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title: "Crisis and Innovation: Startups shaping a better health and economic future"
description: Crisis and Innovation is our new blog series profiling innovative startups in our network responding to challenges created and exacerbated by the pandemic.
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# [Crisis and Innovation: Startups shaping a better health and economic future](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/crisis-innovation-covid-response)

 Written by [Annie Wood](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/author/annie-wood) | Jun 23, 2020 5:27:19 PM

*This spring, Village Capital started Crisis and Innovation, a blog series profiling [innovative startups](https://medium.com/village-capital/covid-19-will-require-long-term-and-short-term-solutions-7a17f5889b8e) in our network responding to challenges created and exacerbated by the pandemic.*

As the pandemic continues, entrepreneurs’ ingenuity is needed more than ever. Get to know companies at the forefront of building solutions to shape better health and economic outcomes:

- [Kaoun](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/kaoun-leila-ruiz) is helping democratize access to financial and remote ID services in Tunisia
- [Rimidi](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/crisis-and-innovation-lucienne-ide-rimidi) is helping limit the spread of coronavirus in emergency rooms
- [Edquity](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/crisis-and-innovation-edquity) is providing emergency financial support to college students
- [Worthy Financial](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/crisis-and-innovation-sally-outlaw-worthy-financial) offers a better bet than Wall Street during a volatile economy
- [Sevamob](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/sevamob-shelley-saxena) is opening pop-up health clinics in rural India
- [ePesos](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/epesos-oscar-robles) is helping Mexican workers get an advance on their paychecks
- [Complete Farmer](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/complete-farmer-desmond-koney) is empowering smallholder farmers to feed the food insecure
- [ZAKA](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/zaka-nick-mason) is helping people get back to work safely

| ***Is your startup responding to COVID-19?*** Village Capital and Sorenson Impact Foundation launched the [COVID-19 Investor Coalition](https://newsandviews.vilcap.com/posts/covid19-coalition) on Abaca to help route capital to startups addressing these enormous challenges. **Entrepreneurs**: If your startup is involved in efforts to address the issues exposed by COVID-19, join our COVID-19 Response Pipeline and get your solution in front of a growing coalition of investors actively looking for deals in this space. [Learn more and share your COVID-19 solution.](https://abaca.app/network/covid-19) **Investors:** Now is not the time to hit pause. Investment is needed to build a more resilient, healthy, fair future. As part of our COVID-19 Coalition, you’ll receive updated startup recommendations based on your interests, helping to streamline the funding process. [Learn more and join.](https://abaca.app/network/covid-19) <https://abaca.app/network/covid-19> |
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