“We accelerate business solutions to the sanitation crisis and we’re thrilled to graduate our 10th Cohort! Congratulations to all the SMEs innovating the Sanitation Economy! The Accelerator would not be possible without our Members and partners. A special thanks to our leading Members LIXIL, Unilever, Kimberly Clark and Aqua for All, as well as to our partners in Cambodia, the Asian Development Bank, and in Latin America, the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Lab, Source of Innovation and Water For People.“
Lindelani Xaba
Associate Director Acceleration
This year, 23 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa, Asia, and Latin America graduated from the Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator, driving innovation in the Sanitation Economy across 11 countries.
The Accelerator connects entrepreneurs with corporate mentors from Unilever, LIXIL, and Kimberly-Clark, blending corporate expertise and SME innovation to scale impactful business models, fuelling sustainable SDG 6 impact at the community level.
In Asia, the Sanitation Economy is projected to reach $493.9 billion by 2030, creating 62.5 million livelihoods and entrepreneurs are leading the charge.
In 2025, with catalytic support from the Asian Development Bank, the Toilet Board Coalition expanded to Cambodia, delivering the Accelerator in Khmer for the first time. We are proud to graduate our first Cambodia Cohort — three innovative SMEs: AAP Farm, Green Lady Cambodia and SUDrain, whose solutions span organic waste recycling, menstrual health and wastewater treatment.
Click on the stories below to learn about their impact and journey with the Accelerator.
ecostp - india
ECOSTP has a patented ‘Net Zero’ Sewage Treatment Technology for decentralised, self-sustainable sewage treatment without power, chemicals, or human intervention. This technology recycles wastewater in four chambers with the help of natural bacteria to produce clean water for agricultural and gardening purposes.
Ilonnati Innovations - India
Ilonnati provides a Smart IoT solution for measuring and monitoring water pipelines, along with specialised learning support and data pattern recognition systems tailored to meet business requirements. The aim is to decrease water wastage, prevent theft, leakages, pipe bursts, and tampering in bigger pipelines. The key components of the solution are Smart Sensors for comprehensive monitoring, AI and ML for data segregation, edge Computing for real-time responsiveness, remote control and actuation.
Mild Cares - India
Holistic women's health approach, Mild Cares Pvt. Ltd. Innovates eco-friendly solutions, drives social impact by addressing menstrual hygiene's effect on education. They offer the Gynocup, a menstrual kit that provides women with safe sanitation and hygiene products during their periods. Over 200K users have benefited and yielded around 180K USD in revenue.
NIRGANDH - India
Nirgandh manufactures a No-Flush toilet system that treats faecal sludge on the site itself and its Bio-Digestor converts faecal. Nirgandh manufactures a No-Flush toilet system that treats faecal sludge on the site itself, and its Bio-Digestor converts faecal into Water & Methane gas. Gas passes through the gas pipeline and the pathogen-free water bacteria, and the whole process takes about 8-10 days.
Real Relief India - India
Real Relief is a reusable cloth sanitary pad. The differentiating factor is its antimicrobial coating properties. Even if it is worn for a longer period of time without being able to change the pad, there will still not be any microbial infections. Therefore, it promotes menstrual hygiene even if the user cannot change the pad on time or does not have perfectly clean water available to wash it.
Samudhyoga Waste Chakra - India
Waste Chakra has developed a waste treatment system that uses pyrolysis to convert faecal waste into biochar, and urine into struvite and ammonia via distillation.
Schedio Scientific - India
Schedio is an automation and smart solutions company which seeks to deploy its solutions in multiple segments and industries including WASH, manufacturing, residential, and other segments.
Shapla Wellbeing - Bangladesh
Shapla Wellbeing is a Bangladesh-based company which installs IoT enabled sanitary pad vending machines in public spaces like educational institutes, factories, hospitals, and public washrooms.
Solinas Integrity - India
Multiple portable solutions for septic tanks and manholes. The first product is Endobot, a robot used in pipeline defect analysis and preventive maintenance. This goes hand in hand with pipeline management software, Swasth AI.
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