Steward capital

How to raise capital without selling your mission? For founders looking to grow and for investors willing to move with them, steward ownership offers an alternative to the conventional deal. With control in the hands of stewards and capped returns for investors.

Roy shares an overview of the funding landscape for steward-owned companies, focusing on three main stages:

1. the start (crowdfunding)

2. the growth phase (venture capital)

3. the exit (bank financing)

Tessa, Brian, Lisette and Ward walk you through the CrowdBuilding case, a venture capital transaction that makes money a servent to the mission of the company. Which mechanisms made the difference in this deal? From the investor steward and red lines to the capped return? How can other investors and entrepreneurs use their lessons learned and also succesfully close a steward-owned funding deal.

The session closes with three short stories about newly developed investment vehicles:

- e3 Rebalance

- SO Capital

- Stichting Iona