Change Makers for ventures

About

Hello Change Maker. We know that your innovative technology could change the future of our planet. It’s the core reason we focus our support on ventures like yours. We bring together the best minds, the best connections and the best advice from others who walked in your shoes. 

How it works

Through Change Makers we:

• Focus and champion visionary deep tech chemistry ventures whose goal is to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues. 
• Provide support shaped around the needs of each venture. There are no restrictive packages, rather each venture has the freedom to shape the support for them and their teams and match the evolving needs of the business.  
• Offer free to access programmes funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
• Don’t have time-limited programmes, like classic accelerators. Our support for leaders is for life. 
• Have a community-driven approach. Ventures build relationships with each other and with highly experienced mentors, investors and experts aligned in their desire and commitment to make positive impact through deep tech chemistry.

Eligibility criteria

Change Makers for ventures is an invitation-only community of chemistry-based start-ups and scale-ups. Ventures looking to join Change Makers will need to meet a number of criteria and submit a one-time only application.  

The venture must be: 

• A UK registered company, not a subsidiary or spin-off of an existing company 
• In the early stage of development or the beginning of their commercialisation phase (except companies previously part of EnterprisePlus)
• Addressing an industrial, societal or environmental unmet need or creating a new market 
• Based on new chemical technology or process 
• Committed to following the principles of responsible innovation