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The Fundraising Landscape for Impact-Entrepreneurs – with Diane Janknegt, Founder, Wizenoze
With the pandemic changing the nature of fundraising for many impact entrepreneurs, we will be exploring market sentiment, new funding opportunities and how to better prepare for online fundraising, by speaking to members of our community with direct experience of this over the last 12 months. Diane Janknegt is the Founder of Wizenoze, an EdTech platform which has grown rapidly as the pandemic caused 1.5 billion students to learn from home around the world. Here, she sets out the five golden rules to remember when searching for a long-term investor.
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Amos Obi

Based in Nigeria, Dr. Amos Abi is an inventor and social entrepreneur. He leads the Hetaved Digito Edu-Preneurship Hub, which…

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Dessy Aliandrina

Dessy has been involved in innovation and social causes nationally and internationally for 16 years. She has served various organisations…

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Diane Janknegt

Diane Janknegt is a former Microsoft executive who worked for Microsoft Netherlands between 1997-2012. In 2013, she founded the AI…

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Dina Sherif

Dina Sherif co-founded Ahead of the Curve (ATC) in 2012 in response to the development challenges faced by the Arab…

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Elmarie Potgieter

Elmarié Potgieter is the Founder and Managing Director of RITE Education. She has extensive international experience in leading the development,…

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Evin Schwartz

Evin Schwartz is the Founder and CEO of Belouga, a digital education platform providing teachers and students with the ability…

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Gabriel Chaman

Gabriel Chaman is the Co-Founder of Ally Mishky, an organisation that supports the sustainable production of agroecological and healthy products…

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George Akilimali

George Akilimali is a social entrepreneur and technology enthusiast. He is the founder and CEO of Smartcore, a social enterprise,…

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Godspromise Anthony

Godspromise Anthony is a social entrepreneur passionate about education. He is the Founder of iSkill Network, an ICT hub that…

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Mick Jackson

Mick Jackson is a serial entrepreneur, author and ex chart-topping rock singer. He is also the Founder and CEO of…

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Naomi Kokuro

Naomi Kokuro is a YALI RLC Fellow, Global Goodwill Ambassador and has over eight years of experience in the non-profit…

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Robson Melo

Robson Melo is passionate about education and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Estante Mágica, a social impact company that…

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Stephen Boobyer

Stephen Boobyer is Co-Founder and Deputy Chair of the World of Books Group. He was Managing Director from 2008 to…

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Andrew Hoffman

Andrew Hoffman is the Holcim Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, using organisational behaviour models to research…

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Barbara Zielonka

Barbara Zielonka is the Global Education Influencer for Education Influence, a network that connects educators from across the world who…

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Claire Sommer

Claire Sommer is the Associate Director of Communications for the Globally Responsibility Leadership Initiative, an international and multi-sector community committed…

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Courage Tetteh

Courage Tetteh is a Programme Coordinator at Pencils of Promise, a non-profit organization that builds schools and increases educational opportunities…

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Eva Vati

Eva Vati is the Founder and CEO of VATI of Sweden, a platform that promotes Swedish sustainability solutions across the…

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Michael Walker

Michael Walker is the Founder and CEO of People Matter Malawi, a not-for-profit organisation that supports orphans, street children and…

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Nam Ngo Thanh

Nam Ngo Thanh is an educator and teacher in Vietnam. He is a former Master Trainer with the Nguyen Hoang…

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Nigel Ngiam

Nigel is grateful to have garnered such wide-ranging experience in education. He has served as a lecturer, as a core…

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Rutger Bruining

Rutger Bruining is the Founder and CEO of Story Terrace, which helps people to capture their life story, professional journey…

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Deborah Leipziger

Deborah Leipziger is a Senior Fellow in Social Innovation at the Lewis Institute at Babson. She has taught at the…

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Mariéme Jamme

Lady Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese-born British businesswoman who works extensively across civil society, government and the private sector to…

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Leonor Stjepic

Leonor Stjepic is an award-winning social enterprise entrepreneur whose career has spanned both the private and NGO sectors. She is…

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Mike Bellot

Mike Bellot is the Founder and CEO of the Solo Group, who produce the Solo Bag. Solo Bag was created and…

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Pamela Chng

Pam is a trailblazing entrepreneur dedicated to changing lives through coffee.  After spending part of her career in advertising and…

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Tânia Cosentino

Tania Cosentino has been Microsoft Brazil General Manager since January 2019 and has more than 30 years of professional experience….

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Freddy Vega

Freddy Vega is Co-Founder and CEO of Platzi, a fast-growing e-learning platform with an impressive 70% completion rate by students…

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Arash Tayebi

Arash Tayebi is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Kara Technologies, a tech start-up based in Auckland, New Zealand. Arash has a…

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Claire Mongeau

Claire Mongeau is the Co-Founder and CEO of M-Shule, the first personalised, mobile learning platform in Africa to connect learners…

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Luis Von Ahn

Luis von Ahn is an entrepreneur and former computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is considered one of…

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Rashi Mittal Nair

Rashi Mittal Nair is a word‐of‐mouth marketing addict, that has spent the last 13 years obsessing over what really gets…

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Latifa Al-Khalifa

Latifa Al-Khalifa is a Social Entrepreneur and STEAM education advocate and one of the founding members of Clever Play, a…

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Henry May

Henry May is a Social Entrepreneur from the UK currently living in Colombia where he currently serves as the CEO…

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Alexandre Amorim

Alexandre is the Co-Founder of Ago Social, working with social impact education and impact investment. Alexandre is also the Co-Founder…

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David Valentine

David is the Co-Founder of Niunet PNG – a start-up company aiming to change the education sector of Papua New…

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Eric Kim

Eric Kim is Co-Founder and CEO at Dot Inc. Since 2015, Dot has reinvented accessibility for the visually impaired with…

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Eunice Sampson

Eunice Sampson is the Director of Climate Change & Sustainability at EY West Africa. Previous to this, she joined Dangote…

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Gideon Olanrewaju

Gideon Olanrewaju is a Nigerian Educational Development practitioner and the Founder of DigiLearns – an Education Technology startup that allows…

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João Leal

João Leal is Co-Founder and CEO of Árvore, the largest digital reading platform for basic education in Brazil. Graduated in…

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Nathalia Arcuri

Nathalia Arcuri is a journalist, finance specialist and Founder of the world’s largest financial entertainment platform, Me Poupe!. Making it…

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Ryan Gersava

Ryan Gersava is a millennial social entrepreneur, educator, and diversity and inclusion champion. He is the Founder and President of…

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Tess Michaels

The daughter of Indian immigrants, Tess Michaels grew up in Texas and attended Penn and Harvard Business School, then worked…

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Gizem Önduygu

Gizem is the Founding Partner and Chief Impact Officer of Toyi, an İstanbul-based social enterprise that aims to transform the…

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Kelvin Tan

Kelvin is the CEO of Project ID, an organisation that designs innovative student-centric experiences focused on leadership, social-emotional learning, and…

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Aline Sara

Aline is the Co-Founder and CEO of NaTakallam, an award-winning social enterprise that hires refugees and displaced persons and their…

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Ana Paula Manzalli

Ana is the Co-Founder and Head of Strategy of Sincroniza Educação, an organization whose purpose is synchronizing educational systems, schools,…

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Gayatri Jolly

Gayatri is a fashion social entrepreneur changing the apparel skill education landscape in India. She is the Founder and CEO…

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Adam Huh Dam

Adam Huh Dam is the Co-Founder at Stick ‘Em and Country Manager for Tikkun Olam Makers – Singapore. As a…

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Anthony So

Anthony, a Hong Kong native, overcame poverty to become a management trainee for a property conglomerate. He is a HKJC…

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Blandine Umuziranenge

Blandine Umuziranenge is the Founder & CEO of Kosmotive since 2014, a social enterprise with a mission to improve reproductive,…

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Danilo Costa

Danilo Costa is Founder of Educbank, a fintech that allows access to capital for schools in Latin America. Graduating in…

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Rama Kayyali

Rama Kayyali is the Co-Founder & CEO of Little Thinking Minds, a women-led award-winning education-technology company creating online resources and…

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Vikrant Pandey

Vikrant Pandey is Founder of Fightback – a sexual violence risk reduction education program for women and girls which develops…

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Wambura Kimunyu

Wambura Kimunyu is the CEO of Eneza Education, an edtech company that provides hardware agnostic, lowtech first, digital education curricula…

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Viona Jingge Zhang

Viona Jingge Zhang is Co-Founder & Managing Director of SAIJAI, Thailand’s home services leader, bringing over a decade of experience…

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Shiroi Lily Shaiza-Sanyü

Shiroi Lily Shaiza-Sanyü is the Co-Founder of NagaEd, a digital education company in India’s North Eastern region. NagaEd solves issues…

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Yesika Aguilera

Yesika Aguilera is the Co-Founder of Tespack, an innovative smart energy technology company specialising in mobile energy solutions utilised by…

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Ronaldo Cohin

Ronaldo Cohin is the CEO of Jade Autism which develops educational software which focuses on supporting professionals in offering an…