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Impact Startup Challenge

An open challenge for impact startups: more than 450 ideas in its last edition, and PKR 1.5 million awarded.

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About the programme

The Impact Startup Challenge invites young founders and early impact startups to submit an idea that solves a social or environmental problem. The strongest ideas receive awards and support.

It is a way into SIA for people who have never joined a programme before, and it finds founders for the Pathway.

Impact Startup Challenge

How the challenge works, and how to register interest in the next edition.

Results

What we can share

The last edition received more than 450 ideas, and PKR 1.5 million was awarded.

CONFIRM: the year of that edition, how many winners there were, what support they received after the awards, and when the next edition opens.

Transparency

How SIA reports results

Every figure SIA publishes has a definition, a source and an "as of" date, and the same number appears on every page, proposal and report. A figure without an agreed definition is not published until it has one.

That is why some results on this page are still marked for checking: they will appear here once they are confirmed.

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