Powering
Purpose-driven Innovation
There is a new model for doing business shaped and organized by a company's purpose, values and societal impact. Organizations understand that behavior, aligned with collective intention, is the path to success.
Elevating the Way
Business Does
Business
— Tony & Alex, Co-founders
Hi, we're Tony and Alex — we founded RampRate in 2000 on the premise of elevating the way business does business. We could take the same connections that allowed us to cut 24% of each IT budget we touched and use them to kick down the barriers for tech innovators. We could take the same business planning rigor that we used to guide Sony, McKinsey, Microsoft or Intel on entering new markets and use it to help impact-driven startups reach their potential.
So that's what we're doing today — we find the next unicorns and gatekeepers to impact that will not just earn millions yet better millions of lives. We grok their vision while putting them through bootcamp to be ready for life-changing opportunities. And then we kick down the barriers to their success by connecting them with our ecosystem and leveraging the trust we've built in the Fortune 1000 over 20-plus years to create opportunities few others can access.
The purpose driven economy is here. And its leaders, in one way or another, will be powered by RampRate.
"We build an Ecosystem of impact-preneurs and trailblazers powered by opportunities, resources, innovation and human spirit."
Core Values & Principles
In order to meaningfully live our company values with our clients and in terms of our services and products, we must be agile, efficient, and entrepreneurial.
We serve others — we provide the tools they need, and together we build their future and dreams.
We choose who we work with — we forge a bond through shared values with those who are innovative, inspiring, impact-focused change agents.
We deal in rationality and pragmatism — hope is not a strategy; anecdotes are not data; inputs are not impacts.
We dream big — rationality and audacity are not mutually exclusive. We partner with inspirational leaders and unravel the world's greatest challenges together.
We support execution — we not only recommend the course of action, but back our recommendations with the work required to implement them successfully.
We earn trust — we follow through on our commitments, and require our partners and anyone we vouch for to do likewise.
We overdeliver on our promises — we are resourceful and our effort is only bound by what benefits our client.
We support diversity, equity, and inclusion — for powerful change to happen, people with a variety of lived experiences come together to form creative and productive teams.
We are engines of transparency — we raise the bar on each ecosystem we touch by shining the light on greenwashing, corruption, and self-dealing.
We believe in the transformational power of technology and innovation — new impact-focused approaches in tech, health, and crypto should be embraced even if their adoption results in creative destruction.
Not all that is new is better — we believe in rigorous evaluation and audit of every new technology, tokenomics of new coins, and real health effects of every new therapy.
We embrace personalization — there are no good and bad products & suppliers, only good and bad fits to the situation.
Decentralized grassroots action — we are not paternalistic; we partner with the communities we serve to help them use the best decentralized tools to organize & lead.
Boldness — we believe in ourselves, the communities we create, and in making a difference together.
What We Do
Growth Strategy & Implementation
Accelerate growth strategy and implementation for earlier stage companies.
- Finding them
- Vetting them
- Optimizing
Boutique Business Planning
General purpose boutique business planning and consultancy.
Social Impact Consulting
Develop and incubate novel tech products in the impact space.
- Green routing, carbon counting & reporting
- Environmental impact assessment
- ESG and human rights
- Strategic sustainability
- Non-financial reporting & outcome measurement
IT Supply Chain Optimization
IT supply chain optimization with regard to CSR/ESG.
- Supply chain emissions (Scope III)
- Negotiating contracts & right-sizing
- Re-architect supply chains for carbon optimization
How We Do It
Deep Industry Expertise
Sector-leading knowledge across IT infrastructure, Web3, ESG, and impact investing — built over 25 years of active engagement.
Profound, Broad Network
A curated web of sector-leading experts activated on demand for each engagement.
- Emerging industries
- Tech
- Business administration
- Impact & measurement for CSR/ESG
- Project Management
- Primary research & business planning
Work Descriptions & Strategic Planning
Detailed scope-of-work documentation and multi-horizon strategic plans for every engagement — no vague deliverables.
Impact Narrative & Reporting
We create and measure impact narratives that resonate with investors, boards, and stakeholders.
- Investment ROI measurement
- Operational ROI measurement
Transact Deals
We execute agreements end-to-end — not just advise. Our principals close deals with skin in the game.
Manage Stakeholders
Ongoing relationship stewardship with all parties to ensure alignment, accountability, and delivery.
Why
Moral obligation to operate with a conscience
Awareness of changing landscape for business sustainability
Because it is our DNA
Tech creates an enabling environment for high-impact projects
High SROI
World-changing ideas need business builders
People who have world-changing ideas don't necessarily know how to build a business around them.
Lack of awareness of negative impacts of tech
Building the burning platform and building the bridge to get off it.
For Whom
Dreamers
The humans with the vision to better the world who want help to execute.
Universality of tech
We want to change the world for everyone.
Industries that need it most
Low-hanging fruit. The dirtiest industries.
Corporate managers
Budget savings. Adapting to ESG revolution and shifting financial demographics.
People who want to live their values at work
Let's Build Something Different
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