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We follow in the successful footsteps of ESIIF I

Our first fund, the “European Social Innovation and Impact Fund ” (ESIIF I), spans game-changing impact startups across Europe, from AI-driven health solutions to regenerative agriculture and renewable energy pioneers.

From a bold idea to ESIIF I to ECIIF today

 

ESIIF I is our brain child

Our first fund, the “European Social Innovation and Impact Fund ” (ESIIF I), spans game-changing impact startups across Europe, from AI-driven health solutions to regenerative agriculture and renewable energy pioneers.

ESIIF was fleshed out in the McKinsey-Ashoka-BMW Foundation-FASE publication called “Taking off” in 2017. Starting in 2020, FASE embarked on the journey to make it a reality  and partnered with avesco as the fund manager and the European Investment Fund (EIF) as the provider of an EU Guarantee. ESIIF went live in 2021.

 

Visit the ESIIF I page (German)

How ESIIF I performed to date

Shining ESIIF I examples

ESIIF I has invested in 25 outstanding impact ventures to date. Their solutions for a better future range from proactive AI online abuse prevention to detecting landmines with trained animals to marketing renewable energies from independent citizen energy cooperatives to all-year-round irrigation for smallholder farmers to educating children and adults on food production and healthy nutrition.

Find out about the many more inspiring ventures that ESIIF I helped scale in the section below!