Impact you can audit

Every number on this page is tracked through the program's measurement system, venture by venture, session by session. This is what disability-focused innovation returns when someone finally creates a real pathway to capital for disability-led founders.

2025 · Bangalore

Cohort 1: the proof

2.97M people impacted by Cohort 1 ventures

$12.8M raised by Cohort 1 ventures after the program

15 ventures accelerated (India, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Thailand)

The full picture

The Cohort 1 Impact Report

Twenty-four pages on how the inaugural cohort performed: the measurement methodology, the headline numbers, and the founder stories behind them.

Cover of the SEED Inclusivity Cohort 1 Impact Report

SEED Inclusivity · 24 pages

The inaugural cohort's results, methodology, and founder stories, in full.

Read the report

2025–2026 · Jakarta

Cohort 2: scaling the model

17 ventures from India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Singapore completed the program in April 2026, around 24 coaching sessions each, closing with Demo Day in Jakarta and a public exhibition of every venture's work.

17 ventures, 4 countries, one Demo Day on a Jakarta main stage
Sectors from AI prosthetics and braille literacy to inclusive travel and digital accessibility
Every venture coached weekly on real growth experiments, tracked with SMART goals

Meet Cohort 2 Visit the virtual gallery

A SEED Inclusivity founder who uses a wheelchair speaking on stage at Demo Day, hand raised in a wave

Gender lens

Built for the founders the ecosystem overlooks twice

Disability and gender compound: women with disabilities face barriers to capital, to markets, and to the rooms where investment decisions get made. SEED Inclusivity explicitly prioritises women founders throughout selection, coaching, and network access.

The evidence from both cohorts is consistent: ventures led by women achieve comparable or stronger social impact per dollar invested, in markets that traditional venture capital consistently undervalues.

How we run the program

Priority

Women founders receive explicit priority in selection, not as a quota, as a design principle

Compounded disadvantage when disability and gender intersect in the funding landscape

$18T

Combined annual spending power of the global disability market, a market women-led ventures are already capturing

The market everyone else is missing

690 million reasons this is not a niche

690M people with disabilities live in Asia-Pacific, two-thirds of the global total Source: UN ESCAP / ERIA

472M persons with disabilities of working age in Asia, almost two-thirds outside the labour force Source: UN ESCAP

Up to 400× less venture capital reaches founders with disabilities Source: Gallery Guide Brief (verified dataset)

$18T combined annual spending power of the global disability market Source: Gallery Guide Brief (verified dataset)

How we measure

Every number here traces to recorded data

Ventures work to a SMART goals framework throughout: specific targets set each session, experiments run in the market, results recorded by coaches, progress advanced stage by stage. That's why these figures rest on a verifiable trail, not self-reported success stories.

See how the methodology works

Global alignment

Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals

SEED Inclusivity's outcomes map directly to three UN SDGs, tracked through verifiable program data, not self-reported estimates.

Decent Work and Economic Growth
Ventures build employment pathways and economic participation for people with disabilities, the 472M working-age persons with disabilities in Asia who are largely outside the labour force.
Reduced Inequalities
The program targets the 400x VC funding gap facing founders with disabilities, and centres women founders who face compounded barriers to capital and markets.
Partnerships for the Goals
A Seedstars program supported by Visa Foundation, working with Impact Hub and a global network of mentors, designed for replication across regions.