Startups & innovators
The pipeline, published as it actually is
A directory is only useful if it can be trusted. ACIC-PUSH lists an innovator or venture once the record has been verified and the team has consented to being named — and not before.
Join the pipeline
Applications are open for people with a problem worth solving, at any stage of readiness.
Directory
Current cohort, portfolio and alumni
Filter by stage. Each record carries the problem, the solution, the sector, the stage and its SDG mapping.
The directory opens with the first verified cohort
What a record contains
Published to a fixed structure
So that entries can be compared, searched and — in Phase 2 — filtered properly.
Innovator directory
- Name or team
- Problem addressed
- Solution
- Stage
- Sector
- Community or location
- Mentor
- SDG mapping
- Current status
- Website or contact, where approved
Startup portfolio
- Pre-incubation, incubation or graduated status
- Sector and technology
- Products and services
- Achievements, where verified
- Funding raised or mobilised, where verified
- Employment and impact, where verified
Product showcase
- Product or solution
- Problem addressed
- Technology used
- Prototype or market status
- Application and users
- Demonstration media
- Founder or team
- Enquiry route
Product showcase
Solutions people can actually look at
Working prototypes and products, with their problem, technology, current status and an enquiry route.
No products are on show yet
Success stories
Nine stages, every time
A fixed structure keeps stories honest: it forces the account to include mentoring, validation and what came next, not only the outcome.
- 01
Challenge
The community or market problem, described by the people who experience it.
- 02
Idea
The response the innovator proposed, and why.
- 03
Design
How design thinking shaped and narrowed the concept.
- 04
Prototype
What was built, tested and rebuilt.
- 05
Mentoring
The expertise that changed the direction of the work.
- 06
Validation
Evidence from real users in real conditions.
- 07
Enterprise / Deployment
How the solution reached the market or the community.
- 08
Impact
Measured outcomes, with the record that evidences them.
- 09
Next Stage
What the venture is working towards now.
No case studies are published yet
A story appears only when the innovator and the Centre have both approved the content and the outcomes can be evidenced from programme records.
Listing and verification
How a record gets onto this page
- The venture or innovator is admitted to a programme and the record is created internally.
- The Incubation Team verifies the details against programme records.
- The team confirms in writing what may be published, including whether contact details and funding information may appear.
- Achievements, funding and employment figures are published only where they can be evidenced by verified declarations or documents.
- Records are reviewed monthly or quarterly and updated as status changes.
The directory is maintained by the Incubation Team through the CMS.