Is your social impact startup ready to grow with us?

Accelerate with

FOUNDAMENTA#11

Impact Makers for the Future

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Deadline 10 January 2021 | Seed fund up to 100k€

IMPACT MAKERS FOR THE FUTURE

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SocialFare | Centre for Social Innovation launches the 11th edition of FOUNDAMENTA, the Italian call to accelerate social impact startups offering new solutions to contemporary societal challenges.

We support the best businesses with ‘future capacity’ helping you develop cutting edge products, services and models by offering a unique blend of expert consultancy and equity investment to generate impact entrepreneurship.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

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We select startups with an intentional,
additional, measurable social impact offering innovative solutions to contemporary and societal challenges.

We are looking for teams willing and able to grow along us, triggering scalable systemic change while generating a new economy.
SocialFare’s network & team are at the side of your impact business!

STARTUP

Existing/in progress startups with a tested prototype or a market product

BUSINESSES

Businesses that excel with a highly innovative model/product/service (Ltd., Cooperatives, Social Enterprises and other legal entities)

WHAT WE ARE OFFERING

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SocialFare is Italy’s first Centre for Social Innovation and incubator recognized and certified by the Ministry of Economic development (MISE).

Our acceleration program FOUNDAMENTA focuses on social impact startups and businesses.

4 Months of intense acceleration

A full-time online and offline program at Rinascimenti Sociali, Turin

Up to 100K€ in seed funding

in exchange for an equity percentage up to 15%

A dedicated acceleration team

Design, business planning, investment readiness and social impact assessment experts

A network of 50+ mentors and investors

Access to our prestigious network of impact investors, mentors and advisors

Desk in the coworking area and meeting rooms

Access to events taking place in our offices in the centre of Turin

SOCIALFARE SOCIAL IMPACT ACCELERATION

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Our multidisciplinary team blends lean startup, design thinking and systemic design benefiting from the experience built up in the past 10 editions of the
FOUNDAMENTA program, working in close contact with startups, fostering their growth, helping them to attract investments.

Product Service Co-Design

Business modeling & Impact Assessment

Networking for Scalability

Investment readiness

PROGRAM STEPPING-STONES

IMPACT AREAS

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We select startups and businesses with intentional social impact & innovative solutions to contemporary and emerging societal challenges:

Sustainable Development Goals

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Our Impact Areas are inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda

READY TO INVEST IN YOUR IMPACT STARTUP!

SocialFare Seed, Social impact investor, Socialfare

SocialFare Seed invests up to € 500,000 a year in social impact startups accelerated by SocialFare

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SocialFare Seed is a private investment fund that supports startups and businesses accelerated by SocialFare.

If eligible, each startup/business can receive a seed fund of up to 100K€ in exchange for a percentage of equity of up to 15%, according to the valuation of the company.

The investment is paid in cash of at the beginning of the program.

How we invest

SocialFare Seed

OUR PORTFOLIO | 1M€ invested by SocialFare Seed

PROGRAM AND SELECTION TIMELINE

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Main steps of FOUNDAMENTA#11 timeline:

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10 January 2021

CALL DEADLINE

#2

18-22 January 2021

SHORTLISTING

#3

25 February 2021

SELECTION DAY

#4

29 March / 15 July 2021

ACCELERATION PROGRAM

FOUNDAMENTA#11 | PARTNERS

Invitalia, is the National Agency for Inward Investment, and SocialFare’s institutional partner: it advises our startups on available funding and measures and follows them in their applications for easy terms as well as pointing them to networking tools and opportunities for the growth of innovative businesses.

Engie Eps, is SocialFare‘s technology partner for Environmental Sustainability: they work alongside our startups advising and mentoring them developing business solutions in sustainable energy, energy storage, green mobility or the like.

APPLY TO FOUNDAMENTA#11!

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You have time up to 10 January 2021

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Apply now!