Material Commons Funding and Investment Mechanisms

Introduction

• Towards a Material Commons]
• Podcast conversation: Bauwens, Kleiner, Restakis on Cooperative, Commons-Based Venture Funding

Directory

Compiled by Bob Haugen:

• Dmytri Kleiner's Venture Commons Fund,
  • Venture Commune
  • Venture Communism
• Sensorica's financial contributions (which tend to be for particular purposes rather than a fund)
• Enspiral's CoBudget, which I think is more of a fund, but then gets allocated by a democratic procedure?
  • Enspiral Collaborative Funding
• the Ethos group system ?

Responses

Joshua Vial, Enspiral

"We've funded everything pretty much off our services businesses. This has been the financial backbone of enspiral and is how most people earn their livelihoods.

Loomio ran a crowdfunding campaign but the biggest value of that was the awareness and relationships and some of the businesses have raised investment but they are relative small amounts compared to the revenue from the service businesses.

As the businesses are growing we are able to resource larger projects through our internal crowdfunding and self-finance more interesting projects."

Tiberius Brastaviceanu, Sensorica

"We've supported ourselves mostly from grants and loans. Most of that was recycled through Canadian R&D tax credits (paying ourselves salaries and claiming it back from the government at the end of the year through this program).

We are starting now to generate revenue from projects.

More on Revenue page: http://www.sensorica.co/home/building-sensorica/revenues

How SENSORICA spends money? You can see the figures here http://www.sensorica.co/home/what-we-do/working-space/dashboard "