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@misc{enable2025enable-ventures,
              author = {Weru, Lawrence},
              title = {Untitled},
              year = {2025},
              url = {https://enablemodel.com/docs/manifestations/enable-ventures},
              note = {The ENABLE Model}
            }

Enable Ventures

Startup founders pitch Enable Ventures to secure capital that requires accessibility goals and disability employment from day one.

ENABLE Model location

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What it is

Startup founders pitch Enable Ventures to secure capital that requires accessibility milestones and disability-inclusive hiring from day one. Because the fund's term-sheet language ties future investment tranches to measurable inclusion metrics, accessibility stops being “nice-to-have” and becomes a board-level obligation, keeping continuous improvement on the agenda.

Why it matters

Traditional VCs rarely condition capital on accessibility, so founders defer it.
Enable Ventures flips the incentive: no inclusion progress, no follow-on funding.
Disability considerations move upstream into product roadmaps and hiring plans, reducing downstream burden on disabled users and employees.

Real-world example

Enable Ventures has funded manifestations like Be My Eyes.

What it is
Why it matters
Real-world example

Edited by Lawrence Weru S.M. (Harvard)

📝 Disclaimer

The ENABLE Model draws on the principles of anthropology and the practice of journalism to create a public ethnography of accessibility, documenting how people intervene or compensate for accessibility breakdowns in the real world. Inclusion here does not imply endorsement. It chronicles observed use -- how a tool, organization, or strategy is actually used -- rather than how it is marketed. References, when provided, are for verification and transparency.