CareMessage Co-Founders Win 2025 Schwab Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, February 4, 2025 – CareMessage’s co-founders were recently selected as winners in this year’s Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship award under the Social Entrepreneurs category. The award was presented at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Al Gore, Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management, USA; Andrew Forrest, Executive Chairman and Founder, Fortescue, Australia; Gim Huay Neo, Managing Director, World Economic Forum; Katherine Gao Haichun, Co-Chair, Trina Solar, People's Republic of China; Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh; Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain; Salil S. Parekh, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Infosys, India; speaking in State of Climate and Nature session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 22/1/2025, 17:15 – 18:30 at Congress Centre - Congress Hall. Stakeholder Dialogue. Copyright: World Economic Forum / Jason Alden
Cecilia Corral, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, and Vineet Singal, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, were two of the 18 award winners from 15 organizations within four categories. The Social Entrepreneurs category honors individuals employing innovative, market-based approaches to directly address social issues.
CareMessage is a U.S-based technology non-profit building the largest patient engagement platform for low income populations in the United States. CareMessage aims to improve health equity for 5 million people annually by 2028. The CareMessage platform enables organizations to combine messaging, data and interoperability to increase access to care, improve clinical outcomes and address social drivers of health.
According to The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Motsepe Foundation, the 2025 award winners are values-driven entrepreneurs pioneering transformative business, social development and environmental models that are helping build a more equitable and sustainable world.
Corral has been driven by her experience growing up in a low-income immigrant household, combined with her foundational skills in product design engineering developed while at Stanford University. She ensures a human-centered approach to CareMessage’s work. Corral also is an advocate for Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry, collecting and publishing data on Latina Tech Founders.
Singal’s passion for improving healthcare access stems from his own personal health challenges and volunteering at safety-net clinics as a pre-med student at Stanford University. An Echoing Green Fellow, a DRK Foundation Fellow and a Y Combinator alumnus, Singal has also led a campaign to register 115,000 bone marrow donors from under-represented communities.
Corral shared, “We are grateful for the opportunity to showcase our work on a global stage, but more importantly to elevate the visibility of safety-net organizations who deliver more than healthcare to low-income communities nationwide. This award is for us, but also for the Free Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, and Tribal Health Organizations who elevate the role of primary care across the United States.”
This award kicks off a multi-year engagement with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, where Corral and Singal join a group of almost 500 of the world's leading social entrepreneurs and innovators whose work is impacting 931 million lives worldwide.
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About CareMessage
CareMessage is the technology non-profit building the largest patient engagement platform for low-income populations in the United States. Powered by the Health Equity Engine™, the platform enables organizations to combine messaging, data, and interoperability to increase access to care, improve clinical outcomes, and address social drivers of health.
With 20 million patients reached since 2013, CareMessage is the only patient engagement solution proven to improve health equity at scale. The team, many with lived experiences in these communities, leverages a nonprofit model to reinvest revenue into impact. CareMessage is the partner of choice for organizations committed to advancing health equity. For more information, visit www.caremessage.org.
About the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship
For 27 years, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, the Schwab Foundation has been at the forefront of bringing together the world’s leading social entrepreneurs and innovators across the most diverse sectors and geographical boundaries. This year’s awardees join an existing community of almost 500 champions whose collective work has improved millions of lives since 1998. The Schwab Foundation is the foremost global community of pioneering social entrepreneurs and innovators driving systemic change. For more information, click visit www.schwabfound.org.