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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Results
Impact created
- 450+ ideas in the last edition
- PKR 1.5M 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.
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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