Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking to make up to $100K of equity-free investments to provide early stage (seed) finance to for-profit technology start-ups that have the potential to benefit humanity through the use of drones. If you’ve got a start-up registered in one of UNICEF’s programme countries and have a working, open-source drone prototype or service (or you are willing to make it open-source) showing promising results, the UNICEF Innovation Fund is looking for you.
Requirements:
[1] The company must be registered as a private company.
[2] Working on open source technology solutions (or willing to be open source) under the following
licenses or their equivalent:
- For software, a BSD license.
- For hardware, a CERN license.
- For design or content, a CC-BY license.
[3] An existing prototype of the open source solution with promising results from initial pilots.
[4] Solution has the potential to positively impact the lives of the most vulnerable children.
[5] Generating publicly exposed real-time data that is measurable.