Impact Investing: Creating Value through Circular Transformation

This course examines how SMEs & start-ups can best position themselves and unlock the opportunities arising in a growing impact investing ecosystem in order to attract funding & expertise, create value, and achieve sustainable growth. Particular focus on CE challenges and opportunities, innovative business models, impact-related KPIs and relationships with investors. Real-time pitching and fundraising sessions, VC/PE fundamentals and circular hackathon.

Completing this course will equip you to:

• Understand the fundamentals of impact investing and ways to unlock alternative financing opportunities
• Formulate an impact mission and develop impact KPIs across value chains and industry verticals
• Evaluate the social and environmental impact of various business models
• Create value proposition narratives based on CE applications, encapsulating business, investment and sustainability considerations and focusing on potential exit strategies

• Managers
• Business owners
• Entrepreneurs
• Professionals (from public and private institutions, NGOs)