What drives us

About

Turning technological and sustainability shifts into durable businesses and capabilities.

Net Positive Labs is an execution-first innovation and venture studio founded in 2021. We work with corporations, founders, investors and public institutions to build innovation capabilities and commercially strong businesses and services that strengthen the systems around them.

Our work focuses on competitive advantage, resilience, cost efficiency and long-term value creation — often at the intersection of technological change, data intelligence and sustainability transitions. Rather than approaching sustainability as a compliance exercise, we focus on building businesses that are structurally stronger, more adaptive and better prepared for the shifts shaping the global economy.

Over the past years we have worked with organisations across Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, supporting a wide range of clients from corporations, SMEs, scale-ups and public institutions including organisations such as Valencia Innovation Capital, Saudi Industrial Development Fund, Nacional de Monte de Piedad, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum, while helping design and launch new ventures and initiatives in multiple industries.

Many of us had spent years working across venture building, corporate innovation and strategy. Across those roles we kept seeing the same pattern: organisations investing heavily in innovation programmes, transformation strategies, new technologies, and sustainability commitments — but too often the outcome remained abstract. Reports. Frameworks. Pilot projects that rarely turned into businesses operating in the real economy.

We believed something different was needed. So we stepped away from conventional roles to focus on building and supporting initiatives much more flexible and hands-on: acceleration programs, inhouse capabilities, and even entire new ventures, platforms and technology solutions designed to operate in the market and create measurable impact.

Conviction Matters More Than Cycles 

When Net Positive Labs was founded, the broader environment appeared aligned with our commercially minded sustainability ambitions. Climate tech was booming. Sustainability commitments were multiplying. Capital was flowing. The language of transformation was everywhere. It felt like the beginning of a systemic shift.

But the environment changed quickly. Supply chain disruptions. Inflationary pressures. Geopolitical instability. Deglobalisation. Capital tightening. Across many industries, sustainability moved from boardroom priority to conditional ambition. For us, that shift reinforced something important. Real transformation does not depend on favourable cycles. It depends on organisations capable of understanding technological change, interpreting new signals and building durable businesses around them.

That is where we focus our work.

Custom Project

What's Included:
Dedicated designer and direct Slack access
Custom development or no-code (limits apply)
Milestone-based delivery and clear deliverables
Brand & storytelling strategy

$20,000

per projects

Experience Across Ventures, Corporates and Institutions

Members of the team have previously built or held leadership roles in ventures and scale-ups such as:
We have also led or supported innovation and venture programmes for organisations including:
And collaborate with organisations shaping sustainability frameworks and innovation ecosystems such as:
Through this work we have supported organisations across multiple stages of innovation — from designing new ventures and accelerating early-stage initiatives to strengthening existing businesses.

Get to know the people behind the craft.

Our team includes venture builders, operators, technologists and sustainability specialists who share a conviction: innovation should lead to tangible outcomes. Projects are led end-to-end by experienced operators and venture builders, supported by specialists from a broader international network assembled depending on the challenge, sector and stage. This allows us to remain senior-led, lean and globally connected — combining a core team with a wider network of venture builders, technologists and industry experts across Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.

Meet some of our Team
Steven Rogers
Sr. Venture Builder
Juliana Mejia
Business Analyst
Gustavo Vinacua
CEO
Thomas de Bresser
Design Thinking Expert
Frank van Beuzekom
COO
Adam Mitchell Heggs
CSO
Ezequiel Labarthe
Project Lead
Sebastian Kaufmann
Portfolio Venture CEO
Victoria Marie Azar
Communications & Digital Intern
Agustin Ortiz
Project Lead
Chasan Mochament
CxO & Venture Lead
Viktoria Trosien
Smart City Expert
Aditya Bandi
Product Manager
Francisco Rey Petit
Sr. Venture Builder
Madhu Sudhan
Full Stack / UX & UI
Mathew Niania
Front End Developer
Hiba Saif Altamimi
Research Fellow
Yoko Kojima
ESG Expert & Investor
Jürgen Kopelke
HeathTech & Change Management
Brian Matuszewski
Circular Initiatives
Arnie Sriskandarajah
Venture Partner
Mahmoud Badawy
Digital Venture CxO
Sarah Finegan
Investment Advisor
Mohammed Alareefi
Venture Builder
Concepcion Galdon
Venture Partner
Alexandra Perez
Venture Partner
Nicolás G. Gaggiolo
Digital Marketing Expert
Tamara Eroshkina
Senior Venture Builder
Christobal Sapena
Research Analyst
Andreas Beavor
Venture Partner
Steven Rogers
Sr. Venture Builder
Juliana Mejia
Business Analyst
Gustavo Vinacua
CEO
Thomas de Bresser
Design Thinking Expert
Frank van Beuzekom
COO
Adam Mitchell Heggs
CSO
Ezequiel Labarthe
Project Lead
Sebastian Kaufmann
Portfolio Venture CEO
Victoria Marie Azar
Communications & Digital Intern
Agustin Ortiz
Project Lead
Chasan Mochament
CxO & Venture Lead
Viktoria Trosien
Smart City Expert
Aditya Bandi
Product Manager
Francisco Rey Petit
Sr. Venture Builder
Madhu Sudhan
Full Stack / UX & UI
Mathew Niania
Front End Developer
Hiba Saif Altamimi
Research Fellow
Yoko Kojima
ESG Expert & Investor
Jürgen Kopelke
HeathTech & Change Management
Brian Matuszewski
Circular Initiatives
Arnie Sriskandarajah
Venture Partner
Mahmoud Badawy
Digital Venture CxO
Sarah Finegan
Investment Advisor
Mohammed Alareefi
Venture Builder
Concepcion Galdon
Venture Partner
Alexandra Perez
Venture Partner
Nicolás G. Gaggiolo
Growth & Digital Marketing Expert
Tamara Eroshkina
Senior Venture Builder
Christobal Sapena
Research Analyst
Andreas Beavor
Venture Partner

From Ideas to
Real Initiatives

Strengthening innovation capability

We help organisations develop the internal structures, processes and leadership required to identify opportunities, test ideas and launch initiatives independently.

Building new ventures and solutions

We work with partners to identify emerging opportunity spaces, validate concepts and launch new businesses, products or platforms.

In both cases, the objective is the same:

Not strategy documents or pilot projects — but initiatives that operate in the real economy.

Lets meet and get started

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