Social Tech Venturing: Metadata and Documentation, 2023-2024

Social tech ventures, which combine technological innovation and commercial trade to address social challenges, hold immense promise for creating scalable, cost-effective solutions to pressing global social problems. Despite their potential, research on social tech ventures remains nascent, particularly concerning how these ventures develop, scale, pivot, and manage mission drift. Existing studies primarily focus on non-tech social ventures or commercial ventures, leaving critical gaps in understanding the unique dynamics and developmental processes of social tech ventures.

This project explored how social tech venturing unfolds. It focused on how social tech firms develop their mission, as well as how they develop their commercial and social elements as they evolve. It aimed to uncover how they adapt over time and when the market environment changes.

Due to ethical concerns the data cannot be shared, but the interview protocols are made available.