Introducing the 2025 Cohort of the Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator
We’re excited to welcome the 2025 Cohort – featuring 24 businesses innovating sanitation solutions across 12 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.
This year the Toilet Board Coalition welcomes a special 2025 Cambodia Cohort, commissioned by the Asian Development Bank – offering our programme in the Khmer language for the first time.
“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:
Asia
The 2025 Cohort welcomes three SMEs from Cambodia, eight from India and one from Bangladesh.
AAP Farm provides a solution for managing waste recycling by compiling solid waste from wet markets to feed the black soldier fly (BSF) on their farm; the company markets BSF larvae to local farmers—including chicken farms, fish, and shrimp farms.
With a mission to reduce plastic use in sanitary products, Green Lady Cambodia has introduced biodegradable menstrual pads and sanitary products to the country. This initiative is supported by strong collaboration with both government and non-governmental organisations to distribute these products to girls in schools and women in rural communities. The company started the local production by collaborating with the local artisans to design their own biodegradable sanitary products to expand their markets in Cambodia.
SUDrain is a Cambodia-based social enterprise pioneering eco-friendly wastewater treatment solutions using an innovative technology that utilises biofilm filters made from locally sourced coconut fiber. The company provides a cost-effective, scalable, and non-electric alternative to conventional wastewater systems, from consultation and design to installation and long-term maintenance.
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 real–time responsiveness, remote control and actuation.
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 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 Bangladesh–based 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.
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.
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.
