A week of going through applications has both fried and fired our minds. Who would have thought you could tackle so many diverse problems, of such varied complexity in such abundantly different ways. From hardware to software, from healthcare to education, from peer platforms to networked communities, from games to databases, there was something for [...]
One week left!
Over the last seven weeks, we’ve had an overwhelming response to the Bethnal Green Ventures programme applications. On the one side, we’ve met people at office hours, meetups and pubs all over the country keen to share their amazingly ambitious ideas to change the world. On the other, investors have been coming from far and [...]
Can algorithms save the world?
In the early days of the web, some predicted that the advance of the digital age would inevitably produce a freer, fairer society as if a moral good was inbuilt into the code and cables of the technology itself. In 1989, Ronald Regan argued that: “The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the [...]
Call for Ideas: Week 3!
It’s been pretty busy over at Bethnal Green Ventures. Since we launched the call for ideas a couple of weeks ago, our diaries have been packed full of people coming into chat to us about their exciting ideas to use technology to tackle our biggest social and environmental problems. Ideas we’ve heard so far have [...]
Happy International Women’s Day!
Opening applications for BGV this year, we have noticed a significant increase in the number of women founders approaching us. In the last week alone, we have been at three women in tech events all of which have been packed to the rafters with women who want to do startups. At the same time sexism in [...]
BGV call for ventures opens!
Today, Bethnal Green Ventures opens applications for its 2013 summer programme. We are looking for ambitious, early-stage ventures using technology to solve social and environmental problems. You can find out more details about the programme here. If you are chosen as one of the ten successful teams, we will invest £15,000 in your startup, in exchange for [...]
Launching the Call For Ideas!
You’re all invited! We’re excited to announce the opening of the next round of applications for Bethnal Green Ventures. In partnership with Nesta and Nominet Trust, and with support from the Cabinet Office Social Incubator Fund, Google and Keystone Law, Bethnal Green Ventures will support people who want to change the world using technology – [...]
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