Zinc Companies

Within each of our missions, we run Venture Builder and Academy programmes that help individuals to have impact. We have 3 criteria for choosing a Zinc mission: 1. It must tackle one of the great unmet needs in the developed world; 2. The target addressable market must exceed 100m people in the developed world alone; 3. There must be lots of unexploited opportunities to disrupt, extend and improve existing services through new technologies and insights from research. Since we launched in 2017, we have been developing a unique ecosystem of diverse talent across many sectors, disciplines and countries - mobilising people around a common mission and building scalable solutions to social problems. Each of our programmes provide unique opportunities for R&D. We are committed to building a new commercial innovation system for the social sciences, to increase the impact of existing research and to generate new R&D opportunities through our ventures. Zinc's main financial backer is the London School of Economics. Zinc is also a member of the ASPECT consortium which is focused on accelerating the impact of social science. The team behind Zinc