Ellinor Schweyer of FASE on Social Venture Capital, how to attract impact finance and social entrepreneur success stories

"The relationship between entrepreneurs and investors is like a marriage. You really have to be certain that on the human side of things you are also aligned". In the world of impact finance it’s easy to focus a lot of attention on the myriad challenges: How to source and support the most impactful enterprises; how to find like-minded investors with skillsets aligned to the entrepreneur business; how to design innovative, smart and patient capital models; how to assess the impact of enterprises; how to help enterprise growth and valuation in parallel with impact; etc..... But how often do we also step back to celebrate the impact of social enterprises that are going from strength to strength as a result? Ellinor Schweyer, Co-Founder and MD of Munich based impact finance advisors FASE, which was born out of the original social entrepreneurship funding organisation Ashoka, tells of their success stories ranging from a triple-win solution to detecting breast cancer, to insuring the health of previously uninsurable field workers in developing nations, and making civic sports clubs sustainable to reliably provide a priceless framework that so many teenagers benefit from. Ellinor also delves deep into the best approaches to bootstrapping a social enterprise to be sure of attracting impact funding- and on the importance of choosing wisely when it comes to committing to the right investor 'marriage'. As well as her thoughts on: - The corporate saturation that led her to jump into impact and careers advice for those looking to switch to impact finance - Impact finance vs VC start up failure rates - The challenges thrown up by the positive reality of Impact investing becoming trendy and attracting an increase in venture funds - Using Ashoka Impact metrics to measure Impact - The FASE approach to structuring debt, mezzanine financing, social bonds and impact ROI - How to stay healthy in an age of climate anxiety "Impact is not equally defined and often in impact investments you still see that the brain rules over the heart" https://fa-se.de/en/ https://www.ashoka.org/ https://www.discovering-hands.de/international/page-international https://www.elucid.social/ https://klubtalent.org/ #SocialVentureCapital #matchmaking #impactsuccessstories #impactfinance #ashoka #SocialEntrepreneurs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.