HUB Ventures is a leading incubator program for social enterprises. Earlier this month they held their investor day in which they announced their 2011 cohort. Below are the 15 social enterprise startups that comprise this year’s class. Keep an eye on them, these organizations will be making waves for years to come.
Spyglass
Sector: Clean Tech; Renewables
Founder: Chris Melancon
Short Description: Spyglass offers a revolutionary water monitoring solution to better manage the health of our water systems.
Rise Solar
Sector: Clean Tech; Renewables
Founder: Jon Casto
Short Description: Rise Solar is a for-profit social venture building an extremely affordable solar system to provide energy at less than half the cost of current solar options for those who see potential to light and power communities, improving incomes, productivity and health. 1.7 billion people in the developing world live without electricity.
Next Drop
Sector: International Development
Founder: Anu Sridharan
Short Description: NextDrop uses mobile technology to bring timely and accurate water availability information to people in emerging economies with unreliable access to piped water.
Loudsauce
Sector: Technology and services for change
Founder: Colin Mutchler
Short Description: LoudSauce is a crowfunded media buying platform for ideas that matter. Like Kickstarter for advertising, use your social networks to drive messages out to new audiences through advertising channels like TV, billboards and more.
San + Co
Sector: Public Health; International Development
Founder: Swapnil Chaturvedi
Short Description: San + Co provides sustainable urban slum sanitation through enterprise.
Democracy Dashboard
Sector: Civic Engagement
Founder: Dan Ancona
Short Description: DemDash is making political participation positive and is disrupting the $5B+ political communications market by replacing piles of mail and TV ads with trusted and socially curated political knowledge.
Mobile Works
Sector: International Development
Founder: Anand Kulkarni
Short Description: MobileWorks makes work available to impoverished workers on their mobile phones, offering fairly paid employment and a path out of poverty.
Zamzee
Sector: Public Health
Founder: Jonathan Attwood
Short Description: Zamzee is a social enterprise launching an online rewards platform for teens that’s powered by their physical activity.
Evolving Technologies (EVOTECH)
Sector: Public Health; International Development
Founder: Moshe Zilversmit
Short Description: Evolving Technologies is a social entrepreneurial medical device company developing a low cost surgical endoscopy system (the EVOCAM) for use in medically undeserved communities.
Labor Voices
Sector: International Development
Founder: Kohl Gill
Short Description: LaborVoices is a migrant worker job review portal that maintains employer reviews created by workers for workers.
Cloud Currencies
Sector: Local Economy
Founder: Jon Underwood
Short Description: Cloud Currencies is a community-wide rewards marketing platform that helps local merchants become more profitable, while helping nonprofits earn more revenue.
Smart Markets
Sector: Environmental Sustainability
Founder: Jamie Workman
Short Description: SmartMarkets opens the natural monopoly of urban utilities with anonline platform that let’s all metered end users earn, own, save and trade equitable shares of water and energy, unleashing a widespread competitive race to conserve.
ripple Q
Sector: Technology and services for change
Founder: Lloyd Nimetz
Short Description: rippleQ is social software that helps businesses activate their employees to collectively build great workplaces.
The Hoop Fund
Sector: International Development
Founder: Patrick Donohue
Short Description: The Hoop is a crowd-funding platform that enables consumers to connect with and support small producers of great products from the developing world.
Mindful Meats
Sector: Local Food
Founder: Claire Herminjard
Short Description: Mindful Meats is on a mission to bring health, trust, and honesty back to the beef business.
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