenges associated with payment options, Paga is committed to enhancing financial service accessibility for its users.
With over 10 years experience VirtualCity has been able to curve a position for itself as the market leader in the development, customization and implementation of innovative mobility solutions. They have done this by being able to constantly recognize and adapt to the changing needs and growing demands of there clients by continuously developing and introducing new technological innovations into the market.
Hippocampus Learning Centres (HLC) aims to address the growing demand for quality education in India by providing a specialized curriculum that will better prepare children for advanced education and employment opportunities. HLC recruits, trains, and manages a network of teachers in rented village centers, and charges an affordable monthly fee for quality educational services based on international best practices.
BASIX Krishi delivers affordable extension services to smallholder farmers in India. The company trains and employs a network of Livelihood Service Providers (LSPs), extension agents who visit each customer at least once a fortnight. BASIX Krishi provides services that enhance farmers’ productivity and reduce input costs, thereby increasing farmers’ overall income.
Gramalaya Urban And Rural Development Initiatives And Network (GUARDIAN) is addressing the complex water and sanitation problems faced by low-income communities in India through its innovative water credit solution. GUARDIAN provides microloans to low-income families seeking to install water and sanitation facilities in their households.
National Rural Support Program (NRSP) Microfinance Bank is the first agency to provide financial services to rural, agricultural markets in Pakistan. With 120 million people in Pakistan dependent upon agriculture and lacking financial services, NRSP Microfinance Bank plans to focus on rural communities of highest need and serve nearly 625,000 borrowers in the next five years.
Non Surgical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention and social enterprise, offering innovative, affordable and scalable public healthcare solutions
Orb Energy provides affordable and renewable energy for off-grid households in India through solar home systems. The company prices its systems at USD 4 per month and reaches low-income customers through its strong retail distribution network. With 90 branches currently in operation, Orb plans to double its branches and employees in the next two years, reaching 250,000 people.
Juhudi Kilimo provides asset financing, technical assistance, and business training services to smallholder farmers and small-to-medium agro businesses in Kenya. It offers financing for dairy cows and goats; poultry, pigs, rabbits, and other livestock as well as fish farming; agricultural equipment, including irrigation, agro-processing, and energy-related equipment; and motorcycles, bicycles, and other vehicles primarily to transport farm goods. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya.