Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator 2025 Cohort

Introducing the 2025 Cohort of the Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator

We’re excited to welcome the 2025 Cohort – featuring 21 businesses innovating sanitation solutions across 11 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Their diverse innovations cover three marketplaces of the Sanitation Economy: the toilet marketplace, the circular sanitation marketplace, and the smart sanitation marketplace. The Cohort will receive business model coaching, corporate mentorship, and access to investment opportunities through the Accelerator. Matched with investors and corporate mentors from Unilever, LIXIL and Kimberly-Clark, these entrepreneurs are set to scale, fuelling sustainable SDG 6 impact at the community level.

Entrepreneurs are leading the multi-billion-dollar Sanitation Economy with essential innovation impacting not only the environment and health but also elevating human dignity and unlocking the potential to create millions of livelihoods. We’re excited to once again welcome an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs to our 2025 Cohort.

Lindelani Xaba
Associate Director Acceleration​

Learn more about the businesses below: 

Africa

This year, the 2025 Cohort features six SMEs from Africa: three from West Africa—Guinea, Senegal, and Niger—and three from East Africa—Uganda and Kenya.  

Brilliant Sanitation Uganda is a sanitation company from Uganda that offers the construction of toilets and septic tanks, pit emptying and maintenance, as well as consulting services in Kampala. 

Kenya Cast Products installs mono-block biological septic tanks that treat black water (human waste) onsite, eliminating pathogens and malignant bacteria. The effluent from the tanks can be recycled and reused to create green spaces. The company is targeting households, schools and businesses. 

La Guinéenne de Toilette provides mobile toilets and latrines equipped with SATO products, targeting women, children, the elderly, and vulnerable populations in diverse communities to improve sanitation access and public health. 

NHA is the pioneering company in Niger’s emptying services, established to address the growing demand for pit emptying. The company specialises in the collection and transportation of liquid waste, the treatment and valorisation of by-products from waste collection, and the provision of disinsectisation and cleaning services. Additionally, NHA operates the only faecal sludge treatment plant (FSTP) in Niamey.

 SIED SARL is a company that developed SANI SHOP public toilets, designed to address gender-specific needs. These facilities include features for individuals with reduced mobility and dedicated cabins for menstrual hygiene management (MHM). The company promotes employment opportunities with a gender-diverse workforce and actively supports local economies. 

Top Hygienic Products is a sanitation company in Kenya that offers pit emptying, toilet construction and menstrual waste management in Bungama County. 

Asia  

The 2025 Cohort welcomes nine SMEs from Asia: eight from India and one from Bangladesh.  

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 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 realtime responsiveness, remote control and actuation. 

Holistic women’s health approach, Mildcare Innovates eco-friendly solutions, drives social impact by addressing menstrual hygiene’s effect on education. Mildcare offers 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 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 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. 

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 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 is a Bangladeshbased company which installs IoT enabled sanitary pad vending machines in public spaces like educational institutes, factories, hospitals, and public washrooms. 

 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. 

Latin America 

The 2025 Cohort features six SMEs from Latin America: two from Guatemala and Colombia, one from Peru, and one from Mexico.  

AKAMU ECOSAN provides ecological sanitation: dry toilets and biofilters – comprehensive waste management 

COVA uses scientific methods to observe the water cycle, detect pollution, and apply nature-based solutions to restore health to the environment, ensuring communities and ecosystems have access to clean water. 

PLUVIA is an organisation dedicated to rainwater harvesting, a simple and effective solution that changes lives. Their appropriate technology allows them to capture and store rainwater efficiently and safely. 

PROFERT uses biorefining bioprocesses and bioremediation in organic waste and wastewater, for reuse. 

TUKANO uses technology to improve water sanitation treatment. 

YAKUFIL is specialised in the development of sustainable technologies for the management and treatment of wastewater and solid waste in compliance with environmental regulations. 

Learn More About the Accelerator

Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator is accelerating business solutions to the sanitation crisis. Click here to learn more 

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