Zinc Summer Showcase brings the ecosystem into one room: portfolio founders, the Chairs and non-executives who guide them, established and prospective LPs, and the co-investors backing what comes next. It’s a chance to see what Zinc has built and the impact its portfolio is achieving, told by the people behind it.
But this is more than a showcase. It’s an evening built to strengthen the relationships that help these companies succeed — between founders and investors, founders and one another, founders and the experienced operators who steer them, and between Zinc and everyone who supports its mission. That conviction, that science delivers most when a whole ecosystem stands behind it, is explored in the editorial, Science That Serves Everyone: Why Ecosystems Matter .
Expect a night that is at once a celebration, a showcase and a catalyst: a stronger sense of what Zinc has achieved, fresh confidence in the portfolio, new connections across the ecosystem, and renewed energy for backing the next generation of founders.
Zinc exists to accelerate Science-for-Impact innovation, partnering with people and organisations to build a better future for people and the planet. Working across the entire Science-for-Impact ecosystem, it creates the conditions, capabilities and coalitions for transformative change through three pillars: venture building, innovation partnerships and talent initiatives. Since 2017, Zinc has backed almost 300 founders and helped build more than 60 ventures from scratch — the portfolio and community this gathering brings together to celebrate.
The hardest problems in health and the environment won’t be cracked by founders working alone, they need investors, operators and supporters pulling in the same direction. That’s the ecosystem Zinc has spent nearly a decade building, and the Summer Showcase is the night it comes together under one roof to take stock and look ahead. Town Hall is glad to host that conversation, and be a part in the connections that carry these companies forward.
Zinc Summer Showcase brings founders, investors and supporters together for an evening of celebration and connection. Expect candid conversation, a chance to meet the people building across the portfolio, and drinks to mark how far the community has come. Places are by invitation only.
To request an invitation, please contact membership@townhall.co.uk.
