Hey Sunita, tell us about yourself
I lead UNICEF’s Ventures team with the Office of Innovation and co-founded its Venture Fund which provides seed funding in fiat and crypto – the first in the UN system. UNICEF Ventures explores how emerging frontier technology can accelerate results for the most marginalized children. I also steer UNICEF’s co-leadership of the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a network of partners who collectively contribute to the development and use of open-source digital public goods.
At UNICEF Ventures, we not only want to test innovations that can change children’s lives for the better, but we show how technology can be designed and used in a more equitable and open way, to shape how others build and invest. We support solutions that meet the needs of and are built by diverse communities.
We showcase and invest in problem solvers who are women and those in emerging and developing markets. These groups only receive a small fraction of VC funding and we aim to make investment flows more balanced. We build and finance technology solutions that are universally accessible as public goods and still backed by sustainable business models.
What are you looking for from this year’s Women in Tech and Startup entrants?
More from Interviews
- A Conversation With Allister Frost, Future-Ready Mindset Author and Speaker, On How AI Panic Is Pushing Brits Into Rushed Career Swaps That Could Prove Costly
- Interview With Yuliya Barabash, Founder Of SBSB Fintech Lawyers On Where Crypto Companies Actually Win in 2026
- A Chat With Avion Gray (CEO) And Samantha Rosenberg (COO), Co-Founders Of Belong On Wealth Building
- Interview With Bert van der Zwan, CEO at Bizzdesign On Enterprise Transformation
- Supporting Sustainability: Didi Gan, Founder And CEO Of N&E Innovations, Zayed Sustainability Prize-Winning Organisation
- Inside The Mind Of Anti Fund Partner Steve Han On Backing The Next Wave Of Disruptive Founders
- A Conversation With Ayoola Samagbeyi, CTO Of 9jaPay, Co-Founder Of Canalis Labs And SportsTech22 2026 Judge
- A Chat With Suzanna Chaplin, Founder And CEO, esbconnect, On The Future Of Acquisition And How Email Is The New Identity Layer
What advice would you give to entrants wanting to stand out from the crowd?
Make sure that you are very clear about the problem you are tackling and how your solution is the best one to solve it. That clarity and strong fit between problem and solution will give you focus and a clear vision to aim for.
