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100+ Accelerator/AB InBev is proud to support the Lead2030 challenge for MDG 5. The challenge aims to find and support solutions that will empower women and close the equality gap, ensuring a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.

The challenge welcomes solutions from an innovative company founded by women that provides solutions or solves one of the following problems:

• Infrastructure solutions that offer women-owned or managed small businesses opportunities to improve their access to energy, sanitation and security
• Digital skills training solutions that measurably and sustainably improve the knowledge and practices of women-owned/operated small businesses, with the potential for significant scale
• Affordable and accessible financial products (e.g. low-interest loan products, insurance)
• Ultra-high-efficiency renewable energy technology for truck, rail, ocean and air, including biofuels, electricity, wind, solar and water - accessible to the whole market
• New packaging materials to eliminate/reduce plastic, increase recycled content and/or new ways of incorporating supply chain waste into packaging materials
• Alternatives for increasing PET recycling and reuse
• New solutions to improve water quality and availability in heavily used catchment areas.

Elements of equality for women

The winning solution will join the third cohort of organisations supported by the 100+ accelerator. Participation in the programme comprises three key elements:

• Leader: The first three months of the programme are spent in the market (running a pilot in a specific geographical area). The start of the programme will require three to five days in New York for a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 company representatives (preferably CEO/CTO).
• Ongoing mentoring : After this phase of the programme, 100+ Sustainability Accelerator will provide in-person and remote business development and programming to further support startups as they evolve. Pilot execution will continue, as will potential investment opportunities from AB InBev and its partners.
• Investment : 100+ Accelerator will invest up to 100,000 $ in the winning solution through an uncapped convertible note. The objective of this investment is to bring startups into AB InBev's investment portfolio and help unlock the value this can bring in terms of a closer relationship with AB InBev, globally, as well as the future investment potential of AB InBev and its partners. .

Equality criteria for women

• Led by young people: Founded by a person aged between 18 and 30.
• Founded by women: directed and founded by at least one woman founder.
• Focused: Well-structured timeframe, key stakeholders and beneficiaries identified, and reasonable, well-thought-out proposed outcomes.
• Market-ready: product/service already on the market or ready to be marketed.
• Impactful: solutions must have a positive social impact, for example by creating jobs or developing skills.
• Measurable: The impact of the solutions must have been properly measured and/or be measurable.
• Financially viable: Must be able to achieve efficiency and survive independently thanks to the resources they generate and/or the investments and donations they attract.
• Scalable: potential to perform as well or better after expanding its scope or size and/or being transported to other regions.

For more information, please visit 100+ Accelerator .