Our social impact
We preserve today’s businesses to ensure a future for tomorrow’s Italy — with responsibility, vision, and courage.In Italy, hundreds of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) close down every day due to the lack of someone who can ensure their continuity.
When this happens, we lose more than just a business — we lose skills, jobs, and the economic network they generate within local communities.
Perpethua was born with a clear mission: to preserve the vital fabric of Italian SMEs by guiding them through paths of continuity and growth — even when there’s no successor in place.
We are a Benefit Corporation
As a Benefit Corporation, a specific business model that integrates public benefit into profit goals, we are committed to operating responsibly, sustainably, and transparently with respect to people, communities, and local regions.
In practice, we pursue the following goals:
We promote business continuity operations within Italian SMEs, aiming to preserve jobs, expertise, and local economic value.
We facilitate generational transitions, including access to patient capital for entrepreneurs who want to secure a future for their company.
We support innovation and sustainability practices to help improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the companies we work with.
We collaborate with universities, foundations, and public institutions to amplify the impact of our work and build an ecosystem of shared value.
We actively monitor the social and economic impact of our activities, aiming to generate measurable benefits and communicate results transparently to all stakeholders.
We foster youth entrepreneurship by sharing authentic, inspiring business stories and by organising training events and awareness programs — sparking a new generation of conscious, ambitious entrepreneurs.
How we aim to create impact
Our work is structured along three main pathways, through which we aim to generate concrete, lasting impact on the real economy, people, and local communities.impatto concreto e duraturo sull’economia reale, sulle persone e sul territorio.
We promote M&A operations as a strategic tool to ensure business continuity for Italian SMEs during transitional moments, such as generational handovers. Every deal we support aims to prevent closures and instead foster evolution.
In a country rich with industrial districts and excellence-driven supply chains, we also work to strengthen local production ecosystems by encouraging collaboration among complementary businesses by size, sector, or region.
This allows us to enable sustainable growth while preserving jobs, skills, and economic value within local areas.
We believe that no business can face the challenges of transformation and growth alone. That’s why we’re building an ecosystem of trusted partners, including professional firms, regional associations, foundations, and startups to provide SMEs with practical solutions that are often otherwise out of reach.
Through this network, we offer tools for adopting enabling technologies (like CRMs, ERP systems, cloud platforms, automation, and data analytics) as well as support with strategic and operational processes.We take a tailored, sustainable, and value-oriented approach, helping businesses improve efficiency, resilience, and profitability. Our goal is to contribute to a strong, interconnected ecosystem that serves Italian SMEs.
We look to the future by promoting a new generation of entrepreneurs who are aware, responsible, and capable of building long-term-oriented businesses.
Through training events, editorial content, direct testimonials, and initiatives in schools and universities, we promote a culture of entrepreneurship that puts social value at the heart of business and its ability to create positive impact.
Specifically, we encourage youth entrepreneurship by connecting generations and giving access to inspirational stories — helping to regenerate the country’s entrepreneurial fabric.
Our commitment
Our operational model is based on one key principle: placing collective interest at the core. Recognising that every deal is not just a financial investment, but an opportunity to create lasting social value.
We operate with the awareness that business success is not measured only financially, but also by the positive impact it brings to local communities and territories. That’s why every project we support aims to foster sustainable development, where strong economic performance and social benefit reinforce each other over time.
We are deeply convinced that Italian enterprises represent a cultural and economic asset of immeasurable value, a heritage to protect and promote. Their history, traditions, craftsmanship, and innovation form a wealth that must be preserved for future generations.
Want to contribute?
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If you share our mission and offer services or solutions to help SMEs grow sustainably, we’re always open to new partners and ideas.
Write to us, let’s build lasting impact together.