Nov
08

“HOW VENTURE-BACKED START-UPS ENTER THE WORLD OF NGOS”

Editor’s note: builtin.com posted the above-titled article, which reads in part as follows:

“Each year, nonprofits combine to drill more than 60,000 water wells across Sub-Saharan Africa. At any given time, 40 percent of those wells aren’t working. Those failures are often preventable, due either to a lack of maintenance or poor infrastructure, according to the Rural Water Supply Network. The result is $1.2 billion in wasted investment, not to mention the millions of people left with no access to clean water.

Well Beyond, an Austin-based social good startup has built an app it believes can fix this problem.