Sania Salman

Senior Investment Principal

Sania joined the team in 2022 as a Principal.

Sania has experience working at the intersection of strategy, design-thinking, and social impact. Prior to joining Mulago, Sania was a Manager at Dalberg Advisors, a social impact and global development management consulting firm. Sania has also worked at Idea Couture, a design-thinking firm, and Deloitte Consulting.

Sania has a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business. In her free time, Sania loves to paint, write, and go exploring with her husband and their giant German Shepherd.

Organizations

Sania Salman is currently the lead on these Fellows and Portfolio organizations. If you're a funder and want to learn more, please reach out on LinkedIn. We'd be delighted to chat.

Portfolio

These are organizations that have gone through our Fellowship and emerged with a promising model, strategy, and organization. We are making a bet on their potential for exponential impact over time.

Pro-poor Policy Advocacy

Livelihoods

Nonprofit

amandla. mobi

Nonprofit

Livelihoods

Southern Africa

Community-created Maps to Defend Land

Environment

Nonprofit

Awana Digital

Nonprofit

Environment

Global

Professionalized Community Health Workers (proCHW)

Health

Nonprofit

Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC)

Nonprofit

Health

Global

Community-led Landscape Rehabilitation

Environment

Nonprofit

Conserve Global

Nonprofit

Environment

East Africa,Southern Africa

A Personalized Math Chatbot

Education

Nonprofit

Darsel

Nonprofit

Education

Asia,West Africa

Last-mile Trail Bridges

Livelihoods

Nonprofit

Fika

Nonprofit

Livelihoods

East Africa,Southern Africa

Outsourced School Lunches

Education

Nonprofit

Food 4 Education

Nonprofit

Education

East Africa

Lay Psychotherapy

Health

Nonprofit

Friendship Bench

Nonprofit

Health

Southern Africa

Community Accompaniment for Conservation

Environment

Nonprofit

Gaia Amazonas

Nonprofit

Environment

Latin America

“Growth Teams” in Government

Livelihoods

Nonprofit

Growth Teams

Nonprofit

Livelihoods

East Africa,West Africa

Market-Driven Community Conservation

Environment

Nonprofit

Instituto Juruá

Nonprofit

Environment

Latin America

A Smart Telemedicine Platform

Health

Nonprofit

Intelehealth

Nonprofit

Health

Asia

Two-way Chat for Moms

Health

Nonprofit

Jacaranda Health

Nonprofit

Health

East Africa,West Africa

Community-led Conservation

Environment

Nonprofit

Maliasili

Nonprofit

Environment

Africa Wide

Community-Managed Reefs

Environment

Nonprofit

OneReef

Nonprofit

Environment

Oceania

A Traceable Commodity Trading Platform

Environment

For-Profit

PemPem

For-Profit

Environment

Asia

AI-powered, On-demand Women’s Health Care

Health

For-Profit

Pinky Promise

For-Profit

Health

Asia

Community-led Conservation

Environment

Nonprofit

Planet Indonesia

Nonprofit

Environment

Asia

Fellows

Earlier stage founders who have a scalable solution to poverty — and the chops to deliver it.

For-Profit

Environment

The Idea

Professionalized Herding

Jacques van Rooyen

REHerd Africa

2026

Henry

For-Profit

Environment

Henry

East Africa,Southern Africa

Nonprofit

Health

The Idea

Group Pre-Natal Care

Nafisa Jiddawi

WAJAMAMA

2026

Rainer

Nonprofit

Health

Rainer

East Africa

For-Profit

Health

The Idea

An Affordable, High Quality Menstrual Cup

Ira Guha

Asan

2025

Rainer

For-Profit

Health

Rainer

Asia

Nonprofit

Health

The Idea

Low Cost, High Quality Fermented Proteins

Grant Gordon

Essential

2025

Rainer

Nonprofit

Health

Rainer

East Africa

Nonprofit

Environment

The Idea

Organizational strengthening of local community-led conservation organizations

Marc Fruitema

Menjadi

2025

Henry

Nonprofit

Environment

Henry

Asia

Nonprofit

Education

The Idea

Community-run pre-school in Rwanda

Lydie Hakizimana

Happy Hearts

2024

Rainer

Nonprofit

Education

Rainer

East Africa

Nonprofit

Health

The Idea

Dispensers for easy access to life-saving medicines in Southern Africa

Neo Hutiri

Pelebox

2024

Rainer

Nonprofit

Health

Rainer

Southern Africa

For-Profit

Livelihoods

The Idea

Food processing microfactories in Kenya

Irene Etyang

Mamlo Foods

2024

Rainer

For-Profit

Livelihoods

Rainer

East Africa

Nonprofit

Livelihoods

The Idea

“Growth Teams” in Government

Jonathan Mazumdar

Growth Teams

2024

Rainer

Nonprofit

Livelihoods

Rainer

East Africa,West Africa

Nonprofit

Environment

The Idea

Make human rights central to conservation, globally

Solange Bandiaky-Badji

Rights and Resources Initiative

2024

Henry

Nonprofit

Environment

Henry

Latin America,Central Africa,Asia,East Africa,West Africa

For-Profit

Health

The Idea

AI-powered, On-demand Women’s Health Care

Divya Kamerkar

Pinky Promise

2023

Rainer

For-Profit

Health

Rainer

Asia

Nonprofit

Education

The Idea

A Personalized Chatbot to Learn Math

Abdulhamid Haidar

Darsel

2023

Rainer

Nonprofit

Education

Rainer

Asia,West Africa

For-Profit

Environment

The Idea

A Traceable Commodity Trading Platform

Joann de Zegher

PemPem

2022

Henry

For-Profit

Environment

Henry

Asia

Nonprofit

Education

The Idea

A Suite of Digital Tools for Schools

Haroon Yasin

Taleemabad

2020

Rainer

Nonprofit

Education

Rainer

Asia

Nonprofit

Environment

The Idea

Track and expose fossil fuel finance

Heffa Schücking

Urgewald

2018

Henry

Nonprofit

Environment

Henry

Global

Nonprofit

Environment

The Idea

Community-led Conservation

Fred Nelson

Maliasili

Maliasili Initiatives

2016

Henry

Nonprofit

Environment

Henry

Africa Wide

Fellows

Articles

The 90% Health System

Transforming three stops along the patient journey to fix primary healthcare.

Sania Salman

July 30, 2026