https://unicefinnovationfund.org/ Digital Assets Report. Recorded LIVE at the New York Stock Exchange. SCN Corporate Connect's Jane Kings sits down with Vincent Molinari - CEO of Liquid M. Capital, and special guest Chris Fabian of UNICEF Ventures.
Templum Markets
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Liquid M. Capital
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Christopher Fabian is a technologist who co-founded UNICEF's Innovation Unit with Erica Kochi in 2006. He currently runs UNICEF Ventures - and makes investments into open source technologies that can provide solutions to societal problems, particularly those facing children. Between 2007 and 2015 he held the role of Senior Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Director at UNICEF. Fabian spent a year (2010) as Senior Advisor on Innovation to the Executive Office of the Secretary-General. In 2015 he led the launch of UNICEF’s Innovation Fund a pooled funding vehicle built to quickly assess, fund and scale companies, teams, and ideas that have been developed in new and emerging markets.
Fabian is known for his work on tools for children and communities in low-infrastructure environments, including the Digital Drum, U-Report and RapidSMS, which has evolved to RapidPro — a free, open source framework for rapidly building mobile services for scale.
In 2013, he and Kochi were on the Time 100 list of global influencers.
UNICEF Ventures helps the organization prepare for the technologies and changes that are on the 3-5 year horizon and experiments with new approaches to solving the most pressing problems facing children. This often means creating provocations to industry to show how certain technologies, if built in the right way, could have positive impact on the lives of children, while also opening new research, markets, and opportunities to UNICEF’s partners.
UNICEF Ventures invests in early stage solutions that show great potential to positively impact children in the one-to-two-year future. This investment comes from the UNICEF Innovation Fund – the first financial vehicle of its kind in the UN. The Venture fund is a $12.6 M investment fund which makes $50-100K investments in portfolios of emerging technology being developed by companies in UNICEF programme countries. This Fund allows UNICEF to take small risks within particular technology portfolios, and ensure that even if many of the investments fail the portfolio is a success.
The Fund has invested in companies including those
using blockchain for teacher payments in South Africa,
building open-source mobile phone networks in disconnected areas in Nicaragua, and using facial recognition to detect malnutrition in children under 5.
To view all Fund investments real time, visit www.unicefinnovationfund.org.
