Halcyon EquityTech Fellowship 2025 for Startups – YOA

Deadline: April 18, 2025

Applications are open for the Halcyon EquityTech Fellowship 2025. Halcyon accelerates the influence-pushed way forward for enterprise. They imagine there’s a aggressive benefit to having a social mission in your DNA, and that influence-pushed companies signify a robust OPPORTUNITY to drive fairness and inclusivity within the office and society.

Halcyon is the group supporting influence-pushed companies and their founders by means of house, group, and entry. Their applications provide fellowships for influence-pushed founders and funding automobiles to assist them scale their ventures.

Sectors

Solutions leveraging know-how to shut fairness gaps in schooling and the workforce. Sub-sectors embrace:

• EdTech: Solutions that leverage digital instruments and know-how to enhance educating and studying outcomes, improve accessibility and academic entry, and take away monetary limitations to schooling.
  • EdTech options span Okay-12, greater schooling, company coaching, and lifelong studying, integrating AI, information analytics, and immersive applied sciences to complement instructional experiences.
• Future of Work: Technological options that increase job market entry for all communities, and applied sciences that allow people of all talents to thrive within the office.
  • Future of Work options embrace upskilling and reskilling tech, in addition to applied sciences and enterprise fashions that improve workforce analytics, collaboration, and properly-being, typically leveraging AI, automation, and digital platforms.

Benefits

• $10K in Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) credit
• $10K fairness-free stipend per enterprise
• Professional advisors
• Workshops with specialists in management improvement, funding readiness, and product-market match
• Networking with traders and diverse stakeholders
• Pro bono authorized assist
• A world group of almost 600 influence-pushed entrepreneurs

Eligibility

They are trying for (for-profit) startups which can be constructing scalable options which can be tackling challenges in EdTech and Future of Work.

• Location: Global
• Stage: Must have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that has the potential to scale. Must be working in your enterprise full-time. 
• Team: 
  • May apply with as much as one co-founder
  • Applicant have to be the CEO and/or maintain major choice-making energy
  • Must be fluent in English
  • Must be at the least 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 the direction of 1 or extra of the UN’s 17 SDGs

Selection Criteria

• Impact: To what extent will the answer, if scaled, have a significant influence on society and/or the surroundings?
• Scalability: Could this enterprise scale to achieve a whole lot of 1000’s or thousands and thousands of customers in a 5-10 yr time horizon?
• Innovation: Is the answer a novel strategy to tackling the problem of their context?
• Talent: Is the staff uniquely certified to sort out the challenges they’ve recognized?

Application

You have till Friday, April 18 at 11:59PM US Eastern Time to finish your application.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Halcyon EquityTech Fellowship.