January 21, 2025: Innovative Opportunities to Grow Your Business

NextBillion’s BizDev page publishes business development opportunities available to enterprises working in low- and middle-income countries. These may include accelerators, competitions, funding opportunities, incubators, requests for proposals and training courses. Our editors source most of these items, but readers are also welcome to submit items for consideration on the page.

We’ve highlighted the most recent BizDev opportunities below. Visit our BizDev page to see all the opportunities.

Energy

+ENERGIA

• Organization: +ENERGIA
• Opportunity Type: RFP
• Location: Mozambique
• Apply By: 01/31/2025

+ENERGIA, Mozambique’s first national financing platform for off-grid energy access under the Government of Mozambique, invites companies to apply for Results-Based Financing (RBF) under its first two calls for proposals:

• Results-based financing for companies distributing PAYGO Solar Home Systems
• Results-based financing for companies offering Clean Cooking Solutions

Learn more

Agriculture

BRACE Program Cohort 3, Batch 1 For Agri-SMEs in Africa

• Organization: African Food Changemakers
• Opportunity Type: Course
• Location: Africa
• Apply By: 02/16/2025

This is an intensive capacity development program supporting agripreneurs (SMEs) in the agribusiness landscape to be aware of how their businesses are affected by climate change and to enable them develop strategies to adapt and mitigate the impact of climate change through climate-smart practices adoption and tapping into the climate financing opportunities. Learn more

Technology

Fit4Future

• Organization: Foundation Botnar
• Opportunity Type: Funding
• Location: Romania, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Indonesia, Vietnam, Colombia, and Ecuador.
• Apply By: 02/02/2025

Botnar is launching the second phase of its?Fit4Future?programme, and looking for bold, innovative projects that harness?digital technologies?and?AI. Learn more

UN Tourism Artificial Intelligence Challenge

• Organization: UN Tourism
• Location: Global
• Opportunity Type: RFP
• Apply By: 03/31/2025

This vision drives the UN Tourism AI & Deep Tech Start-up & Scale-Up Challenge, which aims to spark innovation in tourism with practical, high-impact AI applications across the tourism value chain. Learn more

Creative

WIPO Global Awards 2025

• Organization: World Intellectual Property Organization
• Location: Global
• Opportunity Type: Competition
• Apply By: 03/31/2025

This opportunity is for small businesses, a start-ups — from tech to fashion, media, music, design, agriculture, or any other industry — who use Intellectual Property (IP) to create value. Learn more

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