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$50k-$100K early-stage; $200k-$400K growth stage
UNICEF Venture Fund provides flexible financing and mentorship to for-profit frontier tech startups in emerging economies, including companies in UNICEF programme countries developing technologies for children. It offers $50k–$100K for early-stage companies and $200k–$400K for growth-stage companies. The fund focuses on scalable technology solutions that can improve outcomes for vulnerable children, including climate tech, and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Flexible funding
The UNICEF Venture Fund provides flexible funding to innovators in emerging economies.
Mentorship
Recipients receive mentorship and connections to global networks of innovators, mentors and technology platforms.
Early-stage investment
The Fund makes $50k–$100K early-stage investments.
Growth-stage investment
The Fund makes $200k–$400K growth stage investments.
Technologies for children
The Fund supports technology solutions that show potential to positively impact the lives of vulnerable children.
Frontier technologies
The objective is to identify and pilot promising frontier technologies to develop scalable platforms that UNICEF can use in a range of applications and country settings.
Climate Tech
In 2023, the Fund invested in its first Climate Tech Cohort of innovative companies leveraging frontier technologies to strengthen climate resilience.
UNICEF's equity-free investment fund for open-source tech benefiting children. $50-100K investments. 100+ startups funded. Must be open-source. Focus on frontier tech (AI, blockchain, drones, VR) for development.
UNICEF global network, open-source community, child impact expertise, pilot access
Must be open-source. Child-focused mandate. Small tickets.
Show clearly how your technology can improve the lives of vulnerable children and scale across UNICEF programme contexts. Applicants should also match their stage to the fund’s ticket sizes: $50k–$100K for early stage and $200k–$400K for growth stage. Since the process is rolling, applying when your product and use case are well defined is likely the most practical path.
2016
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Yes
Deploying
100+ open-source tech companies globally