James Mitchell | Co-Founder & CEO est. 2016

https://www.buildxstudio.com/ | james@buildxstudio.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact

Buildings & Construction, Climate Change, Women’s Opportunities

Mission Statement

BuildX envisions a world made for people and planet by creating the buildings of a radically better tomorrow.

Executive Summary

BuildX is a design-build-develop B Corporation working towards a future where everyone in Kenya has access to radically better buildings: happy and inspiring spaces which promote wellbeing and are in harmony with our planet. We leverage our capabilities in architecture, engineering and construction to identify and create real estate projects which set radically better examples for social and environmental impact. We build partnerships to package these innovations for replication at scale, transforming the way we build and its impact on people and our planet.

Investment/Support Seeking

TBC – we shall submit this by 28th Sep along with other materials due.

At a high level, we are raising debt finance for individual real estate projects (per project investments range between $1.5M – $30M) and equity and/or convertibles in the company as a whole. We will be focusing our Ask for the In-Res on this latter investment, and will confirm exact ask by aforementioned date.

Rik Stamhuis | Co-founder & Managing director est. 2014

https://www.jirove.com | rikstamhuis@gmail.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Renewable energy, poverty alleviation, decent work and economic growth, climate action

Mission Statement:

Delivering last-mile power solutions to unserved consumers in BOP countries

Executive Summary:

Jiro-Ve is a social enterprise that was incorporated in 2014 and operates in Madagascar. Like in many developing countries, most rural families in Madagascar use expensive and dangerous kerosene lamps or candles for lighting and cannot afford to buy solar products.Jiro-Ve offers them a solar-light they can rent for less than they pay for a candle. Jiro-Ve currently rents out 12000 solar-lights through a carefully selected and trained network of franchisees that were recruited. They take care of the charging and rental of the products to the people in their village. For the 58 franchisees recruited till date continuously new solar capacity is added to their solar charging stations. Through this method of gradually increasing the size of their solar-systems on basis of a gradual increase in demand, several of the solar systems have been turned into nano-grids providing either neighboring schools or households with electricity. Jiro-Ve recently expanded its product offering with the development of it´s own smart powerbank charger to scale it´s model to other countries. Jiro-Ve is part of the top 100 Startup energy transition and was finalist for the African Utility Award.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We would like to establish key partnerships with local minigrid and/or solar energy distributors that are already active in Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition we would like to collaborate with corporate businesses and crowdfunding platforms to work together on a buy one give one model for our powerbanks.

Sarah Wilyamowsky | Head of strategy & Operations est. 2016

https://www.keheala.com/ | info@keheala.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Global Public Health

Mission Statement:

Keheala uses basic feature phones, behavioral nudges and data to improve healthcare access and treatment outcomes in the developing world.

Executive Summary:

Keheala uses basic feature phones, behavioral nudges and data to improve healthcare access and treatment outcomes in the developing world. Millions of people die each year from preventable and treatable conditions like HIV, tuberculosis, vaccine preventable diseases and antenatal complications. Treatment is available, but depends on individuals to be screened, diagnosed, start treatment and finish treatment. The problem is not medical, it’s behavioral. On Keheala’s platform patients are ‘nudged’ and supported from screening to treatment completion while healthcare providers save money and time. In a 1,200 person randomized control trial in Kenya, patients on Keheala’s saw a 68% reduction in bad health outcomes – failed treatment, loss to follow up and death. Keheala’s solution improves treatment outcomes, reduces costs and increases healthcare system resiliency.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are currently raising $2.1 million in equity investment to expand our product offering, build out the end -to-end platform for multiple disease use cases, and accelerate our commercial growth.

Jami Dodson | VP Marketing at Maryland Food Bank est. 2018
Meg Kimmel | EVP of Programs & External Affairs at Maryland Food Bank est. 2018

https://www.fenly.org | hello@fenly.org

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Food Insecurity/Hunger Relief

Mission Statement:

Equipping food banks and other social good organizations with digital fundraising tools to help transform lives.

Executive Summary:

Fenly is the online fundraising answer to the quickly changing landscape of hunger-relief organizations. This unique tool created by a food bank offers virtual food drives that mimic a shopping experience, allowing organizations to have a greater impact. Every dollar raised can provide more meals than traditional food drive product donations.

Investment/Support Seeking:

Fenly is seeking $1 million dollars of startup investment to provide working capital to become self-sustaining in 3 years.

David Lidz | Founder & CEO est.2019

https://www.streetwell.info/ | info@streetwell.info

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Housing, Economic Justice

Mission Statement:

StreetWell provides employment and housing opportunities for marginalized populations, which lead to long-term wealth-building trajectories for both individuals and communities.

Executive Summary:

StreetWell is building an Impact Real Estate Portfolio, or IREP, which acquires renovates and rents out assets exclusively in America’s redlined or rusted out neighborhoods. StreetWell converts the renovation work into jobs for marginalized communities, offers affordable housing with the finished units, and then distributes IREP shares to workers, tenants and other community stakeholders.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are currently finalizing a $10M debt raise which will fund early-stage acquisition and renovation of approximately 64 properties in Baltimore and Hagerstown, Maryland. We are offering two subsequent $10M rounds; one to fund acquisition and renovation of a second set of properties in Maryland or in Camden, NJ; another to refinance the first round into long-term mortgage debt.

Anya Lim | Co-founder & Managing + Creative director est. 2010

https://anthillfabricgallery.com/ | anya.lim@anthillfabricgallery.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Economic and Cultural

Mission Statement:

To provide sustainable livelihood to Filipino artisan communities

Executive Summary:

ANTHILL Fabric Gallery provides sustainable livelihoods for weaving and craft artisans in the countryside and highland communities around the Philippines. We build the entrepreneurial capacity of artisans by teaching business skills, providing fair trade pricing and continuous market access that results in sustainable livelihood and the preservation of our craft traditions. By applying the weaves in contemporary designs for everyday wear, home goods and other products through design collaborations, ANTHILL is able to grow its e-commerce platform and expand its market reach globally to augment every artisan’s income by 200% and provide sustainable livelihood to 750 artisans benefiting at least 3750 lives.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We seeking financial investments of $500,000 through a combination of convertible debt or term debt that will allow ANTHILL to grow its online operations and serve a bigger international market. We target to raise $200,000 in grants to formalize and institutionalize our training programs in enterprise toolkits that will support the capacity building of our 1000 artisan partners all over the Philippines. We also want to meet potential Design Collaborators or networks that can lead us to international distributors that will strengthen ANHILL’s presence in the global market.

Zachariah F. Presutti | Founder est. 2016

https://www.thriveforlife.org/ | info@thriveforlife.org

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Incarceration

Mission Statement:

Thrive for Life transforms lives behind and beyond the U.S. prison walls

Executive Summary:

Thrive for Life envisions a country where housing, education, and employment are no longer stumbling blocks perpetuating poverty and recidivism in the U.S. We form relationships with current & potential incarcerated students through our monthly retreat programming or classes offered by our university partners behind the walls. Through a rigorous vetting process from these two referral streams, Thrive for Life is able to select the most serious, committed, and dedicated students as residents of our transitional supportive living environment at Ignacio House of Studies. Thrive for Life ensures that formerly incarcerated college students have the supportive living environment they need to transition successfully into society.

Investment/Support Seeking:

The transitional supportive services offered through Ignacio House are needed now more than over. We know that in a warm, safe, and supportive environment, we will prevent these college students from becoming another statistic. Cutting recidivism is cutting crime that burdens our entire community. Your investment of $600,000 will help us to build the integral infrastructure of our organization necessary to prove this new innovative model of reentry and then take it on the road to half the 13 states that have the highest student population behind the walls through the acquisition of 2 supportive services coordinators who will be responsible for solidifying a sustainable playbook for the programming behind and beyond the walls. Then within one year begin to plant seeds in California, Louisiana, Missouri, areas in upstate New York, Ohio, Washington, Wisconsin Ignacio House is the most holistic and sustainable model doing reentry for formerly incarcerated students that why our growth plan includes

1. Within the next 3 years we will be in half of the 13 states with the highest density of incarcerated students to plant seeds through the relationships we build in our retreat programming behind the walls—offering quality, classical tools for an examined life through meditation, contemplation, and reflection.
2. While behind the walls offering these retreats, we will form partnerships with the local universities and colleges who offer higher education classes behind the walls.
3. And, given that this organization is founded by a Jesuit, we will leverage the resources of the Jesuit Universities and apostolate in these key states to form long lasting partnerships that will support the growth of other houses of studies for formerly incarcerated students. Why not invest in the Ignacio House reentry model’s transformative services so the 95% of people that walk through the prison gates back into our communities can live, grow, and thrive as good contributing members of neighborhoods and communities?

Eka Mesiona | Chief Investment Officer est. 2016

https://www.cropital.com/ | info@cropital.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Agriculture

Mission Statement:

Cropital’s mission is to improve the security and predictability of farming for smallholder farmers in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia

Executive Summary:

Cropital provides smallholder farmers access to formal credit. Cropital’s goal is to boost a farmer’s profitability and through the efforts of our staff and partners, we are able to provide services beyond financing such as insurance, agronomy, and access to markets. Currently, we source capital through our crowdfunding platform which matches individual lenders to farmers and earn from service charges for every loan funded. By investing with Cropital, individual lenders are able to help make an impact to a smallholder farmer’s life and can get a nominal return on their investment. We intend to improve a farmer’s credit worthiness by helping them build a credit history with Cropital so that they can eventually tap formal lenders such as banks
in the future.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are seeking $250,000 in grants to support new initiatives and expansion activities at the beginning of 2022. We are also looking for partners in agriculture and financing who are interested in making an impact in improving smallholder farmer productivity in Southeast Asia.

Henry May | CEO est.2014

https://coschool.co/ | henry@coschool.co

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Education

Mission Statement:

Develop emotional well-being in Latin American educators and youth

Executive Summary:

Coschool designs and operates social & emotional learning programs for youth, teachers, and school leaders in Colombia. We build high quality, innovative solutions offline (youth entrepreneurship programs), online/distance (radio, online courses), and blended (3 month teacher training courses) and sell them to business foundations, school networks, and the public sector. Our business model is transitioning from offline to online, with increasing demand for digital and “distance-learning” solutions. We are beginning to expand into Latin America, with projects executed in Peru, and work underway on building SEL platforms for Spanish speaking educators. We are also at the center of a national movement for promoting policy change on SEL, as founders of AFSEC (national partnership for SEL in Colombia).

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are seeking $1.8M in investments through a combination of equity investments and grants to support the growth of our “Coschool 3.0 business model”. We are seeking: $1M in equity investment to be deployed between 2020-2021 to develop our scalable learning system, support expansion and business development in Peru, Ecuador, and Mexico, test our B2C model for educators, and grow the sales & marketing teams. $800K USD in grants to build on $1.2M in grants received 2018-2020 to build distance-learning assets to support “hardest-to-reach” populations in Colombia & LatAm + develop Edumocion (teacher training) portfolio.

Eliza Pesuit | Executive Director est. 2007

https://www.bravenewacademy.globalglimpse.org/ | info@globalglimpse.org

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Youth Development, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Global Education

Mission Statement:

Our mission is to empower our next generation to bridge divides and lead with empathy and global perspective.

Executive Summary:

Global Glimpse is a nonprofit organization that empowers high school students from diverse socioeconomic and racial backgrounds to understand complex global problems and build a more equitable future. We provide powerful virtual, local, and international education and leadership opportunities to high school students and we place diversity and equity at the heart of our model. The Global Glimpse program builds empathy, agency, and global perspective to empower students from all backgrounds to succeed in college and drive change locally and globally. To date we have provided over $13 million dollars in scholarships to make our programs accessible to students from all backgrounds.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are seeking $2M in grants; .5M to support R&D and marketing for new virtual programming and $1.5M to invest in rebuilding the organization post COVID so that we are positioned to expand our market share significantly when travel is safe again.

Casey McKeel | Founder and Co-Owner est. 2018

https://www.threadcoffee.com/ | thread@threadcoffee.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Living Wages, Gender Equality, Workforce Development

Mission Statement:

Thread Coffee is a women & queer-owned coffee roasting company based in Baltimore, Maryland. Thread Coffee is an employee-owned company using a transparent model of trade to source coffee directly from farmers that we want to stand in solidarity with, paying an average of double the Fair Trade price. We strive to provide living-wage jobs to women and queer workers in Baltimore City with an end goal of co-ownership and equal stake in the business.

Executive Summary:

Thread Coffee Roasters, Inc. is a women & queer-owned coffee roasting company based in Baltimore, Maryland. We are an employee-owned company and use a transparent model of trade, buying directly from farmers that we want to be in solidarity with. Through quality coffee, we seek to empower those most often marginalized in the coffee industry.

Voted “Best Coffee in Maryland” by Food & Wine Magazine, Thread Coffee has been dedicated to serving the Baltimore area with ethically-sourced, quality coffee since 2012. We offer roasted-to-order bulk and retail coffee to wholesale clients including cafes, restaurants, and grocers.

We plan to expand our operations over the next three years. We have three phases in our growth plan. In stage one, we plan to open a larger roasting facility. We have obtained funding for this and are currently in the process of securing a location and finalizing build out plans. In stage two, we plan to purchase a larger coffee roaster. We have secured a promissory note for this upon reaching necessary sales volume. The third state of growth, which we are currently seeking investment for, is to bring the production of our Ready-To-Drink product in house, in conjunction with expanding our offerings in that division.

With growing recognition and accolades in the national coffee community, as well as recent selection for the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program and the ICIC’s Inner City Capital Connections cohort, Thread Coffee is poised to succeed as it enters this next phase of growth.

Investment/Support Seeking:

$300,000 total. We have secured $200,000. $100,000 in a low-interest loan for Q4 2020/Q1 2021 Facility Build-out. We have a promissory note for $100,000 in equipment financing for Q3 2021 equipment purchase. We are now seeking the remaining $100,000 in low-interest debt, or Class B Share equity investment for Q1 2022 equipment purchase and marketing of expanded product line.

Erica Plybeah | Founder & CEO est.2017

https://www.gomedhaul.com/ | erica@gomedhaul.com

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Healthcare, Poverty, Transportation

Mission Statement:

Innovate access and improve the quality of care in our most vulnerable communities.

Business Summary:

Roughly four million patients miss necessary appointments each year, due to a lack of transportation. This petrifying barrier leads to delays in appropriate care and drastically impairs patient outcomes, especially in under-served communities with high rates of chronic diseases and infant mortality. Missed appointments, hospital readmissions and ambulance abuse costs our health system approximately $200 billion per year. Health systems and insurance carriers provide arrangements for a small percentages of non-emergency transit, however, with little to no management. Organizations spend hours on the phone to book rides, and even worse, transportation providers are often plagued with poor customer service, no-show drivers, or exorbitant wait times of 4+ hours. This inefficiency occurs largely because of the antiquated workflows of scheduling and monitoring patient rides.

Solution:

MedHaul is two-sided marketplace, connecting healthcare organizations to high-quality, safe, and compassionate transportation for patients with special needs. Our cloud-based platform automates the transit management process, providing a single place, to schedule and track rides for all patient needs. With smart capabilities, our technology boasts analytics and insights for organizations to take proactive measures. Our platform is easy to use, and can be accessed by anyone with an internet or 3G connection. Through innovative access and community collaboration, MedHaul’s platform saves time, reduces costs and improves quality metrics.

Market Summary:

In Tennessee alone, there were provided over 300,000 non-emergency rides last year. This high volume is driven by the state’s Medicaid and uninsured populations. It is currently estimated, that 60.2 million non-emergency rides are provided in the U.S. each year, and rising quickly due to the aging population. Primary launch efforts will be concentrated on primary, acute and long-term care facilities in the Southeast US, to target the mass population of patients with chronic conditions. Our key pilot partners include Methodist Healthcare – University Hospital, Sickle Cell and Ambulatory Clinics, Methodist Physician Group – Pediatric Clinics and we’ve recently launched the City of Memphis Fire EMS. We work cohesively with the underserved population of the Greater MidSouth Region. Together we have successfully completed over 6000 rides.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are seeking $1.2M dollars via a mix of equity and grants.

Violaine Laurens | General Manager est.2017

Google Play app store | digitalsolutions@solidaridadnetwork.org

Primary sector(s) of Impact:

Agriculture

Mission Statement:

Bringing digital transformation to inclusive and resilient agricultural value chains.

Executive Summary:

Agroma unlocks the potential of digital technology to foster resilient and inclusive value chains. On one side, we provide small and mid-size farmers with a user-friendly mobile application that delivers tailored improvement plans and actionable information on how to adopt climate-smart practices, improve profitability and better connect to markets. On the other side, we provide companies and other value chain stakeholders with digital tools and data intelligence to increase efficiency of technical assistance and sustainable sourcing policies.

Agroma is a spin-off of Solidaridad, an international civil society organization which has been at the forefront of efforts to drive the development of socially responsible, ecologically sound and profitable supply chains for decades.

Investment/Support Seeking:

We are currently seeking $0,6M in grants to run a pilot to proof our business model in the sugarcane sector and to develop a new version of our application that will enable us to reach out to a new category of client with a higher up-scaling potential.