Unrest

Unrest is a UK-based impact accelerator that works with founders building consumer businesses - B2C and B2B2C - with a social or environmental purpose. It supports companies at pre-seed and seed stage, and operates on an equity-based model, taking a stake in participating businesses rather than charging a cash fee. The organisation's stated premise is that purpose-led consumer companies can be built to grow commercially while serving people and the planet.

Its core offering is the Unrest Accelerator Programme, a 16-week course combining workshops, one-to-one guidance and executive coaching across fundraising, branding, marketing, business development and impact measurement. Programme participants collaborate with Uncommon Creative Studio on brand development, and are connected with a network of delivery partners, investors and fellow founders. Beyond the programme, Unrest runs Impact Investor Office Hours - events designed to put founders in front of impact investors - and maintains an alumni community with ongoing events and connections.

Sector focus spans consumer businesses addressing social and environmental challenges, situating Unrest within the impact investing and venture programme landscape in the United Kingdom. For investors, the practical points of contact are the office hours initiative, the investor network attached to each cohort, and a deal pipeline of pre-seed and seed consumer companies with an explicit impact thesis. Founding year, team size and fund economics are not publicly specified.