Our team is excited to be a final winner of the Social Innovation Challenge 2019 hosted by the Civil Society Academy (Welthungerhilfe). Thanks to CSA’s funding, we’ll be able to scale our current agriculture pilot. Watch our pitch!
It’s been a busy 3 months at Aloi. Read about our updates in our quarterly newsletter.
We are excited to be representing Nepal at the global finals for Climate Launchpad in November!
According to their website, “ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business ideas competition. Our mission is to unlock the world’s cleantech potential that addresses climate change. The competition creates a stage for those ideas. ClimateLaunchpad is part of the Entrepreneurship offerings of EIT Climate-KIC.”
Aloi Private Limited won the Nepal national finals for She Loves Tech today! She Loves Tech national finals in Nepal was organized by Unlimited Ventures.
All finalists will participate in week-long boot camp in Beijing with visits to leading Chinese tech companies and incubators, networking with investors and cultural visits before the finals. We’ll also be pitching in the final round in Beijing in September 2019.
Our co-founders met in 2017 at the Singularity University Global Solutions Program. As alumnae, we were mentioned in the Singularity University newsletter recently: ‘Tiffany Tong and Sonika Manandhar (GSP17) saw their startup Aeloi win the Women MSME Fintech Innovation Fund for their business that “uses digital tokens to channel impact investments into micro-enterprises.”’
Thank you for the SU network’s support!
Visit SU’s site to view the full article: https://su.org/blog/su-ventures-news-bulletin-recognizing-achievements/
A few months ago, our co-founder Tiffany Tong was selected to join the Coaching Fellowship. Congratulations!
From TCFS website:
“The Coaching Fellowship nurtures and brings together the world’s high potential young women leaders of impact.
We believe that through the combination of coaching and fellowship at a crucial point in their career, young women leaders will manifest the change they want to be and see in the world faster and at an exponentially greater scale.
Together, we are bringing forward a new generation of women leaders building the world of tomorrow today.”
Aloi is amongst the top 8 finalist for Climate Launchpad Nepal 2019 with the product Green Energy Mobility (GEM), channeling impact investment in green businesses such as Safa Tempo (electric 3 wheelers mini bus in Kathmandu)
Aloi Private Limited is thrilled to be one of the winners of the Women MSME Fintech Innovation Fund by UNCDF and UNESCAP.
Quoted from the press release: “The Women MSME Fintech Innovation Fund provides risk capital and technical assistance to pilot technology enabled financial service solutions for women-led enterprises. Out of the 110 applications received, the top 30 proposals were asked to pitch their ideas to an independent investment committee made up of industry experts and regulators.
Over the next year, ESCAP and UNCDF will provide financial and technical support to the ten winning companies as they develop and pilot their business initiatives. In the short-term, the initiatives aim to support more than 9,000 women led MSMEs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, Myanmar, Nepal, Samoa and Viet Nam.”
