Redemptive Labs

Redemptive Labs are 40-hour curated events where like-minded founders and mentors explore what it looks like to build a redemptive venture. The Redemptive Lab experience is designed for founders’ specific needs and opportunities — generating experience-based insights and discussions about how to apply the Praxis Redemptive Frame to company strategy (what we build), operations (how we build), and our own leadership (why we build). Founders will share vision presentations and get 1:1 mentoring from experienced venture builders. After the Lab, founders will leave with fresh ideas, practical tools, new relationships, and critical feedback from peers and mentors.

Redemptive Labs are designed by Praxis Labs and hosted locally by the Denver Redemptive Labs Team who seeks to actively cultivate a venture-building ecosystem in the broader metro area.


Interest

We are looking to build an active community of venture builders with a redemptive imagination in our city. Each Redemptive Lab needs a mix of founders, mentors, funders, and team members (who help host the experience). So whether you are a founder who might want to go through a Redemptive Lab, a funder interested in supporting, an experienced venture builder interested in mentoring, or a builder interested in helping put on the Lab, we’d love to hear from you via the interest form below.

We look for FOUNDERS who are leading ventures/organizations that are:

  • Early-stage, ideally within first 5 years of operations, or on the cusp of a major transition

  • Post-hunch, actively pursuing traction and growth in what they are building

  • Designing an innovative solution in their sector

  • Aiming to pursue their mission through a scalable model and redemptive approach

  • Businesses OR Nonprofits — there are two different types of Labs that serve either businesses or nonprofits

Ideal FOUNDERS are serious Christians who are:

  • Aiming to embody the gospel through a redemptive venture

  • Humble and teachable, with a passion for excellence

  • Seeking an accountable community to grow together in faith and supporting one another’s ventures

  • Lead decision makers of their venture and (ideally) working full-time on the venture

We look for MENTORS who have:

  • Experience in various aspects of start-up through early-stage venture  building: leadership, operations, strategy, marketing/sales, scaling, funding, etc.

  • An integrated view of how their faith shapes their work, and vice versa

  • A desire to share the wisdom they’ve gained with founders who are earlier in their entrepreneurial journey

We’d love to connect with you if:

  • you are interested in learning more about participating as a Founder or Mentor in a lab

  • you would like to nominate someone else as a possible Founder or Mentor for a lab

  • you have are curious to learn more about Redemptive Labs and these roles

Upcoming Events


We are planning our next Redemptive Business Lab for Fall 2025 and are asessing community interest for a Redemptive Nonprofit Lab at a future date. If you are interested in hearing about either opportunity as a business/nonprofit Founder or as a potential Mentor, please reach out via the interest form below!

Applications will be live late summer 2025.

Past Labs


Labs Team Contact Info

Tim Buttrill

President @ Common Forge Ventures

513-646-2217

tim.buttrill@gmail.com

Brian Gray

VP of Formation @ Denver Institute

720-937-9518

brian.gray@denverinstitute.org