Call for Solutions: Job Alliance Cross Border Jobs Startup Competition 2025 ($10k grant) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Job Alliance Cross Border Jobs Startup Competition 2025. The competitors goals to establish and help daring startups shaping the way forward for labour mobility for Africans. This competitors seeks to supply daring concepts, highlight present options, and construct momentum for safer, fairer, and scalable pathways for the African continent to maneuver throughout borders.

If you’re constructing a platform or service that helps African expertise transfer, join, and thrive throughout borders, they wish to hear from you.

They are searching for startups that:

• Facilitate employee mobility throughout African or international borders, by means of recruitment, placement and/or service administration
• Offer enabling providers centered on the wants of migrants similar to finance, language coaching, compliance, housing, or recruitment
• Expand present jobtech options into the labour mobility area

Prizes

The high 3 startups win:

• Grants price $10k every
• Access to the Jobtech Alliance’s tech perks price as much as $200,000 per firm (together with AWS credit and extra)
• Mentorship + neighborhood entry by means of Jobtech Alliance, LaMP, IOM, and companions
• Eligibility for comply with-on help for startups exhibiting sturdy traction

Eligibility

Eligible startups should fulfill all the next situations:

• Offer cross-border labour mobility options for Africans, between Africa and globally and throughout African borders.
• Have a registered enterprise. 
• Though the enterprise might be at any stage (together with thought/MVP stage), some proof of traction is most well-liked.
• Adhere to ideas regarding accountable {and professional} labor migration.

Judging Criteria

Applicants will likely be judged primarily based on:

• Impact potential. This consists of each potential scale, and depth of impression (ie. platforms creating jobs most well-liked, these focusing on extra susceptible populations, and so forth)
• Business Model Viability. This consists of proof of traction and/or viability of the answer.
• Innovation. This considers the platform’s method to answer the sector’s challenges.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Cross Border Jobs Startup Competition.