Zinc
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Zinc is a London-based venture builder that empowers exceptional talent to build ventures and services that tackle the most pressing and complex challenges facing the health of people and the planet. Founded in 2017, Zinc runs mission-led programmes to build scalable commercial impact-led businesses. Zinc turns cutting-edge science into scalable solutions, driving systemic change by creating societal impact and commercial value across the Science-for-Impact ecosystem. Rather than waiting for good companies to appear, Zinc helps individuals (before they have a business idea or a team) to build from scratch commercially ambitious companies to solve the social challenges they are most passionate about. The organization combines insights from social sciences with top entrepreneurial talent and venture capital to build new, scalable, mission-led businesses. Zinc's approach is inspired by successful mission-based innovation systems like NASA's moon landing and the Gates Foundation's disease eradication efforts.
2017
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