Build the ventures solving humanity's biggest challenges
Purposepreneurs™ identifies exceptional talent and supports them in co-founding ventures that tackle climate breakdown, nature collapse, inequality, and systemic resilience failures.
Purposepreneurs™ identifies exceptional talent and supports them in co-founding ventures that tackle climate breakdown, nature collapse, inequality, and systemic resilience failures.
Humanity faces existential systemic risks: climate breakdown, ecosystem collapse, deepening inequality, cascading resilience failures.
These aren't problems governments or philanthropy can solve alone—they require entrepreneurial innovation, commercial discipline, and scalable solutions built by exceptional founders.
But here's the problem:
The world's most talented people rarely choose to build ventures addressing these challenges.
Why? Because the pathway isn't clear.
The Thesis
The people who could build the next category-defining company should be building the ventures that ensure humanity has a livable future.
We exist to make that pathway as compelling, credible, and well-supported as possible
Purposepreneurs™ is a 6 month programme that identifies exceptional individuals before they have ventures, supports them in finding co-founders, building the companies that will tackle the world's biggest problems, and connects them to institutional capital.
You don't need:
- An existing venture or business idea
- A co-founder (we help you find one)
- Prior startup experience (though many participants have it)
- Wealth or financial runway (we provide stipend support)
- Connections to investors (we provide access)
You do need:
- Exceptional capability and ambition
- Deep commitment to solving systemic risks
- Willingness to build commercially viable solutions (not nonprofits)
- Ability to navigate complexity and uncertainty
- Urgency about the problems we face
A programme like no other, What you get that alternatives can't provide.
The challenge: The best ventures are built by complementary co-founding teams, but finding the right co-founder is extraordinarily difficult.
What we provide:
Intensive 3-month cohort experience with 20-30 exceptional individuals all searching for co-founders. Structured matching process, deep collaboration, and facilitated team formation. You're not searching alone—you're building with peers who share your urgency.
The challenge: Building a venture requires full-time focus, but most people can't afford to work unpaid for 6-12 months.
What we provide:
2,500 CHF/month stipend (adjusted by location) for 6 months, covering your living costs so you can focus entirely on building. No equity required during stipend period. You maintain ownership while getting supported.
The challenge: Building ventures is lonely, especially when solving problems most people don't understand or care about deeply.
What we provide:
Lifelong network of 20-30 peers per cohort who share your urgency, ambition, and commitment. These become co-founders, advisors, collaborators, friends, and the community that sustains you through the hard years of building.
The challenge: Impact investors and DFIs are notoriously hard to access for early-stage founders—long timelines, opaque processes, institutional barriers.
What we provide:
Direct path to Artamis Capital (first-look investment rights for graduates) plus introductions to our LP network: impact investors, family offices, DFIs, climate funds. We bridge the gap between early-stage ventures and institutional capital.
We're heading toward 2.5-3°C warming with cascading consequences. Both mitigation (reducing emissions) and adaptation (building resilience) require massive innovation.
Venture opportunities:
- Distributed renewable energy and grid resilience
- Industrial decarbonization and hard-to-abate sectors
- Climate adaptation infrastructure and services
- Carbon removal and sequestration at scale
- Climate risk data and decision intelligence
- Just transition and workforce transformation
- AI for climate solutions
We're in the sixth mass extinction. 1 million species at risk. Ecosystem services worth $125 trillion/year degrading. Nature loss creates systemic financial, food security, and health risks.
Venture opportunities:
- Regenerative agriculture and soil restoration
- Ocean health and blue economy solutions
- Biodiversity monitoring and nature tech
- Nature-based solutions and ecosystem services
- Sustainable forestry and deforestation reversal
- Nature restoration finance and markets
- Zoonotic disease prevention (One Health approaches)
2 billion people lack access to formal financial services. Wealth concentration deepening. Climate impacts fall hardest on most vulnerable. Inequality creates fragility, conflict, and lost human potential.
Venture opportunities:
- AI governance and fairness
- Financial inclusion and inclusive finance models
- Digital services for underserved populations
- Gender lens investing and women's economic empowerment
- SME and agricultural finance in emerging markets
- Affordable essential services (health, education, housing)
- Community wealth-building and cooperative models
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Interconnected systems (food, water, energy, health, finance) increasingly fragile. Climate shocks, pandemics, and supply chain disruptions reveal systemic vulnerability. Building resilience is survival.
Venture opportunities:
- AI safety and technology robustness
- Distributed infrastructure and local production
- Pandemic preparedness and biosurveillance
- Food systems resilience and alternative proteins
- Water security and sanitation solutions
- Supply chain transparency and resilience tech
- Health system resilience and AMR solutions
From ambitious individual to co-founded, investment-ready venture in 6-12 months
During months 1-3 you focus on finding your co-founder and problem space, through a structured process to find complementary co-founders with shared purpose and validate the problem
Receive a 2000 chf stipend/month
During months 3-6, you build your venture from initial concept to traction. Develop your MVP and validate the idea with initial customers
Receive a 3000 chf / month stipend
After six months, pitch day arrives, connect with potential investors, achieve investment readiness and secure institutional capital
Artamis Capital investment consideration (first-look rights)
We select the most talented individuals around the world, ready to build a venture and driven by purpose and conviction. Our selection process is highly selective, with only 0.001% applicants selected for the formation stage.
You've demonstrated excellence in prior roles, whether academia, corporate, government, or previous ventures. You're in the top tier of whatever you've done. You could build a successful tech startup or have a high-status career, but you're choosing purpose instead.
You're not casually interested in sustainability, you're urgently committed to solving systemic risks. You see the magnitude of climate breakdown, nature collapse, or inequality and believe dedicating your career to solutions is the only rational choice.
You understand that solving systemic problems at scale requires commercially viable solutions, not just grants or charity. You're comfortable building businesses, managing financial trade-offs, and pursuing sustainability (both mission and revenue).
You recognize you can't solve systemic risks alone. You're open to finding co-founders, taking feedback, learning from experts, and building with others who share your urgency but bring different skills.
If you're exceptional, purpose-driven, and ready to dedicate your career to solving climate breakdown, nature collapse, inequality, or systemic resilience failures—Purposepreneurs™ is built for you.