Bethnal Green Ventures is an accelerator programme for people who want to change the world using technology.
We invest in and support great teams with new ideas to help build
solutions to social and environmental problems through an intensive
three-month programme.
Why?
We think there’s huge potential for the online world to radically
improve things that really matter in the offline world: from how we
provide health and social care to designing new forms of education,
energy creation and employment. These ideas don’t come from traditional
companies, governments or charities. They start with smart, passionate,
practical people.
How?
Bethnal Green Ventures seeks out people with great ideas: they might be
software developers, designers or people with personal experience of
something they want to change – from teachers and doctors, to patients
and carers. We look for very early-stage ideas – not business plans –
and we’re more interested in potential than experience.
We select teams of between two and four people to be part of the
Bethnal Green Ventures programme. We invest £15,000 in each team in
exchange for 6% equity. We provide three month programme of support and advice to help build, test and launch each startup.
Our aim is to not only to launch a set of new ventures, but to build
an alumni community that will go on to create and run even more social
startups in the future.
Who’s behind BGV?
You can read more about our team here. The idea originally came from Social Innovation Camp which started in 2008.
Why Bethnal Green Ventures?
We started out in Bethnal Green, London. But our name is a little misleading, as we are now based Makerversity in Somerset House.
