Funding frontier climate tech for children's health
Offers early-stage climate-health startups up to $100,000 in equity-free funding for open-source tech.
Winners join the Climate Ventures cohort and receive up to US$100,000 in equity-free funding, committing to open-source licensing and practices. Applicants must be companies registered in a UNICEF programme country with a working prototype; women-led startups and young founders are especially encouraged to apply. This was the first call under UNICEF's five-year Climate Ventures programme, with app…
Within those four areas, the funder's own examples include AI-driven hazard-mapping and carbon-accounting tools, parametric insurance or disaster-financing mechanisms triggered by climate telemetry, and open-source 'Forecast-in-a-Box' predictive analytics for disease and heatwave surges. Other examples include low-cost IoT air-quality and UV sensors linked to anticipatory-action protocols, and locally trained language models that deliver climate-health guidance offline in multiple languages.
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