Re-Nuble, an agtech company transforming the global fertilizer supply chain, has a patent-pending nutrient delivery system producing fertilizers that are two times more cost-effective than the dominant soilless fertilizers, and enables soilless farms to produce certified-organic food.

One method of alleviating world hunger and poverty is through improved irrigation. A major challenge in providing irrigation, however, is water scarcity, especially in lower income countries. While traditional practices of flood and drip irrigation are commonly used in developing countries, these practices are highly dependent on the availability of water and exhibit particularly low irrigation efficiencies. Our solution is focused on controlling agricultural water use for farmers in developing countries. We have developed a completely passive non-electric irrigation control system (PICS) which uses soil water potential (or soil pressure) to determine the optimal schedule to irrigate a farm.

Reeddi sustainably provides clean and reliable electricity at a price point that every African can afford. Our proprietary patent-pending energy generation and distribution technology system integrates smart data harvesting and analytics technology. Our customer-centric, locally structured business model allows us to affordably provide electricity. Operating a hardware-as-a-service (Haas) model through our energy system ensures customers pay an affordable daily rental fee to easily access electricity.

Cipher is a tool that enables you to diagnose and detect cerebral malarial retinopathy with a smartphone and also captures data relating to every patient. This would be of immense help not just in urban settings but also in remote areas where it could just be a split-second decision to treat a child for malaria or consider other causes of illness which could be life-threatening as well.

We are equipping rural marginalized schools with our patented solar-powered cook stove that permits around the clock cooking, by tapping the sun’s energy and storing it in a repurposed oil tank with waste motor oil as an effective carbon sink tank. This eliminates the need of firewood by 100%. The stove is affordable and provides heat energy even during rainy seasons. We license our technology to already existing boiler fabricators and Jua Kali artisans who engineer and distribute the stoves saving schools 100% cooking cost-money. The money saved equips science and computer laboratories to offer quality education to students.

Inteco works in the menstrual hygiene ecosystem and focuses on the distribution and supply chain management of donated sanitary pads to adolescent girls in schools. We firm up the value chain by eradicating any human interference, ensure that sanitary pads are being used by the intended user, and create cheaper systems for accountability and monitoring. We do this by installing sanitary pads dispensers in schools, which allows students to get a pad when they need it using NFC cards.

Electrostatic Spraying System for produce (e.g., grapes and pomegranates) is more effective and four times more efficient than conventional spraying systems. It provides a more uniform dispersion and coating of the target. It is easy to use, reduces application time, reaches hidden areas of the produce, and conserves the applied liquid.

The settled and densified excreta sludge left behind in septic tanks are not properly removed by the vacuum trucks and dewatering pumps. This sludge is presently removed by humans known as “Manual Scavengers.” JALODBUST removes this sludge by scraping, agitating, and pumping it out while eliminating the need for human touch.

Cerebo is a handy, non-invasive, fully computerized system for detecting intracranial hemorrhage in two minutes. It is portable and does not require special skills to operate it. It is non-invasive and is based on the NIR Spectroscopy. When deployed in trauma centers, emergency departments, and ambulances, it can save the lives of millions of patients whose brain injuries go undiagnosed.

Every year, farmers in sub-saharan Africa lose up to 30% of their grains valued at $4 billion to post-harvest losses. One cause of this is the storage of grains at incorrect moisture levels because they don't have simple, low-cost tools to measure grain moisture before storage. They usually resort to subjective means of measuring moisture content which are often inaccurate. Our solution, GrainMate, is a low-cost grain moisture tester which helps grain farmers reduce post-harvest losses by making it easy for them to accurately measure their grain moisture content before storage. At $100, GrainMate Grain Moisture Meter is over four times cheaper than conventional grain moisture meters on the market while offering superior accuracy.

"MaziwaPlus Pre-Chiller, previously known as MaziwaPlus Cooling Systems, is a mobile solar powered chilling on transit system that can be mounted on motorbikes for producers and dairy cooperatives for quality control, traceability, and maximized profits. This is in response to milk post-harvest losses due to lack of affordable cooling infrastructure for the highly perishable milk produce that is transported over great distances in rural Kenya. Rejection of milk at factory gate and no evening milk collection has led to continued revenue losses for small holder dairy farmers. In the last year, we have been able to impact over 800 households and increase their revenues by 32%, cut power consumption to processors, and 100% deliver quality, fresh milk. The product is communally shared at aggregation centers and through a real-time, mobile milk collection application.
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SAYeTECH produces multi-crop threshers that use business model innovation to enhance food security and empower the poor. Our two main objectives are to reduce grain (sorghum, rice, maize, soybean and millet) wastage that could feed our future and to empower poor grain farmers with the multi-thresher that can reduce post-harvest losses of by up to 30%, providing enough food to feed Africa’s growing population. Simultaneously the multi-crop thresher will also be increasing the income of smallholder farmers, especially women, by up to 50% every year.

Solar home systems and minigrids have taken East Africa, Bangladesh, and other markets by storm. As off grid and “bad grid” households climb the energy ladder, they demand new appliances -- especially “productive” appliances that generate supplemental income. Over 70% of families in Tanzania raise chickens for supplemental income and nutrition, but most have subsistence flocks that rely on natural egg incubation and provide small and volatile profits. Through mutual partnership with solar home system and minigrid companies, Kukua enables stable growth of otherwise volatile family income by making at-home artificial chicken egg incubation affordable and viable.

Over 20 million farmers in the Asia-Pacific region rely on small-scale aquaculture for food security and income. Their yields are less than industrial ponds due to low dissolved oxygen (DO) levels in the water. We have developed a wind-powered aeration system, WERLWind, which can accomplish aeration in ponds sustainably. WERLWind is a floating surface aerator consisting of a vertical axis wind turbine coupled to an impeller underwater. Wind energy is converted to mechanical energy by the turbine which rotates the impeller. This induces circulation inside the pond, limiting DO losses to atmosphere, distributing DO uniformly and improving overall DO content.

Low-cost drinking water filters are typically limited to bacteria removal, even though low-income people worldwide are disproportionately affected by rising levels of chemical contamination. Additionally, shipping expensive bottled water is common in emergency disaster relief. For ~$30 USD, Aguadapt builds off of our certified ceramic filter to solve these issues. The family-sized system is robust, deploys rapidly, and can be quickly installed in all common containers – providing safe drinking water for over three years. Aguadapt removes organic chemicals and 99.9999% of pathogens. It can be adapted with universal hardware to treat regionally-relevant contaminants like arsenic, lead, or fluoride.

Unnati, created by Resham Sutra Pvt. Ltd., is a solar powered machine for reeling Tassar silk yarn. Tassar silk cocoons grow in forest areas of East India. As these are some of the remotest and poorest parts of the country, the people there have extremely poor access to electricity. Unnati increases efficiency in reeling silk and improves quality of life, especially for rural women.

The Eco1 Rocket Stove, by Himalayan Rocket Stove, is a clean burning, high efficiency combustion for heating and cooking in the Himalayas and beyond. It reduces the demand for wood, thus addressing the deforestation in the Himalayas and the burden of fuel collection.

Taal Digital Stethoscope, created by MUSE Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd., is a small, handheld device that uses cutting edge technology to produce clear, noise-free body sounds. Their app enables users to visualize, record, analyse and share these results; and their innovative cloud platform gives users diagnostic suggestions and enables specialist referral.

Annie, by Thinkerbell Labs, is an audio-tactile device that enables Braille self-learning and classroom teaching for the visually impaired.

Brün CG is providing state-of-the-art fetal monitoring technology at a user acceptable price point. Along with the mobile application, it allows for recording, collecting, and sharing of fetal data with clinicians for timely interventions in the remotest of locations.

Sparsh is a multi-parameter, portable, hand-held medical device that helps clinicians screen diabetic patients for symptoms of peripheral neuropathy.

The Biogas Milk Chiller by SimGas enables off-grid dairy farmers to store, deliver, and sell the highest possible quantity of milk. Milk is kept cool over night until it is delivered/sold the next day. This decreases milk spoilage and increases income potential for dairy farmers.
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Bentos Fuels is an innovative process of recycling harvested water hyacinth, which is an invasive plant species, and mixing it with paper sludge and charred waste biomass. This innovation produces a unique resin extruded into smokeless charcoal briquettes that are efficient and affordable.

The Smart Brooder is an environmental controller that assists farmers in automatically monitoring and controlling their chicken coops. It reduces reliance on charcoal as a source of heat and encourages the use of infrared bulbs, which are highly efficient and have minimal impacts on the environment.

NeoVent provides non-invasive, dual-pressure ventilator and its patent-pending design has only one moving piece. It is easy to use and does not require continuous electricity. It can be manufactured for less than $20 compared to traditional ventilators that cost 100 times more

The Solar Hybrid Coffee Roaster can be used by small rural farmers to roast their own coffee beans with sunlight. Solar roasting provides higher incomes by minimizing costs of production, promotes organic practices, decreases CO2 output, and allows small scale farmers to continue to work and live in remote areas.

Chemotherapy lowers neutrophil levels, which inhibits the body's ability to fight infections. These infections can be avoided if low neutrophil levels are detected early. PointCheck is a non-invasive device that aids in early detection thus decreasing instances of infection for chemotherapy patients.

With BrailleMe the visually impaired can access any digital information instantaneously in their own tactile script Braille at a 10x lower price than existing products due to patent filed technology

Saans is a multi-powered, low-skill, neonatal breathing support device, which maintains respiration and oxygenation in neonates with RDS (Respiratory Distress Syndrome) in the resource constrained settings including transportation.

SWACHH (Saral Design Solutions Private Limited) is India’s first indigenous designed automatic machine which makes ultra-thin sanitary napkins.

A noninvasive device used to test for Malaria. It uses custom made hardware which is then connected to a smartphone to aid easy diagnosis within households.

An affordable, portable, practical and highly scalable science lab that can fit in the bag and on the desk of students.

A sign language to speech translation glove that has been developed to address the language barrier between sign language users and the general public.

Evaptainers creates low-cost mobile refrigerators that run on water. These are perfect for low income families who live off grid or cannot afford a conventional refrigerator.

PlenOptika developed the QuickSee to disrupt the barriers to eyeglass prescriptions for billions of people worldwide so that they can get the eyeglasses they need.

An ultra-clean cookstove that reduces smoke emissions by 90% and biomass fuel consumption by 50% compared to traditional open fire cooking, while also co-generating electricity from the flame to charge mobile phones and lights.

Buoy by Calliope is a connected whole-house device that gives homeowners real-time, detailed information about how and where they use water.

The PayGo smart meter technology (SMT) couples to any LPG cylinder, enabling micro-asset financing and pay-as-you-go functionality.

AMPARO is redefining prosthetic care to make it accessible to more amputees by decreasing the time and training required to fit a socket.

Banza Toilets are designed to be an in-home unit providing families with safe, dignified and accessible toilets.

Green Rock Drill is an intermediate technology machine appropriate for small scale miners.

A modern greenhouses with sensor technology. Sensors monitor temperature, humidity, soil moisture and regulate the water supply and link to the farmer’s phone.

The portable hand held dermascope is a multi-wavelength dermascope which can detect and continuously monitor various skin diseases non-invasively.

A device that absorbs over 60% of the particulate matter (soot) from engines and converts it into Ink - a value added product.

The Bempu Hypothermia Alert Device is a simple, innovative baby bracelet which detects and alerts in the event of neonatal hypothermia.

CalWave’s “Wave Carpet” generates electricity from ocean waves more efficiently and less obtrusively than other wave-energy systems. Waves pass over the flexible carpet and drive hydraulic pumps and pressure to generate electricity or produce freshwater.

Utilising a smartphone coupled with a robotic stage, mWSI acquires a single composite image of a biological specimen. The mWSI system converts any microscope into a smart microscope to digitize medical slides at resolutions up to 40x objective magnification.

A low-cost tocodynamometer that automates the monitoring of uterine contractions for midwives and provides contraction information in an easy-to-interpret partograph form without the need for continuous electricity.

GreenCHILL’s compressor-less & off-grid refrigeration system uses biomass for cooling to allow agriculture communities to preserve produce to reducing food waste and increasing farm revenue.

An IoT water quality device for shrimp aquaculture. Measures DO (dissolved oxygen), temperature, humidity, pH, salinity, TDS (total dissolved solid) and alerts farmers with SMS tips to maintain optimal environmental conditions for increased yields.

mDOC™ is a mobile diagnostic platform allowing health workers to be mobile and provide healthcare in the patients’ doorstep in rural areas.

A complete sanitation service that provides in-home toilets and waste collection coupled with the solar-processing of faces into charcoal briquettes for use as an energy source.

A mobile kiosk that enables connectivity through providing access to electricity and internet services to remote and disconnected places in East Africa. Implemented through a low cost franchise business model.

Soil quality diagnostic and management through low cost soil analysis and real time monitoring with farmer SMS notification/ tips for increased yields and risk management.