BonVenture

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BonVenture Management

logo
legal form GmbH
founding 2003
Seat Munich , Germany
management Erwin Stahl
Number of employees 7th
Branch Venture capital for social and ecological solutions
Website www.bonventure.de

BonVenture is a social venture capital fund. The BonVenture Group is the first investment company in German-speaking countries to use the principle of socially responsible risk capital to support social entrepreneurs and social businesses .

activity

As a social investor , the BonVenture Group has been promoting social entrepreneurship since 2003. BonVenture makes it a condition that these social enterprises solve social problems with innovative, multipliable concepts. BonVenture supports social enterprises with socially responsible risk capital and, in particular, with advice and network contacts. The selection and support process follows the approach of venture capital programs.

BonVenture works to further develop the social sector (also: nonprofit sector ). To this end, BonVenture is in close contact with business, science and the various actors in the social sector. BonVenture is one of the co-authors of the Social Reporting Standard (SRS) published in 2010, which promotes transparency in the social sector. The GmbH is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .

Working in accordance with Venture Philanthropy

BonVenture operates on the basis of venture philanthropy and therefore pursues a non-profit approach at investor level. Investors do not seek personal material gain. In terms of the three-pillar model (also: Triple Bottom Line ), the goal is to achieve the highest possible social, ecological or societal added value (social impact).

Selection of supported projects

  • abgeordnetenwatch.de - Public online platform for the exchange with politicians
  • Ashoka Germany - promoting social entrepreneurship
  • Chance work - better educational opportunities through an innovative mentoring program in schools
  • Dialog museum - role reversal for the integration of visually impaired and blind people
  • Lobby control - control of lobbyists
  • Rock Your Life - More educational justice for secondary school students
  • Social Publish Verlag - publisher of enorm magazin
  • nearBees - Supporting local beekeepers by buying honey directly

Web links

literature

  • P. Heister (2010): Financing Social Entrepreneurship through Venture Philanthropy and Social Venture Capital , ISBN 978-3-8349-2641-8 .
  • E. Stahl, S. Lülf (2010): Venture Philanthropy from the perspective of a professional intermediary , in: Philipp Hoelscher, Thomas Ebermann, Andreas Schlüter (eds.): Venture Philanthropy in Theory and Practice , ISBN 978-3-8282-0506- 2 .

Individual evidence

  1. WORLD: Effect instead of return: Impact investing is spreading . February 16, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed June 20, 2019]).
  2. BonVenture Management GmbH (edition 1/2007). In: vc-magazin.de . January 2, 2007, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  3. Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsverbindungen - Portrait BonVenture, accessed on March 7, 2012. ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Social Entrepreneurship Academy, accessed March 7, 2012.
  5. European Venture Philanthropy Association - Members, accessed on March 7, 2012. ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / evpa.eu.com
  6. ^ Social Reporting Standard - Developer, accessed March 7, 2012.
  7. www.transparency.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 4, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.transparency.de
  8. ^ BonVenture Objectives, accessed March 7, 2012.
  9. ^ BonVenture structure, accessed March 7, 2012.
  10. Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsverbindungen - Portrait BonVenture, accessed on March 7, 2012. ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )