Today
is a special day for #impactinvesting world champion the Netherlands.
Dutch #Bcorp @WakawakaLight is the first European social
enterprise to list at our SME stock exchange NPEX.
Wakawaka
offers solar lightning & powerbanks in both developed, emerging &
developing markets such as offgrid rural Africa & refugee camps.
Wakawaka can claim to contribute to 14
of the 17 UN's Sustainable Development Goals
and especially #SDG7,
#SDG4, #SDG3 & #SDG13.
An
impact Investments Fundraising Journey
Wakawaka
started it's inclusive fundraising via Kickstarter,
then worked with Dutch platform' Symbid,
did a barter deal, then a convertible loan via
Oneplanetcrowd,
100% crowdfunding for
impact.
And today it is listing at our SME
stock exchange NPEX.
NPEX which already offers interesting impact investment
opportunities, expects to raise 20Mio
Euro
in the coming quarter, having raised 55Mio Euro since it's launch.
This
is the new how-to for social enterprises looking for financing:
#inclusive
#impactinvesting
The
Netherlands is world champion #impactinvesting because
institutional investors, banks & insurers, are really serious
about CSR, SRI, ESG & Thematic investing and have been for
decades. Dutch financials are enthusiastic members of the exclusive
Global Impact Investing Network theGIIN.org and can take
credit for the majority of impact investments gathered for their
annual survey of large -10Mio+ US$ AuM- impact investors. Source:
VBDO (NLSIF) survey 2016*.
Parallel
to big finance's exclusive impact investing The Netherlands
has a fast growing** #inclusive impact investing industry
using regulated crowdfunding platforms as a way to steer money
towards New Capitalism's** companies. The
new licence to operate is ''offering solutions to societal
challenges''.
TheGIIN
referred to online crowdfunding, especially in the Netherlands, as an
important channel for the Future
of Impact Investing
comparing it to situation in the US
''which mainly draws small circles of accredited angel investors''
according to Luni Libes investorflow.org
Luni is really interested in the Dutch crowdfunding market and has
very interesting impact investees ….
Luni
also collects data on impact investors and their contribution to the
UN's Sustainable Development Goals and
this it what it looks like:
Now
compare this to the SDG contribution of Dutch NN IM, winner of the
''best impact investment product'' in 2017.
With
the Democratization of Finance through eg robo advisors &
crowdfunding platforms, new investors such as Women &
Millennials entering the market and a rapid developing insight
in Total Return on investment i.e. +
positive & negative impact, I know where the money is going to
go.
You see it too?
Alcanne
Houtzaager
**68%+
in 1Q2018 compared to 2017. Total market in 2017 223 Mio E. &
+31%.
Guestimate
of direct for impact investments 25%, but access to capital for start
ups & SME's ia always an impact investment since it is the most
important creator of jobs. #work.
***
Beinhocker & Hanauer,
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/long-term-capitalism/redefining-capitalism
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