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A digital health startup with a preventive well-being and behavioural change solution that leverages Virtual Reality (VR) to create impact.
A digital health startup with a preventive well-being and behavioural change solution that leverages Virtual Reality (VR) to create impact.
Make science-backed VR therapy for stress, anxiety, trauma and addiction accessible at scale, including to communities traditional mental healthcare overlooks.
A VR-based, self-guided program that helps users process stress, anxiety and past trauma through immersive, therapist-designed sessions.
A novel, tech-first delivery format for mental health support. ACT partnered with MITR Trust to bring Adagio VR's program to India's LGBTQI+ community - addressing a population underserved by mainstream mental health infrastructure.
AI that digitizes courts, automates workflows, & keeps litigants informed in real time.
AI that digitizes courts, automates workflows, & keeps litigants informed in real time.
An AI-powered platform that automates transcription, digitises records, streamlines workflows, and provides real-time updates to make justice delivery faster and more accessible.
An AI ecosystem that automates courtroom transcription, digitises records, streamlines workflows and gives litigants real-time updates - built to slot into existing judicial systems.
India's courts carry a 50-million-case, 300-year backlog, with most prisoners undertrials. Adalat AI had already scaled to 3,500+ courtrooms in two years - proof of institutional traction ACT is now funding toward 7,500 courtrooms by 2027.
An AI based platform that uses satellite imagery to identify areas where crop waste burning is prevalent & creates a marketplace where crop waste can be turned into clean biofuels instead.
An AI based platform that uses satellite imagery to identify areas where crop waste burning is prevalent & creates a marketplace where crop waste can be turned into clean biofuels instead.
A functioning biomass marketplace where crop residue is a tradeable clean-energy input, not a pollutant to be set alight.
Carbon2Climate, an AI platform, uses satellite imagery to identify areas where crop-waste burning is prevalent and connects farmers to a marketplace where that waste can be sold and converted into clean biofuels instead.
Directly targets stubble burning, a leading contributor to seasonal air pollution across North India, using satellite-driven targeting rather than blanket interventions. Matches ACT's tech-first, source-of-the-problem approach to environmental funding.
AI co-pilot for mental health crisis helplines
Build the mental health infrastructure of tomorrow, where care-giving skills are practiced and supported the way clinical skills are.
Open-source digital public goods including Ally Skills Lab, a no-code simulator letting organisations build virtual-client roleplays for safe, repeatable counselling practice, and Ally Assist, a secure session transcription, note-taking and analytics assistant for counsellors.
A not-for-profit building open infrastructure for a chronically under-resourced mental health workforce, rather than another single consumer-facing app. ACT is a listed backer alongside OpenAI, ElevenLabs, C-CAMP/MeitY and United Way, reflecting ACT's interest in tools that expand the capacity of the informal and professional carer ecosystem, not just end-user access.
An ERW startup developing an in-house MRV system to generate high-quality removal credits by spreading basalt rock dust on agricultural land to capture atmospheric carbon while improving soil health and crop yield by 30-50%.
An ERW startup developing an in-house MRV system to generate high-quality removal credits by spreading basalt rock dust on agricultural land to capture atmospheric carbon while improving soil health and crop yield by 30-50%.
A new class of carbon removal and agricultural infrastructure that reshapes how the world thinks about climate action.
Enhanced rock weathering - spreading crushed basalt on agricultural land to accelerate natural CO2-absorbing chemical reactions while improving soil health for farmers.
A category-defining deep-tech approach to durable carbon removal, paired with a farmer co-benefit (soil health) that gives it a realistic path to scale in India. Matches ACT's bar for bold, early bets on unproven but high-potential climate technology.
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).
A nonprofit focused on tackling India’s air pollution crisis by working with governments and partners to drive scalable, evidence-based solutions and strengthen implementation capacity.
A nonprofit focused on tackling India’s air pollution crisis by working with governments and partners to drive scalable, evidence-based solutions and strengthen implementation capacity.
Solve India's air pollution crisis by working alongside governments to coordinate implementation, not just recommend solutions.
A government-embedded execution model addressing pollution at its sources - cleaner transport, road remediation and mechanical sweeping, construction and demolition waste management, greening, industrial emissions monitoring, and reduced biomass/stubble burning - coordinated across the fragmented mix of agencies and jurisdictions responsible for Delhi NCR's air.
Delhi's AQI stays above moderate levels most of the year, driven by vehicle emissions, dust and industry (~85% of PM2.5) plus a winter biomass-burning spike, with pollution sources split across multiple jurisdictions inside and outside NCR. Many of the needed interventions are already known - what's missing is coordinated, sustained execution. ACT backed A-PAG on CEO Mohit Beotra's demonstrated ability to align diverse government stakeholders and turn intent into follow-through, funding tools and systems to track implementation and capture learnings for a reduction playbook other cities can use.
An advanced pyrolysis solution that converts non-recyclable plastic waste into a purified oil that can be used to produce aviation fuel and sustainable chemicals.
An advanced pyrolysis solution that converts non-recyclable plastic waste into a purified oil that can be used to produce aviation fuel and sustainable chemicals.
A world where non-recyclable mixed plastic waste is fully circular, converted into industrial-grade fuel rather than landfilled or incinerated.
Patented PUREMAX pyrolysis oil purification technology removes contaminants from pyrolysis oil to produce PUROIL, a high-quality output usable by refineries and petrochemical plants, at a fraction of typical purification cost.
APChemi solves the commercial viability gap that has historically limited plastic pyrolysis - contaminated, unusable output oil. With 45+ plants already built globally and ~180,000 tonnes of plastic converted to date, ACT's grant funds a first-of-its-kind purification facility capable of processing 17,500 tonnes of pyrolysis oil, exemplifying scalable circularity for non-recyclable plastic.
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 digital health-tech startup whose patented AI solution analyses oral cavity images from a smartphone app to detect oral cancer.
A digital health-tech startup whose patented AI solution analyses oral cavity images from a smartphone app to detect oral cancer.
Save lives through accessible, cost-effective AI-powered cancer screening for healthcare providers, hospitals and diagnostic services worldwide.
Berry.Care, Atom360's patented AI tool, analyses smartphone photos of the oral cavity to flag likely oral cancer with 96% accuracy, designed to be operated by community health workers with minimal training at extremely low cost per screening.
Oral cancer is India's leading cause of cancer death and the 6th most common cancer globally, but screening still relies on scarce specialists and subjective visual exams. ACT backed Atom360 to run large-scale screening and clinical validation with TIFAC (Dept. of Science and Technology) and leading cancer institutions - matching ACT's preference for tech-first, community-health-worker-operable diagnostics with a credible path to national-scale validation.
A hybrid skilling platform that enables underserved youth develop practical tech skills while earning through freelance work, creating a pathway to both learning and livelihoods.
A hybrid skilling platform that enables underserved youth develop practical tech skills while earning through freelance work, creating a pathway to both learning and livelihoods.
Build universal access to economic mobility for low-income graduates by embedding them in the digital economy.
A hybrid, earn-as-you-learn platform that trains Tier 2/3 college students in full-stack development, design and Python, then places them directly into freelance, internship and full-time work through an embedded Placement Unit Network inside government colleges.
Solves a real gap in India's skilling pipeline: training without income or industry exposure. ACT's pre-MVP grant funded Samvad Saathi, piloted with 300+ students, with a growth path to 100k+ active users by 2028.
BIOSCAN’s CEREBO® is a portable, non-invasive medical device designed for the rapid detection and early screening / triaging of intracranial hemorrhages, commonly associated with traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
BIOSCAN’s CEREBO® is a portable, non-invasive medical device designed for the rapid detection and early screening / triaging of intracranial hemorrhages, commonly associated with traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
Make early cancer detection accessible and painless, removing the cost and invasiveness barriers that delay diagnosis in India.
Non-invasive optical/electronic screening devices (the company's public materials point to oral and related cancer screening) built and manufactured in-house, with an advisory board spanning Israeli innovation policy and Indian defence R&D sensor design.
A deep-tech hardware startup tackling late-stage cancer diagnosis - a chronic problem in India given limited specialist and biopsy access - fitting ACT's thesis on affordable, non-invasive diagnostics. Note: we could not independently confirm the specific terms of an ACT grant to Bioscan Research via public search; please verify details directly with ACT's records before publishing this entry.
A process tech company that converts rice husk ash into green precipitated silica and activated carbon for industrial purposes.
A process tech company that converts rice husk ash into green precipitated silica and activated carbon for industrial purposes.
A zero-waste model for agricultural byproducts that cuts emissions and ends the environmentally destructive practice of sand-mined silica.
A patented chemical process transforms rice husk ash into bio-based silica for manufacturing (55% cheaper than sand-mined silica) and activated carbon, with calcium carbonate as a customisable byproduct for the paint, paper and dental industries.
Tackles two environmental problems simultaneously - crop-waste disposal and sand-mining-driven silica extraction - while cutting GHG emissions 50-75% and energy use 20% versus conventional silica manufacturing, aligning with ACT's preference for circular, source-level climate solutions.
A med-tech startup whose portable imaging devices can be attached to smartphones, allowing primary care providers to capture high-quality eye images & remotely consult with ophthalmologists.
A med-tech startup whose portable imaging devices can be attached to smartphones, allowing primary care providers to capture high-quality eye images & remotely consult with ophthalmologists.
A blind-free India, where quality eye screening reaches everywhere from resource-limited vision centres to metro operating theatres.
A portable, battery-operated device family - including the C3 Smartphone Fundus Camera and C3 Vision Portable Slit Lamp - captures and stores ophthalmic images via smartphone, paired with a telemedicine app so frontline providers can remotely consult ophthalmologists to detect cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and other blinding conditions.
India has just 30,000 registered ophthalmologists for 1.3 billion people, and C3's lightweight, affordable devices (versus bulky, costly traditional equipment) directly close that specialist gap. With 700+ installations already across India and abroad and two granted/published patents, C3 matches ACT's bar for proven, scalable, tech-first diagnostics reaching underserved primary care settings.
A tech company that uses agri-waste to create advanced nano carbons which are used on battery electrode plates to increase the battery cycle life and enhance energy efficiency.
A tech company that uses agri-waste to create advanced nano carbons which are used on battery electrode plates to increase the battery cycle life and enhance energy efficiency.
A future where the batteries powering India's energy transition are made better, cheaper and greener by upcycling the country's abundant agri-waste.
A patented process converts crop residue and coconut shells into high-purity nanocarbons that, added to battery electrodes, increase battery cycle life by 50%+ and energy efficiency by ~40% across multiple battery chemistries.
Solves two problems at once: crop-waste burning and battery underperformance/e-waste. ACT's grant is funding a 3x capacity increase and lead-acid/lithium-ion validation trials, projected to save ~630 tonnes of CO2e and 200 tonnes of agri-waste within two years.
A first-of-its-kind root zone measured moisture diffuser that comes as an add-on to drip irrigation laterals along with locally farm-made microbe inoculum to foster soil health.
A first-of-its-kind root zone measured moisture diffuser that comes as an add-on to drip irrigation laterals along with locally farm-made microbe inoculum to foster soil health.
A country where farmers in the most water-stressed regions can sustainably grow food despite India holding 17% of the world's population but just 4% of its freshwater.
SWAR (System of Water for Agriculture Rejuvenation), a root-zone moisture and soil-microbe measurement technology, delivers 60% water savings versus drip irrigation, alongside 'Living Compost' - locally made microbial and mycorrhizal formulations that improve soil health.
A four-decade-old, field-tested organisation addressing India's most acute agricultural constraint - water - with a low-cost, farmer co-created irrigation innovation. Fits ACT's interest in backing proven, scalable solutions to systemic climate-vulnerability problems.
An affordable IoT and AI-powered precision irrigation solution for sugarcane that helps smallholder farmers save water while boosting crop yield for increased incomes.
An affordable IoT and AI-powered precision irrigation solution for sugarcane that helps smallholder farmers save water while boosting crop yield for increased incomes.
Abundant food and water for all, by closing the gap between what farmers know and what their fields actually need.
A LoRaWAN-based smart irrigation stack - soil moisture sensors, automated drip controls and stage-specific advisories - that gives farmers precise, need-based watering guidance instead of fixed schedules, cutting water use while raising yields.
India's sugarcane sector uses a quarter of the nation's irrigation water on ~2.6% of farmland, and 86% of farmers are smallholders priced out of precision irrigation. In pilots, Cultyvate cut water use 35% and raised yields 55% - the evidence ACT needed to fund making the model affordable enough for mills and smallholders to scale together.
A service innovation that enables the transition from the fee-for-service model to a fee-for-value model, facilitated by community health workers and the use of technology.
A service innovation that enables the transition from the fee-for-service model to a fee-for-value model, facilitated by community health workers and the use of technology.
No household should fall into poverty because of medical expenses.
NEEM, a bundled health savings account combining a community health worker, a digital health platform, affordable medicines and tailored financial protection - with specialised tracks for diabetes and cardiovascular care.
Tackles primary care's core structural flaw: a fee-for-service model that discourages prevention. ACT's grant is helping Dvara shift toward a fee-for-value model at scale, using CHWs and technology to keep costs down while improving outcomes.
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.
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.
An affordable spoken English solution which supplements teachers' capacity through an app to help them deliver high quality English lessons.
An affordable spoken English solution which supplements teachers' capacity through an app to help them deliver high quality English lessons.
Bridge the language gap for students in small towns so they can access the opportunities that come with English fluency.
A Direct Instruction Spoken English (DISE) curriculum using verbal and non-verbal cueing, delivered through an app and classroom projectors, that trains local teachers to run scripted, image-supported lessons at just ~Rs. 600 per student.
An affordable, teacher-enabled (not teacher-replacing) model with proven pedagogy, priced for government-school budgets. ACT backed English Quest to scale from early pilots to 500 schools, directly targeting the employability barrier English fluency represents.
A digital health startup, focused on improving mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ communities, that will accelerate the vernacular version of its solution to support larger underserved communities.
A digital health startup, focused on improving mental health outcomes for LGBTQIA+ communities, that will accelerate the vernacular version of its solution to support larger underserved communities.
A future where mental healthcare for LGBTQIA+ individuals is language-inclusive, stigma-free and reaches beyond India's major metros.
A digital mental health platform offering LGBTQIA+-affirming support, now expanding into vernacular languages to reach underserved communities beyond urban, English-speaking users.
Serves a population mainstream mental health services routinely fail to reach. ACT's grant is accelerating Evolve's vernacular rollout to extend affirming care to larger underserved communities.
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.
A biotech startup whose microbial gel-based product increases agri-yield and improves soil quality while reducing the need for chemical fertilisers and decreasing farmer costs.
A biotech startup whose microbial gel-based product increases agri-yield and improves soil quality while reducing the need for chemical fertilisers and decreasing farmer costs.
Be the leading provider of environment-friendly, smart technologies that address global industry needs, starting with sustainable farming.
A patented encapsulation technology delivers live soil-beneficial microbes in a highly compact (1000x), shelf-stable, gel or nanofibre-based form, helping farmers rejuvenate soil and improve nutrient uptake without chemical inputs.
A deep-tech input that reduces farmers' reliance on chemical fertilisers while improving yield and income, aligning with ACT's interest in category-defining agri-innovation with measurable, source-level environmental benefit.
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.
A tech-first company that runs an assisted e-commerce platform which trains and equips a rural all-women's salesforce of ‘Sahelis’ to market and sell products / services to rural consumers through the ‘Meri Saheli’ app.
A tech-first company that runs an assisted e-commerce platform which trains and equips a rural all-women's salesforce of ‘Sahelis’ to market and sell products / services to rural consumers through the ‘Meri Saheli’ app.
Harness the economic and social potential of rural women to close the digital and livelihood gap between rural India and e-commerce.
The Meri Saheli platform trains rural women ("Sahelis") from Self Help Groups to become tech-enabled micro-entrepreneurs, selling and servicing climate-friendly, health and household products door-to-door in their own communities.
Only ~12% of rural internet users can address their needs online, and rural women in particular lack flexible livelihood options - a gap Frontier Markets closes by turning women's community trust into a distribution channel. ACT's Skilling x Women grant backed FM's 20,000-strong Saheli network as a proven, women-led livelihoods model ready to scale.
An energy startup that converts organic waste into Green Hydrogen by using a patented reactor design and proprietary microbial cultures.
An energy startup that converts organic waste into Green Hydrogen by using a patented reactor design and proprietary microbial cultures.
A future where agricultural waste is a distributed clean-fuel resource rather than a source of open-field burning and air pollution.
Patent-pending rotating contact disc (RCD) mass-exchanger and Absorbed Natural Gas (ANG) cylinder technology enable low-cost generation and transport of RNG from crop residue, with leftover residue processed into carbon-sequestering organic fertiliser.
A distributed-scale answer to both crop-residue burning and rural energy access - offering clean fuel and regenerative farm inputs from the same waste stream, matching ACT's preference for source-level, dual-benefit climate technology.
A biotech startup pioneering a patented solution made of natural plant extracts that leverages biomimicry principles to reduce post harvest over-ripening + microbial rotting of fruits & vegetables during transportation, thus increasing their shelf life by 40-80%.
A biotech startup pioneering a patented solution made of natural plant extracts that leverages biomimicry principles to reduce post harvest over-ripening + microbial rotting of fruits & vegetables during transportation, thus increasing their shelf life by 40-80%.
A food supply chain where post-harvest loss - currently ~40% of India's fresh produce - is no longer treated as inevitable.
A patented, biomimicry-based sachet placed in transport crates releases natural plant-defence compounds that activate produce's own immune response, slowing ripening and microbial spoilage by 40-60% without cold storage.
Nearly 40% of India's fresh produce is lost post-harvest, a major and underaddressed source of climate and economic loss. ACT backed Greenpod Labs' patented biotech solution as a scalable, refrigeration-free fix well-suited to India's fragmented cold-chain infrastructure.
A curated, online learning platform for mid-level women professionals to help them navigate their career journeys through a curriculum rooted in academic research, expert insights and behavioural science.
A curated, online learning platform for mid-level women professionals to help them navigate their career journeys through a curriculum rooted in academic research, expert insights and behavioural science.
Liberate people's potential in their chosen line of work by building foundational Habits critical to professional success.
A curriculum of '5 Habits and 25 Skills,' delivered online and rooted in behavioural science and academic research, teaching the thinking, communication and leadership skills that employers look for but formal education rarely builds.
ACT partnered with Harappa specifically through ACT For Women, on the insight that women's underrepresentation in leadership is a systems problem, not a talent gap. The grant piloted a 12-week Women's Leadership Program for 28 high-potential women managers, building skills like personal branding, negotiation and networking in male-dominated settings.
A molecular diagnostics startup delivering fast, affordable TB detection via portable, clinically, validated point-of-care tools for underserved areas and public health systems.
A molecular diagnostics startup delivering fast, affordable TB detection via portable, clinically, validated point-of-care tools for underserved areas and public health systems.
Reduce India's ~80% reliance on imported diagnostic equipment by building high-quality, affordable point-of-care testing at scale.
UniAmp and Hemomeasure - compact, point-of-care molecular diagnostic devices for TB and anaemia detection - paired with in-house PCR kit manufacturing (52 million COVID test kits produced during the pandemic).
A proven, made-in-India diagnostics manufacturer addressing a stark import-dependency gap in medical devices. ACT Grants is a listed investor, backing Huwel's ability to scale affordable, quality diagnostics into public and private healthcare facilities.
An aided tele-medicine platform used by doctors & community health workers to screen and monitor patients at their doorstep.
An aided tele-medicine platform used by doctors & community health workers to screen and monitor patients at their doorstep.
Reach 50 million people with continuous, preventive healthcare, eliminating preventable mortality from lack of primary care.
A hub-and-spoke model - clinics (hubs) supported by trained Community Health Activists (iCHAs) using point-of-care devices and the WHIMS data platform - that brings diagnosis, treatment and health data collection to patients' doorsteps.
A tech-enabled, data-driven answer to India's stark rural healthcare gap (just 27% of doctors serve rural India), with over a decade of on-ground delivery and disease-pattern data across 58 conditions - the operational evidence ACT looks for before backing scale.
An electrically-driven modular system that’s designed to treat wastewater in a decentralised manner at the point of source.
An electrically-driven modular system that’s designed to treat wastewater in a decentralised manner at the point of source.
A future where no wastewater is discharged untreated - true Zero Liquid Discharge - at a cost small and mid-sized industries can actually afford.
A patented, modular electrocoagulation system (ElectroX) that treats industrial wastewater without chemicals, recycling up to 99% of water at 4x smaller footprint and lower capex/opex than conventional plants.
A capital-efficient, chemical-free answer to India's ZLD mandate, where only 28% of urban sewage is treated today. ACT backed Indra's ability to serve MSMEs that can't afford conventional treatment - the segment most exposed to tightening regulation.
An open-source digital platform that empowers public health services to deliver affordable primary healthcare to rural communities through tele-medicine.
An open-source digital platform that empowers public health services to deliver affordable primary healthcare to rural communities through tele-medicine.
Democratise access to telemedicine for rural and vulnerable populations globally through an open-source platform.
An open-source telemedicine platform that trains community health workers to conduct patient intake and connects them to remote doctors for full consultations, cutting travel and cost for patients in hard-to-reach areas.
A proven, government-integrated model - already reaching 1M+ people in rural Odisha through India's e-Sanjeevani platform - matching ACT's thesis on tech-first solutions with a credible path to becoming a social unicorn.
An affordable gamified spoken English course for underserved youth that enables peer to peer learning.
An affordable gamified spoken English course for underserved youth that enables peer to peer learning.
Empower Indian youth by giving them the inspiration, skills and platform to connect with relatable role models and unlock their potential.
Josh Skills, a mobile app built on Josh Talks' storytelling platform, offers affordable, gamified spoken-English courses with peer-to-peer voice practice, custom-built for youth who know some English but lack a safe space to practise it.
Addresses a real gap other English-learning products miss: confidence to speak, not just grammar. With 17M+ subscribers already, Josh Skills had proven demand; ACT's grant opened up affordable access for low-income youth and funded more personalised, intelligent content.
AI micro-tasks that help underserved communities earn and upskill.
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.
A vernacular and voice-based digital companion that overcomes literacy barriers to enhance TB awareness & treatment adherence among underserved communities.
A vernacular and voice-based digital companion that overcomes literacy barriers to enhance TB awareness & treatment adherence among underserved communities.
Empower communities to lead lives of quality, health and wellbeing, and to assert their rights and dignity.
Sangaati, a vernacular, voice-based digital companion built on a 3,000+ question NTEP knowledge base, helps frontline workers, caregivers and TB patients get accurate information despite language and literacy barriers.
A 20+ year public-health institution turning to tech to solve TB's last-mile information gap. ACT is supporting KHPT to scale Sangaati across Karnataka - which carries 3-4% of India's TB burden - generate rigorous evidence, and prepare it for expansion into new languages and states.
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 freemium skilling platform that leverages a proprietary multi-agent AI model to curate the best / most relevant content across the web with the aim of hyper-personalising the user learning experience.
A freemium skilling platform that leverages a proprietary multi-agent AI model to curate the best / most relevant content across the web with the aim of hyper-personalising the user learning experience.
Make every learner's career goal achievable by turning the internet's scattered knowledge into a guided learning experience.
A multi-agent AI model that curates the best content from across the web and turns it, within minutes, into a personalised learning plan and job-application support - starting at INR 500/course.
Tackles a core ACT skilling problem: 45% of India's graduates are unemployable despite abundant free content. With 1M+ users (70% from households earning <INR 5L/year), ACT is funding new acquisition channels and AI assessments to prove learning outcomes.
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.
A simple digital user interface through which non-clinical staff can enter and map patient data to NCG and NCCN guidelines to enable quick & low-cost second opinion cancer care.
A simple digital user interface through which non-clinical staff can enter and map patient data to NCG and NCCN guidelines to enable quick & low-cost second opinion cancer care.
Scale cancer expertise to every patient - from remote rural areas to underserved communities globally - not just those near a top hospital.
The Navya Cancer Data Model uses AI/ML to convert patient records into a structured case summary, matched against National Cancer Grid and NCCN guidelines, so multiple oncologists can deliver a fast, evidence-based second opinion online.
Tackles a stark supply gap - one oncologist per million people, 95% of cancer centres in cities despite 70% of patients being rural. ACT's grant funded the Earthshot Engine MVP, which delivered a 12% rise in guideline compliance and 33% more doctor bandwidth in pilots; ACT is now funding scale-up trials across Andhra Pradesh and Assam.
A digital health-tech company whose comprehensive diagnostic test kit can be integrated with the e-Sanjeevani tele-medicine platform at the PHC level.
A digital health-tech company whose comprehensive diagnostic test kit can be integrated with the e-Sanjeevani tele-medicine platform at the PHC level.
A telemedicine network reaching every underserved region, even where connectivity and infrastructure are limited.
ReMeDi, a portable point-of-care diagnostic kit (developed with IIT Madras) offering ~40 tests alongside a store-and-forward or live telemedicine platform, built to work reliably on low bandwidth in rural India.
One of India's earliest, most field-tested telemedicine hardware platforms, purpose-built for low-connectivity rural deployment - proven infrastructure ACT could back to extend reach into new geographies.
A portable low-cost, radiation-free and privacy aware device that helps detect early stage breast cancer with a high rate of accuracy.
A portable low-cost, radiation-free and privacy aware device that helps detect early stage breast cancer with a high rate of accuracy.
Affordable, accessible breast cancer screening for every woman, including those mammography fails - especially in low-resource settings.
Thermalytix - a portable, radiation-free, AI-powered thermal imaging tool - screens women without touch or radiation and flags high-risk cases for further diagnosis, even for younger women and dense breast tissue where mammography struggles.
Solves a gap mammography can't: affordable, dignified screening for India's underserved women. ACT's grant funded 5,000+ screenings in Andhra Pradesh, generating real-world evidence to replicate the model nationally.
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.
India’s first carbon registry with a fully digital MRV process that integrates IoT, ML and blockchain technology to issue high-quality carbon credits in near real-time.
India’s first carbon registry with a fully digital MRV process that integrates IoT, ML and blockchain technology to issue high-quality carbon credits in near real-time.
An India-first carbon credit registry that brings small and mid-sized climate actors into a market currently open only to those who can absorb months of verification delay and lost credit value.
A fully digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting, Verification) platform, integrating IoT, machine learning and blockchain, that issues high-quality carbon credits in near real-time under a transparent, flat buyer-pays model.
Nearly 30% of earned carbon credit value is lost in slow, opaque verification today, locking out MSME project developers. ACT's grant funds RenewCred's product build and ecosystem trust-building, aligned with ACT's push for digital infrastructure that makes climate markets more inclusive.
A biotech startup whose specialised microbial formulation transforms agri-stubble into a rich organic manure.
A biotech startup whose specialised microbial formulation transforms agri-stubble into a rich organic manure.
Solve the global crisis of food, water and energy by redefining how waste is managed and how resources are recovered - sustainably and at scale.
Patented 'Designer Bio-culture' formulations - Anaerobic Granulated Sludge and Biomass Growth Enhancement Formulations - accelerate anaerobic digestion of industrial and municipal organic waste, converting it into bio-methane and bio-hydrogen while cutting treatment costs and emissions.
A proven, deep-tech biotechnology approach to India's wastewater and organic-waste crisis, already serving corporates like PepsiCo and pharma/paper industries. ACT Grants is a listed investor, reflecting ACT's interest in scalable, source-level waste-to-energy science.
AI-powered WhatsApp support for early childhood education.
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.
An AI powered app that helps low-income families get easy access to credible health information and make timely healthcare decisions
An AI powered app that helps low-income families get easy access to credible health information and make timely healthcare decisions
Close India's health-literacy gap so no family delays care because they didn't know what to do or where to go.
An AI-powered app that gives low-income families accessible, trustworthy health information and guidance, reducing reliance on misinformation or delayed care-seeking.
Addresses a root cause behind late diagnosis and poor health outcomes - lack of credible information - fitting ACT For Health's tech-first, made-for-Bharat criteria.
An AI-led app that records cough sounds and decodes unique cough signatures to detect the possible presence of pulmonary tuberculosis.
An AI-led app that records cough sounds and decodes unique cough signatures to detect the possible presence of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Respiratory healthcare unbound by location, time, equipment or trained technicians.
Swaasa, a patented AI platform, records a patient's cough sound on any phone and analyses its acoustic signature to flag likely TB and other respiratory conditions in seconds, without lab infrastructure.
Millions of TB cases go undetected because affordable, scalable screening tools don't reach the periphery. ACT and India Health Fund co-funded technical validation across 6 public health centres and 5,700 subjects, pushing Swaasa toward 90% detection accuracy.
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.
A tech-first platform that trains and certifies women as professional nannies to enhance their livelihoods and connects them to parents in need of high quality childcare.
A tech-first platform that trains and certifies women as professional nannies to enhance their livelihoods and connects them to parents in need of high quality childcare.
Train and certify women as professional nannies to improve their livelihoods, while giving families reliable, high-quality childcare.
A tech-first platform that certifies women as trained nannies (including CPR and first-aid) and connects them to families needing childcare; now building Seekh.AI, a WhatsApp-first, AI-powered training engine that gives instant feedback on caregivers' practice videos.
Tackles two problems at once: a livelihoods gap for women and a childcare gap that pushes mothers out of the workforce. ACT's pre-MVP grant is funding Seekh.AI's core video-analysis engine so training can scale beyond in-person formats to many more women, languages and geographies.
An AI-enabled, WhatsApp based Personalised Adaptive Learning tool where students choose co-curricular electives and submit real world projects, receiving structured feedback.
An AI-enabled, WhatsApp based Personalised Adaptive Learning tool where students choose co-curricular electives and submit real world projects, receiving structured feedback.
Enable all children, regardless of background, to become the leaders of today and tomorrow.
TAP Buddy, an AI/NLP-powered WhatsApp chatbot, delivers a video-based, project-driven curriculum in coding, financial literacy and the arts to students in grades 4-12, requiring no extra school infrastructure.
A no-infrastructure model that slots into existing government schools, already active across four states with a 250,000-student target - the kind of scalable, tech-first delivery ACT favours for hard-to-reach life-skills gaps.
A free app designed to empower low-income parents with children between 3-8 years to support their child’s education.
A free app designed to empower low-income parents with children between 3-8 years to support their child’s education.
Empower low-income parents of children aged 3-8 to actively support their child's learning at home.
A free app that gives parents structured, easy-to-follow daily activities and content to build their children's foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN), now expanding into regional languages like Marathi and additional services such as live classes.
A scalable, parent-facing answer to India's FLN gap, in a low-cost app format ACT could fund early. ACT's renewed grant is helping Top Parent personalise learning pathways by ability level and scale toward one million users.
An affordable app that offers both live & recorded classes in vernacular languages, along with lecture notes and quizzes, for state board students.
An affordable app that offers both live & recorded classes in vernacular languages, along with lecture notes and quizzes, for state board students.
Building Bharat Ka online School.
India’s first vernacular e-learning platform aims to make education more accessible in tier-II, III cities. We offer live lectures and pre-recorded courses (from Class 9th- 12th in Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Hinglish) to help state board students to learn academics.
High-quality edtech built for Bharat's non-English, price-sensitive students. ACT's support pushes Vidyakul from content delivery to a fuller learning product - doubt-solving, personalisation and clear, evidence-based proof of outcomes.
A free app that enables grade 1 to 10 students in rural Maharashtra learn at home using vernacular content.
A free app that enables grade 1 to 10 students in rural Maharashtra learn at home using vernacular content.
Become India's leading tech-led educational resource, anchored in the government school system.
The V-School app - a super-app used by students, teachers and district officials alike - built with a network of 2,500+ Zila Parishad teachers who co-create vernacular educational videos, now numbering 10,000+, in local languages.
A one-stop, government-anchored edtech model that turns teachers into content creators rather than replacing them. ACT renewed support into a second year as VOPA proved out partnerships across 6 Maharashtra districts with real classroom and at-home usage data.
An advanced conversational AI chatbot for mental health that leverages cognitive behavioural therapy and will also be accessible through WhatsApp.
An advanced conversational AI chatbot for mental health that leverages cognitive behavioural therapy and will also be accessible through WhatsApp.
Make high-quality, stigma-free mental health support universally accessible through AI-guided conversational care.
An AI chatbot built on CBT, DBT and mindfulness that offers anonymous, 24/7 support with built-in crisis detection; in India, relaunched in Hindi as Vyasa, reframed around resilience rather than clinical language.
Tech-first, made for Bharat, backed by evidence - ACT For Health's three tests. A 2022 pilot reached 6,000+ first-time users in Hindi with strong satisfaction; ACT is now backing Wysa/Vyasa's scale-up to 20,000 adolescent girls in Maharashtra with the state government.
The Young Warrior NXT (led by Yuwaah & UNICEF), is a collaborative initiative to build life skills in 14-18 year olds. We are supporting their effort to scale the Whatsapp chatbot
The Young Warrior NXT (led by Yuwaah & UNICEF), is a collaborative initiative to build life skills in 14-18 year olds. We are supporting their effort to scale the Whatsapp chatbot
Help young people aged 14-24 build the life skills - self-awareness, problem-solving, communication, collaboration and employability - needed to succeed in the 21st century.
A WhatsApp-based chatbot platform (built on UNICEF's U-Report) delivering interactive, self-paced life-skills modules and emotional wellbeing support directly to young people's phones.
A low-cost, high-reach delivery model - meeting underserved youth on WhatsApp rather than requiring new infrastructure - consistent with ACT's preference for tech-first, scalable interventions for India's youth employability gap.
A climate startup building an alternative to plastic packaging by extracting dried biomass from seaweed to build flexible films that are fully home-compostable and marine-degradable.
A climate startup building an alternative to plastic packaging by extracting dried biomass from seaweed to build flexible films that are fully home-compostable and marine-degradable.
Eliminate plastic packaging waste for good, replacing it with materials that vanish completely rather than lingering for centuries.
Proprietary seaweed-based resins are processed into flexible, fully home-compostable and marine-degradable films used for food covering, bags and packaging - grown without land, freshwater or fertiliser.
A genuinely circular alternative to plastic (unlike many bioplastics, which still rely on land-intensive agricultural feedstock or industrial composting). ACT backed Zero Circle for its potential to meaningfully cut plastic waste while creating new income for seaweed farmers, aligned with India's tightening Extended Producer Responsibility rules.
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