About

Relevant is a purpose venture catalyst operating out of Europe and East Africa. We develop, pilot, and scale enterprise and investment solutions to address humanitarian and planetary crisis. Relevant’s mission is to accelerate the shift to a purpose-driven economy by piloting it today with a focus on the blind spots: the people, places, and topics that markets neglect. We do it by Empowering Entrepreneurs, Mobilizing Capital and Building Ventures. - Empowering Entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurial talent, creativity, and tenacity are evenly distributed, access to capital, markets, and information is not. We change that by empowering purpose-driven entrepreneurs through capacity building programs in formats tailored to their needs. - Mobilizing Capital: We develop new ways to mobilise Capital for Purpose. We do this by re-engineering finance to be People- and Purpose-centric:​ investment instruments, investment decisions, capital pooling and asset management structures, collaboration and governance. - Building Ventures: In the blind spots of markets, there are many ventures that should thrive, but don’t. We help them through our capacity building formats and by mobilising purpose-driven capital.​ There are also many ventures that should exist, but don’t. In our Venture Studio, we are building a systematic approach to identify these opportunities at the nexus of unmet need, technical possibility, and commercial opportunity.