BNVT Capital today announced the launch of its debut $150M fund to invest in AI-first and technology-driven companies solving humanity’s most pressing challenges.
BNVT’s approach is built on a groundbreaking study, “Benevolent Disruption: The Fortune in Solving the World’s Biggest Problems”, co-authored with Professor Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School and VenCap International PLC (a large VC allocator) and academics at MIT and Oxford University.
Drawing on proprietary data on 500+ VC funds and 14,000 companies, over the last 40 years, the study unveils an enormous source of investment value: just 30 per cent of venture-backed companies tackle big problems and these have historically delivered 51 per cent higher returns compared to their peers.
BNVT Capital was founded by Managing Partners Rory Mounsey-Heysham (ex-Gates Foundation), Chris Corbishley (ex-Hedosophia), as well as Co-Founder Nasir Alsharif (Chairman of Sackville Capital). Sackville Capital is a London-based private markets investor and seeded BNVT Capital.
The funds' origins stemmed from Rory observing the outsized returns Bill Gates was generating from investing in solutions to global problems, and then Chris witnessing the same pattern play out in his own portfolio at Hedosophia.
The fund has already invested in 11 companies across Europe and the US, including Swap Commerce https://www.swap-commerce.com/ (UK), Cloover (Germany), and Dawnguard (Netherlands), co-investing alongside global firms such as TPG, Iconiq, Lowercarbon, and QED.
Rory Mounsey-Heysham, managing partner at BNVT Capital, said:
“LPs and entrepreneurs are crying out for investors who see the world’s biggest challenges not as a moral quandary, but as vast untapped markets. A big problem is simply a big market waiting to be served.”
Nasir Alsharif, co-founder of BNVT, added:
“This is truly a differentiated investment thesis - backed up by extraordinarily real-world data. Myself, and Sackville Capital, were excited by the countercyclical nature of the thesis - creating outsized returns from solving the biggest problems.”
Chris Corbishley, managing partner at BNVT Capital, said:
“Investors have missed a striking pattern in their own data. For too long, investors have been backing fads, not needs - distracted by incremental technologies making life marginally faster, cheaper, or easier.
Venture capital is about swinging for the fences—backing solutions that can reshape society for the better. That is what Benevolent Disruption is about.”
The fund’s thesis has garnered support from leading entrepreneurs and investors, including founders and leaders from Shopify, Google, Octopus Energy, and Remitly, as well as institutional backing from Starwood Capital, Investcorp, TPG, and other prominent investors.
As part of the announcement, BNVT Capital is launching the Benevolent Disruption platform and community.
BNVT Capital plans to expand its portfolio to 25–30 companies globally in the coming 2 years, continuing to prove that solving the world’s biggest problems provides one of the most lucrative opportunities in venture investing.
Lead image: Chris Corbishley and Rory Mounsey Heysham. Photo: uncredited.
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