Tulaa
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Financial Inclusion
Tulaa
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.
Financial Inclusion
RecyclePoints
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.
Income Growth & Job Creation
ULTRA Testing
ULTRA Testing is an onshore IT startup unlocking the potential of autistic talent by proving that neurodiversity can be a competitive advantage in business.
Income Growth & Job Creation
Bak USA
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.
North America
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
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Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
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.
Technology Access
Detroit Community Technology Project
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.
Technology Access
EveryoneOn
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.
Financial Inclusion
Forge
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.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
PAIRIN
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.
Financial Inclusion
The Financial Clinic
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.
Technology Access
Safi Organics
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.
Technology Access
AgroCenta
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.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Brave Venture Labs
Brave Venture Labs provides talent sourcing software that identifies and matches highly skilled people to growing companies hiring in Africa.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Moringa School
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.
Income Growth & Job Creation
PrepClass
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.
Income Growth & Job Creation
Wesabi
Wesabi connects skilled and unskilled workers in the blue-collar sector, such as plumbers, cleaners, and drivers, to individuals and businesses.
Income Growth & Job Creation
ABURY
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.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Data4You
Data4You harnesses the world’s most accessible coding education models to bring beginners of all ages into the tech industry.
Financial Inclusion
hiveonline
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.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Jobiri
Jobiri is the first AI-based digital career advisor that uses artificial intelligence to help jobseekers land a job faster, providing personalised career support.
Technology Access
Pangea Electronics
Pangea Electronics’ modular laptop, “Pangea Sun”, is driving a sustainable IT business in Africa that empowers local citizens for prosperity and independence.
Income Growth & Job Creation
ProGlove
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.
Financial Inclusion
Sherpa
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.
Technology Access
Teqmine Analytics
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.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Connected Women
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.
Financial Inclusion
CreditEase
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.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Gnowbe
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.
Technology Access
InterviewAir
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.
Financial Inclusion
Kinara Capital
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.
Income Growth & Job Creation
Ricult
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.
Technology Access
Simple Motion Sdn Bhd
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.
Income Growth & Job Creation
STORM
STORM seeks to enhance employee lives by enabling employees to choose much more relevant benefits through a comprehensive benefits marketplace.
Income Growth & Job Creation
Aló Bodega
Alo Bodega helps move Latin America and Asian corner stores from the 19th century to the 21st century in the blink of an eye.
Financial Inclusion
Grupo Nueva Economía
Grupo Nueva Economía empowers the emerging sector of the economy by developing new digital channels for financial inclusion of the informal market.
Income Growth & Job Creation
Incluyeme
Incluyeme is the first and largest online job portal for people with disabilities in Latin America, for whom the unemployment rate is 75%.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Interacpedia
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.
Financial Inclusion
Outbound Initiative
Outbound Initiative offers a data-drive Global Opportunity Assistant for innovators from underrepresented regions, with focus on startups and innovative SMEs.
Skills Development & Opportunity Matching
Signa
Signa is a platform that provides deaf people with online courses in digital economy topics, helping them to participate in the economy.
Technology Access
Trocafone
Trocafone aims to democratize mobile Internet and reduce e-waste by creating a hassle-free marketplace for used electronics.
Technology Access
UnDosTres
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.