Vertical Innovations Limited

Organization Details
We are ensuring convenient and affordable access to sanitary hygiene products using our automated IoT enabled vending machines(Jyoti) placed in gated environments with high density of female population. Our machines are made in Bangladesh with minimal design – less carbon footprint. There is multiple sanitary pad variants based on user choice are available simultaneously. Less than one tenth power and space consumption compared to conventional shops. And they are fully automated and easy to use.
Impact Story
Only 30% female at their menstruation age uses proper menstrual hygiene products in Bangladesh. The current market size is just above 40 million USD per year. However there is a double digit growth of the sanitary pad market every year and it likely to continue for the next 10 years reach a market size of 400 Million USD per year if products are placed to end users through convenient channels. Our solution has a great potential to bridge this gap between suppliers and users. We are collaborating with multiple NGOs including Care Bangladesh, BRAC, WaterAid, Sajida Foundation to deploy our solution at different locations. Alongside the NGOs, we are also partnering directly with factory owners, corporate managements and business owners to deploy our solution at their organizations premise. Our partners are sponsoring the initial deployment cost. We are also developing agents and microentrepreneurs to drive the regular retailing, refilling of the machines.
We are building partnership with pad manufacturers directly. This is helping us with lower sourcing cost of pads. Moreover our device manufacturing cost is quite low. These two factors allows us to provide reasonable discounts for end users while we still have a margin. Our microentrepreneur model is helping mostly women to be financially liberated. A significant group of factory owners are opting for our solution as this is helping them to address their employee needs, and they are sponsoring.We are confident that we are really making an impact for the female population in Bangladesh. Ensuring financial inclusion for the female end consumers and micro entrepreneurs is what we are doing. We promote diversity and stigma free environment in our team also, which helps us in guiding our end users. We have recently started dispensing reusable pads which are environment friendly. Additionally, we can serve 5 times more users through our solution from a conventional shop by using one tenth of the electricity.