Halcyon Future Builders Fellowship 2025 for U.S. Founders – YOA

Deadline: February 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Halcyon Future Builders Fellowship 2025. This program brings collectively founders from throughout the U.S., empowering them to handle local weather challenges, well being obstacles, and fairness gaps. Founders acquire knowledgeable coaching, vital assets to speed up their ventures, a one-week in-individual residency in Washington, DC, and a one-week in-individual residency in Atlanta.

Halcyon welcomes purposes from all entrepreneurs, no matter background or expertise. They are deeply dedicated to fostering fairness in entrepreneurship, recognizing the systemic obstacles that many founders from underrepresented communities face. For instance, lower than 3% of enterprise capital funding goes to Black and Latine founders, and ladies founders obtain simply 2% yearly. At Halcyon, they’re proud to be part of the answer: 84% of Halcyon ventures are led or co-led by a founding father of coloration, and 63% are led or co-led by a lady or non-binary founder. They encourage all eligible entrepreneurs to apply as they proceed to construct a various and inclusive group of innovators.

Sectors

Climate: Solutions addressing local weather mitigation, adaption, and resilience, together with however not restricted to:

• Renewable vitality technology and storage
• Green constructing applied sciences
• Climate knowledge and analytics
• Climate-smart agriculture and meals programs
• WaterTech
• Blue economic system

Health: Solutions leveraging expertise to cut back obstacles to high quality, reasonably priced well being care and to enhance bodily and psychological healthcare outcomes, significantly for traditionally excluded populations. Sub-sectors embody, however will not be restricted to:

• Telemedicine, distant affected person monitoring, and digital therapeutics
• Healthcare operations
• Health knowledge analytics and AI
• MedTech
• FemTech
• Preventative medication
• Health finance
• AgeTech/Longevity Tech

FairnessTech: Solutions leveraging expertise to extend social and monetary inclusion and shut fairness gaps in wealth, training, and accessibility. Sub-sectors embody, however will not be restricted to:

• FinTech
• Future of Work
• Assistive Tech
• EdTech

Benefits

• $10K in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credit
• Additional technical assist from AWS
• $5K fairness-free stipend per enterprise
• Access to a world-class community of mentors and advisors
• Bespoke coaching on management improvement, funding readiness, and product-market match
• Networking with buyers and various stakeholders
• Workshops with authorized consultants
• A world group of practically 600 impression-pushed entrepreneurs

Eligibility

They are trying for (for-profit) startups which might be constructing scalable options which might be tackling challenges associated to Climate, Health, or FairnessTech.

• Location: Must have operations within the U.S. or U.S. territories
• Stage: Must have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that has the potential to scale. Must be working in your enterprise full-time. 
• Team: 
  • Must be primarily based within the U.S. or U.S. territories
  • May apply with as much as one co-founder
  • Applicant should be the CEO and/or maintain main determination-making energy
  • Must be fluent in English
  • Must be not less than 21 years of age by the beginning of this system
• Program Engagement: Must have the ability to take part in all actions and programming periods
• Impact: Must be creating a product and enterprise which contributes in direction of 1 or extra of the UN’s 17 SDGs

In addition to eligibility, Halcyon scores every application primarily based on 4 standards: Impact, Scalability, Innovation, and Talent.

Application

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For extra info, go to Halcyon Future Builders Fellowship.