What's it all about?

Indy and Alice explain.

Hub Venture Labs (HVL)

HVL is Hub Westminster’s Accelerator programme that aims to create better, more sustainable social businesses, to encourage impact investing and new forms of bridge finance and to champion social entrepreneurs. HVL does this in a variety of ways, including:

  • hosting and delivery of a wide range of accelerator programmes with impact investment partners
  • supporting innovation and invention through ideation events for business startups
  • providing customised non-financial support programmes on behalf of investors and foundations
  • promoting active collaboration between all parties in the social enterprise sector

Village Capital London hosted
at Hub Westminster

Village Capital is an incubator program, started in 2010, which has been run in New Orleans, Boulder, Mumbai and San Francisco. It has been cited as "#1 Trend to Watch in 2010" on Change.org; featured in Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine and Beyond Profit. So far, the program has incubated 82 entrepreneurs selected from over 500 applications.

The first European Village Capital, was hosted at Hub Westminster, as a twelve week program designed for entrepreneurs to accelerate their for profit social businesses. In workshops focused on fundraising, marketing and designing for impact the 16 participants will develop the core skills needed to attract investment and scale their businesses as well as receiving mentoring and coaching from our team of experienced advisors.

At the heart of Village Capital lies the belief that entrepreneurs benefit from building peer networks for review and support. The program culminates in peers selecting two entrepreneurs that receive investment prizes of £50,000 each.

The next Village Cpital Programme for Spring 2012 will be announced shortly. For enquiries email hello@hubventurelabs.net

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Nominet Trust Accelerator

Nominet Trust

Nominet Trust’s project partners can take advantage of our Accelerator Programme delivered by Merism Capital.

The programme delivers a seminar series which includes topics such as "scaling up a social enterprise" and "pitching for investment". Project partners also benefit from access to mentors and experts who can help them address specific challenges facing their organisation.

The sessions are led by a variety of speakers with specific expertise in different areas. Spring 2012 sessions are:

  • The Impact Investment Landscape
  • Measuring Social Impact and Value
  • Assessing different business models
  • Pitching to investors
  • Company structures and due diligence
  • Growing pains
  • Marketing
  • Exit strategies from the investor and organisational perspective

This "Funder +" approach demonstrates Nominet Trust's commitment to ensuring that our projects realise their full potential and maximise their social impact.

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