Cohorts
Cohorts
United Social Ventures partners with institutions to run cohorts for their social entrepreneurs to cross the “Valley of Death“.
There are three types of programs we run:
United Social Ventures partners with institutions to run cohorts for their social entrepreneurs to cross the “Valley of Death“.
There are three types of programs we run:
In this program, participants create innovative concepts to solve social problems.
Participants start by framing a design challenge and then go through a four stage journey of Human Centered Design:
Learn
about the Design Challenge
Define
the precise problem you want to solve
Ideate
as many solutions as possible
Evaluate
which idea has the greatest potential
We’ve run this programs as physical workshops – including with field immersion – and webinars. Variations in the number of sessions and format are worked out with program partners to best fit with participants.
By the end of a Design Catalyst, concepts will have a clearly defined product, market, and revenue model.
In this program, participants create innovative concepts to solve social problems.
Participants start by framing a design challenge and then go through a four stage journey of Human Centered Design:
Learn
about the Design Challenge
Define
the precise problem you want to solve
Ideate
as many solutions as possible
Evaluate
which idea has the greatest potential
We’ve run this programs as physical workshops – including with field immersion – and webinars. Variations in the number of sessions and format are worked out with program partners to best fit with participants.
By the end of a Design Catalyst, concepts will have a clearly defined product, market, and revenue model.
This program is designed to assist founders take their concepts to market. It’s ideal for ventures where sales are not yet recurring and/or founders are not yet full-time, paid employees.
We follow the same venture building methodology of bespoke advisory. First, we define a venture’s core model; then we create up to 5 weeks of prototyping plans for the most critical assumptions behind the model.
Concurrently, USV creates a 12 slide Pitch Deck, a 2 page (A4) Summary, and a Digital Accounting System to assist the venture in internal operations and external fundraising.
This program is designed to assist founders take their concepts to market. It’s ideal for ventures where sales are not yet recurring and/or founders are not yet full-time, paid employees.
We follow the same venture building methodology of bespoke advisory. First, we define a venture’s core model; then we create up to 5 weeks of prototyping plans for the most critical assumptions behind the model.
Concurrently, USV creates a 12 slide Pitch Deck, a 2 page (A4) Summary, and a Digital Accounting System to assist the venture in internal operations and external fundraising.
Our Grow Accelerators target ventures seeking to raise pre-seed financing (e.g. $100,000+).
Ventures go through the same venture building investment process. The main difference is that we do not wait on the completion of prototyping to start working on all the deliverables: Historical Financial Data Spreadsheet, a 30+ slide Strategy Deck, Financial Statements Spreadsheet (incl. historical data and 3-years projections), and a Data Room arranging these and existing legal documents.
When partners pay for their portfolio ventures to participate in this Accelerator (or the Incubator), we halve the investment we take in the venture’s future funding.
Our Grow Accelerators target ventures seeking to raise pre-seed financing (e.g. $100,000+).
Ventures go through the same venture building investment process. The main difference is that we do not wait on the completion of prototyping to start working on all the deliverables: Historical Financial Data Spreadsheet, a 30+ slide Strategy Deck, Financial Statements Spreadsheet (incl. historical data and 3-years projections), and a Data Room arranging these and existing legal documents.
When partners pay for their portfolio ventures to participate in this Accelerator (or the Incubator), we halve the investment we take in the venture’s future funding.
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