blisce | Council for Inclusive Capitalism

Founded by Alexandre Mars in 2014, Blisce is the first B Corp-certified transatlantic growth stage venture capital fund, focused on backing mission-driven global consumer brands and technology companies across the US & Europe. Since its inception, Blisce has backed 21 companies such as Spotify, Pinterest, Headspace Health, Too Good To Go, Dice and Brut. with 7 exits. In 2021 alone, two of Blisce's portfolio companies - Imperfect Foods & Brut. - received BCorp certification joining Too Good To Go. Giving back to the community is also at the core of Blisce and each team member donates 20% of their carried interest to social causes and annually dedicates 5% of their time to charitable causes.

Purpose

Blisce seeks to promote a sustainable finance model of venture capital. Beyond providing financial support, Blisce also helps its portfolio companies develop and implement strong environmental, social, and governance practices that will help them be more resilient and advantaged.

Alexandre Mars

Founder and CEO, Epic Foundation

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We believe it is vital to state clearly to the world the set of our beliefs about Inclusive Capitalism. As such, we start with our Statement of Guiding Principles for Inclusive Capitalism. Knowing that words alone are not enough, each of us is making a series of commitments about how we will operate our institutions so that they help achieve Inclusive Capitalism. These commitments are forward-looking statements based on current goals, expectations and assumptions, which are not guarantees of future performance. For more information, please refer to our Terms of Use

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Summary

Blisce will donate 20% of the fund's carried interest to Epic Foundation, a leading non-profit supporting disadvantaged youth across the world.

Activities & Initiatives

Epic Foundation is a leading non-profit supporting disadvantaged youth across the world. Epic works as a “Venture Philanthropy'' fund. To date the team has identified 26 high-impact nonprofits from a pool of 4,000+. Each organization is innovating to scale impactful solutions to healthcare, economic and educational disparities facing kids around the world. Epic doesn’t charge fees as their entire operating budget is covered by their board so 100% of funds raised flows to the charities.

Measures & Targets

Each staff member will donate 20% of their carried interest to Epic Foundation and its beneficiaries at each fund exit. This will be measured at the time of each exit of the fund. We will track how much was donated to Epic at the time of each exit of a portfolio company.

Summary

All Blisce team members will dedicate 5% of their time (2 hours per week) to Epic Foundation or a charity of their choice on an annual basis.

Activities & Initiatives

To be active and engaged community members in our respective communities to create a positive social or environmental change. Blisce has partnered with Vendredi a social engagement platform to connect employees to local NGOs to facilitate local volunteering opportunities.

Measures & Targets

Blisce employees track their volunteering hours on a monthly basis. Blisce will measure progress by tracking the number of volunteer hours on a quarterly basis with the objective that as a collective team we will serve 1,620 hours in the community on an annual basis.

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Recognizing it will take alignment of all our organizations to scale impact globally, we invite you to join the movement as a Steward of Inclusive Capitalism. Together, the collective action of Council members will contribute to a fairer, more inclusive and sustainable future for all people and our planet.