Redemptive Social Enterprise Lab
April 7-9, 2025
Why a Redemptive Social Enterprise?
At Kaleo Labs, we empower social entrepreneurs with the tools, mentorship, and community they need to build redemptive, sustainable, and high-impact ventures. Through immersive learning, mentorship, and peer collaboration, the Redemptive Social Enterprise Lab equips founders to lead with purpose, scale their vision, and create lasting change.
This April 7-9, 2025, in Cambridge ON, we invite founders and entrepreneurs of pre-launch and early-stage social enterprises to deepen their imagination and accelerate their practice of redemptive entrepreneurship. This Lab is designed to help you identify and address critical challenges that your venture currently faces.
Our Lab content is anchored in the concept of building a Redemptive Social Enterprise business model. This model considers a for-profit market-based approach combined with the aims of the social sector to develop solutions the world needs for solving complex societal issues.
APPLICATION DEADLINE MARCH 20th > SPACE AND SUBSIDIES TO ATTEND ARE LIMITED!
Is This Lab for You?
The Redemptive Social Enterprise Lab is designed for founders and entrepreneurs of social enterprises who are passionate about solving societal challenges through sustainable, impact-driven ventures. Whether you’re preparing to launch or navigating the early stages of your venture, the Lab and our mentors, collaboration and investor partners provide access to the resources and community to help you succeed.
Don’t miss this opportunity to grow, connect, and do adventurous work in deep community!
✅ Who Should Attend?
Pre-launch & early-stage startup founders developing a social enterprise.
Entrepreneurs tackling societal issues with their ventures.
Leaders seeking mentorship and strategic guidance to refine their venture.
Changemakers looking for a like-minded community to grow alongside.
✅ Application Criteria:
You are the founder, entrepreneur, or lead decision-maker in your venture.
Your concept or venture is focused on addressing a societal issue.
Your venture is pre-launch OR an early-stage start-up less than five years.
You need support in refining your business concept OR overcoming critical business challenges in your start-up.
✅ You align with the core values of Kaleo Labs:
Act humbly for the flourishing of others.
Foster deep community and relationships.
Inspire adventurous work and bold innovation.
Design the world that ought to be, shaping systems for good.
Seek good and true narratives that uplift and restore.
Exercise imagination in solving complex challenges.
Equipping Founders and Entrepreneurs to Launch and Scale Impact-Driven Ventures
APPLY NOW - SPACE & SUBSIDIES TO ATTEND ARE LIMITED!
SPONSOR A FUTURE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Join us in supporting the next generation of social changemakers!
Your sponsorship will directly fuel the innovative lab content and hands-on workshops, making transformational learning accessible to early-stage social entrepreneurs and their ventures.
With your support, we can provide lab subsidies for deserving social entrepreneurs who need financial assistance to attend the Lab.
Together, we can advance redemptive social entrepreneurship to create ventures that address complex social problems with sustainable and impact-oriented solutions the world needs!
Donations are eligible for a year-end charitable tax receipt.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY…
"Your value proposition is the community and that is something worth paying for."
~ Rebecca Sherbino, The Raw Carrot (Founder, 2023 Lab)“It’s been great hearing your visions and you are doing a good thing. Your ventures may sound shaky at first but keep going.” ~ Tim Dickau, City Gate Vancouver (Mentor, 2023 Lab)
“Redemptive entrepreneurship is when we join God in creative restoration through our work and life which always involves sacrifice. It is directing our agency and resources toward organizational creation, innovation and risk.” - Peter Roebbelen, The Charis Foundation (Mentor, 2023, 2025 Lab)
