We empower organizations and startups to scale their social impact through innovation and active collaboration
Learn more about the Childtech Challenge
A global call for startups to solve challenges with social organizations in vulnerable communities, with a focus on children.
Meet Fellowship Impactus
A community of leaders who are solving social or environmental problems that affect children and youth in Latin America.
We accelerate social impact
Our dream is to accelerate the social impact of non-profit organizations and startups focused on children and youth
+33,000
Children and young people benefiting from innovative solutions.
+200
Educational centers have used new technological platforms.
+8 countries
in Latin America have taken part in the social innovation challenge.
+30
Non-profit organizations have applied social innovation.
Be part of the Childtech ecosystem
We created the Childtech Challenge, the leading global startup competition in Latin America focused on children and youth.
Childtech Challenge
The Childtech Challenge looks for the most innovative startups working with children and youth worldwide, ready to implement their solutions in vulnerable communities across Latin America.
Impactus Academy
A program to accelerate social impact focused on children and youth, aimed at startups, social enterprises and non-profit organizations.
Learn about social innovation
Our blog covers the social challenges facing children and youth, and the leaders who are solving them.
Investment
29 Venture Capital Funds in Latin America That Invest in Edtech Startups
Childtech Challenge
Hipocampus: Using Educational Technology for the Wellbeing of Refugee and Mobile Families
Childtech Challenge
Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: How CompletaMente Cares for People's Socio-Emotional Wellbeing with a Bot
Scale your impact
Take your startup into new markets, scale the impact of your social organization and discover innovative projects focused on children and youth.
Childtech Challenge
We created the Childtech Challenge, first held in 2021. It is much more than a competition: it is the bridge that brings non-profit organizations and startups together into a shared innovation project.
Through technology and collaboration we have changed realities in vulnerable communities, reaching the lives of thousands of children, young people and the adults around them.
What the protagonists say
Join us to accelerate social change.
Winning the Childtech Challenge let us work hand in hand with a foundation with a long track record, validate our technology and refine it to keep growing.
The Childtech Challenge was a rewarding experience. We reached 1,100 families in places where we had no presence, and we gained important partners in the country and other regions.
To create real impact in communities, it is essential to work in a coordinated way with all actors and sectors. The Childtech Challenge gave us highly professional and committed partners on the ground to carry out the implementation.
The Childtech Challenge let us reach public schools in Mexico for the first time. It was something we had been looking for a long time and had not been able to achieve.
Being part of the challenge is a valuable opportunity to validate and scale projects. It is a space to receive feedback from experts, validate ideas and explore strategies to scale high-impact educational solutions.
It was an excellent experience of growth, learning and great success. We learned a lot from the team and the program. Apply! You will not regret it.
Winning the Childtech Challenge is a great achievement. It shows that it is possible to combine mental health with technology and artificial intelligence.
Winning the Childtech Challenge is an invitation to do more with technology in early childhood, and to do it responsibly to generate more impact.
Winning is a validation of what we built by betting on digital literacy in Latin America. Generative AI is so new that there was a lot of uncertainty about whether our pedagogical and ethical approach would resonate in this context.
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