UNICEF Innovation Fund
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Overview
What they do
The UNICEF Innovation Fund is a pooled funding vehicle to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that have been developed in new and emerging markets.
UNICEF's Innovation (Venture) Fund is a newly established, non-thematic, pooled fund which has been specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source technology that can benefit children. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to identify "clusters" or portfolios of initiatives around emerging technology - so that UNICEF can both shape markets and also learn about and guide these technologies to benefit children. They invest in solutions that can impact the lives of the most vulnerable children. They find these solutions clustered around $100billion industries in frontier technology spaces, such as: blockchain, UAVs, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, machine learning, quantum computing, genetic engineering, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, nano-satellites and human dynamics.
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What they look for
To identify and back clusters of open-source frontier technologies in emerging markets to build open-source IP, scalable digital public goods (DPGs), and guide technologies to benefit children globally.
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Stage
Seed
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Sectors
AI, Climate, Deeptech, Edtech, Healthcare
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Based
New York, US
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Sources
2026-08-26unicefventurefund.orgThe UNICEF Venture Fund does not seek a financial return nor does it take equity - the Open…
2026-08-26unicefventurefund.orgThe Venture Fund invests exclusively in open source solutions. The Fund generates value by…
Portfolio, cheque size and the rest
The 9 companies they have backed that we can see, the cheque they write, and whether they are deploying right now.
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