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The Fundraising Landscape for Impact-Entrepreneurs – with Steve Butterworth, CEO, Neighbourly
With the pandemic changing the nature of fundraising for many impact entrepreneurs, we will be exploring market sentiment, new funding opportunities and how to better prepare for online fundraising, by speaking to members of our community with direct experience of this over the last 12 months. We caught up with Steve Butterworth, CEO, Neighbourly, who has just closed out a £3m Series A funding round, to get his views, as an impact entrepreneur who has raised funds in these difficult times.
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The Fundraising Landscape for Impact-Entrepreneurs – with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder & CEO, Plan A
With the pandemic changing the nature of fundraising for many impact entrepreneurs, we will be exploring market sentiment, new funding opportunities and how to better prepare for online fundraising, by speaking to members of our community with direct experience of this over the last 12 months. MB100 winner, Lubomila Jordanova, who began this year successfully raising $3M from SoftBank, Demeter, and coparion to expand PlanA's carbon accounting and ESG platform, answers our questions.
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The Fundraising Landscape for Impact-Entrepreneurs – with Diane Janknegt, Founder, Wizenoze
With the pandemic changing the nature of fundraising for many impact entrepreneurs, we will be exploring market sentiment, new funding opportunities and how to better prepare for online fundraising, by speaking to members of our community with direct experience of this over the last 12 months. Diane Janknegt is the Founder of Wizenoze, an EdTech platform which has grown rapidly as the pandemic caused 1.5 billion students to learn from home around the world. Here, she sets out the five golden rules to remember when searching for a long-term investor.
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The Fundraising Landscape for Impact-Entrepreneurs – with Hans van Houwelingen, Founder & Managing Partner, Urban Impact Ventures
With the pandemic changing the nature of fundraising for many impact entrepreneurs, we will be exploring market sentiment, new funding opportunities and how to better prepare for online fundraising, by speaking to members of our community with direct experience of this over the last 12 months. Hans van Houwelingen, Founder and Managing Partner of Urban Impact Ventures, gives his outlook on the current fundraising landscape for impact entrepreneurs, and shares advice on how to use alternate funding routes and limited resources to raise capital.
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The Impact Measurement Gap – with Darshita Gillies, Founder & CEO, Maanch
With businesses putting an increasing focus on purpose and social impact, we will be looking at the current challenges in measurement and reporting of impact data, and getting expert views on how different types of organisations can improve their data collection to strengthen their business and help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Alex Stephany

Alex Stephany is the Founder & CEO of Beam, the world’s first platform to crowdfund job training for homeless people…

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Alexander Fahie

Ethical Angel was founded by Alexander Fahie as a passion project while he was working as an investment manager. He…

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Anitha Beberg

Anitha Beberg is the Founder and CEO of Seva Exchange, which works with organizations supporting blockchain for social impact and…

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Ayobami Abiodun

Ayobami Abiodun Ogunnubi is a Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, Social Entrepreneur and a Poet. She’s passionate about creating a wealthy,…

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Dickson Ayuka

Dickson Ayuka is the Co-Founder and CEO of UjuziKilimo Solutions, an Agri-technology company empowering farmers to sustainably increase the farm…

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Frida Polli

Frida Polli, PhD, MBA is an award-winning Harvard and MIT trained neuroscientist turned entrepreneur. She is the Co-Founder and CEO…

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George Akilimali

George Akilimali is a social entrepreneur and technology enthusiast. He is the founder and CEO of Smartcore, a social enterprise,…

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Hana Rado

An accomplished social business entrepreneur, liberal feminist and motivational speaker, Hana dedicates her life to promoting both gender balance worldwide…

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Joseph Thompson

Joseph Thompson is the Co-Founder and CEO of AID:Tech, a company that provides digital identity solutions. Under his leadership, the…

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Kai Eberhardt

Kai Eberhardt is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oviva, a digital health company focusing on treating diet-related, chronic diseases. Kai…

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Kate Brandt

Kate Brandt serves as Google’s Chief Sustainability Officer and leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, products and supply chains.  In…

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Liz Powers

Liz Powers is the Co-Founder and Chief Happiness Spreader at ArtLifting, a business that empowers artists impacted by homelessness and…

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Nabeel Siddiqui

Nabeel Siddiqui is a civil engineer by profession working on eliminating the global housing problem through better use of technology…

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Niklas Van Neyghem

Niklas Van Neygham is a Co-Founder of the social startup Alaya. After completing his studies in engineering, he travelled with…

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Raj Somasundaram

Raj is the Co-Founder and CEO of AquaConnect, a pioneering deep learning/AI startup that works with shrimp and fish aquaculture…

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Shiraz Jessa

Shiraz Jessa is the Founder and CEO of Bibimoney, a London-based Fintech company focusing on financial inclusion in emerging markets….

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Tessa Clarke

After a 15 year corporate career, Tessa Clarke co-founded OLIO along with Saasha Celestial-One, the world’s only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing…

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Rod Banner

Rod Banner is forward-thinking entrepreneur and CEO of 3LA.com – a consulting firm focused on optimising proposition architecture, brand &…

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Tânia Cosentino

Tania Cosentino has been Microsoft Brazil General Manager since January 2019 and has more than 30 years of professional experience….

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Dustin Jefferson S. Onghanseng

Dustin believes that everyone needs to have technology that empowers them to create healthier living and working environments. From this…

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Ashish Gadnis

Ashish Gadnis is the Co-Founder and CEO of BanQu, which was recently named to the TIME Magazine 2019 Innovations List. …

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Arash Tayebi

Arash Tayebi is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Kara Technologies, a tech start-up based in Auckland, New Zealand. Arash has a…

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Steve Butterworth

Steve is committed to helping redefine the role of business in building long term sustainable, happy and healthy communities. Neighbourly…

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Bob Lord

Bob is Senior Vice President, Cognitive Applications, Blockchain, and Ecosystems at IBM, where he is responsible for infusing emerging and…

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Darshita Gillies

Listed among the 100 Most Influential in UK-India Relations, Darshita is Founder and CEO of Maanch – a multi-award winning…

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Robin Tombs

Robin is a serial tech entrepreneur and investor. He is Co-Founder and CEO of Yoti, the digital identity app, with…

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Jillian Kowalchuk

Jillian Kowalchuk, BA, MSc is an award-winning entrepreneur and the Founder and CEO of Safe & The City, using technology…

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Zak Kaufman

Zak Kaufman is Co-Founder and CEO of Vera Solutions, an award-winning social enterprise and Certified B Corporation using cloud and…

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Rogerio Cavalcante

Rogerio is umgrauemeio’s Founder and CEO – The first Brazilian startup with a solution that mitigates CO2 emissions from wildfires…

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Bruno Mahfuz

Bruno Mahfuz, was elected in 2018 as one of the 35 main innovators under 35 in Latin America by the…

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Jo Aggarwal

Jo is the Founder and CEO of Wysa, a global leader in conversational AI for behavioral health. Wysa has helped…

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Abeer Abu Ghaith

Abeer is a Palestinian technology entrepreneur, and social activist, and is celebrated as Palestine’s first female high-tech entrepreneur. She is…

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Anna Zhenchuk

Dr. Anna Zhenchuk, Managing Director of BioAnalyt, joined the team in 2012 to develop new products and implement go-to-market in…

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Antonio Henrique Dianin

Antonio Dianin is Founder of the Project Company. His company produced the R1T1 robot, considered to be the best robot…

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Eric Kim

Eric Kim is Co-Founder and CEO at Dot Inc. Since 2015, Dot has reinvented accessibility for the visually impaired with…

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Gemma McCall

Gemma McCall is the Co-Founder and CEO of Culture Shift, an impact software development business founded in 2018. She carved…

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Harit Soni

Harit is the Founder of Ecolibrium – a global leader in providing solutions to deliver ‘Sustainable Prosperity’ for Large Enterprises….

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Hira Rizvi

Hira Batool Rizvi is the Co-Founder and CEO of SheKab. A Fulbright scholar, an Acumen Fellow, and a graduate of…

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Mauricio Meza

Mauricio Meza is the Co-Founder and CEO of Komodo Openlab, makers of Tecla, an assistive device that enables access to…

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Michelle Egger

Michelle is the Co-Founder and CEO of Biomilq, a company she co-founded with Leila Strickland. As a passionate food scientist,…

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Olivier Reinaud

Olivier Reinaud is a French entrepreneur. At 23, he is the Co-Founder and Head of Carbon Credits at NetZero, an…

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Steve Oldham

Steve Oldham is CEO of Carbon Engineering, recruiting top talent to join the team, partnering with innovative companies worldwide, and…

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Alexis Normand

Alexis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Greenly, a company that automates footprint tracking for individuals and SMEs enriching every…

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Kentaro Kawamori

Kentaro is Co-Founder and CEO of Persefoni, a ClimateTech SaaS company that works with companies and financial institutions to account…

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Pascal Christiaens

Pascal is a social entrepreneur and startup strategist with significant experience from both sides of the Atlantic. He was named…

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Kidus Asfaw

Kidus is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kubik – an environmental tech company turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-carbon, low-cost…

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Ali Shabbar

Ali is the CEO of DeafTawk, looking after business development. In his 14 year career, he has worked with both…

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Lubomila Jordanova

Lubomila is the Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A, a software provider offering an end-to-end platform that uses machine learning…

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Manu Chopra

Manu is working on tackling extreme poverty by providing dignified digital work to rural Indians. He’s currently the Co-Founder and…

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Markus Gilles

With a background in both the NGO and tech sector, Markus took a break from startup life after exiting his…

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Emanuel Heisenberg

Emanuel is Founder and CEO of ecoworks, a start-up that automates and industrialises renovation to decarbonise the building stock at…

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Eleanor Harry

Eleanor is the Founder and CEO of HACE: Data Changing Child Labour. She has worked on child labour for over…

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Srinivas V Bandlamuri

Shrinivas is Founder, CEO and Director at Aspartika Biotech, who have developed a sustainable model for creating a zero-waste discharge…

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Abdelrazek Aly

Abdelrazek is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bonocle – a startup aimed at improving the lives of the blind community…

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Shashank Samala

Shashank is the CEO at Heirloom, with a mission to removing 1 billion tons of CO2 from the air by…

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Alexander Gunkel

Alexander is a serial entrepreneur using space technology for social and environmental good. Since 2013 he co-founded three space tech…

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Beyond a meaningful recognition for companies advancing the SDGs, the MB100 programme provides invaluable opportunities for learning, mentorship, and networking….

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Abe Tarapani

Abe Tarapani is the CEO of Atlas AI, a geospatial AI startup that helps organisations anticipate changing societal conditions to…

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Ajaita Shah

Ajaita Shah is the Founder & CEO of Frontier Markets, India’s premiere rural-assisted social commerce platform. With over 18 years…

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Andrew Bownds

Plastic is a very visual problem in Uganda being burnt on roadsides and dumped in waterways. Passionate about creating green…

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Andrew Shakman

Andrew Shakman is Co-Founder & CEO of Leanpath, a certified B-Corp with a mission to make food waste prevention and…

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Anna Wright

Anna Wright is the Founder & CEO of BindiMaps, Australia’s leading accessible wayfinding app. She is a recognised leader in…

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Anthony Virapin

Anthony Virapin has over 15+ years’ experience of marketing, tech evangelism, business development and people management. He lead’s Microsoft’s Entrepreneurship…

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Valerio Magliulo

Valerio is the Co-Founder & CEO of Abatable, a carbon procurement and intelligence platform based in London. Abatable helps companies…

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Gary Bennett

Gary has over 30 years of contact centre experience, 18 of these in Africa, for both outsourced and client environments….

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Fajar Kelana

Fajar is Co-Founder & COO of Banoo which aims to help improve people’s food resilience by providing affordable technology that…

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Susan Hunt Stevens

Susan Hunt Stevens is the Founder & President of WeSpire, an award-winning employee experience technology platform focused on engaging people…

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Yesika Aguilera

Yesika Aguilera is the Co-Founder of Tespack, an innovative smart energy technology company specialising in mobile energy solutions utilised by…

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Iva Gumnishka

Iva Gumnishka is the Founder of Humans in the Loop, a social enterprise which provides remote digital work to conflict-affected…

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Gesa Biermann

Dr. Gesa Biermann is the Co-Founder & CEO of Pina Earth, a climate tech startup based in Germany and backed…