One Young World & 100+ Accelerator partner to tackle Gender Equality

AB InBev’s 100+ Accelerator is partnering with One Young World for #Lead2030’s SDG 5 Challenge: Gender Equality. This challenge aims to find and support solutions from innovative female-founded startups that address pressing sustainability issues around renewable energy, carbon emissions reduction, smart agriculture, circular packaging, water stewardship and upcycling waste.

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The Winner will receive mentorship, up to $100k USD investment and a place in the 100+ Accelerator program!⁣ In addition, the winner will receive a scholarship to attend the 2021 One Young World Summit in Munich. AB InBev and the 100+ Accelerator are looking for initiatives that can solve the following challenges:

• Infrastructure solutions that provide women-owned/operated small enterprises with opportunities to improve their access to energy, sanitation and security

• Digital skills training solutions that measurably and lastingly improve the knowledge and practices of women-owned/operated small enterprises, with the potential for significant scale

• Affordable, accessible financial products (e.g. low-interest loan products, crop insurance)

• Renewable energy technology with super high efficiency for trucking, rail, ocean and air including biofuel, electric, wind, solar and water - that are accessible for the entire market

• New packaging materials to eliminate/reduce plastic, increasing recycled content and/or new ways to incorporate our supply chain waste into our packaging materials

• Alternatives to increase recycling and reuse PET

• New solutions to improve water quality or availability in high stressed watersheds

We are thrilled about this partnership with One Young World and look forward to connecting with many women entrepreneurs.