We began Praxis because we believed it was vital for Christians to address the major issues of our time—and we believe it more than ever.
Since 2018, Praxis has prototyped programs and content to explore how to do this more directly through ventures. We’ve activated redemptive imagination at the earliest stages of venture formation, led design sprints with Portfolio ventures after their Accelerator program, and supported funders in building redemptive capital allocation frameworks.
During that time, we’ve worked in close partnership with founders to start over a dozen ventures. Our three most recent Studio-launched startups address caregiving, sexual exploitation, and digital discipleship. Collectively, these ventures—two businesses and one nonprofit—have raised over $25M in outside capital, including one we dreamed up with an innovative foundation and recruited a Founder/CEO to lead. Most importantly, they are well underway to shifting the norms and narratives of their respective issues.
The Redemptive Imagination Studio is a design and innovation studio for redemptive entrepreneurship that aims to discover and articulate the major issues of our time and creatively respond with venture-building, community-forming, content-shaping activity. Our initial list of 34
Opportunities for Redemptive Imagination (ORIs) acts as the organizing scheme for the Studio. Our gatherings include the following:
ORI Forums are focused on a single ORI, inviting leaders to learn about active projects in the sector, articulate an ORI Thesis, generate new ideas for ventures and content, and activate collaboration in our community.
Discovery Sessions are for members of the Praxis community who have founded and built transformational businesses and nonprofits and are exploring new ideas that may shape their future vocation or venture. Each 3-day, 2-night agenda is curated around a set of talks intended to generate multi-disciplinary insight around what Christians should build in the world.
Design Sessions provide Portfolio Fellows, Studio EIRs, and other builders in the community with a 24-hour whiteboard sprint with Praxis Partners to help design their strategy for an inflection point in their work as they tackle one of the major issues of our time.
