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Innovation Edge, an impact-first investor focused on solving early childhood challenges in South Africa, is calling for applications from individual innovators, registered non-profit and for-profit social enterprises in South Africa with solutions that will result in quality father-child relationships with a focus on the early years from age 0 to 6. Selected applicants will be allowed to pitch their solutions to the Innovation Edge Investment Committee at a Zoom meeting in November 2021. Successful applicants, after the pitch, will each receive up to R1.3 million in grant funding, strategic coaching, customized venture building support, and connections to social capital.
To be considered eligible for the Challenge, interested applicants must be at the stage of feasibility testing; or prototyping and market testing; or transitioning to scale; ventures in the ideation phase are not being accepted. The ventures must be innovative in that they find an entirely new way of doing things or repurpose an existing solution to solve an evidence-based problem. The ventures must also be focused on enabling quality father-child relationships. The venture needs to have a capable and committed lead person who can benefit from coaching. Lastly, the venture must, directly or indirectly, benefit children aged 0-6 years (this includes the period of development during pregnancy) in South Africa.
Established in mid-2014, Innovation Edge is an innovation catalyst and investment platform with a social impact agenda. It specializes in innovation, funding, early childhood, early-stage investing, human-centered design, social impact, networking, incubation, and acceleration. The organization strives to impact daily brain-building interactions, quality early learning programmes, early health care, and nutrition, and safety and protection. The platform has made R33 million investments to date, and for every R1 million invested, R2.2 million is leveraged.
Interested applicants can register here for the online briefing session or apply for the Challenge here.
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