Finalist Marketplace

From 284 applicants this year, we have selected 34 finalists. These entrepreneurs could change the world. 25 will obtain the skills, mentorship, and funding they need to launch. The decision is yours. Vote with your dollars for the most deserving entrepreneurs on the Marketplace.

What we do

We unite up to 25 high-impact social entrepreneurs from around the world to attend our intensive 10-week summer institute. There, we will incubate their ventures with rigorous skill training and expert mentorship. At the end of the ten weeks, we will connect our Fellows with the start-up capital and global network of support needed to give their ventures wings.

Unreasonable Entrepreneurs
We are looking for the world's most unreasonable, bold, and relentlessly determined young social entrepreneurs.

Unreasonable Ventures
All ventures must effectively address a social or environmental issue, be financially self-sustaining within 1 year, have a model which can be scaled out of the country of origin within 3 years, and must eventually meet the needs of at least 1 million people.

Entrepreneurs = Investors?

First Light Ventures has committed $150,000 to establish the Unreasonable Village Fund. This fund will be exclusively dedicated to the entrepreneurs in our 2010 Institute and will give them the ability to invest in one another's ventures. Inspired by village banking models used in microfinance, this fund will test a hypothesis that entrepreneurs, working together and providing support to one another, will make highly intelligent investments in one another’s companies.