Impact you can audit

Program outcomes, delivery records, and market context are labelled separately, with definitions and source notes available for review.

2025 · Bangalore

Cohort 1: the proof

2.97Mpeople reached by Cohort 1 ventures (program-reported)

$12.8Mraised by Cohort 1 ventures after the program (program-reported)

15ventures 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

SEED Inclusivity prioritises women founders and founders with disabilities in selection, coaching, and network access. The program target is at least 30% women-led ventures and 40% entrepreneurs with disabilities across three cohorts.

How we run the program

Priority

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

$18T

Published estimate for the annual spending power of the global disability market

The market everyone else is missing

690 million reasons this is not a niche

690Mpeople with disabilities live in Asia-Pacific, two-thirds of the global totalSource: UN ESCAP, Disability at a Glance 2019

472Mpersons with disabilities of working age in Asia, almost two-thirds outside the labour forceSource: UN ESCAP, Disability at a Glance 2021

$18Tcombined annual spending power of the global disability marketSource: Visa Digital Accessibility, citing the 2024 Global Economics of Disability Report

How we measure

Definitions matter as much as the figures

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. Published figures are labelled by source and reporting scope.

Read the definitions and source notes

Global alignment

Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals

SEED Inclusivity maps its work to three UN Sustainable Development Goals. These links describe alignment, not independent UN endorsement or verification.

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 expands access to venture support and investment networks for founders building disability-focused products and services.
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.