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Empactis Ventures incubates and scales purpose-driven businesses. We back founders building companies where profit and impact reinforce each other.

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Investment Thesis

Profitability and positive impact are mutually reinforcing.

We don't believe in impact at the expense of returns, or returns at the expense of people. We look for businesses where solving a genuine problem is the source of competitive advantage.

We incubate from early stage and take active roles — capital, strategy, network, and hands-on building time. We're founders and operators, not just investors.

Problem-firstThe business model must be inseparable from the problem it solves. Impact is the product.
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Durable moatsNetwork effects, proprietary data, or community lock-in. Not just first-mover advantage.
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Thinking global, acting localScalable models that stay rooted in real community outcomes.

Explore

The ventures.

TL
Live
Active · AI Platform
Tryline Coach
Sports Tech · AI Coaching

AI-powered coaching platform for rugby, delivering personalised training analysis and performance insights to players and coaches at every level — from grassroots clubs to elite academies.

Democratising access to elite coaching intelligence
BD
Live
Active · Social Enterprise
Buddi
Social Impact · Homelessness

A social enterprise tackling homelessness through community-driven support networks and pathway programmes that address root causes, not just symptoms.

Nobody left behind
UC
Live
Active · D2C Brand
Underdog Coffee
Consumer · D2C · Social Mission

Direct-to-consumer coffee brand supporting canine rescue organisations and creating employment pathways for veterans. Great coffee with a greater purpose.

Great coffee. Greater purpose.
AP
Live
Active · Marketplace
Apprenti
EdTech · Workforce · Marketplace

The Skyscanner for apprenticeships — matching candidates with programmes across industries, making vocational pathways as discoverable as flights.

Every pathway, visibleVisit site ↗
be.
Live
Active · Hospitality
be. Boutique Resorts
Hospitality · Experience · Wellbeing

Boutique resort experiences designed around wellbeing, local culture, and intentional slowness — hospitality that restores rather than depletes.

Simply be.
SA
Live
Active · AI SaaS
SartoriAI
AI · Sales Intelligence · SaaS

Intelligent sales coaching platform that analyses conversations, surfaces insights, and coaches sales teams in real time — turning every rep into a top performer.

Every sales conversation, optimisedVisit site ↗
AS
Live
Active · Agency
Ardent Studio
AI Automation · Web Design · Florida

AI automation and web design studio based in Boynton Beach, FL — helping businesses cut operational complexity and launch with precision-built digital presence.

Build smarter. Move faster.Visit site ↗
WG
Live
Active · AI Platform
Wargame Guru
Gaming · AI · Tabletop

The expert AI companion for tabletop wargamers — instant rules rulings, tactical coaching, referee mode, and an AI opponent. Accurate, cited, game-specific. Never fabricates.

Know the game. Defeat your opponent.Visit site ↗
GG
Live
In Development
GlowGo Studio
Beauty · Wellness · Sunless Tanning

Boutique sunless tanning studios redefining the category — premium spray tan experiences in a clean, welcoming environment designed for confidence and convenience.

Glow on your terms.
EB
Live
Active · Social Enterprise
EarthBuddi
Sustainable Housing · Developing Nations · Rammed Earth

Tackling the global housing crisis through eco-friendly rammed earth construction — providing flatpack housing kits and builder training to empower communities in developing nations to build safe, affordable, sustainable homes using local materials.

Sustainable shelter, one community at a time.

For Founders

We back builders with conviction.

If you're building something where the impact and the business model are the same thing — we want to hear from you. Early stage, pre-revenue, or post-traction. Your conviction matters more than the deck.

Problem-first businesses

We invest where the mission and the business model are inseparable. Impact isn't a side effect — it's the product.

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Operators, not just capital

We roll up our sleeves. Strategy, hiring, product, network — we bring more than a cheque to the table.

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Global thinking, local roots

Scalable models that stay grounded in real community outcomes. We use the full Empactis network — Urban, Capital, Ventures.

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Early to growth stage

We're comfortable at concept stage and stay with you through scaling. Patient capital with long-term conviction.

What We Look For

A genuine problem with a large or deeply underserved audience
A business model where impact and revenue reinforce each other
Founders with lived insight into the problem — not just market research
A path to durable competitive advantage — network effects, data, or community
Openness to a hands-on partnership, not just passive investment

How It Works

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Send your pitch

No specific format. Tell us the problem, why you, and what you've built. A deck helps but isn't required.

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First conversation

If there's alignment, we'll get on a call. No formal presentation — just a conversation about the problem and your thinking.

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Deep dive

We spend time understanding the business, team, and opportunity. You evaluate us too — this is a long-term relationship.

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Build together

Capital, strategy, network, and hands-on time — whatever the moment demands. We're in for the long haul.

Send Your Pitch

For Builders

Work on things that actually matter.

We're always looking for operators, designers, engineers, and strategists who want to work on things that matter. If you'd rather build something real than optimise a vanity metric, let's talk.

Engineering
Builders & Engineers

Full-stack, mobile, AI/ML. We're building platforms across EdTech, gaming, consumer, and AI. Greenfield problems, no legacy baggage.

Design
Designers & Creatives

Product design, brand, motion. Our ventures need people who care about craft and understand that design is problem-solving, not decoration.

Strategy & Ops
Operators & Strategists

Growth, partnerships, GTM, operations. Think at the system level and execute at the detail level.

What working with us looks like

We're a small, high-conviction team. You won't be a resource allocation — you'll be a contributor with real ownership over outcomes. We work across multiple ventures simultaneously, which means varied problems, fast context-switching, and genuine breadth. If you thrive in ambiguity and care more about what you build than where you sit on an org chart, you'll fit here.

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Founders

Pitch Us

Early stage to post-traction. The problem and your conviction matter more than the deck.

Send Your Pitch

Builders

Build With Us

Operators, engineers, designers, strategists. Work on real problems with a team that cares.

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