Investors
Scale faster - Unlock greater value
Even strong companies can stall when their models depend too heavily on financial capital—or overlook resources hiding in plain sight. Without rethinking how they’re built, they risk blending in, depleting capital, or missing competitive opportunities others don’t even see.
Better models. Better businesses. Greater returns. Greater impact.
Tri-Sector Innovation (TSI) gives investors and founders a smarter way to design for growth. It’s a model design approach that helps businesses identify and align resources across the public, private, and social sectors—scaling more efficiently without trading off performance for impact.
TSI strengthens your portfolio by making companies more capital-efficient, resilient, and strategically positioned to grow.
The TSI Advantage
Strength at the Model Level
TSI gives companies a structural edge—by embedding impact, efficiency, and access to overlooked resources into the business model itself.
TSI models are built to:
Scale more efficiently – Access infrastructure, incentives, and distribution channels others miss
Strengthen resilience – Reduce dependency on a single funding or revenue stream
Attract aligned partners – Open new growth paths by aligning public, private, and social sector interests
Stand out in the market – Compete through model design, not just pricing or positioning
For investors, that means more capital-efficient growth, more durable upside, and greater long-term value creation.
Solving for Structural Gaps
Too many ventures—even well-funded or mission-aligned ones—get stuck because of how their models are built. TSI helps address common structural weaknesses that limit scalability, efficiency, and resilience.
The typical patterns:
Burn capital too fast to build traction
Rely on grants or incentives without a clear path to sustainability
Ignore non-financial resources that could fuel growth
Compete for the same capital and customers as everyone else
TSI helps ventures sidestep those traps by designing differently from the start—using what's already in play across sectors to grow faster, with less friction and more staying power.
Put TSI to Work for You
Explore and Share Free Tools with Your Portfolio
Introduce startups to self-serve tools that help them design stronger business models
Encourage them to apply TSI thinking to unlock new value and reduce capital burn
Share the TSI lens to identify opportunities for scalability, resilience, and aligned impact
Explore the Getting Started Page
Advisory for Investors & Portfolio Companies
Strategy sessions for investors on how TSI can strengthen your portfolio
Advisory for portfolio companies looking to apply TSI to their growth, capital strategy, or business model
Connections to tools, consultants, and examples to accelerate application
Workshops & Speaking
Bring TSI to your next LP meeting, fund convening, or portfolio session
Tailored content for investment teams, founder groups, or mission-aligned capital networks
Designed to introduce the TSI approach and build stronger models across the ecosystem