Analysis

March 22, 2019

Inside Zinc, the company builder with a mission

It’s a company builder with a mission to make the world a better place. Two years in, is it working?


Amy Lewin

10 min read

Zinc's second cohort.

It’s 3pm on a Thursday, and a group of people are sitting in a circle and introducing themselves. There’s a neuroscientist, a coach, a data scientist and the former leader of a UK political party — and no, this is not an alcoholics anonymous meeting. Everyone is here to find out more about Zinc, the London-based, mission-oriented company builder.

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The founders who graduated from Zinc's first mission, around the mental wellbeing of women and girls.
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Ella Goldner and Paul Kirby, cofounders of Zinc.
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Founders on Zinc's first cohort pitching to investors — which they did every two weeks, for the last three months of the programme.
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