MEET THE 2025 COHORT
Prasad Bhide
Founder
INDIA
Aaji Care runs an integrated elder-care company that provides assisted-living facilities for seniors who need help with daily activities and medical support, trained caregivers and nurses who provide in-home care, and dementia counselling delivered at the client’s residence.
www.aajicare.in
Michelle Arsjad
Founder
INDONESIA
Aquabloom is a vertically integrated seaweed biotech venture working with 300+ farmers, many of them women, and its own farms to ensure sustainable supply. Using proprietary methods, it produces seaweed-based biostimulants that boost yields by 20–40% across 25+ crops.
www.aquabloom.id
Ben Jeffreys
Founder
CAMBODIA
ATEC Bio is a social enterprise delivering IoT-based smart eCooking stoves to BoP households, reducing biomass use and carbon emissions. Its dMRV platform tracks stove usage to generate verified carbon credits, which subsidize stove costs and create a scalable revenue stream.
www.atecglobal.io
Divya Hegde
Founder
INDIA
Baeru is a women-led coastal climate-tech enterprise building community-run Blue Banks and mobile recycling units that convert shoreline and harbor plastic into traceable value while creating dignified livelihoods.
www.baeru.in
Namita Banka
Co-Founder
INDIA
Banka BioLoo delivers decentralized sanitation through DRDO-licensed bio-digester technology, offering solutions from bio-toilets to large-scale FSTPs. Its business model spans EPC, BOOT, and HAM contracts with long-term O&M agreements, ensuring recurring revenue.
www.bankabio.com
Rohan Kamal
Founder
BANGLADESH
’Supeyo’, an initiative of EasySense, is a social enterprise dedicated to solving the severe drinking water crisis faced by millions of vulnerable people living in Bangladesh’s coastal regions. They run solar-powered water ATMs and mobile delivery in coastal Bangladesh, offering affordable, climate-resilient clean water.
Tajwar Hoque
Director
BANGLADESH
A two-sided tech platform that connects patients, families, and facilities needing home or facility-based caregiving with a continuously trained pool of certified caregivers, most of them women. It earns service, subscription, and overseas placement fees, and uses continuous digital tracking, ratings, SOPs, and value-added tools to scale quality care while creating dignified jobs.
Mehedi Shoron
Founder
BANGLADESH
HelloTask runs a tech-enabled marketplace that links urban Bangladeshi households with a vetted pool of women who provide domestic and care services such as cleaning, cooking, childcare and patient support.
www.hellotask.app
Monika Shukla
Founder
INDIA
Humble Bee is a women-led enterprise building a climate-resilient beekeeping ecosystem through precision-engineered hives, AI-powered BEEKIND advisory, training, pollination services, and ethical hive product sales.
www.humblebee.com
Aayushi KC
Founder
NEPAL
Nepal-based circular economy enterprise driving formal waste value chains via an Uber-for-Waste digital platform. They also run With Love From Everest – upcycling Everest expedition waste into premium products.
www.khaalisisi.com
Shana Fatina
Founder
INDONESIA
Komodo water is a social enterprise delivering decentralized clean water, renewable energy, and circular economy solutions to Indonesia’s island and coastal communities. Using solar-powered systems, it provides refillable drinking water, solar ice for fishers, and community recycling units, all managed by local cooperatives.
www.komodowater.org
Phan Minh
Founder
VIETNAM
A 13-year rural-to-urban domestic-care labour platform that recruits, trains, and digitally matches low-income women into paid care work It reduces the unpaid care burden for urban women customers.
www.jupviec.vn
Anjali Rose
Founder
INDIA
KriSHE Carbon trains rural youth and women as “climapreneurs” to operate mobile pyrolysis kilns, converting crop residues into biochar that improves soil fertility and sequesters carbon for over a century.
www.krishecarbon.com
Phirium Dyphan
Founder
CAMBODIA
MUCH delivers hospital-level care at home, from primary to critical care including ICU, dialysis, palliative, geriatric, and dementia care. Through advanced tools and the ElderlyCare PLUS program, it ensures early diagnosis, medication adherence, and lifestyle support.
www.muchmobilehealthcare.com
Lieselotte Heederik
Founder
INDONESIA
Nazava operates a women-centered social enterprise model providing WHO-tested, durable, and affordable water filters to low-income rural households in Indonesia.
www.global.nazava.com
Thao Tran
Founder
VIETNAM
AirX Carbon, a women-led climate-tech company, produces NetZero Pallets; carbon-negative, biodegradable logistics pallets made from upcycled agri-residues. Replacing wood and plastic, they are 20–50% cheaper, ISPM-15/EU compliant, and ESG-certified.
www.netzeropallet.com
Celeste Rondario
Founder
PHILIPPINES
RIPPLEx is a social enterprise tackling sachet-driven plastic pollution in the Philippines by transforming women-led sari-sari stores into refill and reuse hubs through its ‘Kuha Sa Tingi’ program.
www.ripplex.ph
Dr. Sanju Sharma
CEO
INDIA
Sajeevan Life is a regenerative agriculture and climate-tech enterprise with four pillars: converting invasive biomass into biochar (and monetising carbon credits), helping farmers restore degraded land via agroforestry, selling biochar-based fertilizer blends, and deploying household biogas systems tied to carbon revenue streams for clean cooking for women farmers. www.sajeevanlife.com
Neethi Bhat
Co-founder
INDIA
Supernan is a tech-enabled childcare platform that professionalizes informal nanny work, connecting verified and trained women from low-income communities to urban families who need trusted full-time, part-time, or emergency child care.
www.supernan.in
Prashant Mandke
CEO
INDIA
SURE is a women-led rural distribution platform empowering local women “Sakhis” as last-mile entrepreneurs to deliver climate-smart energy, sustainable agriculture, and health products.
www.sureindia.org
Surabhi Kumari
Co-Founder
INDIA
Tekari Agro works with marginalized women farmers, especially in the rural and naxal-affected regions of Bihar. They offer low-cost huts for mushroom farming, which can also be repurposed for storage, poultry, or goat rearing, making them a long-term asset for rural households.