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Past Winners

Please join us in congratulating the following final round teams:

2008-2009 Competition

1st Place (tie): Re:Motion Designs and Respira Design ($20,000 prize each)
2nd Place (tie): SEE College Prep and Sustainable Health Enterprises ($4,000 prize each)
Honorable Mention: Driptech ($1,000 prize)
Honorable Mention: OneBreath ($1,000 prize)

Re:Motion Designs is a non-profit venture that provides high performance, extreme-affordability prosthetic components for developing world amputees.

Respira Design produces and distributes a $1 device made from paper that extends the treatment of pediatric asthma into low-resource settings.

SEE College Prep is a student initiated grassroots approach for college test preparation.

Sustainable Health Enterprises develops a market-based solution to manufacture and distribute affordable, high-quality, and environmentally-friendly sanitary pads.

Driptech is a low cost drip irrigation system that multiples farmers’ yields and conserves water.

OneBreath is an easily deployable ventilator for better pandemic preparedness.

2007-2008 Competition

1st Place: Embrace ($35,000 prize)
2nd Place: Samasource ($12,000 prize)
3rd Place: Swayam ($2,000 prize)
4th Place: Cascade Clean Energy ($1,000 prize)

Embrace is a $25 newborn incubator and bridges the gap in healthcare available to a rural-born versus urban-born baby. Designed to work in a rural healthcare center or home, it uses no electricity, has no moving parts, is portable, and is safe and intuitive to use.

Samasource aims to harness the world’s untapped talent through socially responsible business process and IT outsourcing.

Swayam is a pioneer in bring peer-to-peer social investing for helping students fund their education.

Cascade Clean Energy uses a patented technology for novel wastewater treatment in the developing world that also generates renewable energy in the process, creating methane, hydrogen, and electricity to power households and save lives with clean drinking water.

2006-2007 Competition

1st Place: D.Light Design
2nd Place: Microclinics
Honorable Mention: Equip
Honorable Mention: Greenrev Inc.

D.Light Design develops and commercializes sustainable lighting and power solutions for off-grid rural emerging markets. They recently took in around $6 million in Series-A funding and is based in New Delhi, India.

Microclinics works to provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare to low-income, underserved populations in African countries.

Equip strives to provide a working, sustainable model that enables HIV+ people in India with skills and opportunities to afford their own treatment.

Greenrev Inc. seeks to convert urban bio-degradeable waste in Bangalore into manure using earthworm (vermi) culture and sell it to farmers, horticulturists, and Seri– culturists in a profitable manner.