The UN's Innovation Fund for Digital Public Goods has wrapped up its first round of investments, bringing the total number of companies it's invested in to 130, TechCrunch reports.
That's more than any other fund in the world, according to a press release, and it's focused on "open-source, emerging technology digital public goods with the potential to impact children on a global scale."
Some of the solutions the fund has invested in include artificial intelligence, blockchain, drones, and machine learning.
"Our ambition is to build successful digital solutions into Global Digital Public Goods, to ensure fair, equitable, and open access to these unique and new tools for human development on a global scale," the press release states.
The Innovation Fund was launched in 2016 to help UNICEF "learn from and to shape markets of emerging technology that exist at the intersection of $100 billion business markets and 1 billion persons' needs," the release states.
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