We build ventures that bring proven technologies to underserved markets worldwide. Through impact licensing, we adapt existing innovations for impact markets—particularly in low- and middle-income countries and co-found and build scalable businesses that improve lives and strengthen communities.What is impact licensing
A strategic tool for tech transfer
Impact Licensing
An impact license is a legal permission granted by a technology holder to bring a technology to a defined market for a specific societal value creation purpose
Why impact licensing
Business as Usual for technology commercialisation and transfer drastically underperforms against potential:
- Untapped innovations: <10% of patents progressing to commercialisation are licensed
- Long time lags for adoption in LMICs: Most technologies introduced from abroad don’t exceed 5% adoption rate
- Overlooked opportunities: Technology owners do not have the strategic mandate to enter impact markets on their own
Impact licensing benefits
Society
- Huge untapped potential for tech reuse & adaptation
- Recapture value of public funding supporting innovation by allowing technologies to reach a broader range of their application potential
License Holders
- Faster routes to market
- Reduced capital needs for given mission
- Reduce technical risk
Technology Holders
- Open innovation
- Access to data from new markets
- Technology improvements from licensees
- Low cost impact strategies