Grant Program🇹🇿 Tanzania
FUNGUO Innovation Programme
Dar es Salaam
Takes no equity. Women-owned and women-led ventures get special consideration. Reported to have backed 74 ventures across its earlier calls.
- Investment focus
- GeneralistCleantech/ClimateAgtech/FoodtechHealth/BiotechImpact
- Stage
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Check / terms
- The UNCDF call for applications reports equity-free grants of TZS 50 million to TZS 200 million (roughly US$19,000 to US$75,000). The programme site does not publish the range, so confirm it in the current call.
- Program / model
- A UNDP Tanzania programme combining performance-based, equity-free grants with business-development training for impact-driven startups and innovative MSMEs. Co-funded by the European Union, the UK (FCDO), Finland and the Global Innovation Fund.
- Invests in
- Tanzania (applicants must be legally registered in Tanzania and majority Tanzanian-owned)
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- Buni Innovation HubIncubator · Dar es Salaam