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AI that digitizes courts, automates workflows, & keeps litigants informed in real time.
AI that digitizes courts, automates workflows, & keeps litigants informed in real time.
Transforming agricultural waste into bio-materials to replace petrochemical-based industrial inputs.
An alternative materials startup that’s transforming agricultural waste into bio-materials and is conducting an application-led study to develop agri-lignin for industrial use that can replace petrochemical based manufacturing inputs.
Enable industries to reduce their carbon footprints and improve circularity in their supply chains.
A thermochemical process that converts lignocellulosic crop waste (rice straw, sugarcane bagasse, husks) into bio-based thickeners, resins and films for cosmetics, packaging and industrial chemicals, replacing petrochemical incumbents.
Turns a burning problem - literally, 87M tonnes of crop residue burnt yearly, fuelling India's air pollution crisis - into an industrial input. ACT's grant helps altM move from lab-stage lignin prototypes toward pilot-ready commercial products (TRL 3 to TRL 7).
An app-based vernacular mental health platform delivering culturally contextualised support to government school students in grades 9 to 12 to build emotional resilience.
Build emotional resilience in young people by making mental health conversations as normal in schools as any other subject.
A hybrid model for government-school students in grades 9-12 - interactive smart-class content, a gamified self-awareness app, and access to virtual counsellors - delivered in Hindi, English, Telugu and Kannada.
ACT's first Education x Health grant, backing Atman on the insight that 75% of mental health conditions emerge by age 24 with almost no preventive care inside schools. Already active in 400+ government schools reaching 350,000+ students, with 62% reporting improved wellbeing; ACT is now funding scale-up to 3 million students across 11,000 schools in Haryana and Chhattisgarh.
A foundation focusing on embedding digital infrastructure within public health systems, who will now scale OHCN’s Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) across 4 states.
Ensure every citizen can access services from their local government with ease and transparency.
DIGIT - an open-source platform of reusable building blocks and shared data registries - lets governments and NGOs rapidly build services like property tax, grievance redressal, water management and, through CARE, health management, without rebuilding core infrastructure each time.
Twenty years of government-anchored, category-defining digital public infrastructure already touching over a billion citizens. ACT's grant backs eGov's CARE-based HMIS rollout across four states, aligned with ACT's thesis of catalysing digital public goods that make public systems more resilient and data-driven.
A forestry startup whose payment for ecosystem services model financially compensates local communities for providing environmental services like carbon sequestration, afforestation etc.
Protect and restore forest cover in close collaboration with rural communities.
A Payments for Ecosystem Services model - blending philanthropy, government schemes and carbon revenue - that pays farmers not just to plant trees but to nurture them over years on degraded or abandoned land, transitioning it to agroforestry.
Brings a results-based, outcomes-verified financing model to Indian forestry, where most restoration funding pays for planting, not survival. ACT's support helps F4F prove that biodiverse, farmer-owned forests can be a durable, replicable alternative to degraded monoculture land.
AI-powered digital eye screening for comprehensive ophthalmology care.
A digital ophthalmology platform that leverages AI to deliver comprehensive eye screening services.
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Make advanced eye care accessible worldwide and tackle preventable blindness.
The 3nethra family of portable, AI-enabled retinal cameras and refractors, backed by a cloud-based teleophthalmology platform, screens for cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and refractive errors without needing an ophthalmologist on site.
Proven, scalable diagnostic hardware - already 3,400+ installations across 50 countries and 10M+ lives touched - fits ACT's bar for evidence of impact. ACT is backing Forus alongside Karnataka's health department to build a state-wide eye care program using indigenous technology.
An innovative micro-tasking app that enables underserved communities to complete simplified AI/ML data tasks and generate supplementary income while providing them with upskilling opportunities and career guidance.
Bring 100 million people out of poverty by building ethical, fairly-paid ways for underserved communities to work in the AI data economy.
An app that pays rural workers up to 20x minimum wage for simple AI/ML data tasks (Karya Earn), layered with upskilling (Karya Learn) and career guidance (Karya Grow).
Category-defining innovation with real depth of impact - ACT's first Education x Women grant. Karya had already reached 32,000+ workers (60% women) across 25+ states, the kind of early traction ACT looks for before funding demand-generation and impact research.
An NGO dedicated to improving primary healthcare through digital tools by empowering health workers, partners and governments to build integrated health systems and enable data-driven decision making.
An NGO dedicated to improving primary healthcare through digital tools by empowering health workers, partners and governments to build integrated health systems and enable data-driven decision making.
Strengthen maternal, child and primary health care at the last mile through better, more actionable data.
A digital health platform (CHIP) that gives frontline health workers a single interface to track over 500 primary health indicators - from immunisation to NCDs to maternal care - replacing fragmented paper and siloed digital systems.
A last-mile, evidence-backed health data platform already trusted by Rajasthan's government to run its statewide Nirogi Rajasthan system, reaching 12 million people through 50,000 health workers - matching ACT's preference for tech-first, government-integrated solutions with proven public-system adoption.
A battery recycling startup that uses an energy and water efficient hybrid hydrometallurgy process to extract rare metals like Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel and Manganese from Li-ion battery waste.
A battery recycling startup that uses an energy and water efficient hybrid hydrometallurgy process to extract rare metals like Lithium, Cobalt, Nickel and Manganese from Li-ion battery waste.
Build a self-reliant, sustainable critical minerals ecosystem for India by recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries.
A proprietary Hybrid Hydrometallurgy process that recovers battery-grade lithium, nickel and cobalt from used EV batteries at industrial purity, using a fraction of the carbon footprint of conventional mining.
India needs to recycle an estimated 150 kilotonnes of lithium-ion battery waste by 2030 against under 2,000 tonnes of current capacity - exactly the kind of disruptive, tech-first climate innovation ACT For Environment backs. ACT's grant, alongside Oil India and UNIDO, is helping MiniMines move from pilot to a 3,000 TPA industrial facility.
An open-source digital public good that powers 10BedICU to help rural doctors virtually connect with critical care specialists and is also the backbone for a comprehensive Health Management Information System.
An open-source digital public good that powers 10BedICU to help rural doctors virtually connect with critical care specialists and is also the backbone for a comprehensive Health Management Information System.
Steward open, standards-based digital infrastructure so governments, hospitals and innovators can build connected healthcare systems without vendor lock-in.
CARE - an MIT-licensed, API-first, cloud-agnostic platform - gives hospitals and public health systems reusable building blocks for HMIS, TeleICU, palliative care and more, instead of locking them into a single vendor's software.
A tech-first digital public good ACT has backed since the early days of COVID-19, when CARE helped India's National Health Mission coordinate over 355,000 patients. ACT's continued support builds the security, documentation and release discipline needed to keep CARE dependable at national scale.
AI-powered handheld device for accessible cervical cancer screening.
A handheld AI-powered device which helps detect cervical cancer without the need for electricity or extensive training of frontline workers.
Make India cervical cancer-free through timely, better diagnostics and care.
Smart Scope CX - a handheld, AI-enabled imaging device with a tablet-based telemedicine link - lets a health worker screen for cervical abnormalities in one visit, with no electricity or specialist infrastructure required.
A single-visit alternative to pap smears and colposcopy that fits ACT's tech-first, made-for-Bharat lens. After validating the model on 1,500+ women in Chhattisgarh, ACT renewed support with a scale-up grant to expand screening across PHCs in multiple states.
A free AI-enabled Whatsapp solution that enables low-income parents and Anganwadi workers to focus on early childhood education.
By 2030, we’ll reach 50 million underserved children. Through a top-tier, community-led Early Childhood Development system, we’ll ensure every child, regardless of income or background, achieves full brain and body development by age 6.
India has the world’s largest government-anchored daycare system. Within five years, we will help implement “Poshan bhi, Padhai bhi (Education Along With Nutrition)” to improve learning outcomes for 50 million children, who are currently in need of quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) and act as inspiration for community worker anchored ECD at a global level.
A light-touch, government-anchored solution already reaching ~28% of India's daycare centres, with early evidence it moves the needle on child development. ACT gave early, unrestricted capital to build the tech and content, then doubled down as reach grew from 8 to 80+ districts.
A robotics startup building a ‘Rehabilitation Bot’ that can enable end-to-end inspection and cleaning of sewer pipelines to prevent water contamination at source.
Transform the inspection, cleaning and management of India's underground water and sanitation infrastructure through robotics and AI.
A robotics platform - EndoBot for pipeline inspection, HomoSEP for septic tank cleaning, and the AI-integrated R-Bot for sewer rehabilitation - that inspects, diagnoses and cleans underground pipelines without manual entry.
Directly tackles manual scavenging, which still kills sanitation workers every year despite a legal ban. ACT's grant is catalysing the R-Bot, the first robotic solution able to both inspect and clean India's large sewer lines - closing a real capability gap for municipalities.
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