A mobile app for midwives to screen pregnant women in rural areas to identify and track high-risk pregnancies. A solar-powered water ATM providing clean water in villages, urban slums, and public places and a smart meter to measure water consumption in households. These are some of the recent innovative technologies that have been created by new social impact tech startups in India.

In the recent past, India’s robust startup community, in sync with the global drive to encourage sustainable business models, has swung into action to leverage technology to build smart and economically viable solutions to accelerate social impact. Indeed, there is a new breed of social tech entrepreneurs offering tech-supported answers to solve India’s age-old problems.

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