LSE’s 100x Impact announces new cohort of social ventures
100x, a leading global impact initiative based at LSE, has announced its 2026-2027 cohort of 12 high-impact social ventures working across health, education, economic empowerment, mental health, nutrition, conservation, AI and disaster response. The 12 new teams bring 100x's portfolio to a total of 47 ventures, collectively improving over half a billion lives.
The organisations, selected from 2,000 applicants, are ARMMAN, DeepLeaf, doctorSHARE, Educate Girls, Fortify Health, Friendship Bench, Gooey.AI, Haqdarshak, Lively Minds, Planet Indonesia, Simprints and Yayasan Peta Bencana.
100x supports social ventures at a critical stage of growth: when a model has significant evidence, demand and traction, but still needs the partnerships, capabilities, capital pathways and institutional support required to reach its full potential.
One of the new cohort is Educate Girls, founded by LSE alumna Safeena Husain. Educate Girls works with state governments and communities in India to reach girls who are most often left behind by the education system, combining community engagement, technology and government partnership.
The cohort also includes Friendship Bench, based in Zimbabwe, which is integrating an evidence-backed community mental health model into the public health system; Planet Indonesia, which supports community-led approaches to conservation, livelihoods and health; and Haqdarshak, which helps informal workers and micro, small and medium enterprises in India access government welfare schemes.
Kieron Boyle, CEO of 100x Impact and Professor of the Impact Economy commented: “These are organisations whose models have already shown they work for millions of people around the world. The question now is how those approaches take root and spread — picked up by governments, sustained by markets, embedded in communities, replicated by others. That stage is where these innovations begin to work at the scale of the problems they were set up to address.
“100x exists for that change. We back these ventures with capital and hands-on support, and we turn what we learn about adoption into knowledge others can use.”
Gayatri Nair Lobo, CEO of Educate Girls, added: “Being selected by 100x is a powerful validation of Educate Girls’ vision that no girl should remain invisible to the education system. For nearly two decades, we have combined deep community engagement with AI, machine learning and government partnership to reach the girls who are most often left behind. With 100x’s support and expertise, we can accelerate these innovations.”
El Mahdi Aboulmanadel, Founder and CEO of DeepLeaf, said: “This opportunity allows us to put real agronomic intelligence in the hands of millions of farmers, in the languages they speak, and through the channels they already use. The technology is finally strong enough to deliver this at scale — helping farmers protect more of their harvest, increase their incomes and reduce pressure on forests and biodiversity.”
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