Introducing Zinc’s 2024 Impact Report
Making the UK the best place to successfully start a high-impact venture in health or environment
We are delighted to share Zinc’s 2024 Impact Report. It’s publication aligns with a week that has seen seen much impassioned debate and media coverage about the unique challenges and opportunities we face in the UK in taking high-potential scientific and technical innovation from inception to global impact.
From day one, Zinc’s mission has been to make the UK the best place to successfully start a science-led venture that can have a massive impact on the health of people and the planet. To achieve this, we are increasingly building deeper science ventures that serve global, industrial customers in environment and health, giving access to impact scale.
This report explores this complex landscape of challenge and opportunity, and proposes novel approaches to cross-sector collaboration, support and funding.
It showcases many success stories from the Zinc portfolio, and highlights how Zinc – and our growing community of hundreds of Founders, Fellows, Coaches, Partners and Funders – are collaborating to build a world-leading “Science-for-Impact” ecosystem to set inception stage ventures in health and environment up for global success.
We hope you enjoy and find inspiration this report – and encourage you to share it with others in your network who are equally as passionate to collaborate around this critical innovation agenda.
You can read the full report here.
And watch this space for more to come: Over the coming weeks we will be shining a light on many of the emerging ventures Zinc is partnering with through the inception stages of their journey towards global impact.
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Zinc Impact Report 2024
Zinc’s mission is to make the UK the best place to successfully start a venture which can have a massive impact on the health of people and the planet.
Increasingly, we are building deeper science ventures that serve global, industrial customers in environment and health, giving access to impact at a global scale.
Our 2024 Impact Report explores the challenges that need to be tackled to empower and enable talented founders from around the world to solve critical health and environmental challenges at scale, from here in the UK.
This report showcases success stories from the Zinc portfolio, and highlights how Zinc – and our growing community of hundreds of Founders, Fellows, Coaches, Partners and Funders – are working together to build a world-leading “Science-for-Impact” ecosystem for inception stage ventures in health and environment.
Impact Report 2023
We started Zinc with the hypothesis that missions are an effective way to attract highly ambitious, talented and experienced groups of innovators, who might not recognise themselves as “classic entrepreneurs” but are ready and able to start a new commercial and successful venture to tackle some of our most pressing societal issues.
The world has overcome the sorts of challenges we face today when it has adopted a mission-based approach to the biggest problems and brought together world-class talent to invent and innovate, e.g: NASA and landing a man on the moon, the LSE blueprinting the British welfare state, or the Gates Foundation aiming to eradicate diseases.
On this basis and assumption, we designed Zinc as a new mission-based Venture Builder — a place where global talent, ‘impact makers’, can join to experiment and develop new solutions to our most pressing societal issues.
