SECTOR STRATEGIES

Redstone Social Impact is a EUR 50m early-stage VC fund investing in startups that actively address society’s biggest challenges through innovation. Redstone Social Impact invests in early-stage (Seed and Series A) startups developing solutions to society’s biggest social challenges. The core of the investment strategy is rooted deeply in the five Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations and three core verticals: HealthTech, Living, and EdTech. The focus is on solutions that have the potential to improve the well-being of individuals and address social challenges to shape equal opportunities, advance our society, and lay the foundation for the generations to come. Redstone Social Impact firmly believes innovation is key to overcoming our time’s most pressing social problems. Entrepreneurs providing solutions to these problems will generate attractive financial returns for investors while advancing our society and laying the foundation for generations to come.

Building European Champions – SBI and Redstone have established a pan-European venture capital fund with the mission to provide capital to high-tech Industry 4.0 technology companies. Europe is the world’s most active innovation hub enabling the digitization of industrial systems, yet the high-growth, high-tech companies behind the trend struggle to find smart capital to commercialize or scale their technology. Future Industry Ventures targets European industrial technologies as a way to seek higher financial returns and positive impact contribution. The fund is operated by Redstone and SBI Holding Inc., a Japanese financial conglomerate and world-leading investment group with unparalleled expertise, specialized in digital and innovative investment verticals.

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Redstone Venture Debt opens up a world of opportunity for senior debt investment. In Europe’s and especially Germany’s underserved venture debt market, Bridge to Growth provides, on the one hand, a unique offering for institutional investors and, on the other hand, a non-dilutive financing opportunity for young, fast-growing companies. The fund fills a funding gap for startups needing bridge, growth, and pre-IPO capital, when equity gets too expensive and traditional debt is not available yet.

The Swiss health insurance company CSS runs Digital Health in partnership with Redstone, whose goal is to set new standards in the field of digital health by investing in innovative start-ups and trendsetting technologies. Under the umbrella of CSS, SwissHealth Ventures AG forms its own company, whose investment activities are planned and controlled by the insurance group with Redstone. The company’s investment focus is on advancing concepts in the areas of prevention, recovery, care, and special treatment and on further developing and expanding innovative start-ups with a focus on telemedicine, early detection diagnostics, and digital tools for the chronically ill. Digital Health positions itself with relevant expertise in the areas of healthcare and venture capital investment as a professional investor for ambitious start-ups and thus sets the course for the high-quality, cost-efficient healthcare of the future.

South-Savo Startup Fund invests in recently incorporated and seed-stage startups with operations in the region without sector limitations. The first closing of the fund is EUR 3.5m, and it consists of investments by the Cities of Mikkeli, Savonlinna and Pieksämäki – in Finland, Centre for Economic Development, Transport, and the Environment, private investors, and Redstone. The typical investment is EUR 25-150k in equity, with the potential for follow-on investments up to 350k in total. The fund is managed by Redstone partners Oskari Lehtonen and Kaj Hagros.