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Discover the Sustainable Innovation Program, powered by Strategyzer Innovation Platform.
The Sustainable Innovation Program provides you with the guidance and ressources you need to bring sustainability at the heart of your business model through innovation:
Design
Discover Sustainable Business Model Patterns (NEW) to design your next business ideas. Develop a sustainable innovation mindset and culture.
Validate
Validate and rank your business ideas. Learn how to experiment in fast iterations. Measure results with financial, social and environmental metrics.
Accelerate
Build the exploration machine needed to find new value propositions and sustainable business models. Learn how to further leverage ecosystems.
Who we are
Positive Lab is a Swiss company created by Christian Sinobas to support sustainability leaders in building projects portfolio as an innovation engine for their organizations.
Christian Sinobas
Christian is the founder of KiWi, a Swiss-Mexican fintech startup whose app empowers tens of thousands of micro-entrepreneurs in their daily business. His main product innovation, the « cash advance microcredit » – a working capital loan based on card payments flows – illustrates his systemic approach: It expended the value Consumer Packaged Goods companies by financing their B2B sales. This was the perfect incentive for them to promote and distribute KiWi to their extensive network of small retailers, fostering growth for all stakeholders.
Prior to KiWi Christian was COO of the global NGO Positive Planet, active in 19 countries with over 200 employees. His mission was to generate positive social and environmental impact through financial inclusion. To get impact at scale, he designed key public-private partnerships with organizations such as MasterCard, Credit Suisse, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and United Nations Agencies.
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WHERE WE COME FROM, SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH INNOVATION
KiWi
From payments to platform
Payment providers cannot serve micro-entrepreneurs, who are doing only a couple of transactions a week. We managed to make this service profitable by leveraging the payment railways to add a cash advance loan (product innovation). This made KiWi attractive to CPGs, who became key distribution partners (go-to-market innovation).
Pro Yungas
Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism
Together with the NGO Pro Yungas and Carrefour, we trained, financed and promoted rural communities, creating incentives for them to protect the forest instead of depleting its resources.
UN – UPU
A new purpose for the Post
Together with Universal Postal Union and Poste Maroc, we demonstrated that postal offices can increase the outreach of financial inclusion while keeping their retail network profitable.
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