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We thrive to support and empower entrepreneurs in emerging and frontier markets through our grants, coaching, events, workshops and other initiatives in Switzerland and abroad.
SWISS ASSOCIATION FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN EMERGING MARKETS
Supporting entrepreneurship in emerging and frontier markets
We thrive to support and empower entrepreneurs in emerging and frontier markets through our grants, coaching, events, workshops and other initiatives in Switzerland and abroad.
We connect entrepreneurs with governments, industry experts, potential partners and investors and thought-leaders in their region and internationally.
We believe that entrepreneurship can bring professional success and personal fulfilment and are committed to those who want to make the world a better place through innovation.
We work with entrepreneurs providing innovative solutions to agriculture, farming and food supply-chains in order to increase access and quality of food in emerging markets.
Now more than ever, we put our efforts to support entrepreneurial solutions to the sanitary crisis as well as other epidemic issues.
Lifelong learning and access to quality education are our top priorities as they are at the core of our solutions to better people’s lives in emerging markets and beyond.
Through gender equity activities, we want to empower women to the same opportunities, bridge the gap in investments into female-led ventures and enable female investors.
We empower ventures working on innovative solutions that support migration populations with the guidance of institutional partners and experts in the matter.
We work with public and private organizations to support their collaboration with entrepreneurs tackling their climate related issues.
DigiFemmes
Increasing the competitiveness of women entrepreneurs through digital transformation.
Call for application: Opening soon!
Country: Ivory Coast
We're excited to launch the Climate Innovation Labs together with Seedstars. By bringing youth innovation and climate technology experts together with the private sector we hope that this program will foster innovation in climate change.
ROSE MWEBAZA, DIRECTOR AT UN CLIMATE TECHNOLOGY CENTRE AND NETWORK
In the event of the Seedstars World Maputo competition, Sindy Karberg-Manuel shared insights about gender equality in entrepreneurship in Maputo, which were used by SAFEEM was able to make changes for the next bootcamp in Bamako.
SINDY KARBERG-MANUEL, GENDER AND WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ADVISOR
We really love working with SAFEEM as they boost the startups in emerging markets. We organized a prize for the best TravelTech companies and I'm proud to say that these companies are still growing. Some of those teams even came to work with lastminute.com.
FABIO CANNAVALE, FOUNDER AND CEO AT LASTMINUTE.COM
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