Deadline: April 28, 2023
Applications are open for the Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator 2024. Join a world-class group of experts from business, investment, and the global sanitation community to help turn your ideas into successful and sustainable businesses and prepare you for investment.
The Toilet Board Coalition accelerates business solutions to the sanitation crisis through their world-renowned Accelerator; matching entrepreneurs with global business leaders and investors to drive progress on Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 – sanitation for all by 2030.
The Accelerator is in its eighth year, accelerating Sanitation Economy businesses through business model design, corporate mentorship and access to investment. To date, the Coalition has graduated 58 SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), impacting more than 2.4 million people daily and unlocking US$22 million in finance.
Benefits
- 12 months in-kind business support: Hands-on mentoring tailored to your needs and the challenges facing your business.
- Access to capital upon graduation from the Accelerator (capital from Toilet Board Coalition members and investor network based on investment readiness).
- Partnership brokering & brand building through affiliation with Toilet Board Coalition member corporate, NGO and institutional brands.
- Membership to the Toilet Board Coalition ongoing engagement and investment opportunities with the Coalition following graduation.
- Access to global and local mentors and business experts from leading multinational companies – sales, marketing, supply-chain, financial planning, etc and technical experts from leading companies and stakeholders – research & development, engineering, IT, mobile, etc
- A business intelligence toolkit: consumer insights study; social & environmental audit; and financial analysis
Eligibility
Open to Sanitation Economy businesses all over the world. The Accelerator is seeking to work with SMEs that meet the following criteria:
- Target market includes populations most at risk in Asia, Africa & Latin America.
- The business is positioned to deliver sanitation at scale and is connected to the full value chain of sanitation service delivery.
- Product offering that is aspirational for its target market and provides an improved solution to the market and/or product offering that is proven and replicable.
- Commercially viable businesses, at every point in the sanitation value chain, delivering sanitation to those without access, profitably.
Application
For more information, visit Toilet Board Coalition Accelerator.
