# 100x invites applications to the next cohort of future social unicorns

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2025/11/03/100x-invites-applications-to-the-next-cohort-of-future-social-unicorns/
- Published: 2025-11-03T06:25:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Global impact initiative 100x is looking for the next generation of ‘social unicorns’–
organisations affecting positive change on the scale of billions – and is inviting
applications for its 2026/27 cohort.**

The social accelerator is looking for “radical thinkers, the visionaries and the
entrepreneurs who crave a new, better world”. It uses the term ‘**unicorn**‘, which
means a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion, but it adds the
different focus of “massive social impact”.

Specifically it is looking for people running or building a social venture that 
is driving change in one or more of the following areas:
🌍 Climate and Environment
🗳️ Democracy📚 Education💲 Inequality😇 Happiness and Wellbeing🩺Health and Social
Care👩🏻‍🔬 Tech for Impact🏠 Refugees and Cohesion

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Applicants can be “registered and/or operating from anywhere in the world”.

100x is based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Over the past three years, it has built a portfolio of 35 ventures that are already
reaching a combined 100 million lives, tackling systemic issues across the globe.

100x explains its operating approach: “We reveal groundbreaking ways to amplify 
your impact – not through endless fundraising – but through tangible, results-driven
models like government adoption, digitisation and open source solutions”.

If you’re not sure if you are the right fit, [explore past members of the cohort](https://www.100ximpact.org/portfolio).

![Our role is to back extraordinary founders with the funding, networks and expertise
they need to realise their boldest ambitions". Quote from Fan Gu, Deputy Director&
Head of Impact Investment.](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.cloud/2025/10/CleanShot-
2025-10-26-at-16.33.32@2x.png)

Image: 100x

Social ventures chosen for the 2026/27 cohort will receive £150,000 unrestricted
grant funding with a chance to access further catalytic capital after the programme.
Ventures will also leverage 100x’s bespoke accelerator programme and LSE’s world-
class insights and expertise to scale their impact.

100x aims to support up to 16 social ventures every year, with 70% of these coming
from emerging markets. The 2026/27 cohort will be split into two programmes: the
Autumn programme, starting in September 2026, and the Spring programme, starting
in February 2027.
[Applications to the next 100x cohort](https://www.100ximpact.org/how-to-apply)
close on **10 November 2025**.