Bethnal Green Ventures

Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) is Europe's leading early-stage tech for good VC, investing in ambitious and diverse founders using technology to create positive impact at scale. They believe that businesses delivering meaningful and scalable positive outcomes will be the most successful. BGV focuses on ventures leveraging technology to address pressing social and environmental issues, contributing to a sustainable planet, healthy lives, or an inclusive society. They are committed to the tech for good movement and understand the unique challenges faced by ventures in this space, offering not only funding but also mentoring, support, and access to a network of like-minded founders and experts. BGV's investment strategy involves identifying and supporting early-stage ventures with a clear vision, a viable business model, and the potential to scale their impact. They are often a founder’s first investor and are experts at early-stage investing, offering a program to help launch ventures and ongoing platform support to help them grow. They also follow-on invest into their most promising portfolio companies from pre-seed to Series A/B rounds. Their investment principles center around understanding the problem being solved, acting early and imaginatively, leading by example through integrity and inclusion, being part of something bigger by helping others, and taking the long view with patient commitment. BGV aims to significantly improve hundreds of millions of lives by investing in businesses where commercial growth means greater positive impact. They also strive to ensure diversity within their portfolio, believing that the diversity of those solving the world's biggest challenges should reflect the diversity of those they affect.