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Aakar Innovations
India
Aakar is a hybrid social enterprise comprised of Aakar Innovations and Aakar Social Ventures that enables women to produce and distribute affordable high quality 100% compostable sanitary napkins within their communities while simultaniously raising awareness and sensitization of menstrual hygiene management.
| Manufacture goods |
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Aflore
Colombia
Aflore is a network of financial advisors based on trust. Treating everyone as a friend and helping them realize their financial goals.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Arbutus Medical
Canada
Launched in 2014 Arbutus is a medical device company developing affordable world class medical devices. Their flagship product is an affordable surgical drill kit. The Drill Cover increases efficiency and accuracy while reducing the capital cost of orthopedic drills allowing surgeons to safely use a low cost hardware drill within a clean surgical environment. Arbutus sells the Drill Cover in combo kits which include a low cost hardware drill and a set of five sterile covers.
| Human health & social work |
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Boond
India
Boond creates entrepreneurs who sell and service development products like solar lamps (and home systems) water filters efficient cooking stoves dynamo lamps and mosquito nets in remote rural areas or areas affected by calamities (floods etc.). The products are aimed at providing the poor with access to adequate lighting clean water efficient cooking and pest control thereby improving their productivity and health. By train young people in becoming entrepreneurs Boond also provides livelihood to the rural unemployed while at the same time ensuring that best servicing standards are maintained.
| Energy |
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Desolenator
United Kingdom of Great Britai
Desolenator Ltd has patented a method of water purification that operates entirely by the power of the sun. It purifies water from any source with no chemicals no filters and no moving parts. The result is the cheapest most environmentally friendly method of desalination. The company aims to have the Desolenator provide water independence and fresh drinking water independence to 1 billion in the next decade.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Empower Generation
Nepal
Empower Generation (EG) is a social enterprise that connects renewable energy technology (RET) suppliers with female entrepreneurs at the base of the economic pyramidthose living on less that $2.50 per day. EG provides women with business and technical training and support and provides energy consumers with microfinancing for RET purchases increasing local economic opportunities promoting gender equality and combating the root causes of poverty
| Energy |
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Kinara Capital
India
There are 26m small enterprises in India less than 5% of them have access to commercial capital. Kinara Capital a brand of Visage Holdings and Finance Private Limited (NBFC) is a Bangalore based social business that provides loans in the range of Rs.1 lac to Rs.10 lacs to small enterprises with turnover of less than Rs.2 Crores filling the gap between microfinance and commercial capital.Kinara Capital provides term loans purchase order backed short term loans and a bill discounting facility to producers and providers across the value chain for asset purchase or working capital needs. Our custom risk assessment methodology flexible product terms customer centric processes and supply chain integration enable us to complete the loan process in 2 3 weeks.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
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Leaf Innovation
India
Leaf is a wearable technology company. Their product Guardian is a wearable device which combines with the mobile application and control room to form a security ecosystem which makes sure that every woman who has the device will stay safe anytime and anywhere. The features that make the technology stand out against the existing solutions of women security are sensing of danger by the device communicational redundancy and crowdsourcing of help.
| Other |
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Miti Health
Kenya
Miti Health is transforming healthcare in East Africa with a technology platform that addresses the most pressing needs of frontline providers. Their solution is an off the shelf Android based application for small healthcare providers in Kenya (called chemists). The system reports on sales manages inventory and enables easier reordering of high quality medications in an environment where supply chains are fragmented and over 30% of medication is counterfeit.
| Other |
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ONergy
India
ONergy (Punam Energy Pvt. Ltd.) is a leading social enterprise established in 2009 providing decentralized energy solutions to underserved households and institutions. ONergy provides complete energy solutions with an entire range of solar products. ONergy s strength lies in developing high quality products strong after sales service network facilitating consumer financing for solar systems and developing an ecosystem for sustainable development and rural empowerment.
| Energy |
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Pixán
Mexico
Pixan is a social enterprise working to sustainably improve the well being of coffee farmers and their communities by creating and selling new products improving market access and fostering a holistic and organic approach to environmental management.
| Other |
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Project Equity
United States of America
Project Equity is the community economic development to shift control locally and build economic resiliency in low income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. They envision a future where business decisions are made through a lens of what is good for workers and communities leading to businesses that are more successful communities that are more resilient and workers who have stable jobs and economic security.
| Real estate, design & building |
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Sampurn(e)arth Environment Solutions Pvt Ltd.
India
Sampurn(e)arth provides end to end decentralized waste management solutions ranging from waste audit designing and setting up of the waste handling system and also providing further operation and maintenance.Decentralized way saves the considerable transportation and the emissions attached to it. Their customers range from townships corporates school and college campuses and also municipal corporations.
| Waste Management & Recycling |
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Sanchayan
India
'Sanchayan Suraksha' is committed to achieving 'complete financial inclusion' for low income & BOP segment. Financial inclusion is part of the United Nations MDG 1 Millenium Development Goal and is an important agenda of the Government of India.
| Other |
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Sevamob
United States of America
Sevamob is fundamentally transforming the access to primary healthcare in the developing countries. They operate an online health exchange through which patients can find connect with and use tele health / in person services from participating health providers. Sevamob also deliver primary healthcare via mobile clinics to groups on a monthly subscription model.
| Other |
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Spring Health
India
Spring Health builds out water tanks in the village kirana shop partners backyard and treats and tests water to pronounce it safe before it is siold at 0.20p per liter. Delivery to homes is at an additional 10p per liter and delivery at a distance is at an aditional 30p per liter. A family of 5 can thus meet their daily need of drinking water for a cost of Rs 2 to Rs 3 with a max of Rs 5 if they are at a distance of more than 2km from the kiosk.The entrepreneur makes a 25% margin on water sales and the benefit of increase footfall to his shop access to other products from the Springhealth stable and last but not least is the increased status the providing of a basic need to the community creates for him.
| Water & Sewerage |
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Suyo
United States of America
Suyo is a public benefit corporation that leverages modern technology to formalize real property rights for low-income families. Their tools and methodologies contribute to more efficient and transparent property rights systems and property data collection.
| Professional & technical services |
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Tamul Plates Marketing
India
Tamul Plates Marketing Private Limited (TPMC) is a company jointly promoted by the arecanut leaf plate producers of North East India and the employees of Dhriiti. TPMC is an institution which was promoted as part of the Arecanut leaf plate initiative of Dhriiti to provide marketing support to the producers. These producers belong to various rural communities of this region and have taken the courage to take part in this innovative project. TPMC provides 100% buy back guarantee to the producers of arecanut leaf plates. TPMC purchases the products of the producers on a weekly basis and pays the producers immediately on fair trade price which is jointly decided in consultation with them. TPMC then checks the quality of the product packages it and supplies it to various parts of India. TPMC absorbs the market shocks and lets the producer concentrate on the production aspects. The profits earned by TPMC are also distributed amongst the producers as they are also the shareholders of the company.
| Other |
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Thirsty Whale Elixirs
Canada
The concept for Thirsty Whale Elixirs Inc. started in the summer of 2014 when a friend (who knew Lia was looking for a unique food product to bring to market) mention the word Shrub. Like many of you Lia had no idea what Shrubs were and within five months Lia had started a business bringing to Canada its first retail ready gourmet Shrubs.
| Acommodation & food service |
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Vendedy
United States of America
Vendedy is a social enterprise that connects global travelers to local street vendors via mobile technology. The founder is the daughter of three generations of Haitian female street vendors who noticed a need following the 2010 Haiti Earthquake when vendors lost most of their inventory and access to consumers. It was at that moment that Vendedy set off to digitize the street vending industry and make it a global conduit of prosperity.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Villgro Stores
India
Villgro Stores provides specialized products and services to over 6000 farming households in Tamil Nadu which enables farmers to increase their income. VIMPL (Villgro Innovations Marketing Private Limited) has created and proved a unique distribution model which reaches inside villages through VLEs (Village Level Entrepreneurs). The VLE model has created viable businesses even in smaller villages. The process of participative product testing and evaluation by end users in actual field conditions makes adoption quick and cost effective. Focusing on rural households as a unit and building a product portfolio to meet the multiple needs of a family and enterprise has created a viable business proposition for small entrepreneurs in the village.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |