Investing in a gender-lens model at scale

Frontier Innovations is a global foundation dedicated to support last-mile access solutions in countries by catalyzing capital for gender & technology inclusive business models

Our Vision is to support a global community of last mile organizations around the world that comes together to collectively tackle common challenges for women around the world.

Our Mission is to formulate, design and fund experiments for improving access to climate, finance, and healthcare solutions for women at the base of the pyramid.

Established in 2013, Frontier Innovations is a 501(c)3 non-‐profit that promotes organizations, captures learning and insights from the field, aggregate capital from donors to invest in organizations' ability to drive gender-lens solutions, and creates pilot experiments to find novel business models that can address challenges for last-‐mile organizations

Thoughtful experimentation,

risk taking and useful failures will drive breakthroughs

Transparency and vulnerability will make the energy sector community stronger

Technology should support the community - not the other way around

Our Approach

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Scaling organizations focused on last-mile access to impact solutions for base-of-the-pyramid markets through women-centric interventions and business models

Frontier Innovations Foundation brings together the technologies, new business models and investment to grow and support a community of last mile distribution organizations. Through FIF’s activities, women entrepreneurs are able to address common challenge and access to digital first solutions, high impact solutions in healthcare, finance, climate, agriculture, and more promoting opportunities for income and resilience. As insights emerge, FIF commits to share its insights with this growing community.