We’re thrilled to announce that last week Enviu transitioned into a 100% non-profit owned company! With our new ownership model, we become the first venture building studio globally that uses for-profit venture building within a non-profit structure. Profits derived from our successful ventures are now reinvested to build new impact driven companies, creating a flywheel to accelerate and enable our … Continue reading We’re now 100% nonprofit-owned

Why a systemic approach to impact venturing is vital. Today, the climate and biodiversity crisis presents enormous challenges and at the same time, COVID19 has made evident the profound social flaws and inequalities of our economic system. Impact driven venturing is a critical instrument to tackle these challenges, achieve impact at scale and, do it … Continue reading Systemic venture building can tackle our world’s largest challenges. Here’s How:

The first step on the road to building a world changing company, is understanding the world that you want to change. Before we even think about brainstorming, or designing any specific models our starting point is always an issue analysis. Done right, an issue analysis positions us as sparring partners in the field, guides us … Continue reading How an Issue Analysis lays the foundation for Systemic Change

Pensions are invaluable. To the individual, they provide a healthy financial future and means to break out from the poverty cycle. To a country, they enable investment, furthering vital improvements in infrastructure, healthcare and more. Around 70-80% of Africa’s population works in the informal sector with no access to a pension. The need is great, … Continue reading 5 years down the road to inclusive pensions in Africa

When it comes to designing solutions to the challenges facing our planet, there is a tendency in the impact world to start designing from the desire to create impact. This sounds obvious. After all, it is only by creating impact that a given issue can be solved. But no matter the potential impact, there won’t … Continue reading Why Human Centered Design is at the core of our world changing companies

Increasing numbers of successful entrepreneurs are turning to a purposeful second career, driven to investing their time and money in organisations that do good. More and more impactful initiatives are appearing every day, having both a positive effect on increasing customer awareness and receptiveness towards sustainability. However, though many of these initiatives are undeniably beneficial, … Continue reading Van Lanschot Kempen brings Enviu and nine successful entrepreneurs together to build ventures that drive a sustainable Dutch food chain

Why things are harder for social entrepreneurs Starting a successful company is no small feat, statistics surrounding the failure rate of small businesses are cliché for good reason. There are no shortage of challenges facing any entrepreneur. But for social entrepreneurs, things get even tougher. As a result of the social good built into their … Continue reading 3 reasons why social entrepreneurs should be using lean thinking as their guiding methodology in 2021

“By applying circular economy principles to food system value chains, three objectives are defined as circular components of an ideal future food system: food is produced in ways that regenerate nature; food is not lost or wasted; and commonly wasted resources are used productively. A circular economy for food can bring clear benefits to human … Continue reading How we are putting PACE’s Circular Economy Action Agenda into action: building circular and sustainable ventures in East Africa

Sustainability is more popular than ever. Yet as the number of sustainable brands, initiatives and organizations continues to grow, the sector’s current crop of solutions, however nice, have not yet had a big enough impact to drive substantial change in the direction of sustainability. We need scale. To Enviu, one of our key goals for … Continue reading Why corporates are an important part of our plan for 2021 to drive impact at scale

Sokofresh and Rabo Foundation join forces to upgrade and streamline smallholder value chains to prevent food loss. Through cold chain solutions and market linkage over 50% of production value can be recovered at farm-level.  Preventing food loss is a triple win for farmers, consumers and the climate. Globally farmers produce enough food to feed 1.5x … Continue reading Preventing food loss through as-a-service models for smallholder farmers