2025 SNVC Finalists
2025 Edwardson SNVC Finalist Teams:
Abel is a 15-minute-a-day partner for small businesses in India that helps them make smarter decisions to grow their cash. It uses data from existing informal systems, and delivers powerful insights and simple, actionable, tailored next steps to help small-business owners optimize cash flows, increase revenues, and cut costs.
Emerging Donor Alliance (EDA) is a nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate proactive charitable giving among young professionals. EDA will partner with employers to provide regular experiential learning opportunities for Gen Z employees to hone in on the causes they’re passionate about, build meaningful connections with local nonprofits, and develop positive philanthropic habits for years to come.
Exactics develops rapid diagnostic tools for underrepresented infectious diseases to expedite at-home and clinical diagnoses, improving treatment plans and outcomes. Exactics has developed QuickLyme®, a patented 15-minute at-home test for Lyme disease and is currently adapting its patented platform to create a multiplex assay for malaria and similarly presenting diseases.
ReLive connects retirees with purpose-driven, flexible work opportunities and a social network that fosters community. Through skill-based employment and meaningful connections, retirees stay active, engaged, and valued while employers benefit from experienced talent. Launching first in Singapore, ReLive redefines retirement as a phase of connection, growth, and impact.
Rise Reforming seeks to turn the tide on the plastic disaster. They use a modular, patent-pending technology to produce cheap and climate-positive chemicals from plastic waste. Their products will help decarbonize the chemical manufacturing industry and its users while combating plastic pollution.
Papaya Privacy Co. empowers web users to take control of their online privacy with a browser-based AI agent that automatically clicks cookie banners, blocks trackers, and facilitates ethical data monetization. By seamlessly automating consent decisions and offering a transparent data marketplace, Papaya ensures that users can protect their privacy while benefiting financially from their data.
Vidyasha is combining “education” (Vidya) and “hope” (Asha) to empower out-of-school and out-of-job women in India with market-relevant skills in early childhood education. Vidyasha fosters financial independence, builds resilience, and reduces gender-based violence. It aims to create a trickle-down effect, generate sustainable livelihoods, and help mothers rejoin the workforce.