Supporting early-stage solutions

addressing economic inequality

Our initiatives are fixed-term, cohort-based, and mentorship-driven. Applications are open to social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, movement builders, advocacy organizations, coalitions, and hybrid models.

Supporting early-stage solutions addressing

economic inequality in the United States.

Reimagining the food system to be sustainable, equitable, and efficient.

Increased access to affordable, healthy food in low-income neighborhoods.

Improving the lives of the poor and vulnerable in African Cities.

We've assembled a highly curated

network of mentors and experts

Our ventures often find that the access they gain to our mentor network

opens countless doors and opportunities.

Got Questions? We have answers.

What types of ventures does Uncharted support?

Our initiatives are open to social ventures, nonprofits, movement builders, advocacy organizations, coalitions, and hybrid models. Our initiatives are business model agnostic because we believe in embracing divergent models that exist outside of the traditional social entrepreneur playbook.

We focus on early-stage ventures, so that typically means they have some form of proof of concept or even a scrappy pilot in place. They’re not required to have a perfect pitch or mission statement, or even business plan. That’s what we help them with. We get them to the point where they’re ready to scale.

Why are you focusing on economic inequality?

We believe that economic inequality is one of the most urgent problems that we face in America today.

We see its effects in so many aspects of society:

There are still significant wage gaps between men and women, particularly women of color. According to the U.S. Census, women employed full time in the United States lose a combined total of more than $956 billion every year due to the gender wage gap.

Wealth is vastly unequally distributed across the United States. The typical white family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black family and five times the wealth of the typical Hispanic family. These disparities are alarming. Too many families are vulnerable and left with limited financial opportunities when a crisis strikes, which we saw play out during COVID.

In the business world, the percentage of venture capital dollars going to women-founded companies has barely budged in the last decade, and the numbers are even worse for Black and Latinx founders.

How long has Uncharted been accelerating ventures?

We’ve been running accelerator programs for early-stage ventures for over a decade. We launched in 2010 as Unreasonable Institute, and in 2017 we became Uncharted. In the last ten years, we’ve run 53 accelerator programs in 27 different countries. To date, we’ve helped our ventures raise $252 million and benefit 37 million lives through their programs and services.

Are your programs in-person or virtual?

Our headquarters are in Denver, Colorado but we run initiatives across the country, both in-person and online.