Top International Development Startups in 2024

Our platform delivers an unprecedented level of visibility into the entire production process. SILQ acts as your local liaison office, overseeing sample development and approvals, raw material inspections, in-line/top sample inspections and a final AQL inspection prior to ship out.

Kiva (kiva.org) is an international nonprofit with a mission to expand financial access to help underserved communities thrive. We run a global marketplace platform to crowdfund microloans for financially excluded entrepreneurs, farmers and students around the world. Our organization combines the culture and technological passion of an internet start-up with the compassion and empathy of a non-profit to create impact and opportunity at global scale. In just 13 years, we have raised more than $1.2 billion in loan capital for 2.7 million borrowers in 83 countries. Our lenders fund over $10 million in loans every month. With offices in San Francisco, Portland, New York, Nairobi, and Bangkok, Kiva's team includes 100+ employees and 400+ volunteers worldwide. Our team is growing as we pursue exciting new opportunities to create a financially inclusive world.

Born out of the Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 2015, we are creating a global network of the most exceptional tech entrepreneurs. Every nation has a few game-changing entrepreneurs who create outsized value. We select the highest character, highest competency management teams leading the most scalable ventures. Because even the best entrepreneurs in emerging tech ecosystems lack access to the resources they need to scale, we match them with talent, expertise, and investments from the world’s most prolific entrepreneurial ecosystem - Silicon Valley. Our ventures scale-up to create thousands of new jobs and deliver essential products and services to millions of people, and our entrepreneurs become role models who lead the transformation of their own national ecosystems.

COP 26, COP 27, COP 40 etc. Really? It's time to ACT! In a money driven system the most important factor for societal impact is MONEY! How much is shifted? How fast? In what direction? and by whom? If you think about it, the connected consumer can shift the most money, the fastest, in a sustainable direction and democratically - right? The connected consumer could impact all stakeholders "overnight" in a sustainable direction. ACT is a mobile marketplace of marketplaces and a data gathering tool that helps all of us gather data so that we can all make a free and informed decision to buy tomato A over tomato B because it is produced in a way that emits the least CO2. ACT is an answer to the craving for action against the climate crisis. Coordinate your and your network's combined purchasing power towards the producers that emits the least CO2 with just a few clicks in the app and join us in the quest against global warming! It's simple and convenient: make a shopping list, optimize it for the environment and/or price (or vegan, organic etc.), navigate inside the shop, pay via mobile and check-out in 3 sec. ACT is a high-tech solution scalable to extreme-scale with no bottlenecks both in terms of data gathering and shop integration, making global collaboration around sustainable shopping a fact. With the ACT app, we can unite and change the course of history - starting today. Join ACT - work with us to market the most hands-on solution to mitigate global warming. Become an ACT developer - develop a high-tech, infinitely scalable, SOA backend and mobile app system. Go to aacctt.org/careers. Invest in ACT - invest in a company with unicorn/decacorn potential in 4-8 years. Reach out to Thomas Jepsen, CEO, linkedin.com/in/thomasjepsen and mention why you reach out.

SurveyCTO is a survey and data-collection platform designed for the specific demands of doing research in developing countries and other challenging settings. It can be used online or offline, on web, tablet, or phone. Most often it’s used by surveyors in the field to perform guided interviews with survey respondents (Computer Assisted Personal Interviews). It protects against fraud by recording how long surveys take, audio recording when suspicious behavior is flagged, and employing statistical algorithms to look for anomalies in the data. It’s also an extraordinarily flexible platform that allows for advanced survey logic, pre-loading existing data into survey questions, and automatically merging incoming data into office applications like Excel. SurveyCTO has been used to collect over three million survey submissions in over 150 countries by organizations such as the World Bank, Save the Children, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Innovations for Poverty Action, and many others.