What AI says about UNICEF Venture Fund

The UNICEF Venture Fund provides flexible funding and mentorship to innovators in UNICEF programme countries to develop and test open-source technology solutions for children, in collaboration with UNICEF country offices. It makes early-stage investments of $50k–$100k and growth-stage investments of $200k–$400k, backed by a USD 35 million investment fund, to identify and pilot frontier technologies and build scalable platforms UNICEF can use in diverse country settings. Since its 2014 launch (first cohort in 2016), the fund has built a portfolio of around 147 investments across multiple countries and aims to add roughly 30 new investments per year, including climate tech cohorts.