GAP 2022

Meet the cohort

Read more about our brilliant 2022 accelerator cohort.

Our 2022 cohort

Animaself

 

We help make life a personal playground to think, feel and grow.

AnimaSelf is a digital mental health app. We are working to bridge the gap in mental health support by helping you manage your day-to-day ups and downs, preventing emotional deterioration further down the road. Mental health care is difficult to access, time consuming, non-inclusive and stigmatised. Unless you are deemed to be a 'very high risk' to yourself or others, extremely long wait times are commonplace, leaving many people without any form of care

Founded by: Frank Thornton-Wood & Hanan Nor

https://www.animaself.me/

Cogs

We exist to end educational inequality for neurodiverse children.

Cogs is an edtech company building educational software for neurodiverse children. Our software will combine educational neuroscience, emotional psychology and AI to build personalised learning journeys for each individual child.

Founded by: Felix de Grey & Zareen Ali

https://www.cogs-ai.com/

 

Gretel & Belle

 

 We democratise access to diverse food and beverages for the circular economy

We founded Gretel & Belle because we noticed a gap in the market for consumers from or curious of multicultural and biodiverse food and beverage experiences. Gretel & Belle develops low waste food and beverages for modern society. We offer quality and convenience to underserved customer segments, combat consumers’ rapidly homogenising diets and tackle the food industry’s wasteful, linear economy. From upcycling the by-products of our beverages into superfoods, to adopting innovative recycling initiatives, we are building a circular economy to eliminate the design flaw that is waste.

Founded by: Mirabel AnosikeMargaret Oki & Sohum Shah

https://gretelbelle.com/


 

LauLau

 

A better way to stay connected to loved ones.

We’re changing the global conversation about how we remember our loved ones. I built this app for and with my grandmother. Laulau is an app that allows you to record your grandparents through video from our curated library of 200+ questions. Everyone has a story worth telling and Laulau helps you discover and remember them.

Founded by: Fabio Richter

https://www.laulau.io/


 

MindHug

 

We make a wider choice of mental wellbeing solutions more accessible, affordable and personalised

MindHug is the bridge between your organisation’s mental wellbeing team and the exciting world of Technological, Therapeutic and Pharmaceutical innovations and programmes – the bridge between the world’s most innovative and impactful mental health & wellbeing solutions and the people who need them most. We are on a mission to make a wider choice of therapies and solutions more accessible, affordable and personalised than ever before. We offer organisations a tailored service to tackle the mental wellbeing issues most pressing for them through assessments, training and workshops.

Founded by: Chris HartChitraj (Raj) Singh & Dr Thaddeus Cheung

https://www.mindhug.io/


 

Relinkt

 

Relinkt helps refugees gain access to work through its platform and transitional supports.

ReLinkt is an early-stage, bootstrapped platform for remote professional services by refugees and migrants—people whose talents need to make it to market! The start-up has begun its pilot with Arabic language, taught by refugees and migrants in Turkey to learners in the UK. Currently, ReLinkt is moving toward validation of its unique, socially impactful model. A participating displaced person in ReLinkt's continued pilot receives transitional supports to advance professionally.

Founded by: Livia Whitermore & Raneem Zahr

https://relinkt.com/


 

Simba Health

 

Simba is a healthy ageing service, targeting over 50s, that combines 1 to 1 health coaching, longevity science, and health data to transform the way you age.

Our mission is to build the definitive healthy ageing platform and extend the healthy life expectancy of billions of people worldwide by 5 years within the next decade. Our Simba service is for everyone who would like expert preventive health support that is both affordable and personalised.

Founded by: Kavita KalaichelvanRichard Kirsch

https://simba.health/


 

SomosFin

 

Somosfin use specialised tools and personalised mentoring to help people control their finances.

Today, 67% of adults are financially illiterate in the world. This leads to a lack of planning, lack of control, difficulties to save and falling into debt. Furthermore, 76% of people claim to feel stressed about money. And they usually feel alone. We support them by offering tools to be in control of their personal finances while having the guidance of a financial coach

Founded by: Francisco José García Pósleman & Silvana León

https://somosfin.com/


 

The Oater

 

The Oater is developing a compact IoT oat milk machine for cafés and retailers.

We are a young, German start-up, providing fresh, sustainable oat milk, without packaging waste, by downscaling oat milk production into a compact machine. Our goal is to revolutionize oat milk production by eliminating packaging waste, reducing transport emissions, whilst improving taste and affordability for our customers.

Founded by: Benjamin AuerSarah NestiHenrik Burger & Lisa Nesti

http://oater.de/


 

Wild Socks

 

Wild Socks sells socks supporting wildlife conservation

Wild Socks is an impact-led start-up which sells socks supporting wildlife conservation. Each pair of Wild Socks is fun and colourful, and features a different threatened or endangered species. We partner with specialised conservation charities dedicated to safeguarding the wildlife on our socks, donating 30% of gross profits to their conservation. Currently, we partner with nine different charities, supporting wildlife from the oceans, African savannahs, and polar regions. Our company holds strong values on sustainability, and respecting our people, planet and natural ecosystems

Founded by: Henry Taylor & Alyssa Sharpf

https://www.wildsocks.co.uk/