initiatives

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.

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Economic Inequality

Economic Inequality Co-Lab

A six-week, community-focused program for early-stage ventures tackling economic inequality in the U.S.

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Economic Inequality

Economic Inequality Initiative

Supporting early-stage solutions addressing economic inequality in the United States.

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Future of Food

Chipotle Aluminaries

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

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Economic Inequality

Economic Inequality Co-Lab

A six-week, community-focused program for early-stage ventures tackling economic inequality in the U.S.

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Economic Inequality

Economic Inequality Initiative

Supporting early-stage solutions addressing economic inequality in the United States.

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Future of Food

Chipotle Aluminaries

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

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Mobile Tech

Visible Connect: Year Three

Supported ventures serving their communities with mobile tech.

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Safe Virtual Spaces

Facebook Community Accelerator

Equipped online communities with the training, mentorship, and funds to grow.

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Food With Integrity

Chipotle Aluminaries 2.0

Empowering the next generation of farmers.

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Food Access

At the Table

Food access and hunger relief efforts in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods.

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Food With Integrity

Chipotle Aluminaries 1.0

Helped growth-stage ventures take their businesses to the next level.

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Early Childhood

Futurebound Acceleration Lab

Supported breakthrough solutions to childhood development's greatest challenges.

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Mobile Tech

Visible Connect: Year Two

Supported ventures using mobile tech to create meaningful impact.

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Mobile Tech

Visible Connect: Year One

Supported ventures using mobile tech to create meaningful impact.

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Food Access

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

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Urban Poverty

Future Cities

Improving the lives of the poor and vulnerable in U.S. cities.

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Early Childhood

Supported ventures improving the lives of low-income children ages 0 to 5 in the United States.

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Approach

We equip our ventures with the tools they need to succeed

We are laser-focused on economic inequality
We back early-stage ventures
Our initiatives are business model agnostic
We prioritize transformational change over incremental progress
We recognize that overlooked and underrepresented talent have unique insights into the problems we're trying to solve
Our initiatives provide clarity, capital, and connections

Our Approach

Mentors

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. Here are a few featured mentors.

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Seth Goldman

Executive Chair at Beyond Meat and Co-Founder of Honest Tea

Caitlin Liebert

Vice President of Sustainability at Whole Foods Market

Ime Archibong

Vice President of Partnerships at Facebook

Minjae Ormes

CMO at Visible

Mark Ramadan

Co-Founder and CEO of Sir Kensington's

faqs

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.

You can learn more about our impact and track record here.

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.