New 100x Accelerator Aims To Nurture ‘Social Unicorns’

For social enterprises seeking to have a significant impact, the goal is to reach a large critical mass of customers. With that in mind, 100x Impact Accelerator, a newly announced program based at the London School of Economics, aims to help cultivate what Leslie Labruto, founding director, calls “social unicorns”—enterprises able to achieve impact on the scale of millions, while staying true to their values.

“This won’t be your traditional business accelerator,” she says. “This will be a bespoke program that can help social enterprises and charities met their objectives, but not by scaling for growth at all cost.”

Social unicorn, is, of course, a play on

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