ImpactRays Noor Medical
International Islamic University
of Malaysia Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg
ImpactRays is a social enterprise startup which has developed
a smart, solar powered, and automated irrigation system
specifically for the 86 million low income smallholder Nigerian
farmers. It aims to address the food security problem
through boosting their yield during dry season farming, while
simultaneously improving their living standards by increasing
their income. The poor farmer is empowered with this zero
energy cost and precision irrigation system which boosts the
yield and income of the farmer by 10 times through commodity-
based financing and zero down-payment through a leasing
model. ImpactRays provides value to their customers by
optimizing the process and offering additional services that
add value. Noor Medical is a med tech startup with a safe surgery
product line, including a hybrid solar-thermal autoclave, that
makes safe surgery possible at rural off-grid healthcare facilities.
Over 1.5 billion people in the world lack access to medical clinics
with capable surgical instrument sterilization equipment, resulting
in one out of every five patients in the developing world suffering
from post-operative infections. Noor Medical’s mission is to
increase humanity’s access to equitable healthcare by providing
devices to sterilize medical instruments, with the capability to
work in a variety of operational contexts. They currently focus
on improving the provision of safe surgery in rural and off-grid
medical clinics.
Team members:
Abdulazeez Uba Muhammad, Faisal Sani Bala,
and Badamasi Imam Ya’u
Team members:
Federico Castillejo, Andrew Bonneau, Saji Zagha,
and Laila Berning
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