About Floc
Floc connects sustainable ideas with people, knowledge and resources they might otherwise never reach. Anyone can share and develop ideas on their own terms — openly, with selected collaborators or confidentially.
People and organisations can contribute to ideas or offer opportunities such as funding, expertise, partnerships and access to resources. Through intelligent matching, Floc brings together ideas, people, companies, universities, foundations and investors, making it easier to find the connections needed to turn ideas into reality.
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Behind the Name
Flocculation is a process used in water treatment where small, dispersed particles come together to form larger clusters called flocs, leaving the water clean.
Floc works on a similar principle: bringing together ideas, opportunities and people that might otherwise remain disconnected. When they meet, new possibilities emerge — and ideas gain the potential to become solutions with real-world impact.
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The Ideas That Never Were
We all have ideas. They come to us at work, in school, in the shower, on the train or while talking with friends. Some could solve real problems and lives. But most ideas never leave the drawer or the back of our minds.
Not because the ideas are bad, but because few people have everything needed to turn a passing thought into reality through the messy, uncertain process of development.
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Ideas Grow Stronger Together
An idea doesn't need to be fully formed to be worth exploring. Nor does its creator need to have all the answers.
By connecting ideas with different perspectives, skills and resources, Floc helps uncover possibilities that might otherwise go unnoticed. What begins as a simple thought can evolve through collaboration into something no one could have achieved alone.
You don't even need to know what kind of help you need. You just need an idea worth exploring. The rest can come together.
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Sharing on Your Terms
Different ideas call for different levels of openness. Floc lets you choose how your idea is shared, who can access it and how others can contribute.
Open-source development:
Develop an idea publicly and allow others to build on shared project material under an open licence, with attribution.
Public but protected development:
Develop an idea publicly to attract people, feedback and opportunities, while retaining rights to the work.
Confidential:
Develop an idea privately with selected participants under confidentiality terms, for example while exploring intellectual property protection.
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Contribute and Get Credit
Contribution is central to Floc. You can provide feedback or insights that help solve problems, join a team or form partnerships to contribute to research, prototypes, testing and implementation.
When your contribution becomes part of an idea, it is recorded in the idea's history and recognised on your profile, subject to the idea's visibility settings. Over time, your profile becomes a record of what you have helped develop and bring to life.