Lukas embarked on his entrepreneurial journey during his economics studies as a founder. Through his consulting work at an agency and later his own venture studio, he gained a wealth of diverse experiences. At Purpose Switzerland, his main focus is on creating sustainable and purpose-oriented ownership structures for companies. Lukas guides succession processes, startups, and transformations, and provides support in financing matters.
Welcome to Purpose
Since coining the term steward-ownership and founding Purpose in 2015, our mission has been to make this idea known and accessible. Today, the Purpose Group continues to help unleash the potential of steward-ownership.
We are a group of independent entities working in collaboration with steward-ownership forerunners, partners and allies with and for steward-ownership.
Together for steward-ownership
The Purpose Group is united by one mission: making steward-ownership known and accessible to everyone. Since coining the term steward-ownership and founding Purpose in 2015, the Purpose Group is united by one mission: making steward-ownership known and accessible to everyone. While the non-profit Purpose Foundation drives advocacy, research, and education, Purpose Consulting and the investing entities (Purpose Ventures and Purpose Evergreen Capital) work directly with companies, founders, and investors. By freely sharing their knowledge and experience, they enable the Foundation to create research, tools, and education materials as open content, freely available to a global audience.
Our work is made possible thanks to pioneering companies, investors, and the many experts and changemakers working with and transitioning to steward-ownership already today. In addition, international partners under the Purpose brand (Purpose Switzerland, Purpose Latam, Purpose US) and regional allies (e.g., Foundation for Steward-Ownership in Germany or We Are Stewards in the Netherlands) collaborate with us to advance steward-ownership worldwide.
A shared mission
As a non profit, the Purpose Foundation works to make steward-ownership globally known and accessible through advocacy, research and education. The mission is made possible and is amplified through the support of and collaboration with the steward-owned Purpose entities directly working with companies, investors and a variety of other stakeholders:
Purpose Consulting globally accompanies entrepreneurs and founders toward custom-tailored ownership and governance structures for their companies – from founding to succession, aligned financing and beyond.
Purpose Ventures helps the next generation of founders build profitable, steward-owned businesses with purpose-aligned capital – bringing their values, mission, and ownership into harmony while mobilizing more investment for steward-owned companies
Purpose Evergreen Capital offers patient, value-aligned capital to small and medium-sized enterprises helping businesses stay independent and true to their values with steward-ownership.
The Purpose Veto Share enables companies to legally safeguard the principles of steward-ownership (currently only available in Germany and Switzerland). The veto share solution was developed to simplify the legal implementation of steward-ownership for companies today.
In addition, there are regional affiliated Purpose Partners who operate under the Purpose brand (Purpose Switzerland, Purpose Latam, Purpose US), as well as regional changemakers with whom we closely collaborate to advance steward-ownership.
How we relate to each other: While all entities operate (legally, financially and entrepreneurially) independently, they all contribute their most valuable resource: knowledge, experiences, and input from working on the ground and their passion for steward-ownership. This allows the Purpose Foundation to carry out research grounded in practice, create open content and tools that are freely available and supportive to a global audience, and develop education materials based on insights others might put behind paywalls.
Thank you!
None of this would be possible without the forerunners – the steward-owned companies, entrepreneurs and investors who, in the face of partly uncharted territories and systemic adversities, have the courage to forge ahead and implement steward-ownership – as well as the many brilliant lawyers, tax consultants, employees in steward-owned businesses, researchers, legislators, thought leaders, changemakers and regional partners contributing to this journey. Thank you!
