About the organization
Yomken offers two main servicesAn open-innovation platform for low-tech MSEs or NGOs working with these MSEs to post the challenges they face (publicly or anonymously) and then link them to creative solutions provided using the “wisdom of the crowd”. These challenges can vary from product development, production process optimization, usage of alternative raw material, etc. This matchmaking process is fully compliant with the standards of transparency and intellectual rights protection, as described in the platform’s Terms & Conditions.A marketplace where innovators and creative people can post their innovative projects, patents and market researches to be linked with financial vehicles (e.g. VCs, Crowdfunding platforms and others) to get support and/or investment, as well as, other collaborators and knowledgeable people to assist in further developing their projects.