9. august 2024
Despite being historically underfunded, underrepresented founders present great investment opportunities, statistically outperforming homogenous teams by 30% at exit. Additionally, a wealth of perspectives in groups are proven to achieve higher levels of innovation, which is crucial in order to solve the social and environmental issues we face in the most efficient and sustainable ways possible.
Unconventional Ventures was founded in Denmark 2018 and is run by General Partners Thea Messel and Nora Bavey. Its first fund, the under SFDR Article-8 classified UVFI, is the first European impact fund focused on underrepresented founders. UVFI is designed with the clear intention to unlock the potential in underrepresented founders building scalable impact tech companies with high growth potential. Tapping into the $4.5T market opportunity that investing in impact is forecasted by 2030.
