Businesses
SPRING has supported over 75 businesses in 9 countries across South Asia and East Africa in 17 sectors over the course of the past 5 years. The businesses can be filtered according to geographical location and sector.
Totohealth Kenya
Totohealth offers a free pregnancy and early childhood text-message service that helps reduce matern …
Build Up Nepal
Build Up Nepal empowers communities and local entrepreneurs, including single mothers and elderly wo …
Doh Eain
Doh Eain creates safe, inclusive and accessible public spaces for communities through collaborative …
Edkasa
Edkasa uses a live virtual classroom platform and other digital solutions to make quality education …
Ejaad Tech
Ejaad Tech helps make STEM-subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) more engaging …
Eden Ministry
Eden Ministry provides safe shelter, trauma informed care, vocational training and employment to emp …
Jeeon
Jeeon works with pharmacies to improve the quality of health care, products and services available t …
Koe Koe Tech
Koe Koe Tech is an IT company that provides women and girls with information and resources on sexual …
Leaping Boundaries
Leaping Boundaries provides girls in Madrasas across Bangladesh with language and tech classes, soft …
LearnOBots (formerly Robotwala)
LearnOBots (formerly Robotwala) promotes innovation in kids in the domains of science, technology, e …
Maya Apa
Maya Apa provides girls and adolescent women in Bangladesh with guidance on mental health and other …
SABAQ
Sabaq is an edtech business that aims to increase student learning outcomes and engagement among low …
Play Nepal
Play Nepal provides school-based sporting activities to boost girls’ physical and mental health.
Pan Ka Lay
Pan Ka Lay is the first organisation dedicated to menstruation health awareness and health in Myanma …
RIZQ
RIZQ uses an innovative model to tackle food insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan. They source fo …
Khalti
Khalti is digital payment company that is aiming to Nepal’s payment industry from offline to online. …
The Himalayan Rabbit Farm
The Himalayan Rabbit Farm proves affordable nutrition and economic opportunities for girls and young …
Women In Digital
Women in Digital provides ICT, web design and development training to adolescent girls and young wom …
WonderTree
WonderTree provides AR-based educational games to develop cognitive, physical and social skills of c …
360ed
360Ed leverages virtual reality and other technologies to transform education in Myanmar. Their “fre …
ARIIA
Ariia has developed an online fashion platform in Pakistan to connect rural, part-time artisans, inc …
AcceleratED
Blending behavioral sciences, technology and classroom data, AcceleratED builds a first-of-its-kind …
Academic Bridge
Academic Bridge provides an information management platform for Rwandan schools that is used by admi …
ACTT
ACTT empowers educational institutions in setting up innovative ICT learning solutions.
Barefoot Power
Barefoot Power offers solar lighting solutions for low income populations without electricity access …
Babyl
Babyl is the first-of-its-kind digital health service in Rwanda, accessible by smartphone and featur …
Cherehani Kenya
Cherehani Kenya promotes financial inclusion through asset financing and provision of business loans …
EcoFuels Kenya (EFK)
Ecofuels Kenya provides organic agricultural and energy products made from croton nuts to address ru …
NowWatt
NowWatt is a Kenya-based business that offers a clean, safe and affordable lighting alternative to k …
Honey Care Africa
HoneyCare Africa promotes sustainable beekeeping in Kenya via a network of smallholder farmers, incr …
Illuminum Greenhouses
Illuminum Greenhouses constructs affordable modern greenhouses in Kenya and installs automated drip …
Kasha
Dubbed the Deliveroo for tampons and contraceptives in rural Africa, Kasha is an e-commerce platform …
Mode
Bobi by JumboPay provides consumers in Kenya with mobile savings, personal finance and credit soluti …
MicroHealth Initiative
MicroHealth Initiative provides affordable health coverage to low and middle-income earners across T …
PayGo
PayGo is a fuel-stove company in Kenya that uses mobile money and smart meter technology to sell gas …
Resonate
Resonate uses public speaking training to build self-confidence and unlock leadership potential of w …
SafeBoda
SafeBoda aims to modernise the informal transportation sector in Africa and to provide safe access t …
Telemed
Telemed provides reliable and affordable access to health care services and information for girls th …
Totohealth Tanzania
Totohealth offers a free pregnancy and early childhood text-message service that helps reduce matern …
Ubongo
Ubongo leverages the power of entertainment (television and radio) to deliver effective, localised a …
DOT AND LINE
Dot & Line Centres provides a high quality, low cost solution for the $5 billion tuition market …
DRINKWELL
Drinkwell offers proprietary water purification and dispensing technology that removes arsenic and o …
EASYPAISA
Easypaisa is Pakistan’s leading mobile banking service, with over 20 million active customers and 75 …
ENGRO
Engro produces a range of fresh and processed branded dairy in Pakistan. The business will launch a …
GOATS FOR WATER
UpTrade’s Goats for Water initiative is an innovative finance model that provides rural, off-grid co …
iSocial
iSocial works through a network of ‘Kallyanis,’ female entrepreneurs who bring assortments of women …
JEEVAN BIKAS SAMAJ
Jeevan Bikas Samaj (JBS) is a national-level NGO in Nepal that implements a microfinance program for …
KALPAVRIKSHA GREATER GOODS
Kalpavriksha Greater Goods (KGG) is a women led wholesale distribution network that sells solar ligh …
NEXSOURCE – UHEALTH
Pakistan Uhealth has developed an innovative model for telemedicine and electronic health records (E …
Fightback Nepal
Fightback offers mental, vocal and physical self-defence training to girls and young women to reduce …
R&D INNOVATIVE SOLUTION
R & D is a woman-owned agribusiness company based in Nepal that has multiple business streams wi …
ROOSTER LOGIC
Rooster Logic is a technology company which provides real time information, data collection and anal …
SHREENAGAR AGRO FARM
Shreenagar, a large national agribusiness in Nepal, increases both business and nutritional impact b …
SMARTPAANI
SmartPaani offers innovative water management solutions for rainwater harvesting, water filtration a …
SUNAULO PARIVAR NEPAL
Sunaulo Parivar Nepal provides a wide range of services to meet sexual and reproductive health needs …
ZOYA
Zoya is a mobile app that delivers health and wellness information to adolescent girls in Pakistan v …
SEHAT KAHANI
Sehat Kahani provides affordable and quality healthcare to adolescent girls marginalised communities …
AFRICAQUA
AfricAqua develops sustainable decentralised safe water systems in rural areas in Kenya through a ne …
BANAPADS
BanaPads develops low-cost female hygiene products using locally available raw materials and distrib …
EARTHENABLE
EarthEnable provides affordable earthen flooring solutions to replace dirt floors in Rwanda, at a pr …
ENSIBUUKO
Ensibuuko is a mobile banking solution that allows savings and credit co-operatives to expand their …
FINANCE TRUST BANK
Finance Trust Bank is a microfinance bank built by women, for women. It empowers entrepreneurs acros …
GREEN CREDIT
Green Credit is a microfinance lending institution providing finance for women and adolescent girls …
HAUTE BASO
Haute Baso is an innovative fashion boutique servicing the global market with jewellery, bags, and a …
JIBU
Jibu provides a water purification and distribution model that entrepreneurs can implement across Ea …
KADAFRICA
KadAfrica is a Ugandan agricultural company that engages out-of-school girls between the ages of 14- …
KIDOGO
Kidogo is a social enterprise that provides high-quality, affordable early childhood care and educat …
KHENZ
Khenz is a software company that develops pioneering e-ticketing solutions for long distance public …
SANIVATION
Sanivation is an innovative waste collection service. The lack of sanitary toilets in homes creates …
SARE MILLERS
Sare Millers are a one-stop shop for livestock and poultry farmers that address Kenya’s growing need …
SHEKINA ENTERPRISE
Shekina Enterprise is an agro-processing company that specialises in dry goods and is a pioneer firm …
Daktari Africa
Daktari improves healthcare access among under-served women and girls in Kenya’s rural and urban are …
TINY TOTOS
Tiny Totos is a social enterprise that works in informal settlements to provide affordable, high qua …
VILLAGE ENERGY
Village Energy offers repair services and installs custom solar solutions for homes, businesses and …