UNICEF Innovation Funds Opportunity for Tech Startups

Filed in Event by on February 18, 2022

– UNICEF Innovation Funds –

The UNICEF Innovation Funds is looking to make up to $100K equity-free investments to provide early-stage (seed) funding and support to frontier technology solutions that benefit humanity through the use of drones.

UNICEF Innovation Funds Opportunity for Tech Startups

If you’ve got a start-up registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries and have a working. Also, their open-source drone prototype or service (or you will make it open-source) shows promising results, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking for you.

Benefits

Seed Funding: 

The Fund provides $50- $100,000 in equity-free seed funding. We intend the money for prototype testing and validation, and to get it to a stage where the company has proof that the solution works.

Product and Technology Development

Selected startups will receive technical help from the UNICEF Ventures team. Also, to help validate and improve their solutions.

Business Growth

The Fund taps into a network of mentors who help startup teams develop their business model and strategy to grow their company and ultimately profit.

Networks and Platforms

UNICEF Ventures has a Drones lead and data science team with access to corporate and academic partnerships and use cases that selected drones start-ups can benefit from.

Maximise Impact

As the world’s leading organisation for children. UNICEF has a network of experts and partners across its Country Offices. Therefore, who can provide geographically localised advice and partnerships needed to reach more users?

Drone Corridor

Selected start-ups will have access to UNICEF. Also, the drone corridor in Malawi provides the physical space for testing their solutions.

However, it will make data from peer companies testing in the three drone corridors where UNICEF is presently available.

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Eligibility

  • They must register you as a private company in a UNICEF programme country;
  • You are working on open source technology solutions or will be open-source under the following licenses or their equivalent: BSD (software), CERN (hardware), or CC-BY (content);
  • You have an existing prototype of the solution with promising results from initial pilots;
  • Your solution has the potential to positively impact the lives of children.

Click Here to Apply

For more information, visit the Official Webpage

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