Our entrepreneurs’ fund will award stipends of €36,000 (€3,000 per month over 12 months) by different modes: raffle, community councils and experts panel. It’s open to anyone building a business, whatever their background. Germany’s start-up rate is 13.0 %, in the US it is 17.7 %,1,2 and all-women teams receive only ~1 % of VC:3 the bottleneck is access, not talent. The team has run Kultur- und Kreativpilot*innen since 2010 (480 alumni) and was responsible for platform engineering, product development, automation and chairing the board at Mein Grundeinkommen (~200,000 recurring donors).
We are raising €600,000 by mid-2027 from a few lead donors for cohort 1; a capped share of successful everypreneurs’ revenue flows back into the fund.
The potential is there. Access isn’t.
The GEM calls this a new all-time high.1 In the US it was 17.7 per cent in 2025, so just over a third higher.1,2
The venture capital figures come from EY’s analysis for 2025, which counts only startups whose founding team is known. In all, startups raised almost 8.4 billion euros in 2025.3,4
Applicationwith a project: an idea that isn’t a company yet, or a company that already exists
None of them is a preliminary stage or an exception to another. Which of them we use, and in what proportion, is what we’re deciding now.
“Founder’s salary”
Financing model
Innovation funds, impact investors and private individuals give everypreneurs its start capital, and (future) entrepreneurs pay small academy fees, which flow into knowledge. everypreneurs passes on money, network, knowledge, community and, optionally, research. everypreneurs and alumni receive a founder’s salary, network and knowledge. Their businesses pay a binding share back into the fund: the reverse generation contract.
Start capital for acceleration, visibility and impact. Private individuals give recurring micro-donations.
(Future) entrepreneurspay small academy fees
everypreneurs
Reverse generation contract
Binding pay-back makes the fund self-sustaining in the mid to long term.
“We are creating a self-sustaining entrepreneurial fund that, over time, will mainly be refilled by its successful and thriving community and alumni.”
Steven Strehl
Founder of everypreneurs
Katharina Schumacher
Strategy expert and senior executive
Sylvia Hustedt
Catalyst and connector
Christoph Backes
Catalyst and connector
Kristin Baumann
Data Visualization Developer
Our state hasn’t yet built the infrastructure that broad entrepreneurship urgently needs. But we can’t afford to keep waiting for it.
Our society wins when privilege and luck aren’t the only tickets to being able to afford risks and shape the world.
Steven Strehl
Founder and Managing Director of everypreneurs
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