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Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

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Re: Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

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Lookify.co http://www.lookify.co

Is search platform (as a service) for e-commerce websites to boost on-line sales through a complete and manageable integration. We are providing Amazon search experience for small/medium e-commerce web site. With advanced UI components and analytics.

The company is base in Riga, Latvia

Re: Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

#22
Pangea (http://gopangea.com) is looking to help the underserved communities send money. Generally, remittances are from high GDP to low GDP countries.

Pangea was part of the first class of Impact Engine (http://theimpactengine.com/), a for-profit social venture accelerator originally run by Chuck Templeton (found of Open Table).

Re: Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

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TulaLens -- http://www.tulalens.org

Yelp for low-income people in the developing world. They just did a pilot in Hyderabad (India), and helped pregnant women living in slum areas discover hospitals around them offering better, cheaper care then they were receiving elsewhere (some were having to pay bribes to get care at government hospitals).

Re: Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

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post #12

Electricity is generally seen as going the way of telecommunications where it will skip a wired grid and go straight to wireless (in this case, distributed solar). Here's three startups I know are trying to make distributed energy happen in developing world: 1. http://angazadesign.com 2. http://powerhive.com 3. http://sunfunder.com

Promethean Power Systems also fits in this category. For some reason their url is coolectrica though: http://www.coolectrica.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

#30

http://Hotels.ng . 10,000 hotels in Nigeria and none of them online till we added them. Done 6000, another 20k or so left to go across the continent.

How did you acquire all that data? (I think your website's responsive design implementation is fantastic, btw)
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