IFC She Wins Climate Acceleration Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: March 17, 2025

Applications are open for the IFC She Wins Climate Acceleration Program 2025. She Wins Climate, an initiative launched by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and applied by adelphi, VC4A and EBAN. This program goals to assist girls-led local weather startups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

The program’s purpose is to empower girls-led startups with revolutionary local weather change options by enhancing their funding readiness and fundraising capabilities. The complete program contains in-individual and digital workshops, technical help, mentorship, and funding alternatives.

Benefits

• Investment Opportunities: Connect with high traders and take part in curated pitch occasions.
• Mentorship: Receive specialised steerage from international consultants in local weather innovation and feminine entrepreneurship.
• Visibility: Showcase your startup to a world viewers of companions and stakeholders.
• Tailored Training: Enhance your expertise in funding readiness and pitching.
• Business Technical Support: Obtain assist in your each day operations.
• Peer-to-Peer Learning: Engage with fellow entrepreneurs to share experiences and insights.

Eligibility

This program is tailor-made for ladies startup founders whose ventures are targeted on local weather change options or applied sciences and are primarily based in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

• Criteria for Participants:
  • You have to be 21+ years of age
  • You should establish as a lady
  • You have to be the founder, co-founder, proprietor, or government of the startup
  • You have to be fluent in English
• Criteria for Startups:
  • Women-Owned/Women-Led: Your startup have to be owned or led by girls.
  • For-Profit and Legally Registered: Your startup have to be a for-revenue entity, legally registered as an unbiased entity, and in enterprise for no less than one 12 months on the time of submission.
  • Market Presence and Revenue Generation: Your startup should supply a services or products that’s obtainable available on the market and producing income.
  • Early-Stage: Your startup ought to be within the early levels, past the ideation section (concentrating on ventures on the pre-SEED, SEED, and Series-A funding levels). More mature companies may also be thought-about except they’re on the development or exit stage.
  • Regional Presence:The majority of your startup’s staff, property, or operations have to be primarily based in one of many following nations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
  • Tech-Enabled Climate Solutions: Your services or products have to be tech-enabled and explicitly targeted on local weather change options, with local weather change being core to your startup’s mission, technique, and operations.
    • Solutions and applied sciences might handle greenhouse fuel emissions reductions, vitality effectivity, adaptation and resilience, round processes, sustainable services or products, air pollution discount or prevention, conservation, and/or nature-primarily based options.
    • Startups with solely a minor concentrate on local weather change aren’t eligible for this program.

Application

Submit your application by March 17, 2025 to hitch the She Wins Climate cohort. The program runs for about 10 months, beginning in April 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to IFC She Wins Climate Acceleration Program.