Mercy Corps Ventures Crypto For Good Fund
About the Fund
On 15 March 2022, Mercy Corps Ventures launched their Crypto For Good Fund. The objective of the Fund is to drive global financial inclusion through a series of pilots, building an evidence base to prove the scalability of blockchain-enabled solutions in making a positive impact on the 1.7 billion people in the world who are currently unbanked.
Mercy Corps Ventures (MCV) is looking for startups, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises in Africa, South and SouthEast Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Pacific Islands, and Western Balkans, who innovatively apply decentralized finance (DeFi) and blockchain technology to build financial inclusion solutions for un/underbanked and low-income users.
Photo courtesy Mercy Corps.
Solutions can include, but are not limited to:
Coins / Tokens
NFTs
Digital wallets
Lending protocols
Digital ID
DAOs
Smart contracts
The Fund will provide an equity-free grant of between $25,000 and $100,000 to ten eligible startups, to run their pilot over a six month period in 2022.
Alongside capital MCV will provide mentorship, impact measurement advisory, access to partnership opportunities, knowledge exchange, and visibility via their communications channels.
About Mercy Corps Ventures
Mercy Corps Ventures invests in and fuels high-impact enterprises working in frontier markets, from seed to scale. As part of our focus on financial resilience, MCV works with partners to responsibly pilot new financial products and services tailored to un/underbanked and low-income populations. Find out more in the 2021 Annual Impact Report.
Deadline: 15 April 2022
Additional Information
More information on Mercy Corps Ventures Crypto For Good Fund can be found in the launch blog and below:
