SDGventure
Impact venture building

We unleash the power of entrepreneurship, to mobilize businesses as a force for good.

Partners we worked with
EY Berlin Hyp Deutsche Bahn Philips etventure Partner logo .p Tomorrow Mobimeo Solidvest DJE Kapital AG Soil & More Impacts KauriCAB ING Innovation Lab Rabobank ForTomorrow
Challenge accepted

At today’s emissions, the 1.5 °C budget runs out in about 2 years.

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1.5 °C is the Paris Agreement’s goal. Every tenth of a degree beyond it makes heat, drought and floods worse.

What it means for your business
7 of 9

planetary boundaries are breached, and all seven are still getting worse.

$3 bn

in real losses from extreme weather that companies reported for 2025 alone.

13×

cheaper to act than to absorb the risk, per company (median).

That is why we build ventures

that move these numbers back, and earn money doing it.

Carbon clock modelled on the MCC Carbon Clock: remaining CO₂ budgets from 1 January 2026 with a 50 % chance, 130 Gt (1.5 °C) or 1,050 Gt (2 °C), at 42 Gt CO₂ a year (Forster et al. 2026). A budget is an estimate, not a precise countdown. Boundaries: Planetary Health Check, PIK. Business figures: CDP 2026, CDP Disclosure Dividend 2025.

What we do

We build new businesses to make radical improvements

We co-create innovative solutions combining profit and purpose to benefit society, people’s lives and the planet. Together we'll fight climate change and work towards a sustainable future in line with the UN´s 2030 Agenda - and beyond!

Path 01

Reduce emissions

Roughly, we need to decrease global emissions from 50 Gt CO₂e per year to 10 Gt per year by 2050.

Path 02

Remove carbon

In addition, we must increase our nature-based and technological carbon removal efforts to ~10 Gt per year.

Path 03

LCA - beyond carbon

We measure your carbon footprint, as well as environmental indicators, such as water, land use and resource consumption.

How we do it

Our proven venture building process allows you to define the field of opportunity for potential new impactful business models.

We are eager to build, enable and scale your digital abilities, culture, and talent by providing you strategic digital experience, agile delivery methods and hands-on product execution.

SDGventure Network

We give our partners access to a unique freelance network of experienced venture architects, and top-notch senior experts in performance marketing, UX UI design, engineering, and product.

Proof of Impact

For each new venture we develop a theory of change and help to scientifically quantify (i.e. by calculating Life Cycle Assessments) and predict the positive ecological impact of their business-model.

Founders First

We source entrepreneurial talent and construct high-performing venture teams. The goal is always to speed-up and de-risk the process of creating new non-core business, and putting you in the driving seat.

Venture building process

At SDGventure we believe in the power of market-based, sustainable and scalable models with positive impact at the core.

  1. 01< 6 weeks

    Scope

    We lead a structured exploration for new business discovery, identification of potential market gaps - to build tomorrow’s champions of change.

  2. 02< 3 months

    Validate

    We focus on customer centricity, validate by selling the product to a significant number of real customers, iterating on our core product hypotheses using MVPs.

  3. 03< 9 months

    Incubate

    We incubate promising new businesses, develop a strong product-market fit, involve partners, and hire the core founding team for a smooth transition.

  4. 04

    Take Control

    We support your founding team, as long as needed, an phase out to leverage the full scale-strengths of the parent organisation.

Top-notch senior venture team. The venture building process allows you to quickly explore, exploit, and own new strategic areas of growth that sit outside your core business competencies. These are areas where new entrants and competition will emerge.

How to Work with us

Sustainable innovation - within the planetary boundaries.

To solve our generation’s biggest challenges, we have to rethink the way we do business entirely. It's not only the ability to maximize economic outcomes that makes a business competitive, but also the ability to optimize for social and environmental impact.

However, it's often difficult to apply suitable sustainable business models and strategies in practice. The adoption of appropriate tools for product and business model innovation and corporate sustainability management can help overcome this challenge.

Economy Society Ecology Sustainability

Rethink and redesign

We use Corporate Venture Building to challenge the status quo, to solve complex environmental problems and to take action - together!

The aim is not only to minimise negative influences but also to leave a positive ecological footprint.

As a result, products, services, processes, and cities will emerge which are safe for humans, healthy for the environment and successful for business.

SDG 13: Climate action SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
Mindset

We are convinced that everyone can do their bit to protect our planet and to create a future worth living. Let's not focus on being less bad, but set ourselves positive goals.

Meet the Crew

Focused on empowering companies, leaders and entrepreneurs to more proficiently discover, pilot and employ digital solutions that have a measurable positive impact on our planet.

Our network consists of the best innovation experts, sustainability advocates, product designers & marketers. They all have extensive work experience (+8 years) in entrepreneurship, medium sized companies and enterprises and bring a variety of knowledge in all fields of company building.

Portrait of Patrick Kögel

Patrick Kögel

from Germany

Founder of SDGventure,
Interim CPO & Venture Lead
for (Corporate) Startups

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Ciler Kilic

from kurdistan

Director Gender Equality & Migration, Climate Education, Business Development

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Aki Fukai

from Swiss

Director Product Design
Concept development (IA/UX)
Design Systems

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Tim Janssen

from Germany

Performance Marketer
Growth Marketing, Growth Analytics, Brand Strategy

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Stanislav Reimgen

from Russia

UX UI & Service Designer
Customer Research
Web & Mobile Development

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Edwin van Vianen

from the Netherlands

Innovation & Change Expert
Team Building, People Management, Coach

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Portrait of Rui Gorgulho

Rui Gorgulho

from Portugal

UX UI & Service Designer
Design Sprints & Workshops
Web & Mobile Prototyping

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Our Impact Network

Global citizen

On-demand ressources, based on project requirements.

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Let's build new ventures that really matter!

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