# Bethnal Green Ventures wins tech for good Impact Award

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/03/16/bethnal-green-ventures-wins-tech-good-impact-award/
- Published: 2018-03-16T07:03:43+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**Bethnal Green Ventures has won the Investment Award at this year’s DigitalAgenda
Impact Awards.**

In total, there were 14 winners of this year’s [DigitalAgenda Impact Awards](http://www.digital-agenda.co.uk/awards/),
which are sponsored by the [Nominet Trust](https://www.nominettrust.org.uk/) and
celebrate tech-for-good innovations. The Investment award recognises the best in
impact funding from both public and private sources, and across traditional venture
and alternative investment routes such as crowdfunding.

[Bethnal Green Ventures](https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) is an early-stage investor
that helps to launch and grow tech ventures with the potential to become successful
businesses that positively impact millions of lives. It invests in innovative ideas
in health, education, sustainability, democracy and society and has a 12-week accelerator
programme, which provides investment, co-working space and intensive mentoring and
support.

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To date, BGV has supported 95 ventures, investing £1.9m, with these ventures reporting
a combined positive impact on 18m lives.

The finalists in the category were Nesta Impact Investments, which was one of the
first fund managers in the UK to launch a dedicated social impact fund, and UnLtd,
provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK.

This is the second year for the awards, which are open to any business, government
or non-profit using digital products or services for positive social or environmental
benefit.

Julian Blake, DigitalAgenda director said:

> “We set up the Impact Awards as a celebration of technology being used for impact
> not just profit, and we’ve been blown away by the quality of the 253 entries we
> received this year, from right across the UK. Digital technology can help us address
> the serious challenges that the world faces today – and it can help deliver change
> fast and at scale – whether in education, health, or the need for more sustainable
> living. Today’s Impact Awards winners are pioneering examples of what is possible
> and we’re delighted to be able to reward their fantastic achievements.”

Image: Impact Award winners

 * **[New platform whatCharity.com aims to ‘level the charity playing field’](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/03/20/new-platform-whatcharity-com-aims-level-charity-playing-field/)**(
   20 March 2018)
 * **[WCIT Charity seeks IT project with transformative impact for £750,000 award](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/03/28/wcit-charity-seeks-it-project-tranformative-impact-750000-award/)**(
   28 March 2018)
 * **[The Miss Lawrence Trust joins The Good Exchange as new funder](https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/06/11/miss-lawrence-trust-joins-good-exchange-new-funder/)**(
   11 June 2018)

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