UNICEF Venture Fund
unicefventurefund.org Direct investor
The UNICEF Venture Fund makes equity-free seed and growth investments in early-stage, open-source frontier technology companies registered in UNICEF programme countries. It also provides mentorship and access to UNICEF's network and pilot opportunities.
UNICEF Venture Fund is a public fund. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in frontier technology, open source, data science and AI. Its stated cheque size is Up to 100,000 in seed funding and up to 400,000 in growth funding in USD and/or cryptocurrency.. 173 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in early-stage frontier tech solutions from emerging markets that can benefit children and youth”
— UNICEF Venture Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Public fund
- Invests in
- emerging markets, UNICEF programme countries
- Sectors
- frontier technology, open source, data science, AI
- Cheque size
- Up to 100,000 in seed funding and up to 400,000 in growth funding in USD and/or cryptocurrency.
- Portfolio
- 173 companies
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page UNICEF Venture Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.unicefventurefund.org/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, description, portfolio_count, status
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