Omidyar Network

Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to their communities. They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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Smita Aggarwal

Director of Investments

Matt Bannick

Former Manager Partner

Ashley Beckner

Venture Partner

Mike Kubzansky

CEO

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Winston Macmillan

Associate Controller

CV Madhukar

Investment Partner

Annie Maxwell

EVP

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Samuel Mugacha

Associate

Victor Suen

Director, Portfolio Analysis

Past deals in Charity

Cignifi

Venture Round in 2018
Cignifi Inc. designs and develops credit and marketing analytics platform for mobile network operators. It provides credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data, and provides information for credit cards, personal loans, insurance, and savings among mobile pre-pay customers. The company serves telecommunication operators, retailers, lenders, and insurers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Scripbox

Series B in 2016
Scripbox owns and operates an online investing platform that distributes mutual funds in India. Its platform allows investors to buy and sell equity, debt, and tax saving mutual funds. Sanjiv Singhal founded Scripbox in 2012. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

ZestMoney

Seed Round in 2015
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.

Healofy

Series B in 2021
Healofy is an Indian parenting social network for moms.

GramCover

Series A in 2021
GramCover Insurance Brokers Private Limited develops an online based insurance brokerage marketplace for the rural sector. The company offers life insurance, crop and livestock insurance, health and motor insurance, reinsurance, and risk advisory products through an integrated marketplace. It also provides claim processing, policy download, notification, payment collection, and customer on boarding services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Noida, India.

EagerPanda, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
EagerPanda is building a world where all of human knowledge is well organized and easily accessible. The company's platform help educators to build custom online courses, enabling educators to connect and share their content of learning. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Portola Valley, California, United States.

Versa

Seed Round in 2014
Versa is a media technology company founded on a deep belief in a thriving press and an informed, engaged public. Featured Perspectives is the only technology-driven platform that gives leading organizations, executives, thought leaders, and advocates the ability to attach commentary and analysis directly to a developing news story, generating premium revenue for publishers and giving readers access to high-quality opinion alongside the news in real-time.

ZestMoney

Seed Round in 2015
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.

GramCover

Seed Round in 2020
GramCover Insurance Brokers Private Limited develops an online based insurance brokerage marketplace for the rural sector. The company offers life insurance, crop and livestock insurance, health and motor insurance, reinsurance, and risk advisory products through an integrated marketplace. It also provides claim processing, policy download, notification, payment collection, and customer on boarding services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Noida, India.

Cignifi

Series A in 2012
Cignifi Inc. designs and develops credit and marketing analytics platform for mobile network operators. It provides credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data, and provides information for credit cards, personal loans, insurance, and savings among mobile pre-pay customers. The company serves telecommunication operators, retailers, lenders, and insurers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Kaleidofin

Series A in 2019
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

Neogrowth

Series C in 2016
Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories, handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.

ZestMoney

Series B in 2019
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that connects lenders and borrowers to provide loans. The company offers different lifecycle support services for lenders, which include marketing and customer relationship management (CRM), data aggregation, data analysis, on-ground support, loan monitoring, and payment management. It serves clients in e-commerce, travel, hospitality, retail, and trading businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gurugram, India.

Neon

Series A in 2018
Neon is a Brazilian fintech, founded in 2016, whose mission is to unite technology and design to redesign and simplify people's financial experience. With over 250 employees, in 2018 Neon raised R $ 72 million of Series A investments in a round led by Propel Ventures, Monashees, and Quona, which also featured Yellow Ventures, Omydiar Network, and Tera Capital. With a digital account being the main product, Neon has a partnership with Banco Votorantim for the custody and settlement of its accounts.

RailYatri

Seed Round in 2015
RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travel services like meals and taxi.... and much more. RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations. RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time.

Neogrowth

Venture Round in 2016
Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories, handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.

Masai School

Series A in 2021
Masai School is a 21st-century career focussed coding school. We are on a mission to find untapped or underutilized talent and to train them for the most in-demand jobs in the world. Masai School is introducing a new model of higher education in which the school invests in the students, instead of the other way around.
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that connects lenders and borrowers to provide loans. The company offers different lifecycle support services for lenders, which include marketing and customer relationship management (CRM), data aggregation, data analysis, on-ground support, loan monitoring, and payment management. It serves clients in e-commerce, travel, hospitality, retail, and trading businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gurugram, India.

Kaleidofin

Seed Round in 2018
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

IntrCity

Series A in 2016
Manager- Corporate Communications

ShopUp

Series B in 2022
ShopUp is a capital appraisal platform for small and micro-entrepreneurs selling on social media. It also helps social media based micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries get access to affordable financing. ShopUp was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Holberton School

Series A in 2018
Holberton, Inc. provides project-based learning and peer learning to software engineers. It offers courses, such as foundation of software engineering, augmented reality and virtual reality, full-stack web development, advanced linux programming, algorithm & blockchain, and machine learning. The company offers free education until students find jobs. Holberton, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional campuses in Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia; and New Haven, Connecticut.

Yelo

Seed Round in 2019
yelo is a mobile only peer-to-peer platform. Its your locally connected friend which has a social referral system that puts you in touch with the right person with whom your network graph is connected with (not Facebook!). You can directly connect and chat with the supply/service-provider to solve your problems in the fastest way possible. On the supply side, anyone with just a smartphone can enlist himself for his skills, talent or passion; get referred for a query or monetize direct leads. yelo monetizes leads with a freemium model.

IntrCity

Venture Round in 2016
Manager- Corporate Communications
Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, free of cost, for a brighter future.

Shubhloans

Series A in 2019
MyShubhLife is a full stack financial services provider for the Next Half Billion. With Real-time analytics and credit reports based on alternative data, MyShubhLife reaches unserved and underserved market segments to provide meaningful financial inclusion. MyShubhLife has further strengthened its financial inclusion goal through its financial wellness program for corporates and individuals by expanding its portfolio to include Mini and Micro loans, Insurance, Mutual Fund SIPS, Tax filing service and more.

PowerGen Renewable Energy

Series B in 2019
Powergen Renewable Energy provides energy solutions to residential, community, commercial, government, and industrial customers in East Africa. The company offers microgrids and commercial and industrial solar consulting; development; engineering, procurement, and construction; operation and maintenance; and financing services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya with additional offices in Arusha, Tanzania; Freetown, Sierra Leone; and Lagos, Nigeria.

Chime

Series B in 2017
Chime, the leader in the U.S. challenger banking segment, helps members avoid bank fees, save money automatically, and lead healthier financial lives. Based in San Francisco, California, Chime offers a modern, mobile and connected approach to banking that gives members complete control of their finances. Chime members receive a Chime debit card, a Spending Account, a Savings Account, and a powerful mobile app that keeps members in control. The Chime mobile app is available for iPhone and Android devices and has been featured as one of the best Money Management apps in the App Store.
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that connects lenders and borrowers to provide loans. The company offers different lifecycle support services for lenders, which include marketing and customer relationship management (CRM), data aggregation, data analysis, on-ground support, loan monitoring, and payment management. It serves clients in e-commerce, travel, hospitality, retail, and trading businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gurugram, India.

Sewa Grih Rin

Secondary Market in 2022
Sewa Grih Rin Limited, a housing finance company, provides housing loans to low-income households in India. It offers mortgage products for use in conjunction with government subsidies and tenure security; and non-mortgage loans for home and infrastructure improvements. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Aqgromalin

Series A in 2021
Aqgromalin is a tech-driven farm diversification platform enabling farmers to diversify into animal husbandry and aquaculture.

Bijak

Series A in 2020
Bijak is a developer of B2B platform for agricultural commodities that gives buyers and sellers better prices, increased working capital and optimized logistics. Bijak is a business-to-business trade platform for the agricultural sector in India that enables traders, wholesalers, and food processors to keep a ledger of their transactions, access transparent pricing, optimize logistics, and improve their working capital cycles.

Colab.re

Series A in 2017
Colab.re is a citizen-to-government engagement platform, where citizens socially interact to report city's daily issues, suggest urban improvements and rate public services. On the other end, they offer governments a freemium CRM and Workflow management tool. They currently (march 2016) have +150k users in Brazil, +100 clients including municipalities, state governments, federal departments and utility companies. They believe in creating better cities for the people, with the people.

Digital House

Series B in 2017
Digital House is a coding school where new generations of coders and digital professionals are trained to imagine, innovate, and create what they always dreamed. It was established in 2015 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

farMart

Seed Round in 2021
In India, 75% of farmers own less than one hectare of land. Such small landholdings make it unavailable for them to own machinery solely for their own purpose. FarMart provides a technology platform to connect farmers who own machinery with those who don’t. Thus, ensuring farmers achieve high productivity at minimum input costs. FarMart aims to provide access of the latest agricultural machinery and modern technology to every farmer while simultaneously promoting rural entrepreneurship.

GuiaBolso

Series D in 2017
GuiaBolso is a digital hub that connects Brazilian consumers to financial products via an in-app marketplace with real-time origination. As a company in Brazil with proprietary bank account aggregation technology and offering free credit bureau reports, GuiaBolso gives users a complete view of finances and provides bank partners with unparalleled data analysis and credit modeling. This creates a very positive dynamic for both, for example, GuiaBolso users now have access to a selection of fairly-priced loans based on actual credit risk, quite revolutionary in a country without a national credit score and with the world’s highest interest spreads. The company mission is to improve people’s well-being by providing the complete information needed to make better financial decisions.

farMart

Series B in 2022
In India, 75% of farmers own less than one hectare of land. Such small landholdings make it unavailable for them to own machinery solely for their own purpose. FarMart provides a technology platform to connect farmers who own machinery with those who don’t. Thus, ensuring farmers achieve high productivity at minimum input costs. FarMart aims to provide access of the latest agricultural machinery and modern technology to every farmer while simultaneously promoting rural entrepreneurship.

Otipy

Series B in 2021
Otipy is an emerging Indian startup and the social commerce venture of farm-to-fork agri-tech startup Crofarm. The platform aims to connect farmers directly to their customers through online channels and vice versa. The goal of the platform is to provide fresh produce directly from the farm, using something called demand harvesting. By using AI-based demand prediction tools, the platform collects historical data to predict the demand for products. This is then used to procure just the right amount of produce, facilitating on-demand harvesting, and thereby ensuring delivery of fresh produce on the same day. Moreover, this also precludes the wastage of food items.

CloudSek

Series A in 2021
CloudSEK Info Security Pvt. Ltd develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) information security risk management solutions. The company offers XVigil, a unified risk management platform which secures business across cyber threats, data leaks, identity thefts, fake applications, fake domains, and fake pages, third party interfaces, and infrastructure security. It provides cyber threat intelligence which includes monitoring real time social media, surface web, dark web monitoring, credential disclosure; brand monitor; and infrastructure monitor. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

PerroMart SG

Seed Round in 2019
PerroMart is an O2O pet care company. Having started as an ecommerce platform, the company is now moving into an omnichannel business model to reach a larger proportion of Southeast Asia’s pet owners who still shop offline. It also looks to add new services, such as vet care and grooming, to cover the entire value chain.

Kaleidofin

Series A in 2019
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

Federated Media

Series B in 2007
Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions. Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns and operates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

RailYatri

Venture Round in 2016
RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travel services like meals and taxi.... and much more. RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations. RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time.

SeeClickFix, Inc.

Series A in 2011
SeeClickFix provides tools for residents and governments to communicate for all sizes, populations, and budgets. The company empowers citizens, community organizations, and governments to care for and improve their neighborhoods by providing technology tools that promote civic engagement and government transparency. They focused reports allow officials at all levels to evaluate public service performance, plan for improvements, and have the facts necessary to make data-driven decisions. SeeClickFix was established in 2008 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

IntrCity

Series B in 2020
Manager- Corporate Communications

Terbium Labs

Series B in 2019
Terbium Labs offers Matchlight, the world’s most comprehensive and only fully private dark web data monitoring solution, capable of quickly finding stolen data and minimizing the damage caused by a data breach. Terbium Labs was founded by Michael Moore and Danny Rogers in 2013 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

HexaHealth

Seed Round in 2021
HexaHealth is a startup that aims to build a network of hospitals across the country, bring in digital solutions for better patient care throughout the patient’s surgery life cycle, and expand its consumer base to address the information asymmetry.

Prosper

Series E in 2011
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
African Leadership Academy is an educational institution that offers two-year program focused on leadership, entrepreneurship, and African studies. It also provides Gap-Year Program and Global Scholars Program for Entrepreneurial Leadership and African Studies program. African Leadership Academy was founded in 2004 and is based in Roodepoort, South Africa.

Unite Us

Series A in 2017
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company that builds coordinated care networks connecting health and social service providers together. The company helps systems and communities efficiently deliver care and services by inter-connecting providers across communities, seamlessly integrating the social determinants of health into patient care. Providers across the continuum and community are able to externally refer and track every patient’s total health journey, while reporting on all tangible outcomes across a full range of services in a centralized, cohesive, and collaborative ecosystem. This social infrastructure helps communities move beyond legacy resource directories, and transform their ability to measure impact, improved health, and outcomes at scale.

Crisis Text Line

Series B in 2016
Crisis Text Line is free, 24/7 emotional support for those in crisis. Their Crisis Counselors practice active listening to help people in crisis move from a hot moment to a cool calm – all through a medium they know and trust: text. People in crisis are connected to a Crisis Counselor by texting 741741.

Bijak

Series B in 2022
Bijak is a developer of B2B platform for agricultural commodities that gives buyers and sellers better prices, increased working capital and optimized logistics. Bijak is a business-to-business trade platform for the agricultural sector in India that enables traders, wholesalers, and food processors to keep a ledger of their transactions, access transparent pricing, optimize logistics, and improve their working capital cycles.

Scroll Media Inc.

Seed Round in 2014
Scroll Media Inc. operates as a digital publishing company that provides news, information, and entertainment services. It offers services, including news, photographs, rigorous reporting, objective analyses, political and cultural stories, videos, and other forms of digital content information for readers and viewers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Entri

Series A in 2022
Entri is a vernacular language learning platform for teachers and students. Up to 750k students and 2300 teachers have used Entri to improve their learning and teaching so far.

Federated Media

Series A in 2006
Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions. Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns and operates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

Krishify

Seed Round in 2021
Krishify is a social network for farmers to discuss and solve their Agri input needs.

Cignifi

Series A in 2012
Cignifi Inc. designs and develops credit and marketing analytics platform for mobile network operators. It provides credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data, and provides information for credit cards, personal loans, insurance, and savings among mobile pre-pay customers. The company serves telecommunication operators, retailers, lenders, and insurers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Zoona is a mobile technology company developing products such as money transfers, electronic voucher payments, and agent payments.
Change Healthcare is a catalyst for your value-based healthcare system. They are a healthcare technology company that offers software, analytics, network solutions, and technology-enabled services to help create a stronger, more collaborative healthcare system. They help deliver measurable value not only at the point of care, but also before, after, and in between care episodes. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Scripbox

Series B in 2016
Scripbox owns and operates an online investing platform that distributes mutual funds in India. Its platform allows investors to buy and sell equity, debt, and tax saving mutual funds. Sanjiv Singhal founded Scripbox in 2012. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Cignifi

Series D in 2018
Cignifi Inc. designs and develops credit and marketing analytics platform for mobile network operators. It provides credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data, and provides information for credit cards, personal loans, insurance, and savings among mobile pre-pay customers. The company serves telecommunication operators, retailers, lenders, and insurers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Open Data Institute

Grant in 2015
The Open Data Institute will catalyse the evolution of an open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It will unlock supply, generate demand, create and disseminate knowledge to address local and global issues. The Open Data Institute will convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture and mentor new ideas, and promote innovation. We will enable anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our teams to help others through professional coaching and mentoring. Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, limited by guarantee company. The ODI has secured £10 million over five years from the UK Government (via the UK innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board), and $750,000 from Omidyar Network, and is working towards long-term sustainability through match funding and direct revenue. With a 5,000 sq ft convening space based in the heart of London's thriving Shoreditch area, and a global remit, we invite everyone intrested in developing Open Data to get in touch.

Zimmber

Series A in 2016
Zimmber is a platform for those who are in need of home services like fixing or a dripping flush tank or electrical glitch, or installation of air conditioner. People who are in need of these services can contact this online firm and get the tasks done within few clicks. Since this started its first service in Indian trade capital, Mumbai, it has been successful so far and will be available in all the metropolitan cities soon. As per Zimmber, every home is spending around Rs. 23,000 per year, this is exactly where the firm is focusing now. The user has to select the service available in their website or mobile application. If the user finds any issue in applying for services, the platform will help the user to find it. After the user chooses the service needed, he/she will be contacted to confirm the availability, before Zimmber sends a service provider to his/her home/office. The firm says it has partnered with 100 service providers so far to work for them.

Hive Meetup

Series B in 2003
Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life. It is organized around one simple idea: when they get together and do the things that matter to us, they’re at their best. And that’s what Meetup does. It brings people together to do, explore, teach, and learn the things that help them come alive. Meetup was established in 2002 and is based in New York City.

Vyng

Venture Round in 2022
Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond. Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and is backed by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.

Lendable

Series A in 2017
Lendable is a lending platform. When you borrow money, it comes straight from an investor. Unlike banks, who hand out loans from piles of cash they look after on behalf of savers. Their platform is super-fast (you’ll see in a moment), and makes lending as hassle- free as possible. It’s a matter of a few clicks and you get your quote. Unlike banks, who require paperwork and run expensive branch networks.

Hustle, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Hustle, Inc. operates an online peer-to-peer text messaging platform that enables organizations to text their contacts. It’s a software-as-a-service platform that is used to send personal text messages for event attendance, fundraising, admissions and recruiting, advocacy, and sales and marketing. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Eventful

Series B in 2006
Eventful, the leading digital media company, powers the online ecosystem of local events and entertainment. Over 20 million people rely on Eventful to find out what's happening and decide what to do. Eventful's unique, social media platform, "Demand it!" empowers fans to influence content and location of entertainment and live events. Music promoters, film studios, ticketing companies and other industry providers use Demand it! to engage with fans and determine their routing schedules or theatrical distribution. National marketers rely on Eventful to drive local awareness, commerce, attendance and tune-in. Thousands of digital publishers also rely on Eventful to power their local events and entertainment content. Eventful's proprietary technologies provide a global platform for local event discovery: the world's largest selection of local event content, content management system, state-of-the-art recommendation engine, email platform delivering personalized, localized content and commercial offers, robust API platform, localization system, Demand it! and a self-service premium listing platform. Eventful competitors include [Upcoming.org](http://www.Upcoming.org) and [Zvents](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zvents/).

Twiga Foods Ltd.

Series A in 2017
Twiga is a mobile-based supply platform for Africa’s retail outlets, kiosks, and market stalls. The company is using a mobile-based, cashless, business-to-business (B2B) supply platform to access distribution into the millions of small and medium-sized vendors in African urban markets. Founded in 2013, Twiga is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The/Nudge Foundation

Grant in 2021
The/Nudge Foundation exists to alleviate poverty, sustainably and scalably. The/Nudge was founded in July 2015 by Atul Satija, after his last stint as Chief Business Officer of InMobi. --- We are a collective of some of India’s best leaders and entrepreneurs from across industry, academia, government and development sectors, and our work is organised across 3 impact streams. 1. Centre for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (CSDE) CSDE exists to enable underprivileged youth to lead flourishing lives. Our goal is to impact 1M+ youth annually through direct, leveraged as well as indirect channels. 2. N/Core N/Core exists to nudge and nurture talent to solve for India's biggest problems. 3. up (ultra-poor) up exists to nudge families out of extreme poverty. We are implementing an integrated micro-entrepreneurship program to pull ultra-poor households (in Jharkhand), out of extreme poverty, through a globally acclaimed and well-researched "graduation model". Our goal is to directly work with and pull 100k families (500k people) out of extreme poverty, over the next 10 years. --- Over the last 4 years, we have impacted the lives of 6M+ people through our direct and indirect work across skilling, education, healthcare etc. We are a passionate team of 175+ #nudgesters, with a dream to see a poverty-free India within our generation.

Metaweb Technologies

Series B in 2008
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco that is developing Metaweb, a semantic data storage infrastructure for the web, and Freebase, an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea as a spinoff of Applied Minds in July, 2005, operated in stealth mode until 2007 and acquired by Google as the basis of its Knowledge Graph in 2010. Freebase is a massive, collaboratively edited database of cross-linked data. The idea behind the product is to create a Wikipedia like system for building the semantic web. Freebase allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data. It sounds like Wikipedia, but instead of arranging by articles, it is more of an almanac, organized like a database, and readable by people and software.

Drink Prime

Series A in 2022
We make India's Smartest Water Purifiers and are redefining water purifier ownership. With us our customers never have to worry about installation, relocation, maintenance hassles. They just have to pay us for the amount of pure water they consume by subscribing to our easy subscription plans and leave their drinking water hassles to us. We're a young company combining the best of IoT and Water Purification technologies to make sure Urban India doesn't have to worry about drinking water again!

CredR

Series B in 2019
Looking at buying or selling a pre-owned vehicle? You are just a click away from finding the perfectsolution to this problem – CredR, India’s only verified and certified used bikes marketplace.The second hand vehicles market is usually flooded with inconsistent pricing and uncomfortable experiences. CredR steps in makes buying/ selling as easy as taking a walk in the park.

Needslist

Venture Round in 2019
NeedsList is a global marketplace connecting individual and corporate donors with NGOs to create efficiency and transparency in their humanitarian aid system. NeedsList partners with local aid organizations to identify urgent needs and uses local suppliers who can deliver needs quickly and sustainably. Supporters can donate cash, purchase products, or volunteer directly on platform. NeedsList provides clear impact metrics in real-time allowing partner organizations to track activity and outcomes. They earn revenue through commissions from affiliate suppliers and from enterprise users of the platform.

farMart

Seed Round in 2021
In India, 75% of farmers own less than one hectare of land. Such small landholdings make it unavailable for them to own machinery solely for their own purpose. FarMart provides a technology platform to connect farmers who own machinery with those who don’t. Thus, ensuring farmers achieve high productivity at minimum input costs. FarMart aims to provide access of the latest agricultural machinery and modern technology to every farmer while simultaneously promoting rural entrepreneurship.

Prosper

Series C in 2007
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CredR

Venture Round in 2021
Looking at buying or selling a pre-owned vehicle? You are just a click away from finding the perfectsolution to this problem – CredR, India’s only verified and certified used bikes marketplace.The second hand vehicles market is usually flooded with inconsistent pricing and uncomfortable experiences. CredR steps in makes buying/ selling as easy as taking a walk in the park.
Stichting Global Voices is a charitable institution which is a community of more than 800 bloggers and translators around the world who work together to bring reports from blogs and citizen media everywhere, with emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media. The institution was founded in 2008 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

ZestMoney

Series B in 2019
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.
WickedRide Adventure Services Private Limited operates as a premium bike and scooter rental company in India. The company also sells bike accessories through its retail and online stores; and conducts biking lessons for women to promote biking culture. It has operations in Bengaluru, Jaipur, Udaipur, Mysore, Bhuj, Ahmedabad, Hampi, Belagvi, Jaisalmer, and Delhi. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Bengaluru, India.

NowFloats

Series A in 2015
NowFloats enables Small and Medium Businesses (SME) to get an online presence by simply using SMS. This website can also be updated by sending regular SMS and this message can be delivered to the loyal customers of that business. Additionally the NowFloats algorithm ensures highest discoverability through intelligent Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There are 47M Small & Medium Businesses in India, while there are only 700K registered websites. It is also estimated that almost 9.6M Indian businesses need some sort of online identity. With 900M+ mobile phones and SMS being the pervasive technology, NowFloats believes that getting business online thru SMS (or Apps) is a scalable and sustainable business. NowFloats is co-founded by ex-Microsoft and ex-Saatchi & Saatchi team and has almost 2000 customers within 5 months of the product launch.

Handshake

Series E in 2021
Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. They connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know. Handshake’s network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increase student employment Handshake has raised a total of $155 million dollars with $80 million most recently raised in Q4 of 2019. We've had the support from GGV, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, True Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. In addition, Handshake has received support from social impact investors, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, among others. Handshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England.

Neon

Series A in 2018
Neon is a Brazilian fintech, founded in 2016, whose mission is to unite technology and design to redesign and simplify people's financial experience. With over 250 employees, in 2018 Neon raised R $ 72 million of Series A investments in a round led by Propel Ventures, Monashees, and Quona, which also featured Yellow Ventures, Omydiar Network, and Tera Capital. With a digital account being the main product, Neon has a partnership with Banco Votorantim for the custody and settlement of its accounts.

Shubhloans

Series A in 2019
MyShubhLife is a full stack financial services provider for the Next Half Billion. With Real-time analytics and credit reports based on alternative data, MyShubhLife reaches unserved and underserved market segments to provide meaningful financial inclusion. MyShubhLife has further strengthened its financial inclusion goal through its financial wellness program for corporates and individuals by expanding its portfolio to include Mini and Micro loans, Insurance, Mutual Fund SIPS, Tax filing service and more.

GramCover

Seed Round in 2020
GramCover Insurance Brokers Private Limited develops an online based insurance brokerage marketplace for the rural sector. The company offers life insurance, crop and livestock insurance, health and motor insurance, reinsurance, and risk advisory products through an integrated marketplace. It also provides claim processing, policy download, notification, payment collection, and customer on boarding services. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Noida, India.

IntelleGrow

Series B in 2014
IntelleGrow serves the ‘missing middle’ enterprises working in sectors which make a positive Environmental, Social and Governance Impact. IntelleGrow offers debt without limiting them on their vintage or the security value offered for the loan – instead, the proposition is based on trajectory of business cashflows. It is not only lending from its Balance Sheet but also syndicating and arranging debt from other sources – gradually emerging as a debt solutions provider for ‘early-stage’, ‘high-growth’ small and growing businesses (SGB) in India.

Krishify

Seed Round in 2022
Krishify is a social network for farmers to discuss and solve their Agri input needs.

Citymart

Seed Round in 2017
Citymart powers cities to deliver services that work. Following best practices developed with leading cities around the world, Citymart connects cities and revolutionizes the way cities frame needs, complete procurements, and improve service delivery. Over 100 cities in 35 countries have adopted Citymart tools and methods to-date.

NationBuilder

Series B in 2013
NationBuilder is software for leaders. The company was founded in November 2009 by Jim Gilliam, in partnership with Co-Founders Jesse Haff and Lea Endres, and launched in April 2011. By the summer of 2012, the company had secured more than $14 million in Series A and Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Omidyar Network, and added Ben Horowitz, Stacy Donohue, and Sean Parker to its board. Jim Gilliam became Executive chairman in fall of 2017 and welcomed Lea Endres to the role of CEO. NationBuilder is based in downtown Los Angeles with offices in New York, Washington DC, Vancouver, and London.

United Income

Series A in 2018
United Income offers individuals retirement planning solutions and advisory services. United Income offers their customers with investment focused consulting services to build a fixed and variable income for their retirement. United Income was founded in May 2016 by Matt Fellowes. And it is based in Washington, U.S.
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that connects lenders and borrowers to provide loans. The company offers different lifecycle support services for lenders, which include marketing and customer relationship management (CRM), data aggregation, data analysis, on-ground support, loan monitoring, and payment management. It serves clients in e-commerce, travel, hospitality, retail, and trading businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gurugram, India.

Wingreens Farms

Series C in 2021
Wingreens Farms sells a range of food products and is retailed in the market and online. It offers fresh dips and pita chips and has pioneered this product category in the country. The products are handmade by underprivileged women and are retailed through a unique sampling sales model that is a first in the market. Wingreens Farms was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.

Evermind

Series A in 2015
Evermind, inc. provides solutions that enable the users to monitor home appliances. It offers Evermind that sends text messages or email notifications when appliances are switched on and off, as well as sends information to users. The company’s Evermind sends a notification when an appliance is used or not used within a specific period of time for various appliances, including microwave ovens, coffee makers, TVs, lamps, curling irons, CPAP machines, garage door openers, and more. Evermind, inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nanosolar

Series D in 2008
Nanosolar prints solar cells and assembles panels to enable the most cost-efficient solar electricity. Nanosolars proprietary approach to printing CIGS (Copper, Indium, Gallium, Selenium) and nanoparticle inks using an annealing process minimizes the use of expensive, high vacuum deposition manufacturing equipment. This allows the Company to utilize equipment from the industrial printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing industries to produce solar-electric foil at high speeds, bringing the economics of printing to the world of solar PV semiconductor manufacturing.

Digg

Series C in 2008
Digg Holdings, LLC, also known as Digg, operates a social news aggregator site that allows users to find the most interesting and talked about stories and videos, and vote on the Internet. Its services is available on a website, mobile application, and a daily email. It also advertising services for brands and consumers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. As of April 25, 2018, Digg Holdings, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BuySellAds.com, Inc.
Pickrr is an on-demand first mile logistics company that is completely revolutionizing the way a consumer ships a product from one point to another. Now with Pickrr, a consumer can deliver any product to any location around the globe with few clicks. Our Pickrrs will take care of all the hassles of picking up the product, packing it and shipping it to any destination.

Feedster, Inc.

Series A in 2006
Social Content Marketing - By bringing in the users social media profiles we are utilizing their likes and dislikes to display content. The content comes from other users. Social Profiles are established and based on merit which adds vanity user profiles.

Sewa Grih Rin

Series C in 2022
Sewa Grih Rin Limited, a housing finance company, provides housing loans to low-income households in India. It offers mortgage products for use in conjunction with government subsidies and tenure security; and non-mortgage loans for home and infrastructure improvements. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

M2P

Series C in 2021
M2P Solutions Pvt. Ltd develops payments as a service platform. It offers management services such as card issuing processing and API based technology integrations with businesses and back office functions. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Alandur, India.
Amplion Clinical Communications (Amplion) specializes in developing and implementing patient-care communication technology for hospitals and health systems. Founded in 1979 as Dalcon Communications and headquartered in Nashville, the company has a long and distinguished track record of technological innovation, starting in the early 1980s as a leader in offering multi-user microcomputer-based systems. In 2006, the company developed VoIP unified communications software and, in 2008, unified patient care solutions. Both efforts received national recognition and numerous industry awards.
Quikr India Private Limited operates Quikr, an online classifieds platform that operates across desktops, laptops, and mobile phones in India. Its Quikr platform allows consumers and small businesses to sell, buy, rent, and find things across various categories, including furniture and décor, appliances, ACs, services, jobs, cars, bikes, homes, mobiles and tablets, gift cards, personal loans, kids and toys, education, commercial real estate, pets and pet care, home and lifestyle, B2B suppliers, entertainment, community, events, and matrimonial, as well as sports, hobbies, and fashion. Quikr India Private Limited was formerly known as Kijiji India Private Limited and changed its name to Quikr India Private Limited in June 2008. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Bengaluru, India. Quikr India Private Limited is a former subsidiary of eBay Inc.

farMart

Series A in 2021
In India, 75% of farmers own less than one hectare of land. Such small landholdings make it unavailable for them to own machinery solely for their own purpose. FarMart provides a technology platform to connect farmers who own machinery with those who don’t. Thus, ensuring farmers achieve high productivity at minimum input costs. FarMart aims to provide access of the latest agricultural machinery and modern technology to every farmer while simultaneously promoting rural entrepreneurship.

HopeLab

Angel Round in 2006
HopeLab is a nonprofit organization that combines rigorous research with innovative solutions to improve the health and quality of life of young people with chronic illness. The company works closely with young people with chronic illnesses to understand their needs and to incorporate their critical and ongoing input into product development. HopeLab is committed to the scientific study of our interventions through formative research and outcome studies to ensure that these products and/or approaches are effective -- and works to address diseases in which there is significant unmet need among young people or where there is potential to have an impact: * Cancer * Obesity * Sickle cell disease * Autism * Major depressive disorder

Kaleidofin

Series B in 2022
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

Pratilipi

Series C in 2020
Pratilipi is a platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together. From the next door neighbour reading stories in the afternoon, to the funny college kid downstairs, millions of people around you are using Pratilipi to discover, express and share their stories in the language they love.

Socialtext

Series D in 2009
Company that produces enterprise social software via its integrated suite of web-based social apps

Platzi Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Platzi Inc. owns and operates an online platform to provide live and recorded classes on design, marketing, and code. The company offers professional courses on application and Web development, online marketing, interface design, server administration, and more. It also allows users to share project files and notes with their classmates; and provides guides, tutorials, and bonus live streaming classes. In addition, it offers technical support through courses@platzi.com and Skype SoyPlatzi. Platzi Inc. was formerly known as Mejorando.la and changed its name to Platzi Inc. in 2015. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Segovia Technology Co.

Venture Round in 2015
Segovia Technology Co. operates an online platform to deliver critical payments in challenging environments for relief and anti-poverty programs. The company’s platform enables users to analyze data in real-time, automate routine tasks, track actions, and integrate payments across payment providers. Segovia Technology Co. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Vistaar

Series B in 2012
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

Krishify

Seed Round in 2021
Krishify is a social network for farmers to discuss and solve their Agri input needs.

News Deeply

Seed Round in 2015
News Deeply, Inc., a media and technology company, designs and builds online platforms and user-centric projects for news, live events, information design, and social participation. The company also creates educational content for teachers in the United States. In addition, it ideates and creates custom projects for think tanks, institutions, and private sector partners; and offers Syria Deeply, an independent digital media project that explores the model of storytelling around a global crisis. News Deeply, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Axio is a medtech R&D and Manufacturing Company focused on Advanced Surgical and wound care. Axio has the distinction to be the first company from India to get USFDA clearance for a woundcare/hemostat product. Controlling life threatening bleeding continues to be the major cause of death from traumatic injuries. Axiostat is its flagship product developed to reduce the mortality due to traumatic bleeding. A CE approved product, Axiostat is based on a patented novel 100% chitosan platform and has variants catering to Emergency & Trauma, Military, Cardio-vascular and Dental applications.

Vistaar

Series B in 2012
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

Otipy

Series A in 2021
Otipy is an emerging Indian startup and the social commerce venture of farm-to-fork agri-tech startup Crofarm. The platform aims to connect farmers directly to their customers through online channels and vice versa. The goal of the platform is to provide fresh produce directly from the farm, using something called demand harvesting. By using AI-based demand prediction tools, the platform collects historical data to predict the demand for products. This is then used to procure just the right amount of produce, facilitating on-demand harvesting, and thereby ensuring delivery of fresh produce on the same day. Moreover, this also precludes the wastage of food items.

RevolutionCredit, Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
RevolutionCredit, Inc., a behavioral data and analytics firm, provides solutions for the consumer credit decisioning process. It offers BeyondMyScore, a solution that creates and captures predictive behavioral signals from consumers at the point of transaction; and enables customers to super-charge their acquisition and account management programs across the entire credit risk spectrum. The company also provides BackOnTrack, a solution that uses behavioral science to optimize collections outcomes for consumer creditors. RevolutionCredit, Inc. was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Irvine, California.

Riskcovry

Series A in 2021
Riskcovry is an "Insurance-in-a-box” model offers a one-stop-shop platform to cater to any business's digital insurance needs.

IntrCity

Series B in 2018
Manager- Corporate Communications

Prosper

Series D in 2010
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ZineOne, Inc.

Series A in 2018
ZineOne, Inc. provides customer engagement platform based on artificial Intelligence to obtain insights into visitor behavior and provides predictive recommendations while they are engaged with the brand. Its solutions include predictive personalization, in-the-moment predictive engagement, channel agnostic marketing, customer data management, testing and experience optimization, single customer view services. It serves financial services, retail, and quick service restaurant sectors. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

IntrCity

Seed Round in 2015
Manager- Corporate Communications
Indifi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. operates an online platform that connects lenders and borrowers to provide loans. The company offers different lifecycle support services for lenders, which include marketing and customer relationship management (CRM), data aggregation, data analysis, on-ground support, loan monitoring, and payment management. It serves clients in e-commerce, travel, hospitality, retail, and trading businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gurugram, India.

Segovia Technology Co.

Series A in 2015
Segovia Technology Co. operates an online platform to deliver critical payments in challenging environments for relief and anti-poverty programs. The company’s platform enables users to analyze data in real-time, automate routine tasks, track actions, and integrate payments across payment providers. Segovia Technology Co. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Sewa Grih Rin

Series B in 2019
Sewa Grih Rin Limited, a housing finance company, provides housing loans to low-income households in India. It offers mortgage products for use in conjunction with government subsidies and tenure security; and non-mortgage loans for home and infrastructure improvements. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

Zimmber

Venture Round in 2015
Zimmber is a platform for those who are in need of home services like fixing or a dripping flush tank or electrical glitch, or installation of air conditioner. People who are in need of these services can contact this online firm and get the tasks done within few clicks. Since this started its first service in Indian trade capital, Mumbai, it has been successful so far and will be available in all the metropolitan cities soon. As per Zimmber, every home is spending around Rs. 23,000 per year, this is exactly where the firm is focusing now. The user has to select the service available in their website or mobile application. If the user finds any issue in applying for services, the platform will help the user to find it. After the user chooses the service needed, he/she will be contacted to confirm the availability, before Zimmber sends a service provider to his/her home/office. The firm says it has partnered with 100 service providers so far to work for them.

Paga

Series B in 2018
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.

Scorenomics

Convertible Note in 2016
Scorenomics is a behavioral data and analytics firm that delivers real-time behavioral scores to creditors at the point of transaction. Its platform addresses both the emotional and financial aspects of delinquency, improves customers' payment rates, and identifies normally declined applicants, enabling lenders to easily build empathy into collections treatments and have consumers engage and get up-to-date.

SAFETRACES, Inc.

Series A in 2017
SafeTraces provides on-food traceability solutions that trace the product, not the package. Edible, invisible, odorless, tasteless, FDA approved barcodes are applied to fresh or processed foods, pharmaceuticals, and many other commodities. The barcodes carry complete traceability information across the supply chain. SafeTraces also has wide applicability in environmental monitoring, healthcare, and other industries.

Hevo Data

Seed Round in 2019
Hevo Data Inc. develops a platform for data integration services. It offers Hevo, a platform that enables users to connect and move data from various sources and destinations, such as databases, cloud storages, cloud applications, and streaming sources. The company’s platform is also used to analyze data across various formats and silos. It serves fintech, MPOs, hospitality, food tech, consumer services, travel marketplace, e-learning, customer messaging, health and wellness, e-commerce, SMS marketing, healthcare, gaming hardware, digital media, m-commerce, and edtech companies. Hevo Data Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Bengaluru, India.

Bounce (Metro Bikes)

Series C in 2019
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.

Krugle

Series B in 2006
Krugle provides a search engine specifically designed for developers. In addition, Krugle also offers collaboration tools that allow developers to interact with source code and each other.

mySociety Limited

Grant in 2010
mySociety Limited is a charitable institution that offers Web development, digital consulting, user experience consulting and design, and freedom of information requests management. The institution was founded in 2003 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

M2P

Series B in 2021
M2P Solutions Pvt. Ltd develops payments as a service platform. It offers management services such as card issuing processing and API based technology integrations with businesses and back office functions. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Alandur, India.

AltSchool Inc.

Series B in 2015
AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.

albo

Series A in 2019
albo is the leading mexican challenger bank which helps you manage your money, and it can adapt to your lifestyle bringing you an honest service that cares about you. albo offers you a mobile banking app, a banking account, and a Mastercard card, allowing you to easily spend, save and invest your money. You can open your account in 60 seconds from your phone, having at your disposal personalized financing tools to help assist you in making better financial decisions. You can also be able to make free money transfers to whichever bank 24/7. albo includes many other innovating functions besides the ones mentioned above.

Affordplan

Series B in 2018
Emerging from an intent to enable affordability to millions of ailing commoners, Affordplan provides tailored financial planning solutions that allow the people to plan, save & pay for their medical expenses beforehand. From pre-planned procedures like cosmetic dentistry to chronic or intensive conditions like cardiac care, an Affordplan is of aid to a diversified range of medical treatments.

Skillshare, Inc.

Series B in 2016
Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

ONFocus Healthcare

Series B in 2010
Originally founded in 1985 as a healthcare strategic planning consulting firm called m21partners, onFocus Healthcare was re-incorporated in 2008 as a business execution software solutions company. Today, onFocus is the leading provider of enterprise performance management (EPM) software and support services for the healthcare marketplace. Their product, onFocus epm™, ensures that patients get better, faster, and less expensive care by helping hospitals continuously execute and perform at higher levels. They are dedicated to the success of healthcare organizations and the executives, managers and employees who lead them. Through the use of their software products and advisory services, they strive to improve the execution success and performance of every provider they work with by at least 20%.

Needslist

Seed Round in 2018
NeedsList is a global marketplace connecting individual and corporate donors with NGOs to create efficiency and transparency in their humanitarian aid system. NeedsList partners with local aid organizations to identify urgent needs and uses local suppliers who can deliver needs quickly and sustainably. Supporters can donate cash, purchase products, or volunteer directly on platform. NeedsList provides clear impact metrics in real-time allowing partner organizations to track activity and outcomes. They earn revenue through commissions from affiliate suppliers and from enterprise users of the platform.

Spruce Holdings

Series A in 2018
Spruce Holdings Inc. provides title insurance, coordination, escrow, and recording services for real estate companies and mortgage lenders through its software. It operates as a third party that helps to coordinate transactions between homeowners and their lenders or real estate institutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with hub locations in Plano, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Santa Barbara, California.
Zoona is a mobile technology company developing products such as money transfers, electronic voucher payments, and agent payments.

Varthana

Series B in 2016
Varthana provides loans and support for affordable private schools. They are a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Amicus

Seed Round in 2012
Amicus empowers cause-driven organizations to leverage the social networks of their supporters, raise more money, attract more members, and win more votes.

Change.org, Inc.

Series B in 2013
Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries. Change.org empowers anyone, anywhere, to create the change they want to see. On Change.org, people everywhere are starting campaigns, mobilizing supporters, and working with decision-makers to drive solutions. Change.org is a certified B-corporation, a new class of companies dedicated to positive impact. Investors include Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, Ev Williams, Richard Branson, Reid Hoffman, and the Omidyar Network, started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

RailYatri

Series B in 2020
RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travel services like meals and taxi.... and much more. RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations. RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time.
iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. provides on-demand data and digital services. The company’s services include computer vision such as annotation, segmentation, and image labeling through human-in-the-loop tasks; natural language processing; enrichment and extraction; moderation; categorization; sentiment analysis; and transcription. It caters to machine learning, computer vision, augmented reality, e-commerce, and data analytics sectors. iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kolkata, India.

Civic Hall Labs

Grant in 2016
Rapid proliferation of personal and mobile computing has transformed business and our private lives.

ShopUp

Seed Round in 2018
ShopUp is a capital appraisal platform for small and micro-entrepreneurs selling on social media. It also helps social media based micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries get access to affordable financing. ShopUp was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

farMart

Series A in 2021
In India, 75% of farmers own less than one hectare of land. Such small landholdings make it unavailable for them to own machinery solely for their own purpose. FarMart provides a technology platform to connect farmers who own machinery with those who don’t. Thus, ensuring farmers achieve high productivity at minimum input costs. FarMart aims to provide access of the latest agricultural machinery and modern technology to every farmer while simultaneously promoting rural entrepreneurship.

Doubtnut

Seed Round in 2018
Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. It offers an App in which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept. The application offers personalized live online solutions for all user's math doubts. In its online doubt clearing platform, students get to learn from teachers who have studied from top colleges and institutes across India. It also provides solutions for CBSE & ICSE board school students so that students can understand maths in a structured manner at the comfort of their home. Doubtnut was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Hive Meetup

Series D in 2008
Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life. It is organized around one simple idea: when they get together and do the things that matter to us, they’re at their best. And that’s what Meetup does. It brings people together to do, explore, teach, and learn the things that help them come alive. Meetup was established in 2002 and is based in New York City.

Pratilipi

Series D in 2021
Pratilipi is a platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together. From the next door neighbour reading stories in the afternoon, to the funny college kid downstairs, millions of people around you are using Pratilipi to discover, express and share their stories in the language they love.

Ellevation

Series B in 2018
Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Youth Noise

Venture Round in 2006
Two young entrepreneurs ; Ronell Stewar and Ajay Paghdal, met at an online marketing event. They knew that there were thousands of business owners struggling to survive due to the lack of traffic to their websites. After working on a few successful projects together they formed Youth Noise to help business owners with this growing issue. How do we generate ongoing results for our clients? We do this by executing proven methods of search engine marketing; search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC), real time bidding (RTB), and video optimization. Our techniques and strategies are not based on abstract theory, but years of hard work and education. At Youth Noise, there’s 100% transparency, no smoke and mirrors. We don’t guarantee rankings however we’re very good at delivering substantial value for our clients and promise professional services backed by results.

Picterra SA

Seed Round in 2019
Picterra SA operates an online platform that creates and automates artificial intelligence (AI) object detection workflow to extract the geo-information. Its platform combines AI, satellite, drone, and aerial data to provide users with optimized geo-information in order to monitor and anticipate changes in their surroundings. The company caters to aerial imaging and mapping, financial services, insurance, journalism, precision agriculture, real estate, and utilities and infrastructure industries, as well as public sector and NGOs. Picterra SA was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Écublens, Switzerland.

Kaleidofin

Seed Round in 2018
Kaleidofin Private Limited owns and operates a financial technology platform that provides intuitive and tailored digital financial solutions to the informal sector. It offers goal-based financial solutions on savings, credit, investments, and insurance products to customers. The company provides products, such as umeed, that inculcates the savings habit for families with volatile income; lakshya, savings plan for 2 years and above; udaan, savings plan for long term goals; and kaleidoyantra, proprietary customer profiling algorithm. The company has partnership with banks, insurance companies, mutual fund houses, and technology companies. The company distributes its products through its mobile application, microfinance institutions (MFIs), co-operatives non-government organizations (NGOs), and self-help groups (SHGs). Kaleidofin Private Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Chennai, India.

Socialtext

Venture Round in 2005
Company that produces enterprise social software via its integrated suite of web-based social apps

Platzi Inc.

Series A in 2019
Platzi Inc. owns and operates an online platform to provide live and recorded classes on design, marketing, and code. The company offers professional courses on application and Web development, online marketing, interface design, server administration, and more. It also allows users to share project files and notes with their classmates; and provides guides, tutorials, and bonus live streaming classes. In addition, it offers technical support through courses@platzi.com and Skype SoyPlatzi. Platzi Inc. was formerly known as Mejorando.la and changed its name to Platzi Inc. in 2015. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Bogotá, Colombia.

Rukita

Seed Round in 2019
PT Rukita provides real estate renting and management services. The company provides co-living services in the urban sector. It provides apartments and home renting services, housekeeping services, and shared rooms renting services. The company serves professionals and students. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Pickrr is an on-demand first mile logistics company that is completely revolutionizing the way a consumer ships a product from one point to another. Now with Pickrr, a consumer can deliver any product to any location around the globe with few clicks. Our Pickrrs will take care of all the hassles of picking up the product, packing it and shipping it to any destination.

myUpchar

Series A in 2018
Solving Healthcare Access problem for Bharat. As a first step, we are providing Healthcare information in Hindi.

Propel

Series A in 2018
Propel builds software dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health with technology. Its core product, Fresh EBT, is a free smartphone app that allows EBT cardholders to manage their benefits, plan their grocery shopping, and save money on food. Fresh EBT is used by hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country and Propel has been featured in the NYTimes, Bloomberg, and Forbes. Propel was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

d.light design

Series C in 2014
d.light design inc. designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells solar light and power products for households and small businesses worldwide. The company solar lanterns, home systems, and appliances. It serves customers through a network of importers, distributors, and retailers, as well as online. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Shenzhen, China; Gurgaon, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Lagos, Nigeria.

Prosper

Venture Round in 2010
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MicroEnsure Holdings Limited

Venture Round in 2014
MicroEnsure Holdings Limited develops life, health, and property insurance solutions. The company offers product and process design, project management, operational execution, and monitoring and evaluation services. It serves low- and middle-income consumers. MicroEnsure Holdings Limited was founded in 2002 and is based in Cheltenham, United Kingdom with subsidiary offices in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, and Pakistan. As of July 1, 2020, MicroEnsure Holdings Limited operates as a subsidiary of MicroInsurance Company.

SteadyApp

Series A in 2018
Steady removes barriers to earn through its income intelligence that supports over 3 million hourly, 1099 and mixed-earners in earning more, an average of over $5,500 per year. Steady's view of income also applies its technology for purposes of income measurement that fills the wage data gap for public and private sector entities that service this worker population in areas such as the administration of public sector benefits. Steady was founded in 2017.

Feedster, Inc.

Venture Round in 2004
Social Content Marketing - By bringing in the users social media profiles we are utilizing their likes and dislikes to display content. The content comes from other users. Social Profiles are established and based on merit which adds vanity user profiles.

Work for Pie, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Work for Pie, Inc. operates a community for software developers. Its activities include recognizing and rewarding developers who make contributions to open source software development and to communities that support software development and technology; and giving developers a means to explore and discover projects and people. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

RailYatri

Series A in 2016
RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travel services like meals and taxi.... and much more. RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations. RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time.

Toffee Insurance

Seed Round in 2018
Toffee Insurance is making insurance affordable, relevant and accessible for everyone with its one simple plan that covers for health, life, household and more. Be it small insurance packs for your day to day possessions, topical health hazards or protecting you and your family for life, Toffee does all the heavy lifting in easy monthly payments. Find your Toffee here: www.toffeeinsurance.com!

Boostable

Seed Round in 2014
Boostable provides a cooperative digital advertising solution that enables ecommerce marketplaces, retailers and platforms to offer digital advertising as a service. Boostable offers a revolutionary model where costs, data and resources are strategically shared between companies to efficiently power high-performing digital ad campaigns. Boostable’s leadership team hails from some of the industry’s most well-respected digital advertising organizations including Amazon, Facebook, MediaMath, Turn and Merkle. Boostable is funded by leading investors such as Y Combinator, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Omidyar Network, and Morado Ventures.

Hive Meetup

Series C in 2006
Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life. It is organized around one simple idea: when they get together and do the things that matter to us, they’re at their best. And that’s what Meetup does. It brings people together to do, explore, teach, and learn the things that help them come alive. Meetup was established in 2002 and is based in New York City.

Wonderschool

Venture Round in 2018
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

SpikeSource

Series A in 2005
SpikeSource is an open source focused, software certification company. Their platform provides ISV's with resources that ensure interoperability, scalability, and performance. They are currently partnered with [Intel](/organization/intel), and run the certification process for applications in the Intel Business Exchange.

Credenc

Seed Round in 2019
Credenc is a digital education loan platform for higher education that works as the digital finance desk of management colleges. The company's lending model provides financing to deserving students, which helps them access post-secondary education. After providing financial support, Credenc works with students and helps them with employability services, handholding applicants as they transition from student to professional life. The New Delhi-headquartered start-up was founded by Avinash Kumar and Mayank Batheja in 2017.

Vedantu

Series B in 2018
Vedantu is an e-learning company that features an online platform that features real-time personalized learning. It provides a software platform connects tutors and student which provides real-time one to one teaching to students online.

RailYatri

Series B in 2018
RailYatri's goal is to provide the most up to date information to the 25 million passengers who board a train every day. RailYatri mobile app provides real-time information on live train status, PNR Status, seat availability predictions, fare calculator, platforms/ facilities at stations, personalized alerts, access to essential travel services like meals and taxi.... and much more. RailYatri provides information on over 9000 locations and 14500 trains (including long distance trains, local trains and metros). Within its first year of the launch, RailYatri's Android app has crossed 1 million downloads. The company has also partnered with taxi services firms across 20 cities and food vendors across 300 stations. RailYatri's mission is to simplify train travel and they are doing it one traveller at a time.

Hummingbird

Venture Round in 2018
Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financial crime. Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.

Pratilipi

Series B in 2019
Pratilipi is a platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together. From the next door neighbour reading stories in the afternoon, to the funny college kid downstairs, millions of people around you are using Pratilipi to discover, express and share their stories in the language they love.

Indus OS

Series A in 2016
Indus OS is World's First Regional Operating System to connect 100 million users with internet. Indus, is set to revolutionize the mobile industry by introducing World's first Regional Operating System. Indus OS is built on Android and is designed for first time internet users. The crux of a country’s culture lies in her language and Indus is in unison with this by bringing to people a simplified smartphone experience in their native tongue. Indus’s vision is to build an end-to-end ecosystem that would bridge the digital divide and get the whole country on the information highway, language being the key.

ZestMoney

Series B in 2019
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.

United Villages Inc

Series A in 2007
The mission of United Villages is to empower rural people by providing and delivering products, services, and information. United Villages leverages existing wireless and transportation infrastructures to cost-effectively reach rural markets that are otherwise underserved. Founded by social entrepreneur Amir Alexander Hasson, United Villages, Inc. is based in Cambridge, MA (USA) and operates a subsidiary in India. United Villages India is headquartered in New Delhi and currently operates networks in rural Rajasthan.

Global Integrity

Venture Round in 2009
Global Integrity promotes government transparency and accountability by harnessing data, analysis, and on-the-ground reporting of national and local issues, making the information easily accessible online.

Giraffe

Seed Round in 2016
Giraffe provides recruitment solutions that help small businesses to find the staff. It focuses on medium-skilled jobs in account and finance, retail, advertising and marketing, banking, call center, construction, factory/warehouse, healthcare and nursing, hotel, manufacturing, office and administration, restaurant, bar, café, retail, security, supermarket, transport, and other sectors. The company offers various positions, such as accounts/bookkeeper, administration/clerk, customer service, data capture, driver, picker/packer, receiving/dispatch/stock control clerk, receptionist/PA, salesperson/promoter, security guard, and other jobs. It also offers criminal, credit, education, and reference check services for employees. The company is based in South Africa.

Linden Lab

Series B in 2006
Founded in 1999, Linden Lab is best known as the creator of Second Life, the largest-ever 3D virtual world filled entirely by the creations of its users. In 2013, the company expanded its product portfolio with Blocksworld, a lighthearted build-and-play system for kids and grownups alike. The company is currently developing a new platform for virtual experiences, code-named Project Sansar, which will democratize VR as a creative medium.

Unite Us

Series A in 2015
Unite Us is a veteran-led technology company that builds coordinated care networks connecting health and social service providers together. The company helps systems and communities efficiently deliver care and services by inter-connecting providers across communities, seamlessly integrating the social determinants of health into patient care. Providers across the continuum and community are able to externally refer and track every patient’s total health journey, while reporting on all tangible outcomes across a full range of services in a centralized, cohesive, and collaborative ecosystem. This social infrastructure helps communities move beyond legacy resource directories, and transform their ability to measure impact, improved health, and outcomes at scale.

ZipGo

Series A in 2017
Zipgo provides comfortable, convenient, reliable, safe and affordable urban transportation option for the masses.

Rensource Inc

Series A in 2019
Rensource Inc offers subscription based solar power services to to consumers and small businesses. The company generates electricity using small solar-hybrid systems that are installed in the premises of the final customer. It offers different subscription plans which include Go, Eco, Duplo, and Pro based on energy requirements of the customer. Rensource Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance provides housing microfinance loan products for low-income households in rural areas in India. It offers housing loans for fresh repairs, up-gradation, and construction of a full-fledged house. Swarna Pragati Housing Microfinance also provides incremental housing loan for various components, such as laying foundation, plinth level construction, tiled roofing, pucca flooring, fixing wooden doors/windows, etc. Ramesh Kumar founded it in 2010, with its headquarters in Chennai in India.

Bounce (Metro Bikes)

Series D in 2020
Bounce (formerly known as Metro Bikes) is a smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable, and convenient. With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, the Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention. With Bounce's new One Way Rental service, users can now pick up and drop the bike anywhere they need to and be done with the ride. This is aimed at providing a seamless first mile and last-mile connectivity to metro users. Founded in 2014, Bounce aims at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by delivering convenient options to rent bikes and reach their destinations from metro stations. It is based in Bangalore, India.
WhiteHat Jr is a Live online 1:1 platform that connects kids age 5-12 to top early childhood coding teachers, all from the comfort of your home. WhiteHat Jr teaches kids the fundamentals of coding logic, structure and algorithmic thinking to help kids generate creative outcomes. Your kids use code to build their own games, animation and apps, fundamentally changing their relationship to technology from consumer to creator. Our curriculum is designed by IIT/ IIM alum. Our mission is to empower a whole generation to become creators versus consumers of technology.

AltSchool Inc.

Series A in 2014
AltSchool is an interdisciplinary team of educators, technologists and entrepreneurs building a network of schools that prepare students for our changing world. Each individual school is able to adapt to the needs of students, families and the surrounding community; the larger network connects everyone together and enables a far greater impact in our efforts to improve education. Underlying it all is a platform and curriculum that is personalized to each individual child.

Lumbrera

Series B in 2011
MiMoni is an online platform that provides its users with personal loans. It allows its users to apply for loans by filling and submitting an online application, and uploading the required documents. MiMoni analyzes submitted loan requests and approves them, enabling its users to get access to benefits provided by the platform. Users who get memberships are able to ask for loans whenever they need and when they have settled their previous loans. It allows its users to make biweekly payments based on the amounts they have received as loans at authorized places such as Oxxo, Bancomer, Banamex, and Banorte.

Verse Innovations

Series E in 2019
VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Landmapp

Venture Round in 2017
Many of the world’s 500 million smallholder families face two interrelated challenges: they hold little, if any, rights to their land and being restricted to the informal sector, they often cannot access technical and financial services to improve their livelihoods. Meridia is a mobile platform that provides smallholder farmer families with documentation of their land. We also provide them a profile with which they can access inputs and financial services that are precisely tailored to their circumstances.

Harvesting Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Harvesting provides online software as a service (SAAS) which allows stakeholders in agriculture value chain to view, analyze and manage their agri-climatic business risk via data collection, data analysis, and data reporting.

Vyng

Series A in 2018
Vyng has built a next-generation Caller ID platform that visualizes every call. Vyng is helping start better conversations between friends, family, and businesses for the next half billion smartphone users in India and beyond. Vyng boasts 4 billion videos played across 170 countries since its launch in 2018. The company has raised $7MM and is backed by March Capital, Omidyar Network, a Sequoia Capital partner, and the founders of Giphy and GroupMe.

The XYZ Show

Grant in 2010
The XYZ Show is a political satire puppet show.
WhiteHat Jr is a Live online 1:1 platform that connects kids age 5-12 to top early childhood coding teachers, all from the comfort of your home. WhiteHat Jr teaches kids the fundamentals of coding logic, structure and algorithmic thinking to help kids generate creative outcomes. Your kids use code to build their own games, animation and apps, fundamentally changing their relationship to technology from consumer to creator. Our curriculum is designed by IIT/ IIM alum. Our mission is to empower a whole generation to become creators versus consumers of technology.

DataKind

Venture Round in 2016
DataKind™ harnesses the power of data science in the service of humanity. We engage data science and social sector experts on projects addressing critical humanitarian problems and lead the conversation about how data science can be applied to solve the world’s biggest challenges. Launched in 2011, DataKind is headquartered in New York City and has Chapters in Bangalore, Dublin, San Francisco, Singapore, the UK and Washington DC. More information on DataKind, our programs and our partners can be found on our website: www.datakind.org

Subtext

Seed Round in 2011
Subtext is a digital reading service that spans the K12 curriculum and makes it easy for classroom groups to collaborate in the pages of any digital book, article or document. By enabling teachers to embed enrichment materials, assignments and quizzes into the text itself, continuous assessment is more transparent and a new level of individualized instruction is made possible. With the CCSS focus on deeper thinking during reading, Subtext helps foster the critical analysis needed to build more independent readers, thinkers and writers.

Kutuki

Seed Round in 2021
Kutuki is a learning platform focused on children between the ages of three and seven.

Backfence, Inc.

Venture Round in 2006
Backfence, Inc. builds and operates advertising-backed, hyperlocal community Web sites. The company allows its Websites members to create virtual content, such as blogs, wikis, calendars, photo galleries, do-it-yourself ad tools, and related technologies. Its media self-publishing model provides local information to communities in the United States. The company displays advertisings, online classifieds, and yellow pages listings on its Websites. Backfence, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in McLean, Virginia.

Eventful

Series A in 2005
Eventful, the leading digital media company, powers the online ecosystem of local events and entertainment. Over 20 million people rely on Eventful to find out what's happening and decide what to do. Eventful's unique, social media platform, "Demand it!" empowers fans to influence content and location of entertainment and live events. Music promoters, film studios, ticketing companies and other industry providers use Demand it! to engage with fans and determine their routing schedules or theatrical distribution. National marketers rely on Eventful to drive local awareness, commerce, attendance and tune-in. Thousands of digital publishers also rely on Eventful to power their local events and entertainment content. Eventful's proprietary technologies provide a global platform for local event discovery: the world's largest selection of local event content, content management system, state-of-the-art recommendation engine, email platform delivering personalized, localized content and commercial offers, robust API platform, localization system, Demand it! and a self-service premium listing platform. Eventful competitors include [Upcoming.org](http://www.Upcoming.org) and [Zvents](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zvents/).

Jumo

Grant in 2010
Founded in February 2010, Jumo is a social network connecting individuals and organizations working for global change. Leveraging connection technologies, Jumo enables everyday people to find, follow and support those working toward solutions in their community and in regions around the world. Jumo is a 501(c)(3) organization founded and directed by Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and director of online organizing for Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign. To get started on Jumo: • Check out the projects, people, and issues you're following on the lefthand side of your home page. You can always find new things using the search bar or any of the lists on the right side of your home page. • Get the latest news and updates on the things you care about here on your home page. • Support the organizations and issues you're following by sharing with friends, joining the conversation on their Jumo pages, or making a contribution to their work.

Lenddo International

Series A in 2012
Lenddo International provides an online platform that allows users to use their online social connections to build their creditworthiness and access local financial services. It enables community members to use their reputation on social networks, such as Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Yahoo to obtain life-improving loans for education, debt consolidation, appliances and furniture, medical expenses, major home improvements, or small businesses. The company serves customers in Colombia and the Philippines. Lenddo International was founded in 2011 and is based in Central, Hong Kong with additional offices in Manila, the Philippines; Bogotá, Colombia; and New York City, New York. As of October 17, 2017, Lenddo International operates as a subsidiary of EFL Global LTD.

RevUp Software

Seed Round in 2016
RevUp Software is bringing leading-edge, easy to use analytics to Non-Profits, Academic Institutions and Political Organizations. We help fundraisers, while working with existing software, create new ways to identify, target, and engage their networks.

Verse Innovations

Series C in 2015
VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Tandem Money Limited

Series B in 2016
Tandem is creating a better bank, challenging legacy banking by building an app and products with input from their community of users. Tandem's goal is to make money simple, help their users save, and to free up their time from financial stress.

Bon(Bonfleet Solutions)

Seed Round in 2018
BONFLEET SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED offers short term credit to the gig economy workers in India. The company offers BON Credit card that helps user to pay their sundry expenses. The company serves gig economy workers, such as taxi drivers, delivery boy, plumber; contractor, entrepreneurs, and self-employed individuals. BONFLEET SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED also offers online application to manage, track, and view transactions. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Pune, Maharashtra.

U2opia Mobile Pte. Ltd.

Series A in 2011
U2opia Mobile is a mobile technology company that creates made-for-the-world products that connect people with global information resources and with each other, regardless of the device they use or the country they live in. Its products span the entire mobile spectrum, with solutions geared for the simplest of devices, all the way to the smartest. U2opia Mobile is a key enabler in bringing hitherto unconnected users onto the global information network, unlocking immense value for businesses and consumers worldwide. The company has operations spread over 50 countries, catering to 30 million users and counting, globally, and runs its global operations from its offices in India, Singapore, Dubai and the US. U2opia Mobile is backed by Matrix Partners and Omidyar Network, who provide strategic market reach as well as strong financial support.

Healofy

Series A in 2019
Healofy is an Indian parenting social network for moms.

Jopwell, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Jopwell, Inc. operates a platform that connects minority professionals and students with companies to navigate their careers. The company provides two-way empowerment for candidates and companies, delivering a pipeline of talent to fill a range of roles across various levels from experienced hires to interns. It introduces candidates to opportunities across industries, such as technology, finance, education, management consulting, and medicine. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Sunlight Foundation

Grant in 2011
Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization that uses the tools of civic tech, open data, policy analysis, and journalism to make the government and politics more accountable and transparent to all. It is committed to improving access to government information by making it available online, and by creating new tools and websites to enable individuals and communities to better access that information and put it to use. Sunlight Foundation catalyzes government transparency by engaging individual citizens and communities, technologists, policy wonks, open government advocates, and ordinary citizens, demanding policies that enables all to hold government accountable. The organization develops and encourages new government policies to make it more open and transparent; facilitates searchable, sortable, and machine readable databases; builds tools and websites to enable easy access to information; fosters distributed research projects as an community building tool; engages in advocacy for 21st century laws to require that government make data available in real-time; and trains thousands of journalists and citizens in using data and the web to watchdog Washington. Elements of its work include the Sunlight Labs, Sunlight Reporting Group, Sunlight Live, and the Open House Project. Sunlight Foundation was founded in 2006 and is based in Washington, D.C.

Socratic

Series A in 2015
Socratic is an app for taking photos of homework questions and it helps with more than just math. It also supports science, history, English, and economics. The app says it uses artificial intelligence to help users find answers and detailed explanations. With a focus on the high school curriculum, Socratic is equipped with graphs and explainers. It also curates web videos from Khan Academy and other educational platforms. It’s free and available for both iPhone and Android.

Paga

Series B in 2015
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.

Andela

Series B in 2016
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Viki

Series A in 2010
Viki is an international video website offering TV shows, movies, and other premium content translated into more than 150 languages by a community of avid fans.

Scripbox

Series C in 2019
Scripbox owns and operates an online investing platform that distributes mutual funds in India. Its platform allows investors to buy and sell equity, debt, and tax saving mutual funds. Sanjiv Singhal founded Scripbox in 2012. It has its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.

Socialtext

Series C in 2007
Company that produces enterprise social software via its integrated suite of web-based social apps

i2e1

Series A in 2017
i2e1 develops a platform that provides Internet access on various wireless devices to businesses and end users in India. Its platform enables businesses to offer Wi-Fi access to their customers; track their customer preferences and usage behaviors; and customize their promotions and advertising aspects to their clients. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

United Income

Seed Round in 2016
United Income offers individuals retirement planning solutions and advisory services. United Income offers their customers with investment focused consulting services to build a fixed and variable income for their retirement. United Income was founded in May 2016 by Matt Fellowes. And it is based in Washington, U.S.

Indus OS

Series A in 2017
Indus OS is World's First Regional Operating System to connect 100 million users with internet. Indus, is set to revolutionize the mobile industry by introducing World's first Regional Operating System. Indus OS is built on Android and is designed for first time internet users. The crux of a country’s culture lies in her language and Indus is in unison with this by bringing to people a simplified smartphone experience in their native tongue. Indus’s vision is to build an end-to-end ecosystem that would bridge the digital divide and get the whole country on the information highway, language being the key.

Classplus (Formerly XPrep)

Venture Round in 2019
The platform allows tutors and institutions to manage their own classroom through a mobile app. It helps them to create their own learning apps by managing the attendance, parent-tutor communication, online tests, payment of fees and others. The startup has also created a zero-typing product keeping in mind its usage by middle-aged tutors. It is now building a vertical for system intelligence to automate all the manual touch points of the current product.

d.light design

Series D in 2016
d.light design inc. designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells solar light and power products for households and small businesses worldwide. The company solar lanterns, home systems, and appliances. It serves customers through a network of importers, distributors, and retailers, as well as online. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Shenzhen, China; Gurgaon, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Kampala, Uganda; and Lagos, Nigeria.

Handshake

Series D in 2020
Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. They connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know. Handshake’s network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increase student employment Handshake has raised a total of $155 million dollars with $80 million most recently raised in Q4 of 2019. We've had the support from GGV, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, True Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. In addition, Handshake has received support from social impact investors, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, among others. Handshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England.

DealShare

Series C in 2020
DealShare is a Social Commerce Startup. The company, DealShare, focuses on middle and lower income population in mid-tier cities

Ellevation

Venture Round in 2016
Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL educators and English learners. Ellevation specializes in the fields of education, e-learning, and language learning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Civic Hall

Venture Round in 2016
Civic Hall is a one-of-a-kind community center for the world’s civic innovators. Located in the heart of New York City, They are a space where social entrepreneurs, change-makers, government employees, hackers, academics, journalists, and artists can share knowledge, build tools, and solve problems, together. Civic Hall is the kind of place where you bump into those old friends you met working on someone’s internet campaign two elections ago and now only see at the occasional tech conference. Here, you can rekindle the friendship and start work on that project that never seems to make it off the back burner.

Change Healthcare

Series D in 2013
Change Healthcare is a catalyst for your value-based healthcare system. They are a healthcare technology company that offers software, analytics, network solutions, and technology-enabled services to help create a stronger, more collaborative healthcare system. They help deliver measurable value not only at the point of care, but also before, after, and in between care episodes. It was founded in 2005 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Trell

Seed Round in 2019
Trell Experiences Private Limited provides a mobile video blogging application for wanderers, foodies, and travelers. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Metaweb Technologies

Series A in 2006
Metaweb Technologies, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco that is developing Metaweb, a semantic data storage infrastructure for the web, and Freebase, an "open, shared database of the world's knowledge". The company was founded by Danny Hillis, Veda Hlubinka-Cook and John Giannandrea as a spinoff of Applied Minds in July, 2005, operated in stealth mode until 2007 and acquired by Google as the basis of its Knowledge Graph in 2010. Freebase is a massive, collaboratively edited database of cross-linked data. The idea behind the product is to create a Wikipedia like system for building the semantic web. Freebase allows anyone to contribute, structure, search, copy and use data. It sounds like Wikipedia, but instead of arranging by articles, it is more of an almanac, organized like a database, and readable by people and software.

Storie

Seed Round in 2019
Storie is a one-stop lifestyle community platform that answers consumer questions with useful and inspiring content and user-generated reviews. Users can search and share firsthand experiences, photos, and frank reviews to help community members make the right decision about lifestyle products and services.

Healthkart

Series G in 2019
HealthKart offers fitness products, services and community to help consumers achieve their fitness goals. The company started in 2011 and since then HealthKart has grown to become the online destination for fitness enthusiasts - be it products, services or connecting with other fitness enthusiasts.

Brightwheel

Series B in 2018
Brightwheel is the first all-in-one software platform for preschools, childcare providers, camps, and afterschool programs. Brightwheel helps teachers manage their day and communicate with parents, gives parents deeper insight into what their children are learning, and automates the process of managing operations for administrators. The platform has been shown to save teachers and administrators up to an hour per day while improving parent satisfaction and giving them a closer connection to their child’s learning. It is the fastest growing platform in early education, used across thousands of locations globally.

InVideo

Seed Round in 2019
InVideo video creation platform that helps to make professional videos from premium templates, images, and music. The platform also helps publishers, media companies, and brands to expand audience engagement through the power of video content. It allows users to create videos from scratch, convert existing pieces of static content into videos, and even add automated voiceovers in native languages. InVideo cuts the time to create a professional quality video by over 90% and allows the creator to focus on impact and message. The platform generated over 800,000 users from more than 150 countries who have created videos in over 75 languages. InVideo was founded in 2017 and is based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Geekie is a web-based platform that provides personalized educational content using adaptive learning technology. It allows schools and teachers to customize the format, pace, difficulty and focus of each student's learning process.

Digg

Series B in 2006
Digg Holdings, LLC, also known as Digg, operates a social news aggregator site that allows users to find the most interesting and talked about stories and videos, and vote on the Internet. Its services is available on a website, mobile application, and a daily email. It also advertising services for brands and consumers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. As of April 25, 2018, Digg Holdings, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BuySellAds.com, Inc.

Paga

Series A in 2012
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.

De Correspondent

Grant in 2018
De Correspondent is a Dutch-language, online journalism platform that focuses on background, analysis, investigative reporting, and the kinds of stories that tend to escape the radar of mainstream media because they do not conform to what is normally understood to be 'news.'

NowFloats

Series C in 2018
NowFloats enables Small and Medium Businesses (SME) to get an online presence by simply using SMS. This website can also be updated by sending regular SMS and this message can be delivered to the loyal customers of that business. Additionally the NowFloats algorithm ensures highest discoverability through intelligent Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There are 47M Small & Medium Businesses in India, while there are only 700K registered websites. It is also estimated that almost 9.6M Indian businesses need some sort of online identity. With 900M+ mobile phones and SMS being the pervasive technology, NowFloats believes that getting business online thru SMS (or Apps) is a scalable and sustainable business. NowFloats is co-founded by ex-Microsoft and ex-Saatchi & Saatchi team and has almost 2000 customers within 5 months of the product launch.

MissionU

Series A in 2017
MissionU is a college alternative that gives students the skills and experience needed to succeed in today’s competitive working world while allowing them to graduate debt-free with no upfront tuition. Led by Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun, who created the company with co-founder and Chief Product Officer Mike Adams, MissionU is the only program that combines general education with specialized skills training to prepare individuals for real-world jobs. By employing an income-share agreement model, MissionU only requires students to pay once they are earning $50,000 or more, during which they pay 15% of their income for three years back to the company.

Vedantu

Series D in 2020
Vedantu is an e-learning company that features an online platform that features real-time personalized learning. It provides a software platform connects tutors and student which provides real-time one to one teaching to students online.

Doubtnut

Seed Round in 2019
Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. It offers an App in which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept. The application offers personalized live online solutions for all user's math doubts. In its online doubt clearing platform, students get to learn from teachers who have studied from top colleges and institutes across India. It also provides solutions for CBSE & ICSE board school students so that students can understand maths in a structured manner at the comfort of their home. Doubtnut was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
Uolo Edtech Private Limited develops and operates a platform that enables schools and parents to communicate with each other. Its platform allows teachers to send text, video, and images to parents. The company's platform enables live online classes with recordings; sharing of videos made by teachers; and allows teachers to give assignment, get submissions, and share feedback. Its platform offers applications for English speaking, listening, math, logic and computational thinking, moral science, values, and general awareness. Uolo Edtech Private Limited was founded in 2020 and is based in Delhi, India.
Leveraging insights from the behavioral sciences and trends in consumer technology, ParentPowered is changing the way families receive educational support by breaking down the complexity of educational topics into bite-sized pieces. Through widespread technologies, the company is able to support even the hardest to reach parents continuously over time. ParentPowered’s first product, Ready4K, is an evidence-based birth through 3rd grade family engagement curriculum delivered via text messages that builds on foundational research conducted by the company's founder, Benjamin N. York, Ph.D.

Socialtext

Angel Round in 2004
Company that produces enterprise social software via its integrated suite of web-based social apps

Dailyhunt

Series B in 2014
DailyHunt develops a mobile application software that gives updates on trending topics. It offers online news, books, and magazines. DailyHunt serves customers in India. Virendra Gupta founded it in 2007, with its headquarters in Bangalore in India.

Doubtnut

Series A in 2020
Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. It offers an App in which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept. The application offers personalized live online solutions for all user's math doubts. In its online doubt clearing platform, students get to learn from teachers who have studied from top colleges and institutes across India. It also provides solutions for CBSE & ICSE board school students so that students can understand maths in a structured manner at the comfort of their home. Doubtnut was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.
Learning Machine Technologies, Inc. deploy blockchain based secure credentialing systems. It allows governments, companies, and school systems to create, issue, and manage digital records. The company's products are used to manage recruitment, enrollment, portfolio review, faculty hiring, and credentialing. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, New York. As of February 5, 2020, Learning Machine Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Hyland Software, Inc..

Cognicept Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cognicept Systems provides tech stack that enables humans to control anywhere globally and resolve issues using machine learning. They also provide Human-in-the-loop (HITL) error handling with their telerobotic networking technology and remote robot trainers. Their supervised autonomy products make unpredictable applications reliable and enable use cases that were previously impossible.

Goodera

Series B in 2018
Goodera is a global CSR & Sustainability platform, co-headquartered in Bangalore and Menlo Park. With our innovative cloud, mobile, voice and big data platform, embedded with strong domain expertise, we enable and empower corporates to manage their CSR and sustainability goals in a simple, transparent, measurable, and engaging manner.

BudgIT

Grant in 2017
BudgIT is a creative agency meant develop a multi-platform a user friendly presentation of state and federal budget to include charts and performance analysis for proper understanding of what budgets entails. This is critical to benchmark governance and the government’s allocation to specific sectors. They clearly want to use their financial and technical expertise to make budgets understandable and deepen discussions around its allocation and expenditure as their contribution to citizenship participation.

Varthana

Series C in 2018
Varthana provides loans and support for affordable private schools. They are a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Edquity

Seed Round in 2020
Edquity is the first of its kind college financial planning app for high school and college students, helping ensure that no student will need to drop out of college for financial reasons and that every student will be able to realize a positive return on his or her college investment.

Aspiration Partners, LLC

Series B in 2017
Aspiration is an online financial firm that offers retail banking and investing services built for everyone. Aspiration delivers the financial products that people need in a consumer-focused model that empowers people to choose their fee and aligns the interests of Aspiration and its customers. The company donates a dime of every dollar it earns to help Americans that work to climb the ladder of opportunity while making it possible for its customers to choose to give a portion of their profits to a charitable cause of their choice.
Tech startups need funding, a wide variety of skills and a strong network to grow. At Phandeeyar Accelerator, we provide you that - and much more! Throughout our intensive 6-month program your startup will be based at the Phandeeyar Accelerator offices in downtown Yangon. While you build and launch your product and get traction, we provide you with training, mentorship, introductions to investors and loads of free services that will help your startup reach the skies. We believe in the lean startup model.

Vedantu

Series C in 2019
Vedantu is an e-learning company that features an online platform that features real-time personalized learning. It provides a software platform connects tutors and student which provides real-time one to one teaching to students online.

Elucd

Seed Round in 2018
Elucd Inc. develops software that enables cities to measure how residents feel and prioritize fixing what is not working. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Pula Advisors

Seed Round in 2018
Pula is an insurance intermediary that implements data driven agricultural insurance. Pula assists hundreds of thousands of small-scale farmers across 6 countries in Africa. Farmers are able to safeguard their crops and invest in their farms through financial tools that take advantage of the rising use of mobile technology.

PatientsLikeMe, Inc.

Series A in 2007
PatientsLikeMe is a personalized health network of an integrated community, health management, and real-world data platform. It helps people find new options for treatments, connect with others, and take action to improve their outcomes. The company has worked with every major pharmaceutical company and a range of government organizations to bring the patient voice to research, development, and public policy. With more than 600,000 members, PatientsLikeMe is a trusted source for real-world disease information and a clinically robust resource that has published more than 100 research studies. The Boston, Massachusetts-located company was founded by Ben Heywood, James Heywood, and Jeff Cole in 2004

Varthana

Series A in 2014
Varthana provides loans and support for affordable private schools. They are a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) headquartered in Bangalore, India.
Bridge International Academies is an operator of scholastic academy services used to provide education to underprivileged children. Its services provide lessons based on national curricula, develop in-depth teacher training and programs, and use cutting-edge wireless technology that enables underprivileged children to get the right education, free of cost, for a brighter future.

Toffee Insurance

Series A in 2019
Toffee Insurance is making insurance affordable, relevant and accessible for everyone with its one simple plan that covers for health, life, household and more. Be it small insurance packs for your day to day possessions, topical health hazards or protecting you and your family for life, Toffee does all the heavy lifting in easy monthly payments. Find your Toffee here: www.toffeeinsurance.com!

Cambridge Blockchain

Series A in 2019
Cambridge Blockchain develops blockchain-based identity management and compliance software solutions for financial institutions. The company provides an identity management platform for multinational banks financial institutions that puts control of personal identity data back in the hands of the end-user. It returns control of personal data back to users while delivering the benefits of trusted, distributed identity to consumers and organizations. Alex Oberhauser, Alok Bhargava, and Matthew Commons founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts.

Comat Technologies

Series C in 2008
Comat enables access to information based services to citizens in rural India. Established in 1996, their company has successfully merged business profitability with social welfare. Their business model is oriented towards economic development of underserved markets, by providing services like employability training, job creation, financial inclusion and essential Government services. They have attained leadership in their area of business by successfully mapping the needs of India’s rural population and efficiently delivering the same through a network of Rural Business Centers.

Suyo

Venture Round in 2017
Suyo helps families secure their property rights by offering the most affordable and reliable property formalization services in Latin America. Combining modern technology with its expert team of lawyers, architects and other property professionals, Suyo can solve all of your property formalization needs in a simple process for approximately half the price of other providers. Its services include land titling, building registration, successions, property purchase studies, among many others.

World of Good

Series B in 2006
World of Good, Inc. engages in the wholesale and online sale of fair trade products to stores in the United States. It offers handmade housewares, accessories, and gifts. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Emeryville, California.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is a trade association that represents investigative journalists in 70 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories focusing on cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power. The association enables journalists to report, edit, and produce multimedia reports that adhere to the standards of fairness and accuracy. The association members contribute to conferences and events around the world, sharing findings of investigations, the tools and lessons learnt to help promote understanding and best practices in collaborative journalism. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Fast Forward

Seed Round in 2016
Technology has the power and scale to be a force for good, yet there’s a gap in support for tech nonprofits who in the early stages need to build their product and prove their model. Fast Forward looks for product­-driven nonprofits that leverage open source software, always connected mobile devices, open APIs, and inexpensive variable cost web infrastructure to solve education, environmental, health, and human rights issues. Fast Forward then provides financial and human capital to help scale these technology solutions and maximize impact.

WhereIsMyTransport

Seed Round in 2016
WhereIsMyTransport is an information technology company that collects and provides access to public transport data from African cities. It features a big data platform that specializes in data collection, data access, and journey planning. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, England.

Cignifi

Series B in 2014
Cignifi Inc. designs and develops credit and marketing analytics platform for mobile network operators. It provides credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data, and provides information for credit cards, personal loans, insurance, and savings among mobile pre-pay customers. The company serves telecommunication operators, retailers, lenders, and insurers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Koko

Series A in 2016
The Internet can be a mean place. Koko keeps your community safe by using AI to identify bad actors and damaging content. Koko can detect issues in real time and notify your moderation system. Koko is already used by several of the top online communities to support over 100 million moderation decisions per day with typical accuracy above 99%. Koko originated at the MIT Media Lab and has collaborations with MIT, Stanford, Harvard, NYU, Columbia, and Cambridge. The company has raised $3.5M in financing from top investors including USV and Omidyar Network. Koko is based in New York City and is actively hiring for engineering, design, product management, and sales.

Kalibrr, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
Kalibrr is a recruitment business innovating services and technologies to help companies consistently recruit the best talent. They achieve recruitment transformations through an end-to-end portfolio of services including a premium jobs portal, world-class recruitment system, employer branding and powerful online assessments. Founded by Paul Rivera and Dexter Ligot-Gordon in January 2012, Kalibrr had received a significant in seed funding from Sillicon Valley startup incubators and investors such as; Kickstart Ventures, eBay's Pierre Omidyar, Globe Telecom's, Sillicon Valley Y Combinator and Filipino Angel investor Nix Nolledo of Xurpas.
Quikr India Private Limited operates Quikr, an online classifieds platform that operates across desktops, laptops, and mobile phones in India. Its Quikr platform allows consumers and small businesses to sell, buy, rent, and find things across various categories, including furniture and décor, appliances, ACs, services, jobs, cars, bikes, homes, mobiles and tablets, gift cards, personal loans, kids and toys, education, commercial real estate, pets and pet care, home and lifestyle, B2B suppliers, entertainment, community, events, and matrimonial, as well as sports, hobbies, and fashion. Quikr India Private Limited was formerly known as Kijiji India Private Limited and changed its name to Quikr India Private Limited in June 2008. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Bengaluru, India. Quikr India Private Limited is a former subsidiary of eBay Inc.

Digime

Series A in 2016
Digi.me's technology allows consumers to gather together their personal data and share it on their terms with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange. They are distribution partners for the likes of Toshiba and Lenovo and are working with world-leading businesses in health insurance, finance, pharma and FMCG.

ZestMoney

Series A in 2016
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.

ZestMoney

Series A in 2018
ZestMoney is the fastest way for all kinds of people to pay using digital EMI, without the need of a credit card or a credit score. The company believes that being able to pay in EMI should be available to everyone and not only those who hold a credit card or have a credit score. With the use of mobile tech, digital banking, and AI, ZestMoney was made accessible to millions of Indian consumers. Founded in 2015 by digital finance and technology professionals, Priya Sharma, Lizzie Chapman and Ashish Anantharaman, the company is backed by leading global digital financial services investors like PayU, Ribbit Capital, Omidiyar Networks among other.

Medd

Series A in 2015
1mg is a digital consumer healthcare platform that makes healthcare accessible, understandable, and affordable. It allows users to find information about medicines prescribed by doctors and also buy it. Users can find drugs by ailments, class, companies, and brands. Its doctor platform aims to transform how to find the right healthcare professional for a consumers' needs. Its diagnostics service brings transparency and price-effectiveness to lab tests. The company empowers Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate healthcare service at the best possible price. 1mg was launched on 2015 and its operations are headquartered in Gurugram, India.

Verse Innovations

Series D in 2016
VerSe Innovation is a local language technology company that develops a discovery platform to consume and socialize with media. Its platform facilitates the curation of content and tracks user preferences through its vertical search and recommendation tools that provide users with personalized content and notifications.

Platial

Series A in 2007
Platial, "the people's atlas", is a map making, map searching and map exploration site all in one. Like most map sites these days, Platial takes advantage of the Google Maps API to extend its capabilities. The site is a simple mashup with a social layer and UGC twist. Platial users are interested in documenting their own travels as well as seeing those of other users. Platial's key feature is a map creation tool that lets anyone put locations markers over any point on the map they've visited and then annotate it with pictures and comments. A Google Adsense text advertisement appears on each annotation to match the context in each place. Users can tag each stop on their map as well as see other users that have been there. Clicking on a Tag will take you to a menu of other destinations with similar features. Clicking on another user who has been to any given location will take you to his/her map that shares that location. By networking this way, users can uncover the best places to go in any region quickly and easily. Google maps has less functionality than Platial, yet now allows users to create custom/sharable maps. The "Where I've Been" Facebook application [Acquired by TripAdvisor](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/tripadvisor-acquires-facebook-app-where-i%E2%80%99ve-been-for-3-million/) provides a service with a similar goal. Platial has widgets for [Facebook](http://crunchbase.com/organization/facebook), [MySpace](http://crunchbase.com/organization/myspace), [Friendster](http://crunchbase.com/organization/friendster) and Wordpress.

Prosper

Series A in 2013
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Handshake

Series C in 2018
Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. They connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know. Handshake’s network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increase student employment Handshake has raised a total of $155 million dollars with $80 million most recently raised in Q4 of 2019. We've had the support from GGV, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, True Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. In addition, Handshake has received support from social impact investors, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, among others. Handshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England.

ZOLA Electric

Series A in 2014
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

WorldCover

Venture Round in 2016
WorldCover protects farmers around the world from droughts, by offering satellite-enabled insurance delivered with mobile money. Founded by MIT computer science and finance professionals, WorldCover is building an insurance platform to address the $100 billion in climate risks facing the world today. WorldCover's platform improves food and income security for smallholder farmers in developing countries. More than 70% of the 2.5 billion people living at the “base of the pyramid” throughout the world rely on agriculture for income and sustenance.

Linden Lab

Series A in 2004
Founded in 1999, Linden Lab is best known as the creator of Second Life, the largest-ever 3D virtual world filled entirely by the creations of its users. In 2013, the company expanded its product portfolio with Blocksworld, a lighthearted build-and-play system for kids and grownups alike. The company is currently developing a new platform for virtual experiences, code-named Project Sansar, which will democratize VR as a creative medium.

Couchsurfing

Series A in 2011
Couchsurfing began in 2004 as a small passion project by founders Casey Fenton, Daniel Hoffer, Sebastian Le Tuan and Leonardo Bassani da Silveira. An email to a group of students in Iceland gave birth to the idea that people anywhere would want to share their homes with strangers (or, as we like to call them, friends you haven’t met yet ).

The Ken

Series A in 2018
The Ken is a new, digital, subscription-driven publication headquartered out of Bangalore, India. Founded by a team of experienced journalists and entrepreneurs, The Ken's goal is to deliver fresh and original business insight through well-narrated stories to professionals, entrepreneurs, investors and leaders every morning.

Giraffe

Venture Round in 2018
Giraffe provides recruitment solutions that help small businesses to find the staff. It focuses on medium-skilled jobs in account and finance, retail, advertising and marketing, banking, call center, construction, factory/warehouse, healthcare and nursing, hotel, manufacturing, office and administration, restaurant, bar, café, retail, security, supermarket, transport, and other sectors. The company offers various positions, such as accounts/bookkeeper, administration/clerk, customer service, data capture, driver, picker/packer, receiving/dispatch/stock control clerk, receptionist/PA, salesperson/promoter, security guard, and other jobs. It also offers criminal, credit, education, and reference check services for employees. The company is based in South Africa.

Aspiring Minds

Series A in 2011
Aspiring Minds vision to bring credible and genuine assessment to various aspects of education, training and employment. Aspiring Minds strives to help institutions and companies from choosing the right individual rather than the best individual. Aspiring Minds vision of a level playing field, helping talent meet opportunity be it education or employment.

Phandeeyar Accelerator

Seed Round in 2014
Tech startups need funding, a wide variety of skills and a strong network to grow. At Phandeeyar Accelerator, we provide you that - and much more! Throughout our intensive 6-month program your startup will be based at the Phandeeyar Accelerator offices in downtown Yangon. While you build and launch your product and get traction, we provide you with training, mentorship, introductions to investors and loads of free services that will help your startup reach the skies. We believe in the lean startup model.
iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. provides on-demand data and digital services. The company’s services include computer vision such as annotation, segmentation, and image labeling through human-in-the-loop tasks; natural language processing; enrichment and extraction; moderation; categorization; sentiment analysis; and transcription. It caters to machine learning, computer vision, augmented reality, e-commerce, and data analytics sectors. iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kolkata, India.

Federated Media

Seed Round in 2005
Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions. Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns and operates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

Fast Forward

Venture Round in 2017
Technology has the power and scale to be a force for good, yet there’s a gap in support for tech nonprofits who in the early stages need to build their product and prove their model. Fast Forward looks for product­-driven nonprofits that leverage open source software, always connected mobile devices, open APIs, and inexpensive variable cost web infrastructure to solve education, environmental, health, and human rights issues. Fast Forward then provides financial and human capital to help scale these technology solutions and maximize impact.

d.light

Series B in 2010
d.light is a global leader in delivering affordable solar-powered solutions.

Healofy

Seed Round in 2018
Healofy is an Indian parenting social network for moms.

Vistaar

Series D in 2015
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

Spruce Holdings

Series A in 2017
Spruce Holdings Inc. provides title insurance, coordination, escrow, and recording services for real estate companies and mortgage lenders through its software. It operates as a third party that helps to coordinate transactions between homeowners and their lenders or real estate institutions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York with hub locations in Plano, Texas; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Santa Barbara, California.
African Leadership Academy is an educational institution that offers two-year program focused on leadership, entrepreneurship, and African studies. It also provides Gap-Year Program and Global Scholars Program for Entrepreneurial Leadership and African Studies program. African Leadership Academy was founded in 2004 and is based in Roodepoort, South Africa.

SeeClickFix, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
SeeClickFix provides tools for residents and governments to communicate for all sizes, populations, and budgets. The company empowers citizens, community organizations, and governments to care for and improve their neighborhoods by providing technology tools that promote civic engagement and government transparency. They focused reports allow officials at all levels to evaluate public service performance, plan for improvements, and have the facts necessary to make data-driven decisions. SeeClickFix was established in 2008 and is based in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

Chime

Series C in 2018
Chime, the leader in the U.S. challenger banking segment, helps members avoid bank fees, save money automatically, and lead healthier financial lives. Based in San Francisco, California, Chime offers a modern, mobile and connected approach to banking that gives members complete control of their finances. Chime members receive a Chime debit card, a Spending Account, a Savings Account, and a powerful mobile app that keeps members in control. The Chime mobile app is available for iPhone and Android devices and has been featured as one of the best Money Management apps in the App Store.

Airalo

Seed Round in 2019
Airalo is the world’s first eSIM store for travellers to access over 190+ eSIMs at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM compatible smartphone, tablet or PC. Airalo offers you both connectivity and freedom - you’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change your number again, no matter where you are in the world.

Hotels.ng

Seed Round in 2015
Hotels.ng is an online travel agency specialising in hotel bookings within Nigeria.They allow clients to book hotel rooms online, provide comprehensive help and support to their clients and make the hotel booking process smooth and easy. They also provide hotel recommendations and reviews, making sure that their clients stay in good, clean and safe hotels all over the country.

Medd

Series C in 2017
1mg is a digital consumer healthcare platform that makes healthcare accessible, understandable, and affordable. It allows users to find information about medicines prescribed by doctors and also buy it. Users can find drugs by ailments, class, companies, and brands. Its doctor platform aims to transform how to find the right healthcare professional for a consumers' needs. Its diagnostics service brings transparency and price-effectiveness to lab tests. The company empowers Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate healthcare service at the best possible price. 1mg was launched on 2015 and its operations are headquartered in Gurugram, India.
iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. provides on-demand data and digital services. The company’s services include computer vision such as annotation, segmentation, and image labeling through human-in-the-loop tasks; natural language processing; enrichment and extraction; moderation; categorization; sentiment analysis; and transcription. It caters to machine learning, computer vision, augmented reality, e-commerce, and data analytics sectors. iMerit Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Kolkata, India.

1mg

Series B in 2016
1mg is a digital consumer healthcare platform that makes healthcare accessible, understandable, and affordable. It allows users to find information about medicines prescribed by doctors and also buy it. Users can find drugs by ailments, class, companies, and brands. Its doctor platform aims to transform how to find the right healthcare professional for a consumers' needs. Its diagnostics service brings transparency and price-effectiveness to lab tests. The company empowers Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate healthcare service at the best possible price. 1mg was launched on 2015 and its operations are headquartered in Gurugram, India.

IntelleGrow

Venture Round in 2016
IntelleGrow serves the ‘missing middle’ enterprises working in sectors which make a positive Environmental, Social and Governance Impact. IntelleGrow offers debt without limiting them on their vintage or the security value offered for the loan – instead, the proposition is based on trajectory of business cashflows. It is not only lending from its Balance Sheet but also syndicating and arranging debt from other sources – gradually emerging as a debt solutions provider for ‘early-stage’, ‘high-growth’ small and growing businesses (SGB) in India.
Tech startups need funding, a wide variety of skills and a strong network to grow. At Phandeeyar Accelerator, we provide you that - and much more! Throughout our intensive 6-month program your startup will be based at the Phandeeyar Accelerator offices in downtown Yangon. While you build and launch your product and get traction, we provide you with training, mentorship, introductions to investors and loads of free services that will help your startup reach the skies. We believe in the lean startup model.

Couchsurfing

Series B in 2012
Couchsurfing began in 2004 as a small passion project by founders Casey Fenton, Daniel Hoffer, Sebastian Le Tuan and Leonardo Bassani da Silveira. An email to a group of students in Iceland gave birth to the idea that people anywhere would want to share their homes with strangers (or, as we like to call them, friends you haven’t met yet ).

NowFloats

Series B in 2017
NowFloats enables Small and Medium Businesses (SME) to get an online presence by simply using SMS. This website can also be updated by sending regular SMS and this message can be delivered to the loyal customers of that business. Additionally the NowFloats algorithm ensures highest discoverability through intelligent Search Engine Optimization (SEO). There are 47M Small & Medium Businesses in India, while there are only 700K registered websites. It is also estimated that almost 9.6M Indian businesses need some sort of online identity. With 900M+ mobile phones and SMS being the pervasive technology, NowFloats believes that getting business online thru SMS (or Apps) is a scalable and sustainable business. NowFloats is co-founded by ex-Microsoft and ex-Saatchi & Saatchi team and has almost 2000 customers within 5 months of the product launch.

Indus OS

Series A in 2017
Indus OS is World's First Regional Operating System to connect 100 million users with internet. Indus, is set to revolutionize the mobile industry by introducing World's first Regional Operating System. Indus OS is built on Android and is designed for first time internet users. The crux of a country’s culture lies in her language and Indus is in unison with this by bringing to people a simplified smartphone experience in their native tongue. Indus’s vision is to build an end-to-end ecosystem that would bridge the digital divide and get the whole country on the information highway, language being the key.

Log 9 Materials

Series A in 2019
Log 9 Materials Scientific Private Limited is a graphene research and development company. At Log 9 Materials we are determined to accelerate the commercialization of graphene nanotechnology. We have just developed the first commercial product on graphene- 'Smoke-safe'. This innovative graphene based cigarette filter reduces the risk of getting cancer by 90%. We offer a wide range of graphene (CVD graphene, rGO) and its derivatives. We bring to you graphene as researchers and not just manufactures, so we understand the triviality of the grade of our products.

Lidya

Series A in 2018
Lidya is a financial services platform to improve access to credit and finance across frontier and emerging markets starting with Nigeria. We use mobile-first technology with a strong customer experience and proprietary credit scoring algorithms to help small & medium businesses open an account online in 15 minutes, manage funds, and access credit needed to grow their businesses and plan their futures. In addition, we have created dashboards and tools to help businesses manage their receivables and cashflow to build credit scores that unlock higher credit limits and affordable rates. Welcome to Lidya. Welcome to the future.

eCurrency Mint (eCM)

Series C in 2015
eCurrency Mint Limited develops and provides technology that enables central banks to issue digital fiat currency, called eCurrency.

GiveIndia

Grant in 2019
GiveIndia operates as a most trustworthy giving platform for donors. With contributions of over 300 crores made to our 200+ vetted and trusted nonprofits, our giving community of 1M+ donors has impacted lives of 4M+ people across 23 states in India.

Open Data Institute

Venture Round in 2018
The Open Data Institute will catalyse the evolution of an open data culture to create economic, environmental, and social value. It will unlock supply, generate demand, create and disseminate knowledge to address local and global issues. The Open Data Institute will convene world-class experts to collaborate, incubate, nurture and mentor new ideas, and promote innovation. We will enable anyone to learn and engage with open data, and empower our teams to help others through professional coaching and mentoring. Founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt, the ODI is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, limited by guarantee company. The ODI has secured £10 million over five years from the UK Government (via the UK innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board), and $750,000 from Omidyar Network, and is working towards long-term sustainability through match funding and direct revenue. With a 5,000 sq ft convening space based in the heart of London's thriving Shoreditch area, and a global remit, we invite everyone intrested in developing Open Data to get in touch.

Federated Media

Series C in 2008
Federated Media is an integrated media company that drives engagement for brands through pure native content and advertising solutions. Federated Media is involved in many content marketing activities: represents online publishers and their properties to advertisers; supports other properties sponsored by advertiser clients; and owns and operates websites. It also offers media and ad solutions, including standard IAB ads, STAMP and other high-impact ads, engagement ads, conversationalists, social frames, and conversation targeting; content marketing services through custom content series and sponsored blog posts; and advertising opportunities on sponsored properties and communities.

Cignifi

Venture Round in 2017
Cignifi Inc. designs and develops credit and marketing analytics platform for mobile network operators. It provides credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data, and provides information for credit cards, personal loans, insurance, and savings among mobile pre-pay customers. The company serves telecommunication operators, retailers, lenders, and insurers. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Siddhivinayak Agri Processing operates a managed potato supply chain intended to create value across the food supply chain and food processing sector. The company's managed potato supply chain offers seeds, inputs and process grade potatoes to farmers, food processors and large domestic and international snack makers, enabling them to yield large volume of potatoes for the masses.

Agenda Edu

Seed Round in 2018
Agenda Edu Ltda. develops and offers software as a service (SaaS) based communication solutions for improving the relationship between family and school, helping with school management, and facilitating the school routine. It offers solution, such as EduPay, a solution to send school fees, install late invoices via credit card, and send reminders when due date of charge approaches; EduGo, a solution to control and expedite the departure of students from students; and EduMenu, a solution to avoid queues and crowds at recess time and to offer tranquility to those responsible with students meals. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Fortaleza, Brazil with an additional office in São Paulo, Brazil. As of September 18, 2020, Agenda Edu Ltda. operates as a subsidiary of Eleva Educação S.A.

Seesmic

Series B in 2008
Seesmic is a powerful suite of social media management and collaboration tools that provide businesses and individuals with everything they need to build and manage their brands online. With applications on [every platform](http://seesmic.com/products), including mobile devices, and a marketplace of over 80 third-party plugins, Seesmic is the most comprehensive solution on the market. Seesmic is headquartered in San Francisco and was founded by French entrepreneur [Loic Le Meur](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/loic-le-meur).

Wikia

Series A in 2006
FANDOM is a global entertainment media brand powered by fan passion. The fan-trusted source in entertainment, it provides a home to explore, contribute to, and celebrate the world of pop culture. Whether looking for in-depth information on favorite fandoms or what’s buzzing in entertainment, FANDOM has your pop culture curiosities covered through fan-expert knowledge and carefully curated and fun, original multi-platform content.

GuiaBolso

Series D in 2017
GuiaBolso is a digital hub that connects Brazilian consumers to financial products via an in-app marketplace with real-time origination. As a company in Brazil with proprietary bank account aggregation technology and offering free credit bureau reports, GuiaBolso gives users a complete view of finances and provides bank partners with unparalleled data analysis and credit modeling. This creates a very positive dynamic for both, for example, GuiaBolso users now have access to a selection of fairly-priced loans based on actual credit risk, quite revolutionary in a country without a national credit score and with the world’s highest interest spreads. The company mission is to improve people’s well-being by providing the complete information needed to make better financial decisions.

Grupo VI-DA

Series A in 2018
Grupo VI-DA develops a technology based platform that houses Spanish-language digital content. The company provides digital reading products to students, schools, and consumers that democratize access to Spanish language fiction, nonfiction, technical, and academic content. Grupo VI-DA is headquartered in Palermo, Argentina. The company has additional offices in Mexico.

Rheo TV

Seed Round in 2019
Rheo TV is a game-streaming platform that aims to make professional game streaming a mainstream career option in India by building an entertainment ecosystem that drives engagement and monetization. Today, India has nearly 200 million active gamers on smartphones. Ubiquitous internet infrastructure and affordable smartphones are leading to the increasing popularity of multiplayer online gaming in India, and Rheo TV is tapping into this phenomenon.

Pratilipi

Series A in 2018
Pratilipi is a platform which brings readers, writers and their stories together. From the next door neighbour reading stories in the afternoon, to the funny college kid downstairs, millions of people around you are using Pratilipi to discover, express and share their stories in the language they love.
Axio is a medtech R&D and Manufacturing Company focused on Advanced Surgical and wound care. Axio has the distinction to be the first company from India to get USFDA clearance for a woundcare/hemostat product. Controlling life threatening bleeding continues to be the major cause of death from traumatic injuries. Axiostat is its flagship product developed to reduce the mortality due to traumatic bleeding. A CE approved product, Axiostat is based on a patented novel 100% chitosan platform and has variants catering to Emergency & Trauma, Military, Cardio-vascular and Dental applications.

Anchor

Venture Round in 2017
Anchor is the easiest way to make a podcast. Record or upload high-quality audio, host unlimited episodes, and distribute everywhere with just one click. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, there’s never been a better way to podcast.

Praekelt Foundation

Venture Round in 2010
Praekelt Foundation leverages the reach of mobile technologies to give people at the base of the pyramid access to services and information that will improve their lives.

Woo

Series A in 2015
Woo is a Free dating app that helps you find, chat and meet people who are similar to you in terms of lifestyle and interests. Woo connects you with like-minded people with interests and lifestyles similar to yours. It’s just like running into that perfect stranger you would hit it off with at a friend’s dinner party and discovering how much you have in common! A space to have real conversations and spark off a real connection. Go on, find, chat with and meet people like you, around you.

ZOLA Electric

Series C in 2015
ZOLA Electric provides off-grid solar solutions for African markets. The company engages in leasing or selling solar home kits to individual households in Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It offers solar systems to homes and businesses in rural communities through solar as a service model. ZOLA Electric was formerly known as Off-Grid Electric Tanzania Limited and changed its name to ZOLA Electric in July 2018. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Arusha, Tanzania with an additional office in San Francisco, California.

Digg

Series A in 2005
Digg Holdings, LLC, also known as Digg, operates a social news aggregator site that allows users to find the most interesting and talked about stories and videos, and vote on the Internet. Its services is available on a website, mobile application, and a daily email. It also advertising services for brands and consumers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York. As of April 25, 2018, Digg Holdings, LLC operates as a subsidiary of BuySellAds.com, Inc.

Khan Academy

Grant in 2016
Khan Academy Inc. is an educational institution that provides a free world-class education via an online video library, practice exercises, and assessments. It offers access to learning for the better by providing free, world-class education to anyone anywhere at no cost (so far) to the learner. The institution was founded in 2006 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Lendable

Series A in 2017
Lendable, Inc. provides risk analytics for lenders and originators of debt in developing markets. It provides a database of market repayment, demographic, and contextual data that enables model improvement and validation; and a risk engine that models individual credit risk, and portfolio and group-level risk. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bunker

Series A in 2017
Bunker is the leading provider of insurance compliance & verification. They combine Smart COI screening, compliance verification, and on-demand insurance - all in one platform.

Common Sense Media

Venture Round in 2006
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology. We exist because our nation's children spend more time with media and digital activities than they do with their families or in school, which profoundly impacts their social, emotional, and physical development . As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, we provide trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume. Ten Common Sense Beliefs * We believe in media sanity, not censorship. * We believe that media has truly become "the other parent" in our kids' lives, powerfully affecting their mental, physical, and social development. * We believe in teaching our kids to be savvy, respectful and responsible media interpreters, creators, and communicators. We can’t cover their eyes but we can teach them to see. * We believe parents should have a choice and a voice about the media our kids consume and create. Every family is different but all need information. * We believe that the price for free and open media is a bit of extra homework for families. Parents need to know about the media their kids use and need to teach responsible, ethical behavior as well as manage overall media use. * We believe that through informed decision making, we can improve the media landscape one decision at a time. * We believe appropriate regulations about right time, right place, and right manner exist. They need to be upheld by our elected and appointed leaders. * We believe in age-appropriate media and that the media industry needs to act responsibly as it creates and markets content for each audience. * We believe ratings systems should be independent and transparent for all media. * We believe in diversity of programming and media ownership.

Andela

Seed Round in 2014
Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets. Hundreds of leading companies like GitHub, Cloudflare, and ViacomCBS leverage Andela to scale their engineering teams quickly and cost-effectively. A distributed organization spanning four continents, Andela is backed by investors including Generation Investment Management, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Spark Capital, and Google Ventures.

Neogrowth

Series C in 2015
Neogrowth operates as a non-banking financial company in India. It is focused on meeting the financial needs of small businesses which sell goods and services to consumers. It offers business financing services to small- and medium-sized retail companies that sell apparel, consumer durables and electronic items, footwear and accessories, handicrafts, gifts, and optical goods as well as to restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gymnasiums, and health diagnostic centers. NeoGrowth began its commercial operations in 2013.

GuiaBolso

Series B in 2015
GuiaBolso is a digital hub that connects Brazilian consumers to financial products via an in-app marketplace with real-time origination. As a company in Brazil with proprietary bank account aggregation technology and offering free credit bureau reports, GuiaBolso gives users a complete view of finances and provides bank partners with unparalleled data analysis and credit modeling. This creates a very positive dynamic for both, for example, GuiaBolso users now have access to a selection of fairly-priced loans based on actual credit risk, quite revolutionary in a country without a national credit score and with the world’s highest interest spreads. The company mission is to improve people’s well-being by providing the complete information needed to make better financial decisions.

Overcart

Series A in 2016
Overcart is India's first marketplace for over-stock, unboxed, refurbished, and preowned products. With a comprehensive quality-check process, expert product knowledge, and unparalleled customer focus, this is the safest place for you to purchase secondary products.

Doubtnut

Series B in 2021
Doubtnut leverages technology to make education accessible for all. It offers an App in which students can ask study questions in Math by clicking the picture of the problem or concept. The application offers personalized live online solutions for all user's math doubts. In its online doubt clearing platform, students get to learn from teachers who have studied from top colleges and institutes across India. It also provides solutions for CBSE & ICSE board school students so that students can understand maths in a structured manner at the comfort of their home. Doubtnut was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Gurgaon, India.

Vistaar

Series C in 2014
The idea of Vistaar dawned on the minds of two first generation entrepreneurs, who truly believe in supporting and creating new economic opportunity through providing access to finance, to deserving small business men, to enhance and enrich their lives and the community they live in. The Company targets the missing middle segment, consisting of customers with an annual income of Rs 120000-10,00,000, which is not effectively served by the formal financial system.

Freewill

Seed Round in 2019
Freewill is a beauty company that specializes in personalized hair care products. It creates and custom hair products based on each individual’s unique requirements, lifestyle, and environmental conditions. Its system analyzes the response and creates a product that has the power to solve hair problems and fulfill all hair goals. Its proprietary algorithm analyzes over 1.7 billion formulations to create exclusive, custom-made formulas for each user from up to 68 high-impact ingredients. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Jaipur, India.

InnoCentive, Inc.

Series A in 2006
InnoCentive is the global leader in crowdsourcing innovation problems to the world’s smartest people who compete to provide ideas and solutions to important business, social, policy, scientific, and technical challenges. Their global network of millions of problem solvers, proven challenge methodology, and cloud-based innovation management platform combine to help their clients transform their economics of innovation through rapid solution delivery and the development of sustainable open innovation programs. For more than a decade, leading organizations such as AARP Foundation, Air Force Research Labs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cleveland Clinic, Eli Lilly & Company, EMC Corporation, NASA, Nature Publishing Group, Procter & Gamble, Scientific American, Syngenta, The Economist, Thomson Reuters, and several government agencies in the U.S. and Europe have partnered with InnoCentive to rapidly generate innovative new ideas and solve problems faster, more cost effectively, and with less risk than ever before.

Wonderschool

Series A in 2018
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.

Jopwell, Inc.

Series A in 2017
Jopwell, Inc. operates a platform that connects minority professionals and students with companies to navigate their careers. The company provides two-way empowerment for candidates and companies, delivering a pipeline of talent to fill a range of roles across various levels from experienced hires to interns. It introduces candidates to opportunities across industries, such as technology, finance, education, management consulting, and medicine. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Neon

Series B in 2019
Neon is a Brazilian fintech, founded in 2016, whose mission is to unite technology and design to redesign and simplify people's financial experience. With over 250 employees, in 2018 Neon raised R $ 72 million of Series A investments in a round led by Propel Ventures, Monashees, and Quona, which also featured Yellow Ventures, Omydiar Network, and Tera Capital. With a digital account being the main product, Neon has a partnership with Banco Votorantim for the custody and settlement of its accounts.

Rappler, Inc.

Venture Round in 2016
Rappler is a social news network where stories inspire community engagement and digitally fueled actions for social change. Rappler comes from the root words "rap" (to discuss) + "ripple" (to make waves). It is a new world of limitless collaboration enabled by new technology and connected by social media. Rappler promises uncompromised journalism that - hopefully - inspires smart conversations and ignites a thirst for change.

PandoDaily

Series A in 2014
PandoDaily operates online blog that provides access to published articles, monthly events, live video streams, video archive, and more. The company also offers PandoTicker, which provides news that happens every day in the startup ecosystem. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Tinkergarten

Seed Round in 2016
Tinkergarten, Inc. offers outdoor play-based learning classes and activities for kids aged between 18 months to 8 years. The company provides activities for parents to help them to provide their kids with authentic, trusted, early childhood education; enables people to become a leader, and market and manage on-ground classes; and allows parents to find those classes for their kids in their local community. It matches families with leaders in their local community who offer activity-based kids’ classes that help them in developing the skills. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts.

1mg

Venture Round in 2017
1mg is a digital consumer healthcare platform that makes healthcare accessible, understandable, and affordable. It allows users to find information about medicines prescribed by doctors and also buy it. Users can find drugs by ailments, class, companies, and brands. Its doctor platform aims to transform how to find the right healthcare professional for a consumers' needs. Its diagnostics service brings transparency and price-effectiveness to lab tests. The company empowers Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate healthcare service at the best possible price. 1mg was launched on 2015 and its operations are headquartered in Gurugram, India.

Dr.Consulta

Series C in 2017
Dr.consulta is a healthtech platform and primary care provider, self sufficient to generate health data, working to eliminate medically homelessness.

PT RUMA

Series B in 2014
Ruma is a leading seller of mobile minutes and provider of low-income consumer surveys in rural areas of Indonesia. The company leverages a robust and growing network of several thousand microfranchisees and has developed key commercial partnerships with Bakrie Telecom and Qualcomm Wireless.

Chilibeli

Seed Round in 2019
Chilibeli is a social commerce platform that connects manufacturers/farmers with agents directly through various messaging tools. The company empowers farmers and its network of agents to earn extra income with ease and flexibility by streamlining the end-to-end supply chain. It aims to help more local farmers, agents, and consumers benefit from the social economy. The company was founded in 2019 by Alex Feng, Damon Yue, and Matt Li. It is based in Setiabudi, Jakarta,

Lumbrera

Series A in 2010
MiMoni is an online platform that provides its users with personal loans. It allows its users to apply for loans by filling and submitting an online application, and uploading the required documents. MiMoni analyzes submitted loan requests and approves them, enabling its users to get access to benefits provided by the platform. Users who get memberships are able to ask for loans whenever they need and when they have settled their previous loans. It allows its users to make biweekly payments based on the amounts they have received as loans at authorized places such as Oxxo, Bancomer, Banamex, and Banorte.

DealShare

Series A in 2019
DealShare is a Social Commerce Startup. The company, DealShare, focuses on middle and lower income population in mid-tier cities

Transerve Technologies

Series A in 2017
Transerve focuses on Hyperlocal Information to improve city operations. They offer solutions to make cities smarter, sustainable and effective in operation to impact the quality of life. They are committed to make the planet smarter with commitment to develop innovative solutions to make cities communicate with their citizens. Their solutions derive meaningful results through analytics from different sensors in the city.

SPARK Schools

Series B in 2016
The SPARK Schools model combines highly engaging classroom teaching, individual instruction in the Learning Lab, partnership with families and the community, and dedicated professional development for teachers and school leaders to facilitate student achievement. SPARK Schools students prepare for university and successful careers by excelling academically, practicing creative thinking skills, and demonstrating core values that emphasize cooperative citizenship and love of learning.

Lenddo International

Series B in 2015
Lenddo International provides an online platform that allows users to use their online social connections to build their creditworthiness and access local financial services. It enables community members to use their reputation on social networks, such as Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Yahoo to obtain life-improving loans for education, debt consolidation, appliances and furniture, medical expenses, major home improvements, or small businesses. The company serves customers in Colombia and the Philippines. Lenddo International was founded in 2011 and is based in Central, Hong Kong with additional offices in Manila, the Philippines; Bogotá, Colombia; and New York City, New York. As of October 17, 2017, Lenddo International operates as a subsidiary of EFL Global LTD.

Hypothes.is

Grant in 2016
Hypothes.is thinks simple tools can help us all improve the quality of information on the Internet and in the greater world around us. They are building an open platform for the collaborative evaluation of knowledge. It leverages sentence-level critique to enable discussion or note-taking on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation, regulations and more. They build software, push for standards and interoperability and foster community. They are a non-profit organization, funded through the generosity of the Knight, Mellon, Shuttleworth, Sloan and Helmsley Foundations– and through the support of hundreds of individuals like yourself that want to see this idea come to fruition. Their efforts are based on the Annotator project, which they are principal contributors to, and annotation standards for digital documents being developed by the W3C Web Annotation Working Group. They are partnering broadly with developers, publishers, academic institutions, researchers, and individuals to develop a platform for the next generation of read-write Web applications. If you’d like to participate, download their extension and create an account. Please consider donating to support their effort.

Tez Financial Services

Seed Round in 2018
Tez Financial Services Limited provides digital non-banking micro financing services. The company develops an application through which it aggregates credit, savings, insurance, and investments into a single platform. Its products include Tez advance which provides nano credit services; Tez Bima which distributes insurance; and Tez Sarmaya which caters to the medium-to-long term investment needs. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Karachi, Pakistan.

Bijak

Seed Round in 2019
Bijak is a developer of B2B platform for agricultural commodities that gives buyers and sellers better prices, increased working capital and optimized logistics. Bijak is a business-to-business trade platform for the agricultural sector in India that enables traders, wholesalers, and food processors to keep a ledger of their transactions, access transparent pricing, optimize logistics, and improve their working capital cycles.

Code For Africa

Grant in 2015
Code For Africa is a data journalism and civic technology initiative that operates CitizenLabs to help fast-track digital experimentation and transformation in newsrooms and other social justice organizations. It runs digital fellowships and digital skills programs. The institution also provides funding to digital journalism pioneers, through the innovateAfrica, impactAfrica, and the CfAfrica Sandbox funds. Code For Africa was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Propel

Seed Round in 2017
Propel builds software dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health with technology. Its core product, Fresh EBT, is a free smartphone app that allows EBT cardholders to manage their benefits, plan their grocery shopping, and save money on food. Fresh EBT is used by hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country and Propel has been featured in the NYTimes, Bloomberg, and Forbes. Propel was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Rensource Inc

Seed Round in 2018
Rensource Inc offers subscription based solar power services to to consumers and small businesses. The company generates electricity using small solar-hybrid systems that are installed in the premises of the final customer. It offers different subscription plans which include Go, Eco, Duplo, and Pro based on energy requirements of the customer. Rensource Inc was founded in 2015 and is based in Lagos, Nigeria.
Quikr India Private Limited operates Quikr, an online classifieds platform that operates across desktops, laptops, and mobile phones in India. Its Quikr platform allows consumers and small businesses to sell, buy, rent, and find things across various categories, including furniture and décor, appliances, ACs, services, jobs, cars, bikes, homes, mobiles and tablets, gift cards, personal loans, kids and toys, education, commercial real estate, pets and pet care, home and lifestyle, B2B suppliers, entertainment, community, events, and matrimonial, as well as sports, hobbies, and fashion. Quikr India Private Limited was formerly known as Kijiji India Private Limited and changed its name to Quikr India Private Limited in June 2008. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Bengaluru, India. Quikr India Private Limited is a former subsidiary of eBay Inc.

EdSurge, Inc.

Series A in 2015
EdSurge, Inc. owns and operates a community which provides news and information on innovation in education technology. Its product browser enables the members to filter information by subject, audience, product characteristics, standards alignment, and technology platform. The company caters to educators, entrepreneurs, and investors. It also publishes a weekly newsletter and reports. EdSurge, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Kin Insurance

Seed Round in 2017
Kin Insurance, Inc., an insurance agency, provides insurance products and services. It offers insurance products and services in the areas of homeowners, mobile home, condo, flood, manufactured home, landlord, umbrella, hurricane, wildfire, and second home insurance. Kin Insurance, Inc. was formerly known as Bright Policy, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an additional office in St. Petersburg, Florida. It has payment processing offices in Palatine and Chicago, Illinois.

Goodmail Systems

Series C in 2009
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Goodera

Series A in 2017
Goodera is a global CSR & Sustainability platform, co-headquartered in Bangalore and Menlo Park. With our innovative cloud, mobile, voice and big data platform, embedded with strong domain expertise, we enable and empower corporates to manage their CSR and sustainability goals in a simple, transparent, measurable, and engaging manner.

Siyavula Education

Venture Round in 2015
Siyavula Education is an education technology company that enables learners to improve their performance in high school mathematics and science through technology-empowered learning. Siyavula has developed innovative software that enables learners to practise Maths and Science, intelligently. The software adapts to every learner's individual needs, providing targeted feedback so that they can master the necessary concepts and skills.

Tinkergarten

Series A in 2017
Tinkergarten, Inc. offers outdoor play-based learning classes and activities for kids aged between 18 months to 8 years. The company provides activities for parents to help them to provide their kids with authentic, trusted, early childhood education; enables people to become a leader, and market and manage on-ground classes; and allows parents to find those classes for their kids in their local community. It matches families with leaders in their local community who offer activity-based kids’ classes that help them in developing the skills. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Platial

Angel Round in 2005
Platial, "the people's atlas", is a map making, map searching and map exploration site all in one. Like most map sites these days, Platial takes advantage of the Google Maps API to extend its capabilities. The site is a simple mashup with a social layer and UGC twist. Platial users are interested in documenting their own travels as well as seeing those of other users. Platial's key feature is a map creation tool that lets anyone put locations markers over any point on the map they've visited and then annotate it with pictures and comments. A Google Adsense text advertisement appears on each annotation to match the context in each place. Users can tag each stop on their map as well as see other users that have been there. Clicking on a Tag will take you to a menu of other destinations with similar features. Clicking on another user who has been to any given location will take you to his/her map that shares that location. By networking this way, users can uncover the best places to go in any region quickly and easily. Google maps has less functionality than Platial, yet now allows users to create custom/sharable maps. The "Where I've Been" Facebook application [Acquired by TripAdvisor](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/tripadvisor-acquires-facebook-app-where-i%E2%80%99ve-been-for-3-million/) provides a service with a similar goal. Platial has widgets for [Facebook](http://crunchbase.com/organization/facebook), [MySpace](http://crunchbase.com/organization/myspace), [Friendster](http://crunchbase.com/organization/friendster) and Wordpress.

Medd

Series D in 2019
1mg is a digital consumer healthcare platform that makes healthcare accessible, understandable, and affordable. It allows users to find information about medicines prescribed by doctors and also buy it. Users can find drugs by ailments, class, companies, and brands. Its doctor platform aims to transform how to find the right healthcare professional for a consumers' needs. Its diagnostics service brings transparency and price-effectiveness to lab tests. The company empowers Indian consumers and caregivers to select the most appropriate healthcare service at the best possible price. 1mg was launched on 2015 and its operations are headquartered in Gurugram, India.

Prosper

Series B in 2006
Prosper is an online lending platform that connects people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions. Its platform provides lists of loan requests with low, fixed-rate loans and no hidden fees or prepayment penalties, enabling clients to easily gain access to affordable personal loans and investors to earn solid returns via a data-driven underwriting model. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.