UNICEF Venture Fund 2026 for Blockchain-based Solutions – YOA

Deadline: March 10, 2026

Applications are open for the UNICEF Venture Fund 2026. The UNICEF Venture Fund is asking on startups creating blockchain-primarily based social good options for accountability and financing to affix its Blockchain Ventures cohort.

The UNICEF Venture Fund invests in open-supply frontier know-how options from rising markets. For this name for purposes, they’re looking for prepared-to-deploy, blockchain-primarily based options with the potential to drive social impression for youngsters and their communities.

Early-stage startups in rising economies leveraging blockchain by an current, practical product with actual-world use circumstances are invited to apply. Companies should be registered in considered one of UNICEF’s programme international locations and have spectacular proof factors and a dedication to open-supply licensing and practices. Woman-led startups and younger founders are particularly inspired to apply.

Benefits

• Startups chosen for the Blockchain Ventures cohort will obtain fairness-free funding of as much as US$100,000 in ETH, BTC or USDC, together with tailor-made technical mentorship to help piloting, implementation and measuring of impression throughout the 12-18-month funding interval.

Eligibility

UNICEF is trying to present funding-fashion funding to early-stage know-how startups. Only entities that fulfill these obligatory necessities can be thought-about eligible:

• Registered as a personal firm on the time of the Innovation Fund award (projected: 3 months from submission of EOI)
• A personal firm registered in a UNICEF programme nation
• Working on open supply know-how options (or prepared to be open supply) below the next licenses or their equal:
  • for software program, a GNU General Public license, MIT or BSD,
  • for {hardware}, a CERN, MIT or TAPR open license and
  • for design or content material, a CC-BY license
• An current prototype of the open supply answer with promising outcomes from preliminary pilots
• Solution has the potential to positively impression the lives of essentially the most weak youngsters
• Generating publicly uncovered actual-time information that’s measurable

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to UNICEF Venture Fund.