CoFoF 5 - Looking back: Accelerate cross-border co-investments for impact

During this live knowledge session we shared ideas on the international co-financing landscape and what international investors look for in Dutch entrepreneurs. With our great international panel, Martijn Blom from EVPA, Dr. Markus Freiburg from FASE and Fatou Diagne from Bootstrap Europe, we discussed how to build an international consortium to strengthen the impact investing climate with experts.

The key take aways from the webinar are:

Amongst the key take-aways from our expert guests were:

1. 83% of our participants indicated that finding the right co-investor is the biggest challenge encountered for cross-border investments.

2. We need to facilitate (even) more and stronger connections between investors and their peers, as well as between investors and impact entrepreneurs.

3. Digital creates more opportunities for international collaboration but can hinder a closer examination of an enterprise’s products and operations.CoFoF will stay connected to EVPA and FA-SE so impact entrepreneurs as Envison and Renewal Workshop can find the right mix of impact investors. Together we continue building an European Market for impact investing.