Solve’s annual Global Challenges seek exceptional innovators who are using technology to solve today’s most pressing problems.
Those selected become Solver teams and join our nine-month support program, receive access to funding in grants and investments, a powerful network of impact-minded leaders, expert coaching and strategic advice, and exposure in the media, among many other benefits.
Since 2016, over 23,000 solutions have been submitted from 185 countries. We’re proud to support a diverse group of nearly 330 Solver teams, who have reached over 280 million lives worldwide and raised over $1 billion in capital. These teams are 64% women-led and headquartered in 59 countries.
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Shelly Xu
United States
SXD uses patent-pending AI to eliminate material waste, generating zero waste products that enable ~80% reduction in CO2 and significant cost savings.
Chidalu Onyenso
Nigeria
We use carbon accounting and climate finance to help over 45 million African SMEs switch from petrol & diesel generators to cheaper, affordable solar.
Amit Saraogi
India
Our innovative Pay-Per-Use model makes solar technology accessible to smallholder farmers, and helps them transition to low-carbon energy sources.
Kate Kallot
Kenya
Improve food security and climate change resilience for 1 billion people by solving Africa’s’ environmental data scarcity through Amini’s AI platform.
Elena Martinez Martinez
Dominican Republic
Transforming sargassum into biostimulants for agriculture, mitigating crisis while fostering sustainable practices and coastal community empowerment.
Natalie Dowsett
United Kingdom
Transforming Africa's goods transportation with sustainable, shared, electric delivery trucks designed for the needs of smallholder farmers.
Azra Ismail
India
MakerDost is a Large-Language Model (LLM) based WhatsApp chatbot, supporting hands-on learning among teachers and youth from underserved communities.
Erik Sibille
Peru
Musa delivers accessible, personalized microlearning through WhatsApp to democratize education across Latin America.
Rudolph Ampofo
Ghana
Facilitating collaboration between therapists, parents, and teachers to help children with behaviour and learning challenges like autism.
Samantha Johnson
United States
Supporting DeafBlind individuals with their first independent communication tool that prioritizes their primary language, tactile sign.
Alexandra Chen
Lebanon
An AI-powered Learning Companion teaching English, Math and Social-Emotional skills to out-of-school refugee children in Lebanon.
Isabel Sheinman
United States
NABU is a free, fun-to-use, digital educational tool that provides children with equal access to high-quality, mother-tongue, bi-lingual content.
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Utkarsh Saxena
India
AI legal transcription tool to address shortage of trained stenographers, reducing delays, improving court efficiency, and enhancing access to justice
Jason Wang
United States
FreeWorld is scaling our solution to place returning citizens into living-wage careers in the trucking industry.
Aline Sara
United States
NaTakallam leverages technology to connect displaced & conflict-affected language teachers and translators with clients world wide.
Charu Singh
United States
Eradicating systemic undervaluation of homes in US communities of color using AI-powered analytics and enabling equitable lending to homeowners
Koya Matsuno
Kenya
VunaPay provides instant payments to farmers as they deliver their produce to Agricultural Cooperatives, saving them from late payments.
Salua Garcia Fakih
Colombia
Symplifica is an enterprise that seeks to streamline the job formalization process for domestic workers in Colombia and Mexico.
All six Health Solver teams will receive incremental prize funding from Johnson & Johnson Foundation, MIT Solve’s inaugural Global Health Equity Anchor Supporter.
Mou Nandi
United States
NiADA is a non-invasive, point-of-care, real-time solution that uses Artificial Intelligence to detect and monitor anemia using a smartphone app.
Nitesh Jangir
India
Portable infrastructure-independent neonatal CPAP system which universalizes access to non-invasive breathing support for the neonatal and pediatrics
Richard Bowman
United Kingdom
A locally manufactured high performance digital microscope and slide scanner for medical diagnostics.
Kwamane Liddell
United States
ThriveLink builds telephonic AI enrollment agents who empower families to verbally enroll into social programs with no internet or reading required.
Chi Ling Chan
Singapore
MediBot is an AI clinical decision support chatbot that supports primary care providers in Timor Leste.
Mamunur Rashid
Bangladesh
Digital health platform featuring human-centric AI for equitable primary care access, designed to tackle health inequality
Amy McKee
Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian)
ʻĀinaQuest is a gameplay experience that uses art and moʻolelo (stories) to cultivate pilina (relationships) between native plants and people.
Elise Blasingame
Osage Nation
Use machine-learning and open-data to advance our position in Tribal Consultation
Saxon Metzger
Osage Nation
Empowering Indigenous communities to lead the recycling of legacy renewable energy assets, merging traditional wisdom with sustainable practices.
Priscilla Bell Lamberty
Borikua Taino | Yucayeke Yaguecax | Taino Nation of Boriken
Yucayekeno Connect is a digital platform for Borikua Taino descendants to enroll, connect & celebrate heritage through our matrilineal kinship system.
Shani Gwin
Métis
wâsikan kisewâtisiwin is an AI system aimed at monitoring internet activity to combat hate speech against Indigenous People.
Theresa Yellowbear Tsoodle
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes of Oklahoma
Using interactive storytelling maps, the Otoe Missouria tribe integrates traditional knowledge with modern technology to address climate change.
