Investing in Innovation (i3) Africa Program 2025 (up to $225K) – YOA

Deadline: February 28, 2025

Applications are invited for the Investing in Innovation (i3) Africa Program 2025. Investing in Innovation (i3) is a pan-African commercialization help program that goals to assist scale 5-fifteen (15) African healthtech startups who’re working to advance healthcare entry and supply in Africa.

Sponsored by the Gates Foundation, MSD, Cencora, Chemonics, Endless Foundation, HELP Logistics, and Sanofi, i3’s third cohort will present 5-7 startups with up to $225K in danger-tolerant funding and join them to main healthcare organizations (donors, trade, world well being establishments and governments) to scale their impression and produce measurable advances in entry.

Benefits

• Access to Markets: i3 connects healthtech begin-ups with giant healthcare organizations together with governments, donors, and world well being establishments to drive adoption of begin-ups’ choices and scale.
• Risk-Tolerant Finance: i3’s third cohort will present grant funding of up to $225K for development-stage innovators, to overcome limitations to partnerships with giant healthcare organizations e.g. WHO pre-qualification and regulatory compliance.
• Partnership Readiness Support: i3 gives a roadmap to assist innovators meet the necessities for partnering with main healthcare organizations.
• Bespoke Deal Facilitation: i3 helps innovators refine their strategic positioning and improve the chance of profitable partnerships and offers with giant healthcare organizations.
• Communications and Advocacy: i3 gives extremely professionalized communications and advocacy, to amplify the work of African healthtech innovators in the worldwide well being panorama. Additionally, i3 works in direction of resolving key ecosystem limitations that impression healthtech innovation in Africa.

Eligibility

i3 candidates have to be:

• Early-stage and Growth-stage tech-enabled companies owned or operated by African Nationals, and with a authorized presence on the continent.
• Start-ups targeted on advancing healthcare entry and supply by means of tech- and information-enabled options. Start-ups should present proof of product-market match, diversified revenues and demonstrable potential for development.
• Demonstrable potential for social and societal impression.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to i3 Program.