The Netherlands : Accelerator for Impact Investing

April is a special month for #impactinvesting world champion the Netherlands. The Dutch #Bcorp @WakaWakaLight is the first European social enterprise to list at our SME stock exchange @NPEX.

The Netherlands is world champion in impact investing because our institutional investors, banks & insurers, are really serious about CSR, SRI, ESG & Thematic investing and have been for decades.

The Dutch are enthusiastic members of the #exclusive Global Impact Investing Network, theGIIN.org, and can take credit for a vast part of the impact investments gathered for their annual survey of large: 10Mio+ US$ AuM (impact) investors. Compared to VBDO (aka NLSIF) Dutch Institutional Impact Investors 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.

Wakawaka offers solar lightning & powerbanks in both developed, emerging & developing markets such as off grid rural Africa & refugee camps.

Wakawaka can claim to contribute to 14 of the 17 UN's SDG's; Sustainable Development Goals and especially #SDG7,#SDG4, #SDG3 & #SDG13.

Roadmap for #inclusive #impact #investing

Wakawaka started equity fundraising via Kickstarter, moved to The Netherlands's

Symbid.

Wakawaka did barter pre production financing deals, a convertible loan via Oneplanetcrowd, 100% crowdfunding for impact, and today it is listing at our alternative SME stock exchange NPEX. NPEX which already offers interesting impact investment opportunities expects to raise 20Mio Euro in the coming quarter, having raised 55Mio E since it's launch.

This is the new how-to

for social enterprises #inclusive #impactinvesting.

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 from market accelerator investorflow.org. Luni is really interested in the Dutch crowdfunding market and has very interesting impact investees ….

Luni 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 NN IMs Global Impact Equity Fund.

NN is impact aware & ambitions, but also a large institutional investor.

With the Democratization of Finance through eg crowdfunding & robo advisors, new investors such as Women & Millennials entering the markets and a rapid developing insight in total return of investment i.e. return and positive & negative impact, I know where the money is going...