Overview of business opportunities

04 may, 2023

News

We continue our regular section #opportunitiesforbusiness, so we advise you to consider the following business support initiatives this week.

Financial support

Fintech startup competition from VISA

This is a global competition for finance, payments, and commerce startups. The winners are promised prizes from $10 to $50 thousand and access to a network of Visa partners in the banking, trading, venture capital, and government sectors.

Application deadline: May 22, 2023

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AJFRpC

Grants up to $35,000 for women and family-owned SMEs

The USAID Competitive Economy Program will provide 100 grants for Ukrainian SMEs totaling $1.5 million within the grant program. The project aims to help women develop their entrepreneurial skills and inspire them with successful cases of women entrepreneurs. The grants will be implemented in the summer of 2023.

Application deadline: July 24, 2023.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/40Otgfv

Competition for co-financing projects to support processing grains, oilseeds, and pulses.

The USAID AGRO Program will provide UAH 367 million to co-finance projects to support processing grains, oilseeds, and pulses.

Application deadline: May 15, 2023

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3HnyND6

Education.

Free online course on IT entrepreneurship for women

The NGO “Evolve” team created the course specifically for women and offered participants a lot of free material, helpful knowledge, and skills that will help them start their own projects and all the conditions to consolidate the result.

The course is available until December 31, 2023.

Learn more: https://femade.org.ua/

Entrepreneurship and business skills training for the war-affected population of Ukraine

UNDP and the EU call for entrepreneurs to participate in entrepreneurship and business skills training. The training program aims to increase the overall entrepreneurial activities of people living in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovs'k, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy, and Chernihiv regions, with a particular focus on internally displaced persons (IDPs) from south-eastern Ukraine.

The training will be held in April - June 2023.

Learn more: https://femade.org.ua/

Forbes Ukraine launches a new project, "Next250."

This list of small and medium enterprises will determine Ukraine's development. Forbes is searching for companies with annual revenues of UAH 10 million to UAH 1 billion.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NtIsvK