3 startups bag 1st edition of AI for social good awards

TheTelangana AI Mission(T-AIM) announced the winners of the inauguralAI for Social Good Awards. It also launched a compendium of 15 success stories of social sector innovation using called From Code to Compassion.

The awards, which were given away to AI startups in three categories Health & sanitation, Skill development & livelihoods, and sustainable Environment received 128 nominations.

The winning startups bagged a seed funding of 7 lakh each to scale up their innovations. Dharwad-based Sparcolife Digital Health Technologies emerged winner in the health and sanitation category for benefiting over 350 Women with their solution for womens well-being, reproductive health and fertility care.

In the skill development and livelihoods category Ahmedabad-based startup Learn & Empower, which helped over 1,200 hearing impaired children in 67 schools across seven states improve learnability of through fun-based interactive games, was adjudged winner.