cewas is the world’s first dedicated, impact-oriented WASH entrepreneurship support organization. Since 2010, cewas has worked intensively with 378 entrepreneurs all over the globe scaling their business models, growing their impact-potential and enhancing their investment-readiness. The supported enterprises have created new or improved access to Water and Sanitation for 4.7 Mio people.

For more information, please visit: cewas.org

Young Water Solutions is an international non-profit organization that was co-founded in 2015 by 16 young and senior water professionals from 11 different countries. It aims to develop and support the potential of young people to contribute to universal water, sanitation hygiene and water resources management, mainly through social entrepreneurship. Since 2017, 1.2 million people benefited from safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene through our supported start-ups.

For more information, please visit: youngwatersolutions.org

SkyFox Ltd is a Ghana based business development firm providing services such as product/service viability assessment, market knowledge, financial modelling, and corporate governance to startups. Success story of the VIA Water programme of Aqua for All, it also operates in Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, which will facilitate regional scaling of the programme and the startups.

Aqua for All is an international foundation working towards accelerating access to water and sanitation, primarily in Africa and Asia.

Funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Aqua for All uses its grants to support enterprises to scale affordable, sustainable and market-based solutions and to access capital.

Aqua for All partners with impact investors and (local) financial institutions to develop innovative and blended finance solutions aiming to catalyse investments in water and sanitation.

For more information, please visit: aquaforall.org

Established in 2005, The Stone Family Foundation supports innovative, sustainable, entrepreneurial solutions to major social problems. Our focus includes supporting people to access water in the home in Africa and Asia as well as UK portfolios focused on mental health and disadvantaged youth.

For more information, please visit: thesff.com

VOx Impuls is a family foundation dedicated to support SDG 6 demand driven solutions. Our mission is to sustainably contribute to the self-reliance of people in socially and economically disadvantaged positions. Guided by the belief in the power of (social) entrepreneurship, the foundation wants to contribute to a vibrant community of aspiring entrepreneurs in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene space.

Rooted in the life interests and last will of our founder, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation pursues approaches that touch a diversity of people, places and needs. We invest in seven program areas, each of which involves partnering with grantees, generating new knowledge, giving voice to issues and joining with others to achieve measurable impact.