Jan. 28, 2025: New Funding, Training Courses, Accelerators, and a Business Competition
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We’ve highlighted the most recent BizDev opportunities below. Visit our BizDev page to see all the opportunities.
Impact Finance
The program is set up as a public-private partnership by the Luxembourgish State and a dozen private partners with deep experience in impact finance, with a mission to accelerate the impact finance leaders of tomorrow across the globe. Learn more
The Climate and Finance Innovations (ClimaFii) Alliance seeks to provide catalytic support to climate enterprises (startups and SMEs) in sub-Saharan Africa. Learn more
The Climate and Finance Innovations (ClimaFii) Alliance aims to address critical challenges faced by micro-entrepreneurs in accessing affordable and appropriate clean energy solutions in India. Learn more
Education
The Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition welcomes education ventures with innovative solutions to educational inequity from around the world, especially those ventures founded by and serving individuals from marginalized and historically underrepresented communities. Learn more
Entrepreneurship
The Power of Local Challenge is looking for small business ecosystem builders – organizations that provide small businesses with diverse and equitable opportunities like resources, tools, networking, and more. Learn more
Providus Bank in partnership with Enterprise Development Centre has created the Providus Bank SME Program to build the capacity of business owners in Nigeria and provide them with the skills and competencies for the development of long-term strategic plans to transform their businesses and drive profitability. Learn more
The?African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative?is an innovative, 12-month leadership and business management capacity building program that accepts 200 female entrepreneurs annually. Learn more
Healthcare
i3’s current work seeks to catalyze the development of early- and growth-stage ventures building?data-driven access to healthcare. Learn more
The Home Grown Solutions (HGS)?Accelerator for Pandemic Resilience?is an initiative that aims to accelerate the growth of African healthcare companies to strengthen the continent’s pandemic resilience, in line with the African Union’s Energize Africa Initiative and Agenda 2063 aspirations. Learn more
NextBillion's most recent articles:
Peter S. at EcoSecurities explores how an innovative approach to catalytic carbon finance could help provide the funding African businesses need to kick-start off-grid power deployment, enabling the region to lead the global shift toward clean energy.
The climate tech ecosystem is witnessing a wave of innovation and startup activity. Yet Dr Emre Eren KORKMAZ at the 英国牛津大学 argues that these startups often overlook a key factor that's critical to their long-term success: the need for early-stage marketing strategies. He explains why marketing is a foundational necessity from day one, enabling climate tech startups to offer their solutions to potential clients in the corporate, public and impact sectors, across industries ranging from agriculture to aviation.
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Thank you James Militzer, NextBillion for spreading the word about our Social Finance Accelerator! We're looking forward to receiving submissions from promising social impact fund managers (until 28 Feb).
Great resource! These opportunities can truly empower businesses in emerging markets to thrive and make a positive impact.