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5 years ago

A startup that provides a service to help people in poor countries get access to clean drinking water

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4 years ago

This is a water purification company that wants to provide clean, safe drinking water to poor people in the developing world.

320

5 years ago

A solution for poorly performing government-run schools in India, with plans to expand to other countries in the future.

314

5 years ago

A startup that aims to help remove the friction between resource-poor hospitals in India and those with more resources.

236

4 years ago

Empowering the working poor, with a focus on women of color.

199

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make “banking for the world’s poor” easier by providing access to financial services.

198

4 years ago

A company that builds financial tools for the elderly and poor, and provides real-time financial advice.

180

5 years ago

This is a financial platform for the “urban poor” that helps track their income, expenses, and savings. It connects people to financial services and also helps them understand how to make savings and investments.

166

5 years ago

A microfinance platform for the poor that provides an online finance management system. It helps with credit, savings, loans, and building businesses.

159

5 years ago

A startup to help job-seekers find the right internship. Internships are often unpaid and poorly advertised, and Noah & Noah wants to change that.

152

5 years ago

A company that pays people in the developing world to write content for a fee. They’ve already signed up one client (Watsi, a non-profit that helps poor people in medical emergencies) and expect to sign up another soon.

149

5 years ago

The founders of this startup are building a device to help you identify the origin of your food. It can be used to eliminate food fraud, and help the world’s poorest populations.

148

5 years ago

A startup that helps poor people earn money through their smartphones. The startup wants to replace the urban poor with a new type of labor force that’s more productive and less susceptible to exploitation.

119

5 years ago

An e-commerce for the under-served, aimed at those who want to buy a good but don’t have the means to do so. The founders believe that “goods are the new money”, and that the startup has the chance to be a “new currency” for the poor.

114

3 years ago

A solution to the problem of getting customers through to chat support agents. The startup is looking to help companies fix the problem of poor customer support.

109

3 years ago

A new kind of crowdfunding platform that operates as an app, with a huge focus on rewards and perks. It’s also a new model for getting money to creative projects, which are often poorly funded.

103

2 years ago

What if we could use new fintech tools to help the poor manage their money more easily

99

4 years ago

A way for people to build their own low-cost homes using 3D printing, with a focus on the poor.

98

4 years ago

A company that aims to make affordable internet for the poor in India, from a base in Delhi. They plan to provide a complete bundle for under $20 per month.

89

4 years ago

A micro-loan company that converts energy into cash for the poorest people in the world.

86

5 years ago

The Startup is developing a toolkit for city governments looking to bring internet to poor places. The company is building it using the latest smartphones and is working with the government of Kenya.

81

3 years ago

The startup sells a solution to the problem of poor Wi-Fi connections at airports and hotels. The company’s product is a small device that can be plugged into a wall that has a “hot spot” for high-speed internet.

81

4 years ago

A consumer mobile banking mobile app for the developing world. It’s meant to bring mobile banking to consumers in places where banking infrastructure isn’t robust, and where there are often mobile networks that are poor quality or nonexistent.

79

4 years ago

If kids are being sent to school by themselves, they may do poorly if they’re already scared of new situations. To help kids transition, the startup will send them to a therapist to help them “develop a calming presence” that they can use throughout their school life.

79

3 years ago

A B2B company that brings accounting to a space where it’s traditionally done poorly.

77

4 years ago

Nonprofits are often the ones using the most outdated technology, which can lead to cost overruns, delays, and ultimately poor results. Eloken helps nonprofits modernize their IT infrastructure by providing them with a cloud-based platform that cuts their costs while providing them with the tools they need to keep their programs running smoothly.

69

4 years ago

A startup that wants to help banks process payments without relying on expensive and poorly-functioning legacy systems.

67

3 years ago

A company that wants to bring health insurance to the world’s poorest. The startup is already in talks with the government of the Philippines about expanding the product, and is sending representatives to India to talk about it too.

62

4 years ago

A non-profit that is building a strategic communications and social media campaign to help bring clean water to the world’s poorest people.

61

2 years ago

A startup to help the working poor in the United States apply for SNAP benefits (food stamps) online. SNAP is a program that covers food, housing, and child care costs for low-income families, but the application process is complicated and often unpleasant.

59

2 years ago

A clean energy service that helps businesses and consumers save money on their energy bills. The company’s founders wanted to use the savings to help fund a nonprofit in a poor community.

52

4 years ago

This startup is building a platform to provide independent, unbiased ratings of hotels, flights, and other travel products. The company is building a system that rates hotels and flights on a scale of one to five stars, with a four-star rating meaning a superior experience, and a one-star rating meaning a poor experience.

51

3 years ago

A bank for the underbanked, targeting those who don’t have bank accounts, who typically live in rural areas, and are just too poor to be able to afford a bank.

48

3 years ago

A startup that wants to help the working poor in the US save money while shopping on Amazon.

45

2 years ago

A tool that helps remove the financial burden of the world's poorest when they make a purchase. The startup is leveraging a network of mobile money operators, such as M-Pesa, to help people move money for goods.

43

3 years ago

A startup for “time-poor” people to help manage their money and expenses via a single dashboard

42

2 years ago

An online marketplace that helps low-income families buy healthier food. The startup aims to reduce childhood obesity by offering meal plans to poor families and offering to provide cooking classes.

38

2 years ago

A new kind of crowdfunding that focuses on helping the poor get loans.

38

2 years ago

A startup that’s building a digital identity system for the world’s poorest people. The startup has partners in Kenya and Nigeria.

34

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for mobile payments in emerging markets. The company says it’s making the world’s poor more prosperous, and has seen $11 million in transactions so far.

33

2 years ago

A start-up that seeks to provide utilities to the world’s poor and remote with an affordable system that would allow customers to pay a small monthly fee and have access to light, gas, water, and electricity 24/7.

33

2 years ago

A startup that aims to provide more accessible, affordable and regulated credit to the unbanked in emerging markets. The founders say they’re aiming to close the gap between the poor and the middle class which in some countries is as much as 20 percentage points.

33

2 years ago

A targeted retail platform for the world's poorest people. The startup is building out an app that allows people to connect with businesses that match their needs and interests, and will eventually connect with those businesses to automate the sales process. There are over 6 million people in the Amazon that don't have access to healthcare, and the team says that it can help improve health outcomes by empowering them to take control of their health.

25

2 years ago

A platform for “rehabilitation of the forgotten poor”. The startup offers the lower end of the market a chance to rent a room in a shared house or house for a month at a time in exchange for light labor.

16

5 years ago

A startup that is a service for businesses to hire young people from poor countries to do web design and website maintenance

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