cooperatives

One thing I find lacking in the cooperative economy is more effective funding mechanisms compared with the amount of funding opportunities and accelerators available to capitalist companies.

In many countries, traditional funding systems for coops are broken, and cooperatives often miss out on access to risk capital, which is also crucial to innovate and grow imo.

There have been experiments, like revenue-based financing and models from VCs such as Indie.vc (which no longer exists), that explored alternatives but non of these experiences, afaik, has gained widespread recognition and use yet.

I should probably write about it one day.