News & Blogs

We are very proud of our London Shaper, Alexandra Kutas, the world’s first runway model in a wheelchair, who launched her adaptive...

We are very excited to share that our very own Christian Tooley has been named as one of the 100 LGBT+ Future Leaders. The 100 LGBT+ list...

London Global Shaper, Yang Liu, has successfully raised £2.6 million in seed funding for her company, JustWears. JustWears was launched...

Rory's article on how the virus has resulted in social, economic and educational insecurity for young people in UK was published on Agenda

We're thrilled that Global Shaper Baillie Aaron's charity, Spark Inside, was listed as one of the top 50 Female-Founded Companies in...

Global Shaper Yang Liu was fortunate to sit with Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Chairman of Google, at a private roundtable along...

Our Hub Co-Curator, Baillie Aaron has published not one but TWO pieces on the WEF's The Agenda. Check them out: Prisons are failing. It’s...

We are thrilled to share the news that new Global Shaper, Claudine Adeyemi, has announced a partnership with her organisation CareerEar...

New Shaper Kike Oniwinde has received £25,000 in funding from Sky to develop her app, BYP Network, to help black young professionals...

Global Shaper in both London and San Francisco, Abi Ramanan, has won the Unilever Young Entrepreneur Award for the company she has...

Gemma Milne, who is a freelance science and tech writer has only gone and got a book deal! Gemma will be spending the next 7 months...

Global Shaper Yang Liu, who is the cofounder and CEO of Just Wears has been awarded the "People Choice" at The Pitch 2018 Final,...

Dr Daisy Fancourt, who is a a Senior Research Fellow at UCL, has received a £1.25 million pound investment in a new national research...

Tat-Seng was recently selected tech-for-good business builder Zinc as one of a cohort of 50 entrepreneurs on Zinc's next impact mission –...

Shwetal Shah has been busy! She works at Erase All Kittens, and are thrilled to announce they recently won a grant from Innovate UK for a...

Daisy Fancourt, who joined Shapers in 2017, has been gracing the BBC left right and centre! Daisy has an ongoing position as a BBC New...

Global Shaper, Katie Boswell, Deputy Head of Funders at NPC, launched a new report on systems change for the charity sector. Thinking Big...

Maxine Mackintosh, who joined the Shapers in 2016, is doing a PhD at UCL at the intersection of data science and dementia, where she is...