Congrats to the founders on their startup pitches to the innovation community at BonBillo's Bengaluru Social Innovation Bootcamp Demo Day!  🎉
These startup founders and leaders have been accelerating innovation towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals by solving a social, health or environmental problem. They joined our 2-week Bootcamp to refine their idea, product, customer acquisition strategy, business model and investment pitch.  🚀

Cheers to the startup teams on successful completion of the Bengaluru Social Innovation Bootcamp!  🎉

Medtel Healthcare is simplifying healthcare through remote patient monitoring with a connected care ecosystem of smart devices, clinicians' supervision & personalised engagement.

Pinky Promise is making women's reproductive healthcare more accessible, affordable and judgement-free.

ThatMate is a mental wellness app for adolescents that has served over 100k+ students by partnering with multiple schools across India.

Cambrian Bioworks is making DNA diagnostics for personalized cancer care treatments more affordable and accessible.

Babblebots is helping companies hire better, faster and cheaper by screening candidates with conversational AI-Recruiters.

Agrifi is a digital credit ecosystem for farmers and a lending partner for banks.

Stride Ahead is an AI powered personalized Career Assistant for Freshers and Young Professionals.

SurakshitU Solutions help employers and aggregators in India provide financial security to their unorganised workforce by providing relevant financial products at an affordable cost.

ProMeat's vision is to facilitate a shift from unsustainable proteins to sustainable smart protein. Their current offering includes a healthy, tasty, affordable, and clean label plant-based chicken with much higher protein content, amazing texture and rich-delicious mouthfeel.

SustLabs deciphers real-time electricity consumption of house appliances by analysing smart meter data, and generates valuable insights for residents, appliance manufacturers, utilities and market research companies.

10x Academy is an online coding bootcamp helping participants land software developer jobs.

Urban Tiller's mission is to accelerate adoption of plant based foods by supplying novel ingredient Rubisco, the most abundant and most sustainable plant protein which is extracted from a variety of leaves.

Pinky Promise: Reproductive health at your fingertips

Divya Kamerkar shared her journey co-founding Pinky Promise, an app that provides accurate, instant and reliable reproductive healthcare to 100k Indian women.

In India, there are nearly 360 million women of reproductive age - 8% of those women are concentrated in the big cities like Delhi and Bombay, while 92% are concentrated in smaller cities and rural areas. At the same time there are only 70,000 trained gynecologists in India, of which 50,000 are located in the big cities with only 20,000 outside. This has caused a huge mismatch between the demand for reproductive healthcare services and the supply thereof. 

Pinky Promise built an integrated healthcare platform that covers different reproductive healthcare issues and walks you all the way from a symptom to an exact understanding of what that symptom means. Once you’ve answered a few questions about your medical history and the symptoms you’re experiencing their software populates a suggested diagnosis with a set of tests. All of this information is then shared with a gynecologist who can then make their own diagnosis. The cost of a gynecologist consultation is Rs. 50 (60 cents) because the marginal cost of each consultation run on the Pinky Promise platform is almost zero.

Check out key takeaways and watch highlights on the BonBillo Blog:

https://www.bonbillo.com/blog/pinky-promise-founder-story

Acumen Academy is launching their Energy for Livelihoods Accelerator in India!

The 12-week program is designed specifically to build an ecosystem of scalable social enterprises in India committed to using sustainable energy to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, small business, and micro-entrepreneurs. This program is part of Acumen’s Pioneer Energy Investment Initiative (PEII+), launched in 2022 to supercharge a critical component in the global energy transition, Productive Use of Energy (PUE) technologies powered by clean energy.

Learn the tools, expand your capabilities, and grow the community needed to scale your business.

Applications close by 11.59PM (GMT+7) July 24. Learn more about the program and qualifications: https://acumen.fyi/peii-partner

Congrats to BonBillo alumni and community members on their wins!  🏆

DoneGood, a mission-driven online marketplace where every purchase you make does good for people and the planet, has generated over $2.5M in sales on their platform since launching. Invest in their crowdfunding campaign to share in the company’s success and help create a more sustainable world.	Couplet coffee, the LGBTQ+ and woman-led lifestyle brand that aims to make specialty coffee less pretentious and more accessible, has launched on Amazon.
ProMeat, which develops plant based protein products offering a sustainable and ethical alternative to conventional animal agriculture, has emerged as the winner of Youth Co:Lab 2023 led by UNDP in India & the Atal Innovation Mission.	Roli Gupta, founder of Babblebots participated in Lead Tribe, a cohort-based learning and networking program powered by Blume Ventures for early stage female founders to become better leaders & achieve their professional and business goals. Babblebots is helping companies hire better, faster and cheaper by screening candidates with conversational AI-Recruiters.