Arterran Renewables

Offers renewable, carbon-neutral biofuel that can replace coal in existing power plants without costly modifications.

DayOne Response

Offers a lightweight, backpack-sized emergency water purifier system that has provided 7 million liters of clean water to global disaster victims.

Litterati

Maintains a global database of litter to inspire action for cleanup.

Step Forward Paper

Produces wheat straw fiber paper to save forests and reduce the environmental footprint of the paper industry.

W.C.S. China Wildlife Guardian App

Fights illicit wildlife smuggling via an app for law enforcement officers to quickly identify the legal status of commonly traded species.

BeeLine Reader

Improves reading fluency and efficiency with a digital tool that guides the eye for online reading.

The FunDza Literacy Trust

Gives young South Africans access to high-quality, locally written literature and nonfiction via their mobile devices.

Impact Network International

Brings effective online learning tools and teacher training to Zambian schools in a model that can be adopted by other developing countries.

MIND Research Institute

Provides a spatial-temporal mathematical learning system that emphasizes concepts over memorization to increase math proficiency in the U.S.

OPENPediatrics

Provides free, online medical education content to pediatric health care providers and is used by more than 800 hospitals worldwide.

Lumkani

Produces an inexpensive, networked fire detector for use in South Africa’s urban slums, where blazes are a common and devastating occurrence.

miraclefeet

Offers a comfortable $20 brace to treat clubfoot in children in developing countries.

MOM Incubators

Is developing an inexpensive, collapsible incubator for preterm infants in developing countries.

Reliefwatch

Provides a mobile-phone based inventory system for health clinics to track medications and health care supplies, to reduce outages and medication expirations.

SunSaluter

A simple, solar-powered water purifier that produces four liters of clean water daily for communities without access to clean water or electricity.

Farmforce

Provides smallholder farmers an easy-to-use digital program to record work data and ensure they are complying with food safety and sustainability standards.

Off:Grid:Electric (OGE)

Offers renewable energy services in Tanzania to areas that lack a reliable, affordable electrical grid.

OneDollarGlasses

Offers a simple manual machine for opticians in low-income countries to make high-quality eyeglasses using less than $1 in materials per pair.

Sustainable Health Enterprises

Makes and distributes low-cost, eco-friendly sanitary pads in Rwanda so that girls can have the necessary supplies to be able to attend school during menstruation.

what3words

Is developing a global addressing system for the 75% of the world’s population without a geographic mailing address, so that all people can receive aid and deliveries.

APOPO

Employs trained African giant rats to identify the scent of tuberculosis in spit samples, to improve TB detection rates in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nexleaf Analytics

Produces ColdTrace, a remote, cell-phone based temperature monitoring system for vaccine refrigerators to protect the integrity of the inoculants.

Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA)

Offers educational pregnancy and baby-care messages to mothers and caregivers in Bangladesh, Africa and India to increase healthy pregnancy outcomes.

PrePex ™

CircMedTech Ltd. produces PrePex, a non-surgical circumcision device used in 12 countries across sub-Saharan Africa to help reduce HIV infection rates.

PulsePoint

Provides a mobile-phone app for CPR-trained citizen responders to provide aid in cardiac emergencies that occur near their current location.