FINCA Ventures Social Entrepreneurship Award (up to $100,000): FINCA International launches the FINCA Ventures Award to support social entrepreneurs who share FINCA’s unwavering commitment to eradicating global poverty.
The FINCA Ventures Prize is an online award for social entrepreneurs with bold visions, disruptive business models, and new products or technologies that have the potential to meaningfully impact poor and low-income people in developing markets. Start your application.
The FINCA Ventures Awards will culminate in an event in March 2024 in Washington, DC. The event will include personal pitch presentations from finalists to the judges and a celebration of the top winners in the environment and health categories.
Through the FINCA Ventures Awards, FINCA recognizes its network of donors and investors for their strong potential to accelerate startups that seek to provide impactful and scalable solutions to poor and low-income customers. It also aims to raise awareness.
In the healthcare sector, FINCA Ventures awards give priority to social entrepreneurs who develop and scale solutions that improve access and reduce costs for people with limited or no access to quality healthcare. give.
They expect a wide range of applications, from entrepreneurs building brick-and-mortar facilities, to digital platforms and medical devices that improve access to healthcare, to his B2B and B2C financial solutions tailored to the healthcare sector.
The FINCA Ventures Award in the Environment category focuses specifically on agricultural solutions that promote climate adaptation in the agricultural sector.
Enterprising applicants can provide smallholder farmers with better access to markets, build local processing capacity that facilitates the adoption of improved agricultural practices, or provide agricultural technology or digital advisory services. , potentially creating financial solutions to help farmers weather climate change and crop failures.
Categories
- Agriculture (American Founder or C-Suite)
- Agriculture (Local Founder)
- Health (American Founder or C-Suite)
- Health (Local Founder)
Benefits of participation
- In each category,
- The grand prize winner will receive a grant award of $70,000.
- The second receives: $20,000
- Third-place finalists will receive grant awards $10,000,
Criteria for participation
They are looking for companies with a significant presence in sub-Saharan Africa and whose solution fits into one of the following two categories: global health and environment.
To win a grant award, participants must be able to travel to Washington DC (with costs covered by FINCA) to present at the pitch event.
Application Deadline: December 15, 2023.
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