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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ADAPT
An automated sustainability reporting platform for fleet operators with the aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transportation industry.
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Akademi.al
Providing equal access to an excellent education to Albanian-speaking students around the globe.
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Aldatu Biosciences
Advancing infectious disease diagnostics that facilitate society's collective response to global health emergencies.
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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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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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Beaver Health, Inc.
Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
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Body Empowerment Project
An evidence-based eating disorders intervention platform for adolescents.
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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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Carbon Counts
For people who see climate change as a problem but don’t feel like they can help, Carbon Counts has built a mobile game, EverForest, and an impact platform to plant billions of trees and motivate meaningful climate action.
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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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Chaku Foods
Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
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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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Coolant
Carbon MRV for forests.
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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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Debate Spaces
Connecting and empowering middle schoolers worldwide, teaching debate to foster critical thinking, cultural empathy, and civic engagement.
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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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Earthacre
Deploying cutting-edge technologies that enable Indigenous landowners to quantify, measure, and get paid for protecting nature and fostering healthy ecosystems.
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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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Elio
A climate research data platform to optimize our climate response and drive innovation.
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Evisort
Evisort offers enterprise-grade AI that connects contract data across critical business systems and transforms contract lifecycle management.
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Finpublica
Empowering finance leaders to foster a more sustainable, inclusive, and equitable society. The organization works with existing and emerging leaders, from across the finance industry and around the world, to help them develop and achieve their own environ
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Firn
Investments in clean assets have traditionally been too big or off-limits for mainstreet investors. Firn’s technology fractionalizes investments into clean energy in an easily manageable way.
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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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Fortuna-Insights, Inc.
Using artificial intelligence to write, predict for, and strategize legal briefs and memos.
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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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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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Henua Technologies
Combining environmental management technology, innovation, and business intelligence, Henua Technologies’ tools help corporations implement sustainability, ESG, regulatory compliance, process transformations to meet their goals.
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humanID
An anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
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Inqui-Lab Foundation
Nurturing problem-solving capacity among first-generation learners.
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LABHYA FOUNDATION
Making well-being programs accessible to vulnerable children in India, at scale.
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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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MiKashBoks
Making saving and lending with friends easy and safe.
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Mitti Labs
Enabling sustainable rice farming by developing the most transparent and high-quality projects.
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Myspeech
Enabling access to high-quality speech therapy through a technology platform.
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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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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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Peripeach
Designing a medical device that protects the pelvic floor during childbirth.
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Poka Labs
Building a cloud-based data platform to modernize chemical operations.
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Postcard Cabins
Getaway offers simple escapes to nature within two hours of major cities across the country — inviting guests to savor their free time, find balance through disconnection, and enjoy the company of those who matter most.
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Practice IP
Streamlining patent diligence and transactions with an intuitive marketplace.
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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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Rehydrate
Creating a decentralized, low-energy water recycler for the disaster relief, Department of Defense forces, and developing communities.
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RESILIFT
For homeowners with flood risk, RESILIFT provides end-to-end residential flood-proofing solutions focusing on project financing and physical mitigation using innovative technology to optimize the process.
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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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Rumi Spice
Bringing flavorful, ethically-sourced, and socially-responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers.
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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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SeaCycle
Developing a unique and environmentally friendly method to extract valuable chemicals from seafood waste.
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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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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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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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SXD
Turning fabrics — including leftover and wasted ones — into beautifully-designed apparel products with ~55% lower costs and zero waste.
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Tana
Connecting tech teams to remote global talent.
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TANGapp
An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
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Taste of Kenya
Disrupting the supply chain with direct trade linking Kenyan coffee farmers with coffee buyers bypassing five levels of middlemen.
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TecHustle, Inc.
Building Africa's largest small business network for global trade by providing financial services and market access.
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The Ameliorating Health in Africa Initiative (A.H.A Initiative)
Transforming unused spaces in existing community institutions into free primary healthcare centers for extremely low-income residents.
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The Apprentice Project
Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide personalized learning experiences and support to students across India.
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The MV3 Foundation
Providing mentorship, networking, and financial support to future Black leaders in health sciences who will advance health equity
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The Surpluss
Helping governments and small-to-medium enterprises bridge the gap between climate science and circular economy with a digital solution to share their underutilized resources and profit from them.
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Thermaband, Inc.
Creating the only smart bracelet that provides immediate preemptive hot flash relief with personalized digital insights.
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THRIVE!
Building a software platform that helps state and local government agencies—including school systems—create budgets that mitigate disparities experienced by low-income residents and people of color.
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Tree-Plenish
Empowering students to create a more sustainable and equitable future through community tree planting.
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UCNLEARN
Empowering teachers to deliver reading intervention effectively using a tablet for students learning one-on-one, in groups, and independently.
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Ukraine Global Scholars Foundation
Providing mentorship, education, and career guidance to a new generation of Ukrainian leaders capable of accelerating the development of post-war Ukraine.
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UMA
Helping female artisans break free from the poverty trap by enhancing leadership skills and providing access to markets.
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UrSure
UrSure was acquired by OraSure Technologies. The company developed urine and blood tests that measure and improve adherence to medications.
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Vaxess Technologies
Developing a novel transdermal patch technology to transform home delivery of therapies and vaccines
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Veritel Energy
Providing a comprehensive system for property owners to generate clean, renewable, on-site electricity for tenants in multi-metered apartments.
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Virtudent
A telehealth solution for dentistry, expanding access to oral-health experts and improving the quality of dental care.
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Vocal Justice
Partnering with educators to transform their classrooms into healing-centered communities where youth imagine and advocate for a more just world.
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Wave Learning Festival
Enriching learning for students in grades 6-12 with free, accessible programs taught by a community of talented volunteers.