
Crowdfunding employment training for homeless people. Backed by The Mayor of London and leading UK tech entrepreneurs. Now hiring! https://careers.beam.org/
Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +44 7500 161814
Total raised: $1.3M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 1
Date | Name | Website |
27.02.2022 | Techstars | techstars.... |
Funding Rounds 1
Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
28.07.2020 | - | $1.3M | - |
Mentions in press and media 11
Date | Title | Description |
27.02.2023 | After fleeing war, homelessness threatens UK’s Ukrainian refugees | London, United Kingdom – When the Russian war on Ukraine began last February, like many others, 18-year-old Anna Merchuk and her mother had no choice but to leave their home. They fled their western city of Styri and arrived in Poland weeks... |
18.08.2022 | Revolut to allow users to donate to the homeless via the Beam crowdfunding platform | The world is entering a huge cost of living crisis, which will inevitably result in a rise in homelessness. But donating to homeless people has yet to go fully digital. Challenger bank Monzo allowed the opening of limited accounts for the h... |
04.05.2021 | How These Four Startups Hired Talent Remotely During Lockdown | Recruiting talent at arm's lengthgetty |
26.01.2021 | After The Storm—Boost For U.K. Startups Focused On Post Pandemic Recovery | Ravi Gurumurthy, chief executive of NestaNESTA - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED |
16.12.2020 | Festive Feeling: Creative Ways To Engage Employees Remotely | This is the third of a series of articles looking into how, what was previously regarded as “the Future of Work”, has transformed work post-pandemic in 2020 “After Disease”. Having previously looked at the evolution and challenges facing ou... |
26.10.2020 | How Vacant Rooftops Could Solve The London Housing Crisis For Key Workers | Key workers, a term that has barely been used before the Covid-19 pandemic, has become omnipresent in the space of just a few months. |
10.03.2020 | Meet the Entrepreneur Using Crowdfunding To Train Up Homeless People | 128 shares Share Tweet Pin LinkedIn Entrepreneur Alex Stephany is using crowdfunding to offer training to homeless people, something which he finds is more effective than ‘offering donations.’ His groundbreaking website Beam is a crow... |
20.12.2019 | Meet the digital tech companies helping during Christmas time | When they aren’t solving some of the scarier challenges facing humanity, many tech-for-good (and indeed regular) founders turn their attention to Christmas – a time when societal problems are amplified during what is typically a joy-filled ... |
12.12.2019 | Meet Beam, the social enterprise crowdfunding training for homeless people | Charitable giving is one of the hallmarks of the festive season. And with the weather getting colder at Christmas, it’s important to highlight the desperate situation facing London’s homeless population. |
02.12.2019 | No, your CEO can’t come paint our office: The 4 golden rules for CSR | Two years ago, I launched Beam, a tech-for-good startup that crowdfunds employment training for homeless people and supports them into stable, paid work. |
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