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Zero Gravity

Powering students from low-opportunity backgrounds into top unis and careers

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Enterprise
  • Education
  • Recruitment
Barbican, London, UK

Company mission

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. Zero Gravity is changing that.

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50% female employees

161% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Zero Gravity unleashes the potential of talented students from low-income backgrounds by propelling them into university, work, and life. Since its launch, it's mentored over 8,000 low-income students into highly selective universities and hundreds into elite careers. Believing that talent is spread evenly, but opportunity is not, it's dedicated to changing that so students can achieve futures they once thought impossible.

It unlocks student's potential by breaking down barriers to opportunities through the power of membership. Its mentoring and masterclasses offer an inside track to reaching the best universities and careers, with technology that enables the company to achieve these goals at speed and scale.

Alongside its main initiatives, the company has established Zero Gravity Fund to provide financial support to talented students from low-income backgrounds. Since its inception, it has deployed over £1.5 million in scholarships to Zero Gravity members, further supporting their journey. Through both its programs and financial aid, Zero Gravity is committed to ensuring that every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

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Kirsty

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Benefits

  • 📈 | Share options: Own a piece of Zero Gravity with our 'Zero Gravity For All' options
  • 💂‍♀️ | Central London Office: Work from our beautiful Zero Gravity HQ in St Paul's, while enjoying flexible WFH options
  • 💳 | Zero Gravity Card: £500 annually to spend on personal growth and learning with your very own Zero Gravity Card
  • 🏃‍♀️ | Fortnightly Socials: Every two weeks, join us for fun team meet ups. Quarterly, we go big with sports days, BBQs, and more
  • 🎄 | End of Year Time Off: Enjoy 3 extra festive days off, plus your 25 days of annual leave
  • ✈️ | Work from Anywhere: Four weeks a year to work from anywhere in the world
  • 💻 | Brand New MacBook: Get the latest Apple gear to stay ahead of the game
  • 🚀 | Performance bonus: We reward top performance via our very own 'Zero Gravity Bonus Scheme'
  • 🩺 | Private Healthcare: Extensive private healthcare, including mental health support and gym discounts

Company values

  • 🕺| Stand up straight - We say what we think and mean what we say. We’re straight talkers who hold ourselves and others to a high standard, owning our mistakes and always striving for improvement
  • 💪 | Run towards danger - We push ourselves to the limit and refuse to stand still. We embrace imposter syndrome by taking risks, failing fast, and venturing into the unknown. Because playing it safe ≠ progress
  • 🪄 | Change it up - Innovation comes from challenging convention. So we say no to the status quo and constantly seek to disrupt our own thinking. Because the best ideas are often found in the strangest of places
  • 💥 | Make it happen - We focus on creating incredible results rather than obsessing over process. There’s an inherent drive in our work: a bias toward taking action, moving fast, and delivering what matters

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Dec 2021

$4.4m

SEED

Mar 2020

$0.5m

ANGEL

Total funding: $5m

Leadership

Award-winning social entrepreneur who has scaled Zero Gravity from his student bedroom into one of the UK's leading tech-for-good startups. Featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

People progressing

Fi joined Zero Gravity as the very first Community Manager and has since been promoted to Product Manager.

Charlotte joined Zero Gravity as a Founder Associate before being promoted to Chief of Staff where their role now oversees business strategy.

Shiv is Zero Gravity's former Fund Associate turned Head of Scholarships where they now power the future of the company's members.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zero Gravity

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Joe Seddon (Founder & CEO)

  • Zero Gravity exists to superpower diverse talent into top universities and careers. This mission is at the core of everything we do, and we only hire staff who live and breathe our mission.
  • We believe in real diversity rather than token gestures. We’ve built our Zero Gravity culture around empowering top talent from all backgrounds, making Zero Gravity the ultimate meritocracy.
  • We’ve developed a contextual algorithm which enables our platform to talent spot high potential talent from low-income backgrounds. We use these same techniques in our own hiring process to make sure we’re hiring from the widest possible talent pool.
  • I originally started Zero Gravity from my hometown bedroom in West Yorkshire with the last £200 of my student loan. I come from a single-parent background, went to a state school, and hired my first employee at the age of 22. My own journey has instilled in me a belief that age and background should never be a barrier to advancement!

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