Business models do not fund themselves. Every model in the Business Model Library was shaped, often distorted, by the capital structure behind it. The terms investors set at the outset determine what the model must become.

This library maps the instruments: how each one works, what it expects in return, and what kind of organization it is suited for. Venture capital and grants are the ones most people know. But the range of available capital is much wider than that, and matching the right instrument to the right model, at the right stage, is one of the most consequential decisions any organization makes. The combination of business model and capital structure is where the real design happens.