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The Netherlands : Accelerator for Impact Investing

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Peter Burgess

The Netherlands : Accelerator for Impact Investing

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

The Netherlands is world champion #impactinvesting 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. Source: VBDO (aka NLSIF) 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 Sustainable Development Goals and especially #SDG7,#SDG4, #SDG3 & #SDG13.



Roadmap for inclusive impact investing

Wakawaka started it's equity fundraising via Kickstarter, moved to The Netherlands'' Symbid, did a barter deal, then 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 the SDG contribution of NN IM winner of the ''best impact investment product'' in 2017 in The Netherlands at a #retail investors conference.



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 to go. You see it too?

Alcanne Houtzaager,

Wakawaka share&stakeholder



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