BANGALORE: Businesses and the non-profit organizations have traditionally been a part of separate worlds, but now they’re coming together because of ambitious projects like the one by the Unreasonable institute.

The Unreasonable Institute was founded in 2010 by Teju Ravilochan and Daniel Epstein, who met at the University of Colorado and bonded over an aspiration to tackle global problems like education, poverty and pollution.

"Our eureka moment was realizing that the best solutions will likely come from people who have experienced these challenges and have the most innovative 'unreasonable' solutions," said Ravilochan.

The institute helps the unreasonable founders get funding, and in return takes a 2 to 4 percent share in the startups’ revenue.

Their idea took off, and today the company has over 175 investors who are doing well by doing good.  Money.cnn.com has compiled a list of the best projects from the unreasonable institute:

Eneza Education (founded in 2011):

Eneza Education is the product of an unconventional partnership between Kago Kagchiri , a techie and Toni Maraviglia, a teacher.

"We're an interesting duo. I was the teacher who hated technology and he was the techie who hated teachers," said Maraviglia.

The startup provides low cost mobile technology to supplement the education system in East Africa. Their app gives kids access to interactive quizzes, live teacher chat and mini lessons, as well as educational material for teachers.

The startup school reaches 400,000 students in 5000 schools in rural Kenya, and is expanding into Ghana, and will be profitable in 2015.

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