Attracting Investment

Impact Seed was founded to fill an un-met need: A lack of deal flow for investors in Social Business startups. They are passionate about creating sustainable social impact and creating a working space for Social Businesses to be identified, supported and to thrive.

“Anyone who is trying to persuade me to invest in an enterprise needs to tell me about the social impact...A new company must consider social impact implications throughout its entire value chain.” (Richard Branson, 2016)

Integrating a social mission, fully, into a startup business model doesn’t only grab the attention of thought leading investors and gives the business a market edge, but most importantly, there’s also a world of good besides money to show as a measure of its success.

Impact Seed recognise this and how definitive you are in defining that success will ultimate allow you to differentiate in the market.

ABOUT KYLIE & SVEN

Kylie Hansen is an experienced NFP professional with great exposure. She has management experience across the not-for-profit, government and corporate sectors; specialising in leadership, organisational development, strategic policy, and strategic project planning and deployment, within Australia and internationally.

Kylie relocated to Cambodia as CEO for Empowering Communities – an international social enterprise – and worked with an amazing team in a highly challenging financial and operating environment. More recently she has worked with the Western Australian Council of Social Service (WACOSS) as a Program Manager since 2012, with one of her key projects to oversee the development and deployment of WA’s first collaborative online platform for social impact. She also works for Turnaround group and is a founding director of Impact Seed.

Sven Stenvers has grown and facilitated the enterprise-transition of rapid-growth start ups for 20 years. He joins Kylie on Turnaround group and Impact Seed and has worked with Vocus in communications.

"I believe a purpose mobilises people in a way that pursuing profits alone never will, and in creating both financial value and social purpose within an organisation. This is an idea whose time has come. My work and passion is focused on building such businesses - those that have a social mission at their core.

Innovation, responsiveness to change, and perseverance lead to resilience and growth… there is no overnight success"

Sven is current director at Zenergy Power a clean energy enterprise for Social Impact which brings innovative technology onboard.

ABOUT THE BIG IDEA

You can also watch a webinar in this topic presented by Andrea Pearman, General Manager, Community and Sponsorship, Australia Post, and Sean Barrett, Head of Foundation, Origin Foundation. http://thebigidea.org.au/upcoming-sessions/.

Use the code "student2016" for access.