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Adaptations Open for SME Accelerator Project

Creative Victoria: Building Audiences Fund (Australia)

Deadline: 31-Jan-22

Village Capital and The Lightsmith Group announced today that applications have opened in Africa and Asia for the Adaptation SME Accelerator Project (ASAP), a program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups that are scaling market-based and contextualized solutions to critical climate adaptation and resilience challenges.

Village Capital and The Lightsmith Group will accelerate sixteen SMEs and startups that are scaling climate adaptation and resilience solutions in Africa and Asia.

SMEs and startups will participate in a one-week intensive virtual training program that will support companies at the intersection of impact (that is measurable, contextualized, with clear solutions to identified problems), inclusion (entrepreneurs that have deep experience with the problems they seek to address), and investability (sustainable, scalable startups that can drive positive financial and social return).

Focus Areas

The climate resilience and adaptation solutions offered should also strive to be as minimally carbon intensive as possible. Examples include (but are not limited to):

Benefits

Participating companies will benefit from the following:

Eligibility Criteria

You should be an SME or startup in a developing country in Africa or Asia developing or offering products and/or services (ideally technology-enabled) that increase the resilience of target users to the impacts of climate change by either –

For more information, visit https://vilcap.com/current-programs/asap-africa-asia

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