Hatch Enterprise UK

We’re excited to announce that Hatch Enterprise is a member of the inaugural GLG Accelerates class of 2024! GLG Social Impact has chosen us alongside four other outstanding social sector organisations: Global Health Corps Kheyti Reboot Rx Recidiviz The programme will support us in improving our efficiency and use of technology and plan for the future to ensure we maximise the use of new and existing tools. This will mean we can spend more time reaching key milestones like doubling our impact and building on our mission over the next five years. We’re incredibly excited to be able to access GLG's global network of experts, and in turn, we hope this opportunity will allow us to build robust tech systems that will work for us long into the future. We cannot wait to start with the GLG team and see how we can use these next 12 months to catapult our capacity, reach more entrepreneurs, and deepen the societal change we know is possible through our work on an individual, community, national, and global scale.

A highlight from the past couple of weeks - running a series of pitch training sessions with the amazing Hatch Enterprise UK for their impact founder community. Turnout and feedback has been incredible. Pitching is so incredibly nerve-racking that its been such a treat to share some of the tips and tricks I've picked up along the way building In Good Company 🤗 🚀 Still one session left and its free! Come join if you want to learn about customising your pitch for different audiences 🔗 to sign up in comments below 👇

We’re delighted to share with you our final lineup of experts for our annual event celebrating Black History Month. This year’s theme is reclaiming the narrative around black business, and we’ve got a fantastic lineup of panellists and workshop hosts who will bring their varied experiences to the afternoon. This event is designed to empower black entrepreneurs by addressing the key challenges and opportunities in building successful businesses on their own terms. 🎤 MEET THE PANELLISTS Joy Mpofu is a femtech startup founder, with a career spanning investment banking and entrepreneurship. During her seven years at Morgan Stanley, Joy worked across Debt Capital Markets and Sustainability before becoming Vice President. Jermaine Craig is a London-born technologist of Nigerian heritage and founder of Kwanda. Jermaine has dedicated his career to social impact and improving outcomes for marginalised communities. He spent ten years designing and building technology products and internal organisational systems. Janay-Marie M. is the founder of TALLAWAH and a passionate Cultural Marketer and Strategist. She’s an award-nominated The BRIT School alumni with vast experience in music, media and creative sectors. She has an immense interest in combining her experience of creativity, impact, cultural relevance and DEI work in her day-to-day, from events to bespoke social media campaigns. 🗣️ MEET THE WORKSHOP HOSTS Courtney Daniella Boateng and Renée Kapuku Ed.M started the award-winning To My Sisters in 2020  as co-founders and co-hosts and now lead a rapidly growing community-driven women’s organisation dedicated to changing the world for women. Courtney and Renee have been recognised with multiple awards for their work, including the Foundervine Rising Star Award and The Diana Award in 2023, as well as, most recently, amongst the top 25 Black Entrepreneurs to Watch by HSBC and the UK Black Business Show. We expect tickets for this one to sell out, so if you’d like to join us on Saturday 26 October at Pop Brixton, we suggest securing your place now! https://lnkd.in/ecadkxnd #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackOwned #BlackEntrepreneur #BlackEntrepreneurship #BHM

The Hatch Enterprise team had the pleasure of attending the Funding Circle UK Fresher Fair at the beginning of the month, where we got the opportunity to talk to Funding Circle staff about the impact we’re making to democratise entrepreneurship in the UK through our programmatic and community-based support for underrepresented entrepreneurs across the country. It was encouraging to hear from so many at the company who have already provided mentoring and friendly dragon support to entrepreneurs in the Hatch community. Plus, this brilliant opportunity to chat face-to-face with the Funding Circle team allowed us to sign up more volunteers for our post-programme support opportunities as we go into our third year of partnership with Funding Circle. A massive thank you to Fransien Hermans and Reem Akl from Funding Circle for organising this opportunity for us to share our impact and to Felix JacksonRishi Aila, Deryl Thatcher (Walsh) MCIOF and Naomi Nathan from the Hatch team for representing our work at the fair! Our mission to build a better world through entrepreneurship takes a village, and we’re so grateful to the Funding Circle team for embodying our values through their volunteering to further our charitable mission and give invaluable guidance to underrepresented entrepreneurs. Thank you, Funding Circle UK! #Entrepreneurship #FundingCircle #SMEUK #BusinessGrowth #Mentoring #Volunteering

It’s #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek, and with stats estimating that between 20%-40% of entrepreneurs in the UK are dyslexic, there’s an intrinsic link between dyslexics and their success in entrepreneurship. To add context to this statistic, it’s estimated that 10% of the UK population are dyslexic. While acknowledging the challenges those with dyslexia face, such as reading, writing, spelling and more personal challenges like self-esteem, there’s no doubt that dyslexic people have unique capabilities in how they process and, therefore, output information. Dyslexic people are considered more creative and better problem solvers; but there is very little research identifying where this stems from. Dyslexics connect dots differently and have the ability to lead and motivate teams with compassion, partly through their own experience of workplaces and school environments that largely didn’t accommodate their needs. We can all learn from others with different thinking styles, and we’re proud to give significant space to these ideas. Last year, 18% of those on our cohort programmes identified as disabled and/or neurodivergent. Our message to dyslexic entrepreneurs is simple - feel proud of your achievements and how you’ve navigated personal experience to build a career that enables you to mobilise your potential! #Dyslexia #DyslexicThinking #DyslexiaAwareness

GO Phoebe Gibbons 👏 We're delighted to see Phoebe, a champion of business inclusivity and Hatch Enterprise Launchpad graduate, will represent Team GB at the Women's World Cup in December in Wheelchair Rugby. Phoebe is passionate about starting and maintaining meaningful conversations around disability inclusion. Through her business, 3DOM, she advocates for those from underrepresented groups with lived experience to be centred when embedding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Phoebe wrote a fantastic guest blog for us late last year about building an inclusive business, which we highly recommend: https://lnkd.in/e3eqMKR9

There is no doubt that ‘femtech’ has been firmly in the news recently, and for good reason. At Hatch, we work with many underrepresented entrepreneurs who embed their personal experiences into the fabric of their ventures. From experience comes creative solutions, and when women’s health continues to be drastically underfunded, it’s devastating to hear that women are still facing barriers at every corner when it comes to securing funding. Just 1-2% of total health technology funding is invested in femtech products, which makes little sense when we’re talking about roughly 50% of the world’s population. Studies show that women are likely to spend 29% more per capita on healthcare needs than men and are 75% more likely to use digital tools for health-related information. The market for femtech products is rising and the valuation ranges from $60 billion to $1 trillion by 2027. The fact that the article below highlights how femtech founders continue to face barriers at all stages of their business journey comes as little surprise, this is something female founders are sadly very familiar with. From being told a product is ‘too niche because it was only needed by menopausal women’ to repeatedly being turned down for bank accounts or faced with insurance policies charging 150 times over the going rate due to excessive scrutiny of their business’s legitimacy, we’re angered by the lack of parity female founders face. There is some light, however, at the end of the tunnel. The UK has the second-largest share of femtech companies in the world, meaning we have a responsibility to set an example of trust and investment in women-led teams in the femtech sector. #FemTech #WomenInBusiness #UKbusiness #HealthTech

Next Tuesday the Collective Leadership Group (CLG) will be coming together for a collection of presentations and interactive sessions by CLG members making strides in the sector, and you’re invited! This face-to-face session will give you the opportunity to come along and ask your questions to the broad range of speakers who will be presenting on the morning. Experts attending the session: Bhawna Sarin, Doctoral Researcher at Newcastle University Business School. Bhawna is an experienced social entrepreneur, business consultant and an ILM qualified coach with over 25 years experience in the UK and overseas, in both the private and third sector. Amy Barbor, Co-Director of LiA LiA is an organisation dedicated to achieving racial equity, and Amy will be leading a session that offers attendees a glimpse into LiA’s work. Amy facilitates white affinity groups at LiA, and has been trained by Dr Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility. Benjamin Lane, Programme Director at Acumen Academy Ben is a former Bain & Co consultant. Before launching Acumen Academy in the UK, he focused on growing social enterprises and charitable organisations in India and Kenya. There, he helped build shortlist.net and delivered strategy and people solutions for over 100 impact-led organisations. Akil Benjamin, Managing Director at Does and Chief Strategy Officer at COMUZI Akil is a Serial Entrepreneur who has developed award-winning incubator and accelerator programmes to support thousands of businesses to grow. Akil built COMUZI with his co-founders that has been delivering for over a decade, and his role at DOES has now supported over 7000 businesses since it’s launch in 2019. The event will take place at Impact Hub London Euston, and attendees from outside of London are able to apply for travel reimbursements for a standard travel fare. To attend, please register your interest below 👇 #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #SocialChange #EnvironmentalChange #Leadership #SocialSector

We are excited to receive a grant through eBay Foundation’s Global Gives grantmaking program. eBay's contribution will significantly fund our Community Programme, an initiative dedicated to offering ongoing peer coaching, workshops, pitching, and clinic opportunities to our growing community of entrepreneurs.  Our community support offerings, working hand in hand with our programmatic support, are vital to level the playing field for underrepresented founders. Access to networks continues to be one of the leading challenges faced by underrepresented entrepreneurs in the UK. So, with this new round of support from the eBay Foundation, we can continue to offer our high-impact development events for our graduate community. True equity means equal access to these opportunities. All peer coaching, workshop, and clinic events we run are free to participants, meaning grants like this are ever more critical. #eBayGlobalGives #Grantee #BusinessSupport #UnderrepresentedEntrepreneurs #CommunityBuilding #Networking #Pitching #Funding

We rarely get to share photos from a cohort perspective like this one taken by Incubator facilitator Jess Rad! Our cohorts build a tight network across the multi-month commitments our programmes require, and seeing so many smiling faces is truly heartwarming. 'Being a solopreneur can be extremely isolating at times, so to see this group come together to create such compassion and support for one another was a real privilege.'🥹 #FounderJourney #StartUpSupport #Entrepreneurship #Incubator