UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator 2025 (up to $100,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 31, 2025

Are you an enterprise offering Care or Climate Solutions in Asia-Pacific? Apply now for the UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator 2025. Supported by Visa Foundation, the UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator will assist girls-owned and girls-benefitting enterprises working within the care financial system, the inexperienced financial system, and their intersection, within the Asia-Pacific area.

The accelerator will present tailor-made assist to the chosen enterprises throughout six areas: technique, operations, inclusive enterprise fashions, monetary readiness, networking and gender responsiveness.

Selected contributors should commit to the next:

• Commitment to spend at the least 2 hours per week throughout the 6 month excessive contact assist section of the accelerator beginning in September and 1 hour per week within the subsequent section.
• The chosen enterprises will want to signal the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) and make an in-precept dedication to mainstream gender of their companies.

Benefits

Enterprises will obtain gender-responsive assist throughout six areas:

• Strategy: Targeted assist to refine enterprise mannequin, enhance income, develop buyer base, and develop go-to market methods for brand spanking new segments or geographies
• Operations: Tailored assist to refine enterprise providing, optimize prices, and enhance enterprise processes
• Inclusive Business Models: Bespoke assist in the direction of gender-responsive and inclusive enterprise growth to allow improved entry to markets and capital
• Financial Readiness: Support to establish capital wants, related varieties & sources of capital & pot-ential buyers/ lenders, develop collaterals (pitch deck, monetary mannequin, and so forth.), set fundraising milestones, perceive time period sheets, & pitch to a curated group of regional & world buyers
• Networking: Access to care and local weather trade leaders, funders, potential companions and networks such because the ‘Network of Inclusive Care Entrepreneurs (NICE)’ amongst others. Enterprises might be supplied an OPPORTUNITY to take part in two in-particular person studying/networking occasions
• Gender Responsiveness: Opportunity to perceive how gender impacts numerous features of the enterprise, from the workforce and provide chain to merchandise and providers, and take steps to mitigate potential inequalities

Grants starting from $5,000 – $100,000 out there for SELECT Enterprises

Eligibility

• Be an enterprise that’s girls -owned/led or has a gender -diverse founding workforce.
• A for-revenue registered entity with operations in South Asia or Southeast Asia.
• Operational for at the least two years with established product market match & producing revenues.

Application

Review all questions and put together your responses prematurely, earlier than you begin filling up the shape. You can obtain a duplicate of the application kind here.

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For extra info, go to UN Women Care and Climate Entrepreneurship Accelerator.