Funding Friday...
Develop Impact - Issue 109
Happy Friday!
I hope your week has gone well. We are back again this week with another list of funding opportunities for SE Asia. I hope these programs bring you lots of new funding for your innovations!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Jesse
What’s funding…
ANGKOR 500 Growth Program
ANGKOR 500 Growth Program is our first-ever market expansion program in Cambodia!
This 10-week program is designed to prepare startups based in Cambodia to scale in Southeast Asia while de-risking market expansion through our guided programming and tailored mentorship.
Market expansion is one of the growth strategies for a business to increase its market share and its revenue. ANGKOR 500 Growth Program will help you assess whether your startup is ready to scale, identify which new markets in Southeast Asia have the right potential and work closely side by side with you to develop a growth-focused strategy exclusively for your startup.
Huawei Spark Ignite 2022
Huawei Spark Ignite 2022 is back! Bigger and better, this year’s edition is calling for a new batch of startups who DARE TO EXCEED the boundaries of their perceived limits by partnering Huawei to help startups realise their ambitions and exceed their potential.
This year, we're calling for ambitious growth startups (at least Seed stage), with existing commercially available products/services and who are not part of any existing Huawei program, to showcase your innovation to address one of the categories below and partner with a leading global brand.
In addition to USD 125K Cloud Credits and a grant prize of USD 40K, the Grand Winner will gain the opportunity to work with one of the world's leading technology innovators to bring their products and company onto another level, and onto a global platform. They will also be fast-tracked to compete as one of the Top 50 Global Startups of SLINGSHOT 2022, as part of the SLINGSHOT x SWITCH event. Up to 25 businesses are eligible for prizes, so there is plenty of room to make a tangible difference to your business future by joining Huawei Spark Ignite 2022.
UNDP DigitalX Partnerships for Scale Programme
UNDP Chief Digital Office invites projects with proven and ready to scale solutions to express their interest in taking part in the Digital X program.
The newly launched Digital X program is part of the organisation- wide digital transformation effort. Designed by CDO, and with generous support of the Government of Japan, Digital X is a programme that aims to find, match, and scale proven and innovative digital solutions around the world to accelerate impact — where it is needed the most. This initiative is designed to connect UNDP and Governments with proven, ready-to-scale solutions to meet urgent digital needs.
YECAP Fellowship Cohort #3!
What is YECAP Fellowship? A six-month comprehensive regional youth-led Fellowship Programme offered by the convening partners of the Youth Empowerment in Climate Action Platform (YECAP), to train young leaders across Asia and the Pacific in meaningful youth engagement in climate action.
What to expect? Together, we will scale up the local climate initiatives to implement climate action knowledge and to be engaged in the relevant official YECAP and affiliated events throughout the Fellowship Journey.
ASEAN-India Research Training Fellowship (AI-RTF)
India has been the dialogue partner for ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) since 1992. In 2012, on the occasion of 20th anniversary as dialogue partner, India-ASEAN celebrated commemorative Summit and declared enhancement of its relations to strategic level.
In order to support and facilitate mobility among young talented researchers of ASEAN Member States (namely Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam), India and ASEAN instituted the scheme ASEAN-India Research Training Fellowship (AIRTF) Scheme for ASEAN young researchers to work at any of the Indian research/academic Institution
The AIRTF scheme is a fellowship scheme with the following objectives:
To promote mobility of scientists and researchers from the ASEAN-Member Countries to India and provide them opportunity to work at Indian R&D/ academic institutions to upgrade their research skills and expertise.
To facilitate exchange of information and contacts between the scientists and researchers of India and ASEAN Countries and create a network for building research collaborations.
As a spin-off, the Fellowship awardees may also have opportunity to get co-supervisors from India for their research projects for Ph.D. or Masters degree on their return to their home countries.