Improve Women's and Girls' Emotional and Mental Health, October 2017
We all have mental health, in the same way that we all have physical health, and there is a complex range of factors - biological, psychological, environmental and social - that affect it. 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.
Our approach to mental and emotional health is multifactorial and integrative, grounded in the need to understand the problem and users in context. The result is that our emerging Zinc businesses are approaching this problem from a diverse range of angles (including transport, finance, social care, sexual wellbeing, contraception, long-term conditions, stress, and loneliness) and across a range of user groups (from tweenage years to old age).
Application for our first mission is closed. If you want to apply to our second mission, please see mission 2.
Over 800 people applied for our first programme from which 55 highly talented individuals have been recruited to be Zinc Mission 1 Founders. The Founders have backgrounds in computer science, entrepreneurship, consulting, medicine, UX/UI design, and more.
Our cohort has an equal mix of women and men, they represent more than 19 countries, over half of them have experience within early stage start-ups, with an average age of 33 and with over a third above the age of 35.
Over the course of the 6 months the Founders have formed 17 companies, ranging across various sectors such as transportation, the workplace, fintech, digital health, perinatal support, the elderly, digital screen time, outdoor experiences, all of which are designed to improve women's and girls' mental and emotional health.
Read the Mission1 Founder celebration event speech here
https://www.zinc.vc/mission-1/