At Nominet Trust, we’ve seen the truly transformative effect tech can have on people’s lives from our experience of funding more than 300 projects over the last 10 years. Organisations such as GiveVision demonstrate how tech can massively enhance lives, while ventures such as Alice, are demonstrating how new tech, in this case, blockchain, can be used to help those most in need. Since 2014 we’ve funded seven rounds of Social Tech Seed (STS) – an early-stage funding programme, supporting ventures developing tech to solve society’s most persistent challenges. Here, we focus on the eight ventures funded through the fifth round (STS5), approved in early 2016, to test the core assumptions of the programme. Our STS5 data (see visualisation below or download it here) shows us five ways in which Social Tech Seed is helping tech realise its potential to create positive social transformation:
| Types | Organization |
| Start date | 2014 |