The Kickstarting For Good Incubator
The Kickstarting For Good incubator is an 18-week programme for social-impact entrepreneurs and organisations looking to move the food system towards a plant-forward future.
Our yearly cohort consists of approximately 30 people (out of an expected 1,000 applications) and the programme is free to participate in for those that make it through our rigorous selection process.
Guided by high-caliber mentors and programme advisors, the programme combines virtual (online) phases with two intense, in-person sections at our incubator in Berlin, Germany, where you will work with the K4G team to learn the skills, theory and mindset needed to create a high-impact initiative.
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Key stats and details
Global applications
In 2025 we received over 950 applicants from more than 70 countries
Apply on your own or as a team
Apply as a founder working on an idea, or as a team in an early-years org that is looking to scale
Mission aligned cohort
Join the best in the movement, transforming the food system towards a plant-based future
20 hours a week
A minimum commitment of 20 hours a week over 18 weeks, plus two full-time sections in Berlin
Travel and accommodation
Travel to Berlin and accommodation covered, with other stipends to extend in-person time
A share of $1,000,000 in seed funding
A range of seed funding available to our successful graduates to kickstart their initiatives
What you get out of Kickstarting For Good, you can't get anywhere else. You can't get this on your own.
- Tim De Smet
Topics covered
You will learn the skills, theory and mindset needed to create a high-impact initiative, guided by high-caliber mentors and movement experts backed by a wide network of key contacts and donors. You will be guided through validating and stress-testing your ideas and assumptions creating a new organisation or working to expand and scale an existing one, working towards your final pitch and launch at the end of the programme
- Ideation and problem discovery
- Validating your idea and assumptions
- Carrying out a landscape analysis
- Creating your theory of change
- Creating a mission and vision
- Creating a minimum viable product
- Learning how to measure your impact
- The principles of Effective Altruism
- Market research and stakeholder mapping
- Finding the right co-founder
- Structuring a team
- Building an organisation
- Cost-effectiveness
- Budgeting and finance
- Hiring and operations
- Securing funding
- Public speaking and pitching
- Leadership skills and growth mindset
Supporting foundations
Some of the major foundations which have supported K4G and / or our graduates:
