The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) is a non-profit, impact-first investment fund headquartered in London, with offices in Washington, D.C., Nairobi, and Singapore. GIF invests in developing, rigorous testing, and scaling new products, services, business processes, or policy reforms that offer more cost-effective solutions than current practices and aim to improve the lives of the world’s poorest populations. GIF supports breakthrough innovations from for-profit companies, non-profit organizations, researchers, and government agencies through grants and risk capital to maximize impact and catalyze meaningful change. With an open call for innovative ideas, GIF invites proposals from anyone, anywhere, to identify solutions that address critical global development challenges.
Funding Amount
$50,000.00 – $15m
Target
For-profit firms, Non-profit organizations, Research Institutions and Government Agencies
Focus Areas
Any solution that addresses an important development problem more effectively than existing approaches.
Eligibility
GIF invests in innovations with strong potential for social impact at scale. We define ‘innovation’ broadly to include new business models, policy practices, technologies, behavioural insights, or ways of delivering products and services that benefit poor people across the developing world:
