[INACTIVE] Global Social Venture Competition 2009-10
310 startups | Sort alphabetically
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Greennovation Technologies
We are here to provide the marginally poor and homeless with affordable, secured, eco-acceptable, and long-lasting housing materials cause we believe that proper housing leads to better earning and education opportunities and thus greater well-being!
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THE BAZAAR: Market for Fair Trade & Organic
THE BAZAAR, market for fair trade & organic, is a retail market offering local products to local people. It is as essential connection between community producers and the urban middle class consumers.
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colourDNA
colourDNA helps you discover new things to enjoy in life from people like you!
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Greenbys
Greenbys joins forces of responsible consumers, and allows them to buy green products collectively, as a social network.
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P.O.D. Wines
POD Wines is a chain of retail wine stores targeted at urban millennials and casual wine drinkers. Through a unique wine purchasing experience, POD seeks to become the trusted brand these groups turn to for both personal and social wine purchases.
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Place2Give.com
Helping you help others
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LearnBop
LearnBop enables professors to simulate a one-on-one learning experience with each student.
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story cycle
Story Cycle is the concept to develop, disseminate and improvise the stories from the community. We produce storyteller from the community to tell their own story. We support to make multimedia stories in community.
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LoudSauce
LoudSauce is a crowdfunded media buying platform for ideas that matter. It's like Kickstarter for cause marketing, offering a simple way to engage supporters to fund your advertising space.
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BlueDrop
BlueDrop - Saving lives through safe drinking water
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BlueDrop
BlueDrop - Saving lives through save drinking water
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Colour Fusion-Online
Make your home look as unique as yourself with our contemporary oil paintings!
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Green Silane
Green Silane produces silane gas for customers on-site in a manner that is flexible, low-cost, and environmentally benign, completely revolutionizing the supply chain for this critical input to flat-screen display and photovoltaic panel makers.
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Core Method
Core Method produces quality health foods based on enduring nutritional standards.
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EduKits
EduKits is an exclusive line of boxed Educational Activity Kits that contains specific concepts and related experiments to help kids learn subjects like Science and Math in a practical and fun-oriented way.
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Ruma
RUMA empowers the poor and poorest in Indonesia with pre-packaged and proven business opportunities -- complete with the equipment package, a strong brand, marketing materials, initial training, ongoing mentoring and access to a supply chain.
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Suyana Remote Hotels
SRH is a for profit social venture focused on developing and managing boutique hotels in remote and breathtaking areas of Latin America; reinvesting the profits to help small, rural communities lift themselves out of the most extreme poverty.
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Angaza Design
Angaza Design will improve the quality of life in East Africa by making affordable, high-quality, and permanent lighting solutions accessible to all.
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Pushpins
Pushpins is the first viral and competitive mobile savings platform. The team recently won the MIT 100K ESC and is currently prototyping its product. We're looking for i-Phone and Android developers to come on board.
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nKind
nKind is a rewards program for doing the right thing
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Ariston Global Solutions
Ariston Global Solutions (AGS) provides engineering services and business solutions to U.S. companies in Iraq by employing vetted local experts at a significant cost savings.
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AGROILS
Agroils, Biofuels for sustainable developmnent
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Eco Scraps
Eco Scraps turns left-over food waste into a high quality soil amendment.
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Sam White
We have developed a technology that enables food processors to cold-store the harvests that they collect on off-grid farms such as milk, fruits, and vegetables. Our first application is a solar milk chiller.
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WaterShield Inc
WaterShield aims to become a profitable enterprise with innovative approaches in the field of water management and water conservation while at the same time creating effective social impact through utilizing the Zero-Waste water recycling technology.
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The Show
The Show is the next evolution in American entertainment.
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BLISS: Business and Life Skills School
BLISS brings working youth back to school by sponsoring financial incentives and skills enhancement in the form of a creative afterschool program that produces for-sale crafts.
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EGG-energy
EGG-energy links low-income consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa to power producers by setting up a network of “charge & swap” service stations where we swap empty batteries for fully charged ones.
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One Breath of Career
One Breath of Career is a training and job provider for invisible youth in Turkey, mainly females and males between 15-24 years old and neither in education nor at work. Invisibles are trained and given an opportunity to work at least for 4-6 month
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SOFTWEB
SOFTWEB is redefining itself as a philanthropy facilitator
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Chatfe
Chatfe enables people to speak to others about interests they share. We match them with someone else who's available to talk about the same topic, and then we call both of their phones and connect them, all without sharing their private data.
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PROSPERA
PROSPERA is a social venture that develops microenterprises through cost-effective supplies, marketing and distribution.
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Echolight
Echolight is a start up medical company pioneering new non-invasive solutions for prevention and early diagnosis of Osteoporosis and related bone diseases. Stop Osteoporosis before it starts stooping you !
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Aiducation International
Aiducation International is a non-profit organization, dedicated to giving people access to education. Founded in 2007, the organization awards merit-based high school scholarships to bright and needy students in developing countries.
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Latitude Alliance
Latitude Alliance manages distribution channels for social entrepreneurs who have products to sell in emerging markets.
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Ektara
Ektara’s vision is to develop a platform for folk music so as to provide an immersive experience for cultures around the world and to improve the lives of artists in the developing world
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SEGURIKIDS
SEGURIKIDS is the specialized shop in child safety products. Our mission is to minimize the occurrence of child accidents at home through the supply of child safety products and parent´s education about accidents prevention
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Generation Oxygen
Generation Oxygen will help charities increase the amount of donations they receive online, as well as increase the amount of prosocial contributions that occur by giving positive reinforcements to individuals for their actions.
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Mini-Max Hotels
The socially responsible hotel chain
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OneVietnam Network
OneVietnam's mission is to connect and organize the people and groups that want to make Vietnam a better place to learn, work, and live.
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Nuru Light
We sell the world’s most efficient & affordable lighting system, charged by the world’s first commercially available pedal generator, to eliminate the use of expensive, polluting, and unhealthy kerosene in African households without electricity.
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Green Rainbow
Green Rainbow is an eco-social children’s clothing company that will offer affordable eco-clothing with limited-edition graphic art prints featuring up-and-coming artists. Art + Kids = Save the World!
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WorkerExpress
Evolving the Construction Labor Market
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Bioflorence
Jatrophone will produce large amount of sustainable biofuel feedstock from Jatropha, a hardy shrub able to produce oily seeds in semi-arid conditions.
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Beyond Lucid Technologies, Inc.
MEDIVIEW DX is a healthcare IT system designed to monitor and transmit vital medical data in real time while patients are in an ambulance en route to the hospital, so that critical treatments can begin immediately upon arrival at the emergency room.
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HomeGreening Pros
HomeGreening Pros is an analytics-driven service for homeowners to assess, purchase, finance, install, and monitor energy-efficiency retrofits.
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Avanti Fellows
Avanti helps assimilate high potential low income students into the corporate workforce.
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BTTR Ventures
BTTR Ventures is a company that turns one of the largest waste streams in America – the tons of coffee ground waste generated daily – into a highly-demanded, nutritious, and valuable food product: gourmet mushrooms.
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Global Progress Specialists
Global Progress Specialists (GPS) is unleashing the economic power of the private sector in emerging markets for the betterment of companies and peoples the world over.
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Dexterity Consulting
Canada's first and only philanthropic brokerage firm linking individuals and businesses with charities.