AMA: Narwhal Ventures Startup Incubator
Join us to hear and learn about the Narwhal Ventures post-growth startup incubator.
Post Growth Entrepreneurship (PGE) reframes business as a form of activism, art, spirituality, and creative expression. This business model embraces flat growth curves and rejects the need for investors, scaling, and exits. PGE questions entrepreneurial "common wisdom" and re-envisions business as a vehicle for pure positive impact.
If you're new to Post-Growth Entrepreneurship you can learn more here.
Who are you?
Folks with business ideas who don't entirely fit into the "Silicon Valley"-style startup incubation programs. You want to optimize for positive impact, and are looking for like-minded peers and mentors to walk this path with you. This typically includes :
Entrepreneurs who want to create meaningful environmental and social impact
Experienced entrepreneurs who want to understand post-growth and non-extraction
Values-aligned activists without business expertise interested in degrowth, inequality, profit-for-good, social enterprise, steward-ownership, and co-operatives.
Who are we?
Narwhal Ventures is dedicated to supporting and growing the Post Growth Entrepreneurial community. We do so by:
Running our own incubation programs (a 10-week programme)
Running a post-incubation accelerator (6-month programme)
Organising events, community, and mentoring for (aspiring) post growth entrepreneurs
What to expect
The ten-week online incubator focused on non-extractive startup creation will typically include:
Weekly two-hour session on business building
A weekly guest session
Group office hours and pitch practice
Pitch week and demo day
Expected outcomes
At the end of the programme you will leave with:
A clear understanding of how governance leads to impact
Understand your market, pain points, customer needs
A developed business model and have tested some market hypotheses
Developed, practiced, and presented a pitch
Begin acquiring customers
Confidence in launch your startup and in its impact