Sound Funding

Host Ryan Grant Little spoke with Michał Radziwiłł, Chair, Equity Fund for Social Investments (FKIS), a subsidiary of TISE in Warsaw.

FKIS/TISE supports social enterprises in Poland and beyond with impact loans. With a total portfolio of 5,000+ active loans, the fund, originally launched by France’s Coop Coopératif, is one of the region’s most influential small business and impact investors. Find out more at https://tise.pl/en/

Host Ryan Grant Little spoke with Joshua Haynes, Founder and Managing Partner of Masawa Impact Fund in Berlin. 

Masawa is the first impact fund specializing in mental wellness, and is currently targeting a EUR 15-30 million close. They work with early-stage founders, mostly in Europe, and are committed to an approach they call Nurture Capital. Find out more at: https://masawa.fund

Host Ryan Grant Little spoke with Johannes Weber, Founder and Managing Director at Ananda Impact Ventures in Munich.

Ananda Impact Ventures manages $100 million in three funds and is one of the leading impact venture capital funds with a pan-European focus. The active portfolio comprises impact pioneers such as Auticon (IT consulting by people in the autism spectrum), IESO Digital Health (online psychotherapy) and Company Bike Solutions (e-bike leasing programs for corporates). More about Ananda Impact Ventures: https://ananda.vc/

Host Ryan Grant Little spoke with Lara Viada, Investment Director at Creas in Madrid.

Creas is a pioneer impact investing fund investing in a range of social and environmental topics in Spain and, increasingly, across Europe. Their most recent fund is Creas Impacto, a €30 million fund focused on scaling high impact companies in the education, caring, social innovation and sustainability sector. More about Creas: https://creas.es/

Topics included setting the bar high for the impact fund industry, increasing in fund size and ticket size, as well as balancing general and specific impact themes 

Host Ryan Grant Little spoke with Bernadette Blom, Director of the Good Fashion Fund in Amsterdam. 

The Good Fashion Fund is a first-of-its-kind initiative to create systemic change in the textile and apparel industry by financing the implementation of highly impactful and disruptive production technologies in Asia. The Fund targets long term USD debt investments in textile and apparel manufacturers in India, Vietnam and Bangladesh. More about the Good Fashion Fund: https://goodfashionfund.com/

Topics included the challenges and opportunities in impact fundraising today, the role structured finance can play to accelerate impact, and wearing several hats at once.