Pontis makes targeted investments in impact companies in these three focus areas:
We support organisations that improve access to education, enhance opportunities for personal development and enable new ways of learning. Because a good education is the foundation of personal development and the key to a self-determined and fulfilling life.
We support business models that reduce inequality and promote equal opportunities. We place particular emphasis on companies that work to strengthen equality for women and girls.
We promote solutions that enable people to age with dignity and autonomy, and to participate in public, social and cultural life. Our focus is on using innovation to improve quality of life, relieve the burden on carers and make care more humane.
We support companies, particularly those in the early stages of development, and work with them as partners over the long term. We make our decisions pragmatically and swiftly.
The following aspects are particularly important to us when selecting the projects we undertake:
Each of these companies tackles a specific social challenge – with a clear approach to solving it and a commitment to making a lasting impact.
We invest in people, not just in business models. That is why the founders’ personalities are just as important to us as their ideas.
We believe in personal responsibility and self-determination, in equal opportunities, entrepreneurship, reliability, transparency and trust.
Our mission is to support entrepreneurs to tackle social challenges through innovative ideas, courage, drive and passion.
Monika and Johannes Pieroth
