Solver Alumni Superlatives
For our tenth anniversary, we’re catching up with ten Solver alumni that embody the ethos and spirit of our work—solving humanity’s greatest challenges through bold, barrier-breaking innovation. And while they “graduated” our support program long ago, once a Solver, always a Solver—aka we’ll always be their biggest cheerleaders and champions.
"Building a company is the best MBA I could have ever done." - Rama Kayyali, co-founder of Little Thinking Minds
Where they started: A homespun children’s literacy video available on VHS, filmed in a garden, with outsourced nursery rhymes and a local puppeteer, born from two mothers' frustration that quality Arabic content for young children simply didn't exist.
Where they are now: In 2026, they were acquired by Seesaw Learning, a US-based EdTech platform used by 25 million teachers and students globally. Little Thinking Minds kept its name and team and is now building out Seesaw in Arabic, including AI-powered tools for personalized learning paths.
Catch up with Rama Kayyali:
"Technology really is just one part. It helps show where the problem is. But it's not enough."—Ruchit Nagar, CEO & co-founder of Khushi Baby
Where they started: First, a pendant. Then, a platform. When Khushi Baby took their ideas from a Yale classroom into the field, they noticed that their target patients—children in underresourced areas—wore pendants with black threads, as a symbol of protection. They utilzed this cultural touchstone to create wearable pendants that monitored health data. This led to the creation of their Community Health Integrated Platform (CHIP).
Where they are now: CHIP is deployed across 48,000 villages, used by over 75,000 community health workers, and has tracked the health of more than 50 million people—identifying over 10 million individuals with vulnerable health conditions.
Catch up with Ruchit Nagar:
"Make sure that you have people around you who inspire you, who keep you learning, who have the same values as you, because that will impact your career and your happiness much more than anything else." —Namya Mahajan, Co-Founder, Rocket Learning
Where they started: A WhatsApp experiment connecting Anganwadi workers and parents in India, sending two-minute activity videos to close the early childhood education gap for tens of millions of low-income children.
Where they are now: Reaching six million children across 10 Indian states, with 200,000 Anganwadi workers trained and a goal of 50 million children ahead.
Catch up with Namya Mahajan:
"You should also trust yourself and the team that you build, because at the end of the day, you are the experts at what you are doing." —Helena Samsioe, Founder and CEO of Globhe
Where they started: A marketplace platform using drones to deliver medical supplies to hard-to-reach areas around the world.
Where they are now: A drone data platform with over 6,500 drone operators in 130 countries, monitoring deforestation, preventing malaria outbreaks, and supporting UN disaster response, impacting nearly 40 million people.
Stay in touch with the Globhe team:
Where they started: A youth-led startup from Botswana building Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and SMS tools to bring digital services to Africans who use feature phones because they can't afford smartphones or data plans.
Where they are now: Over 3 million subscribers across Botswana, DRC, Cameroon, and Guinea, with female farmers reporting 115% income increases after joining the platform.
Stay in touch with the Brastorne team:
Where they started: A Nairobi-based startup founded in 2022, built to close Africa's data blindspot: climate and agricultural data too scarce, too outdated, and too coarse to serve the smallholder farmers who produce 70% of the continent's food.
Where they are now: Amini has reached 1.5+ million people through its sovereign data and AI infrastructure, digitized 1.5+ million historical records, and expanded into 25+ countries, building the data, connectivity, and compute backbone for the Global South’s data economy.
Stay in touch with the Amini team:
Where they started: Founded after the 2015 Nepal earthquakes destroyed more than 800,000 homes, Build Up Nepal trains local micro-entrepreneurs to produce low-cost, earthquake-resilient compressed earth bricks from local materials.
Where they are now: Over 11,000 homes built, 43,000 lives impacted, 100,000 tonnes of CO2 saved. A 2024 Earthshot Prize finalist and winner of the 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize—with a goal of 100,000 new homes built by 2030. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Nepal in November 2023, and every home built with Build Up Nepal's Eco-Bricks near the epicenter survived undamaged.
Stay in touch with the Build Up Nepal team:
Where they started: Four co-founders launched Rology in Cairo in 2017 to address a stark gap: hospitals across Africa and the Middle East had imaging equipment and no radiologists to read the scans.
Where they are now: Over one million radiology reports delivered to 300 hospitals in 13 countries, backed by Philips Foundation, Johnson & Johnson Impact Ventures, Sanofi, and Solve.
Stay in touch with the Rology team:
Where they started: Knowing that the textile and apparel industry generates an estimated $1.77 trillion in unused inventory annually, Aloqia developed a software that uses AI to help businesses identify, resell, and recycle excess inventory.
Where they are now: Through its optimized supply chain solution, Aloqia has helped 100,000 users save millions of dollars and more than a billion gallons of water. Clients include Ralph Lauren, Reformation, Patagonia, Victoria's Secret, and Shein.
Stay in touch with the Aloqia team:
Where they started: Founded in 2016 as the Indigenous Energy Initiative by Chéri Smith as a tool to connect Indigenous peoples to critical, sustainable energy infrastructure and act as consultants to private and public organizations.
Where they are now: Since selection in 2022, the Alliance has self-reported helping tribes secure close to $500 million in federal clean energy funding and currently works with 10+ Native American tribes across six states.
Stay in touch with the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy team: