Farmers Pride provides supply chain management and a “last mile” village retail franchise model,
catalyzing a modern trade ecosystem for rural, smallholder agriculture. The model entails
commercially distributing quality farm inputs with bundled farmer extension, farmer training and other services like soil testing and insurance.

EDKASA's mission is to make quality secondary education accessible to 20,000 adolescents in Pakistan by 2020.

We expand access to clean cooking fuel by letting people pay as you to switch from cooking with charcoal. Our model is working in urban areas in Dar es Salaam and now the real challenge is adapting it so we can serve the very poorest in rural areas.

Our mission is to combat vaccine preventable diseases through distribution of vaccination reminder bracelets and awareness creation on importance of childhood immunization in Nigeria.

Farmwise offers smallholder farmers everything they need to succeed in the field and ensure that they increase their crop harvest by up to 70% per cycle, reduce post-harvest losses and finally improve their livelihood.

Greenergies will source high-quality, proven, affordable solar lamps from proven importers and distribute them to target rural localities through a network of vendors who are already operating provision stores in these areas.

Our model is based on a Village Agent agro-input distribution model having four stakeholders: seed producers/companies, a master distributor (DIAPL), Village Agents, and maize producer households. 

SolSisters aims to meet the power needs of those living in informal communities in Namibia by selling and distributing solar products to base of the pyramid customers. We employ a rent-to-own model to increase access to off-grid power solutions among low-income communities. 

NENA foundation's mission is to identify women suffering from obstetric Fistula and connect them to hospitals offering free treatment and corrective surgeries.

SEMA - a Swahili word meaning “speak! what’s up,” is an SMS chatbot that facilitates citizen feedback about public institutions and public service delivery. Through SEMA citizens engage in an instant, direct, and interactive text conversation with an institution shortly following their encounter with an office. 

Every Child Matters aims to address the widespread prevalence of clubfoot, a debilitating physical deformity that leaves 1.19/1000 newborns in Uganda with inverted feet, and which, if left untreated, causes significant disability.

Mobilized Construction has developed a smart IoT device to measure and assess road conditions in real-time. Utilizing geospatial data from accelerometers, we calculate International Roughness Index...

Unnoti was founded by Md Intisher Rahman, Maheen Absar Neha, Shah Md Nasir Rahat and Tanjima Hoque. This new social venture will promote cost saving and modern environment friendly cook stoves to replace the traditional cook stoves...

EnEff (Energy Efficiency) was founded by Kaushal Kothari, Kartavya Bhola, Neeraj Bhagwatula and Kavya Sravanthi. This new social venture aims to ensure easy access to solar lamps to families in the state of Rajasthan, India...

The African 1000 Days Actions (ADA) is a start-up non-government organization that brings affordable quality maternal healthcare to poor women. Through its South Sudanese Project,

Trinity Health is a non-profit organization that aims to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria by training traditional birth attendants on how to adequately respond to

ComeOnGirls was founded by Menghan Li. This new social venture will improve women’s education in the rural areas of developing countries. In the first three months of its launch,

Imole Energy Solutions was funded by Segun Adaju to create energy access for the underserved in Nigeria. The venture will create energy access

Shehryar is the Founder and Managing Director of Harness Energy, a social enterprise dedicated to providing clean and affordable solutions to

Tessellate was founded by Lauren Byrne and Camillo Lamanna. Operating in rural Zambia, Tessellate will use SMS messages to increase efficiency

Safe Love International, founded by Sandra Omo Idugboe, is a young and dynamic NGO committed to securing a brighter future for

Endurance Electric mission is to improve access to affordable, high quality portable energy solutions that transfom the lives of people living Off Grid who

GreenVille Solutions creates awareness on the dangers of using awareness candles/kerosene for light and distributes Sun King solar

Approximately 1 in 44 women in Uganda will die from pregnancy related complications throughout their lifetimes. SMS Maama is an automated text messaging service for pregnant

Access to Education (A2e) is an online educational platform that ensures remote areas students access to quality instructive videos and live classes,

Pardafas was founded in 2015 to fight corruption in Nepal. Pardafas is an evidence-based accountability tool that aims to fuel the national fight against corruption enabling active

Peach Technologies is on a mission to accelerate the use software to predict, detect and treat diseases. Our first product is an electronic health records system designed to provide

Empower Generation is a social enterprise that creates clean energy distribution networks consisting of women-led businesses that reach last-mile

Please Disturb the Driver! was founded by Miguel Torhton, Mexican citizen and Master in Public Policy graduate from The George Washington University.

Pay2Educate aims to provide better means for the education of young girls in India. It has created a simple platform that links donors to schools, creating scholarships for underprivileged

Easy Solar provides pay-as-you-go solar-powered lighting and charging systems to people with no electricity access in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Deevabits Green Energy (DGE) was founded by David Wanjau. This new social enterprise will distribute solar lamps to improve the livelihoods and prosperity of the rural poor. DGE uses

The Solar Army Project: Tusingwire Patrick and Hamidah Naishur Nakimuli: Meridian Holdings , a start-up renewable energy service company is creating an army of foot soldiers to

Mother's Delivery Kit was founded by Adepeju Jaiyeoba. This social venture will train Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in rural communities and connect them with the lifesaving drugs,

PayGo Energy solves the root causes for reliance on inefficient fuels by removing key cost and supply barriers to modern energy. The PayGo smart meter technology enables micro-asset

M-Lesson aims to improve educational opportunities for children across Kenya through a low-cost mobile performance assessment platform. By testing and measuring ongoing student learning

Last Mile is a new social enterprise founded by Liz McNeil and her team at Anza. Over the next three months, the Last Mile pilot will train 25 high-performing sale agents in the

Within the world's poorest communities many children with preventable disease go without treatment, even when care is freely available. For some parents, they just don't know help is

Rimay is a crowdsourced rating platform for public services in developing countries. It was founded as a way to improve accountability and quality in government-provided services in

Sauti was founded by Julia Lipowiecka, Lance Hadley and Diego Hakspiel. Sauti is an SMS-based platform for simplifying trade procedures for small cross-border traders and using

TextDirect was founded by Shashank Iyer, Anudeep Yegireddi, Tiago Sanfelice, Nitsan Shakked and Stephanie Leutert. TextDirect leverages mobile technology to increase adherence to malaria

Sage is a data-driven distribution and finance company that makes solar energy, light, and life changing appliances attainable through long term payment plans. The Sage platform combines

Zero Violencia will prevent violence in Paraguay by distributing life skills development, a strategy recommended by the WHO as proven to reduce aggressive behavior in youth. They

Kumwe Logistics is a tech-enabled brokerage that lowers the cost of transporting goods in East Africa. Freight transportation costs 60% more than in developed countries, which has a

REACH, founded by David Kafambe, Angelina Micha Djaja, Clara Bicalho and Eduardo Campillo, is a non-profit organization whose mission is to empower teachers and promote creative

sharEd is improving early education in low-income communities in India by making high-quality educational curricula and resources accessible through an innovative new sharing model.

Arvind piloted a new approach for improving education in resource-limited settings. He will rely on digital student assessments to increase

Maria co-founded Livelyhoods in 2011, and will launch the iSmart network to distribute clean-burning cook stoves as replacements for dangerous

Olivia launched Juabar in Tanzania. Juabar kiosks use solar power to charge mobile phones and are also a point-of-sale for household solar lamps. Kiosks are run by local “jua-preneurs”.

Jackie and Diana launched Essmart to connect local India retailers with manufacturers of solar lamps, home lighting systems, water filters and other essential products. They plan to

Katie launched Watch Me Go, a crowd-sourced funding platform to provide education scholarships for girls in Kenya. Watch Me Go will allow donors to build a virtual classroom of

PayGo is a for-profit direct sales company that is distributing innovative and life changing products in Ghana. PayGo identifies and trains teams of sales representatives who sell

BYU students Dane, Bronwen, Ryan, and Spencer are working with Uganda's Minister of Health to improve praziquantel distribution, a deworming medicine. They will train

Social Cops is turning citizens into human sensors to aid decisions in civic, public health, and education issues. The organization is using citizen crowd-sourced data to bring

Launched by a team from Harvard, YouthGlobe sponsors full secondary school scholarships to talented, low-income Burundian students by connecting them to donors in

Tufts University student Morgan is creating Colibri (formerly Solar Route) which uses transnational bus routes to tackle the last mile distribution challenge. She is using existing

Andrew and Tommy are launching Claire de Lune. They will distribute solar lighting to untapped markets in Burkina Faso. They reach rural families by leveraging bus routes and

Launched by Hult International Business School graduates, Pulse is the world’s first mobile commitment saving service. It will give millions of unbanked people a safe and convenient

Alyse and Hashim are distributing energy efficient technologies to improve the health, income, and education of Africa’s low-income households. LiTeAfrica

Zacharias is launching Pay2Africa, an online payment business that allows users to send money transfers from the US to Ethiopia. Money2Ethiopia.com will

Youth Impact founders are teaching a "sugar daddy awareness" class to young girls in Botswana. The class warns teens about the increased HIV and pregnancy risks that come

Stanford and UC Berkeley students founded Miti Health. The venture is building an Android-based platform to help health care providers in East Africa streamline sales,

Born from Stanford's "Design for Extreme Affordability" program, EarthEnable is helping Rwandan masons install $30 earthen floors, a much healthier alternative to dirt

Columbia SIPA students are piloting CleanTap, a venture which has repurposed the well proven "Tippy Tap" handwashing station found in rural areas, and is now

Phoenix Solar will bring affordable solar products for lighting and mobile phone charging to under-served communities in Nigeria. Solar lamps result in significant

Bright Renewables provides renewable energy solutions to households and small businesses in Zimbabwe. We aim to lead the energy revolution by making

Qorax (“ko-rah") distributes clean, high impact home energy technology in Somalia, where grid delivered electricity rates are among the most expensive in the world and

RARE Education is developing a radically affordable model of delivering high-quality secondary education. RAREwill support students through an

ALTech addresses energy needs of off-grid and under-electrified households and institutions in the DR Congo, one of the world’s most challenging markets. 

Novotera is helping low-income families in Vietnam gain access to clean cookstoves by building a distribution network around the popular Rua cookstove. The Rua is designed to work with

vChalk offers remedial education and progress tracking services to schools in India. Our customers’ problem is the inability to support all children with diverse learning needs.

Jeunes Braves was founded by Som Kpante and Komi Begeou. This new venture will scale up Sugar Daddy Awareness Classes across Togo. This intervention was proven in a randomized

Dazin was founded by Deepak Ashwani. Dazin provides most affordable and environmental friendly cooking energy solution to the households of Bhutan. Dazin manufacture the fuel

SponsorHer! will ensure the brightest girls receive high school education through a scholarship program. Their fundraising platform mobilizes a network of expatriate mothers

Asepsis will implement a highly integrated and sustainable system that resolves the problem of waste collection in urban slums. Using a lowcost and durable squat toilet, they

SoLight is drastically increasing the use of solar lamps in Uganda. Customers are served via a shopkeeper network, and services include a Daily Rental Program where customers can