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Carbon Roots International
United States of America
Carbon Roots International addresses deforestation low agricultural productivity respiratory health and poverty in the Haiti through an innovative enterprise model that produces renewable green charcoal cooking briquettes and sustainable biochar soil amendments.
| Energy |
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CNote
United States of America
CNote is on a mission to expand access to capital and investment opportunities to those currently underserved by traditional financial constructs. CNote believe that the dollars can be an instrument for change not just in charitable and purchasing decisions but in investment and savings decisions. CNote CNote' mission is bigger than making a steady return.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Pandia Health
United States of America
Pandia Health was founded by a female MD who specializes in reproductive health they want to first bring convenient birth control delivery to the comfort of your home or wherever you may be. Pandia Health partner with pharmacies and doctors specializing in women s health to provide affordable convenient and dignified access to telehealth and pharmacy services.
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Pumped Innovation
United States of America
Pumped Innovation is a social venture developing a radically affordable solar water pump to increase income for smallholder farmers and reduce carbon emissions. In South Asia and East Africa tens of millions of farmers rely on fuel pumps spending up to a third of their net revenue on fuel. There is the enormous need for innovation in off grid agricultural water pumps however existing solar pumps are out of reach due to high upfront cost and long payback period compared to traditional diesel pumps. Pumped Innovation addressed these two barriers creating the first viable pay as you go solar water pump. As a team Pumped Innovation's founders have taken more than 10 products from design through manufacturing reaching 100000s of customers in developing countries. Pumped Innovation has partnered with leading NGOs and social ventures serving smallholder farmers and will deliver over 80000 pumps in the next five years boosting farmers' profits by over 50% while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 420000 tons.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Re(bound)
United States of America
Rebound Technologies is rethinking refrigeration through tailored thermally driven heat pump architectures that provide efficient practical and cost effective global solutions. Rebound s tailored development approach enables dramatic improvement over the one size fits all state of the art by utilizing renewable resources waste heat capture energy storage and simple low cost construction. Rebound is currently developing two unique and potentially transformative technologies. IcePoint is a refrigeration cycle with embedded thermal energy storage designed to save supermarkets 60% on their low temperature cooling costs. SunChill is an ultra low temperature thermal cycle designed for developing world agricultural applications to convert 50C solar thermal energy into 10C refrigeration using water based refrigerants just 30W of electricity and local non precision components. Each technology represents a departure from the one size fits all energy approach of the 20th century and instead focuses on tailored technologies that solve smaller problems better. This path reduces the cost of renewable/efficient systems by at an order of magnitude while at the same time growing self sustaining businesses that create jobs without reliance on government incentives.
| Energy |
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Sighten
United States of America
Sighten has built the most advanced software toolset for solar. Sighten's comprehensive platform spans the entire lifecycle of a solar asset from tools to streamline origination system design and sales/operations to features that automate ongoing reporting and analytics. Current customers include leading tax equity investors lenders finance companies developers and installers.
| Energy |
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Six Foods
United States of America
Six Foods believes that six legs are better than four and they are introducing insects to the Western diet as a sustainable food. We make tortilla chips with cricket flour called Chirps. They are 3x the protein and the fat of the leading potato chip. Plus they re non GMO and gluten free. They plan to eventually introduce more products with the hope of bringing insect meat onto store shelves in direct competition with beef pork and other meats.
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UtilityAPI
United States of America
UtilityAPI is a service that automatically collects utility bill and usage data from utility web portals. You provide customer authorization and credentials and they instantly download parse and format all the bill interval and service data they can find. They make all the data they collect available to you instantly through both their website and their secure API.
| Information, communication & technology |
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WellBrain
United States of America
WellBrain is a real time cognitive assessment & treatment tool enabling medical doctors to use non opiate modalities in analyzing and treating their patients. It is measurable meditation with monk power. Developed by a team of Harvard Stanford & Mayo Clinic trained medical doctors with over 50 years of clinical expertise in conjunction with a Y Combinator alum and an MIT meditation neuroscientist WellBrain represents a paradigm shift in the assessment and treatment of patients with chronic pain and anxiety.
| Human health & social work |