https://republic.co/grid (Raising ECF round on Republic) Founder of gaming startup🎮, Innovator⚡️, Tedx speaker, International development practitioner🌍 & Forbes Next 1k entrepreneur! Mainstreaming video games as educational, marketing & training tools under my startup GRID! Building Breshna, a no-code platform that empowers users to create their own educational, training & marketing games without writing a single line of code! Breshna.io The GRID team has created mobile games on 🏥reproductive health (MoHiM, Nari Paila & SurrEndo) 😻compassion for animals (KritterKneads), ⛈ climate change (EarthFenders), 🧮Math learning (Calculasia) and 🦠covid19 (CoronaCombat) and are currently working on games on Antiracism, financial literacy (FINechANCE), opioid crisis, mental health, child protection and entrepreneurship. Looking to connect with: Investors (angels & VCs): raising 💰 Social impact organizations: looking to create low-cost video games for positive behavior change Small business owners: who want to leverage low-cost video games as training or marketing tools! Email: [email protected] Website: www.gamingfordev.com Text me: 2028305691 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamadil Honors and Awards: ⚡️Recognized as an Honor Roll Alum in 2017 by President Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU). GRID was also featured as an “exemplary approach” on stage at CGIU 2015 at a session moderated by President Clinton. 🔈 two Tedx talks 🔥 DC Inno 50 on Fire - 2018 - GRID among DC's top 50 most innovative companies 🥇 Recipient of the 2015 Andrew Rice Award of the Society of International Development; 🎉Awarded “Best Social Venture” prize at GW Business Plan Competition ⚡️Also a recipient of the Elliott School’s Wilbur J. Carr Prize StereoWiped received “Honorable Mention” award at UN PeaceApp Competition 📰 GRID has been featured in ABC7News, Washington Post, GW Today, Huffington Post, Global Voices, Dawn and VentureBeat. Based in Vienna, VA USA