Hub Launchpad Who we are

Hub Launchpad is a community and an accelerator for people on a mission.

Whether it is changing part of the care system, supporting families towards economic security or enabling public service professionals to utilise data more effectively, we help people on a mission to turn questions that matter into great collaborations, services or companies.

We offer intensive start-up support and seed investment for teams on our accelerator.

If you have a mission, something you want to change for the better, then we invite you to be a part of Hub Launchpad.

Our Purpose Why we do what we do

We want to change the world for the better. So success for our community is fundamentally about the positive social impact of our work.

We pursue this success in an open way. Open to challenge and scrutiny, open about how we operate and open to engaging with all who have a stake with us in achieving our missions.

To start, we are focusing on four of the biggest opportunities that the UK has to re-build its economy and society. A series of pre-accelerator & accelerator programmes running 2013-15...

Open Civic Economy

Reinventing models of everyday civic enterprises

such as the high street corner shop.

Developing financial tech instruments to build an open economy such as

community backed micro finance.

Public Services

Innovating the service delivery of public sector

services.

Open Manufacturing

Self build, open source manufacturing sector such

as Wikihouse.cc

4 Programmes

Open Finance

400 Night Scholarships

4Hub Launchpad

Programmes

£2.5 mInvestment Awards

2x2London & Greater

Birmingham

140Venture Founders

Deliverables What outcomes we deliver

Accelerating Public Service InnovationWe are a platform to launch people and missions to accelerate public service innovation.

Our Purpose Why we do what we do

Mission Discovery The Mission Discovery is a process to support civic pioneers in defining their mission.

This happens in the Scholarship

Our Approach What we do

Mission Launch The Mission Launch is a process to support mission teams in venturing their mission-based solutions.

This is the Accelerator

The Process

The time line

October 2013

Mid November 2013

Mid December 2013

Application for Accelerator closes

Teams Selected & Announced

End January 2014

Start of Accelerator End of Accelerator

April 2014

Start of Scholarship

Application for Accelerator opens

End of Scholarship

Forming TeamsHow to form strong teams

around missions

October 2013

Mid November 2013

Mid December 2013

Mid January 2013

January 2014 April 2014

External Mission Team “Scholarship” Mission Team Mission Support Community

Participants will be encouraged to host meet-ups and hackathons, to build a community to validate their ideas, and to metor each other

Weekly capability and know-how sessions, dinners and debates with speakers and p2p presentations.

Structured development of your project or venture through independent team work using the best of Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas and other methids

Doing Learning Collaborating

The Curriculum

The approach

Office HoursBig DebatesKnow-How Sessions

Know-How sessions for specific technical

knowledge on how to operate a business.

Big debates about stuff that matters across many startups

The mission teams can approach experts to seek

their specialist advise.

How to engage, learn & grow

Mission Launch

The Curriculum

P2P Presentations

The mission teams will showcase the weekly

progress of their ventures to peers to get feedback.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Breakfast and check-in

Capabilities session

Peer Presentations

Independent work

Know-how session and office hours

Independent work

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Cohort weekends

Debates

Independent work

Know-how session

Capabilities session

Independent work

Cohort supper

What does a typical week look like?

Curriculum

Investment Strategy How we would like to invest

We’d like to support both!

We invest for long term value creation. That’s why

we aim to recycle our investment capital.

A corporate-form agnostic approach to

allow for missions to take different corporate forms.

Intra- and entrepreneurs Value CreationForm-Agnostic

We believe that sharing IP will be a good thing for the ventures we support

Open Source

Investment Strategy How we would like to invest

We intend to take a 1% share in your venture or project’s future revenue

Revenue Share

Our investment takes the form of low interest, unsecured company

loans, repayable after 3 years

Loan Investment

Investment Strategy How we would like to invest

Investment PanelSeed investment Peer Investment

Using the Village Capital approach Our investment panel

Available per founder during the Accelerator

£9,400

How to Apply

The process

Application open: Wednesday 13 November

Applications close: Tuesday 10 December

Interviews & announcements: late December

What to submit:

An online form

A short video, presentation or text

A SIMPL upload

Talk to us!We aim to make it work for you. So please talk to us... hello@hublaunchpad.net