Zinc (mission-led venture builder)

GIVEN: Zinc runs a full-time venture-building programme in London for individuals, paying participants a living stipend during the programme and then investing pre-seed capital in the companies formed. TAKEN: an equity stake in the resulting company. Zinc has periodically restructured its programme format and terms, so treat historic stipend and cheque figures as indicative and confirm the current numbers in the live programme documentation.

You must co-fund 0%.

Zinc VC

private · national

Deadline: annual_call — Cohort-based; Zinc has run missions roughly annually with an application window several months ahead of the programme start.

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.