Venture Building

Building Net Positive Corporate Ventures

A new way for corporations to tackle the pending sustainability transformation everyone is grappling with.

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Corporate Sustainability Ventures

Yet there is one thing that most of them are having a hard time modifying — which is the business model itself.

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What could that potentially look like?

  • Chemicals: A new venture might explore a circular economy business model, in which a client only pays for the amount of material in circulation at any point in time. The incentives would radically shift to reclaiming and repurposing the material in circulation as often as possible while drastically increasing the margins of the business as critical processes required can be moved to the customer’s facilities and everything in circulation is provided as a service, rather than traditional material sales — including performance guarantees of the material for the purpose it serves.
  • Whitegoods: A new venture could offer bulky, high-CapEx white goods, such as air conditioners, washing machines, or refrigerators, as a service rather than for direct purchase. The service stack would include remote condition monitoring, predictive and preventive servicing, and the ability to up or down-grade as required. The industrial design of units would shift to a modular stack, which allows for straightforward repairs to extend the lifetime and easy reuse of individual parts at the end of a machine’s lifecycle into the following lifecycle.
  • Agriculture: A new venture might explore the option for consumers to buy into a harvest before it happens fractionally, distributing risk globally and decentralizing the risk finance for smallholder farmers. In return, they can directly (D2C) receive the fresh produce the harvest has yielded, increasing earnings for farmers, or trade on the proceeds of their investment.

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We are a leading digital business builder located in Munich, Berlin, Singapore, Shanghai, and Suzhou. For more information visit us at www.minglabs.com