100x Impact Accelerator

📣 Applications close in less than two weeks! 📣 100x Impact Accelerator’s 2025/2026 cohort applications close in less than two weeks. Are you ready to take your next step towards becoming a future social unicorn? We are waiting for you – with £150,000 in capital, an engaging and impactful 12-week programme and world-class research and expertise powered by LSE! Apply today or share with a ready-to-scale social venture you know. https://lnkd.in/dgF_9dGH

🎓 Celebrating Success! 🎉 Massive congratulations to our brilliant colleague Natalia Gamez for graduating with an MSc in Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) last week! 🥳 We’re incredibly proud to have her on the team! #lsegraduation #partoflse

We’re closing for the holidays, but our application window remains open until 6 January 2025! 😊 Please continue with your application. If you have any questions about the application process, consult our FAQs here: https://lnkd.in/e_vVC_W7. You can also send us an email at hello@100ximapct.org, and we will get back to you as soon as we reopen in the new year. Merry Christmas, and happy applying! 🎄🚀

Ahead of the winter break, I’ve been reflecting on an incredible 2024 at 100x Impact Accelerator - so much has happened this year and I couldn’t be prouder to be a part of what we’ve achieved as a team. Some highlights for me have been: 𝟭. 𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀: We welcomed two amazing new cohorts this year, each filled with passionate entrepreneurs and innovators dedicated to solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Their efforts and dedication never cease to amaze me! 𝟮. 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗦𝗘 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀: We’re excited to have four active research projects linked to 100x in full swing, three of which involve LSE researchers partnering with 100x cohort ventures to provide evidence-based insights that can help to shape the future of their impact 𝟯. 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: Partnering with LSE’s Academic Director of Impact, Professor Elizabeth Stokoe, together we kicked off a new initiative to hear from LSE colleagues and their external partners about their experiences of working together to create change, impact, and benefit from research. For anyone LSE-based, signups for the 2025 events are currently live, please do join us! 𝟰. 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘆: A standout moment in the 100x calendar, Summit Day 2024 was a great success! It brought together our community of changemakers, innovators, and impact-first funders for an incredible celebration of our cohort's innovative solutions to global challenges. 𝟱. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘁: And last but not least, we added a little extra joy to the team with the arrival of our new mascot!   I’m filled with gratitude for the opportunity to be a part of the impact that 100x is working to help scale. It’s been a year of learning, innovation, and growth for us as a team and an organisation, with much more ahead in 2025. To the team, the ventures, and everyone who has been part of 100x so far: congratulations on an amazing year 💫 and happy holidays!

"We see immense potential for disruptive social innovation in Southeast Asia. But for these ventures to truly scale, they need the right resources and connections." Kieron Boyle, CEO and Director, 100x Impact Accelerator Are you, or do you know a social venture in Southeast Asia, ready to massively scale their impact?  Applications for 100x’s next cohort of future social unicorns are still open. 🦄 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dgF_9dGH Read more about our Southeast Asia initiate: https://lnkd.in/dP3uWjnk

🎓Graduation Day 🎓 🎉Congratulations to our EMSBE Class of 2024! Today we were delighted to welcome our students back to The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) to mark such an incredible achievement alongside family and friends. We are so proud of everything you have accomplished. We are excited to see where you make your mark next, whether that be launching a social venture, revolutionising your corporate role, or taking your next steps in a purpose-driven organisation, we’re delighted to welcome you to our alumni community of over 150+ changemakers. 🚀 #partoflse #lsemarshall #lsealumni #londonschoolofeconomics

What do social venture founders say about the 100x Impact Accelerator Programme? 🤔 Hear directly from some of the founders in our portfolio on what it means to have a partner like 100x and their overall experience on the programme. If you're ready to take your social venture to the next level, don’t miss your chance—apply by 6 January 2025. 👉 https://lnkd.in/dgF_9dGH

📈 100x Applications open! 📈 In a world grappling with complex challenges, we are driven by a simple yet profound question: What does it take to scale the impact of social innovations so they can reach hundreds of millions of people? Part of the answer lies in combining world-class insights from a platform like The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) with bold, practical action from a world-leading impact accelerator like 100x Impact Accelerator. At its core, an impact accelerator helps visionary, impact-first organisations extend their reach on a massive scale. This might mean growing their organisation, enabling government or commercial adoption of their model, or open-sourcing their approach. The key word here is impact. That’s what made the ventures in our most recent cohort at the 2024 summit day so inspiring. These ventures have proven models for tackling urgent social challenges — often born from first-hand experience of where systems fail — and ambitions to multiply their impact rather than their size. Their diversity is striking: non-profits, commercial ventures, and social enterprises from across the globe, who are driving change in education, healthcare, climate, inequality, and democracy. Our job at 100x is to support these amazing ventures to impact hundreds of millions of lives over the next 10 years. They do the harder job of leading that change. We support them through a combination of unrestricted grant capital, a world-class accelerator programme, connections to leading researchers, access to follow-on funding as well as the LSE’s extraordinary global network. We also study patterns of success and failure, sharing insights with governments, philanthropies, and universities to scale the impact of social innovations everywhere. All this to say: we’d love for you to join the 100x community. The most exciting way to get involved is to apply to our next cohort of ventures. Applications are open for the 2025/26 cohort here: 🔘 https://lnkd.in/e_KpSjeD If you know a social venture poised for explosive growth in their impact, please encourage them to apply by January 5th. And if you’re part of one, we’d love to hear from you! #impact

Welcome to the team, Carlos! 💜

#FeelGoodFriday ✨🎄 This week, the team came together to celebrate and reflect on a busy and productive year. Thank you to everyone who walked the journey with us—our partners, colleagues, and most importantly, our incredible portfolio of social ventures, who inspire us every day with their boldness to take on society’s toughest challenges. Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄🎉🎅