About the Social Enterprise Studio
About startup studios
Startup studio
It is a bold investment entity that works to create emerging social enterprises by attracting the founding team and providing strategic and tactical guidance using business intelligence and investing in them in their early stages, starting from the idea and passing through the stages of design, testing and experimentation, all the way to the seed stage.
Impact investment
An investment that can be in the form of cash or non-cash funds in social enterprises. The investor intends to achieve financial returns, and measurable social or environmental returns, Provided that achieving societal impact takes precedence over profit goals
Achieving the targeted social impact in a measured manner with financial returns
Investment based on change and social impact
Global impact investment market size
Current market size is 1.16 4 trillion USD for the year 2022
Under the management of more than 3.3 49 social investment entities
While the market size was 3.6 billion US dollars in 2013
The unique value of a social enterprise studio
The Social Investment Studio is based on 3 key unique values
Social focus
Focusing on the field of social impact, a market that grows amazingly annually, Athar Studio is the first of its kind as a factory for emerging companies in this field and aspires to be the first exporter of these companies in the region.
Successful relationships
Athar Studio takes advantage of its wide network of relationships to be able to find challenges on the ground, ensure the suitability of solutions, and secure potential customers for each product.
Participatory construction
Our experts prefer that we build solutions to existing and real challenges and problems in cooperation with distinguished entrepreneurs. This leads to very quick access to the market and obtaining quick results.
Startup studio principles
Building real solutions, Led by exceptional founders, To create companies with economic and societal impact
- Attracting founders with pioneering ideas and turning their ideas into products, And transferring products to emerging companies
- Introducing the initial team to build the company, strategic direction, Support services and capital necessary to reach targets
- Providing services, consultations, and capital in exchange for owning shares in emerging companies
- Incubating and operating startups so that they can enter into investment rounds so that they can become financially and spatially independent
- Creating a realistic social or environmental problem through specific business tools and working with partners
- Focus on building real solutions to the discovered problem that applies to the market need
- Gather specialists with expertise and experience to discuss the problem and proposed solutions
- The team of specialists builds startups in parallel
- Taking advantage of the network of relationships to open doors for emerging companies to enable them to grow and expand
Added value and impact
Expanding the scope of impact
Develop and expand sustainable businesses that add direct value to society and help solve the most pressing challenges not only in the Kingdom but also at the regional level in the future.
Achieving efficiency in spending for the sector
Exploiting the huge volume of spending by third sector entities and the sector’s legislators and regulators to build social solutions in the form of ideal social companies that enable them to raise the efficiency and rationalize spending so that the sector achieves the required sustainability and growth.
Create an attractive environment
Creating healthy environments that provide security and verification for new social companies and investors through support, supervision, and direct incubation of projects or companies that the investor aspires to.
Supporting government efforts
Effective contribution in transforming societal challenges and addressing government issues using social investment tools into a productive and innovative sector that reduces the burden on the government and bears responsibility for social development.
Creating new markets
Athar Studio will contribute to creating new investment markets that bridge the wealth gap and enable our communities to live healthy and stable lives through direct support services for entrepreneurship. fair investment, And building community wealth
The most important pillars on which the Social enterprise Studio relies
Our partners in impact
Accessing ideas and building business models
Building partnerships with potential clients and supporting investment rounds
Practical involvement in product building, marketing, legal, sales, human resources, finance, etc.
Establishing the necessary legal entities for every startup company