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2025

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Adolescent Health Champions

Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
Aperture Bio

Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
Base Operations

Aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations anticipate disruptions around the world — keeping their people, assets, and operations safe.
BonePixel

Building a fully-automated, AI-powered platform to assess hip pathology in 3D, using routinely collected clinical data.
CashEx

Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
Change The Tune

Closing the opportunity gap for youth in underserved communities by creating holistic, radical, and transformational extended learning experiences in partnership with communal organizations.
InConfidence

A smart patch technology that delivers at-home posterior tibial nerve stimulation to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
InGel Therapeutics

Regenerative cell-therapy biotech aiming to treat people affected by blindness.
JustFix

Building free tools for tenants to exercise their rights to a livable home.
MDaaS Global

Building and operating modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers to provide healthcare for Africa's next billion.
Melanin Doc

Supporting minority students interested in medicine with scholarships and mentorship opportunities.
Metalmark Innovations, Inc.

Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
Mozambique School Lunch Initiative

Providing nutritious school meals to children attending rural primary schools in Mozambique.
Oze

Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
Patient First AI

Designing an AI-powered app to help students submit their health forms effortlessly, providing real-time feedback on compliance status and addressing any issues that may arise.
PIVOTtheWorld

A mobile app revealing what places looked like in the past — showing authenticated histories of locations (from everyday places to popular tourist attractions), through images, videos, and text-audio.
RapidSOS

Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
Stochastic

An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
TANGapp

An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
The Apprentice Project

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide personalized learning experiences and support to students across India.
Thermaband, Inc.

Creating the only smart bracelet that provides immediate preemptive hot flash relief with personalized digital insights.
Tolemi

Integrating city data from multiple departments and systems into a single, easy-to-use platform.
UrSure

UrSure was acquired by OraSure Technologies. The company developed urine and blood tests that measure and improve adherence to medications.
Vaxess Technologies

Developing a novel transdermal patch technology to transform home delivery of therapies and vaccines
Virtudent

A telehealth solution for dentistry, expanding access to oral-health experts and improving the quality of dental care.

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