Impact
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 builds the pipeline.
Cohort 1: the proof
24.64×
return on program investment — for every dollar invested in Cohort 1, ventures generated $24.64 in follow-on capital and revenue
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)
Cohort 2: scaling the model
17 ventures from India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan completed the program in April 2026 — 12 coaching sessions each, closing with Demo Day in Jakarta and a public exhibition of every venture’s work.
- 17 ventures, 5 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 in SIGMA
The market everyone else is missing
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
Monitoring, evaluation, and learning built in
The program runs on SIGMA, Seedstars’ growth methodology: ventures are assigned experiments, test them in the market, measure the results, and advance through defined stages. Coaches record progress at every session.
That gives the program a verifiable data trail — attendance, experiments run, stage advancement, capital raised — instead of self-reported success stories. It’s the same discipline an investor would apply, applied to inclusion.