2° INVESTING

'2D Investing' is a for-profit company that introduces new ideas, design a strategy, recruit partners to form consortia, seed-finance the project, and then raise public and private funds to make it happen. The company focuses on projects that include for-profit component.

The team works in collaboration with an international network of experts, research organizations and startups. A dedicated multi-organization team is formed for each project. The approach consists in mobilizing public grants as seed capital and facilitate collaborative innovation, involving various stakeholders

 2° Investing and 2° Investing Initiative have been founded and developed by Stan Dupre. The company also incubated the think tank in 2012. They are now governed independently and have no financial ties. 2° Investing' projects builds on some open-source research outputs of the think tank and their partners.

'2° Investing' is the registered trademark used by Stan Dupre Consulting (New York) and Beyond Financials SAS (Paris) to develop new projects with a commercial dimension. They have no affiliation with the non-for-profit entities of the '2° Investing Initiative'. Beyond Financials seed-funded and incubated the initiative in 2011-12, and has focused on research and consulting on economics until 2020. 

The company is currently in the process of raising funds for joint projects with a dozens of organisations.