10. April 2025, 5.30pm → 9pm
Apéro-Event in Lugano
Let's talk about Ownership!
Are you an entrepreneur with a young company or just launching your own venture? Ownership might not be the first thing on your mind, but how you structure it can define the future of your business.
Join us for an engaging evening event designed for startup founders and aspiring entrepreneurs. Together with inspiring local entrepreneurs we’ll explore real-world ownership models they’ve chosen and why. We will dive into the potential of steward-ownership as a forward-thinking framework for startups.
What can you expect?
- Shape your startup’s foundation: Learn why early ownership decisions matter and how they can impact your mission, growth, and independence.
- Unlock new opportunities: Discover how steward-ownership supports sustainable growth, attracts aligned investors, and keeps your venture true to its purpose.
- Connect with like-minded peers: Exchange ideas with other founders and entrepreneurs over drinks at the Apéro.
This is your chance to future-proof your startup and take a step towards innovative, impactful entrepreneurship.
Where & When?
📅 Thursday evening, 10.04.2025,
⌚️ 5:30-9.00pm
📍 Lugano, Impact Hub Ticino (Maps)
👉 Sign Up now!
Speakers
About the topic Steward-Ownership
Steward-Ownership promotes long-term resilience of companies by focusing on long-term responsibility rather than short-term gains.
It is a structuring concept for company ownership, and fosters shared values by turning “owners” into “stewards” of the company.
Focusing on the long-term perspective, it enables companies to act not just as individual players, but as integral parts of a larger, stable economic system.
One example: companies that are organized in steward ownership are not only committed to their shareholders, but also to their employees, the community and future generations.
About the organisers: The Purpose Foundation and Purpose Schweiz GmbH
The Purpose Foundation in Basel is an independent, non-profit Swiss foundation that aims to contribute to an economy that serves people, society and the planet. Its non-profit activities contribute to making steward-ownership more accessible in Switzerland and raising it to its full potential.
The implementing body for steward-ownership, Purpose Schweiz GmbH, provides operational support to companies in the exploration and implementation of the concept through to its legal anchoring.