Venture Partner Criteria
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We seek special qualities in the clients we work with. Read more below.
We work with any company that seeks outstanding social impact through profitable commercial activity.
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Entrepreneur-led ventures from foundation to 5 years old.
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Start-up ventures from the charitable, social enterprise or public sector
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Private companies that want to build social impact into their growth plans.
How do Ventures create social impact through commercial activities?
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They may reinvest a significant proportion of their pre-tax profit into a social purpose.
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They may create social value in the way the business is operated e.g by employing excluded groups.
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They may deliver a social impact to customers who may otherwise be excluded.
Where we don't engage:
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Where social impact is a clearly subordinate or second-order concern to the founders or is simply a by-product of the operation of the business.
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Where there is no commercial activity underpinning the venture.
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Where at least a portion of operating profits are not re-invested in social purpose.
What we care about most:
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Your impact. And we are agnostic about organizational form: we welcome for-profits, nonprofits, and government agencies as venture partners.
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That founders are ambitious about social impact and want help to scale and sustain it
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That social impact and commercial success go hand-in-hand in the business model (not pulling in separate directions).
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That social impact is measured and verified alongside all other measures of success.