Analysis

October 15, 2021

Tech investors should start backing worker-owned co-operatives

Worker-owned co-operatives are some of the most resilient businesses in the startup world, so why don’t investors back them?


Tim Smith

7 min read

Richard Bartlett, Loomio cofounder

There is a new class of highly resilient, tech-powered companies that are emerging with a different model from the norm.

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worker owned coops
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Worked owned coops
Christian Stein (left) and Michael Aring of Riverside Acceleration Capital
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Worker owned cooperatives
Cansu Deniz Bayrak
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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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