Over the past five years, SOMO has grown from a proposal submitted to the Big Ideas Contest to a viable nonprofit, which receives close to 2,000 applications annually from Kenyan entrepreneurs looking to launch their business ideas. So far SOMO has helped launch 58 businesses, partnering with them for two years through its acceleration program.

Big Ideas
VIDI—Another Way to See Surgery
By Veena Narashiman ’20 Basic surgeries are far from basic. They require approximately 50 tools, which take about 2 minutes each for an experienced technician