The new model to build impact startups
CommonVC Studio partners with founders who have big dreams and bold strategies to conceive, launch and progress new and impactful businesses that will quickly realise the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
What CommonVC does best
CommonVC becomes a co-founder in a startup business. Together a fantastic product is designed and built. The toughest impact measurement problems are solved, and the product is refined and strengthened to ensure a product-market fit, and tricky paths are navigated to secure customer acquisitions.
CommonVC has a strong network of corporate leaders, mentors and experts that practice in areas of impact measurement, brand and design, product and engineering, talent and human resources, sales and marketing, finance, and data science. CommonVC invests into creating a successful new future.
How does CommonVC do it?
Building an impact startup is very challenging. It requires an undiluted focus on impact, domain expertise, exceptional talent, excellent execution, proper timing, and a little luck.
The CommonVC Playbook contains process workflows, standard operating procedures, and cultural values that shape the consistent response to refine and build new businesses.
1. Ideation
It doesn’t matter whose idea it is
CommonVC will take the idea and put it through the wringer to determine that it can be a world-changing, scalable company that customers will love and that it can be accelerated to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
The impact-driven global open-innovation events have generated over 1500 ideas and achieved over 200,000 minutes of ideation. This pioneering information affords founders and investors knowledge about which ideas will work in a given market and its ideal route.
2. Validation
Every idea sounds great at first
Each idea is carefully considered by testing customer demand, technical feasibility, the business model, unit economics, market dynamics, investor interest, impact goals and more.
3. Creation
When an idea is a good one, it’s time to move. Fast.
The CommonVC ecosystem of designers, engineers, data scientists, marketers, and company builders will assist in validating a concept into a successful minimum viable product (MVP) in the market. Through extensive networks, co-founders can be sourced if necessary.
4. Pilot
Distribution is what we need
With the MVP, CommonVC will work with corporate partners to help launch the first pilot by assisting with the distribution, providing access to relevant data and other expertise. When a pilot or system change is required, the ecosystem of stakeholders provides the best advice.
5. Scale Up
Time to grow up and scale
Focus is the lifeblood of an early-stage company. CommonVC boasts a global community across 79 countries which will afford first market feedback in a single day. The recruiting, legal, finance and other service partners allow startups to focus on building a successful business.