Backing women-led innovation that matters

Wednesday, 16 September 2026 · Online

Across Asia, women are advancing health innovation, food security, climate resilience, and inclusive livelihoods. Explore the founders below and offer one concrete way you can help their work move forward.

Co-hosted by Impact Hub, Bayer Foundation, and The Bloom as part of the Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award 2026.

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Ready to help?

Choose a founder and share a specific introduction, area of expertise, partnership, pilot, funding opportunity, or visibility support.

Takes less than 3 minutes.

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How it works

1. Explore the five founder profiles.
2. Choose one founder you can support.
3. Submit a concrete offer in less than three minutes.
4. The Bloom reviews your offer and shares it with the founder.
5. If there is mutual interest, we introduce you by email.

Meet the founders

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Ankita Vijayvergiya

BillionCarbon · India

BillionCarbon transforms food waste into high-efficacy organic fertilisers that restore soil health, support smallholder farmers, improve conditions for waste workers, and reduce carbon emissions.

Learn about BillionCarbon

What Ankita is looking for:

• Growth capital to strengthen operating systems
• Market access and introduction to customers to replicate across India and Europe
• Universities, FPOS, and soil-health partners to build pathways for soil regeneration </aside>

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Maqbulatin Nuha

Berikan Protein Initiative · Indonesia

Berikan Protein turns underused fish resources into affordable, sustainable blue protein while reducing fishery waste, improving nutrition, and strengthening coastal livelihoods.

Learn about Berikan Protein Initiative

What Nuha is looking for:

• Long-term procurement & offtake for humanitarian nutrition
• Deploy products to disaster response, nutrition and food assistance programs
• Scaling a decentralized network of production sites across coastal communities </aside>

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Michelle Arsjad

Aquabloom Pte Ltd · Indonesia

Aquabloom converts tropical seaweed into climate-smart biostimulants and animal-feed additives that help smallholder farmers improve yields while supporting coastal communities.

Learn about Aquabloom

What Michelle is looking for:

• Distribution partners for seaweed biologicals in India, the Middle East, and Australia
• Research and impact grants around training women seaweed farmers
• Introductions to seaweed input companies, corporate buyers and investors </aside>

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Pema Lhadon

Shaoulee Food Products · Bhutan

Shaoulee processes indigenous Bhutanese grains into nutritious local foods, strengthening food security, farmer incomes, climate-resilient agriculture, and dignified work for women.

Learn about Shaoulee Food Products

What Pema is looking for:

• Impact capital and equipment financing to expand milling & processing capacity
• Distribution and market-access partners for new regions
• Mentors and advisors in scaling women-led agri-food enterprises </aside>

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Samara Mahindra

Carer · India and emerging markets

Carer is an evidence-based oncology intelligence platform helping insurers and health systems predict cancer risk, identify deterioration earlier, improve patient outcomes, and reduce care costs.

Learn about Carer

What Samara is looking for:

• Introductions to insurers and public health systems across the cross the GCC and UK
• Hospital and academic partners interested in validating predictive oncology models
• Healthcare investors and ecosystem partners </aside>

What makes a useful offer?

A useful offer is specific and actionable:

• “I can introduce you to a health insurer exploring oncology pilots.”
• “Our farmer cooperative could support a field trial.”