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Unima

Headquarters: Mexico

Country of Operations: Mexico
Women owned / led: Founded by at least one woman
About the organization: Unima develops fast and low-cost diagnosis and disease surveillance technologies to solve the lack of access to a timely diagnosis for 3 billion people living in the developing world or low resource settings in high-income countries.
Stage of Growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion
Types of Services: Care for people with illnesses
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)
Pathway to impact: Redistribute

Smart Doctor

Headquarters: Peru

Country of Operations: Peru, Mexico
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: Smart Doctor is a digital platform that provides services by professionals such as General Practitioners, Specialist Physicians, Psychologists, Nutritionists, and Therapists. Smart Doctor is a healthcare startup in Latin America that connects doctors with patients who lack health coverage or have limited access to it. Smart Doctor offers affordable and high-quality medical care through face-to-face and virtual care, breaking bureaucratic, geographic, and economic barriers through technological tools such as telemedicine, blockchain, and artificial intelligence.
Stage of Growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion
Types of Services: Care for people with illnesses
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)
Pathway to impact: Redistribute

Prosperia

Headquarters: Mexico

Country of Operations: Mexico
Women owned / led: Founded by at least one woman, At least 51% owned by women
About the organization: PROSPERIA is a social impact spin-off from the MIT Media Lab created to massify early detection and treatment of chronic diseases in emerging markets through solutions based on Artificial Intelligence
Stage of Growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Types of Services: Care for people with illnesses
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)
Pathway to impact: Redistribute

Docademic

Headquarters: Mexico

Country of Operations: Mexico
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: The DOCADEMIC PLATFORM is a single globally-sourced healthcare service platform for the public that begins with a free Human Doctor-AI assisted Video Telemedicine service powered by the DOCADEMIC APP and an associated suite of AI-assisted tools for the medical community called “Docademic for Doctors.” Combined, these produce the highest level of free essential quality healthcare allowing any individual to access the benefits and knowledge of healthcare that technology now permits.
Stage of Growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Types of Services: Care for people with illnesses
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)
Pathway to impact: Redistribute

Doc-doc

Headquarters: Colombia

Country of Operations: Colombia
Women owned / led: Founded by at least one woman
About the organization: Doc-doc is an app that connects people with medical specialists via chat and video consultations. Doc-Doc is transforming healthcare services by giving patients access to professional doctors instantly and affordably and centralizing medical history and prescriptions in the app.
Stage of Growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Types of Services: Care for people with illnesses
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)
Pathway to impact: Reduce

Green Generation

Headquarters: Vietnam

Country of Operations: Vietnam
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: Green Generation is a for-profit entity that provides energy-saving and environmentally friendly biomass stoves to low income communities in Vietnam. The fuel for the cookstoves is obtained from locally available materials such as rice husks, peanut shells and corn cob. Use of these cookstoves enables users to save upto 60% of fuel compared to traditional stoves. The cookstoves reduce harmful emissions and the drudgery associated with cooking.
Stage of Growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Types of Services: Labour saving solutions
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing
Pathway to impact: Reduce

Green Impact Co.,Ltd

Headquarters: Vietnam

Country of Operations: Vietnam
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: Green Impact Co. Ltd is a for-profit entity that designs, manufactures and installs renewable energy products for rural areas in Vietnam. Through innovative cooking solutions that use biomass, solar heaters and panels, the entity reduces the time spent on managing domestic chores such as cooking and fuel collection.
Stage of Growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Types of Services: Labour saving solutions
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable services that provide care & domestic work (e.g. affordable daycare services in rural areas)
Pathway to impact: Reduce

Abundant Water

Headquarters: Laos

Country of Operations: Laos
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: Abundant Water is a non-profit entity that delivers health and hygiene benefits to poor communities in Laos. The entity designs and develops sustainable and scalable clean drinking water projects. It trains local potters and vendors to launch scalable water filter micro-businesses as part of its model, ensuring that these communities have a supply of clean water. Abudant Water’s model reduces the time spent by households to collect water.
Stage of Growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion
Types of Services: Labour saving solutions
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing
Pathway to impact: Reduce

TerraClear Production

Headquarters: Laos

Country of Operations: Laos
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: Based in Laos, TerraClear Production is a for-profit social enterprise. The enterprise addresses the problem of limited access to safe, clean drinking water through the sale of the Lao Ceramic Water Purifier (CWP) especially in rural areas. The enterprise reduces the household expenditure and the time spent in collecting firewood or boiling drinking water. Furthermore, it also contributes to reduction in child and adult morbidity and mortality associated with the consumption of unsafe water.
Stage of Growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion
Types of Services: Labour saving solutions
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing
Pathway to impact: Reduce

Hydrologic

Website: sswm.info
Headquarters: Cambodia

Country of Operations: Cambodia
Women owned / led: Information not available
About the organization: Hydrologic is a for-profit social enterprise that provides access to clean and safe drinking water in Cambodia through locally produced ceramic water purifiers. By providing safe water to rural households, the company improves the situation of women and children who are largely responsible for fetching and boiling water and gathering wood for fuel. The social enterprise’s products also contributes to reduced incidence of water borne diseases.
Stage of Growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion
Types of Services: Labour saving solutions
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing
Pathway to impact: Reduce