UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge 2025 for  early and growth stage frontier tech start-ups.

8.6K Application Deadline: 21 October, 2025 Applications are now open for the 2025 UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge. UNICEF is launching a call for solutions from emerging markets in collaboration with India Health Fund (IHF), and the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). To maximize impact, UNICEF will foster collaboration between early-stage frontier tech ventures and help scale proven climate adaptation solutions. This dual track approach seeks to drive impact and provide long-term sustainability. The UNICEF Venture Fund is particularly seeking solutions that:

• address challenges to accelerate results for children
• are optimized for low-resource environments (e.g., low connectivity or limited mobile access)
• focus on reducing, rather than widening, inequalities, delivering results for diverse users and communities
• can deliver in multiple languages, including local and less used languages Requirements Companies need to fulfil the following mandatory selection criteria to be considered:
• be registered as a private for-profit company
• be registered in a UNICEF programme country (See the list of eligible countries here)
• have a working prototype or minimum viable product of the proposed solution, ideally, showing promising results
• be open source or willing to be open source
• have the potential to positively impact the lives of the most vulnerable children
• generate publicly exposed real-time data that is measurable For More Information: Visit the Official Webpage of the UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge