100x, a global impact initiative based at the London School of Economics, has today announced its 2026/27 cohort: 12 high-impact organisations working across health, education, economic empowerment, mental health, nutrition, conservation, AI and disaster response.

The cohort includes: ARMMAN, DeepLeaf, doctorSHARE, Educate Girls, Fortify Health, Friendship Bench, Gooey.AI, Haqdarshak, Lively Minds, Planet Indonesia, Simprints and Yayasan Peta Bencana—selected from among 2,000 applicants that went through 100x’s rigorous due diligence process.

These are not early-stage experiments. These ventures have built strong evidence bases and already serve millions of people. Yet this is the point at which proven impact can stall — or break through.

Tackling the adoption gap in social innovation

The world does not lack proven social innovations. The harder challenge is helping those models embed and spread. That means moving them into public systems, supply chains, markets, community infrastructure and the everyday institutions people rely on.

100x backs organisations at this stage: when a model has significant evidence, demand and traction, but still needs partnerships, capabilities, capital pathways and institutional support to reach its full potential.

This year’s cohort gives 100x a unique opportunity to learn alongside ventures navigating adoption at scale—exploring, together, how impact takes root and spreads through government systems, community infrastructure, and market mechanisms.

Friendship Bench, based in Zimbabwe, demonstrates how a proven community mental health model can be integrated into a public health system. The organisation has trained community health workers to deliver evidence-backed mental health support across 339 primary care facilities, representing around 21% of primary care facilities in Zimbabwe. It is now working towards a transition to full ownership by the Ministry of Health by 2028.

Planet Indonesia, on the other hand, demonstrates the role of community-led infrastructure in scaling impact. Working with Indigenous and rural communities, the organisation supports locally governed approaches to conservation, livelihoods, and health, demonstrating how community institutions can serve as the foundation for long-term climate and biodiversity outcomes. They have helped reduce the cost of conservation in Indonesia from USD 30 in 2016 to USD 2.30 per hectare today—a 92% reduction over nine years.

Haqdarshak illustrates how market-based models can expand access to public entitlements. The organisation helps informal workers and micro, small and medium enterprises navigate complex government welfare systems. To date, it has helped millions of people across India to apply for schemes, with a 93% approval rate, unlocking an estimated USD 2.2 billion in cumulative benefits.

These ventures reflect a wider belief at 100x: organisations at this stage present a rare kind of opportunity. They have already built models that work. The next phase is crucial: scaling what works, deepening their influence within systems, and unlocking the wider value of what they have built.

“These are organisations whose models have already shown they work for millions of people around the world. The question now is how those approaches take root and spread — picked up by governments, sustained by markets, embedded in communities, replicated by others. That stage is where these innovations begin to work at the scale of the problems they were set up to address,” said Kieron Boyle, the CEO of 100x Impact and Professor of the Impact Economy at LSE.

“100x exists for that change. We back these ventures with capital and hands-on support, and we turn what we learn about adoption into knowledge others can use,” Kieron added.

Over the course of the programme, the selected ventures will receive catalytic funding and tailored support from 100x and partners, including strategic guidance, peer learning, and connections to relevant support, to strengthen the pathways that can help their models reach their next stage of scale.

Ventures in the portfolio have gone on to raise 16 times the capital invested by 100x and reach three times as many lives.

“Being selected by 100x is a powerful validation of Educate Girls' vision that no girl should remain invisible to the education system. For nearly two decades, we have combined deep community engagement with AI, machine learning, and government partnership to reach the girls who are most often left behind. With 100x's support and expertise, we can accelerate these innovations,” said Gayatri Nair Lobo, CEO of Educate Girls.

El Mahdi Aboulmanadel, Founder and CEO of DeepLeaf said: “This opportunity allows us to put real agronomic intelligence in the hands of millions of farmers, in the languages they speak and through the channels they already use. The technology is finally strong enough to deliver this at scale — helping farmers protect more of their harvest, increase their incomes and reduce pressure on forests and biodiversity.”

The cohort brings 100x’s portfolio to 47 ventures, collectively impacting an estimated 500 million lives across the world.