At ramn, our investment philosophy starts with a simple belief: the world doesn’t need more growth for its own sake – it needs resilience. We invest in companies that the society genuinely benefits from as ecological, economic, and social pressures converge.
We look past trends and buzzwords and focus instead on what is structurally necessary in a time of overlapping crises. That means businesses grounded in physical reality, built to operate within planetary limits, and designed to endure rather than extract. Our goal is to back founders who are solving real problems – quietly, thoughtfully, and with a long-term view – and help build companies that will increasingly matter as conditions change.
"You cannot have infinite growth and ecological stability. You cannot extract endlessly and reach net-zero. The equation is impossible. The companies designed for Earth's actual mathematics outperform those denying it." - Stefan Nilsson
Even if optimism is tempting, reality demands honesty. Global warming is no longer a future risk; it is a present condition. The cost of extreme weather events is accelerating at a pace that directly threatens the foundations of the financial system—most notably the insurance sector. When assets are exposed to uninsurable risks, they cease to be financeable under normal market conditions.
At the same time, Europe is becoming more isolated, facing energy and resource constraints without a coherent long-term direction. Germany, UK and France once the locomotives of the European economy, are struggling. Geopolitical tensions are rising, wars are no longer distant, and relationships with the US, China and the Global South are increasingly fragile.
In times like these, investing can—and must—be more than capital allocation. It is an opportunity to reduce real risk, create long-term value, and contribute to societal resilience and living ecosystems. Success will depend on systems understanding, cultural integrity, and the courage to prioritise meaning, responsibility and reality over short-term narratives.
We refuse to join the sustainability hype, the greenwashing trend, or the blind belief in endless growth. Buzzwords like sustainability, carbon reduction, green growth, or AI will save us all are not for us.
Our ecosystems, societies, economies and institutions are under visible strain. This is no longer an abstract debate hidden in specialist reports—it is evident in real indicators, lived experience, and mounting systemic shocks. We cannot continue to assume that the future will deliver an endless growth economy where every buy-and-build case succeeds by default.
Investing in people and relations
Ramn believes in entrepreneurs and founders. We invest in people who have built companies that matter—families and founders who have established strong customer relationships, a stable base of recurring or repeat revenues, and solutions that create value for society and our planet.
We take inspiration from their curiosity and their skill of transforming this interest and passion into valuable insights and services. Much of the innovation in this field has grown not from short-term profit motives, but from a desire to contribute and to solve real problems. Over time, their companies have become essential. The future potential is great if co-evolved with respect and understanding of how to run small and midsized companies.
We believe that founders who build with care and purpose are the ones best equipped to navigate in an increasingly complex uncertain world – and that their way of building deserves to shape what comes next.
The management team at ramn has made this journey themselves and understands what it means to navigate a generational transition, the need for investment to manage an existential technology shift, and the ambition to expand into new markets. We stand alongside them and know how to navigate these challenges.
By applying our team’s skill sets—such as circularity, as-a-service business models, SaaS transformation, regulatory navigation, and hands-on support throughout a sound M&A journey—we enable our entrepreneurs to thrive, evolve, and expand their impact and footprint.
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ramn is institutionally rooted in the values and critical frameworks of the Korp Foundation for Arts and Science. While operating within the corporate and investment landscape, ramn does not emerge in isolation from cultural inquiry, it is informed by it. The Foundation functions as a laboratory for questioning dominant systems [economic, ecological, social] through artistic and scientific research and interdisciplinary thinking. ramn translates this critical intelligence into action, investing in and supporting ventures that emerge from, contribute to, or resonate with the ecosystems and outcomes cultivated by the Foundation.
This relationship is organic rather than symbolic, shared trusteeship, aligned principles, and ongoing exchange ensure coherence without conflation. Art and institutional research do not provide answers, they generate the conditions for better questions. ramn listens carefully to those questions.
Where Korp Foundation operates in the realm of inquiry, ramn operates in the realm of consequence.
The Foundation’s practice of critical, non-instrumental, thought, inherently, a-political yet unavoidably political, informs ramn’s approach to capital, decision-making, and long-term value creation.
ramn does not aestheticise investment, nor does it instrumentalise art. Instead, it acknowledges that contemporary artistic and scientific thinking sharpens perception, reveals blind spots, and exposes the assumptions embedded in extractive economic models. By grounding its corporate activity in these institutional values, ramn positions capital as a responsive tool rather than a governing force, one capable of engaging planetary reality with responsibility, foresight, and systemic awareness. In this alignment, inquiry precedes action, and finance becomes a medium for transformation rather than an end in itself.