About D-Prize

PURPOSE

D-Prize seeds new ventures scaling access to evidence-based poverty interventions.

Many solutions to poverty already exist. The challenge is distributing to the people who need them most. Our work identifies effective interventions, then activates new entrepreneurs to scale delivery where distribution gaps exist.

IMPACT

Since 2013, D-Prize has used seed support to help activate more than 200 social ventures and NGOs. Every six months 1700+ teams apply to our global competition, and about 1-1.5% are selected for startup support.

Ventures we support consistently achieve early-stage scale. 13% have grown to serve at least 100K people within their first five years, or are on track to reach this milestone. Cumulatively the network has delivered more than a dozen proven poverty interventions and reached 5.3M people.

Our marginal impact comes from helping new leaders build organizations that we believe otherwise wouldn’t find support. 80% of ventures we award have raised less than $5K when we partner. We support talented people from across the globe, but especially target leaders operating in their home geography. 90% of the ventures we support have founders local to a developing region. 40% are female-founded.

Contact

hello@d-prize.org

D-Prize
18 Bartol Street, #1099
San Francisco, CA 94133
United States

D-Prize is a non-profit 501C3 registered in the United States. We are registered as Global Distribution Fund, Federal EIN #: 46-2308947