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Description
Zinc builds new tech companies that solve the developed world’s toughest social issues.
Learning from the successful innovation systems in computer and life sciences, Zinc combines insights from social sciences with top entrepreneurial talent and venture capital to build new, scalable mission-led businesses.
The Zinc Programme brings together 50 bright minds for 6 months to find their co-founders and build new commercial businesses from scratch.
Each programme has a single mission, to solve a social problem which affects at least 100m people.
Mission 1: Women and Girls' Emotional and Mental Health, October 2017
The current high-profile crisis in mental and emotional health is due to not enough good solutions to help people improve their own health or to enable professionals to support individuals needing specialist support.