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Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network supports organizations that empower individuals to improve the quality of their lives and of those around them. Omidyar Network uses market-based approaches with the potential for large-scale, catalytic impact, making investments in both for-profit companies as well as grants to non-profit organizations that have the potential to embody innovation, scale, and sustainability across a number of focused areas.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Peer to Peer / Network-based Support
    • Seat on the board of directors

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Leadership development
    • Access to networks and partners
    • Sector development
    • Investor showcases
    • Investor matchmaking
    • Exit strategies

  • Investment Instruments

    • Equity
    • Grant

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Provide financial support to intermediaries
    • Invest Directly
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship
    • Invest into funds

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Agriculture & Food
    • Information and communication technology
    • Financial services
    • Media & entertainment
    • Transportation

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Base of the pyramid
    • Social enterprise
    • Science, engineering or invention based businesses
    • Accessibility
    • Advocacy
    • Citizen empowerment
    • Rural communities
    • Gender inclusion
    • Urban communities
    • Resiliency / climate change
    • Minority or previously excluded population
    • Refugees and migration

  • Impact objectives

    • Access to education
    • Affordable housing
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Energy and fuel efficiency
    • Health improvement
    • Income/productivity growth
    • Sustainable energy
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
    • Access to financial services
    • Access to energy
    • Natural resources conservation
    • Sustainable land use
    • Conflict resolution

  • Verticals

    • AgTech
    • E-commerce
    • EdTech
    • GovTech
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