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The Bayer Foundation Women Entrepreneurs Award, delivered in partnership with the Impact Hub Network, has selected 15 women from Latin America, Africa, and Asia whose ventures address gaps in healthcare access and food security.
The cohort, drawn from a field of 1,172 candidates, spans work ranging from AI-assisted diagnostics to circular food systems.
A Field of 1,172 Narrows to 15 The selection ratio itself signals how crowded the application pool has become for mission-aligned capital in the global south.
Bayer Foundation and Impact Hub — whose network operates across multiple continents — reviewed submissions from three regions where broken cold chains, fragmented distribution, and under-resourced clinics create the conditions these entrepreneurs are building around.
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