SIFF Recipients
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1Room
For schools in Kenya with one room and one generalist teacher, 1Room is digitizing and delivering school curriculum via tablets.
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AbscoTx
AbscoTx injects image-guided therapy into tumors to educate the immune system to fight cancer locally and at metastatic sites.
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Akademi.al
Providing equal access to an excellent education to Albanian-speaking students around the globe.
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Almond Fintech
Providing financial institutions with near-instant FX settlement across borders, consistently beating mid-market rates.
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Alokito Hridoy Foundation
Building a teacher development platform that aims to support, nurture and empower teachers in Bangladesh as compassionate leaders and lifelong learners
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Alvus Health INC
Alvus Health is developing a data-centric and automatic platform for target identification and drug discovery.
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Anise Health
Reimagining mental health for the Asian community by providing personalized online interventions that acknowledge cultural context and addresses intersectional needs.
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Aperture Bio
Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
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Asude Foundation
Aiming to provide a holistic education for every child in India.
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AugMend Health
Helping mental health professionals save time and increase coverage with self-guided VR intake and AI-tailored patient onboarding.
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Barefoot Edu Foundation
Creating a movement of empowered educators in India who make education meaningful for children.
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Beacon Bio
Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
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Beaver Health, Inc.
Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
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BioDevek
Improving clinical outcomes following internal surgeries using degradable biomaterials.
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Body Empowerment Project
An evidence-based eating disorders intervention platform for adolescents.
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BonePixel
Building a fully-automated, AI-powered platform to assess hip pathology in 3D, using routinely collected clinical data.
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Breaking
Breaking Inc. is using synthetic biology to get rid of plastic waste.
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Broadleaf HEA
Providing evidence-based health and education interventions for children in rural India that produce tangible improvements to participant’s wellbeing.
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Canopy Nepal
Providing equitable education access to underprivileged children of Nepal and promoting interactive learning used to make informed decisions.
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CarePort Health
An intelligent online platform for hospitals, patients, and skilled nursing facilities to coordinate efficient and high-quality discharges.
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CartaBio Inc
A single-cell precision medicine techbio that uses proprietary spatial biology and AI to decode novel disease biology.
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CashEx
Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
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CassVita Inc.
Using proprietary technology to foster prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa.
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Cellforma
Developing life-saving, first-of-its-kind regenerative cell therapies to overcome the unmet need for donor lungs.
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Chaku Foods
Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
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Cherish
Offering education, support, fun, and community for families impacted by dementia.
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Civic Roundtable
Building a dedicated ecosystem for public servants to ask questions, find experts, and access resources within government and across the civic sphere.
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Clean Slate Clinic
Building a clinical protocol for at-home clinician-led care for intensive medicated treatments for addiction.
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Coding it Forward
Empowering the next generation of mission-driven technologists by creating new pathways into public interest technology.
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Critical Healthcare Information Integration Network, Inc.
A free-for-use SMS messaging system providing validated medical reference information to community health workers in rural settings.
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Current Electric
Developing fast charger infrastructure focused on rapidly enabling the mass adoption of electric transportation.
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Day Zero Diagnostics
Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
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Debate Spaces
Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.
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Delfina
Building an integrated pregnancy platform delivering personalized care based on deep insights into each member's needs.
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Dermocratize
A one-stop-shop to buy clean beauty that actually works for your unique skin type, using personalized medicine algorithms, dermatologist product screening, and carcinogen lab-testing.
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DetoXyFi
Developing science-backed, all-natural water filters inspired by nature — removing disease-causing agents from drinking water to provide World Health Organization-quality water.
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EarthBond
Affordable energy for African small businesses. Reliable solar energy that saves business owners money on fuel for their generators.
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Edufun Technik STEM HUB
Empowering rural and semi-urban Nigerian K-12 schools with essential STEM education and advanced digital skills training for youth.
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Eki Agrivoltaics
Enabling the coexistence of agriculture and solar energy by scaling an innovative photovoltaic technology and sharing the revenue generated from the solar energy with farmers.
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EuMotus
Developing an AI-empowered movement analysis system that helps physical therapists and athletic trainers better treat physical health.
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First Gen Empower (FGE)
Supporting first-generation, low-income, and undocumented students, as well as their schools and families, with college and career-readiness programming.
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FoodNiche-ED
Leveraging technology to empower teachers to introduce nutrition education in the classroom.
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Freedom Cups
Making reusable menstrual products to women, and implementing a buy-one, give-one model to increase access to menstrual cups in underserved communities.
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GC Therapeutics
Using synthetic biology to program stem cells into any cell type with best-in-class efficiency, speed, and scalability.
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GenUnity
Activating everyday adults to create a community by everyone for everyone.
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GramHeet
For Indian smallholder farmers facing post-harvest challenges, GramHeet provides integrated solutions that increase earnings, foster self-reliance, and mitigate environmental effects.
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Grow Therapy
Expanding access to mental healthcare by connecting clients to qualified in-network therapists.
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Healthyslide
Providing health information to non-medically inclined audiences in Africa and the world at large through a website, podcast, and news outlets.
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Hometeam
Enabling family and paid caregivers to deliver the best care possible, as efficiently as possible.
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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
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Imago Rehab
Making high-quality rehabilitation available to anyone recovering from a neurological or cardiovascular condition.
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InConfidence
A smart patch technology that delivers at-home posterior tibial nerve stimulation to treat urinary incontinence and overactive bladder.
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InGel Therapeutics
Regenerative cell-therapy biotech aiming to treat people affected by blindness.
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Inqui-Lab Foundation
Nurturing problem-solving capacity among first-generation learners.
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Kern Systems
Kern Systems is developing cheaper and faster DNA synthesis.
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Kinnos
Adding color to disinfectants, visualizing surface coverage for more effective and efficient cleaning in healthcare settings.
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Koroid
An AI-powered platform for data-driven workforce and resource management, optimization, and logistics in the healthcare industry.
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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
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Limax Biosciences
Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
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Lime Therapeutics
Creating a new class of therapies targeting lipid metabolism in cancers and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Loo Works Limited
Building the first manufacturing facility in West Africa to use waste materials to create toilet housings and digesters
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Mai Soli Foundation
Empowering young girls to break the cycle of child marriage with education and entrepreneurship.
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Manifold Bio
Designing tissue-specific medicines in living systems from the start by combining high-throughput in-vivo studies with AI-guided protein design.
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MDandMe
Leveraging generative AI to help patients decide where and when to seek care and help doctors pre-populate their medical notes.
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Medical Emergency Rescue Committee chapter Yogyakarta
Building a humanitarian organization that operates in the field of medical emergency response.
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Meomind
Offering on-demand access to 600+ recorded therapy sessions and mental health tools for personalized, interactive self-care.
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Metalmark Innovations, Inc.
Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
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MiKashBoks
Making saving and lending with friends easy and safe.
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Mobile Memory
Harnessing AI and voice technology to detect early signs of cognitive impairment.
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motivPT
Delivering high-impact virtual physical therapy to expand access to care and reduce patient costs.
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Myspeech
Enabling access to high-quality speech therapy through a technology platform.
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Neru Health
Developing AI sleep therapy to help businesses manage chronic sleep disorders and reduce $100B in absenteeism, accidents, and healthcare costs.
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Net3allem
Providing access to universal high-quality early childhood education for children in need, in Egypt.
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Neumind Ltd
Digitizing neurorehabilitation for enhanced patient access, seamless caregiver involvement, and improved clinician overview.
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New Voters Org
Inspiring civic action through mobilizing 80,000+ high school students to vote across the United States.
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NovaXS Biotech
Designing a smart needle-free drug delivery platform that simplifies the medication self-administration process and improves remote healthcare adherence.
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Nucyrna Therapeutics
Nucyrna Therapeutics aims to redefine RNA-targeting therapeutics, starting in neurodegenerative diseases.
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Nunchi Health
Building inclusive mental health programs for culturally diverse communities.
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Paint it Red Foundation
Striving to impart body literacy to eliminate intergenerational misinformation that prohibits menstruators from living a life of dignity.
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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.
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Peripeach
Designing a medical device that protects the pelvic floor during childbirth.
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PlenOptika
Enabling eye care for all with the QuickSee — a simple, affordable device that prescribes eyeglasses at the push of a button.
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Promakhos Therapeutics
Developing oral, non-immunosuppressive, small molecules to cure chronic inflammatory disorders.
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ProtectED Solutions LLC
Designing furniture that protects against domestic terrorism and active shooter violence in schools, government buildings, and offices.
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RescaleMed - Tibb Mental Health chatbot
Creating an AI-driven mental health chatbot for cognitive behavioral health therapy.
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RhinUS
Eliminating the root cause of chronic sinus infection through a simple, minimally invasive in-clinic treatment.
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Rhymes with Reason
An e-learning app that helps students learn important English words by showcasing their existence in widely known music lyrics.
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RxAll, Inc.
A digital commerce platform empowering independent pharmacies in Africa with payment processing, point-of-sale, and pharmacy automation software.
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Saturday Art Class
Unleashing the creative potential of one of the world's largest marginalized child populations by developing social-emotional skills through visual arts education.
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School-Based Wellness (a subsidiary of Butterfly Dreamz, Inc.)
Providing mental health services to under-resourced schools.
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Seeing Hope
Partnering with indigenous communities to build educational technologies and community initiatives for language and culture revitalization.
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Serosafe
Designing medical devices to create a safer, healthier post-operative patient recovery experience.
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Shamsina
Designing, manufacturing, and delivering affordable, locally-made solar water heaters for all Egyptians, from energy poor communities to energy-conscious consumers.
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Skew The Script
Providing free, socially-relevant math curriculum to teachers.
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Skills.tech
Leveraging AI to deliver personalized corporate training that enhances learning with tailored content and analytics.
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Slam Out Loud
Using the visual and performing arts to enable children in India from disadvantaged backgrounds to find their voice.
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Society of Women Coders
A nonprofit fighting gender-based digital inequality in low- and middle-income countries.
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Somite.ai
Leveraging AI to develop novel cell therapies for diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and muscular dystrophies.
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SoWork
Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
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Stellar Sleep
Helping people learn how to sleep again with the award-winning mobile app for insomnia.