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Solving billion-people problems
Alumni 2018
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Bayer Foundations Alumni 2018
The 5 G4I winners have the collective power to solve challenges that over 2 billion people on the planet are facing!
T he 2018 Bayer Foundations Alumni day this summer in Berlin included the inspiring Grants4Impact (G4I) final. This is the energiser programme from Bayer Foundations, which grants one million euros to social impact pioneers transforming the worlds of health and nutrition. Thimo V. Schmitt-Lord, CEO at Bayer Foundations, opened the pitches session with stories and insight on the global roadshow he led with his team to identify innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
“If you want to be a start-up billionaire - you have to solve a billion people’s problem,” Thimo said. From 11 finalists, the winners were: COOLAR, iBreastExam, SANISOLAR , BISA and SafetyNet.
They will now be ‘connected to knowledge, power and funding in order to grow and transform good ideas into global game-changer solutions’ as part of a 24-month programme.
Meet your doctor online service app
Goal: Disrupt the way how people in remote areas of Africa gain 1st access to doctors and hospitals.
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Company BISA M-Health
Location Ghana
G4I Pilot Senegal
Scalability Africa
NGO Partner YOU Foundation
Millions of people in rural Africa life more than a day of traveling away from the next doctor – with little to no access to basic health. BISA “Ask Your Doctor Online” gives remote people in Africa access to health.
In G4I, BISA will expand the wellestablished service from Ghana into Senegal with a new French version of BISA’s app.
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Company COOLAR
Founder Christoph Göller
Location Germany
G4I Pilot Kenya
Scalability Global
Electricity-free cooling for drugs & food
Goal: Secure food/drug safety through new cooling system based on adsorption cycle technology
NGO Partner UNHCR, Médecins sans Frontières, Kenyan Ministry of Health
Food and drug safety is at risk in large parts of the world because of a lack of power supply for cooling devices. Solar devices or batteries often fail due
to high maintenance need under harsh climate conditions. COOLAR is revolutionary new cooling system based on adsorption cycle technology involving NO
electricity and no moving parts whatsoever.
In G4I, Coolar will do intense field studies in refugee camps and medical missions in Africa.
Handheld breast cancer screening deviceGoal: Provide breast cancer mass screenings in the remotest areas of the world.
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Company iBreast Exam
Founder Mihir Shah
Location USA
G4I Pilot Brazil
Scalability Global
NGO
Partner DASA
Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women worldwide. Survival rates differ largely, depending on the stage in which a tumor is detected – making early screening so important. Women in lowand-middle income regions are diagnosed at late stages since mammograms are not available. This is why 70% of all breast cancer deaths occur in these regions. iBreastExam has the power to change: it is a revolutionary handheld breast cancer screening device with the capability to providing early breast cancer screening everywhere in the world.
In the G4I pilot, iBreast will scale-up in Brazil to reach 10.000 women that have no access to regular screening.
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Company SafetyNet
Founder Dan Watson & Nadia Laabs
Location UK
G4I Pilot Indonesia
Scalability Global
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Smart nets for selective fishery
Goal: Make fishing smart – avoid bycatch and fight overfishing the oceans.
What participants gain...
� Two year program with full access to Bayer Foundation’s global network of experts and leaders.
� Professional pitch coaching and storytelling support.
NGO Partner Mantawatch
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Company SANI SOLAR
Founder Dr. Jochen Scheerer
Location Germany
G4I Pilot Brazil
Scalability hot climate zones
NGO Partner Habitat For Humanity
27 million tons of
unwanted bycatch are thrown dead back into the sea every year - one of the main causes for overfishing
and a big challenge to stop food waste.
SafetyNet creates Smart Lightening devices for Selective Fishery - the technology uses specific light spectrums to attract and de-attract fish species
selectively into the nets. This avoids by catch and fights overfishing.
In G4I, SafetyNet will operate a pilot in Indonesia, putting 120 lightening devices to work and analyzing its success.
Sun-powered maintenance free sanitation
Goal: revolutionary new cooling system based on adsorption cycle technology without any electricity.
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billion people on the planet have no access to sanitation due to a lack of sufficient infrastructures such as sewers, water or latrine maintenance.
Sani Solar is a sun powered drying toilet providing a maintenance free and sewer-independent sanitation solution for hot climate zones.
In G4I, SaniSolar implements a pilot with up to 20 devices in the Northeast of Brazil.
� Idea challenging and feedback from industry research experts and VCs.
� Up to 150,000€ in cash per team.
� High visibility through PR partnerships as well as presence at leading events.
� Active match-making with VCs and Bayer businesses for global roll-out and up-scaling after G4I.
G4I is operated in the Bayer Foundation and embedded within ‘Grants4-’family. G4I connects impact pioneers in health and nutrition to bigger funding pools, knowledge and power in order to unleash their scale-up potential for the benefit of the rising billions in need.
Dan Watson from SafetyNet
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“If you want to be a startup billionaire, you have to solve a billion peoples‘ problems”
Thimo�V.�Schmitt-Lord�MBE, Head�of�Bayer Cares Foundations
We believe in the game changing power of innovation – we support pioneers who apply tech innovations to humanity’s biggest challenges around health and food.
In 2018 we are scouting for Startups, Innovators, and Impact Innovations particularly focused on agriculture and food production for our seed funding programs and new book "The Beauty of Impact- Food". We are searching for innovations that solve the food crisis and other global grand health-related challenges that we can promote and fund to bring to the rising billions in need around the world.
Seeking funding yourself for a crazy “innovation-4-good” idea?
Get in touch with us at bayer.foundations@bayer.com. More Info: www.bayer-foundations.com
