UnFound Accelerator 2022 LIVE! Pitch event

Join us on 7 July, 5-6pm for the UnFound Accelerator LIVE! Pitch event.

For 10 weeks, the UnFound Accelerator has supported nine teams to turn their pioneering ideas into successful platform co‑operatives. The pitch event is their chance to showcase their brilliant ideas to the public and pitch for a slice of £10,000 prize money provided by The Co‑operative Bank. 

What is the UnFound Accelerator LIVE! Pitch event?

• Rose Marley, CEO of Co‑operatives UK and Catherine Douglas, Managing Director, SME, The Co‑operative Bank will host the event 
• You will hear from each of the nine teams
• As part of the audience, you will have the chance to vote for your favourite pitches – help to choose which teams win a share of the £10,000 prize fund from The Co‑operative Bank. The top three teams with the most votes and how the prize money will be divided between them

The nine teams are...

• Circiety is a community-owned platform that aims to promote resource circularity and reduce resource waste. 

• City Pay is a community-owned digital wallet and engagement platform designed to create pro-social and pro-environmental social norms.   

• Co-curate! is a collaborative platform enabling young art historians worldwide to co-curate small virtual exhibitions to engage communities not traditionally visiting historic art galleries.   

• Integrative Therapy Collective is a platform co-op supporting therapy professionals to develop innovative, accessible and inclusive therapeutic services online and within their communities. 

• Kocoon wants to equip young people with knowledge, skills and resources to better understand, manage and improve their wellbeing through improved access to academics, charities and services. 

• Kuniru enables human development professionals to co-design and facilitate digital journeys that help their clients achieve sustainable personal growth goals. 

• The Learning Co-op provides highly accessible, anti-capitalist education across a wide range of subjects aimed at students interested in using education as a precursor to sweeping systemic change.  

• The Platform DAO is an NFT (Non-Fungible Token) marketplace through which stories from the edges of culture can be heard, preserved and sustained.  

• RIMA is a platform that has the aim to empower emerging creative practitioners from the global South by connecting them with international opportunities for funding and mobility.  

Join us on Thursday 7 July, 5-6pm, to show your support for the next generation of UK platform co‑ops! 

The UnFound Accelerator is delivered by Co‑operatives UK and supported by The Co‑operative Bank.