Investors
Scale faster - Reduce risk - Unlock greater value
When you look across your portfolio, you probably see a mix: some home runs, and others that didn’t take off, even with smart teams and solid ideas.
Often, the issue isn’t the team or the product. It’s the model. Even top-performing companies can hit a ceiling when they lean too heavily on financial capital or miss resources hiding in plain sight.
Tri-Sector Innovation (TSI) is designed to create stronger business models. It can help you drive higher overall returns, reduce risks, and increase the impact that your companies deliver.
Put another way: if you and your portfolio companies aren’t using TSI, you may well be sub-optimizing your results.
Better models. Better businesses. Greater returns. Greater impact.
TSI gives investors and founders a new 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.
Talented leaders and entrepreneurs already look for resources. Many think about strategies to work with government, and some partner with nonprofits. It’s common sense. But in practice, we’ve seen even strong teams stop short—missing the opportunity to integrate those resources into the model itself, where they can unlock faster scale and lower friction.
TSI strengthens your portfolio by making companies more capital-efficient, resilient, and strategically positioned to grow. It’s not just a tactic. It’s a competitive advantage.
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 faster – Tap infrastructure, incentives, and distribution channels others miss
Use capital more effectively – Reduce dilution and preserve runway
Strengthen resilience – Reduce dependence on a single funding or revenue stream
Attract aligned partners – Open new growth paths by aligning public, private, and social sector interests
Compete through model design – Not just pricing or positioning
Align profit and impact - Designed to be synergistic, not a tradeoff
Attract talented employees - People want to work where purpose and performance are genuinely aligned
Move beyond legacy CSR and ESG - Impact is integrated into the core, not an add-on
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—underperform their true potential because of how their models are built. TSI helps address common structural weaknesses that limit scalability, efficiency, and resilience.
The typical patterns:
Burning capital too fast to build traction
Relying on grants or incentives without a clear path to sustainability
Ignoring non-financial resources that could fuel growth
Competing 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 portfolio companies and leaders 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