Top International Development Startups in 2027

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.

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.

Orange Logic is an international software company. We develop a web application called Cortex that manages and licenses large-scale media libraries for multinational organizations across all industry sectors (United Nations, BBC, Greenpeace, Etsy, etc). Cortex is one of the best DAM (Digital Asset Management) tools on the market today.

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.

Established in 1959, Inter-American Development Bank is the source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean, with a strong commitment to achieving measurable results, increased integrity, transparency, and accountability. Inter-American Development Bank has an evolving reform agenda that seeks to increase its development impact in the region. While Inter-American Development Bank is a regular bank in many ways, they are also unique in some key respects. Besides loans, they also provide grants, technical assistance and do research. Their shareholders are 48 member countries, including 26 Latin American and Caribbean borrowing members, who have majority ownership of the IDB. Their Fund for Special Operations (FSO) provides concessional financing to their most vulnerable member countries.

KoBoToolbox is a free, open source software platform specifically designed to improve the data collection, management, coordination, and analysis efforts of humanitarians working in challenging and resource-poor environments. Key features include a form builder with a library function that allows users to store and share questions, online and offline capabilities, and easy-to-use visualization and data analysis tools. Through its suite of tools and intuitive design, KoBoToolbox has enabled humanitarians to gather more timely and reliable data, share knowledge, and build internal technical capacities. The majority of KoBoToolbox users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries. Our team is headquartered in Cambridge, MA at Harvard University, with developers and researchers spread across the globe.

Our company selects, implements and optimizes the best technology and business solutions to accelerate the digital transformation process. We use our robust technological knowledge to create value and differentiate. Our work is supported by the best methods and tools. It's our job to make sure that our customers are always satisfied with us.

We partner with governments to deploy, sustain, and manage national networks of community health professionals to extend quality services to people living at the last mile.

The product is safe drinking water, handwashing facilities and knowledge, and clean toilets. The "customers" (beneficiaries in nonprofit speak) are kids living in urban poverty in the 8 countries with Splash projects.

TechnoServe is a nonprofit organization that develops business solutions to poverty by linking people to information, capital and markets. TechnoServe work is rooted in the idea that given the opportunity, hardworking men and women in even the poorest places can generate income, jobs and wealth for their families and communities. With more than four decades of proven results, they believe in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.