Tulaa is a mobile commerce solution built for rural Africa, combining mobile technology and last mile agent networks to connect agri-input suppliers, financial service providers, and commodity buyers to smallholder farmers. Tulaa lowers the cost and risk of doing business with Kenya’s farmers, unlocking the potential in rural markets.
RecyclePoints is Nigeria’s foremost waste recycling and social benefit venture. Unemployed citizens, mostly women and youths in rural and low-income communities, subscribe to their WastePickers Initiative (WPI) for free to earn daily income from gathering recyclable waste and trading them through a recycling platform for monetary rewards. The WPI program fosters financial inclusion and allows Wastepickers to build a credit profile.
ULTRA Testing is an onshore IT startup unlocking the potential of autistic talent by proving that neurodiversity can be a competitive advantage in business.
Bak USA is a social enterprise that is relocalizing American manufacturing, creating access to meaningful technology careers, and teaching skills to break cycles of inequality.
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Contratados.org addresses a critical shortcoming in guestworker programs that leaves migrants vulnerable to abuse by facilitating job portability and access to vital job opportunities.
By building community wireless networks in low-resource Detroit neighborhoods, Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) increases Internet adoption while creating more pathways for marginalized Detroit residents into the digital economy.
By connecting everyone everywhere to at-home internet, EveryoneOn helps ensure that all Americans can access the economic and educational opportunities that only exist online.
Forge is designed to ensure that hourly employees have the flexibility to work when and where they want and define their own work schedules for better work-life balance.
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PAIRIN makes education relevant and hiring equitable by accelerating development of soft skills for people with barriers to employment and de-risking those hires for employers.
The Financial Clinic builds financial security for working poor Americans through direct service, capacity building, and systems-level solutions and social innovations enabled by technology.
Safi Organics employs technology to decentralize fertilizer production, supporting networks of village-based fertilizer plants that create rural employment in a carbon-negative way to double farmers’ income.
AgroCenta’s platform leverages technology to provide Ghana’s rural farmers with market access and information, empowering them to trade fairly and improve their incomes.
Moringa School is a Kenya-based multi-disciplinary learning accelerator providing young Africans with digital and professional skills training. Moringa has a 95% job placement rate.
PrepClass is an innovative platform that connects African learners with tutors who provide the highest quality of education to help them reach their learning goals.
ABURY’s “Design Meets Craft” disrupts one of the largest labor markets in the world by establishing the first fair, transparent, and blockchain based handicraft collaboration platform.
hiveonline helps small/micro businesses thrive with paperless administration, easy access to finance and payments, and fact-based reputation, whether they’re banked or unbanked, over their mobile phones.
Jobiri is the first AI-based digital career advisor that uses artificial intelligence to help jobseekers land a job faster, providing personalised career support.
Pangea Electronics’ modular laptop, “Pangea Sun”, is driving a sustainable IT business in Africa that empowers local citizens for prosperity and independence.
ProGlove develops smart gloves that enable manufacturing and logistics staff to work faster, safer, and easier. We connect the human worker to the Industrial IoT.
Access to regulated advice and tailored insurance has traditionally been restricted to the affluent. Sherpa creates an entirely new insurance solution for all digital economy workers.
Teqmine Analytics makes people smarter about technology and business by allowing instant access to an Artificial Intelligence that literally embodies the collective creative mind of humanity.
Connected Women Jobs is a technology-driven social impact start-up that matches female entrepreneurs from all over the world with Filipino women looking for remote work.
In 2009, CreditEase launched the YiNongDai Public Welfare platform, where enthusiasts can lend loans to needy poor rural borrowers and provide them with opportunities for development.
By partnering with accredited training bodies (corporate and academic partners), Gnowbe connects quality content with needed skills and mindsets. Delivered by smartphone, Gnowbe improves employability.
InterviewAir is a Video Interviewing Asynchronous Multi-linguistic platform, assisting Tier 2-4 city job seekers and lateral and college campuses in India, cutting time and cost for multiple interview rounds.
Kinara Capital provides unsecured business loans to micro and small businesses in India, empowering entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses, create new jobs, and improve incomes.
Ricult uses advanced technology to reinvent the agriculture sector, securing a growing livelihood for those who work on-farm and creating new jobs along supply chains.
Simple Motion Sdn Bhd developed a tele-health platform for migrant workers and their native doctors, enabling them to consult using smartphones, thereby improving quality of care and productivity.
Interacpedia reinvented the connection between university student teams and organizations, helping students solve real challenges with projects that generate value in society with the development of new skills/jobs and opportunities/entrepreneurship.
Outbound Initiative offers a data-drive Global Opportunity Assistant for innovators from underrepresented regions, with focus on startups and innovative SMEs.
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UnDosTres is bringing Mexicans into the formal financial ecosystem by leveraging payments data to provide access to financial products and services, improving millions of lives.