UNICEF StartUp Lab Accelerator Programme 2025 for young Ghanaian Social Impact Startups: (Deadline 15 May, 2025)
Applications are now open for the 2025 UNICEF StartUp Lab Accelerator Programme. UNICEF StartUp Lab is looking for 25 bold, innovative, tech-driven startups creating social impact. Join the next cohort to accelerate your innovation in Health, Education, Urban Services, WASH, Climate Action, Child Protection, Finance, Agriculture, Blockchain, AI/ML, and Cybersecurity.
The UNICEF StartUp Lab is a six-month tech accelerator programme for impactful startups and businesses working to advance the Sustainable Development Goals for children and young people across several sectors, including education, health and nutrition, Water Sanitation and hygiene, and child protection.
Eligibility Requirements
• Startup must be operational for at least one year
• Startup is a registered business
• Startup has technology as the core enabler of the business
• Startups with open-source innovations are encouraged to apply
• Startup has a business model with a social impact that addresses at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Startups with female founders/co-founders are encouraged to apply
• The programme is designed to include startups from all regions in Ghana
Benefits
The UNICEF Startup Lab accelerates innovative, market-driven, transformative solutions developed by young Ghanaian businesses that aim to address some of the most complex challenges affecting the well-being of children and young people around the world, particularly the most vulnerable.
Funding
Access GHS 75,000 prototyping and GHS 150,000 scale-up funding opportunities for three startups.
Growth
Intense, hands-on business acceleration for startups & business to amplify their impact in Ghana and beyond.
Investment
Networking and investment opportunities for participants and alumni, not limited to the UNICEF Venture Fund.
Resources
Linkages and engagements with KOICA and other development partners; Tech perks including AWS cloud storage credits.
Partnerships
Connect and collaborate with UNICEF programmes including Health, Education, WASH, and Social Protection.
Impact
Opportunity to refine your solution to be a social impact fit and become a UN-recognized Digital Public Good (DPG).
Application Deadline: May 15, 2025
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