Capital
Capital for companies built intelligence first.
Future Proof builds companies on one operating layer, so each new business starts from everything the last one learned. Capital here can build your own infrastructure, Future Proof's, the companies of the ecosystem, or a fund for its network. Conversations are personal, and held with the founder.
One table, two seats.
Every capital conversation starts here: the founder and you, with the four destinations and the evidence on the table.
For investors and institutions
Where would your capital stand? Tell us, and the first conversation starts there.
A few questions, one at a time. Your answers become a brief for the founder, prepared on this page while you watch.
What capital backs here
One operating layer. Many businesses standing on it.
The asset is the layer underneath: a company written down in layers that every intelligence reads before it works and writes back to when it is done. Each business built on it makes the next one faster to build and sharper to run, and the research comes first, so what gets built rests on evidence.
Anything can stand on it.
A practice, a school, a marketplace, a new market. Each one stands on the same operating layer, the research lies beneath it, and the ledger alongside records every change.
Touch a pane of glass.
What one business learns, the next starts with.
Lessons, standards and working methods are written into the layer, so each new build begins further along.
Built once, used by all of them.
Our own companies and the partners we build with run on the same operating layer and the same discipline.
Evidence under every decision.
The questions we meet while building are researched and published before they shape what gets built.
Where capital can go
Four destinations, one operating layer under all of them.
Each is held in a standard instrument, in a recognised legal form, with every term in one agreement short enough to read in a single sitting.
The layer under your own company.
Capital that builds the intelligence layer underneath your own company. Everything it knows is read in, its way of working is written down, and its daily work runs on top, in its own voice.
How it is held. In your own company. Future Proof builds the layer with you, the company owns it, and it keeps learning after the build.
Future Proof's operating layer.
The layer every company here stands on: the company written down so intelligence can run it, the research library underneath, and the ledger that has recorded every change since the first day.
How it is held. A place on Future Proof's cap table, alongside the founder and the people who already hold one. It backs everything that will stand on the layer.
The companies of the ecosystem.
Our own companies and the ones we build with partners, each standing on the same layer and starting from what the others learned. Internship Abroad was the first, built here before anyone else.
How it is held. A participation agreement in one specific business: a defined share of its profits and of its exit, scoped to that business alone.
A fund for the network.
A fund for the people and projects the ecosystem holds: the companies, the places and the work that grow inside it. It is forming.
How it is held. Its shape and its form are set in conversation with the people who join it first.
Terms are set person by person, and we decide together who joins.
How a conversation goes
Four steps, with the evidence on the table.
A first conversation.
With the founder. What you are building, what you want your capital or your craft to do, and whether there is a fit.
What you receive.
- The company overview. What Future Proof is, which businesses stand on the operating layer, and how they connect.
- The structure. Where capital can go, and how each destination is held.
- The evidence. Future Proof Certified scores, the full change ledger of the company, and the research library.
A second conversation.
On fit and form: which destination, which instrument, and what you would bring beyond capital.
Deciding together who joins.
A small number of people hold a place in Future Proof. Both sides decide.
The standard
Built to outlast the moment it was built in.
Every company built here starts from everything the ones before it learned. Patient capital, precise work, and a record anyone invited can read.
Three ways to join
With capital, with craft, or with purpose.
A place in Future Proof itself.
A small number of people hold a place in the company and shape its direction alongside the founder. Terms are set in conversation, person by person.
Building alongside us.
Companies who build with us: platform, media, legal, finance, communications. Each partnership is shaped around what that company brings.
Land, water and climate.
Physical projects and philanthropy: places and people the ecosystem can hold, beginning with what it already works on, land and ecosystems, building and water.
The thinking under it
How we think about capital.
Future Proof is a company written down so intelligence can run it, with its own businesses and its partners' standing on one operating layer, and published research underneath. Capital conversations are personal and start with the founder, Daniel van Griensven, at daniel@futureproofintelligence.com. Capital can go to four places. The intelligence layer under the investor's own company, held in that company. Future Proof's own infrastructure, through a place on its cap table. One specific business in the ecosystem, through a participation agreement. And a fund for the network, which is forming.
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