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Joe Seddon

Zero Gravity: mentoring that gets state school students into top universities

  • Founded 2020
  • 750+ state schools
  • Partners include HSBC

About

Joe Seddon founded Zero Gravity in 2020. It connects high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds at more than 750 state schools with mentors, universities and employers such as HSBC, KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Accenture and Octopus Energy.

Its impact report says regular members are almost twice as likely to reach a top university and almost five times as likely to reach Oxford or Cambridge. In 2024 Mercedes' Formula 1 team pledged £438,000 to the Zero Gravity Fund, taking it to almost £2m.

Number 15 on the Startups 100 Index 2025.