Investment StrategyWe invest in entrepreneurs who are consciously solving complex social and environmental challenges through innovation and new technologies. To find out how we invest in various startups, please check out the website of our incubator team at Ukukhula.
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Some of Our Own Brands
The first ("prama" literally means "the first") businesses we have invested in were all founded or co-founded by mister Van der Spoel himself. These include, among others:
Consulting
Dennis van der Spoel Consulting is a boutique firm that helps large organizations become more innovative and adaptive in the face of VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity).
Coaching
Dennis van der Spoel Coaching turns experts into successful solopreneurs who change peoples lives for the better by delivering a profound service and sharing their message to millions of others.
Training
The Agile Sage provides training for various roles in corporate New Product Development programs as well as consulting services for large-scale agile & digital transformations.
Training
The Dragon Tail Company develops the leaders we need to create a better world. They train changemakers, intrapreneurs, and innovators to master their dragons and be a force for good in their organization and the world.
Our Purpose
Besides providing passive income and a retirement plan for mr. Van der Spoel's family, we strive to restore biodiversity by liberating the true spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve complex social and environmental challenges.
Through Ukukhula, we invest in startups with the following characteristics:
Through Ukukhula, we invest in startups with the following characteristics:
- We get on board during seeding or immediate after that. Series A or B are not our forte;
- We work with founder teams that would like to be coached by us through incubation and acceleration;
- We work with founder teams that are permeated with the Conscious Capitalism philosophy;
- We invest solely in companies that develop new technologies to viably commercialize:
- meat, fish, and dairy products or alternatives that don't require to keep or kill live animals,
- health, longevity & vitality for humans and all living things globally,
- energy that is truly sustainable and leaves (almost) no environmental footprint anywhere,
- sustainable packaging and environmental-friendly alternatives to plastics and PFAS,
- transport of materials, goods, and people that leaves (almost) no environmental footprint anywhere,
- the automated and autonomous conversion of unseparated garbage into valuable raw materials,
- soil, water & air cleanup and purification. - We investment in technologies that bring the singularity forward (like genetics, nanotechnology, robotics, and artificial intelligence).
- We demand that, throughout the supply chain, no humans, ecosystems, or animals suffer because of our investment.