Artha Venture Challenge

With affordable and cutting-edge irrigation control systems, FlyBird helps farmers conserve water and control fertigation. The results include improved crop yields and increased production from their fields while systematically reducing water and supporting efficiency in electricity consumption.

As a provider of education and skill development services intended to enhance employability of trainees, this company offers early childhood education services, teacher training and education advisory services. Their service also includes support in development of employability skills for young adults through career counselling and holistic care to the elderly, enabling a community at large to improve their lives and futures.

Sampurn(e)arth is working towards breaking the non-cyclical process of waste management, which currently involves extraction, production, consumption and dumping or landfilling resulting in greenhouse gas emissions, ground water pollution and an ever-increasing strain on natural resources. Their vision is to make a world in which waste is totally transformed into utilizable resources without any exploitation of people or planet.

Leap Skills empowers young men and women in largely underserved and underprivileged areas with vocational skills in sectors such as textiles, healthcare, and tourism — giving them the opportunities through a structured program to lead a self-sufficient life and benefit from fulfilling careers. By working closely with over 40,000 students over the past 6 years, LeapSkills have created highly engaging training programs that equip students with the soft skills that drive success at work.

Artoo during its operation relied on the power of mobile, cloud, and alternative data to bring banking and financial services to the poor. Artoo’s customer relationship manager solution offered a complete suite of modules, such as lead management, loan origination, and credit underwriting. The company worked with clients in microfinance, micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprise lending, as well as mainstream banking,

NubeSol provides precision farming services to sugar companies by providing ‘on-the-ground’ intelligence about acreage, geographic availability and quality of the crop by using remote sensing technology and geographic information system. This technology helps to capture, analyse and generate information on the soil and crop health at an individual farm level.