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Fast growing and pioneering investor-network on board

Fast growing and pioneering investor-network on board

Impact investment, Investment Ready Program, Program Update

primeCrowd is an investor network founded in December 2015, for investors looking for an alternative to to spares and shares. With their new lead investor model they optimise the success rates and investment volumes of start-ups that are looking for funding....

IRP’s Lena Gansterer wins investor award

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: Jan 26Categories: Investment Ready Program

IRP’s Lena Gansterer wins investor award

Investment Ready Program

Last week our very own Lena Gansterer won the “The Future of Investing” Investorinnen.com Awards 2017 in the category Incubator/ Accelerator! A wonderful acknowledgment of the great work she has been doing for the program and the start-ups,...

New partners, 6 more countries

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: Oct 26Categories: Program Update

New partners, 6 more countries

Program Update

Through our partnership with the Austrian Development Agency and Austria Wirtschaftsservice we were able to strengthen our program and expand into 6 more countries in the Western Balkans. Together with our new investment partner Yunus Social...

Three articles about impact investing by/about our founders

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: Jun 20Categories: Impact investment

Three articles about impact investing by/about our founders

Impact investment

Three interesting reads that we recommend: “So you think you are an impact investor?” – Forbes Interview with Charly Kleissner (GER) – Wiener Zeitung Das unsichtbare Herz des Marktes (GER, by Nikolaus Hutter) – CorporAID

One step closer to investment

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: Apr 16Categories: Investment Ready Program

One step closer to investment

Investment Ready Program

With social entrepreneurship on the rise in CEE, it is becoming increasingly important for startups to acquire the necessary know-how, skills, and network of contacts before they attempt to develop into a full-grown company. And in order to grow, a startup...

A Therapy for Pessimism

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: Feb 05Categories: Investment Ready Program

A Therapy for Pessimism

Investment Ready Program

“This cannot be done in Romania.” “It does not apply here” – these statements were still quite prevalent at the beginning of the Warm-Up hosted at the Hub Bucharest on 29 January. Ten ventures striving for social impact – and the funds...

How to Ride a Social Business in CEE

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: Jan 22Categories: Investment Ready Program

How to Ride a Social Business in CEE

Investment Ready Program

“How about ‘The Island on Two Wheels’“, Tihana Basic asks. The young woman from the Croatian island of Murter admits that the branding of her venture is a work in progress, as are many of the 15 social businesses at the warm-up event in Zagreb....

Doing good AND making money?

Author: matei.dumitrescu@investment-ready.orgOn: May 12Categories: Investment Ready Program

Doing good AND making money?

Investment Ready Program

Can selling odd-shaped footballs, guided tours led by homeless or organic iced tea work as scalable business models? The first Warm Up event in Vienna last week aimed to help social entrepreneurs build their capacities and connect them with the right...